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    Everything Is Illuminated (2005)

    A young man (Elijah Wood) travels to Russia to find the woman who may have saved his grandfather...

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    Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

    An inventor (Dick Van Dyke) takes his kids and a candy tycoon's daughter (Sally Ann Howes) for a...

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    Adaptation (2002)

    A screenwriter (Nicolas Cage) asks his identical twin, who is in the same profession, for advice on...

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    Whatever Works (2009)

    After the failure of his career, his marriage, and his suicide attempt, world-class grouch Boris...

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    No Reservations (2007)

    A career-centered chef (Catherine Zeta-Jones) faces important changes in her life when she becomes...

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    Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1994)

    A collage of short films blends together into a semibiographical account of the reclusive classical...

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    Yes Nurse! No Nurse! (2004)

    The feisty owner (Loes Luca) of a rest home deals with a litigious neighbor (Paul R. Kooij) and a...

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    Smart People (2008)

    Recently widowed, a professor (Dennis Quaid) tries to juggle a new love (Sarah Jessica Parker) and...

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    At the Earth's Core (1976)

    Victorian explorers (Doug McClure, Peter Cushing) burrow to Pellucidar, where mutant Sagoths rule...

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    Anything Else (2003)

    A writer (Jason Biggs) has problems with his live-in girlfriend (Christina Ricci) and an obsessive...

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    The Addams Family (1991)

    Gomez (Raul Julia), Morticia (Anjelica Huston) and their ghoulish household are prey to a scam...

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    Grey Gardens (2009)

    The lives of Edith Bouvier Beale (Jessica Lange) and her daughter Edie (Drew Barrymore), aunt and...

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    Corrina, Corrina (1994)

    A housekeeper (Whoopi Goldberg) brings joy to a Jewish widower (Ray Liotta) and his young daughter...

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    Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2004)

    Filmmaker George Hickenlooper chronicles the life of Los Angeles disc jockey and pop star impresario...

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    Cold Feet (1989)

    A New West cowboy (Keith Carradine), his girlfriend (Sally Kirkland) and a hit man (Tom Waits) try...

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    Junebug (2005)

    Months after his wedding, a man travels to his North Carolina hometown to introduce his wife (Embeth...

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    My Life So Far (1999)

    An adventurous boy and his family (Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris) learn about life and love when his...

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    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)

    A reporter (John Cusack) covering a society Christmas party in Savannah, Ga., stays for the host's...

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    Tideland (2006)

    After her parents die from drug overdoses, a girl (Jodelle Ferland) copes by inventing a fantasy...

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    Eagle vs Shark (2007)

    A socially awkward fast-food waitress (Loren Horsley) flips over a video-game clerk (Jemaine...

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    What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)

    The Rev. Billy Tallen and his Stop Shopping Choir embark on a cross-country crusade against the...

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    Cul-de-Sac (1966)

    A fugitive (Lionel Stander) and his partner invade the castle of a recluse (Donald Pleasence) and...

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    Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)

    An ominous change creeps over the world's most incredible toy store after its eccentric owner...

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    Where Is Parsifal? (1984)

    Where Is Parsifal? -- he (Tony Curtis) is in a castle surrounded by nutcakes, himself a...

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    C.R.A.Z.Y.

    A young man (Marc-André Grondin) who has four brothers tries to maintain a stable relationship with...

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    Clue (1985)

    Col. Mustard (Martin Mull), Miss Scarlet (Lesley Ann Warren), Mrs. Peacock (Eileen Brennan) and...

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    Running with Scissors (2006)

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

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    The Mosquito Coast (1986)

    A brilliant but unstable inventor and his family create what they hope will be their Utopia in...

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    Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2007)

    Eccentric Californians still hang around a once-popular but deteriorating man-made lake.

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    Joshua (2007)

    A Wall Street broker (Sam Rockwell) and his wife (Vera Farmiga) fall victim to a series of sinister...

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    My Man Godfrey (1936)

    A Park Avenue socialite (Carole Lombard) on a scavenger hunt finds a ``forgotten man'' (William...

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    The Old Dark House (1932)

    Stranded travelers find themselves unwelcome guests at the mountaintop mansion of a family of...

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    Pulp (1972)

    People die after an ex-Hollywood gangster (Mickey Rooney) asks a British pulp writer (Michael Caine)...

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    Slacker (1989)

    Twenty-four hours with an assortment of "slackers" (i.e. neo-beatnik, anarchists, crazies and...

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    Mame (1974)

    Wiped out by the crash of '29, a woman (Lucille Ball) marries a Georgia millionaire (Robert Preston)...

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    Juliet of the Spirits (1965)

    Federico Fellini's surrealistic account of a housewife who is told by a psychic that her husband has...

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    Barefoot in the Park (1967)

    A conservative lawyer (Robert Redford) marries a vivacious woman (Jane Fonda), and the two move into...

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    Cold Comfort Farm (1996)

    Rural British eccentrics change their ways under the influence of a chic cousin (Kate Beckinsale)...

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    The Brothers Bloom (2009)

    The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios...

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    The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera

    This documentary on Sam Fuller mixes interviews with Fuller and with other directors who have been...

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    La Vie est un roman

    With Life is a Bed of Roses, filmmaker Alain Resnais wanted to create a lighthearted tribute to...

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    Che? (1973)

    Revolutionary Ernesto ``Che'' Guevara (Benicio Del Toro) addresses the United Nations, fights in...

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    Deeply

    A teenager (Julia Brendler) befriends an eccentric novelist (Lynn Redgrave) writing a story about a...

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    Madame Sousatzka (1988)

    A cultured Russian (Shirley MacLaine) teaches piano to a gifted Indian teenager (Navin Chowdhry) in...

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    Brancaleone Alle Crociate (1970)

    This is an episodic Italian comedy, which follows the Quixotic adventures of the gentle and...

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    Unstrung Heroes (1995)

    A 12-year-old striving to cope with the impending death of his mother (Andie MacDowell) must leave...

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    Five Children and It

    Sent to live with their dotty uncle (Kenneth Branagh), London siblings encounter an 8,000-year-old...

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    The Luzhin Defence (2001)

    To the dismay of her mother (Geraldine James), an independent aristocrat (Emily Watson) falls in...

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    Siam Sunset (2004)

    Depressed Perry creates colors for an English paint company. While trying to invent the new color...

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    Road Games (1981)

    A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer who uses a young female...