Description: No Hollywood happy dappy here, just some f*cking great films. This playlist is entirely subjective, and I’ll only include films I’ve actually watched. Having said that, I’m totally not into torture porn, or gratuitous hack n slash shite. But… If it’s on this list, I’ve watched it and think it has merit. That doesn’t mean I enjoyed them all, hahahaha… even though I did.😎 🛠Still under construction…
Creator: Merrigan Able
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The Hole
( 2001 )
Four teenagers discover an underground fallout shelter thanks to a friend, who agrees to have them hide there with the door locked for a few days to escape a school trip. Yet, time passes, and their friend doesn't come back to get them.
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Atonement
( 2008 )
Thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
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Never Let Me Go
( 2010 )
The lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood, when the reality of the world they live in comes knocking.
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The Last King of Scotland
( 2007 )
Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.
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Helter Skelter
( 1976 )
Chilling story of the investigation and trial of Charles Manson, leader of a strange cult which under his direction and 'control' committed numerous murders.
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Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones
( 1982 )
The real-life story of the Peoples Temple cult led by Reverend Jim Jones and the events involving its move to Guyana and its eventual mass suicide.
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Caligula
( 1980 )
A dramatization of the ascent to Caesar and subsequent reign of Caligula, one of the most notorious leaders of ancient Rome.
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Shooting Dogs
( 2006 )
A Catholic Priest and an English teacher get stranded in a school in Kigali during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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Hotel Rwanda
( 2005 )
Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa.
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Shake Hands with the Devil
( 2007 )
The story of General Romeo Dallaire's frustrated efforts to stop the madness of the Rwandan Genocide, despite the complete indifference of his superiors.
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Ammonite
( 2020 )
1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
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Byzantium
( 2013 )
Residents of a coastal town learn, with deathly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought shelter at a local resort.
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The Lovely Bones
( 2010 )
Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from purgatory. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.
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Boy A
( 2008 )
The story of a young Jack, newly released from serving a prison sentence for a violent crime he committed as a child.
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Ken Park
( 2003 )
Ken Park is about several Californian skateboarders' lives and relationships with and without their parents.
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Trash Humpers
( 2011 )
Follows the lives of a small group of sociopathic elderly people in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Zoo
( 2008 )
A look at the life of an Enumclaw, Washington man who died as a result of an unusual encounter with a horse.
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Equus
( 1977 )
A psychiatrist attempts to uncover a troubled stable boy's disturbing obsession with horses.
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Hungry Hearts
( 2015 )
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life-or-death circumstance.
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The Portrait of a Lady
( 1997 )
An American girl inherits a fortune and falls into a misguided relationship with a gentleman confidence artist whose true nature, including a barbed and covetous disposition, turns her life into a nightmare.
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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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Heart of Darkness
( 1994 )
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
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The Help
( 2011 )
An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.
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Happiness
( 1998 )
The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
( 2007 )
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that sends them, their father and one brother's wife barreling towards a shattering climax.
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Magnolia
( 2000 )
An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
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Owning Mahowny
( 2003 )
A bank manager with: (a) a gambling problem and (b) access to a multimillion dollar account gets into a messy situation. Based on the story of the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history.
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The Master
( 2012 )
A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by a cult and its charismatic leader.
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The Homesman
( 2014 )
Three women who have been driven mad by pioneer life are to be transported across the country by covered wagon by the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy, who in turn employs low-life drifter George Briggs to assist her.
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Shattered Glass
( 2003 )
The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine.
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Mystic River
( 2003 )
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy.
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The Thin Red Line
( 1999 )
Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.
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Dallas Buyers Club
( 2013 )
In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease.
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There Will Be Blood
( 2008 )
A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.
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No Country for Old Men
( 2007 )
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong and over two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.
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Moon
( 2009 )
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.
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Only the Brave
( 2017 )
Based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of elite firefighters who risk everything to protect a town from a historic wildfire.
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Shelter
( 2015 )
Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as we learn about their pasts we realize they need each other to build a future.
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Oldboy
( 2003 )
After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must track down his captor in five days.
