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    The Clown (1952)

    Divorced by his wife (Jane Greer), loved by his son (Tim Considine), a washed-up comic (Red Skelton)...

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    True Crime (1999)

    An investigative reporter (Clint Eastwood) has only 12 hours to prove a condemned man's (Isaiah...

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    The Man in the Net

    New Englanders think an adman turned artist (Alan Ladd) has killed his missing wife (Carolyn Jones).

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    Jim, the World's Greatest

    A teenage boy struggles to cope with his alcoholic father and physically abused little brother in...

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    December Ends

    After his mother tragically dies, Chris' father falls apart and Chris turns to running drugs for...

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    Where Truth Lies (1997)

    A psychotherapist (John Savage) depressed over his first wife's death is committed to an institution...

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    A Wake in Providence (2005)

    A man (Vincent Pagano) returns home for a funeral with his black girlfriend (Victoria Rowell) and...

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    Brown's Requiem (2000)

    A fat man hires a private eye (Michael Rooker) to investigate a Hollywood businessman housing his...

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    Rio Bravo (1959)

    A Texas sheriff (John Wayne) and his deputies (Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson) try to hold a cattle...

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    Ode to Billy Joe (1976)

    Bobbie Gentry's hauntingly enigmatic 1967 hit single served as the inspiration of this story of...

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    Maelstrom (2002)

    A woman (Marie-Josée Croze) thinks she may have killed her lover's (Jean-Nicolas Verreault) father...

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    Wah-Wah (2006)

    A youth in Swaziland witnesses his father's (Gabriel Byrne) alcoholism and the disintegration of his...

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    Pocket Money (1972)

    Two losers (Paul Newman, Lee Marvin) go to Mexico to buy cattle for a stranger (Strother Martin) but...

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    All the Young Men (1960)

    Set right near the 38th Parallel, the dividing line between North and South Korea, this conventional...

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    Shakes the Clown (1992)

    A down and out clown tries to clear his name of murder.

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    Kootenai Brown

    Betrayed by a con man (Donnelly Rhodes) and saved by Indians, a young drifter (Tom Burlinson) seeks...

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    Ratcatcher (2000)

    A boy's (William Eadie) secret involvement with the drowning of a friend affects his relationship...

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    The Blackout

    Residents of Brooklyn, N.Y., deal with a citywide blackout for two days in the summer of 2003.

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    Evil Spirits (1991)

    Inspired by the story of Dorothea Montalvo Puente, a landlady begins to kill her tenants for their...

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    False Identity (1990)

    After being ambushed, a Vietnam veteran gets amnesia and returns to his home town under a different...

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    The Brave

    A poor, unemployed father gives the ultimate gift of love to change the quality of life for his...

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    Fools of Fortune (1990)

    A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.

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    Under Heat (1993)

    Set in upstate New York, a reunion between two brothers and their mother is overshadowed by the...

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    From the Terrace (1960)

    A young veteran (Paul Newman) achieves financial and social success but is unhappy in his marriage...

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    X Y & Zee (1972)

    The venomous and amoral wife of a wealthy architect tries, any way she can, to break up the...

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    The War (1994)

    A Vietnam veteran (Kevin Costner) teaches his son (Elijah Wood) and daughter what is worth fighting...

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    Smilla's Sense Of Snow (1997)

    A scientist (Julia Ormond) in Denmark suspects that her friend, a 6-year-old Inuit boy, was...

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    Stand-Ins (1997)

    The story of stand-ins for famous 1930's starlets.

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    Foxfire (1955)

    Memories trace the roots of an Appalachian farmer's (Hume Cronyn) life with his wife (Jessica Tandy)...

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    The Baby

    A family (Farrah Fawcett, Keith Carradine) takes responsibility for an abandoned girl after the...