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1995
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Safe
Safe6.97 1995 HD
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Julianne Moore
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1993
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Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing6.95 1993 HD
In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Emma Thompson
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1983
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Testament
Testament6.43 1983 HD
It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Jane Alexander
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1988
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Stand and Deliver
Stand and Deliver7.64 1988 HD
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Edward James Olmos
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1985
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Smooth Talk
Smooth Talk6.32 1985 HD
Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Laura Dern
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1996
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Passion
Passion7.20 1996 HD
Giorgio, a young soldier, is in love with the married Clara and becomes her lover. But they are separated when Giorgio is posted far away, where he...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Donna Murphy
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1991
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Cabeza de Vaca
Cabeza de Vaca6.80 1991 HD
An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One...
Genre: Action
Cast: Juan Diego
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1985
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Three Sovereigns for Sarah
Three Sovereigns for Sarah1 1985 HD
Nineteen people were hanged and one man pressed to death, while hundreds went to jail during the "witch hysteria" of 1692. THREE SOVEREIGNS FOR SARAH...
Genre: History
Cast: Kim Hunter
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1983
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El Norte
El Norte7.18 1983 HD
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the...
Genre: Adventure
Cast: Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez
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1988
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In a Shallow Grave
In a Shallow Grave1.00 1988 HD
Garnet Montrose (Michael Beihn) returns home to West Virginia after suffering horrible facial disfigurement from wounds at the battle of Guadalcanal....
Genre: Drama
Cast: Michael Biehn
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1989
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Bloodhounds of Broadway
Bloodhounds of Broadway5.70 1989 HD
This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Matt Dillon
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1995
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My Family
My Family7.53 1995 HD
Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Edward James Olmos
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1989
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Longtime Companion
Longtime Companion6.82 1989 HD
During the summer of 1981, a group of friends in New York are completely unprepared for the onslaught of AIDS. What starts as a rumor about a...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Bruce Davison
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1986
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Native Son
Native Son5.60 1986 HD
In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Victor Love
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1988
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The Thin Blue Line
The Thin Blue Line7.68 1988 HD
Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas.
Genre: Crime
Cast: Randall Adams
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1995
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...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him
...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him5.33 1995 HD
Twelve-year-old Mexican-American Marcos (Jose Alcala) recalls the hardships of the previous year, reflecting on the arduous trek his migrant-worker...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Jose Alcala
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1991
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Into the Woods
Into the Woods8.01 1991 HD
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Bernadette Peters
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1994
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Golden Gate
Golden Gate4.00 1994 HD
A brash 22-year-old FBI agent trumps up charges of Communist spying against a Chinese laundryman. Ten years later, he wants to make amends to the man...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Matt Dillon
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1985
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain5.00 1985 HD
This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Paul Winfield
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1994
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Amateur
Amateur6.30 1994 HD
A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Isabelle Huppert