Description: A Playlist of Movies and TV shows dedicated to the Drama genre that I like.
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An American Rhapsody
( 2002 )
A young Hungarian girl struggles to find her place in the world when she's reunited with her parents in the USA years after she was left behind during their flight from the communist country in the 1950s.
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The Firm
( 2009 )
Football hooligans organize themselves into firms that represent their favorite team.
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Brothers
( 2004 )
Two brothers must negotiate changing roles and shifting family dynamics when one is sent to war in Afghanistan.
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A Bright Shining Lie
( 1998 )
True story of Army man John Paul Vann, whose military success provided him the fulfillment he never found in his personal life.
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No Man's Land
( 2020 )
No Man's Land dives into the depths of the Syrian civil war through the eyes of Antoine, a young French man, in search for his estranged, presumed to be dead sister. While unraveling the mystery, piece by piece, Antoine ends up joining forces with a unit of Kurdish female fighters, fierce women and ISIS' biggest nightmare, and travels with them in ISIS occupied territory. Antoine's journey crosses paths with adventurers and anarchists, spies and innocent victims, and provides a unique look on the tragic events in Syria, and the way they affect the entire world.
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Bunker
( 2014 )
Two isolated Canadian soldiers come to grip with a difficult order: launch a nuclear strike against the former USSR, some 25 years after the end of the Cold War.
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The Patriarch
( 2016 )
From the author of "The Whale Rider", a tale of family rivalry and reconciliation, set against the stunning backdrop of rural New Zealand in the 1960s.
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Crooked Earth
( 2001 )
Forces of tradition and tribal pride collide with government authority.
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Man to Man
( 2005 )
An epic about anthropologists who hunt and capture pygmies for study back in Europe, in an attempt to illustrate the link between man and ape.
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Reign Over Me
( 2007 )
A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.
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My Blueberry Nights
( 2007 )
A young lonely woman takes a soul-searching journey across America to resolve her questions about love while encountering a series of offbeat characters along the way.
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Savage Grace
( 2008 )
A dramatization of the shocking Barbara Daly Baekeland murder case, which happened in a posh London flat on Friday 17 November 1972. The bloody crime caused a stir on both sides of the Atlantic and remains one of the most memorable American Tragedies...
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The Mauritanian
( 2021 )
Based on the NY Times best-selling memoir "Guantánamo Diary" by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, this is the true story of Slahi's fight for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years. Alone and afraid, Slahi finds allies in defense attorney Nancy Hollander and her associate Teri Duncan who battle the U.S. government in a fight for justice that tests their commitment to the law and their client at every turn. Their controversial advocacy, along with evidence uncovered by a formidable military prosecutor, Lt. Colonel Stuart Couch, uncovers shocking truths and ultimately proves that the human spirit cannot be locked up.
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The Front Runner
( 2018 )
In 1987, U.S. Senator Gary Hart's presidential campaign is derailed when he's caught in a scandalous love affair.
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Wonderstruck
( 2017 )
Tells the tale of two children separated by fifty years. In 1927, Rose searches for the actress whose life she chronicles in her scrapbook; in 1977, Ben runs away from home to find his father.
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All Is Lost
( 2013 )
After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face.
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Burn Country
( 2016 )
A former Afghan journalist seeking asylum discovers the dark underbelly of his new small-town home in Northern California.
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Boomtown
( 2017 )
A young father and husband looks towards the oil fields for a better life for him and his family. But will the fast money and glamour detour his agenda?
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The Nightingale
( 2019 )
Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict woman, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
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Inside Llewyn Davis
( 2014 )
A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.
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Berkeley Square
( 1998 )
Berkeley Square is a warm-hearted family drama set in turn-of-the-century London, where three young girls come together as nannies and grow to be friends. Matty is a tough East End girl who has worked her way up the domestic ladder of London society's finest families. Spirited Hannah flees to London with her child after falling disastrously in love with the eldest son of a grand Yorkshire family. Generous, yet naive, farm-girl Lydia becomes a nanny in a forward-thinking family light years from her own. Over the course of time, the three young nannies become enmeshed in each other's lives as they manage through the unpredictable twists and turns of love, happiness and secrets in the posh world of Berkeley Square.
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Sunset Song
( 2015 )
The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
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Love Field
( 1993 )
Devastated by President Kennedy's assassination, Dallas-based hairstylist Lurene Hallett boards a bus for the funeral in Washington D.C. where she meets a perplexing father and his daughter who greatly impact her journey.
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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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Up Close & Personal
( 1996 )
An ambitious young woman, determined to build a career in television journalism, gets good advice from her first boss, and they fall in love.
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Dangerous Liaisons
( 1989 )
A scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman.
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Personal Effects
( 2009 )
A 24 y.o. wrestler/McJobroni man meets a mom 20+ years older at group therapy for family of murder victims (sister and husband). He helps her deaf teenage son. She invites him to weddings. They await convictions on the murder trials.
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Dangerous Minds
( 1995 )
LouAnne, a retired US marine, becomes a teacher in a Californian high school. But her mostly Latino and black students from an impoverished and racially segregated locality do not easily embrace her.
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The Way We Live Now
( 2001 )
Set in the railway boom of the 1870s, The Way We Live Now captures the turmoil as the old order is swept aside by the brash new forces of business and finance. It contains all the elements that made Trollope the most popular novelist of his day - the trials and tribulations of young love, the enduring values of honourable men; but also the raw energy and excitement of the most powerful city the world had ever seen, and the greed and corruption that lay just below its glittering surface. It is packed with incident - elopement, scandal, suicide, fortunes made and lost, love lost and won.
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Aloft
( 2014 )
A struggling mother encounters the son she abandoned 20 years earlier.
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Amazing Grace
( 2007 )
The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.
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Hallam Foe
( 2007 )
Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city for love.
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Whale Rider
( 2003 )
A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.
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Samsara
( 2002 )
A spiritual love-story set in the majestic landscape of Ladakh, Himalayas. Samsara is a quest; one man's struggle to find spiritual Enlightenment by renouncing the world. And one woman's struggle to keep her enlightened love and life in the world. But their destiny turns, twists and comes to a surprise ending...
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Gulag
( 1985 )
Mickey Almon is a sports star turned reporter covering the athletics in Moscow. Framed by the KGB and forced to confess that he was spying for America, he is sentenced to detention in a Gulag, a barbaric prison camp in the wilds of Siberia. Unable to prove his innocence, Mickey must either put up with the inhuman conditions or engineer an escape.
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Shepherds and Butchers
( 2017 )
A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
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Lion
( 2016 )
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
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Rabbit-Proof Fence
( 2003 )
In 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback.
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Calvary
( 2014 )
After he is threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
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Ondine
( 2010 )
An Irish fisherman discovers a woman in his fishing net whom his precocious daughter believes to be a selkie.
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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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Somersault
( 2004 )
A young girl flees her hometown and arrives in the Australian Alps, where new experiences help her learn the differences between sex and love.
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In America
( 2004 )
A family of Irish immigrants adjust to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.
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The Magdalene Sisters
( 2002 )
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
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Candy
( 2006 )
A poet falls in love with an art student who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle -- and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
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The Sweet Hereafter
( 1997 )
A bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to defend the families, but he discovers everything isn't what it seems.
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Things Behind the Sun
( 2001 )
A young music journalist's dark memories are awakened when he goes to interview a female rock singer, and both are forced to confront troubling secrets from their pasts.
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The Far Pavilions
( 1984 )
Adapted from M.M. Kaye's best-selling novel, this dramatic HBO miniseries follows two star-crossed lovers -- the young British officer Ash (Ben Cross) and the betrothed princess Anjuli (Amy Irving) -- as they face daunting odds in their quest to be together. Set in India during the time of the British Raj, this haunting (and BAFTA-nominated) love story features spectacular scenery and an epic saga of battle, treachery and intrigue.
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In Treatment
( 2008 )
In the first three seasons, as Dr. Paul Weston continues to struggle with the aftermath of his divorce, he faces new emotional and physical challenges - including hand tremors that he fears might be the onset of Parkinson's Disease, which killed his father. Meanwhile, he takes on three challenging new patients and turns to a new therapist of his own.In fourth season, the reimagining of the series is set in 2021 Los Angeles and brings a diverse trio of patients in session with the observant, empathetic Dr. Brooke Taylor to help navigate a variety of modern concerns. Issues such as the global pandemic and recent major social and cultural shifts are a backdrop to the work Brooke will undertake – all while she deals with complications in her own personal life.
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Great Expectations
( 2012 )
A series of events change the orphaned Pip's life forever as he eagerly abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman.
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The White Crow
( 2019 )
The story of Rudolf Nureyev's defection to the West.
