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1995
Safe
Safe7.00 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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1988
Stand and Deliver
Stand and Deliver7.62 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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1995
My Family
My Family7.50 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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1993
Ethan Frome
Ethan Frome5.70 1993 HD
Married couple, Ethan and Zeena, are in need an extra hand around the house due to Zeena's debilitated body and constant illness. The young woman who...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Liam Neeson
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1983
Testament
Testament6.40 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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1989
Longtime Companion
Longtime Companion6.80 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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1992
Simple Men
Simple Men6.70 1992 HD
Dennis is a handsome and bookish college student. His brother, Bill, is a roughhewn ladies' man and thief. Together they search for their dad,...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Robert John Burke
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1985
Smooth Talk
Smooth Talk6.30 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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1994
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
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1986
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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1995
Reckless
Reckless6.30 1995 HD
On Christmas Eve, a relentlessly cheerful woman escapes from the killers hired by her husband, and embarks on a series of strange encounters.
Genre: Fantasy
Cast: Mia Farrow
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1993
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing6.97 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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1994
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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1992
Surviving Desire
Surviving Desire7.00 1992 HD
Jude, a college professor, is obsessed with Sophie, his student. She, in turn, is intrigued by his scholarly charm. Flirtation turns to lust and the...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Martin Donovan
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1988
Rachel River
Rachel River7.00 1988 HD
A divorced mother pursues her career as a radio personality in rural Minnesota.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Pamela Reed
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1983
El Norte
El Norte7.20 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
Lemon Sky
Lemon Sky7.70 1988 HD
An out of high school teen from the midwest moves to San Diego, California in the 1950s to live with his estranged father and new family. Escaping...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Kevin Bacon
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1988
The Thin Blue Line
The Thin Blue Line7.70 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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1987
Stacking
Stacking1 1987 HD
After her father is injured, a teenager and an alcoholic employee struggle to save their financially troubled farm in 1954 Montana.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Christine Lahti
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1982
Seguin
Seguin1 1982 HD
A dramatization of the life of Juan Seguin, a heroic Mexican-Texan who became entangled in the struggle between two contrasting cultures in the...
Genre: History
Cast: Henry Darrow