Film Categories

Drama

The Killing Fields 

The Killing Fields 

Sydney Schanberg, The New York Times correspondent in Cambodia from 1972to 1975, covered the defeat of the U.S.-backed Lon Nol regime by the Communist Khmer Rouge forces…

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VIVA ZAPATA 

VIVA ZAPATA 

From 1810 to 1821, the peasants (called campesinos) following the leadership of Emiliano Zapata, fight the corrupt government and its president, Porfirio Diaz…

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1945

1945

In 1945, shortly after World War II ended, an Orthodox Jew, Sámuel Hermann, and his son, return to their home village in rural Hungary…

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3 Faces 

3 Faces 

Behnaz Jafari is a popular actress in Iran. She sees a video of a young girl, Marziyeh, pleading for help to escape the stifling restrictions of her conservative family…

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About Elly

About Elly

The film, About Elly, begins when a group of three married couples, their three children, Ahmad, a recently divorced young man, and Elly, the attractive, single teacher…

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The African Queen

The African Queen

Samuel Sayer and his sister Rose are British Methodist missionaries in the village of Kungdu in German-controlled East Africa…

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A Hero

A Hero

Rahim is given a two-day leave from an Iranian debtor’s prison. Rahim borrowed money from a loan shark and was unable pay it back when it came due…

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A Kind of Loving

A Kind of Loving

Vic Brown and Ingrid Rothwell work in the same Manchester factory. Vic finds Ingrid attractive and they meet…

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All Is Well

All Is Well

Janne is an unemployed thirty-something publishing professional who encounters an old friend, Robert. He offers her a job…

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A Man Escaped 

A Man Escaped 

Lieutenant Fontaine, a French resistant fighter during World War II, is captured by the Nazis and imprisoned…

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A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons

Cardinal Wolsey is attempting to obtain from the Pope an annulment of Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon, a marriage that has not produced a male heir…

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Anatomy of a Murder

Anatomy of a Murder

Retired small-town lawyer Paul Biegler is contacted by Laura Manion to defend her husband Lieutenant Frederick “Manny” Manion…

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American Graffiti

American Graffiti

As the summer of 1962 draws to a close, four recent high school graduates, Curt, Steve, Terry, and John, spend the night cruising the streets in Modesto, California, before they move on to college and elsewhere…

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Amores Perros

Amores Perros

Amores Perros covers three interlinked segments that span the wide range of social classes in Mexico from the wealthy to the homeless…

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L’Argent

L’Argent

Norbert, a student in Paris, is in debt to a classmate. He tries to borrow money from a friend by hocking his watch…

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A Separation

A Separation

Set in contemporary Iran, a middle-class, hardworking family is about to disintegrate. Simin tells her husband Nader she wants to go to a country with more opportunities and freedom…

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A Special Day

A Special Day

On May 6, 1938, Hitler visits Mussolini in Rome. The event is huge as the Italians overwhelmingly cheer their two “heroes.” While Antonietta, a naive and overworked…

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Avalon

Avalon

In 1914, Sam Krichinsky emigrates from Eastern Europe to Baltimore. It’s a city with  tightly-knit Jewish Russian families…

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Babel

Babel

The film Babel weaves four separate stories that are based in four different locations, with different languages, and different cultures…

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Babette’s Feast

Babette’s Feast

Babette is a French female chef de cuisine of five-star repute who is forced to leave Paris during the uprisings of 1871…

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Bad Education

Bad Education

Dr. Frank Tassone is the superintendent of the Roslyn School District in Long Island, New York. He’s revered by everyone…

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The Bad Sleep Well

The Bad Sleep Well

Public Development Corporation Vice President Iwabuchi is attending the wedding reception of his daughter Yoshiko to his ambitious secretary Kôichi Nishi…

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The Banshees of Inisherin

The Banshees of Inisherin

It’s 1923. On the green island of Inisherin, Pádraic, a milk farmer, and Colm, a violinist in the process of composing a song, meet every day at the local pub for a pint of Guinness…

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Baran

Baran

A construction site in Teheran managed by Memar employs many Afghan refugees. They have no identity cards, are illegal, and work cheaply.  Lateef, a 17-year-old young man…

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Barbara

Barbara

Dr. Barbara Wolff is a physician in East Germany in 1980. Because she filed a request for a visa to leave East Germany, the government forcefully moves her from her prestigious hospital in Berlin to a pediatric clinic in a remote province of the country. That isn’t enough.

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Beanpole

Beanpole

Shortly after World War II, Lya, known as “Beanpole,” a hospital nurse in Leningrad, is caring for Pashka, her friend’s Masha’s six-year-old boy. Suffering from PTSD…

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Beginners

Beginners

Following the death of his father, Hal, Oliver reflects on their relationship…

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Belle de Jour

Belle de Jour

Despite their love for each other, young and beautiful Séverine Serizy and her husband Pierre have a problem. Their sexual life is restricted. Although frustrated by his wife’s frigidity, he respects her wishes to lead her own life which…

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Between the Lines

Between the Lines

Staff members working at the alternative Boston weekly, The Back Bay Mainline, are young, ambitious, but also smart enough to realize that changes are coming…

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The Bicycle Thieves

The Bicycle Thieves

In war-torn Rome, jobs are very scarce. Antonio is lucky. He is offered a job posting advertising bills. However, the job requires the use of a bicycle, which…

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Big Night

Big Night

Primo and Secondo, two Italian immigrant brothers, are the owners of Paradise, a struggling Italian restaurant on the New Jersey shore…

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Billy Budd

Billy Budd

Aboard an eighteenth-century naval ship, Billy, an overly optimistic eighteen-year-old, sets off on his first voyage…

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Birdman

Birdman

Riggan Thomson is a has-been actor who enjoyed fleeting fame playing a film superhero named Birdman…

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Black Narcissus

Black Narcissus

Sister Clodagh (designated the Sister Superior) and four other nuns are sent to a remote Himalayan village to set up a school and hospital…

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Blow Out

Blow Out

While in post-production for a low-budget film, sound technician Jack Terry is told by the producer to record more realistic sound effects….

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 Blow-Up 

 Blow-Up 

Wandering in a London park, Thomas, a fashion photographer, takes photos of lovers embracing…

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Body Double

Body Double

After losing his acting job and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finds himself adrift and homeless…

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Born To Be Blue

Born To Be Blue

In a 1954 performance at Birdland, attended by Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, Chet Baker was the jazz world’s hottest sensation…

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Boys Don’t Cry

Boys Don’t Cry

Teena Renae Brandon is a woman who needs to be a man. She cuts her hair short, wears masculine clothes, and stuffs a stocking…

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The Breaking Point

The Breaking Point

Harry Morgan and his mate Wesley Park operate a fishing vessel out of San Diego to people interested in spending…

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Breathless

Breathless

Michel is a misfit who decides to steal a car so he can go to Italy. He is also out of control when he shoots a pursuing policeman…

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Bridge of Spies

Bridge of Spies

James Donovan, an insurance lawyer, is assigned by the State Department to represent Rudolf Abel, a captured Soviet spy. Abel is convicted…

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Brokeback Mountain 

Brokeback Mountain 

Wyoming, 1963. Ranch foreman Joe Aguirre hires two cowboys, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, to herd his sheep on Brokeback Mountain…

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The Cakemaker

The Cakemaker

Thomas is an amazing gay German baker in Berlin. Oren, a businessman from Jerusalem, stops by every time he’s in Berlin to enjoy one of Thomas’s pastries. They become intimate….

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Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

This biographical film, written by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, is about writer Lee Israel. Once successful, she now hasn’t been able to keep up with the times. One by one her books are rejected by publishers…

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Capernaum

Capernaum

Capernaum, which stands for “chaos,” is about a whip-smart 12-year old boy named Zain, who sues his parents for bringing him into a world filled with slums and poverty.

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Carol

Carol

While working behind the counter in a fashionable Manhattan department store during the Christmas season, aspiring photographer Therese Belivet meets an upper-society customer, Carol Aird…

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Casualties of War

Casualties of War

Private Max Eriksson is grateful when his superior, Sergeant Tony Meserve, saves him during a battle with the Viet Cong…

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Le Cercle Rouge

Le Cercle Rouge

Corey, a prisoner in a Marseilles prison is released. Meanwhile, another prisoner, Vogel, is on a train, handcuffed by Police Inspector Mattei…

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The Chambermaid

The Chambermaid

Eve is a thirtysomething woman toiling as a chambermaid in a posh hotel in Mexico City. She covers an entire floor of rooms. The film follows her dreary routine of cleaning each room, tidying up the mess, changing the sheets and towels…

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The Child

The Child

After the birth of her baby, Sonia returns home from the hospital and is told that her live-in boyfriend, Bruno, has sublet the apartment…

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Children of Heaven

Children of Heaven

The Children of Heaven is primarily about Ali and Zahra, a brother and sister, in an impoverished family, who create a big problem  they do not want their parents to know about…

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Children of Men

Children of Men

Film critic Manohla Dargis wrote that “CHILDREN of MEN, set in 1927, pictures a world that looks like a lot like our own, but darker, grimmer and more frighteningly, violently precarious…

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The China Syndrome

The China Syndrome

Los Angeles television news reporter, Kimberly Wells, and her cameraman, Richard Adams, are assigned to do a story about the nearby (fictional) Ventana nuclear power plant…

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City Lights

City Lights

The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin), while clowning around the city, encounters a beautiful Flower Girl on the street corner…

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The Class

The Class

In an immigrant, working-class Parisian neighborhood, Francois Marin, a young teacher, begins the year with twenty-five teenage students in his class…

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Clemency

Clemency

Bernardine Williams is a warden in a death row prison. She has the reputation  of being  a stickler for procedure…

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CODA

CODA

In Gloucester, Massachusetts, Ruby Rossi is the only hearing member of her family…

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Cold Mountain

Cold Mountain

Ada Monroe, the daughter of Reverend Monroe in rural Cold Mountain, North Carolina, sets her eyes on W.P. Inman at a summer cocktail gathering…

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Cold War

Cold War

In the ruins of post-war Poland, Wiktor and Zula fall deeply in love. Wiktor is a musical director and Zula a singer with a promising future. They both end up in a folk dance ensemble group where their kind of music is severely criticized…

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The Conformist

The Conformist

Considered by many a Bernardo Bertolucci masterpiece. Working for Mussolini in Rome in 1938, Marcello departs on his honeymoon to Paris. His boss gives him an assignment: while in Paris he is to kill…

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The Conversation

The Conversation

Harry Caul, the owner of a surveillance company, and his assistant Stan, are hired by a person referred to as The Director, to bug the conversation of a couple, Ann and Mark, as they walk around Union Square in San Francisco…