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Lizzie
( 2018 )
A psychological thriller based on the infamous 1892 murders of Lizzie Andrew Borden's family.
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Small Sacrifices
( 1989 )
On the 19th of May 1983 Diane Downs stops at the McKenzie-Williamette-Hospital and cries for help. She is wounded on her arm and her three children are also wounded seriously. She says that a stranger shot at them but the investigation of detective Welch bring out that Diane is a liar.
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The Burning Bed
( 1984 )
A battered wife sets the bed on fire with her husband in it.
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Pay It Forward
( 2000 )
A young boy attempts to make the world a better place after his teacher gives him that chance.
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1922
( 2017 )
In the year 1922, a rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain and convinces his teenage son to participate.
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The Accused
( 1988 )
After a young woman suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.
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Taxi Driver
( 1976 )
A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action.
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The Deer Hunter
( 1979 )
The lives of a group of friends are forever changed by the Vietnam War.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
( 1975 )
A rebellious convict is sent to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation in 1963 Oregon, and encourages his docile companions to take more control of their lives and defy the tyrannical head nurse.
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Boogie Nights
( 1997 )
An idealistic porn producer aspires to elevate his craft to an art when he discovers a hot young talent.
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Escobar: Paradise Lost
( 2015 )
In Colombia, a young surfer meets the woman of his dreams - and then meets her uncle, Pablo Escobar.
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Sicario
( 2015 )
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
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Blow
( 2001 )
The story of how George Jung, along with the MedellÃn Cartel headed by Pablo Escobar, established the American cocaine market in the 1970s in the United States.
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I Melt with You
( 2012 )
When four 40-something college friends meet up for their annual reunion, things start to spiral out of control, and a pact they made as young men is revisited.
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The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
( 1977 )
A thirteen-year-old girl, who lives with her absentee father, befriends a disabled teenage amateur magician and invites him, gradually, into her tenuous struggle against a predatory local neighbor.
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Star 80
( 1984 )
A successful young model finds trouble when her obsessive manager-turned-husband becomes dangerously jealous.
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The Brave One
( 2007 )
Struggling to recover emotionally from a brutal assault that killed her fiancé and left her in a coma, a radio personality begins a quest for vengeance against the perpetrators that leaves a bloody trail across New York City.
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The Beaver
( 2011 )
A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communication.
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Patty Hearst
( 1988 )
In the 1970s, Patricia Hearst is abducted by American revolutionaries, but eventually joins their cause instead.
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The White Countess
( 2006 )
In 1930s Shanghai, a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd--and sometimes illicit--jobs to support members of her dead husband's aristocratic family.
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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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1984
( 1985 )
In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose work is re-writing history, tries to rebel. He meets a kindred spirit named Julia and they fall into a love affair.
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Gummo
( 1997 )
Lonely residents of a tornado-stricken Ohio town wander the deserted landscape trying to fulfill their boring, nihilistic lives.
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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
( 2010 )
Inspired by a true crime, a man begins to experience mystifying events that lead him to slay his mother with a sword.
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The Comfort of Strangers
( 1990 )
Colin and Mary retreat to Venice to work on their relationship, but an encounter with lyrical local bar owner Robert and his odd, sexually frank wife Caroline leads them into a world of intrigue where their darkest desires are in reach.
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Panic Room
( 2002 )
A divorced woman and her diabetic daughter take refuge in their newly-purchased house's safe room when three men break-in, searching for a missing fortune.
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Children of Men
( 2007 )
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have somehow become infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.
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Five Corners
( 1987 )
A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who protected her, with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him.
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Hobo
( 1992 )
Part-time hobos and full time philosophers, who narrates their way through the incredible scenery of the Northwest and gives us his views on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Phaedra
( 1962 )
To build bridges with his estranged son, a Greek shipping magnate enlists the help of his second wife, Phaedra. But, in rain-soaked Paris, their passionate affair threatens to destroy his empire. Will the modern temptress accept her fate?
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The Hotel New Hampshire
( 1984 )
A New Englander and his odd family run a hotel in Vienna, as unexpected events change their lives forever.
