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  • 1993
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    Much Ado About Nothing

    Much Ado About Nothing

    6.94 1993 HD

    In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding...

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  • 1988
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    The Thin Blue Line

    The Thin Blue Line

    7.67 1988 HD

    Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas.

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  • 1988
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    Stand and Deliver

    Stand and Deliver

    7.60 1988 HD

    Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts...

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  • 1995
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    Safe

    Safe

    7.00 1995 HD

    Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.

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  • 1995
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    My Family

    My Family

    7.60 1995 HD

    Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los...

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  • 1994
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    Amateur

    Amateur

    6.30 1994 HD

    A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is...

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  • 1983
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    El Norte

    El Norte

    7.21 1983 HD

    Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the...

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  • 1983
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    Testament

    Testament

    6.40 1983 HD

    It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has...

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  • 1989
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    Longtime Companion

    Longtime Companion

    6.80 1989 HD

    During the summer of 1981, a group of friends in New York are completely unprepared for the onslaught of AIDS. What starts as a rumor about a...

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  • 1991
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    Into the Woods

    Into the Woods

    8.01 1991 HD

    In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.

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  • 1985
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    Smooth Talk

    Smooth Talk

    6.30 1985 HD

    Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered...

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  • 1985
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    Go Tell It on the Mountain

    Go Tell It on the Mountain

    5.00 1985 HD

    This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both...

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  • 1991
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    Daughters of the Dust

    Daughters of the Dust

    6.40 1991 HD

    In 1902, an African-American family living on a sea island off the coast of South Carolina prepares to move to the North.

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  • 1993
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    Ethan Frome

    Ethan Frome

    5.60 1993 HD

    Married couple, Ethan and Zeena, are in need an extra hand around the house due to Zeena's debilitated body and constant illness. The young woman who...

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  • 1984
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    A Flash of Green

    A Flash of Green

    5.00 1984 HD

    A reporter at a local Florida newspaper is torn between his friendship with a corrupt real estate developer and his love for an activist opposing the...

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  • 1989
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    Life Under Water

    Life Under Water

    6.20 1989 HD

    Young man, who can't get along with the rest of the world, especially his mother, decides to try to take his life in his own hands. A TV movie...

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  • 1992
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    Simple Men

    Simple Men

    6.73 1992 HD

    Dennis is a handsome and bookish college student. His brother, Bill, is a roughhewn ladies' man and thief. Together they search for their dad,...

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  • 1991
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    Cabeza de Vaca

    Cabeza de Vaca

    6.80 1991 HD

    An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One...

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  • 1989
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    Bloodhounds of Broadway

    Bloodhounds of Broadway

    5.70 1989 HD

    This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that...

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  • 1989
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    Eat a Bowl of Tea

    Eat a Bowl of Tea

    5.70 1989 HD

    An American-Chinese man brings over his wife from China to America, but the challenges of making a living and adjusting to a new life, plus the...

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