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Corpus Christi

Corpus Christi

Daniel, in prison for second-degree murder, has a spiritual awakening. He wants to study for the priesthood when he is released…

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The Courier

The Courier

A true story. In the 1960s, the height of the Cold War,  the CIA recruited Greville Wynne, an insignificant British businessman…

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Crossfire

Crossfire

Captain Finlay is  called to investigate the beating to death of a Jewish man named Joseph Samuels…

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Cry Macho

Cry Macho

Former Texan rodeo star, Mike Milo, is washed-up due to a severe back injury and old age…

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Dark Waters

Dark Waters

Robert Bilott is a promising lawyer in a prestigious Cincinnati law firm with a roster of major corporate clients including DuPont. One day, Wilbur Tennant…

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Daughters of the Dust

Daughters of the Dust

The film is set in 1902 and focuses on the members of the Peazant family. They live on St. Simons Island located off the Georgia-South Carolina coast. They are descendants of African-American slaves. Being relatively isolated…

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Delicious

Delicious

In 18th-century France, prior to the Revolution, gastronomy was strictly limited to the aristocracy…

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Diane

Diane

Diane is generous and thoughtful of others: she regularly visits her terminally ill cousin, Dottie, in the hospital, works in a soup kitchen feeding and nurturing the poor…

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Diner

Diner

Five male friends, in their twenties, meet frequently at the local diner to discuss issues they are facing. Eddie vows to call…

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Dirty Pretty Things

Dirty Pretty Things

Olatokumbo “Okwe” Fadipe is a doctor. Because he is an illegal Nigerian immigrant in London, he must toil as a cab driver during the day and at night he is the front desk clerk in a hotel…

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Double Lover 

Double Lover 

When Chloé, a young museum attendant, experiences abdominal pain, her doctor informs her the cause is depression and she should see a psychiatrist…

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Downton Abbey: The Movie

Downton Abbey: The Movie

The story takes place in 1927. Robert Crawley receives a letter from King George and Queen Mary that as part of their royal tour of the country, the King and Queen would like to stay over at Downton Abbey…

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Dressed to Kill

Dressed to Kill

Kate Miller, a sexually frustrated housewife, is being treated by her New York psychiatrist, Dr. Robert Elliott…

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Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy

Daisy Werthan, a 72-year-old retired, Jewish, schoolteacher living alone in Atlanta, drives her car into her neighbor’s yard…

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Dr. Strangelove

Dr. Strangelove

Group Captain Lionel Mandrake is informed by the crazy American officer General Jack Ripper that he has issued an order to preemptively attack Russian strategic targets with nuclear bombs…

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Edge of the City

Edge of the City

Axel North, a young drifter, arrives at a New York waterfront pier seeking employment as a longshoreman…

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The Emigrants

The Emigrants

Karl-Oskar Nilsson, his wife Kristina, and Karl’s younger brother Robert live on a small farm in Sweden. The family struggles…

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Emma

Emma

After her governess gets married, Emma Woodhouse, a congenial but naive young woman, proudly takes credit for bringing the couple together…

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Empire of the Sun 

Empire of the Sun 

James “Jim” Graham is a schoolboy living a privileged and affluent life with his family in the Shanghai International Settlement…

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Everybody Knows

Everybody Knows

Laura, a Spanish woman living in Argentina, and her teenage daughter, Irene, and young son, Diego, return to their small hometown in Spain to attend the wedding of Laura’s younger sister…

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Fail Safe

Fail Safe

During the height of the Cold War, U.S. radar spots an unidentified aircraft in American airspace…

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The Farewell

The Farewell

Chinese-born, New York-raised writer Billi Wang, maintains contact with her grandmother, Nai Nai, who lives in Changchun, China. Her parents, Haiyan and Lu Jian, inform Billi that Nai Nai has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and has only a few months to live…

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Fences

Fences

Troy Maxson and his long-time pal Jim Bono work as garbage collectors in 1950s Pittsburgh. Troy has had a tough life. He left home when he was 14 after beating his abusive father…

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Field of Dreams

Field of Dreams

Ray Kinsella lives on an Iowa farm with his wife Annie and daughter Karin. One day, while in the cornfield, Ray hears a voice telling him, “If you build it, he will come..”

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First Cow

First Cow

A woman walking her dog in the woods discovers the skeletons of two human beings, curled together, as if they were still seeking warmth…

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First Reformed

First Reformed

Reverend Ernst Toller agonizes over his failure to invigorate the rural First Reformed Church. He seeks solace in alcohol, reading Roman Catholic essays, and keeping a detailed journal of his thoughts…

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Footnote

Footnote

Eliezer Shkolnik and his son Uriel areTalmudic scholars at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University…

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The 400 Blows

The 400 Blows

Antoine Doinel is a troubled youngster growing up in Paris with a mother and stepfather who do not understand him. He skips school, steals, and…

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Ford v Ferrari

Ford v Ferrari

Lee Iacocca, VP of Ford, convinces Henry Ford II to purchase the cash-starved Ferrari car company…

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Frantz 

Frantz 

Anna is a grieving young woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed in battle during World War I…

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Frenzy

Frenzy

Unlike most suspenseful films, the serial killer terrorizing London by strangling women with a tie is identified right from the start. His name is Bob Rusk…

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The Front

The Front

In 1953, Howard Prince, a restaurant cashier and small-time bookie, agrees to be a “front” for his good friend Alfred Miller, a blacklisted TV screenwriter…

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Girlfriends

Girlfriends

Susan Weinblatt is a photographer who supports herself taking photos at bar mitzvahs and weddings. She’s ecstatic when a magazine buys three of her photos. Her happiness, however, is jolted when her roommate…

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Gods and Monsters

Gods and Monsters

This story, about director James Whale, takes place in the 1950s, decades after Whale’s significant hits, Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein had opened in theaters. But Whale is now forgotten and recovering from a series of strokes

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Good Night and Good Luck

Good Night and Good Luck

In the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy was on a rampage stating that the government was infiltrated by Communists and Communists sympathizers. Bullied and fearful, most Washington politicians…

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations

When orphan Pip visits his parents’ graves, he encounters an escaped convict, Abel Magwitch, who coerces Pip to return the next day with a file so he can remove his chains…

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Green Book 

Green Book 

African-Americans, travelling in the United States, often carry a Green Book, which lists the hotels, motels, and restauarants that do not racially discriminate…

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The Grizzlies

The Grizzlies

Russ Sheppard takes a teaching job in a remote Arctic school to pay off his college debt to the Canadian government…

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Guilty by Suspicion

Guilty by Suspicion

When David Merrill, a 1950s film director, returns to the United States from Paris, McCarthyism and the Red Scare is sweeping the country…

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Hamlet

Hamlet

There is a celebration in the Danish castle’s Great Hall of the marriage of Gertrude and King Claudius…

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Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt

After the capture of Adolf Eichmann, one of the most elusive and hated Nazi criminals, William Shawn, editor of The New Yorker, assigned Arendt to cover the trial in Jerusalem…

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Happening 

Happening 

In 1963 France, Anne, a young, precocious student with an eye on becoming a writer, becomes pregnant after a one-night stand…

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Happy as Lazzaro

Happy as Lazzaro

Alfosino de Luna is the ruthless owner of a tobacco farm in the Italian town of Inviolata. She has 54 sharecroppers who are constantly in debt to her, so they receive no pay…

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Haute Cuisine

Haute Cuisine

Based on a true story. Hortense Laborie gets the job of a lifetime when the President of France appoints her to be his personal chef at the Élysée Palace…

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Hell or High Water

Hell or High Water

Toby and Tanner Howard, two impoverished brothers whose ranch is facing foreclosure, pull off several robberies at different branches of the Texas Midlands Bank…

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Henry V

Henry V

King Henry of England believes he has a justifiable claim to the throne of France…

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Hero

Hero

In ancient China, during the Warring States period, the king of Qin has eluded several…

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Herself

Herself

Sandra, a mother with two young daughters living in Ireland,  is beaten frequently by her abusive husband Gary…

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Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures

Katherine Goble, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan are brilliant mathematicians recruited to work at NASA in the United States Space Program…

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High Flying Bird

High Flying Bird

High Flying Bird is a sports drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh. Sports agent Ray Burke represents the #1 draft pick, Erick Scott, a basketball player ready to become a pro with a huge contract. However, the league is in a lockout due to a dispute between the players’ association and the owners. Ray needs to get Erick signed or he risks losing his job at the agency. The film uncovers the disconnect between the players who make up the team and the owners who shell out the money…

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Hiroshima Mon Amour

Hiroshima Mon Amour

Hiroshima Mon Amour is basically a series of conversations between a French actress (Elle) and a Japanese architect (Lui). From graphic newsreels, viewers…

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Hive

Hive

Hive is based on a true story of a woman, Fahrije, who, with other women in the village, search for their missing husbands shortly after the Kosovo War in 1998-1999…

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Hombre 

Hombre 

John Russell, an Apache-raised white man, returns to the white world to claim his father’s inheritance, a gold watch and a run-down boarding house…

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How Green Was My Valley

How Green Was My Valley

Huw Morgan is the youngest son in a Welsh coal mining family of nine. His childhood is idyllic: everyone in town gets along; the men working…

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How the West Was Won

How the West Was Won

Set between 1839 and 1889, the film follows three generations of families (starting with the Prescotts) as they moved from western New York all the way to the Pacific…

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The Ice Storm 

The Ice Storm 

Two families, the Hoods and the Carvers, neighbors in an affluent Connecticut suburb, are bitterly disappointed with their unfulfilled lives…

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Ida 

Ida 

In 1960s communist Poland, Anna, a young novice, is told by her prioress, before taking her final vows, she must visit her aunt, Wanda Gruz, her only surviving relative…

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Ikiru

Ikiru

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged civil servant who worked in a dead-end boring job for over 30 years. His wife died and Watanabe now…

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The Immigrant 

The Immigrant 

In 1921, Ewa and her sister Magda, leave their impoverished home in Poland and arrive in Ellis Island hoping for a better life…

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In Bloom

In Bloom

Eka and Natia are 14-year-olds and best friends growing up in post-Soviet Georgia. Natia, more precocious than Eka, has two boys interested in her, Kote and Lado…

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The Innocents

The Innocents

The story takes place in Warsaw, 1945, shortly after the end of World War II. In one of the clinics, Mathilde, a Red Cross doctor, is treating wounded and sick survivors. She is interrupted by a hysterical Benedictine nun

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In The Mood For Love

In The Mood For Love

In British Hong Kong in 1962, two young couples, Chow Mo-wan, a journalist, and his wife, rent an apartment next door to Su Li-zhen and her husband…

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In the Name of the Father

In the Name of the Father

Gerry Conlon is an Irish ne’er-do-well living in Belfast. Conlon’s father urges his son to move to London fearing punishment by the IRA…

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The Insult

The Insult

Tony Hanna, a Lebanese Christian, discovers contractors fixing a gutter running from his balcony to the street. When Tony becomes aware that the worker, Yasser Abdallah Salameh, is a Palestinian refugee…

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I Remember Mama

I Remember Mama

I Remember Mama is the poignant, autobiographical story of the Hansons, a Norwegian immigrant family, living in San Francisco…

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The Irishman

The Irishman

The man narrating the life and times of the Mafia is Frank Sheeran, “The Irishman.” A retired gangster and now insignificant, Frank freely relates stories about Mob killings, graft, extortion, and influence peddling…

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I Want To Live!

