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    April Story

    A young woman, Nireno, travels from Hokkaido to Tokyo to begin college. Shy and naive, she lets...

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    Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996)

    Two dogs and a cat are forced to make their way across an unfamiliar city after being separated from...

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    Trouble in Mind (1985)

    The lives of an ex-con, a coffee-shop owner, and a young couple looking to make it rich intersect in...

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    Year of the Dragon (1985)

    A tough-talking New York City detective is set on bringing a powerful Chinatown crime lord to...

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    New York Stories (1989)

    Martin Scorsese's ``Life Lessons,'' Francis Coppola's ``Life Without Zoe'' and Woody Allen's...

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    Welcome to L.A. (1977)

    Shallow people (Keith Carradine, Sally Kellerman, Geraldine Chaplin) wallow in relationships, mostly...

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    The Tollbooth (2006)

    A Jewish family from Brooklyn is seen through the eyes of Sarabeth Cohen--a struggling painter in...

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    La Linea del Cielo (1984)

    Antonio Resines plays a Spanish photographer whose dreams of fame and fortune lead him to New York...

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    Kids (1995)

    A summer day for a group of Manhattan teens includes loss of innocence, an HIV-positive blood test...

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    Big Business (1988)

    Mismatched at birth, two sets of twins (Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin) meet as opposites in Manhattan...

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    Short Cuts (1993)

    A study of the human condition examining the intertwined lives of 22 people. Based on Raymond...

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    Waterborne

    Two siblings (Christopher Masterson, Jake Muxworthy), a National Guard commander (Jon Gries), a...

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    The Dark End of the Street (1981)

    Filmed independently in Boston, Dark End of the Street was the follow-up (but not the sequel) to the...

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    -30-

    It's late Thursday night at the local paper and a savvy city editor, a world-weary but upright...

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    True Blood (1989)

    A street fighter (Jeff Fahey) returns after 10 years on the run and finds his younger brother (Chad...

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    You're a Big Boy Now (1966)

    Post-teen virgin moves to New York City, falls for a cold-hearted beauty, then finds true love with...

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    Naked in New York (1994)

    An aspiring playwright's (Eric Stoltz) choice of a New York career over his first love (Mary-Louise...

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    Fearless Frank (1968)

    Slain by Chicago gangsters, country boy Frank (Jon Voight) comes back as a caped superhero with a...

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    Godspell (1973)

    Jesus (Victor Garber) is a New York hippie in a sweatshirt in a version of the Gospel according to...

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    Blind Eye (2008)

    Action thriller about a brotherhood of friends torn apart by a dangerous secret and an even deadlier...

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    Scent of A Woman (1992)

    A blind ex-colonel (Al Pacino) takes his preppie guide (Chris O'Donnell) on a lust-for-life trip to...

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    Mouth to Mouth (1978)

    Kim Krejus and Sonia Peat star as a couple of disenfranchised Australian teenagers. Unemployed and...

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    The Spook Who Sat By the Door

    A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to...

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    I Love Budapest

    Aniko moves to Budapest to live with her friend Molni. Getting a factory job, Aniko enjoys her...

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    I Was Happy Here

    It can't have been box-office considerations that motivated the title-change of the British I Was...

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    Summer's Children

    This provocative Canadian drama observes the aftermath of a passionate incestuous affair between a...

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    Home Free All (1984)

    This well-wrought, perceptive comedy drama about the differing adjustments of three Vietnam vets to...

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    The Foreigner

    Set in the strange world of the New York City club scene, agent Max Menace (Eric Mitchell) attempts...

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    La Communion Solennelle

    In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three...

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    Ave Maria

    Naive but devout villagers find themselves victimized by two conniving grifters in this French crime...