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  • 1988
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    Stand and Deliver

    Stand and Deliver

    7.6 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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  • 1993
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    Much Ado About Nothing

    Much Ado About Nothing

    6.943 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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  • 1995
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    Safe

    Safe

    7 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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  • 1983
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    El Norte

    El Norte

    7.209 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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  • 1983
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    Testament

    Testament

    6.4 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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    The Thin Blue Line

    The Thin Blue Line

    7.679 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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    My Family

    My Family

    7.569 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
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    Ethan Frome

    Ethan Frome

    5.6 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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  • 1991
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    Into the Woods

    Into the Woods

    8.012 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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  • 1985
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    Smooth Talk

    Smooth Talk

    6.3 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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  • 1991
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    Cabeza de Vaca

    Cabeza de Vaca

    6.8 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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  • 1991
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    Daughters of the Dust

    Daughters of the Dust

    6.4 1991 HD

    In 1902, an African-American family living on a sea island off the coast of South Carolina prepares to move to the North.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Cora Lee Day

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  • 1989
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    Longtime Companion

    Longtime Companion

    6.8 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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  • 1984
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    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    5.5 1984 HD

    An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy...

    Genre: TV Movie

    Cast: Jessica Lange

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  • 1992
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    Simple Men

    Simple Men

    6.7 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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  • 1994
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    Amateur

    Amateur

    6.3 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
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    Sunday in the Park with George

    Sunday in the Park with George

    7.3 1986 HD

    A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grand Jatte by Georges Seurat is one of the great paintings of the world, and in "Sunday in the Park with...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Mandy Patinkin

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  • 1983
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    The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

    The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez

    6.833 1983 HD

    Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in...

    Genre: Western

    Cast: Edward James Olmos

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  • 1989
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    Bloodhounds of Broadway

    Bloodhounds of Broadway

    5.7 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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  • 1988
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    The Wizard of Loneliness

    The Wizard of Loneliness

    5.8 1988 HD

    After his mother dies and father goes to fight in World War II, a young boy moves in with his aunt and uncle who live in the countryside. Lonely and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Lukas Haas

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