I Want To Live!

San Francisco, 1950. Barbara Graham is a petty criminal and prostitute working for the unsavory Emmett Perkins, luring men to his gambling parlor…

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Jean de Florette

Jean de Florette

Jean de Florette is the first of a two-part series adapted from a novel by Marcel Pagnol. The follow up film is Manon of the Springs…

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The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club

In San Francisco, four aging Chinese-American mothers gather frequently to play mahjong and compare stories of their Americanized daughters and grandchildren…

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Ju Dou

Ju Dou

In 20th century rural China, Yang Tianqing is returning from a trip selling dyed silk…

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Judy

Judy

The film opens showing a young Judy being coerced by an ambitious, pill-pushing mother and the ruthless MGM chief, Louis B. Mayer. All of these pressures drive Judy into a deep depression resulting in drug addiction and alcoholism…

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Jules and Jim

Jules and Jim

Jules is a shy writer from Austria working on a novel; Jim is a fun-loving, partying Frenchman. And yet, these two opposite personalities become fast friends. They meet the free-spirited Catherine and the three hang out…

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Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

After a triumphant military victory, Julius Caesar enters Rome with his troops, cheered by an adulating crowd…

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Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Phyllida Lloyd’s groundbreaking all-female version of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar stars leading actress Harriet Walter as Brutus…

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Just Mercy

Just Mercy

This is the true story of Walter McMillan who in 1987 Alabama was falsely convicted of murder and was facing execution. Bryan Stevenson, a young defense attorney, originally from the Northeast, hears…

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The Kid With a Bike

The Kid With a Bike

Cyril, a precocious 11-year-old boy, is suddenly abandoned by his father who also absconds with Cyril’s bike. Cyril has no mother so this loss is devastating…

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Knives Out

Knives Out

Like all great murder-mystery films (and books), it’s important to share the outlines of the plot without revealing too many of the twists and turns…

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La Bête Humaine

La Bête Humaine

Jacques Lantier is a railroad engineer who finds his work helps distract him from his recurring headaches, seizures, and violent rages…

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La Chienne

La Chienne

“Jean Renoir’s ruthless love triangle tale, his second sound film, is a true precursor to his brilliantly bitter…”

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The Last Seduction

The Last Seduction

Clay Gregory, a medical student heavily in debt to loan sharks, arranges to sell stolen pharmaceutical drugs for $700,000…

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Last Year at Marienbad

Last Year at Marienbad

In the old-world chateau, Marienbad, filled with stuffy wealthy couples, a single man approaches a woman claiming they met before at Marienbad. In fact, he claims..

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La Strada

La Strada

Gelsomina, a young Italian woman, is forced to join Zampano, a street performer, as his assistant. Zampano’s payment to the mother is a meager 10,000 lire…

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Last Resort

Last Resort

Tanya, a Russian divorcée, and her 10-year-old son Artyom, arrive in London from Moscow where Tanya expects to meet her fiancé…

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Liberty Heights

Liberty Heights

In Baltimore, 1954, Jewish families like the Kurtzmans, are experiencing many changes: Schools are now desegregated, rock ‘n’ roll…

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The Life Ahead

The Life Ahead

Madame Rosa is a former prostitute and Holocaust survivor. In her old age, feeble and sickly, she makes a living caring for children of prostitutes…

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Life of Pi

Life of Pi

The owner of a zoo in India, Santosh Patel, decides to move with his wife Gita, teenage son Piscine “Pi” and all the animals to Canada…

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Like Water for Chocolate 

Like Water for Chocolate 

In 1900 Mexico, Mama Elena tells Tita, her youngest daughter, the country’s tradition calls for Tita to remain single so Tita can care for her…

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Lili

Lili

A naive, young, French girl arrives in a provincial town hoping to find an old friend of her father…

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The Lives of Others

The Lives of Others

In 1984 East Germany, Stasi agent Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler is ordered to spy on the playwright Georg Dreyman, who is suspected of bad-mouthing the Communist regime…

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Series

1883

1883

Shea Brennan was a former captain in the Union Army during the Civil War and his current partner, Thomas, was his loyal sergeant…

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A French Village

A French Village

In June 1940, German military forces occupied the fictional French village of Villeneuve. They quickly took control of all aspects of the village’s life and businesses. All political dissent and resistance were brutally suppressed…

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Alias Grace

Alias Grace

Set in 19th century Canada, “Alias Grace” is about convicted murderess Grace Marks. Grace left Ireland as a child on a filthy, unhealthy ship…

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Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations

Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations

For 19 seasons, travel writer/personality Anthony Bourdain travelled around the world visiting places as exotic as the Congo, Saigon, Cuba and as contemporary as New York and Las Vegas…

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A Place to Call Home

A Place to Call Home

This series is set in New South Wales, Australia, shortly after the end of World War II. After 20 years living in Europe, and surviving the war, Sarah Adams, is returning to her home in Inverness, Australia…

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A Very English Scandal

A Very English Scandal

Jeremy Thorpe, a Liberal member of the British Parliament, had for several years, a relationship with a younger man, Norman Josiffe, a former stable boy. Josiffe, however, was unstable and difficult, so Thorpe decided to end the affair…

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Band of Brothers

Band of Brothers

Adapted from Stephen Anbrose’s bestseller, the series follows the men of Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division, from their training in Georgia during the spring of 1942, to the D-Day invasion, the horrendous Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of the concentration camps, and the final victory in 1945…

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Baseball – A Film by Ken Burns

Baseball – A Film by Ken Burns

Similar to previous documentaries by Ken Burns, Baseball includes archival photos and film footage mixed with interviews by noted writers, players, and baseball historians…

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Boardwalk Empire

Boardwalk Empire

The series covers the violent, crime-filled years of the Prohibition era in the U.S., between 1920 and 1931. Enoch “Nucky” Thompson, a powerful political figure in Atlantic City…

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Bodyguard

Bodyguard

Police Sergeant David Budd, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, suffers from PTSD. One day while on a train bringing his kids home to his estranged wife, he confronts a female suicide bomber…

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Borgen

Borgen

Birgitte Nyborg is the leader of a minority political party in Denmark. In a closely fought general election, and against all odds, she becomes Prime Minister…

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Call My Agent

Call My Agent

Set in a Parisian talent agency, the series focuses on four agents, Andréa, Arlette, Gabriel, and Mathias. These clients can be troublesome…

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Carrie

Carrie

Shy 16-year-old Carrie White lives with her fanatically religious mother, Margaret…

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Central Park

Central Park

CENTRAL PARK is an animated musical comedy about the quirky Tillerman family who lives in a rundown castle in New York’s most famous park. Owen, the father, manages the park…

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Chernobyl

Chernobyl

On April 26, 1986, a safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Facility indicated  something was very wrong. Valery Legasov, an important Soviet nuclear physicist…

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The Crown

The Crown

“The Crown” is an epic historical drama that will eventually run for ten seasons. The first three seasons can now be streamed…

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Defending Jacob

Defending Jacob

Andy and Laurie Barber have been happily married for 20 years. He is a successful assistant district attorney…

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Deutschland 83

Deutschland 83

In 1983, East Germany’s Secret Service (Stasi) is concerned that American troops stationed in West Germany may attack…

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The Devil Next Door

The Devil Next Door

John Demjanjuk was a Ukrainian who came to the U.S. shortly after the end of World War II. He became an American citizen, was a reliable worker at a Ford plant in Cleveland (…)

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Eleanor and Franklin

Eleanor and Franklin

The first of the two-part series follows the lives of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt when they were children, their courtship and marriage, and his political start as Assistant Secretary of the Navy…

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Fauda

Fauda

Filmed primarily in the occupied West Bank, the plot revolves around the conflicts between Israeli Special Forces and Hamas. There are brutal attacks by both sides…

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Goliath

Goliath

Billy McBride is a disgraced lawyer, one who drank too much and was forced out of the Goliath law firm he started with Donald Cooperman. Billy has hit rock bottom, scrounging for clients, and fighting to stay alive…

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Jazz-Ken Burns

Jazz-Ken Burns

Renowned filmmaker Ken Burns reveals the history of jazz in the United States in just ten episodes…

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Keeping Faith

Keeping Faith

They seem to be the perfect Welsh family: Faith, a beautiful mother and wife, three adorable kids, and Evan, a warm-hearted successful husband…

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The Kominsky Method

The Kominsky Method

It’s about a long-term friendship between Sandy Kominsky, a revered acting coach, and Norman Newlander, a retired successful Hollywood agent. The two genuinely cherish their friendship even with its many ups-and-downs…

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Laëtitia

Laëtitia

Based on a true story. Eighteen-year-old Laëtitia’s scooter is found on the road in front of her foster home located in western France…

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The Library Thief

The Library Thief

Not to be confused with The Book Thief, a 20th Century Fox film, or with The Library Book” by Susan Orlean. The Library Thief is based on a true story. John Johansson, brilliant but hapless, is fired from his teaching job in Stockholm…

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Line of Duty

Line of Duty

Line of Duty is about the fierce detectives running the Anti-Corruption Unit 12 (AC-12) in a grimy unnamed British city (possibly Birmingham). Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott…

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Line of Separation

Line of Separation

In the last months of World War II, the United States, England, France and the Soviet Union, all agreed to divide Germany into four regions administered by each Allied country…

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Maid

Maid

The series is inspired by Stephanie Land’s memoir, “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive.”…

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Mare of Easttown

Mare of Easttown

In a bleak suburb of Philadelphia, police detective Mare Sheehan is juggling two crimes: the recent murder of a teenage mother and a young girl missing for almost a year…

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Mindhunter

Mindhunter

“Mindhunter” is about two FBI agents, Holden Ford and Bill Tench, and the psychologist Wendy Carr, who work in the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy. Their job is to find out why these serial killers…

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Mrs. America

Mrs. America

The series begins in the early ’70s when politicians were furiously fighting for and against the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)…

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Mrs Wilson

Mrs Wilson

This true story begins when Alexander “Alec” Wilson, Alison’s long-time husband, dies of a sudden heart attack in their home. Bereft, Alison is now looking at a future of raising two sons with very little money…

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My Brilliant Friend

My Brilliant Friend

This film series is an adaptation of the first of the four novels by Elena Ferrante. Protagonist Elena Greco is an elderly woman living alone in her book-filled apartment in Naples. She is told that the most important friend in her life has disappeared.

