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  • The Flintstones picture
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    The Flintstones (1994)

    Betty's Barney (Rick Moranis) helps Wilma's (Elizabeth Perkins) Fred (John Goodman) move up the...

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    The Apartment (1960)

    A corporate climber (Jack Lemmon), whose boss (Fred MacMurray) and others use his apartment for...

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    The Chain

    Several stories are linked by a series of house moves. As one couple moves out of a home for...

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    I Served the King of England (2008)

    During World War II an opportunistic Czech waiter (Ivan Barnev) climbs the ladder of success and...

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    Mobsters (1991)

    Lucky Luciano (Christian Slater), Meyer Lansky (Patrick Dempsey), Bugsy Siegel (Richard Grieco) and...

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    Citizen Kane (1941)

    Enigmatic newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) rises, falls and leaves behind a...

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    The Little Foxes (1941)

    Greedy Regina (Bette Davis) blackmails her brothers and lets her husband (Herbert Marshall) die in...

  • Tess picture
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    Tess (1980)

    A young strong-willed peasant girl, becomes the affection of two men, in the end tragically falling...

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    Working Girl (1988)

    A spunky Wall Street secretary (Melanie Griffith) takes her boss's (Sigourney Weaver) place with a...

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    Alice Adams

    A social climber (Katharine Hepburn) wants her humble family to impress a rich bachelor (Fred...

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    Dinner at Eight (1934)

    At least one of the guests (Marie Dressler, Jean Harlow, John Barrymore) misbehaves at a New York...

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    Baby Face (1933)

    An out-of-town working girl (Barbara Stanwyck) rises in a New York bank by using her power over men.

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    Frisco Kid (1935)

    A shanghaied sailor (James Cagney) becomes a Barbary Coast gambler, saved from the gallows by a...

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    Tower of London (1962)

    Roger Corman's remake of the 1939 classic about Richard III's murderous rise to power in...

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    Billy Liar (1963)

    A British undertaker's clerk (Tom Courtenay) lies to his girlfriends and dreams of a land where he...

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    To Die For (1995)

    Observers recall the relationship between a slain small-town bartender (Matt Dillon) and his...

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    Career Bed

    A woman with a powerful taste for the good life is willing to do anything to help make her daughter...

  • Never Steal Anything Small picture
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    Never Steal Anything Small (1959)

    A waterfront thug, with eyes on becoming labor union leader/racketeer, schemes almost every crime in...

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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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    Nashville Girl

    Young girl finds the rough road to musical stardom.

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    The Young Philadelphians (1959)

    An ambitious lawyer's (Paul Newman) claim to a prominent family name is open to the glare of a...

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    Strictly Business (1991)

    A mailroom clerk (Tommy Davidson) climbs the ladder by helping a corporate workaholic (Joseph C....

  • The Stud picture
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    The Stud (1979)

    The wife (Joan Collins) of the owner of a London disco makes demands on the man (Oliver Tobias) who...

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    Xica da Silva (1982)

    The romanced story of Xica da Silva, a slave that used her "feminine atributs" in order to get...

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    The Associate (1996)

    A Wall Street whiz (Whoopi Goldberg) invents a male partner to attract clients for her fledgling...

  • The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer picture
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    The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer

    A ruthless opportunist (Peter Cook) lands a job at an advertising agency, manipulates polls and...

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    Something For Everyone (1970)

    Based on a novel by Harry Kressing, Something for Everyone must hold some sort of record for having...

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    Mister Cory (1957)

    A youth from the slums of Chicago uses his wiles and his gambling savvy and eventually grows to...

  • All's Fair picture
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    All's Fair (1989)

    Veteran comic actor George Segal plays a wealthy industrialist whose real passion in life is...

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    Talkin' Dirty After Dark (1991)

    One night in the life of a comedy club in South Central Los Angeles.