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  • American History X picture
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    American History X (1998)

    A brutal skinhead (Edward Norton) emerges from prison reformed and tries to show his neo-Nazi...

  • Fearless picture
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    Fearless (1993)

    A survivor (Jeff Bridges) of a plane-crash believes he can do anything and even tells his wife...

  • Buy and Cell picture
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    Buy and Cell (1989)

    An imprisoned stockbroker makes a fortune for himself and his fellow inmates while behind bars.

  • An Officer and A Gentleman picture
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    An Officer and A Gentleman (1982)

    A hardened loner (Richard Gere) shapes up for a military drill instructor (Louis Gossett Jr.) and a...

  • Somebody Up There Likes Me picture
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    Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)

    A youth turns his rebellious nature into a successful ring career in this fact-based portrait of...

  • Monster's Ball picture
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    Monster's Ball (2001)

    A racist prison-guard (Billy Bob Thornton) has an intense affair with a black woman (Halle Berry)...

  • The Crying Game picture
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    The Crying Game (1992)

    An IRA underling (Stephen Rea) meets the lover of a British soldier (Forest Whitaker) he has been...

  • Cocktail picture
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    Cocktail (1988)

    The hottest bartender (Tom Cruise) in Manhattan leaves his partner (Bryan Brown), goes to Jamaica...

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    Cat Ballou (1965)

    When an outlaw (Lee Marvin) with a fake nose kills her father, a schoolmarm (Jane Fonda) hires his...

  • The Royal Tenenbaums picture
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    The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

    An errant father (Gene Hackman) tries to reconcile with his eccentric and underachieving family...

  • Mr. 3000 picture
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    Mr. 3000 (2004)

    Arrogant and out of shape, a baseball star (Bernie Mac) comes out of retirement after learning he is...

  • The Mission picture
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    The Mission (1986)

    A Spanish slave trader (Robert De Niro) joins a Jesuit (Jeremy Irons) at a jungle mission in...

  • Magnificent Obsession picture
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    Magnificent Obsession (1954)

    A reckless playboy (Rock Hudson) turns surgeon to help a woman (Jane Wyman) whose blindness and...

  • The Music Man picture
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    The Music Man (1962)

    A librarian (Shirley Jones) hears a sour note when a charming rogue (Robert Preston) convinces Iowa...

  • Anna Christie picture
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    Anna Christie (1930)

    Accompanied by one of the most successful advertising campaigns in Hollywood history, Greta Garbo...

  • The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse picture
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    The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

    The death of a patriarch sends an Argentine family to Europe during World War I. Silent.

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    The Lost Weekend (1945)

    Billy Wilder's Academy Award-winning portrait of an alcoholic writer facing a losing battle against...

  • The Toll Gate picture
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    The Toll Gate

    An outlaw (William S. Hart) is reformed by his love for a woman (Anna Q. Nilsson) and her son....

  • The Gaucho picture
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    The Gaucho

    Douglas Fairbanks' The Gaucho is a curiosity: a traditional Fairbanks actioner with decidedly...

  • 20,000 Years in Sing-Sing picture
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    20,000 Years in Sing-Sing (1932)

    The warden lets a convict (Spencer Tracy) out on the honor system to visit his injured girlfriend...

  • Crazy Heart picture
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    Crazy Heart (December 16, 2009)

    A fading country music singer gets his life and career back on track when he meets a female...

  • Two Weeks in Another Town picture
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    Two Weeks in Another Town

    An actor (Kirk Douglas) and a director (Edward G. Robinson), both washed-up in Hollywood, try to...

  • The Shawshank Redemption picture
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    The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

    Two life sentences for a 1947 double murder land an innocent man (Tim Robbins) in a corrupt Maine...

  • The Champ picture
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    The Champ (1979)

    A has-been boxer (Jon Voight) trains in Florida for a comeback and fights his ex-wife (Faye Dunaway)...

  • American Gigolo picture
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    American Gigolo (1980)

    A professional Beverly Hills escort (Richard Gere) falls in love with a big shot's wife (Lauren...

  • Magnolia picture
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    Magnolia (1999)

    Coincidence, divine intervention and fate link several people (Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Tom...

  • Rocky picture
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    Rocky (1976)

    Heavyweight champ Apollo Creed gives Philadelphia club fighter Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) a...

  • Good Will Hunting picture
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    Good Will Hunting (1997)

    A therapist (Robin Williams), a mathematician and working-class roughs vie for the soul of a janitor...

  • Bringing Out the Dead picture
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    Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

    After too many years on the job, an EMS paramedic (Nicolas Cage) begins an emotional descent during...

  • The Verdict picture
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    The Verdict (1982)

    A boozing lawyer (Paul Newman) takes on a law-firm dean (James Mason), the Archdiocese of Boston and...