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Narcos

Narcos

The series describes the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar from a small-time black marketeer in Medellin, Colombia to the billionaire kingpin of the cocaine industry. Trafficking mostly in illegal alcohol, cigarettes, and household appliances, Escobar meets Mateo “Cockroach” Moreno, a Chilean chemist, who convinces Escobar to switch to a far more profitable product, cocaine. They strike a deal: Moreno will produce the cocaine and Escobar will distribute it.

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The Night Of

The Night Of

A riveting crime drama of a native Pakistani-American student, Naz, ( terrific performance by Riz Ahmed), living in Queens. One night, Naz takes his father’s cab to a party and picks up a young woman who seduces him.

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The Night Manager

The Night Manager

The series focuses on the lucrative, illegal, business of selling arms to rogue nations. British and U.S. Intelligence are…

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No Second Chance

No Second Chance

While Dr. Alice Lambert is warming the bottle for her six-month old daughter, Tara, two gun shots are fired into the kitchen…

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Our Planet

Our Planet

Each segment of this eight-part series documents the destruction of a major part of this planet. Highlights are: polar bears, walruses, seals, and penguins dying…

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The Pacific

The Pacific

Whereas the film series “Band of Brothers” focused on the men of Easy Company fighting in Europe, THE PACIFIC focuses on three…

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Rectify

Rectify

Daniel Holden was wrongfully imprisoned as a teenager for the death of his girlfriend. After enduring 19 years on death row, DNA testing is ordered and it proves he did not commit this crime. Daniel is now a free man and he returns to his hometown, Paulie, Georgia…

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The Restaurant

The Restaurant

In May 1945, World War II ends and peace is proclaimed. The tightly-knit Lowander family, consisting of the tyrannical mother Helga, her two sons Peter and Gustaf and…

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The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

Directed and produced by Ken Burns, the series covers the lives and times of Theodore Roosevelt (26th president), Franklin D. Roosevelt (four-term president), and Eleanor Roosevelt (Franklin’s influential wife)…

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Shtisel

Shtisel

This Israeli television series is about the fictional lives of Hasidic (ultra-orthodox) families in the Geula section of Jerusalem. Although they are portrayed as fanatical about their religious beliefs, the series also portrays many of them struggling with the conflicts of difficult relationships. Shulem, the patriarch and a widower, rules his brood with an iron fist…

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Small Axe Anthology

Small Axe Anthology

The anthology, created, written and directed by Steve McQueen, consists of five individual films about the lives of West Indian immigrants…

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A Small Light

A Small Light

Miep Gies, a young woman, convinces Otto Frank, a distributor of Opekta jams, to hire her as his secretary…

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The Spy

The Spy

In the late 1960s, Eli Cohen (no relation to the actor) is an Egyptian-born Israeli stuck in a boring job as a clerk in a department store. Applying for an adventurous job as a Mossad operative, he’s unfortunately rejected…

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Tehran

Tehran

Tamar Rabinyan is a Jewish Mossad agent born in Iran but raised in Israel…

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The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy

The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy

Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy (first two episodes) examines the horrendous effects of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 that was passed by Congress and signed by President Andrew Jackson…

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Trial 4

Trial 4

Sean Ellis was a 19-year old African-American man who was at the wrong place at the wrong time…

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Unbelievable

Unbelievable

This is about a series of rapes in Washington and Colorado. The story first focuses on the rape of Marie Adler, a disturbed teenager living in a foster home. What she goes through with the police investigators and the medical examinations…

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Unorthodox

Unorthodox

Esther (“Esty”) is a 19-year old woman feeling trapped in an unhappy marriage and living in a suffocating ultra-orthodox…

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The War Is Over

The War Is Over

In this touching real-life drama, an engineer and a group of educators care for Jewish orphans after World War II…

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Weissensee

Weissensee

This series grievously depicts the deep-divide between two families in Communist East Germany before unification. Hans Kupfer, and his son Falk, are senior officers at the East German Security office…

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When They See Us

When They See Us

On April 19, 1989, while jogging in Manhattan’s Central Park, Trisha Meili, a White investment banker, was assaulted and raped…

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World on Fire

World on Fire

The world that’s on fire stretches across most of Europe: Warsaw, London, Paris, Manchester, and the evacuation at Dunkirk…

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Animation

Antz

Antz

Z is the name of a neurotic working ant in an anthill with millions of inhabitants. He meets the ravishing Princess Bala, a much more refined ant. As Z revs up his efforts to woo Bala, he antagonizes General Mandible, Bala’s fiance…

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Central Park

Central Park

CENTRAL PARK is an animated musical comedy about the quirky Tillerman family who lives in a rundown castle in New York’s most famous park. Owen, the father, manages the park…

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Ethel & Ernest

Ethel & Ernest

Ernest is a milkman in London. On his route he spots Ethel, a young maid in a rich household, looking out the window…

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I Lost My Body

I Lost My Body

Naoufel, is a kid happily living in North Africa, has lost his hand, how, we don’t know. But the hand manages to escape the freezer in the hospital lab and is now searching to find Naoufel’s body…

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Klaus

Klaus

Jesper Johansson is a lazy and spoiled son of a wealthy Postmaster General. When he does poorly at the Postman Training Academy, his father sends him to the desolate town of Smeerensburg…

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Mary and Max

Mary and Max

Eight-year-old Mary Daisy Dinkle lives lonely life in the Melbourne suburb of Mount Waverly. She’s neglected by her factory-working Dad and alcoholic mother…

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Mirai

Mirai

For four-year old Kun it all began with the arrival of his baby sister Mirai (Japanese for “future”). The parents, especially the mother, are unaware of how showering so much attention on the baby can be so painful to their young son. Kun becomes so jealous that he has tantrums and even…

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The Prince of Egypt

The Prince of Egypt

An animated musical drama loosely based on the the biblical story of Moses. In ancient Egypt, Pharaoh, fearing the alarming increase in the Hebrew population, orders that all newborn Hebrew boys be killed. Baby Moses is placed in a basket by his mother, who sets it floating in the Nile…

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Waltz with Bashir

Waltz with Bashir

unusual Israeli animated war documentary that’s rated “R.” The film was written, produced and directed by Ari Folman. Ari was a 19-year old IDF (Israel Defense Force) infantry soldier during the war in Lebanon…

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Broadway

The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie

Abandoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield supports herself and her handicapped daughter Laura by selling subscriptions from her dilapidated apartment…

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Hamilton

Hamilton

The film is a live recording of Miranda’s 2015 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was adapted from Ron Chernow’s 2004 biography, Alexander Hamilton…

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Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Phyllida Lloyd’s groundbreaking all-female version of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar stars leading actress Harriet Walter as Brutus…

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The King and I

The King and I

Anna, an English widow, is hired by the King of Siam to be governess and teacher to his many children…

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She Loves Me

She Loves Me

The musical play takes place in a fancy perfumery in Budapest operated by Zoltan Maraczek, a very strict…

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Classic Oldies

The Bicycle Thieves

The Bicycle Thieves

In war-torn Rome, jobs are very scarce. Antonio is lucky. He is offered a job posting advertising bills. However, the job requires the use of a bicycle, which…

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The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

An adaptation of John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel of the same name, the film, directed by John Ford, follows the excruciating journey of the Joad family from the Oklahoma dust bowl to a hopefully new life in California. They pack everything into a dilapidated 1926 Hudson sedan…

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The Stranger

The Stranger

Mr. Wilson of the United Nations War Crimes Commission has been hunting Nazi war criminal Franz Kindler for some time. He hasn’t had much success. So he decides to release incarcerated Nazi criminal, Meinike, hoping Meinike will lead him to Kindler…

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Staying in a flophouse, two vagrants, Fred Dobbs and Bob Curtin, encounter Howard, a grizzled but wise old prospector, who regales them with stories about finding gold in the Sierra Madre mountains. Luck is with…

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Comedies

Adam’s Rib 

Adam’s Rib 

Doris Attinger, suspecting her husband is having an affair, follows him with gun in hand. Seeing them together, an enraged Doris shoots blindly around the room…

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Airplane!

Airplane!

Ted Striker is a traumatized former war veteran pilot. He’s been unemployed since his discharge. His girlfriend, Elaine Dickinson, a flight stewardess, ditches him as she boards a plane. Hoping to get her back, Ted buys a ticket for the same flight…

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A League of Their Own

A League of Their Own

When America faced a shortage of professional baseball players during World War II, Walter Harvey, the owner of the Chicago Cubs, decided to start…

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A Man Called Ove

A Man Called Ove

Ove Lindahl lives in a Swedish townhouse neighborhood. He’s had three recent emotional setbacks: he was deposed of his chairmanship of the neighborhood association, six months ago he lost his beloved wife, Sonja…

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A New Leaf

A New Leaf

Henry Graham, a playboy who inherited a substantial amount of money, has been informed by his lawyer that he’s dead-broke. He spent all his wealth on maintaining a profligate lifestyle. Henry has no skills and no interest in pursuing work…

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Chef

Chef

Miami-born Carl Casper is the head chef of the high-end Gauloise Restaurant in Brentwood, California…

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City Lights

City Lights

The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin), while clowning around the city, encounters a beautiful Flower Girl on the street corner…

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Crossing Delancey

Crossing Delancey

Isabelle “Izzy” Grossman is a 30-ish, attractive, smart woman, who has a dream job working in a bookstore where she can meet interesting and intellectual authors…

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Divorce Italian Style

Divorce Italian Style

Ferdinando, an impoverished nobleman, feels stuck in a marriage with Rosalie, an unattractive and common woman. Secretly, he’s totally smitten by Angela, a much younger and attractive neighbor…

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Dolemite Is My Name

Dolemite Is My Name

Rudy Ray Moore was hungry and poor. Needing an income, he started making “party” records he culled from stories he heard from the local drunks. No established distributor wanted to carry these records so Rudy sold them under-the-counter at record stores…

