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    Sixteen Candles (1984)

    A girl turning 16 likes another girl's guy (Michael Schoeffling) and feels nobody cares about her...

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    The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

    In 1952, medical student Ernesto ``Che'' Guevara (Gael García Bernal) and his friend Alberto Granado...

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    Erik the Viking (1989)

    Norse warrior Erik (Tim Robbins) travels over the edge of the world, across the Rainbow Bridge to...

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    The Breakfast Club (1985)

    A wrestler (Emilio Estevez), a rebel (Judd Nelson), a brain, a beauty (Molly Ringwald) and a shy...

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    The Commitments (1991)

    An Irish hustler (Robert Arkins) puts together a Dublin band that covers hits of 1960s American...

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    Summer Storm (2006)

    The captain (Robert Stadlober) of a high-school rowing team has romantic feelings for his best...

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    Cool Blue (1990)

    A struggling artist (Woody Harrelson) searches Los Angeles for a one-night lover (Ely Pouget) whom...

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    Edward Scissorhands (1990)

    A deceased inventor's unfinished creation (Johnny Depp) becomes an instant celebrity when a cheery...

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    Born Yesterday (1993)

    A scrap-metal tycoon (John Goodman) turned real-estate mogul pays a Washington newsman (Don Johnson)...

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    Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

    An addict (Matt Dillon), his wife (Kelly Lynch) and another couple steal the drugs they live for in...

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    Coming Home (1978)

    A Marine captain's (Bruce Dern) wife (Jane Fonda) loves a Vietnam veteran (Jon Voight) in a...

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    Splash (1984)

    A produce supplier (Tom Hanks) finds love in New York with the mermaid (Daryl Hannah) he met as a...

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    The Jerk (1979)

    A simpleton (Steve Martin) leaves his foster family, acquires a girlfriend (Bernadette Peters) and...

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    City Slickers (1991)

    On vacation, three men (Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby) get to play cowboy on a dude-ranch...

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    Stagecoach (1939)

    An outlaw (John Wayne), a prostitute (Claire Trevor), a drunken doctor and assorted others go...

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    Office Space (1999)

    A computer programmer's (Ron Livingston) hypnosis-induced, lackadaisical attitude about work puts...

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    The Goodbye Girl (1977)

    A divorced dancer (Marsha Mason) and her daughter (Quinn Cummings) must room with an...

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    Diary of a Hitman (1992)

    A weary high-paid killer (Forest Whitaker) balks at his last job when he meets his targets: his...

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    Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)

    A 1985 housewife (Kathleen Turner) passes out at her high-school reunion and wakes up in 1960, in...

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    The Nutty Professor (1963)

    Goofy professor Kelp's (Jerry Lewis) potion turns him into Buddy Love, a lounge singer at ease with...

  • My Blueberry Nights picture
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    My Blueberry Nights (2008)

    After her unfaithful boyfriend dumps her, a woman (Norah Jones) sets out on a cross-country road...

  • A Star Is Born picture
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    A Star Is Born (1976)

    A boozing rock star's (Kris Kristofferson) career falls as fast as his unknown lover's (Barbra...

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    The Hip Hop Project (2007)

    Chris ``Kharma Kazi'' Rolle founds a music program for New York's at-risk youth and encourages them...

  • The End picture
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    The End (1978)

    A dying real-estate promoter (Burt Reynolds) tries suicide and lands in an asylum with someone (Dom...

  • Alice picture
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    Alice (1990)

    A pampered Manhattan housewife embarks upon a mystical odyssey of self-discovery following a visit...

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    Inside Out (1987)

    A New Yorker (Elliott Gould) holes up in his high-rise, living by remote control out of a fear of...

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    On Golden Pond (1981)

    An old professor (Henry Fonda) and his wife (Katharine Hepburn) make peace with their daughter (Jane...

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    Secretary (2002)

    After checking out of a mental institution, a woman (Maggie Gyllenhaal) works for an attorney (James...

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    The Secret Garden (1993)

    An English orphan (Kate Maberly) discovers her bitter uncle's garden with her sickly cousin (Heydon...

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    Sullivan's Travels (1941)

    A Hollywood director's desire to produce a film about real people and human suffering leads him on...

  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn picture
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    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

    A poor couple's (Dorothy McGuire, James Dunn) daughter (Peggy Ann Garner) dreams of a better life in...

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    Moonstruck (1987)

    An Italian-American widow (Cher), engaged to a reticent suitor, falls in love with his brother...

  • When Harry Met Sally... picture
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    When Harry Met Sally... (1989)

    Two Manhattan careerists (Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan) first hate, then like and eventually love each...

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    Pretty Woman (1990)

    A corporate raider (Richard Gere) pays a gorgeous hooker (Julia Roberts) to be his escort for a...

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    How to Be (2009)

    A young man having an existential crisis convinces a Canadian self-help guru to come to London and...

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    Rain Man (1988)

    A wheeler-dealer (Tom Cruise) meets his brother (Dustin Hoffman), an institutionalized...

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    Harry and Tonto (1974)

    A retired New Yorker (Art Carney) travels across the United States with his cat.

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    The Natural (1984)

    The almost mythical ability of a middle-aged baseball player rockets a major-league team toward the...

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    Groundhog Day (1993)

    February 2nd keeps repeating for a cynical TV weatherman (Bill Murray) sent to watch the groundhog...

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    The Geisha Boy (1958)

    A clumsy magician on a USO tour of Japan and Korea draws a shy Japanese boy out of his shyness.

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    Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

    A nursing-home resident (Jessica Tandy) regales a visitor (Kathy Bates) with tales of the close...

  • A River Runs Through It picture
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    A River Runs Through It (1992)

    Two Montana boys become different men (Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt) under the influence of fly-fishing...

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    Three of Hearts (2005)

    Filmmaker Susan Kaplan documents the lives of two bisexual men who cohabit with a heterosexual...

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    Coupe de Ville (1990)

    Three rival brothers (Patrick Dempsey, Arye Gross, Daniel Stern) drive their father's creampuff 1954...

  • The Lonely Guy picture
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    The Lonely Guy (1984)

    A lonely New York bachelor (Steve Martin) learns that he, his buddy (Charles Grodin) and others like...

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    Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)

    In 1965 Saigon, disc jockey Adrian Cronauer turns Armed Forces Radio on its ear with his irreverent...

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    The World According to Garp (1982)

    John Irving's novel about the son of an unmarried nurse whose career is overshadowed by his mother's...

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    The Mighty Ducks (1992)

    To get out of trouble, a hotshot lawyer (Emilio Estevez) opts for community service coaching rowdies...

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    Mr. Mom (1983)

    An automotive engineer's (Michael Keaton) wife (Teri Garr) gets a job, and he stays home with the...

  • The Accidental Tourist picture
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    The Accidental Tourist (1988)

    A numb travel-writer (William Hurt) takes up with his dog trainer (Geena Davis) after his son dies...