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  • Mommie Dearest picture
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    Mommie Dearest (1981)

    Movie queen Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) pampers and punishes her adopted son and daughter (Diana...

  • A River Runs Through It picture
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    A River Runs Through It (1992)

    Two Montana boys become different men (Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt) under the influence of fly-fishing...

  • The Big Knife picture
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    The Big Knife (1955)

    A Hollywood movie star's battle with a studio chief leads to a downward spiral of alcohol, blackmail...

  • Period of Adjustment picture
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    Period of Adjustment (1962)

    As two newlyweds (Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton) face failure, two more face in-laws.

  • The Winning Team picture
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    The Winning Team (1952)

    Grover Cleveland Alexander (Ronald Reagan) becomes one of baseball's greatest pitchers, with his...

  • Good Night, Nurse! picture
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    Good Night, Nurse! (1918)

    Long believed lost, the Fatty Arbuckle two-reeler Good Night, Nurse resurfaced in fragmentary form...

  • Wuthering Heights picture
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    Wuthering Heights (1939)

    Emily Brontë's gothic heroine Cathy (Merle Oberon) loves stableboy Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) but...

  • Pay It Forward picture
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    Pay It Forward (2000)

    In response to a challenge by his teacher (Kevin Spacey), an 11-year-old (Haley Joel Osment)...

  • Blind Date picture
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    Blind Date (1987)

    A Los Angeles bachelor (Bruce Willis) attends a company dinner with a stranger (Kim Basinger) who...

  • I'll Cry Tomorrow picture
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    I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)

    1930s singer/actress Lillian Roth (Susan Hayward) hits bottom after bad marriages, then joins...

  • Opening Night picture
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    Opening Night (1979)

    A Broadway actress (Gena Rowlands) prepares for a premiere on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

  • Somebody Up There Likes Me picture
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    Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)

    A youth turns his rebellious nature into a successful ring career in this fact-based portrait of...

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    Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)

    Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason) chases a trucker (Burt Reynolds) and his girlfriend...

  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof picture
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    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)

    Two brothers, one an alcoholic (Paul Newman) who resents his devoted wife (Elizabeth Taylor), visit...

  • The Legend of Bagger Vance picture
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    The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)

    A golf caddy (Will Smith) shows a disillusioned young war veteran (Matt Damon) how to master...

  • Leaving Las Vegas picture
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    Leaving Las Vegas (1995)

    Intent on drinking himself to death, a man (Nicolas Cage) who lost all finds solace with a Las Vegas...

  • Running with Scissors picture
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    Running with Scissors (2006)

    A man looks back on his unusual childhood, his mentally ill mother (Annette Bening) and her...

  • Cat Ballou picture
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    Cat Ballou (1965)

    When an outlaw (Lee Marvin) with a fake nose kills her father, a schoolmarm (Jane Fonda) hires his...

  • Rooster Cogburn picture
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    Rooster Cogburn (1975)

    One-eyed Marshal Cogburn (John Wayne) helps a Bible-toting spinster (Katharine Hepburn) find the men...

  • 28 Days picture
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    28 Days (2000)

    When a court order sends a New York journalist (Sandra Bullock) to a rehabilitation center for...

  • Sea of Love picture
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    Sea of Love (1989)

    Two New York detectives (Al Pacino, John Goodman) bait a lonely hearts killer; one of them falls for...

  • The Fugitive Kind picture
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    The Fugitive Kind (1960)

    A guitar-playing petty criminal (Marlon Brando) wanders into a Mississippi town and attracts two...

  • Bounce picture
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    Bounce (2000)

    An ad executive (Ben Affleck) seeks out the widow (Gwyneth Paltrow) of a stranger who swapped...

  • The Joker Is Wild picture
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    The Joker Is Wild (1957)

    Singer Joe E. Lewis (Frank Sinatra) turns nightclub comic in 1920s Chicago, with a socialite (Jeanne...

  • Friday the 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives picture
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    Friday the 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)

    Teenage Tommy (Thom Mathews) meets masked-killer Jason, brought back by a lightning bolt at the...

  • Wuthering Heights picture
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    Wuthering Heights

    Emily Bronte's gothic heroine, Cathy (Anna Calder-Marshall), loves stableboy Heathcliff (Timothy...

  • The Lost Weekend picture
    Movies

    The Lost Weekend (1945)

    Billy Wilder's Academy Award-winning portrait of an alcoholic writer facing a losing battle against...

  • Promises! Promises! picture
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    Promises! Promises!

    After a drunken spree on a cruise ship, two women discover that they're pregnant, and set out to...

  • Two Weeks in Another Town picture
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    Two Weeks in Another Town

    An actor (Kirk Douglas) and a director (Edward G. Robinson), both washed-up in Hollywood, try to...

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    Timecode (2000)

    Four simultaneous, improvised stories center around a movie producer (Saffron Burrows), his wife...