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  • In Good Company picture
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    In Good Company (2004)

    Demoted from his corporate job, a man (Dennis Quaid) learns his new, younger replacement (Topher...

  • The Princess Bride picture
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    The Princess Bride (1987)

    A storybook stableboy turns pirate (Cary Elwes) and rescues his beloved (Robin Wright), who is about...

  • Big Jake picture
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    Big Jake (1971)

    A rancher's (John Wayne) wife (Maureen O'Hara) summons him home to hunt down the outlaw (Richard...

  • Carbon Copy picture
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    Carbon Copy (1981)

    A white executive (George Segal) with a white wife (Susan Saint James) learns he has an illegitimate...

  • The Graduate picture
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    The Graduate (1967)

    An aimless college man (Dustin Hoffman) lets an older woman (Anne Bancroft) seduce him, then finds...

  • It Runs in the Family picture
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    It Runs in the Family (2003)

    A lawyer (Michael Douglas) clashes with his father (Kirk Douglas) and other members of his family as...

  • La Cage aux folles picture
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    La Cage aux folles (1979)

    A gay nightclub owner (Ugo Tognazzi) and his partner (Michel Serrault) impersonate a straight couple...

  • Box of Moonlight picture
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    Box of Moonlight (1997)

    A small-town eccentric (Sam Rockwell) teaches an uptight Chicago engineer (John Turturro) on...

  • How Green Was My Valley picture
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    How Green Was My Valley (1941)

    Five Oscars went to John Ford's adaptation of Richard Llewellyn's novel chronicling the life of a...

  • Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen picture
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    Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen

    Peter Ustinov plays the talented detective in San Francisco who attempts, with help/hindrance from...

  • Pennies From Heaven picture
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    Pennies From Heaven (1981)

    A sheet-music salesman (Steve Martin) escapes his wife, girlfriend (Bernadette Peters) and the...

  • The Dreamer picture
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    The Dreamer

    Eli (Tuvia Tavi) is a young man and aspiring artist working at a retirement home. He develops an...

  • Corrina, Corrina picture
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    Corrina, Corrina (1994)

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

  • Rebel Without a Cause picture
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    Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

    Tragedy follows when a new-to-town, troublemaking teen (James Dean) meets other anguished children...

  • The Karate Kid picture
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    The Karate Kid (1984)

    A New Jersey teen (Ralph Macchio) moves to California, meets bullies and learns karate from a...

  • Harry & Son picture
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    Harry & Son (1984)

    An out-of-work hard hat (Paul Newman) clashes with his surfer son (Robby Benson), a would-be writer...

  • Eat Drink Man Woman picture
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    Eat Drink Man Woman (1994)

    A master chef hides his concerns about his three daughters by immersing himself in the preparation...

  • Dennis the Menace picture
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    Dennis the Menace (1993)

    The comic-strip moppet (Mason Gamble) plays pranks on Mr. Wilson (Walter Matthau), the crotchety...

  • City of Hope picture
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    City of Hope (1991)

    A third-generation Italian-American struggles to break free from his father's grasp. Meanwhile, the...

  • On Golden Pond picture
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    On Golden Pond (1981)

    An old professor (Henry Fonda) and his wife (Katharine Hepburn) make peace with their daughter (Jane...

  • How the West Was Won picture
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    How the West Was Won (1962)

    The history of 19th-century Western expansion, as seen through the lives of three generations of a...

  • Alice's Restaurant picture
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    Alice's Restaurant (1969)

    A draft-dodging folk singer (Arlo Guthrie) visits hippie friends in his VW microbus and ends up in...

  • Bend It Like Beckham picture
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    Bend It Like Beckham (2003)

    An Anglo-Indian teenager does not tell her tradition-minded parents that she has joined a women's...

  • Red River picture
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    Red River (1948)

    A cattle baron (John Wayne) fights with his foster son (Montgomery Clift) on the first cattle drive...

  • My Life picture
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    My Life (1993)

    A man (Michael Keaton) and his wife (Nicole Kidman) confront his terminal cancer as he videotapes...