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Duck Soup

Duck Soup

The small country of Freedonia is bankrupt. The very wealthy Mrs. Teasdale agrees to provide financial assistance on condition that her friend, Rufus T. Firefly, is appointed its leader. To make matters worse, neighboring Sylvania is attempting to annex Freedonia…

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Eat Drink Man Woman

Eat Drink Man Woman

To his consternation, Tao Chu, a widower and master chef, has three unmarried daughters: Chu Jia-Jen, a school teacher, Chu Jia-Chien, an airline executive, and Chu Jia- Ning, a college student…

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Girlfriends

Girlfriends

Susan Weinblatt is a photographer who supports herself taking photos at bar mitzvahs and weddings. She’s ecstatic when a magazine buys three of her photos. Her happiness, however, is jolted when her roommate…

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Haute Cuisine

Haute Cuisine

Based on a true story. Hortense Laborie gets the job of a lifetime when the President of France appoints her to be his personal chef at the Élysée Palace…

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The King of Comedy

The King of Comedy

The most unusual film Martin Scorsese has ever directed. Rupert Pupkin is a mentally deranged wannabe comic trying to launch his career by appearing as a guest on the “Jerry Langford Show.” He practices his stand-up shtick…

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Modern Times

Modern Times

The film portrays Charlie Chaplin in his Tramp persona as a factory worker employed on an industrial assembly line. Frenetically feeding an inhuman machine, he ends up having a nervous breakdown. He is sent to a hospital…

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The Moon Is Blue 

The Moon Is Blue 

Young actress Patty O’Neill meets playboy architect Donald Gresham on the Observation Deck of the Empire State Building…

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Moonstruck

Moonstruck

Thirty-seven-year-old Loretta Castorini is an Italian-American widow living in a Brooklyn Heights brownstone with her mother, Rose, and father, Cosmo…

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North Dallas Forty

North Dallas Forty

North Dallas Forty depicts the brutal, unmerciful world  that took place with a professional football team in the 1970s…

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Pillow Talk

Pillow Talk

This film was made at the time when having a telephone party line was common. Jan Morrow, an interior decorator, and the composer Brad Allen, a womanizing bachelor, share such a line. Jan complains that Brad is hogging…

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The Purple Rose of Cairo

The Purple Rose of Cairo

The film is set in a small New Jersey town in 1935 during the Great Depression. Cecilia is a clumsy waitress who seeks escape from her bleak life and abusive husband Monk by going to afternoon movies. The film now playing…

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Real Women Have Curves

Real Women Have Curves

Ana Garcia is an 18-year old student in Beverly Hills. She is an exceptional student hoping to get a scholarship to Columbia University…

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Romancing the Stone

Romancing the Stone

Joan Wilder, a successful novelist, is handed a letter by her neighbor that contains a map from Eduardo, Joan’s brother-in-law…

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Safety Last!

Safety Last!

Harold Lloyd (called The Boy) says goodbye to his girlfriend (called The Girl) at the train station as he heads to the big city to become a big success. Once he makes good, he promises to marry her.

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Some Like It Hot

Some Like It Hot

Joe and Jerry, two musicians, accidentally witness gangster Spats and his henchmen gun down members of a rival gang in a garage…

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The Sunshine Boys

The Sunshine Boys

Al Lewis and Willy Clark were once a very popular Vaudeville team, known as “The Sunshine Boys.” After 47 years together they parted ways on unfriendly terms…

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Tampopo

Tampopo

During a rain storm, two truck drivers, Gorô and his younger sidekick Gun, stop off at a decrepit roadside ramen noodle diner…

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Tel Aviv on Fire

Tel Aviv on Fire

Salam Abbas, a charismatic 30-year-old Palestinian living in East Jerusalem, is a trainee on the Palestinian TV soap opera, “Tel Aviv on Fire”…

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Tin Men

Tin Men

In 1963 Baltimore, two aluminum siding salesmen, Ernest Tilley and Bill “BB” Babowsky are fierce rivals…

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Courtroom Dramas

Anatomy of a Murder

Anatomy of a Murder

Paul Biegler, a retired small-time Michigan lawyer, is contacted by Laura Manion and asked to defend her husband, Lt. Frederick Manion. Pushed by his alcoholic mentor and friend, Parnell McCarthy, Biegler agrees to take the case. Lt. Manion was arrested…

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Breaker Morant

Breaker Morant

This true story is set in South Africa during the Second Boer War (1899-1902). The Boers were Dutch colonialists and their descendants who were battling the British for more control and influence in South Africa…

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The Caine Mutiny

The Caine Mutiny

Commander Queeg’s minesweeper, the “USS Caine,” is informed that a typhoon is approaching. It hits the “Caine” forcefully, creating damage and panic. The rolling sea threatens to capsize the “Caine”…

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The Devil Next Door

The Devil Next Door

John Demjanjuk was a Ukrainian who came to the U.S. shortly after the end of World War II. He became an American citizen, was a reliable worker at a Ford plant in Cleveland (…)

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Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem

Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem

Under Israeli law, a wife can only divorce her husband if he gives her a religious “Bill of Divorce” called a Gett. Without a Gett, no divorce. And this is the plight of Viviane Amsalem who requests the religious court…

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In the Name of the Father

In the Name of the Father

Gerry Conlon is an Irish ne’er-do-well living in Belfast. Conlon’s father urges his son to move to London fearing punishment by the IRA…

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Just Mercy

Just Mercy

This is the true story of Walter McMillan who in 1987 Alabama was falsely convicted of murder and was facing execution. Bryan Stevenson, a young defense attorney, originally from the Northeast, hears…

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To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

In the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, Sheriff Heck Tate visits lawyer Atticus Finch. He persuades Atticus to defend Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a young girl named Mayella. With an all-white jury in the Deep South, it doesn’t look promising for Tom…

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12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men

It’s a simple story. A teenaged boy is accused of killing his father. There are two witnesses whose testimonies convince eleven of the jurors…

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The Verdict

The Verdict

1982 | Courtroom Drama | 129 minutes | In English Info Frank Galvin is a has-been lawyer and a big time alcoholic. He spends his time in bars and playing pinball machines. Out of compassion, Mickey Morrissey, his friend and former teacher, throws him a malpractice...

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Witness for the Prosecution

Witness for the Prosecution

Sir Wilfrid Robarts, a brilliant London barrister, recovering from a heart attack, and over the severe objections of his feisty private nurse, Miss Plimsoll, is persuaded to take on a juicy murder case…

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Docudramas

Michael Collins 

Michael Collins 

The major part of the Irish War of Independence takes place from 1919 to 1921, between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) headed by Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera, and the British Army…

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42

42

In 1946, Branch Rickey, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, defied the major league color barrier…

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All the Way

All the Way

After the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson becomes President of the United States. With the assistance of his wife Lady Bird, and the influence of Martin Luther King Jr., Johnson is fiercely determined to pass the Civil Rights Act before the next election…

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America America 

America America 

In the late 1890s, Stavros and his Greek family live a precarious and brutal life in the Turkish Ottoman territory…

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At Eternity’s Gate

At Eternity’s Gate

Vincent van Gogh’s last years are spent in Arles, the sunny part of France. His brother, Theo, supports Vincent and also buys…

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La Bamba

La Bamba

LA BAMBA is a musical bio of the life of 1950s rock ‘n’ roll phenom Ritchie Valens (born Richard Valenzuela). At age 17, he makes it big with two songs, “La Bamba” and “Donna,” that reach the top…

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Band of Brothers

Band of Brothers

Adapted from Stephen Anbrose’s bestseller, the series follows the men of Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division, from their training in Georgia during the spring of 1942, to the D-Day invasion, the horrendous Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of the concentration camps, and the final victory in 1945…

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Basquiat

Basquiat

Basquiat chronicles the early career of the introverted, homeless, graffiti artist who worked anonymously under the name “Samo”…

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Becoming Astrid

Becoming Astrid

An elderly, retired writer, Astrid Lindgren, sits at home in Sweden and reads fan letters from children around the world praising her books…

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Bird

Bird

In 1939, sax-player Charlie “Bird” Parker moves to New York from Kansas City and begins performing at local jazz clubs…

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Birdman of Alcatraz

Birdman of Alcatraz

Robert Stroud is imprisoned as a young man for committing a murder in Alaska. His rebellious attitude puts him in conflict with Harvey Shoemaker, the prison warden…

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Call Northside 777

Call Northside 777

Chicago Times editor, Brian Kelly, notices a classified ad offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the man responsible for killing a policeman eleven years earlier…

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Chernobyl

Chernobyl

On April 26, 1986, a safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Facility indicated  something was very wrong. Valery Legasov, an important Soviet nuclear physicist…

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Cinderella Man

Cinderella Man

During the Great Depression, in the 1930s, a New Jersey Irish-American, James J. Braddock, is forced to give up boxing due to an injury in his right hand…

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Compulsion

Compulsion

In a perverted desire to commit the perfect crime, sociopathic friends, Artie Straus and Judd Steiner murder…

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Conspiracy

Conspiracy

On January 20, 1942, several Nazi party officials, led by SS head, Reinhard Heydrich, gathered in the German town of Wannsee to discuss the “Final Solution.”…

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Cry Freedom

Cry Freedom

After a slum neighborhood in South Africa is demolished, journalist Donald Woods interviews Steve Biko…

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Darkest Hour

Darkest Hour

On May,1940, the opposition Labor Party in England demands the resignation of Conservative Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain…

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The Dig

The Dig

In Suffolk, England, 1939, Edith Pretty hires local excavator/archeologist Basil Brown to dig on her property. She has an instinct…

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Dog Day Afternoon

Dog Day Afternoon

Sonny is determined to get enough money so his male lover, Leon, can get the sex-change operation he desperately wants…

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The Duke

The Duke

Kempton Bunton, a grouchy unemployed taxi driver, is furious the British government requires the elderly to pay a TV tax…

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Frida

Frida

Eighteen-year-old Frida Kahlo, living in Mexico, suffers a serious injury when her bus collides with a streetcar…

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Gideon’s Trumpet

Gideon’s Trumpet

Clarence “Earl” Gideon, an indigent worker in Panama City, Florida, was accused of breaking into the Bay Harbor Pool Room, stealing cash from the juke box and wine from the bar…

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Good Night and Good Luck

Good Night and Good Luck

In the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy was on a rampage stating that the government was infiltrated by Communists and Communists sympathizers. Bullied and fearful, most Washington politicians…

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The Great Debaters

The Great Debaters

At Wiley, a Southern African American college, debating coach Melvin B. Tolson starts to build a team that will rival nationally-ranked Harvard…