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Onegin
( 1999 )
Russia, 1820s: Onegin inherits his uncle's country estate and moves there from St. Petersburg. He befriends his neighbor, Lensky, and meets Tatyana through him. She falls in love with Onegin but he just wants friendship.
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The Invisible Woman
( 2014 )
At the height of his career, Charles Dickens meets a younger woman who becomes his secret lover until his death.
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Nomadland
( 2021 )
Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. The third feature film from director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND features real nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells as Fern's mentors and comrades in her exploration through the vast landscape of the American West.
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Within the Whirlwind
( 2010 )
During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.
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Ladies in Lavender
( 2005 )
Two sisters befriend a mysterious foreigner who washes up on the beach of their 1930s Cornish seaside village.
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The Scarlet Letter
( 1995 )
An affair between a young woman and a pastor has disastrous consequences.
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Absolute Power
( 1997 )
Career thief Luther Whitney (Clint Eastwood) witnesses a horrific crime involving U.S. President Alan Richmond (Gene Hackman).
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Before Sunset
( 2004 )
Nine years after Jesse and Celine first met, they encounter each other again on the French leg of Jesse's book tour.
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Into the Darkness
( 2020 )
Denmark, April 9th 1940. A Danish industrialist cooperates with the Germans and profits from the occupation of Denmark while his family finds themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.
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The Proposition
( 1997 )
In Wales, around 1800, Catherine Morgan is widowed young, her husband a war casualty whose unpaid gambling debts threaten both the loss of home and farm and destitution for her and her daughters Elen and Emily. Catherine hopes to save them by selling their cattle at a distant market. She must overcome the hardships of the cattle drive across the craggy Welsh countrysi...Read all
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Up at the Villa
( 2000 )
A widow finds choosing a new husband might not be her choice at all, as the actions of her various prospects confine her freedom.
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Monarch
( 2014 )
Shortly before his death in 1547, the injured King Henry VIII is forced to take refuge a manor house closed for the season. While there, he must confront both his mortality and the ghosts of his past.
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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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Sulphur and White
( 2020 )
David is a successful city trader in London who is relentlessly focused on work. Beneath the confident facade, he is trapped by memories of the past and hostile to anyone who dares to help. Flashbacks reveal a childhood in South Africa at the mercy of an inadequate bully of a father Donald and an ineffectual mother Joanne. The physical and sexual abuse he suffered threatens any chance of happiness he might have now.
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Lucky You
( 2007 )
A hotshot poker player tries to win a tournament in Vegas, but is fighting a losing battle with his personal problems.
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The Longest Ride
( 2015 )
The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man, as he reflects back on a past love.
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Life of Pi
( 2012 )
A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.
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The Book Thief
( 2013 )
While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents.
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House of Cards
( 2013 )
Based on the BBC miniseries of the same name, House of Cards follows Francis Underwood, the politician's politician – masterful, beguiling, charismatic and ruthless. He and his equally ambitious wife Claire will stop at nothing to ensure their ascendancy. This wicked political drama slithers beneath the curtain and through the back halls of greed, sex, love and corruption in modern Washington D.C.
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A Teacher
( 2020 )
A Teacher examines the complexities and consequences of an illegal relationship between a female teacher, Claire and her male high school student, Eric. Dissatisfied in their own lives, Claire and Eric discover an undeniable escape in each other, but their relationship accelerates faster than anticipated and the permanent damage becomes impossible to ignore.
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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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Dying Young
( 1991 )
A caregiver falls in love with a terminally ill man.
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The Royals
( 2015 )
The Royals is an hour-long drama centered on a fictional modern day royal family. Queen Helena and King Simon try to present an aura of class and grace to the public, but the truth of the family's life is much different, as tainted politics and family issues threaten to cause chaos and turmoil. The monarchs' rebellious daughter, Princess Eleanor, provides fodder for the tabloids with a life full of sex, drugs, and even hung-over helicopter rides. Her twin brother, Prince Liam, is a playboy who takes full advantage of being one of the planet's most eligible bachelors. It's a life Liam enjoys until his older brother -- and heir to the throne -- dies, making Liam next in line to inherit the throne. Power is everything, there are no limits, and trust is nonexistent for this royal family.
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Berlin, I Love You
( 2019 )
Latest installment of the Cities of Love series (Paris, je t'aime / New York, I Love You / Rio, Eu Te Amo), this collective feature film is made of ten stories of romance set in the German capital.
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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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Some Mother's Son
( 1996 )
The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.
