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The Long, Hot Summer
( 1958 )
Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.
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Hud
( 1963 )
Honest, hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant, egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.
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Sweet Bird of Youth
( 1962 )
A drifter and a faded film star, both traumatized by Hollywood, arrive to the guy's hometown, where the old bitter memories revive again.
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This Property Is Condemned
( 1966 )
The dramatic love story of small-town Mississippi girl Alva Starr and railroad official Owen Legate, set during the Great Depression.
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Barefoot in the Park
( 1967 )
Conservative young lawyer Paul Bratter marries the vivacious Corie Banks. Their highly passionate relationship descends into discord when they rent their first apartment - a rundown five-flight NYC walk-up with eccentric neighbors.
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The Prince of Tides
( 1991 )
A troubled man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her in the process.
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A Star Is Born
( 1976 )
Has-been singing idol John Norman Howard falls in love with young, up-and-coming songstress Esther Hoffman in Frank Pierson's version of the classic love story updated to the rock and roll era.
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Funny Girl
( 1968 )
The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s: her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld Girl, her subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.
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Funny Lady
( 1975 )
Story of singer Fanny Brice's stormy relationship with showman Billy Rose.
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The Great Gatsby
( 1974 )
A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.
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October Gale
( 2015 )
A doctor takes in a mysterious man who washes ashore at her remote cottage with a gunshot wound. Quickly they both learn the killer has arrived to finish the job, while a storm has cut them off from the mainland.
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Lolly-Madonna XXX
( 1974 )
In the early 1970s, a young woman passing through rural Tennessee unintentionally gets caught in a feud between two local neighboring clans, the Feathers and the Gutshalls.
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The Goodbye Girl
( 1977 )
After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, unemployed dancer Paula McFadden and her ten-year-old daughter Lucy are forced to live with struggling off-Broadway actor Elliot Garfield, who is subletting their apartment.
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Past Midnight
( 1992 )
Ben's paroled after 15 years prison for killing his pregnant wife. His social worker helps him find work. She doubts his guilt and investigates.
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The City of Your Final Destination
( 2010 )
Twenty-eight-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi (Omar Metwally) wins a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund; his brother, widow, and younger mistress, so he can get authorization to write the biography.
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Bernard and Doris
( 2007 )
The story of the twilight years of tobacco billionairess Doris Duke who develops an unlikely friendship with her butler, Bernard Lafferty.
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Running on Empty
( 1988 )
The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live his own life.
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Blue Sky
( 1994 )
Carly moves with her military husband and their two daughters to an isolated army base, only to quickly become part of a cover-up involving nuclear bomb tests.
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Dogfight
( 1991 )
Before leaving to fight in Vietnam, a group of teenagers play a game where they try to seduce the ugliest girl they can find.
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Lars and the Real Girl
( 2007 )
In this comedy, Lars Lindstrom is an awkwardly shy young man in a small northern town who finally brings home the girl of his dreams to his brother and sister-in-law's home. The only problem is that she's not real - she's a sex doll Lars ordered off the Internet. But sex is not what Lars has in mind, but rather a deep, meaningful relationship. His sister-in-law is worried for him, his brother thinks he's nuts, but eventually the entire town goes along with his delusion in support of this sweet natured boy that they've always loved.
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Stanley & Iris
( 1990 )
A struggling widow falls in love with an illiterate short-order cook whom she teaches to read and write in her kitchen each night.
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Jacknife
( 1989 )
Two Vietnam vets search for the strength to face up to their horrific war experiences, but their friendship begins to splinter when one becomes romantically involved with the other's sister.
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The Scarlet Letter
( 1995 )
An affair between a young woman and a pastor has disastrous consequences.
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A Bronx Tale
( 1993 )
An intense drama about a boy torn between his tough, hard-working father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss.
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Mystic Pizza
( 1988 )
Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in the Connecticut town of Mystic.
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Factotum
( 2005 )
This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.
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Enduring Love
( 2004 )
Two strangers become connected by a tragedy, yet one dangerously feels that the connection goes much deeper than the other is willing to admit.
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Legends of the Fall
( 1995 )
In the early 1900s, three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of Montana are affected by betrayal, history, love, nature, and war.
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In a Savage Land
( 1999 )
Two married anthropologists go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research.
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Dangerous Beauty
( 1998 )
A Venetian courtesan becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft.
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Judy
( 2019 )
Legendary performer Judy Garland arrives in London in the winter of 1968 to perform a series of sold-out concerts.
