Spencer Tracy received an Oscar nomination for his performance in this classic comedy. Stanley T. Banks (Tracy) is a securely...
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1950
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Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of...
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1950
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Dragoon Wells Massacre is a topnotch western from the Allied Artists factory. Barry Sullivan stars as wanted killer Link...
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1957
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Revolt at Fort Laramie offers the old one about sworn enemies uniting to defeat an even more awesome foe. In this instance....
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1957
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In this western, angry Apaches begin a series of raids on a cavalry outpost. First they steal all the horses from a regiment...
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1957
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A gentler but no less resourceful Alan Ladd stars in The Proud Rebel. Ladd is cast as civil war veteran John Chandler, while...
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1958
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Pork Chop Hill was based on the eyewitness essays of ex-soldier S. L. A. Marshall. The film is set during the Korean "police...
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1959
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Entering a poker game, Paladin (Richard Boone wins a portion of an old treasure map. He soon discovers that the remaining...
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1959
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In this children's drama, an angry little boy is adopted by a ranching couple. The mean little tyke takes an immediate...
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1960
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Burt Reynolds appears in this episode as truck driver Bill Davis, who with his brother Andy is piloting a huge tanker through...
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1960
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MGM's all-star 1960 filmization of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn surgically removes the sociological subtext of Mark...
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1960
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Having been on the side of the law as one of the original "Untouchables" in the series' two-part pilot film, Keenan Wynn...
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1961
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Mob boss Nate Kestor (Steve Cochran) adds to the profits accrued by his popular burlesque house with sales of "imported"...
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1961
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James Coburn guest-stars as Ross Marquett, an old friend of Adam Cartwright. But Ross' friendship abruptly and unexpectedly...
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1961
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Hero's Island is not as esoteric as director Leslie Steven's Incubus (which was filmed in Esperanto!), but there's still...
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1962
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Filmed in panoramic Cinerama, this star-studded, epic Western adventure is a true cinematic classic. Three legendary...
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1962
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All previous lawmen hired to escort the outlaw Wilder brothers (James Griffith, Harry Dean Stanton) to their hanging in...
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1962
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In flashback, Sgt. Saunders (Vic Morrow), Lt. Hanley (Rick Jason) and the men of King Company recall the events surrounding...
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1962
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Adam Cartwright falls in love with Rebecca (Aneta Corsaut), the daughter of Orthodox Jewish peddler Aaron Kaufman (Ludwig...
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1963
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Heavy on slapstick and light on the more subtle forms of humor, this standard comedy by Frank Tashlin is still an amusing...
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1963
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Now calling himself "Bill Martin", Kimble (David Janssen) arrives in a town where several women have fallen victim to a...
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1964
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Paul Newman was nominated for an Oscar and George Kennedy received one for his work in this allegorical prison drama. Luke...
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1967
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Fed up with his humdrum existence, Howard Sprague decides to kick over the traces and leave Mayberry for good. He heads to...
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1967
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The Long Ride Home is the British title for the Columbia Civil War western A Time for Killing. The stars are Glenn Ford, a...
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1967
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Six year-old Davey Cleaves (Danny Martins) is trapped in a moving van with two killers after witnessing a murder in this...
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1967
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1967
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Diane McBain, who'd been a sort of star at Warner Bros. in the early 1960s, is the leading lady of The Mini-Skirt Mob. She's...
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1968
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Warfield (Glenn Ford) is the dispassionate ex-gunslinger who joins forces with peaceful neighbor Forbes (Arthur Kennedy) to...
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1968
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This week, mobile officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) are summoned to mediate a family fight...
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1969
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Orrin Pike (Jonathan Daly) hopes to prove himself a worthy game warden by nabbing a pair of livestock poachers. Unfortunately...
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1969
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One man must take on a band of roving outlaws in this Harley-fueled variation on High Noon. Paul Collier (Cameron Mitchell)...
