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  • Fast Times At Ridgemont High picture
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    Fast Times At Ridgemont High (1982)

    The teen scene includes a party-animal surfer (Sean Penn), a pregnant girl (Jennifer Jason Leigh)...

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    American Graffiti (1973)

    Four teens in 1962 California get a final, nostalgic glimpse of innocence before facing their...

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    Urban Cowboy (1980)

    A Texas farmer (John Travolta) moves to the city, immerses himself in honky-tonk and falls for a...

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    Bio-Dome (1996)

    Idiot collegians (Pauly Shore, Stephen Baldwin) bring chaos to the experimental ecosystem in which...

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    Used People (1992)

    Set in 1969, the story of a recently widowed Jewish woman from Queens, New York, and her...

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    Meet Me in St. Louis

    A St. Louis lawyer's (Leon Ames) family (Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien) stays in town for the 1904...

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    Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

    Hannah's (Mia Farrow) husband (Michael Caine) has an affair with one sister, and her ex-husband...

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    Breaking In (1989)

    An aging burglar (Burt Reynolds) and a young beginner (Casey Siemaszko) team up for larceny in...

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    Mallrats (1995)

    Dumped by girlfriends, two teens (Jeremy London, Jason Lee) go to a shopping mall and land on a...

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    Amarcord (1974)

    Federico Fellini's episodic homage to life in a 1930s Italian seaside village as seen through the...

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    Moonstruck (1987)

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

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    Do the Right Thing (1989)

    Spike Lee's account of erupting racial tensions on a summer afternoon in a predominantly black...

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    Strange Days (1995)

    A black-marketeer (Ralph Fiennes) who sells virtual-reality experiences tries to save his ex-flame...

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    Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

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

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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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    Emergency Hospital

    A woman doctor (Margaret Lindsay) and a police detective (Walter Reed) face personal crises one...

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    Fanny and Alexander (1983)

    A rabbi's (Erland Josephson) magic saves Swedish children (Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve) with a...

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    Mister Roberts (1955)

    Ensign Pulver (Jack Lemmon) plots cargo officer Mr. Roberts' (Henry Fonda) escape from their...

  • A Hard Day's Night picture
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    A Hard Day's Night (1964)

    John, Paul, George and Ringo (The Beatles) spend 36 wild hours in London, besieged by exuberant...

  • Oh! What A Lovely War picture
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    Oh! What A Lovely War (1969)

    A British anti-war revue of World War I shows generals playing leapfrog and war as an amusement-park...

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    Days of Heaven (1978)

    Migrant lovers (Richard Gere, Brooke Adams) and a little sister con a rich wheat farmer (Sam...

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    Clerks (1994)

    A 22-year-old clerk (Brian O'Halloran) takes in a day's worth of customers at a convenience store in...

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    Grand Hotel (1932)

    A ballerina (Greta Garbo), baron (John Barrymore), stenographer (Joan Crawford), bookkeeper and...

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    Slacker (1989)

    Twenty-four hours with an assortment of "slackers" (i.e. neo-beatnik, anarchists, crazies and...

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    Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)

    A hard-luck widow (Ellen Burstyn) heads West with her son and meets a likeable rancher (Kris...

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    Marty (1955)

    A shy, mother-dominated Bronx butcher (Ernest Borgnine) finds his soul mate in a lonely...

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    The House of the Spirits (1994)

    A rancher (Jeremy Irons), his clairvoyant wife (Meryl Streep) and their family face turbulent years...

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    Friday (1995)

    A South Central Los Angeles resident (Ice Cube) hangs out on his front porch with a pal (Chris...

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    Cleo From 5 to 7 (1962)

    A French singer (Corrine Marchand) shops, cries, sings and visits friends while awaiting the results...

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    Blueberry Hill (1988)

    A widow's (Carrie Snodgress) daughter (Jennifer Rubin) in 1956 California learns from her piano...

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    Billy Galvin (1986)

    Lenny Von Dohlen plays Billy Galvin, the son of a no-nonsense construction worker (Karl Malden)....

  • I Remember Mama picture
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    I Remember Mama (1948)

    A writer (Barbara Bel Geddes) recalls her Norwegian mother (Irene Dunne) and family in circa-1900...

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    Life With Father (1947)

    A New Yorker and her four sons experience love and laughter from their opinionated but well-meaning...

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    Little Women (1949)

    Based on the story by Louisa May Alcott. The four March sisters forge unbreakable emotional ties...

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    Under Milk Wood (1971)

    A number of colorful people live in a small Welsh town.

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    Quiet Days in Hollywood (1995)

    A Los Angeles waitress (Meta Golding) has bad luck with men; an Oscar-winner re-evaluates his sexual...

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    The Working Girls

    In this sexy comedy, three luscious women try to make an honest living in male-dominated LA. ~...

  • When the Party's Over picture
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    When the Party's Over (1993)

    A social worker (Elizabeth Berridge), a broker (Rae Dawn Chong) and an artist (Sandra Bullock) are...

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    State Fair (1962)

    A brother (Pat Boone) and sister (Pamela Tiffin) find romance and good clean fun at the state fair...

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    Smoke (1995)

    The manager (Harvey Keitel) of a Brooklyn cigar shop and his customers are featured in five...

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    High Hopes (1989)

    A satirical look at today's London through the eyes of yuppies, anti-establishment sixties...

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    The Blue Villa (1995)

    The Blue Villa is a seedy bordello on a Mediterranean island where the villages are frightened by...

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    Madame Sousatzka (1988)

    A cultured Russian (Shirley MacLaine) teaches piano to a gifted Indian teenager (Navin Chowdhry) in...

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    Country Life (1995)

    A local doctor (Sam Neill) adores the wife (Greta Scacchi) of a failed critic in post-World War I...

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    Wrestling With Alligators (2000)

    Set in the 1950s, a 15-year-old girl runs away from her home deep in the Florida swamp lands and...

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    A Confucian Confusion

    After firing a colleague, the head of a PR company begins to question her lifestyle and values.

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    Vernon, Florida (1981)

    A vision of a small Florida town and its citizens far away from the hurried, chaotic cities.

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    Lumiere (1976)

    Actress Jeanne Moreau made her directorial debut with this tale about a gathering of actresses who,...

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    Room at the Top (1959)

    A British civil servant (Laurence Harvey) marries a rich man's daughter (Heather Sears) instead of...

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    Rambling Rose (1991)

    A sensual young woman (Laura Dern) stays with a Southern couple (Robert Duvall, Diane Ladd) in 1935,...