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2025Movie112 min

HDPG-13

2025 7.4 112 min

Country: Spain

Genre: Drama

In 1976, as Argentina descends into violence and chaos, a world-weary English teacher regains his compassion for others thanks to an unlikely friendship with a penguin.

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Happy Face

HDTV-MA

2025 6.3 n/a

Country: USA

Genre: Crime, Drama

Inspired by a true-life story, Happy Face tells the story of Melissa Reed, daughter of Keith Jesperson, aka the Happy Face Killer. After decades of no contact, Keith forces his way back ...

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2024Movie117 min

The Outrun

HDNR

2024 7.0 117 min

Country: Germany

Genre: Drama

Rona, fresh out of rehab, returns to the Orkney Islands; a place both wild and beautiful right off the Scottish coast. After more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, ...

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1966Movie95 min

Born Free

HDNR

1966 6.7 95 min

Country: UK

Genre: Adventure, Drama

At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two larger lions are shipped off to a zoo in the ...

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1970Movie83 min

The Wild Child

HDNR

1970 7.0 83 min

Country: France

Genre: Drama, History

In 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impaired, he is relegated to an asylum. A young doctor named Jean Itard becomes convinced ...

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1976Movie155 min

Fellini’s Casanova

HDR

1976 6.9 155 min

Country: Italy

Genre: Drama, History

Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person? Is he really alive?

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1986Movie117 min

Castaway

HDR

1986 6.4 117 min

Country: UK

Genre: Adventure, Drama

Middle-aged Gerald Kingsland advertises in a London paper for a female companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. The young Lucy Irving takes a chance on contacting him and ...

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1987Movie100 min

84 Charing Cross Road

HDPG

1987 7.1 100 min

Country: UK

Genre: Drama, Romance

When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special ...

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1980Movie150 min

Playing for Time

HDNR

1980 7 150 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama, History

When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow ...

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1983Movie105 min

Never Cry Wolf

HDPG

1983 6.9 105 min

Country: USA

Genre: Action, Adventure

A scientific researcher, sent on a government study: The Lupus Project, must investigate the possible "menace" of wolves in the north. To do so, he must survive in the wilderness for ...

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1987Movie157 min

Cry Freedom

HDNR

1987 7.0 157 min

Country: UK

Genre: Drama

A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in ...

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2005Movie90 min

My Family and Other Animals

HDNR

2005 6.3 90 min

Country: UK

Genre: Comedy, Drama

An English family relocates to sunny Greece in the months before WWII.

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2015Movie90 min

Abzurdah

HDNR

2015 6.4 90 min

Country: Argentina

Genre: Drama

A disenfranchised 16-year-old girl connects to an older man on the internet and after a brief one-sided affair descends into obsession and anorexia.

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2019Movie109 min

Unplanned

HDR

2019 7.0 109 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama, Horror

As one of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors in the nation, Abby Johnson was involved in upwards of 22,000 abortions and counseled countless women on their reproductive ...

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1999Movie120 min

And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story

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1999 5.5 120 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama

Based on the autobiography of Sonny Bono, this film focuses on the volatile relationship between Sonny (Jay Underwood) and Cher (Renee Faia) during the early 60's to their divorce in ...

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2005Movie99 min

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

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2005 6.7 99 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama

A Midwestern housewife supports her large family by entering contests for ad slogans sponsored by consumer product companies, while dealing with abuse from her alcoholic husband. Based ...

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2010Movie96 min

Toast

HDNR

2010 6.5 96 min

Country: UK

Genre: Comedy, Drama

An adaptation of celebrity chef Nigel Slater's bestselling memoir, 'Toast' is the ultimate nostalgic trip through everything edible in 1960's Britain. Nigel's mother was always a poor ...

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2002Movie104 min

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

HDR

2002 6.6 104 min

Country: USA

Genre: Comedy, Drama

A group of Catholic school friends, after being caught drawing an obscene comic book, plan a heist that will outdo their previous prank and make them local legends.

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2017Movie105 min

Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool

HDNR

2017 6.4 105 min

Country: UK

Genre: Drama, Romance

Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her young lover, British actor Peter ...

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2002Movie116 min

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

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2002 6.8 116 min

Country: China

Genre: Drama

During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of ...

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2001Movie113 min

The Other Side of Heaven

HDPG

2001 6.2 113 min

Country: USA

Genre: Action, Adventure

John H. Groberg, a middle class kid from Idaho Falls, crosses the Pacific to become a Mormon missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan island kingdom during the 1950's. He leaves ...

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1997Movie112 min

The Truce

HDNR

1997 6.1 112 min

Country: France

Genre: Drama, History

After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace.

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1992Movie90 min

For a Lost Soldier

HDNR

1992 6.6 90 min

Country: Netherlands

Genre: Drama

Separated from his family in the Dutch countryside, young boy Jeroen crosses paths with Walt, a Canadian soldier who takes him under his care.

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1990Movie158 min

An Angel at My Table

HDR

1990 7.0 158 min

Country: New Zealand

Genre: Drama

Based on the autobiographical work of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, this production depicts the author at various stage of her life. Afflicted with mental and emotional issues, Frame ...

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1999Movie145 min

Angela’s Ashes

HDR

1999 7.1 145 min

Country: Ireland

Genre: Drama

Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the ...

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1990Movie111 min

Reversal of Fortune

HDR

1990 6.6 111 min

Country: Japan

Genre: Drama

Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.

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1990Movie101 min

Postcards from the Edge

HDR

1990 6.5 101 min

Country: USA

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live ...

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1990Movie112 min

Europa Europa

HDR

1990 7.3 112 min

Country: France

Genre: Drama, History

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.

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