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Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
After her husband dies, a woman (Halle Berry) invites his drug-addicted friend (Benicio Del Toro) to...
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Punisher: War Zone (2008)
After hunting down and killing hundreds of violent criminals, Frank Castle, aka The Punisher, faces...
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The Big Country (1958)
A former sea captain (Gregory Peck) goes West, woos women (Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker) and joins a...
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Interiors (1978)
A perfectionist (Geraldine Page) frustrates her daughters and drives out her husband (E.G....
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The Basketball Diaries (1995)
Crime pays for the drug addiction of a high-school hoopster (Leonardo DiCaprio) and three teammates...
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Ordinary People (1980)
A suburban Chicago couple (Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore) and their son (Timothy Hutton) are...
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Paparazzi (2004)
A movie star (Cole Hauser) takes revenge on a group of photographers who continuously stalk his...
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All or Nothing (2002)
A cabdriver (Timothy Spall), his wife (Lesley Manville), a cashier and other working-class Britons...
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Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
A New York adman (Dustin Hoffman) fights for custody of his son (Justin Henry) after his wife (Meryl...
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Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
A professor (Richard Burton) and his wife (Elizabeth Taylor) drink and verbally assault each other...
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On Golden Pond (1981)
An old professor (Henry Fonda) and his wife (Katharine Hepburn) make peace with their daughter (Jane...
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The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Poor sharecroppers the Joads (Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell) leave dust bowl Oklahoma in hope of better...
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Jungle Fever (1991)
Trouble follows an architect's (Wesley Snipes) biracial affair with a woman (Annabella Sciorra)...
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The Dead (1987)
The final film of legendary director John Huston was based on the closing story of James...
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Tribute (1980)
A shallow Broadway press agent (Jack Lemmon) learns he is dying just as his son (Robby Benson) by...
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Da (1988)
Autobiographical drama about playwright Hugh Leonard's relationship with his father.
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East of Eden (1955)
Rebellious son Cal (James Dean) competes with his twin, Aron, for the love of a rigid farmer...
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Moonlight Mile (2002)
After the murder of his fiancee, a young man (Jake Gyllenhaal) bonds with her parents (Dustin...
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The World According to Garp (1982)
John Irving's novel about the son of an unmarried nurse whose career is overshadowed by his...
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Gracie (2007)
After the death of her older brother, a teenager (Carly Schroeder) petitions her high school for the...
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Five Easy Pieces (1970)
A former concert pianist (Jack Nicholson) who works in an oil field takes his waitress girlfriend...
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Running on Empty (1988)
Two former '60s radicals (Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch) live underground with their sons, one...
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Places in the Heart (1984)
A widowed mother (Sally Field) fights for her cotton farm with a laborer and a blind boarder (John...
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Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
An Atlanta widow (Jessica Tandy) and her chauffeur (Morgan Freeman) reflect the changing times, from...
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At Close Range (1986)
A rural teen (Sean Penn) joins his father's (Christopher Walken) crime clan and winds up...
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Autumn Sonata (1979)
Following the death of her lover, a world-reknowned concert pianist returns to Sweden to visit the...
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Far North (1988)
Four generations of a family in northern Minnesota are brought together when the head of the family...
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The Baby Maker (1970)
A free-spirited woman agrees to be a surrogate mother for a wealthy California couple. The original...
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The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988)
A teenager (Keanu Reeves) kidnaps his coal-miner father (Fred Ward), hoping his mother (Bonnie...
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I Never Sang For My Father (1970)
A middle-aged New York professor (Gene Hackman) loses his mother (Dorothy Stickney) and reaches out...
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