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    Broken Flowers (2005)

    Informed he may have a son, an aging bachelor (Bill Murray) reunites with his former girlfriends to...

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    Igby Goes Down (2002)

    A teen (Kieran Culkin) from a dysfunctional family runs away from a military academy to live with...

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    The Age of Innocence (1993)

    An upper-class lawyer (Daniel Day-Lewis) falls in love with his fiancee's (Winona Ryder)...

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    The Great Gatsby (1974)

    F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jay Gatsby (Robert Redford), shady 1920s millionaire, tragically loves Daisy...

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    Gosford Park (2001)

    Domestic servants and their aristocratic masters are equally suspect in the wake of a murder at a...

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    My Life So Far (1999)

    An adventurous boy and his family (Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris) learn about life and love when his...

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    The Ice Storm (1997)

    Suburbanites (Kevin Kline, Joan Allen) in failing marriages seek fulfillment elsewhere, while their...

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    Town & Country (2001)

    A New York architect (Warren Beatty) cheats on his spouse (Diane Keaton) with a series of women,...

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    Emma (1996)

    Things keep getting worse after a young matchmaker (Gwyneth Paltrow) finds a mate for a simple young...

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    Princess Caraboo (1994)

    An 1817 English village questions the authenticity of a stranger (Phoebe Cates) conveying she's a...

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    White Mischief (1988)

    A titled Englishman's (Joss Ackland) bride (Greta Scacchi) has a scandalous affair with an ill-fated...

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    The Emperor's Club (2002)

    A professor (Kevin Kline) of classics at a preparatory school clashes with the headstrong and...

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    Country Dance (1970)

    A Scottish woman (Susannah York) finds incest and madness when she leaves her husband (Michael...

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    The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

    Bizarre events frustrate an ambassador (Fernando Rey), his wife (Delphine Seyrig) and friends,...

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    Age of Infidelity (1957)

    Two illicit lovers accidentally run over a cyclist and leave him behind to die, fearing exposure of...

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    Lady Tubbs

    A variation on the Lady for a Day theme, Universal's Lady Tubbs stars Alice Brady as Henrietta "Mom"...

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    Sense and Sensibility (1995)

    Suitors romance, then abandon, sisters (Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet) left destitute by their...

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    The Bostonians (1984)

    A wealthy Bostonian suffragette successfully takes a charming and talented young woman under her...

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    The Ruling Class

    An insane man inherits his father's estate, but the other family members plot to take it away from...

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    Big Shots (1987)

    Consumed by grief when his father is felled by a heart attack, 11-year-old Obie (Ricky Busker) runs...

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    Eat the Rich (1988)

    A restaurant worker (Lanah Pellay) is fired from a posh London eatery, so the man returns with a...

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    They Live (1988)

    When two men (Roddy Piper, Keith David) put on special sunglasses they see aliens and subliminal...

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    Where Angels Fear to Tread (1992)

    Love, death and a birth stir Edwardian Britons (Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Rupert Graves) in...

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    Identification of a Woman (1982)

    A filmmaker looks for an interesting subject and relationship.

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    ABCD (2001)

    An Indian-American (Sheetal Sheth) must choose between two men while her brother (Faran Tahir)...

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    Private's Progress

    A prototypical upper-class English "nerd" joins the army and stuggles to adapt to its rigid codes.

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    Metropolitan (1990)

    A West Side loner gets a taste of high society when he becomes involved with a group of privileged...

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    Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)

    Screen adaptation of Connell's two novels "Mrs. Bridge" and "Mr. Bridge," written in 1958 and 1968,...

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    The Jokers

    Two pranksterish brothers plan a theft of the Royal Crown Jewels just to see if they can pull it...

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    Lord Love a Duck (1966)

    A California high-school genius (Roddy McDowall) works magic for a blonde (Tuesday Weld) who wants...