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1969
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The year is 1876. The place is Medalia, MN. With the Jesse James and Cole Younger gangs cutting a murderous swath through the...
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1970
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Like M*A*S*H and Catch-22, both released the same year, this military comedy takes place in an earlier war but is really a...
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1970
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This crime-drama follows the exploits of a rock star who is finally freed from prison after being convicted of drug dealing....
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1971
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A '55 Chevy takes on a '70 GTO in a race across the Southwest in Monte Hellman's cult favorite. The Driver (James Taylor) and...
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Oklahoma Hitchhiker
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1971
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In this western a rookie gunfighter decides to switch careers before he is killed. He is traveling when he encounters a...
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1972
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Three rollicking bumblers get into all sorts of slapstick trouble as they attempt their get-rich schemes at the race track...
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1972
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John Milius's first directorial effort in its own small way set the stage in the 1970s for a subgenre of action films that...
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Homer Van Meter
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1973
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A former friend betrays a legendary outlaw in Sam Peckinpah's final Western. Holed up in Fort Sumner with his gang between...
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1973
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When their father dies, four backwoods kids hide the fact, lest they be separated by the authorities and shipped off to...
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Kiser Pease
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1974
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Frank Mansfield (Warren Oates) is a game cock trainer who has taken a vow of silence; he once bragged too loudly about his...
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Jack Burke
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1974
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1974
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Francis Ford Coppola's legendary continuation and sequel to his landmark 1972 film, The Godfather, parallels the young Vito...
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1974
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Though set in Key West, Florida, a goodly portion of 92 in the Shade was filmed in England. Peter Fonda plays Tom Skelton, a...
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Carter
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1975
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1975
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1975
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The "Gold Dust Twins" are two L.A. gals who kidnap a likable-loser type who's a driving instructor (Alan Arkin) and force him...
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1975
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A rancher, a rustler, and a regulator face off in Arthur Penn's eccentric western. As a cover for their horse thievery, a...
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1976
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Originally screened as a mini-series on the NBC television network, this epic-length feature combines the entirety of The...
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1977
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Paroled criminal Max Dembo (Dustin Hoffman) is compelled to withstand the calculated cruelties of slimy parole officer Earl...
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Jerry Schue
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1978
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Bob Dylan made this concert film that chronicles a 1975/1976 performance of his Rolling Thunder Revue. In between songs he,...
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1978
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Flatbed Annie is played by Annie Potts; her sidekick Sweetiepie, aka Ginny La Rosa, is played by Kim Darby. Annie is a...
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1979
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Philo Sinner
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1979
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Bette Midler stars as Rose in this somber drama loosely based on the life of the late Janis Joplin. She plays an ill-fated...
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Billy Ray
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1979
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Set in the Deep South during the postwar era, Wise Blood stars Brad Dourif as an aimless veteran, who decides to become a...
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Asa Hawks
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1979
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"In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien...
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Brett
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1979
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Director Bertrand Tavernier provides an unexpected feminist slant to the otherwise standard sci-fi trappings of Death Watch....
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Vincent Ferriman
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1980
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Devastated when her brand-new husband Albert Brooks) drops dead on their wedding night, Jewish American princess Judy...
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Sgt. Jim Ballard
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1980
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Originally telecast live from Dallas' Southern Methodist University on April 7, 1980, The Oldest Living Graduate was adapted...
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1980
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The year is 1997. Manhattan Island is now a heavily guarded maximum-security prison, where the scum of the earth have...
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1981
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A small California town is gripped by UFO fever in this well-acted, surprisingly rich comedy. At the center of the mania is...
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Brother Bud
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1981
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1982
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Harry Dean Stanton stars as a famous pop singer who also happens to be a class-A jerk. After enduring the singer's rudeness...
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1982
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In this comedy, a group of randy young interns turn City Hospital upside down with their romantic liaisons and their...
