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    Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)

    A British schoolteacher (Sally Hawkins) fills her life with enthusiasm and compassion.

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    Pollyanna (1960)

    A 12-year-old orphan (Hayley Mills) brings gladness to a gloomy 1912 town, especially her rich...

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    TV

    Punky Brewster (1984-1988)

    An older man takes on a young orphan.

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    People

    Optimal Children's Choir (Optimal Christian Academy--California)

    Optimal Children's Choir (Optimal Christian Academy--California) worked in Production on the movie...

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    All of Me (1984)

    A woman's soul ends up in the body of a lawyer when she dies.

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    Two Eyes, Twelve Hands

    Progressive, reform-minded young warden gets permission to take six surly murderers from prison to...

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    Zazie (1960)

    A girl (Catherine Demongeot) causes chaos on the streets of Paris after she runs away from her...

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    E Se Domani...

    A man's inopportune optimism leads him to want to kill himself at a bank, before turning the tables...

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    Forever Mary (1991)

    A group of street youths are forced into juvenile delinquency by a hostile environment.

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    Nobody's Fool (1994)

    An aging irresponsible misfit (Paul Newman) falls in love with an unhappily married younger woman...

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    Candide, ou l'optimisme au XX siecle (1962)

    Jean-Pierre Cassel is ideally cast as the hopelessly optimistic Candide in this noir updating of...

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    This Old Cub (2004)

    Jeff Santo explores the life and career of his father, Chicago Cub great Ron Santo.

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    The Hermit of Amsterdam

    An aging hippy and a beautiful young woman meet in Amsterdam and find love.

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    Crowded Paradise (1956)

    All but forgotten today, Crowded Paradise was one of the first in-depth studies of racial tensions...

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    Charlotte (1988)

    Story of a young Jewess who tried to escape the Nazis on the eve of World War II.

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    All of Me

    A mystic's accident forces a lawyer (Steve Martin) to share his body with the essence of an acerbic...

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    La Crise (1992)

    A young lawyer must start a new life after losing both his wife and job in the same day.

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    A Taxi for Aouzou

    A hybrid of fiction and documentary, this "urban poem" revolves around Ali Baba Nour, a Chadian cab...

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    Salt In the Wound (1997)

    A fantasy about two transplanted, down-and-out Spanish actors who defy local authorities and, with...

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    Adam's Apples (2007)

    A priest (Mads Mikkelsen) and a pregnant woman contend with a neo-Nazi (Ulrich Thomsen), a...

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    The People of Angkor

    A story about natives living under the shadows of Angkor Wat temples in Cambodia, who are trying to...

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    Owl and the Sparrow (2009)

    In modern-day Saigon, three lonely strangers form a unique family as a ten-year old orphan plays...

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    Movies

    Pollyanna (1920)

    For her first United Artists release, silent superstar Mary Pickford decided to play it safe, even...

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    Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917)

    Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was the first film version of the Kate Douglas Wiggin novel and play....

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    Happiness

    Although she was well over forty when Happiness was filmed, Laurette Taylor was still specializing...

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    One More Spring

    One More Spring is a laundered version of Robert Nathan's whimsical Depression-era novel. Left...

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    Reunion

    This ironic little British character study stars Stuart Rome as a "most likely to succeed" type....

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    Romantic Rogue

    The Romantic Rogue is handsome Reed Howes, the scion of a disreputable family of peddlers. In the...

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    The Tramp

    The Tramp, Charlie Chaplin's sixth film for Essanay, is generally considered his first masterpiece....

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    Singh is Kinng (2008)

    A kindhearted villager finds romance and danger when he is sent to retrieve an underworld kingpin.