  • Tribute picture
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    Tribute (1980)

    A shallow Broadway press agent (Jack Lemmon) learns he is dying just as his son (Robby Benson) by...

  • Iphigenia picture
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    Iphigenia (1977)

    Clytemnestra (Irene Papas) begs Greek King Agamemnon (Costa Kazakos) not to sacrifice their daughter...

  • Fried Green Tomatoes picture
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    Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

    A nursing-home resident (Jessica Tandy) regales a visitor (Kathy Bates) with tales of the close...

  • A River Runs Through It picture
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    A River Runs Through It (1992)

    Two Montana boys become different men (Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt) under the influence of fly-fishing...

  • The Bad News Bears picture
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    The Bad News Bears (1976)

    The beer-drinking manager (Walter Matthau) of a peewee team bribes a girl pitcher (Tatum O'Neal) to...

  • The Magic Christian picture
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    The Magic Christian

    Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless boy, Youngman. Together, they set out...

  • The Fury picture
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    The Fury (1978)

    A psychic girl (Amy Irving) helps a spy (Kirk Douglas) find his psychic son, kidnapped by a renegade...

  • My Father, the Hero picture
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    My Father, the Hero (1994)

    While on a tropical vacation with her father (G?rard Depardieu), a teen (Katherine Heigl) passes him...

  • The Barker picture
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    The Barker

    Based on the oft-filmed play by Kenyon Nicholson, The Barker represented the talking-picture debut...

  • The Big Night picture
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    The Big Night (1951)

    A teenager comes of age while seeking revenge on the man who beat up his father.

  • Up the Down Staircase picture
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    Up the Down Staircase (1967)

    The experiences of a young female English teacher in an inner-city New York high school.

  • Hud picture
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    Hud (1963)

    A housekeeper (Patricia Neal) sees a Texas cattle rancher (Melvyn Douglas) clash with his son (Paul...

  • Petulia picture
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    Petulia (1968)

    A divorced doctor (George C. Scott) has a hectic affair with a kooky married woman (Julie Christie)...

  • The House of the Spirits picture
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    The House of the Spirits (1994)

    A rancher (Jeremy Irons), his clairvoyant wife (Meryl Streep) and their family face turbulent years...

  • The Man Without A Face picture
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    The Man Without A Face (1993)

    A disfigured recluse (Mel Gibson) tutors a confused teen (Nick Stahl) for a military-school entrance...

  • Written on the Wind picture
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    Written on the Wind (1956)

    A Texas oilman's (Robert Stack) sister makes him doubt his wife (Lauren Bacall) and best friend...

  • Dead Poets Society picture
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    Dead Poets Society (1989)

    A teacher at a New England prep school uses unconventional methods to instill spirit into the lives...

  • Taking Off picture
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    Taking Off (1971)

    New Yorkers (Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry) seek their drop-out daughter (Linnea Heacock) and wind up on...

  • A Thousand Clowns picture
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    A Thousand Clowns

    A woman convinces an unemployed writer to get his job back and marry her so he won't lose custody of...

  • Blueberry Hill picture
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    Blueberry Hill (1988)

    A widow's (Carrie Snodgress) daughter (Jennifer Rubin) in 1956 California learns from her piano...

  • Billy Galvin picture
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    Billy Galvin (1986)

    Lenny Von Dohlen plays Billy Galvin, the son of a no-nonsense construction worker (Karl Malden)....

  • Proud Rebel picture
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    Proud Rebel (1958)

    An Illinois widow (Olivia de Havilland) helps a Southern widower (Alan Ladd) traveling with his dog...

  • The Bad News Bears picture
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    The Bad News Bears (2005)

    A single mother (Marcia Gay Harden) recruits a former baseball player (Billy Bob Thornton) to coach...

  • The Shanghai Gesture picture
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    The Shanghai Gesture (1942)

    Gambling-den boss Mother Gin Sling (Ona Munson) drags her British ex-lover's (Walter Huston)...

  • Tarzan Finds a Son! picture
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    Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)

    The ape man (Johnny Weissmuller) and Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan) find an infant, call him Boy (John...