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Oliver Ludwig
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1982
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Travis (Harry Dean Stanton) is wandering through the Texas desert, a bit shaky and in desperate need of water, when he...
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Travis
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1983
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This drama is adapted from the true story of Barbara Graham, a woman sentenced to die in the mid-1950s after she allegedly...
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1983
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Director John Carpenter returns to the suburban landscape he explored so chillingly in Halloween (1978) with this lean,...
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Rudolph Junkins
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1983
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This Faerie Tale Theatre (Shelley Duvall) episode is about the man who fell asleep for twenty years, only to awaken an old...
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1984
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Set at an indeterminate point in the future, this drama with an overt anti-communist message begins as an ostensible war...
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1984
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Alex Cox's directorial debut was a wickedly funny and willfully bizarre story that became a major cult item once it began...
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Bud
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1984
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Aimed primarily at American football fans, this dramatized biography of Paul Bryant, a celebrated football coach nicknamed...
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Coach Thomas
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1984
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Often trailers and coming attractions are of as much or more interest to viewers than the actual movie. Included here are...
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1985
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The "magic" in One Magic Christmas is often (and surprisingly) of the "black" variety. Like Jimmy Stewart before her,...
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Gideon
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1985
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In a film designed to bring smiles to the post-toddler set on up to perhaps their seven-year-old siblings, this animated...
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Brave Heart Lion
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1985
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Though there are several actors in Fool for Love, two share the majority of screen time: Sam Shepard as Eddie, and...
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Old Man
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1985
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1986
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Host
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1986
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John Hughes crafts an exemplary '80s Brat Pack romance out of the standard Cinderella story in Pretty in Pink. Andie Walsh...
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Jack Walsh
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1986
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In this off-beat and stylish mystery by director Wayne Wang, C.C. Drood (Tom Hulce) is an underground cartoonist who is...
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1987
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Though a fine cast was assembled for this comedy, none can save this embarrassingly humorless satire. Henderson Dores...
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Loomis Gage
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1988
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A young man freshly graduated from Yale (Anthony Edwards) moves to Rhode Island and finds himself with a strange power: the...
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Henry Simmons
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1988
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Willem Dafoe plays Jesus Christ in this extraordinarily controversial adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis's novel. The film...
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Paul,Saul
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1988
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In this crime drama, murder begets vengeance and violence ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1989
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In 1987-88, a quartet of films with the same basic body-switching premise deluged theaters: Like Father, Like Son (1987),...
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Ike Baker
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1989
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Don't mistake this movie for the stormy special-effects blockbuster of the same name; the two films are light years apart....
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Eugene Cleveland
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1989
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This documentary focuses on the person and the films of one of Germany's premiere post-war filmmakers, Wim Wenders. Wenders...
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1990
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The Fourth War finds director John Frankenheimer delving into the same Cold-war territory he'd previously cultivated in films...
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Gen. Hackworth
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1990
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1990
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For most of his life, a former cop (Keith Carradine) has been tormented by his inadvertent involvement in the death of his...
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Hook
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1991
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Warren Oates was a well-respected American supporting actor who achieved his greatest success during the 1960s and 70s. He...
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1992
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Redmond Layls
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1992
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David Lynch's prequel to his cult television series "Twin Peaks" concerns the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer...
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Carl Rodd
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1992
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Hotel Room is a made-for-cable anthology, featuring three separate stories that are all set in the same New York hotel room...
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1993
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Hostages is a made-for-cable film that chronicles the captivity of several Western hostages who were held in Lebanon for...
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1993
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Made for cable TV, Against the Wall represents filmmaker John Frankenheimer's return to the small screen. This in-your-face...
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Hal
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1994
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In this crime thriller, a hit man with the yakuza (Japanese Mafia) is in the midst of a public execution of the leader of a...
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1994
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A beautiful but reserved criminal psychiatrist must deal with the obsessive stalking of a dangerous killer in this erotically...
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Max Cheski
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1995
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This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave,...
