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    Iron & Silk (1991)

    An American college graduate's experience in China as an English teacher and martial arts student.

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    The Beverly Hillbillies (1993)

    A woman hopes to tie up Jed Clampett, a mountain-man Easterner, and his newly acquired wealth in the...

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    Time After Time (1979)

    Victorian London's Jack the Ripper (David Warner) escapes to 1979 San Francisco in H.G. Wells'...

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    Greenfingers (2001)

    Inmates (Clive Owen, David Kelly) who tend the garden at a British prison attract the attention of a...

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    Timeline (2003)

    Adventurers (Paul Walker, Frances O'Connor, Gerard Butler) travel back to 14th-century France to...

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    Paper Lion (1969)

    Writer George Plimpton (Alan Alda) tries out for quarterback with the Detroit Lions and lives to...

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    Fast Break (1979)

    A coach (Gabriel Kaplan) from New York packs his Nevada college basketball team with street-wise...

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    Havoc

    Privileged teens (Anne Hathaway, Bijou Phillips) leave comfortable suburbia to socialize with drug...

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    Starman (1984)

    A Wisconsin widow (Karen Allen) falls in love with an alien (Jeff Bridges) who has remade himself as...

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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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    The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1990)

    An African Bushman (N!xau) leads his children, poachers, mercenaries and a lost couple (Lena...

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    Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1990)

    A Finnish rock band travels to North America in search of mainstream success.

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    Irish Jam

    An American con artist (Eddie Griffin) wins a poetry contest staged by residents of a financially...

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    The Wild Child (1970)

    A Paris doctor (François Truffaut) tries to civilize Victor (Jean-Pierre Cargol), a naked boy found...

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    Bon Voyage! (1962)

    An average mid-western plumbing contractor takes his wife and kids on a vacation to Europe and...

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    James' Journey to Jerusalem (2004)

    While on a pilgrimage in Israel, a young African (Siyabonga Melongisi Shibe) meets a hard-nosed man...

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    The Fighting Temptations (2003)

    To collect his aunt's inheritance, an unemployed man (Cuba Gooding Jr.) must form a gospel choir and...

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    Holy Matrimony (1994)

    A young Hutterite boy must marry his late brother's wife who comes from outside the community.

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    Doc Hollywood (1991)

    An upstart plastic surgeon (Michael J. Fox) gets stuck in a one-doctor Southern town and falls in...

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    The Fringe Dwellers (1987)

    An upwardly mobile Aborigine (Kristina Nehm) moves her family to an Australian suburb.

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    Swordkill (1986)

    A deep-frozen 400-year-old samurai (Hiroshi Fujioka) is shipped to Los Angeles, where he comes back...

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    The Great Wall Is a Great Wall (1986)

    A Chinese-American (Peter Wang) quits Silicon Valley and moves to China with his wife (Sharon Iwai)...

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    Pushing Hands (1995)

    All the while, Master Chu tries to find his place in the foreign American world.

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    The Grass Is Singing (1984)

    A city woman (Karen Black) marries a farmer (John Thaw) and slowly goes mad in 1960s South Africa.

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    Floating Life (1996)

    A look at the Chinese diaspora focusing on a family scattered across the world. In Germany, one...

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    Gringuito

    Ivan is the 8-year old son of a Chilean exile who has grown up in New York. When his...

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    Blowfish (1996)

    Two tough brothers from Brooklyn are stranded in a Florida trailer park and must interact in a way...

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    Clarence and Angel

    Clarence and Angel are two 12-year-old outsiders--one bright but illiterate, the other wildly...

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    Nesto Ismedju

    Nesto Izmedju is an intellectually comic spoof of cultural morés and linguistic groping between an...

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    Mail-Order Bride (2008)

    Diana McQueen notorious con-woman has had enough. She leaves town and her boss, Tom Rourke, behind....