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  • American Beauty picture
    Movies

    American Beauty (1999)

    A man (Kevin Spacey) in midlife crisis and at odds with his wife (Annette Bening) begins working out...

  • Punch-Drunk Love picture
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    Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

    A shy oddball (Adam Sandler) prone to violent outbursts follows the woman (Emily Watson) of his...

  • Hands of the Ripper picture
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    Hands of the Ripper (1972)

    A Freudian psychiatrist (Eric Porter) covers up for his patient, the homicidal daughter (Angharad...

  • Swimming Pool picture
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    Swimming Pool (2003)

    A British novelist (Charlotte Rampling) clashes with her publisher's (Charles Dance) wild daughter...

  • The Scarlet Letter picture
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    The Scarlet Letter (1995)

    After a young widow (Demi Moore) has a child and refuses to name the father, a Puritan community...

  • The Bubble Boy picture
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    The Bubble Boy (2001)

    A teen (Jake Gyllenhaal) in a special suit embarks on a cross-country trip to stop the girl (Marley...

  • Repulsion picture
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    Repulsion (1965)

    A sexually repressed woman who dissaproves of her sister's boyfriend, sinks into depression and has...

  • Chocolat picture
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    Chocolat (2000)

    The mayor opposes a single mother (Juliette Binoche) who is opening a chocolate shop in his 1950s...

  • Sirens picture
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    Sirens (1994)

    An English clergyman (Hugh Grant) and his wife (Tara Fitzgerald) are stirred by an artist (Sam...

  • The Virgin Suicides picture
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    The Virgin Suicides (2000)

    Men reminisce about intriguing sisters, whose parents (James Woods, Kathleen Turner) quarantined...

  • Me, Myself and Irene picture
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    Me, Myself and Irene (2000)

    Nice-guy Charlie and aggressive Hank, the two personalities of a Rhode Island state trooper (Jim...

  • The Saint picture
    Movies

    The Saint (1997)

    Master-of-disguises Simon Templar (Val Kilmer) falls for a U.S. scientist (Elisabeth Shue) whose...

  • Baby Doll picture
    Movies

    Baby Doll (1956)

    A Sicilian cotton maker (Eli Wallach) seduces a Mississippi rival's (Karl Malden) infantile bride...

  • Splendor in the Grass picture
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    Splendor in the Grass (1961)

    In 1925 Kansas, a teenage girl suffers an emotional breakdown following a platonic love affair....

  • The Conformist picture
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    The Conformist (1970)

    A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of...

  • Crimes of the Future picture
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    Crimes of the Future (1984)

    Set in the future, when women have been extinguished and the remaining men must absorb the...

  • Separate Lives picture
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    Separate Lives (1995)

    A psychology professor (Linda Hamilton) seeks help from an ex-policeman student (James Belushi) when...

  • Reflections in a Golden Eye picture
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    Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)

    An Army major (Marlon Brando) with a lusty wife (Elizabeth Taylor) feels homosexual in the 1940s...

  • Cries and Whispers picture
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    Cries and Whispers (1973)

    Two women (Liv Ullmann, Ingrid Thulin) visit their dying spinster sister (Harriet Andersson) in her...

  • The All-American Boy picture
    Movies

    The All-American Boy

    A self-destructive small-town boxer (Jon Voight) uses women and indulges himself as he tries to make...

  • The Opposite of Sex picture
    Movies

    The Opposite of Sex (1998)

    A prude (Lisa Kudrow) helps a homosexual friend (Martin Donovan) pursue his half sister (Christina...

  • Altered States picture
    Movies

    Altered States (1980)

    A psychophysiologist (William Hurt) experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has...

  • The Virgin and the Gypsy picture
    Movies

    The Virgin and the Gypsy

    This melodrama is taken from a story by D.H. Lawrence. Yvette (Joanna Shimkus) and her sister...

  • A Summer Day picture
    Movies

    A Summer Day

    The sudden death of a teenager during a soccer match puts a small community completely off-balance.

  • East Palace, West Palace picture
    Movies

    East Palace, West Palace (1998)

    A heterosexual Beijing policeman (Hu Jun) and a young homosexual (Si Han) challenge each other's...

  • Making Love picture
    Movies

    Making Love (1982)

    A TV executive (Kate Jackson) finds out her doctor husband (Michael Ontkean) of eight years has a...

  • A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy picture
    Movies

    A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)

    An inventor (Woody Allen), his wife (Mary Steenburgen) and two other couples spend an enchanted...

  • Claire of the Moon picture
    Movies

    Claire of the Moon (1992)

    A novelist (Trisha Todd) and a psychiatrist (Karen Trumbo) bicker their way to bed as roommates at a...

  • Forgiving the Franklins picture
    Movies

    Forgiving the Franklins

    A conservative, God fearing Southern family is spiritually changed by an auto accident, but who they...

  • Rachel, Rachel picture
    Movies

    Rachel, Rachel (1968)

    A schoolteacher (Joanne Woodward) faces approaching middle age while caring for her mother (Kate...