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Hacksaw Ridge

Hacksaw Ridge

After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Desmond Doss enlists in the Army even though he probably could get a deferment as an employee with a defense manufacturer…

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Harriet

Harriet

n 1840s Maryland, a slave state, Araminta “Minty” Ross is newly married to a freedman, John Tubman. Living on the Brodess farm, Gideon Brodess, the owner, reneges on the promise to give Minty her freedom…

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Hoosiers

Hoosiers

Hoosiers is based on the Milan High School team that won the 1954 Indiana state championship…

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The Hurricane

The Hurricane

Rubin “The Hurricane” Carter, a top-ranked middleweight boxer, was convicted of committing a triple murder in a Paterson, New Jersey bar…

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The Imitation Game

The Imitation Game

In 1939, the beginning of World War II, the British government recruited brilliant Cambridge mathematician Alan Turing to help break the German code, Enigma…

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Incitement

Incitement

Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995 by Yigal Amir, a radical ultranationalist…

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Invictus

Invictus

Invictus (Latin for undefeated) takes place in the late 1990s in South Africa. Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison…

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The Invisibles

The Invisibles

Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels announced in May 1943 that Germany was at last “free of Jews…”

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Lincoln

Lincoln

In January 1865, President Lincoln, expecting the Civil War to end soon, fears his 1863 Emancipation…

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Lorenzo’s Oil

Lorenzo’s Oil

It’s about Augusto and Michaela Odone and their relentless search to find a cure when their young  son Lorenzo is diagnosed with the fatal disease, ALD…

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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom 

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom 

Nelson Mandela fought against Apartheid in South Africa. When he resorted to violence, he was caught, tried, and spent 27 years in prison where he suffered harsh and brutal treatment…

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Maudie

Maudie

Based on a true story. Maud Dowley is afflicted with debilitating rheumatoid arthritis and is ordered by her brother Charles to live with her aunt Ida…

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Miracle

Miracle

In 1980, the U.S. and the Soviet Union were in the midst of a bitter, dangerous Cold War. Neither country was ready to fight on the battlefield, but the 1980 Winter Olympics was coming up…

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The Miracle Worker

The Miracle Worker

Seven-year-old Helen Keller has been blind and deaf since infancy as a result of scarlet fever. Because she is unable to articulate her emotions Helen often has violent outbursts…

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Mr. Turner

Mr. Turner

The film covers the last quarter-century of the life of British painter J.M.W. Turner. Turner travels widely with contrasting experiences like visiting a brothel while mingling with aristocrats…

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Music of the Heart

Music of the Heart

Roberta Guaspari, a talented violinist, recently divorced, unemployed, depressed, is living at home with her domineering mother Assunta while struggling to raise two sons…

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Nicky’s Family

Nicky’s Family

While preparing for a ski holiday, Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker, was asked by a friend to check out the dire conditions for Jews in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia…

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The Pursuit of Happyness

The Pursuit of Happyness

A true story. In 1981 San Francisco. Chris Gardner is struggling to support his wife and son by selling portable bone-scanners to doctors…

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Race

Race

Race is a biographical sports drama about African-American athlete Jesse Owens who won what was then a record-breaking four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics…

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Radium Girls

Radium Girls

Bessie and Jo are teenage sisters who work at the American Radium Factory in Orange, New Jersey…

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Reaching for the Moon

Reaching for the Moon

Reaching for the Moon dramatizes the  love story of American poet Elizabeth Bishop and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares in Petropolis, Brazil, between 1951 and 1967…

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Red Joan

Red Joan

In 1938, Joan Smith, a Cambridge University physics student, joins a group of radical communists…

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Renoir

Renoir

The gorgeous Andrée Heuschling arrives at the home of famed artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir in Provence, France. She is there to help…

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Seabiscuit

Seabiscuit

The Great Economic Depression in the 1930s financially ruined the Pollard family forcing them to send their son “Red” to work for a horse trainer…

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Séraphine

Séraphine

A surprise winner of seven Césars (the French Oscars), including Best Film, Séraphine is about a middle-aged housekeeper who has a remarkable talent for painting…

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Serpico

Serpico

Serpico graduates from the police academy filled with optimism and pride. He gets assigned to the Bureau of Criminal Investigations where he’s allowed to grow a beard and mustache…

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Spotlight

Spotlight

On January 6, 2002, the Boston Globe had a first page headline that shocked the city, “Church Allowed Abuse by Priest for Years.”…

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Sunrise at Campobello

Sunrise at Campobello

It’s 1921 and the Roosevelt family is happily vacationing on the island of Campobello off the coast of New Brunswick, Canada…

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Thirteen Days

Thirteen Days

In October 1962, U-2 aerial surveillance photos reveal Soviet Union missile launchers installed in nearby Cuba…

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Too Big to Fail

Too Big to Fail

Too Big to Fail chronicles the 2008 financial meltdown and the roles played by Henry Paulson (U.S. Treasury Secretary)…

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The Trial of the Chicago 7

The Trial of the Chicago 7

In August 1968, Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Lee Weiner, John Froines, and Bobby Seale decide to protest the Vietnam War at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago…

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Trumbo

Trumbo

At the height of his career, screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is questioned by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) regarding his former membership in the Communist Party…

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The Whistleblower

The Whistleblower

Kathryn Bolkovac, an American police officer, takes a job with Democra Security, a private contractor for the United Nations International Police in post-war Bosnia…

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Documentaries

Michael Collins 

Michael Collins 

The major part of the Irish War of Independence takes place from 1919 to 1921, between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) headed by Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera, and the British Army…

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Advocate

Advocate

Advocate is a film about Israeli human-rights lawyer Lea Tsemel as she tirelessly navigates through Israel’s judicial system defending Palestinian prisoners…

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All In: The Fight for Democracy

All In: The Fight for Democracy

This searing documentary traces the origins and history of voter suppression in American political history. We no longer require voters to pass incomprehensible literacy tests or pay poll taxes…

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Amanda Knox 

Amanda Knox 

Amanda Knox, a 20-year-old American, doing post-graduate work in Perugia, and her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, are accused of brutally murdering Amanda’s roommate, Meredith Kercher…

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American Factory

American Factory

Two days before Christmas, in 2008, General Motors closed its plant in Moraine, Ohio, a small town outside Dayton. 10,000 people became unemployed (…)

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A Most Beautiful Thing

A Most Beautiful Thing

Ken Alpart, a man who excelled at rowing while a student at Penn, decided to recruit African Americans from Manley High School and form a rowing team….

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Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations

Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations

For 19 seasons, travel writer/personality Anthony Bourdain travelled around the world visiting places as exotic as the Congo, Saigon, Cuba and as contemporary as New York and Las Vegas…

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Apollo II

Apollo II

Producer Todd Douglas Miller and his production team, with the assistance of NASA and the National Archives and Records Administration, discovered unreleased (…)

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Art and Craft 

Art and Craft 

Mark A.Landis was the only son of a globe-trotting military officer and a mother with a love for the finer things…

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Arthur Miller: Writer

Arthur Miller: Writer

Rebecca Miller’s loving documentary of her famous father, Arthur Miller, includes his origins as the son of a Polish immigrant who made a fortune and then lost it all during the Great Depression. Rebecca moves on…

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The Biggest Little Farm​

The Biggest Little Farm​

John and Molly Chester followed their dream. When they were evicted from their Santa Monica apartment because their dog would not stop barking, they bought…

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Casting By

Casting By

This documentary is a celebration of the casting profession. Before the emergence of the super-star casting directors like Marion Dougherty…

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The Cave

The Cave

The filming of this documentary takes place in the underground tunnels beneath the town of Ghouta, located on the outskirts of Damascus. It has become the last-resort…

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Cesar’s Last Fast

Cesar’s Last Fast

The documentary dives deeply into the personal life, vision, and legacy of Cesar Chavez, focusing on his 1988 thirty-six day fast known as the “Fast for Life.”…

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Chasing Coral

Chasing Coral

Coral reefs are the nursery for all life in the oceans, a remarkable ecosystem. However with carbon emissions warming the seas…

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The Codebreaker

The Codebreaker

The Codebreaker reveals the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the legendary groundbreaking cryptanalyst…

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Collective

Collective

When a fire consumes the Colectiv, a Bucharest nightclub, 27 people die and 180 are injured. There are protests…

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The Cove

The Cove

The Cove focuses on the slaughtering of thousands of dolphins every year by Japanese whaling companies. They herd migrating dolphins into a cove where they are netted and speared to death…

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The Devil Next Door

The Devil Next Door

John Demjanjuk was a Ukrainian who came to the U.S. shortly after the end of World War II. He became an American citizen, was a reliable worker at a Ford plant in Cleveland (…)

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Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy

Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy

Diana Kennedy, an expat from England, became obsessed with Mexico and its cuisine the moment she set foot in the country in 1957. She stayed on and devoted the next 60 years…

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The Dissident

The Dissident

Jamal Khashoggi was a Saudi Arabian journalist in the 1980s with easy access to members of its Royal Family…

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Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes

Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes

Roger Ailes grew up in Warren, Ohio, the son of a factory foreman. Diagnosed in early childhood with hemophilia, he lived his entire life with the threat of death. Director Alexis Bloom utilized archival footage and interviews to show…

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Dolly Parton: Here I Am

Dolly Parton: Here I Am

This biographical documentary examines the life and career of Dolly Parton. It includes interviews with friends, companions, business associates and the artist herself…

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The Edge of Democracy

The Edge of Democracy

The documentary was influenced by director Petra Costa’s past and her family’s activist left-wing history. It chronicles Brazil’s political upheavals from the euphoria…

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The Elephant Queen

The Elephant Queen

The title character is the 50-year old elephant Athena. She has the responsibility of taking care of her family, daughter Princess, toddler Wei-Wei…

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Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things

Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things

From her days on the streets of Harlem, to her breakout performance at the age of 17 at Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater, and through six decades of international stardom, Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of This Things vividly chronicles the life of this ambitious, resilient performer…

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The Endless Summer

The Endless Summer

Bruce Brown filmed spectacular shots of surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August as they searched for the “perfect wave”…

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Faces Places

Faces Places

Agnes Varda, an 89-year old filmmaker, teams up with 34-year old JR, a photographer of public art. Despite their age difference, they are a perfect fit: both are environmentalists and humanists…

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The Fog of War

The Fog of War

This superb and heartbreaking documentary by Errol Morris focuses primarily on Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara during the early stages of the Vietnam War. While President Kennedy expressed doubts about winning the war…

