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  • Big City Dick: Richard Peterson's First Movie picture
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    Big City Dick: Richard Peterson's First Movie

    This captivating journey into the world of a savant street musician and his lifelong struggle to...

  • Nemo picture
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    Nemo

    Seven year-old Nemo falls asleep in a Manhatten skyscraper and wakes in another dimension....

  • Tiger Warsaw picture
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    Tiger Warsaw (1988)

    A former drug addict (Patrick Swayze) returns to the Pennsylvania hometown where he shot his father...

  • The James Dean Story picture
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    The James Dean Story (1957)

    The story about the rise and fall of James Dean.

  • Johnny Tremain picture
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    Johnny Tremain (1957)

    Johnny Tremain is drawn into the Revolutionary War, and becomes a patriot fighting to free the...

  • Walker picture
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    Walker (1987)

    The life of American lawyer and journalist William Walker, who named himself president of Nicaragua...

  • Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy On the Right picture
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    Ben Johnson: Third Cowboy On the Right (1996)

    An unusually detailed look at one of Hollywood's long-time leading character actors, Ben...

  • Bernie picture
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    Bernie (1997)

    Thirtyish, slightly retarded Bernie, who has lived all his life in an orphanage, withdraws his...

  • Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth picture
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    Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth (1998)

    In the late '40s stand-up comic Lenny Bruce shared the stage with the local strippers, and married...

  • Mister Cory picture
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    Mister Cory (1957)

    A youth from the slums of Chicago uses his wiles and his gambling savvy and eventually grows to...

  • The Bruce picture
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    The Bruce

    Robert the Bruce (Sandy Welch) helps unite the Scottish people in a rebellion against the English.

  • Alexander the Great from Macedonia picture
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    Alexander the Great from Macedonia

    The coming of age of young Alexander, future world conqueror, from his boyhood in Greece to his...

  • Tristana picture
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    Tristana (1970)

    A virginal young beauty goes to live with her guardian and is promptly deflowered. She repays him...

  • Dias De Santiago picture
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    Dias De Santiago (2005)

    A former SEAL (Pietro Sibille) with violent tendencies struggles to adjust to civilian life in the...

  • Get Bruce picture
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    Get Bruce (1999)

    Whoopi Goldberg, Billy Crystal and others pay tribute to the man who has collaborated on some of...

  • Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train picture
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    Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004)

    Filmmakers Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller examine the life of the historian and activist; narrator Matt...

  • Nynne picture
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    Nynne

    The Danish Bridget Jones

  • Too Tough to Die picture
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    Too Tough to Die

    The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Eddie Vedder and other musicians perform a tribute concert to the...

  • Maryam picture
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    Maryam (2002)

    An Iranian-born teenager living in suburban New Jersey thinks of herself as simply an American until...

  • Bert Rigby, You're a Fool picture
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    Bert Rigby, You're a Fool (1989)

    An English coal miner (Robert Lindsay) turns traveling song-and-dance man, then Hollywood hopeful.

  • Brenda Starr picture
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    Brenda Starr (1992)

    The comic-strip reporter (Brooke Shields) gets the story, aided by her cartoonist (Tony Peck) and a...

  • Rosie picture
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    Rosie (1999)

    Rosie is a troubled teen: her single mom passes her off as a younger sister in order not to scare...

  • Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood picture
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    Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)

    In 1924 Estie comes to Hollywood to become an actress, but the dog, that followed her becomes the...

  • Kurosawa picture
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    Kurosawa

    Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) was, undoubtedly, one of the greatest directors in the history of...

  • The Affairs of Dobie Gillis picture
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    The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1952)

    Dobie (Bobby Van) goes to college, dates Pansy (Debbie Reynolds), horses around, blows up the...

  • Muhammad Ali, the Greatest picture
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    Muhammad Ali, the Greatest

    Filmmaker William Klein examines the life and career of boxer Muhammad Ali from 1964 to 1974.

  • The Voyage of Captain Fracassa picture
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    The Voyage of Captain Fracassa

    Romantic comedy set in the early 17th century about an impoverished young aristocrat who falls in...

  • Barnie et ses petites contrarietes picture
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    Barnie et ses petites contrarietes

    Ship designer Barnie is juggling two lovers and a wife all at once, and something's bound to slip....

  • Macario picture
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    Macario

    After an impoverished 18th century woodcutter makes a pact with Death, by which he is granted the...

  • Andy Warhol picture
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    Andy Warhol

    The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole...