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The Silencer

A courageous woman attempts to destroy a slavery and prostitution ring that abuses young runaways.

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Jailbait (1993)

Together, a young Los Angeles cop and a runaway teen take on a crime network that turns young girls...

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Odille and Yvette on the Edge of the World

An allegory about the innocence and yearnings of two teenage sisters who have escaped from their...

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Rosine

A 14-year-old girl from a French factory town attempts to win her mother's love.

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The Color of the Clouds

Lola, a defiante old woman, refuses to leave the country house in which she has lived for years...

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Why Does the Sea Laugh?

Sketching the humdrum blues of Hussein, a humble accountant, whose life alternates between...

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La Sicilia

A comedy drawing on the experiences of Italian immigrants who came to Belgium in the '50s and '60s...

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Hallelujah! Ron Athey: A Story of Deliverance (1998)

A portrait of the provocative life of Ron Athey: a tattooed, HIV-positive, gay, recovering junkie...

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Thirteen (2000)

Nina's mother takes the viewer along on a journey of her remarkable daughter, from her thirteenth...

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Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (2003)

Samehada is on the run from some gangsters from whom he has stolen some property. During the chase,...

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Three-Five People

Hu Jian, Chen Li and Tian Bo: three kids. They tear off gold earrings from passers-by on a street...

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Prince of Central Park (2000)

A teenager runs away from his abusive foster mother (Cathy Moriarty) and lives on his own in Central...

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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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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)

Mark Twain's boy hero (Mickey Rooney) meets a bogus king (Walter Connolly) and duke (William...

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)

Mark Twain's boy hero (Tommy Kelly) watches his own funeral with Huck Finn (Jackie Moran) and enters...

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Are Parents People?

Betty Bronson, who found overnight success when she played the title character in Peter Pan, has the...

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The Blue Bird (1940)

When Darryl F. Zanuck's arrangement to loan Shirley Temple to MGM as star of The Wizard of Oz fell...

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Child of the Ghetto

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Dangerous Holiday

Hoping to ape the success of Sol Lesser's Bobby Breen musicals, Republic Pictures fashioned...

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Fisherman's Wharf

Meddling relatives divide an Italian fisherman (Leo Carrillo) and his foster son (Bobby Breen) in...

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Let's Sing Again

An orphan soprano (Bobby Breen) joins a traveling show and learns from an opera singer (Henry...

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My Dog Shep

An orphan heir (Lanny Rees) befriends a German shepherd who later saves him from kidnappers.

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The Old Corral

A typical Gene Autry everything-but-the-kitchen-sink musical Western, The Old Corral featured the...

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Our Little Girl (1935)

A girl (Shirley Temple) unites her parting parents (Rosemary Ames, Joel McCrea) by running away from...

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Shanghaied

Shanghaied, Charlie Chaplin's 11th film for Essanay was shot largely on board the SS Vaquero, which...

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Dem Khazn's Zindl

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Roamin' Holiday

Upset at being forced to do the household chores all weekend long, Our Gang-ers Spanky McFarland,...

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The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)

In the 1950s, historical spectaculars set in the Far or Middle East became the repository for...

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Bad Little Angel

A Bible-guided Victorian orphan (Virginia Weidler) befriends a bootblack (Gene Reynolds) in a...

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Bits of Life

This film combines four short films under the title Bits Of Life. The Bad Samaritan is taken from a...