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    The Beast in the Cellar

    Two spinsters have kept their mad brother locked up in their cellar for 30 years. Then he escapes...

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    The Rainmaker (1956)

    A huckster (Burt Lancaster) charms a small-town Kansas spinster (Katharine Hepburn) and offers to...

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    Picnic (1956)

    A drifter captures the fancy of his old college friend's fiancee at a Labor Day fete. Based on...

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    Monsieur Verdoux

    A Paris bank clerk (Charles Chaplin) woos, weds and then kills rich women to support his ailing wife...

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    The Night of the Iguana (1964)

    In Mexico, an unfrocked clergyman (Richard Burton) juggles relationships with three women of...

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    The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)

    A female college professor (Barbra Streisand) falls in love with a male professor (Jeff Bridges) who...

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    Goin' South (1978)

    A horse thief (Jack Nicholson) escapes hanging by marrying a proper woman (Mary Steenburgen) who...

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    Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

    A theater critic (Cary Grant) learns his two elderly aunts serve poisoned elderberry wine to lonely...

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    Now, Voyager (1942)

    A Boston spinster (Bette Davis) finds a lover (Paul Henreid) after the counsel of a kind...

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    Quality Street

    A bit more sedate and reserved than the usual Marion Davies vehicle, this 1927 adaptation of James...

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    The Attic

    A girl (Elisabeth Moss) believes her identical twin haunts her family's new house.

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    Trilogy (1969)

    Three stories within one film: the first concerns a nanny losing her mind; the second concerns an...

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    That Cold Day in the Park (1969)

    A rich but lonely woman, Frances Austen, one day invites a boy from a nearby park to her apartment...

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    Talk of the Town (1995)

    An urban comedy about a radio show hostess determined to find companionship.

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    Fragment of Fear (1971)

    Reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.

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    Un Air de Famille (1998)

    A reunion at a restaurant/bar becomes the occasion for a seriocomic outburst of family grudges and...

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    Cousin Bette (1998)

    Set in Paris in the mid 1800's, an embittered, jealous, and scheming woman seeks to ruin and...

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    Our Miss Brooks (1956)

    Our Miss Brooks had been a radio and TV sitcom hit thanks to the considerable input of star Eve...

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    Dancing At Lughnasa (1998)

    Five adult sisters and their missionary brother (Michael Gambon) struggle to survive on a farm in...

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    Summertime (1955)

    A lonely American woman unexpectedly finds romance in Venice, Italy.

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    Autumn Leaves (1956)

    A New England spinster (Joan Crawford) marries a younger man (Cliff Robertson) who has mental...

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    Bikini Bistro

    Marilyn Chambers helps a group of friends turn a boring vegetarian cafe into a gourmet restaurant....

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    Rachel, Rachel (1968)

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

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    Until They Sail (1957)

    A war widow (Jean Simmons) with three lonely sisters loves a Marine captain (Paul Newman) in World...

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    American Adobo (2002)

    Five Filipino-American friends deal with the everyday struggle to bridge two cultures, while...

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    Rising Damp

    Leonard Rossiter stars in the madcap British farce Rising Damp, as Rupert Rigsby, the bigoted and...

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    The Night Digger

    A blind Englishwoman's (Pamela Brown) spinster daughter (Patricia Neal) hides a killer handyman...

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    Brandende Liefde

    This earthy romantic comedy is about a young man living in Amsterdam, enamored of the wife of a...

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    Careful, He Might Hear You (1983)

    An Australian boy (Nicholas Gledhill) enters a 1930s custody battle between aunts: one poor and...

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    Summer and Smoke (1961)

    A preacher's daughter (Geraldine Page) lusts for a doctor's son (Laurence Harvey) in circa-1916...