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    Carrie (1976)

    A social misfit (Sissy Spacek) with psychic powers wreaks havoc at her prom to get even with...

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    Shine (1996)

    A domineering father (Geoffrey Rush), then a supportive wife profoundly shape Australian prodigy...

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    The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)

    Victorian poet Robert Browning (Fredric March) courts invalid poet Elizabeth Barrett (Norma Shearer)...

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    Tuck Everlasting (2002)

    While walking in the woods, a teenager (Alexis Bledel) meets a family (William Hurt, Sissy Spacek)...

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    A Gift from Heaven (1994)

    A dysfunctional family in early 1970s backwoods North Carolina.

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    Herman (1993)

    A coming-of-age story about a Norwegian boy, and the first crisis he faces, the loss of his hair.

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    The Baby

    A family (Farrah Fawcett, Keith Carradine) takes responsibility for an abandoned girl after the...

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    Take Her, She's Mine (1963)

    Parents (James Stewart, Audrey Meadows) let their teenage daughter (Sandra Dee) study in Paris, but...

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    Zelly and Me (1988)

    An orphaned child, emotionally abused by her grandmother, is kidnapped by her nanny and the nanny's...

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    Going to Kansas City (1998)

    An exchange student from Helsinki travels to America with dreams of playing the blues in Kansas...

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    Sons and Lovers (1960)

    An English coal miner's (Trevor Howard) son (Dean Stockwell) feels his mother's (Wendy Hiller)...

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    Mommy (1995)

    The mom next door becomes a psycho killer.

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    Butterflies Are Free (1972)

    A San Francisco hippie (Goldie Hawn) frees her blind neighbor (Edward Albert) from his fussy mother...

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    Maternale

    In a wealthy Italian home, the daughter of the family is trying to cut her mother's apron strings....

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    Vlastne Se Nic Nestalo

    Moviemaker Evald Schorm, once described as "the conscience of the Czech New Wave," had been inactive...

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    Peacetime

    An overly protective marine comes to terms with his handicapped brother's impending marriage.

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    Sixten

    A coming-of-age tale of an adolescent boy coming to terms with his summer romance.

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    Poil de Carotte (1932)

    Adapted from various stories by Jules Renard, Poil de Carotte (The Red Head) is the poetically...

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    Double Door

    Inspired by the eccentric, reclusive Wendel Family of New York's Fifth Avenue, Elizabeth MacFadden's...

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    Feller Needs a Friend

    Produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan productions for MGM release, Feller Needs a...

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    The Girl on the Barge

    In this romantic romance, the daughter of a deeply religious self-righteous barge captain befriends...

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    The Light in the Window

    Light in the Window is nearly as maudlin as its title. Henry B. Walthall, one of the great actors of...

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    Mismates

    Mismates was based on the Myron C. Fagan stage play of the same name. Doris Kenyon plays a pretty...

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    Out of the Fog

    Alla Nazimova indulges her penchant for high melodrama in this screen adaptation of an Austen Adams...

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    Sheltered Daughters

    Former Follies star Justine Johnston stars in this crime story. Police sergeant Jim Dark (Riley...

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    Stolen Love

    Having grown up under the thumbs of her two maiden aunts, 17-year-old Joan Hastings (Marceline Day)...

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    Stop, Look, and Love

    In this domestic comedy, a young woman's mother keeps frightening her beaus right out the door with...

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    When a Feller Needs a Friend

    In this two-hanky drama, a physically challenged boy wants his overprotective parents to relinquish...

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    Marguerite: 3

    Popular German stage and screen comedian Theo Lingen handled the directorial reins of Marguerite...

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    The Living and the Dead (2007)

    Aristocratic, impoverished and reclusive, with a truly historical lineage, Lord and Lady Brocklebank...