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1970Movie120 min

HDNR

1970 6.3 120 min

Country: USA

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company they work for by sabotaging mining ...

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1970Movie73 min

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

HDNR

1970 7.0 73 min

Country: Czechoslovakia

Genre: Adventure, Drama

Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a ...

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1988Movie93 min

A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon

HDR

1988 4.9 93 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama, Romance

A recent high school graduate is faced with two options, either go to a business school where his father wants him to go to, or get a full time job. However he decides to defy his ...

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1987Movie111 min

Prick Up Your Ears

HDR

1987 6.6 111 min

Country: UK

Genre: Drama

When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they start an affair. As Orton becomes more ...

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1985Movie105 min

I, ‘The Heifer’

HDNR

1985 5.5 105 min

Country: Spain

Genre: Crime, Drama

Juan Jose Moreno Cuenca, alias the Heifer, is 23 years old and tells his story as a criminal offender from 1 Ocaña Toledo. Fatherless, the offender has his childhood and how everything ...

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1984Movie110 min

Swann in Love

HDNR

1984 5.6 110 min

Country: France

Genre: Drama, Romance

In early 20th century, Charles Swann, a young and wealthy dandy, spends most of his time hanging out with the old nobility, notably the Duke and Duchess of Guermantes. He is madly in ...

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1984Movie107 min

The Holy Innocents

HDNR

1984 7.8 107 min

Country: Spain

Genre: Drama

Somewhere in the spanish country, in the 60s. Paco and his wife Régula are very poor. They work as tenant farmers for a very wealthy landowner. They have 3 children. One is backward. ...

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1983Movie133 min

Heat and Dust

HDR

1983 6.1 133 min

Country: UK

Genre: Drama, Romance

Anne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. As Anne delves into the history of her grand-aunt, she is led to reconsider ...

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1982Movie103 min

Tex

HDPG

1982 6.2 103 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama

After their mother dies and their father leaves them, teenage brothers Tex and Mason McCormick struggle to make it on their own.

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1981Movie102 min

Two Queens and One Consort

HDNR

1981 6 102 min

Country: Netherlands

Genre: Drama

At the deathbed of his used-to-be militant mother an older man looks back at his childhood, when he was in love with his sensual aunt Coleta.

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1981Movie101 min

Tales of Ordinary Madness

HDNR

1981 6.1 101 min

Country: Italy

Genre: Drama

Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity.

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1979Movie99 min

Stranger in Our House

HDPG-13

1979 5.4 99 min

Country: USA

Genre: Horror, TV Movie

A country family of five take in charming cousin Julie, whose parents recently died in a car crash, though teenaged daughter Rachel grows suspect that she has an alternative agenda; one ...

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1989Movie113 min

Blood and Sand

HDNR

1989 5.3 113 min

Country: Spain

Genre: Drama, Romance

Remake of the tale of an acclaimed matador who finds himself involved with a beautiful woman, jeopardizing both his marriage and career.

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1988Movie91 min

Red Sorghum

HDNR

1988 7.2 91 min

Country: China

Genre: Drama, History

An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set ...

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1986Movie90 min

Dead Man’s Folly

HDNR

1986 6.0 90 min

Country: USA

Genre: Crime, Mystery

During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.

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1986Movie110 min

52 Pick-Up

HDR

1986 5.9 110 min

Country: USA

Genre: Action, Crime

Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of ...

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1985Movie112 min

The Holcroft Covenant

HDR

1985 5.5 112 min

Country: UK

Genre: Action, Thriller

A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past—but his son has to search the world to find it.

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1984Movie90 min

The Lonely Guy

HDR

1984 6.3 90 min

Country: USA

Genre: Comedy, Romance

A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.

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1984Movie110 min

Year of the Jellyfish

HDNR

1984 5.8 110 min

Country: France

Genre: Drama, Romance

Chris, a sexy teenager who appears mostly bare-breasted on the French Riviera, has a crush on Romain, her mother's lover. In reaction to her inability to attract his attention, she ...

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1984Movie112 min

Under the Volcano

HDR

1984 6.5 112 min

Country: Mexico

Genre: Drama

Against a background of war breaking out in Europe and the Mexican fiesta Day of Death, we are taken through one day in the life of Geoffrey Firmin, a British consul living in alcoholic ...

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1981Movie105 min

Mystery on Monster Island

HDNR

1981 4.4 105 min

Country: Spain

Genre: Adventure, Comedy

A young European boy living in San Francisco is reluctant to marry his long-term girlfriend because he wants to travel around the world first. His wealthy uncle agrees to send him on a ...

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1981Movie98 min

The Monster Club

HDNR

1981 6 98 min

Country: UK

Genre: Comedy, Horror

A vampire attacks a horror author on the street and then invites him to a nearby club as a gesture of gratitude, which turns out to be a meeting place for assorted creatures of the ...

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1979Movie115 min

The Great Santini

HDPG

1979 6.7 115 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama

As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, an aggressively competitive, but frustrated marine pilot.

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1979Movie95 min

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

HDNR

1979 6.6 95 min

Country: UK

Genre: Adventure, Animation

This Emmy Award winner for Best Animated Special is based on the first book of C.S. Lewis' acclaimed series, "The Chronicles of Narnia." Four children pass through a mystic portal in a ...

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1989Movie117 min

Dad

HDPG

1989 6.2 117 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama

A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. ...

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1989Movie103 min

Last Exit to Brooklyn

HDR

1989 6.4 103 min

Country: Germany

Genre: Drama

A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her ...

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1988Movie89 min

Slugs

HDR

1988 5.6 89 min

Country: Spain

Genre: Horror

People are dying mysteriously and gruesomely, and nobody has a clue what the cause is. Only health worker Mike Brady has a possible solution, but his theory of killer slugs is laughed ...

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1988Movie121 min

The Accidental Tourist

HDPG

1988 6.1 121 min

Country: USA

Genre: Comedy, Drama

After the death of his son, travel writer Macon Leary seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife is having similar problems. They separate, and Macon meets a strange, outgoing ...

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