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For Sama

For Sama

This documentary covers five years in the lives of Waad, her husband Hamza, and infant daughter Sama in war-torn Aleppo, Syria. As Assad brutally tries to destroy the rebels, he bombs…

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Free Solo

Free Solo

The documentary is simple in concept: to record the death-defying climb by Alex Honnold of the 3,000 ft. El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. Alex did this without a rope, which made this one of the greatest feats in the history of rock climbing. Before each climb, Alex studies the surface, entering in a notebook details about the rock. He commits all this to memory along with the moves he’s going to make to do the climb…

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The Gatekeepers

The Gatekeepers

Directed by Dror Moreh, The Gatekeepers consists of in-depth interviews with six former heads of Shin Bet, Israel’s secret service…

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Harlan County USA

Harlan County USA

Initially, the film intended to follow the attempt of the Miners for Democracy to unionize the miners at the Brookside Mine in Harlan County, Kentucky…

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The Harvest/ La Cosecha 

The Harvest/ La Cosecha 

A searing documentary of three American teenagers who endure working 12 to 14 hours a day on a farm, exposed to pesticides, and receive minimal education…

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Hollywood on Trial

Hollywood on Trial

In the midst of the Red Scare, several Hollywood elites were fined and jailed for their refusal to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)…

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Honeyland

Honeyland

Hatidze Muratova lives with her ailing mother in an isolated village in North Macedonia where there are no roads, electricity or running water…

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Inside Job

Inside Job

Inside Job is about the late-2000s financial crisis. Director Charles Ferguson explains that the film covers “the systemic corruption of…

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Invisible Hands 

Invisible Hands 

Invisible Hands is the first feature documentary that exposes abusive, law-breaking child labor within the supply chains of the world’s biggest corporations…

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The Ivory Game

The Ivory Game

The past five years, 120,000 elephants have been killed for their ivory; today, one elephant is slaughtered every 20 minutes. At this rate, the African elephant will be extinct in 15 years…

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John Lewis: Good Trouble

John Lewis: Good Trouble

JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE chronicles Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration.

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The Last Waltz

The Last Waltz

When the Canadian-American rock group “The Band” decided to disband, they resolved to do it in style. On Thanksgiving Day, 1976, they held a memorable farewell concert at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. Fortunately, Martin Scorsese filmed the entire event…

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Last Train Home 

Last Train Home 

For the Chinese New Year, an estimated 130 million Chinese workers travel for days on hot, unbearably crowded trains, to their rural villages to visit family…

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The Long Way Home  

The Long Way Home  

After World War II, Holocaust survivors are freed from the Nazi concentration camps. But they are starving, diseased, no families to support them…

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The Lost Leonardo 

The Lost Leonardo 

Two dealers in New Orleans purchased for $1,175 an obscure painting of Jesus Christ raising his hand in a sacramental gesture…

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Maidan

Maidan

Maidan focuses on the protests by student activists, journalists, laborers, artists and clergy in Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital…

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Marwencol

Marwencol

On April 8, 2000, Mark Hogancamp was attacked and beaten outside of a bar when five thugs found out he was a cross-dresser. After being in a coma for nine days…

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Minding the Gap

Minding the Gap

Rockford, Illinois, a midwestern rust-belt city, is the home of astonishing first-time filmmaker Bing Liu. Over a 12-year period he filmed two of his skateboarding friends, Zack and Keire, as they grappled with their…

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MLK/FBI

MLK/FBI

MLK/FBI explores the investigation and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr. by J.Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI…

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Nanook of the North 

Nanook of the North 

Writer/director Robert J. Flaherty vividly films the struggles of an indigenous Inuit family living in the bleak and forbidding Canadian arctic…

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Navalny 

Navalny 

On August 29, 2020, Alexei Navalny, a critic of Putin, was poisoned with Novichok, a nerve agent…

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Not My Life

Not My Life

Not My Life was filmed over four years and documents human trafficking in 13 countries
including the United States…

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One Child Nation

One Child Nation

Directors Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang were born during the One-Child period in China. To control the fast-growing population…

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Orchestra of Exiles

Orchestra of Exiles

Bronislaw Huberman was a world-renowned Jewish violinist who performed in every major city in Europe and North America…

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Our Planet

Our Planet

Each segment of this eight-part series documents the destruction of a major part of this planet. Highlights are: polar bears, walruses, seals, and penguins dying…

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Paris is Burning

Paris is Burning

This extraordinary documentary chronicles the elaborately-structured ball culture in which African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender contestants compete. Like fashion models, they “walk” the runways…

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Quincy

Quincy

This documentary about the great Quincy Jones was put together lovingly by his daughter Rashida Jones and Alan Hicks. In his spectacular 70-year career, this giant in American music was a huge success as a record…

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RBG

RBG

This documentary chronicles the life and career of a remarkable woman, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She grew up in Brooklyn and attended Cornell University where she met…

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Sicko

Sicko

Michael Moore’s investigative documentary attempts to expose the faults of the health care system in the U.S. before the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Moore believes that the profiteering and abuses of the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries are at the heart of the problem. It’s particularly relevant today as the politicians in Washington grapple with ways to provide universal health care for everyone…

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Slay the Dragon

Slay the Dragon

This is a documentary about gerrymandering, which is the practice of redrawing a state’s electoral map to favor the party in power…

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The Square

The Square

In the winter of 2011, thousands of protesters gathered in Tahrir Square to demand the removal of the dictatorial President Hosni Mubarak…

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They Shall Not Grow Old

They Shall Not Grow Old

Peter Jackson’s First World War documentary used original footage from the Imperial War Museum’s archives, most previously unseen, all over 100 years old by the time of the film’s release…

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The Thin Blue Line

The Thin Blue Line

When documentarian Errol Morris heard about Dr. James Grigson, a psychiatrist who testified in hundreds of murder cases, always recommending the death penalty…

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Touching the Void

Touching the Void

In 1985, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, both experienced mountaineers, set off to climb the treacherous west face of the 21,000-foot…

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The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy

The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy

Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy (first two episodes) examines the horrendous effects of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 that was passed by Congress and signed by President Andrew Jackson…

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Trial 4

Trial 4

Sean Ellis was a 19-year old African-American man who was at the wrong place at the wrong time…

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Virunga

Virunga

The survival of Virunga National Park in the Congo, the oldest park in Africa, is being threatened. Home to the world’s last mountain gorillas…

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Who Will Write Our History?

Who Will Write Our History?

Based on the book by the same name by historian Samuel Kassow, Who Will Write Our History? depicts the story of Emanuel Ringelblum, who together with 60 Jewish residents in the Warsaw ghetto…

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Woodstock

Woodstock

Often referred to as “the weekend that defined a generation,” the Woodstock festival in 1969 became known as the beginning of the Hippie Generation…

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Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg

Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg

The phenomenally popular TV series, The Goldbergs, appeared at the height of the McCarthy era and the blacklisting of actors and writers suspected of being Communist sympathizers…

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Film Noir

The Asphalt Jungle 

The Asphalt Jungle 

Shortly after being released from prison, criminal mastermind Erwin “Doc” Riedenschneider, starts to plan a heist of precious jewelry…

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The Big Heat

The Big Heat

Detective Sergeant Dave Bannion is sent to investigate the suicide of a fellow rogue officer, Tom Duncan. His wife, Bertha Duncan, tells Bannion her husband was despondent about his deteriorating health…

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The Big Sleep

The Big Sleep

Private detective Philip Marlowe is summoned to the mansion of General Sternwood. His flighty daughter Carmen incurred gambling debts to Arthur Geiger and he’s now blackmailing her…

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Blood Simple

Blood Simple

Julian Marty owns a bar in Texas and suspects that Ray, his bartender, is having an affair with his wife Abby…

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Criss Cross

Criss Cross

Steve Thompson returns to Los Angeles to try and rekindle the relationship with his ex-wife Anna. He gets a job as a driver with an armored-truck company. It’s a bit complicated; even though Anna is now married to the mobster Slim Dundee…

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Croupier

Croupier

Set in London, Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer going nowhere. Jack’s father gets him a job…

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Dark Passage

Dark Passage

Vincent Parry, convicted of murdering his wife, manages to escape from San Quentin Prison. Irene Jansen gives him a lift and smuggles him past a police roadblock. She offers him shelter…

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Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity

Walter Neff, a successful insurance agent, is in his office dictating a confession for a crime he committed. The whole story is now  revealed in flashback. It begins with Neff visiting the Dietrichson home…

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French New Wave

Breathless

Breathless

Michel is a misfit who decides to steal a car so he can go to Italy. He is also out of control when he shoots a pursuing policeman…

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The 400 Blows

The 400 Blows

Antoine Doinel is a troubled youngster growing up in Paris with a mother and stepfather who do not understand him. He skips school, steals, and…

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Hiroshima Mon Amour

Hiroshima Mon Amour

Hiroshima Mon Amour is basically a series of conversations between a French actress (Elle) and a Japanese architect (Lui). From graphic newsreels, viewers…

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Jules and Jim

Jules and Jim

Jules is a shy writer from Austria working on a novel; Jim is a fun-loving, partying Frenchman. And yet, these two opposite personalities become fast friends. They meet the free-spirited Catherine and the three hang out…

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Last Year at Marienbad

Last Year at Marienbad

In the old-world chateau, Marienbad, filled with stuffy wealthy couples, a single man approaches a woman claiming they met before at Marienbad. In fact, he claims..