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Royal Deceit
( 1994 )
An old Norse legend of revenge, power and human spirit, that subsequently inspired William Shakespeare on his tragedy - Hamlet.
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Hussy
( 1980 )
A theater tech falls in love with a prostitute who works at his club. Their relationship faces threats from her violent ex, her son's father, and his dubious friend who proposes a get-rich scheme.
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Aberdeen
( 2000 )
A mom dying in Aberdeen, Scotland, asks her coke snorting, nympho, London lawyer daughter to get her estranged, alcoholic dad in Oslo, Norway, to Aberdeen. He's drunk at the airport, so they travel together by car and ferry.
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Paris Trout
( 1991 )
In a small Georgia town in the 1950s, bigoted store owner Paris Trout kills a young black girl when his brother refuses to pay his debts.
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Roadkill
( 2020 )
Roadkill is about self-made, forceful and charismatic politician Peter Laurence. Peter's public and private life seems to be falling apart – or rather is being picked apart by his enemies. As the personal revelations spiral, he is shamelessly untroubled by guilt or remorse, expertly walking a high wire between glory and catastrophe as he seeks to further his own agenda whilst others plot to bring him down. However, events show just how hard it is, for both an individual and a country, to leave the past behind. With enemies so close to home, can Peter Laurence ever out-run his own secrets to win the ultimate prize?
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A Dry White Season
( 1989 )
A white middle class South African suburbanite with no interest in politics agrees to help his black gardener find his jailed son. His investigation opens his eyes to the horrors committed by the secret police and turns him into a target.
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Final Solution
( 2002 )
The indoctrination of Gerrit Wolfaardt is complete: his family traditions, history, culture- even his church-have taught him that black South Africans are a cancer in the land. Under the eye of prominent members of the government and military, Gerrit develops a diabolical plan to rid South Africa of its "black danger." Before his plans can be carried out, he meets two...Read all
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Ladygrey
( 2015 )
Ten years after the end of apartheid, a South African community tries to live without recalling the violent clashes of the past. But when the silence is suddenly broken, some of the most innocent citizens may be in peril.
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An Education
( 2010 )
A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
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The Turning
( 2013 )
A collection of short films based on stories by Australian writer Tim Winton.
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Blast Beat
( 2020 )
Colombian brothers Carly (Mateo Arias) and Mateo (Moises Arias) prepare to move to the United States for their last years of high school. Metalhead Carly has his heart set on attending the Georgia Aerospace Institute and working for NASA, while his supportive parents (Diane Guerrero and Wilmer Valderrama) seize the chance to escape the political turmoil in Colombia and chase the American Dream. At first, Mateo is the only one to express any cynicism, but when the reality of their new life sinks in, the family struggles to adapt as their expectations are shattered. When events threaten to derail their future, Carly's dream becomes his only lifeline.
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Fitzcarraldo
( 1982 )
The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
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Cobra Verde
( 1987 )
During the 1800s, paroled Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa with a few troops to man an old Portuguese fort and to convince the local African ruler to resume the slave trade with Brazil.
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Daniel
( 1984 )
Daniel Isaacson attempts to determine the true complicity of his parents Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed for espionage in the 1950s.
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The Doctor
( 1991 )
When a self-centered doctor is diagnosed with cancer, he becomes better able to empathize with his patients and appreciate a life outside his career.
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Liberty Heights
( 1999 )
Baltimore, Fall 1954: Schools implement the new integration law. Ben finds the "colored" girl in his class cute - upsetting his Jewish mom and granny. Ben talks to her while his brother looks for his WASP dream girl.
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Far North
( 1988 )
After generations of being apart, an accident brings a family back together and they begin to cope with their original issues.
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Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
( 1990 )
Raymond Eames, a small-time drug dealer, has been sentenced to death for the shooting death of a policeman. After seven years of appeals are exhausted, the date of his execution arrives. His last request is that his execution be photographed. Eames selects Paul Marish, a jaded Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, who is convinced by his agent to visit the small town i...Read all
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Danger Zone
( 1996 )
American mining engineer gets involved in civil war and international conspiracy in an African country.
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Captive Rage
( 1989 )
An innocent group of college girls become the pawns in a deadly game of revenge when a South American cocaine baron retaliates against the chief of an American intelligence agency for jailing his son on drug charges.
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Mango Dreams
( 2018 )
A Hindu doctor with dementia and a Muslim auto rickshaw driver form an unlikely friendship as they cross India in search of the doctor's childhood home.
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