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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...

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    Roar

    Wildlife activist and actress Tippi Hedren starred in this comic family adventure written, directed,...

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    Crumb (1995)

    Filmmaker Terry Zwigoff profiles underground cartoonist Robert Crumb, with a look at his...

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    Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000

    The revolutionary upheaval of 1968 rocked Europe, and led to many changes. For a while, it was...

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    Vernon, Florida (1981)

    A vision of a small Florida town and its citizens far away from the hurried, chaotic cities.

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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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    The Scapegoat (1959)

    An Englishman (Alec Guinness) doubles for a decadent French count who has an Italian mistress...

  • A Gnome Named Gnorm picture
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    A Gnome Named Gnorm

    An ex-cop and a gnome team together to solve a murder.

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    Private Collection

    In this grim, surreal Australian horror movie, the union between two obsessive-compulsive people...

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    The Ruling Class

    An insane man inherits his father's estate, but the other family members plot to take it away from...

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    True Stories (1986)

    An outsider (David Byrne) interviews banal citizens of small-town Virgil, Texas. Music by Talking...