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The Woodlanders
( 1998 )
The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after finishing school. Her father now believes she can find a better husband than her childhood sweetheart, woodsman Giles. She marries handsome young doctor FitzPiers, but soon finds out he's not the man of her dreams and she still...Read all
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The Pillars of the Earth
( 2010 )
The Pillars of the Earth is a sweeping epic of good and evil, treachery and intrigue, violence and beauty. This sensuous, spirited and passionate story is set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles which tears lives and families apart. In that time, there rises a magnificent Cathedral in Kingsbridge.
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Cold Comfort Farm
( 1996 )
A recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives.
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The Legend of Zorro
( 2005 )
Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Don Alejandro de la Vega and his wife, Elena, to take action.
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Romeo Is Bleeding
( 1994 )
A corrupt New York policeman falls under the spell of a seductive and ruthless member of a Moscow crime family.
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Romeo + Juliet
( 1996 )
Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.
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Romeo and Juliet
( 1968 )
When two young members of feuding families meet, forbidden love ensues.
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Havana
( 1990 )
In 1950s Cuba, a professional gambler falls for a woman heavily involved in the revolution movement.
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Indecent Proposal
( 1993 )
A billionaire offers $1,000,000 to a young married couple for one night with the wife.
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The Electric Horseman
( 1979 )
A rodeo star past his prime steals his company's horse and rides into the desert, accompanied by a feisty reporter.
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Out of Africa
( 1985 )
In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
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Bliss
( 1997 )
A newly married happy couple visits a sex therapist to determine why the wife can't achieve an orgasm with her husband. This causes a horrific suppressed memory to emerge and she becomes more and more distant.
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Wild Orchid
( 1990 )
A female lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.
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Sirens
( 1994 )
When a painting is termed blasphemous, a young minister and his wife visit the artist... and the three sexually playful models living with him.
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9½ Weeks
( 1986 )
A New York art gallery curator starts a torrid love affair with a suave stranger who keeps pushing her boundaries.
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Barfly
( 1987 )
Based on the life of successful poet Charles Bukowski and his exploits in Hollywood during the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
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Sylvia
( 2003 )
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
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The Illusionist
( 2006 )
In turn-of-the-century Vienna, a magician uses his abilities to secure the love of a woman far above his social standing.
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Breathless
( 1983 )
When Jesse Lujack steals a car in Las Vegas and drives down to LA, his criminal ways only escalate - but when will it end?
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The Piano
( 1994 )
In the mid-19th century a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a farmer, but is soon lusted after by a farm worker.
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Holy Smoke
( 1999 )
Ruth's been brainwashed by a guru in Delhi, India. Her parents in Sydney hire a specialist in reversing this. Ruth is tricked to return to Australia and is isolated in an outback cabin with the specialist. It gets messy.
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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
( 1990 )
An unbalanced but alluring former mental patient takes a porn star prisoner in the hopes of convincing her to marry him.
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The Mambo Kings
( 1992 )
Two Cuban brothers bring a new music to the 1950s USA. They are as different as the problems that await them.
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Victory
( 1997 )
Axel Heyst lives on a secluded island near the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya. The year is 1913. While on personal business to the port, he visits the hotel owned by racist German Schomberg. An all-woman orchestra plays in the hotel each night, and orchestra owner, San Giacomo agrees to "sell" one of the girls, Alma, to Schomberg. She asks Heyst to save her from t...Read all
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Carrington
( 1995 )
The platonic relationship between artist Dora Carrington and writer Lytton Strachey in the early twentieth century.
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Mr. Right
( 2016 )
A girl falls for the "perfect" guy, who happens to have a very fatal flaw: he's a hitman on the run from the crime cartels who employ him.
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Grace of Monaco
( 2014 )
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.
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Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
( 2006 )
Turning her back on her wealthy, established family, Diane Arbus falls in love with Lionel Sweeney, an enigmatic mentor who introduces Arbus to the marginalized people who help her become one of the most revered photographers of the twentieth century.
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A Royal Night Out
( 2015 )
On V.E. Day in 1945, as peace extends across Europe, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret are allowed out to join the celebrations. It is a night full of excitement, danger and the first flutters of romance.
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The Young Victoria
( 2009 )
A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.
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Mrs. Brown
( 1997 )
When Queen Victoria descends into deep mourning after the death of her husband Prince Albert in 1861, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John Brown, but their relationship also brings scandal and turmoil.
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Mermaids
( 1990 )
An unconventional single mother relocates with her two daughters to a small Massachusetts town in 1963, where a number of events and relationships both challenge and strengthen their familial bonds.
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Cat Ballou
( 1965 )
A young schoolteacher turns into an outlaw to avenge her murdered father.
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Alfie
( 2004 )
A cockney womanizer learns the hard way about the dangers of his actions.
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
( 2003 )
A failing star is faced with a lifestyle change when her rich husband suddenly dies while they are en route to Italy. She then sets off in a series of flings with gigolos found for her by an aging contessa. Each contact spirals further out of control until she becomes obsessed with one young man, who initially treats her well, but then with disdain.
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Strayed
( 2003 )
Emmanuelle Béart stars as a widowed schoolteacher who flees Nazi-occupied Paris with her children. A teenaged boy comes to their rescue by leading them into the forest -- their best shot at survival.
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The Sheltering Sky
( 1990 )
An American couple travel abroad to revitalize their relationship. But as the trip drags on, their attempt at recovering what they once had seems futile.
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The Luzhin Defence
( 2000 )
Two worlds collide when an eccentric genius falls in love with a strong-willed society beauty.
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Carol
( 2016 )
An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
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Hysteria
( 2011 )
The truth of how Mortimer Granville devised the invention of the first vibrator in the name of medical science.
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Charlotte Gray
( 2002 )
A young Scottish woman joins the French Resistance during World War II to rescue her Royal Air Force boyfriend who is lost in France.
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Persuasion
( 1997 )
Theatrical film of "Persuasion" with Ciaran Hinds and Amanda Root. Directed by Roger Michell.
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Ode to Billy Joe
( 1976 )
In 1950s Mississippi, teenager Bobbie Lee Hartley navigates her blossoming hormones as she is courted by Billy Joe McAllister, who is headed for tragedy.
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The Bridges of Madison County
( 1995 )
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
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Bitter Moon
( 1994 )
After hearing stories of her, a passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.
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Angels and Insects
( 1996 )
In the 1800s a naturalist marries into a family of British country gentry.
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Rapa Nui
( 1994 )
Love between the representatives of two warring tribes changes the balance of power on the whole remote island.
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The Beach
( 2000 )
On vacation in Thailand, Richard sets out for an island rumored to be a solitary beach paradise.
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Total Eclipse
( 1995 )
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
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Mississippi Masala
( 1992 )
An ethnic Indian family is expelled from Idi Amin's Uganda in 1972 and lives in Mississippi 17 years later. The dad sues Uganda to get his property back. The grown daughter falls in love with a Black man.
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Love in the Time of Cholera
( 2007 )
Florentino, rejected by the beautiful Fermina at a young age, devotes much of his adult life to carnal affairs as a desperate attempt to heal his broken heart.
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Leaving Las Vegas
( 1996 )
Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
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Radioactive
( 2020 )
The incredible true story of Marie Sklodowska-Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world.
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The Lobster
( 2015 )
In a dystopian near future, according to the laws of The City, single people are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or they're transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
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Hemingway & Gellhorn
( 2012 )
A drama centered on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and World War II correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's inspiration for For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the only woman who ever asked for a divorce from the writer.
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Boxing Helena
( 1993 )
A surgeon becomes obsessed with the seductive woman he once was in an affair with. Refusing to accept that she has moved on, he amputates her limbs and holds her captive in his mansion.
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Rumble Fish
( 1983 )
Absent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days of gang warfare.
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The Good Mother
( 1988 )
A divorced mother may lose custody of her young daughter to her ex-husband after he learns that the little girl crawled into bed with the mother and her boyfriend.
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The Handmaid's Tale
( 1990 )
Under a dystopian religious tyranny, most women cannot conceive children. Those young women who can live in a form of sexual slavery to provide children for influential families.
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Elegy
( 2008 )
Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life, which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood", thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.
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Body Heat
( 1981 )
During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.
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Sleeping Beauty
( 2011 )
A haunting portrait of Lucy, a young university student drawn into a mysterious hidden world of unspoken desires.
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Tuck Everlasting
( 2002 )
A young woman meets and falls in love with a young man who is part of a family of immortals.
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Words and Pictures
( 2014 )
An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.
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Adore
( 2013 )
A pair of childhood friends and neighbors fall for each other's sons.
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Strictly Ballroom
( 1993 )
A maverick dancer risks his career by performing an unusual routine and sets out to succeed with a new partner.
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chazw0zz3r : yeah! why DID they get rid of the food auction, that was always the best/most fun, these n...