Fighting the System
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    Movies

    The Tailor of Panama (2001)

    In Panama an unprincipled spy (Pierce Brosnan) enlists a tailor (Geoffrey Rush) to gather...

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    Dante's Peak (1997)

    A volcanologist (Pierce Brosnan) and his new love (Linda Hamilton) flee a deadly eruption in the...

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    Mister Roberts (1955)

    Ensign Pulver (Jack Lemmon) plots cargo officer Mr. Roberts' (Henry Fonda) escape from their...

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    The Yes Men (2004)

    Anti-corporate pranksters pose as spokesmen for the World Trade Organization at lectures and...

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    Lenny (1974)

    1950s comic Lenny Bruce (Dustin Hoffman) spurs controversy with his drug use, graphic language and...

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    The Matrix (1999)

    A computer hacker (Keanu Reeves) joins forces with rebel warriors (Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne...

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    Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)

    In 1965 Saigon, disc jockey Adrian Cronauer turns Armed Forces Radio on its ear with his irreverent...

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    The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)

    The Bradys (Shelley Long, Gary Cole) and their TV-series clan refuse to sell their home to a shady...

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    Without Limits (1998)

    Long-distance runner Steve Prefontaine (Billy Crudup) trains rigorously with coach Bill Bowerman...

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    In the Name of the Father (1993)

    An Irishman (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his father (Pete Postlethwaite) share a British prison cell for a...

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    Dirty Pretty Things (2003)

    A hotel receptionist (Sergi López) runs a racket where desperate immigrants each give up a kidney in...

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    The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)

    Italian villagers unite to outwit the occupying Nazis whose main purpose is to confiscate 1 million...

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    The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)

    Musician John Lennon arouses the ire of the U.S. government when he starts campaigning against the...

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    The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

    A scheming executive (Paul Newman) promotes a mailroom worker (Tim Robbins) to company president in...

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    The Insider (1999)

    Former tobacco researcher Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) blows the whistle about the industry to...

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    Prison Planet

    A lone rebel fights to free his people after being sent to a barren desert wasteland.

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    Electra Glide in Blue (1973)

    A motorcycle cop (Robert Blake) with a Harley-Davidson ties hippies to a murder in the Arizona...

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    Harper Valley P.T.A. (1978)

    This low-budget expansion of the popular Tom T. Hall/Jeannie C. Riley song "Harper Valley PTA" is...

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    Serpico (1974)

    Based on the true story of Frank Serpico, who sacrificed his career to expose widespread corruption...

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    An Unreasonable Man (2007)

    Filmmakers Henriette Mantel and Steve Krovan examine the notable and sometimes controversial career...

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    Destry Rides Again (1939)

    Deputy sheriff Destry (James Stewart) tames the town of Bottle Neck, including saloon singer Frenchy...

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    Santa Fe Trail (1940)

    Dashing Jeb Stuart (Errol Flynn) and his West Point classmates go to Kansas to stop abolitionist...

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    Flash of Genius (2008)

    Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear) fights the auto industry, claiming that the intermittent windshield...

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    The Young Animals

    A small Arizona town is plagued by violence created from the tension between Anglo and...

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    Best Defense (1984)

    Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy try but fail to bring this flat comedy to life, while the story itself...

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    The Great White Hope (1970)

    A heavyweight champion (James Earl Jones) is punished for his white mistress (Jane Alexander) circa...

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    Taps (1981)

    Inspired by a general (George C. Scott), a cadet (Timothy Hutton) leads an armed defense of his...

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    Bulworth (1998)

    After hiring a hit man to kill him, a disillusioned senator (Warren Beatty) starts speaking the...

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    Music of the Heart (1999)

    After her husband leaves abruptly, a woman (Meryl Streep) becomes a teacher in an East Harlem school...

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    Shakedown (1988)

    A legal-aid lawyer (Peter Weller) and an undercover officer (Sam Elliott) check a drug dealer's...