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Foxes
( 1980 )
A group of four teenage girls come of age in the asphalt desert of Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley arranged with a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.
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Smooth Talk
( 1985 )
A free-spirited 15-year-old girl flirts with a dangerous stranger in the Northern California suburbs and must prepare herself for the frightening and traumatic consequences.
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Carny
( 1980 )
Tired of her dull job as a waitress, Donna decides to join two carnival hustlers and see what life in their field is like.
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence
( 2001 )
A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.
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Waterland
( 1992 )
In 1974 Pittsburgh, a high-school history teacher seeking closure tells his class about his experiences as teenager in England during World War II.
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Prisoners
( 2013 )
A desperate father takes the law into his own hands after police fail to find two kidnapped girls.
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L.I.E.
( 2002 )
A 15-year-old Long Island boy loses everything and everyone he knows, soon becoming involved in a relationship with a much older man.
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The Osterman Weekend
( 1983 )
During the Cold War, a controversial television journalist is asked by the C.I.A. to persuade certain acquaintances, who are Soviet Agents of the Omega network, to defect.
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The Blood of Heroes
( 1990 )
In a future where most of mankind and technology is wiped out, six people travel from place to place playing a brutal form of football with a dog skull. They hope one day to play in the league in a city.
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord
( 1991 )
In the South American jungle, fundamentalist missionaries Martin and Hazel clash with tribe members and rival groups while pilot Lewis gets entangled with mission head Leslie's wife Andy amid encroaching civilization.
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A Thousand Acres
( 1997 )
A family is torn apart after a father gives his valuable farm land to his daughters.
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Harold and Maude
( 1971 )
Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.
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Splendor in the Grass
( 1961 )
The love of high school sweethearts Deanie and Bud is weighed down by the oppressive expectations of their parents and society in smalltown Kansas in 1928, threatening the future of their relationship.
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Cool Hand Luke
( 1967 )
A laid-back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.
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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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Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
( 1969 )
In 1909, when young Paiute Indian Willie Boy returns to his California reservation to be with Lola, whose father disapproves of him, a killing in self defense takes place, triggering a massive man hunt for Willie.
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Jeremiah Johnson
( 1972 )
A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by the Crow tribe and proves to be a match for their warriors in single combat on the early frontier.
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The Donner Party
( 2009 )
After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846-1847, a number of trapped settlers join together in a final effort to reach California and organize a rescue party.
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Dead of Winter: The Donner Party
( 2015 )
What starts as a call to the West quickly turns to a deadly journey for three families and their compatriots on a quest for the American Dream. Trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, they fall prey to sub-zero temperatures, torrential rainfalls, floods and ten foot snow drifts, and are eventually forced to turn on each other in order to survive. Using a hybrid, multi-media approach we set out to explore one of the most macabre and sensational stories in American history through first-person narration, dramatic reenactment, expert interviews, green screen, CGI, and archival materials. Through the scope of the landscape and the weather encountered, the audience will be brought closer to the emotional and mental anguish these settlers experienced in this timeless battle of Man vs. Nature.
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Alive
( 1993 )
After crash-landing in the snowswept Andes, a Uruguayan rugby team has no choice but to turn to desperate measures in order to survive.
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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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Easy Rider
( 1969 )
Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.
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Under the Skin
( 2014 )
A mysterious young woman seduces lonely men in the evening hours in Scotland. However, events lead her to begin a process of self-discovery.
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Longford
( 2006 )
A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.
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Van Diemen's Land
( 2009 )
Alexander Pearce, Australia's notorious convict, escaped Macquarie Harbour in 1822, finding the harsh Australian wilderness and abandoning hope in the harsh Australian wilderness.
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Alison
( 2016 )
When the going gets really tough, we need ordinary people of extraordinary strength and courage to jolt us into action and offer us hope. In December 1994 Alison Botha became such an individual. She needed a hero that night, so that's what she became.
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City of Joy
( 1992 )
An American doctor, a British nurse, and an illiterate Indian farmer unite to transform a Calcutta ghetto in this uplifting, inspirational movie starring Patrick Swayze and Pauline Collins.
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