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1995
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Vulgar, slapstick comedy abounds in this feature film debut for television sitcom star Kelsey Grammer. Almost everyone else...
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1996
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Oscar-winning character actor Ben Johnson was never as well known as other stars, and yet for many industry insiders, he was...
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1996
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Author Larry McMurtry revisits Gus and Woodrow, the aging lawmen from his bestselling Western novel Lonesome Dove, in their...
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1996
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Written by the late John Cassavettes in 1987 and filmed by his son Nick a decade later, the comic drama She's So Lovely...
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1997
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Martial arts star Steven Seagal stars in this action drama as Jack Taggart, an undercover agent working for the Environmental...
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Cotton
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1997
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1998
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Narrator
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1998
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In the tradition of My Left Foot (1989), Peter Chelsom directed this emotional drama of outcasts, adapted from the Rodman...
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Grim
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1998
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David Lynch offers an uncharacteristically straightforward and warmly sentimental approach to his material in this film,...
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1999
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1999
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2001
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Tyler Briggs (Michael Vartan) returns home for his mother's funeral only to encounter the redneck side of the family -- his...
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2001
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Sean Penn directed this tense drama of loyalty, honor, and obsession, based on a novel by Friedrich Durrenmatt. Jerry Black...
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2001
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In this historical drama with music, a gifted singer (Oleg Yankovsky) from a Jewish village in Russia travels to the United...
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Felix
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2001
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Arriving on the eponymous Sicilian island with his wife and child to investigate the murder of a would-be informant, FBI...
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2002
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Film superstar Nicolas Cage's directing debut, Sonny follows a very unconventional family as they struggle to overcome...
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Henry
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2002
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A man comes face to face with the rage he didn't know he had in this comedy. Dave Buznick (Adam Sandler) is an even-tempered...
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2003
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2004
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Advertising writer John Dullaghan makes his feature-length directorial debut with the documentary Bukowski: Born Into This....
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2004
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2005
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Meet the Henricksons. They're the typical suburban American family, occupied with hectic schedules and bills to pay, as well...
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Roman Grant
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2006
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2006
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A man is being driven crazy by his shiftless best friend, just as the layabout starts making nice with his wife and neighbors...
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2006
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Freddie
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2006
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A movie star who is reeling from the pressures of celebrity tries to show the media just how it feels in this independent...
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2007
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As one of the few heavyweight comedians of Vegas's "Golden Age" to topline standup routines in 21st century Glitter Gulch - a...
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2007
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First-time helmer Steve Berra writes and directs the finely felt coming-of-age story The Good Life, a film à clef loosely...
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Gus
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2007
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As originally screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, at the Cannes Film Festival, and on Turner Classic Movies, the mammoth,...
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2007
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The Golden Globe-nominated second season of HBO's celebrated polygamist drama opens two weeks after Barb (Jeanne Tripplehorn)...
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Roman Grant
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2007
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A drug dealer moves on to bigger crimes in an effort to settle a score with disastrous results in this drama inspired by...
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2007
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Owen, Luke, and Andrew Wilson combine their fraternal filmmaking talents to tell the character-driven tale of a small-time...
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2007
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Director Nick Willing puts a new twist on Lewis Carroll's classic tale in this fantasy mini-series depicting Alice as a 21...
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2009
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Lies told, secrets kept and truths revealed make for a riveting third season of Big Love, the critically acclaimed HBO drama...
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Roman Grant
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2009
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Amon
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2009
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Roman Grant
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2010
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2010
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A pet chameleon who has lived his entire life in the confines of a cozy glass terrarium discovers adventure beyond his...
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Balthazar
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2011
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2012
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2012
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Marvel Studios delivers the ultimate comic-book film, which ties together such characters as Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.),...
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2012
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2012
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Fifty-year-old retired goth rocker Cheyenne (Sean Penn) travels from London to New York to visit his dying father, and then...
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Robert Plath
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2012
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