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Horror

Blue Velvet

Blue Velvet

College student Jeffrey Beaumont returns to his picture-perfect town of Lumberton, North Carolina, after his father suffered a near-fatal stroke. He notices a severed ear in a vacant lot. He brings it to the police station where the police detective’s daughter…

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Bride of Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein

Villagers surround the burning windmill and rejoice that the the Monster is dead. But the villagers are also saddened that the scientist Henry Frankenstein was in the wreckage and presumed dead…

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Carrie

Carrie

Shy 16-year-old Carrie White lives with her fanatically religious mother, Margaret…

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Get Out

Get Out

Black photographer Chris Washington and his white girlfriend, Rose Armitage, have been dating for several months. Rose now feels it’s time for the two of them to visit her parents at their large country home in upstate New York…

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Psycho

Psycho

Marion Crane, a real estate secretary, is told by her boss to deposit $40,000 in cash that a client left as payment for a property. Marion and her boyfriend, Sam Loomis, are having trouble…

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The Shining

The Shining

Directed by Stanley Kubrick from Stephen King’s best-selling novel, this suspenseful and troubling film examines a family becoming unhinged. Writer Jack Torrance, his wife Shelley, and young son Danny, accept a job as…

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Us

Us

The film begins with a family spending a pleasant day on the boardwalk in Santa Cruz, California. The young daughter, Adelaide, separates from the family and finds herself in an abandoned hall of mirrors shack. She sees her…

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The Witch

The Witch

In 1630s New England, William, his wife Katherine, son Caleb, and daughters Mercy and Jonas are banished from their Puritan Plymouth Colony over a religious dispute. They flee to a secluded forest and build a farmhouse. Katherine gives birth to a son, Samuel. One day, Samuel suddenly disappears…

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Italian Neorealism

The Bicycle Thieves

The Bicycle Thieves

In war-torn Rome, jobs are very scarce. Antonio is lucky. He is offered a job posting advertising bills. However, the job requires the use of a bicycle, which…

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Bitter Rice

Bitter Rice

The film begins during the start of the rice-planting season in the Po Valley in Italy. To escape the law, Francesca and Walter, two small-time thieves…

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Il Posto

Il Posto

With his family in need of money, Domenico, a teenager living in a small Italian village…

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Nights of Cabiria

Nights of Cabiria

A happy, laughing Cabiria, a prostitute, is standing by a river bank with her live-in boyfriend Giorgio when he snatches her purse filled with money and pushes her into the river…

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Open City

Open City

The film takes place in Nazi-occupied Rome in 1944. The Nazis are searching for Giorgio Manfredi, a Resistance fighter. He is warned of the danger and he hides in the home of another Resistance fighter Francesco and his fiancee Pina…

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Paisan

Paisan

Paisan is about the liberation of Italy starting with the Allied invasion of Sicily in 1943 to the end of World War II in 1945…

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Shoeshine

Shoeshine

Giuseppe and Pasquale are two friends who make ends meet by shining shoes in the streets of
Rome. One day, Giuseppe’s older brother, Attilio, recruits the boys to sell black market blankets…

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Umberto D.

Umberto D.

Umberto is an elderly retired civil servant unable to live on his annual pension. He returns one day to his one-room apartment only to be told by the landlady that he’s being evicted…

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LGBTQ

A Special Day

A Special Day

On May 6, 1938, Hitler visits Mussolini in Rome. The event is huge as the Italians overwhelmingly cheer their two “heroes.” While Antonietta, a naive and overworked…

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A Very English Scandal

A Very English Scandal

Jeremy Thorpe, a Liberal member of the British Parliament, had for several years, a relationship with a younger man, Norman Josiffe, a former stable boy. Josiffe, however, was unstable and difficult, so Thorpe decided to end the affair…

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Beginners

Beginners

Following the death of his father, Oliver reflects on their final five years together…

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Blue Is the Warmest Color

Blue Is the Warmest Color

Adele is an introverted 15-year-old high school student who is sexually ambivalent. Her sex experience with Thomas, a high school friend, is a total disappointment. Her gay friend Valentin, sensing her confusion, takes Adele to a gay dance bar. Adele meets Emma, an art student and painter with blue hair. They connect. There’s that first kiss at a picnic and before long they begin a passionate love affair. The relationship then fast-forwards to the two women now living together…

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Boys Don’t Cry

Boys Don’t Cry

Teena Renae Brandon is a woman who needs to be a man. She cuts her hair short, wears masculine clothes, and stuffs a stocking…

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The Cakemaker

The Cakemaker

Thomas is an amazing gay German baker in Berlin. Oren, a businessman from Jerusalem, stops by every time he’s in Berlin to enjoy one of Thomas’s pastries. They become intimate….

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Carol

Carol

While working behind the counter in a fashionable Manhattan department store during the Christmas season, aspiring photographer Therese Belivet meets an upper-society customer, Carol Aird…

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Law of Desire

Law of Desire

Law of Desire focuses on a love triangle between three men and the conflicts with a disturbed transsexual woman. Living in Madrid, Pablo, is a successful gay film and theatrical director…

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Paris is Burning

Paris is Burning

This extraordinary documentary chronicles the elaborately-structured ball culture in which African-American, Latino, gay, and transgender contestants compete. Like fashion models, they “walk” the runways…

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Musicals

A Hard Day’s Night

A Hard Day’s Night

The madcap events start when the Beatles escape a horde of fans at the train station in Liverpool before boarding the train to London. They display patience and good humor as they encounter many interruptions…

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American Graffiti

American Graffiti

As the summer of 1962 draws to a close, four recent high school graduates, Curt, Steve, Terry, and John, spend the night cruising the streets in Modesto, California, before they move on to college and elsewhere…

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La Bamba

La Bamba

LA BAMBA is a musical bio of the life of 1950s rock ‘n’ roll phenom Ritchie Valens (born Richard Valenzuela). At age 17, he makes it big with two songs, “La Bamba” and “Donna,” that reach the top…

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The Band Wagon

The Band Wagon

Tony Hunter is an aging star of musical shows who is no longer sought after by the big producers. His good friends, writers Lester and Lily Marton, convince Tony…

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Bye Bye Birdie

Bye Bye Birdie

As popular rock ‘n’ roll star Conrad Birdie prepares to go into the Army, Albert Peterson, an unsuccessful songwriter, and his girlfriend, Rosie DeLeon, are hoping Conrad will sing their song when he appears on the Ed Sullivan Show….

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Carousel 

Carousel 

Carousel is a tragic romance between Julie Jordan, a naive but loving factory worker, and Billy Bigelow, a ne’er-do-well carnival barker. They fall instantly in love and marry…

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Coal Miner’s Daughter

Coal Miner’s Daughter

Loretta Webb was one of eight children born and raised in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky. Her father, Ted Webb, was a coal miner The family was dirt-poor. Loretta was 15…

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Come From Away 

Come From Away 

“COME FROM AWAY is the filmed version of the award-winning Broadway musical which tells the story of 7,000 people stranded in the small town of Gander, Newfoundland after all flights to the U.S. are grounded on September 11, 2001…

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Gigi

Gigi

Based on the novella of the same name by Collette, this musical film is set in turn-of-the-20th-century Paris and Deauville. Several amazing characters’ lives interconnect: Gaston, the bored bon vivant; Honore, the old lover-man who narrates much of the story; the youthful and precocious Gigi; and Madame Alvarez, Gigi’s caring grandmother, who keeps a watchful eye on everything going on…

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Grease

Grease

After a summer romance, Sandy Olsson, an Australian exchange student, and Danny Zuco, head of the T-Birds greaser gang, are now seniors at Rydell High School…

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Hair

Hair

Hair is a rock musical set against the hippie protest movements during the Vietnam War. Claude Hooper Bukowski, a native Oklahoman, sets off to New York for a fling after being drafted by the army…

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Hamilton

Hamilton

The film is a live recording of Miranda’s 2015 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was adapted from Ron Chernow’s 2004 biography, Alexander Hamilton…

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In the Heights

In the Heights

This is a marvelous film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, In the Heights. Film critic Monica Castillo offers the following synopsis: “IN THE HEIGHTS represents many things for many different viewers…

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Into the Woods 

Into the Woods 

The musical weaves the stories of several Grimm fairy tale characters such as Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Rapunzel…

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Judy

Judy

The film opens showing a young Judy being coerced by an ambitious, pill-pushing mother and the ruthless MGM chief, Louis B. Mayer. All of these pressures drive Judy into a deep depression resulting in drug addiction and alcoholism…

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The King and I

The King and I

Anna, an English widow, is hired by the King of Siam to be governess and teacher to his many children…

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Kinky Boots 

Kinky Boots 

In Northampton, England, Charlie Price is struggling to save a floundering shoe factory he inherited when his father died. On a business trip to London, Charlie rescues a drag queen, Lola, being attacked by a group of hoodlums…

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The Last Waltz

The Last Waltz

When the Canadian-American rock group “The Band” decided to disband, they resolved to do it in style. On Thanksgiving Day, 1976, they held a memorable farewell concert at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. Fortunately, Martin Scorsese filmed the entire event…

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Nashville

Nashville

A huge canvas of a movie that features 24 characters, an hour of terrific country-and-western music, and multiple storylines. In the course of several days and nights, the characters weave in and out while politician Hal Philip Walker (never seen) cruises in his red, white, and blue van spouting over a loudspeaker his conservative views about too much government in America…

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The Pajama Game

The Pajama Game

Based on the Tony-winning Broadway musical by the same name, the story begins with the arrival of Sid, the newly-hired superintendent of the Sleeptite Pajama Factory…

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1776

1776

While the Revolutionary War against  England rages, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia is still debating the question of American independence…

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Singin’ in the Rain

Singin’ in the Rain

This musical depicts the painful change in the motion pictures business when silent films converted to sound. Most in Hollywood, including actor Don Lockwood and his sidekick, Cosmo Brown, proceed to adapt. However, the…

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Top Hat

Top Hat

Jerry Travers, an American dancer, comes to London to star in a show produced by Horace Hardwick…

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What’s Love Got to Do With It

What’s Love Got to Do With It

Born Anna Mae Bullock, Tina Turner was raised in the small town of Nutbush, Tennessee. At a young age, Tina was abandoned by her parents and cared for by her grandmother. Following her grandmother’s death, Tina moved to St. Louis to be with her mother and close sister.

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Yankee Doodle Dandy

Yankee Doodle Dandy

George and his sister join the Cohan family act as soon as they can learn to dance and act. Soon the Four Cohans are performing successfully on stages around the country…

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Sci-Fi

Alien

Alien

The film begins with the return to earth of the space tug “Nostromo,” with seven crew members on board. The ship’s computer receives a distress signal from a ship on a nearby moon. “Nostromo” reverses course and heads for…

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Blade Runner

Blade Runner

Directed by Ridley Scott, the film is set in a dystopian Los Angeles. Retired police officer, Rick Deckard, returns to his former supervisor, Bryant, for a vital assignment. Previously, Deckard’s job was to track down bioengineered beings, known as “replicants,” and retire (destroy) them…

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Star Wars: Episode VIII—The Last Jedi

Star Wars: Episode VIII—The Last Jedi

General Hux, leader of the nefarious First Order, is determined to destroy the rebels, headed by the fearsome Rey. To help in the fight, Rey tries to persuade Jedi master Luke Skywalker to abandon his self-exile and rejoin…

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War

All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front

This Oscar-winning film was adapted from Erich Maria Remarque’s novel and many feel it makes a most persuasive anti-war statement. When World War I breaks out in 1914 in Europe, adolescent students in a German school heed…

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Ballad of a Soldier

Ballad of a Soldier

On the Eastern Front during World War II, Private Alyosha Skvortsov single-handedly destroys two attacking German tanks…

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Band of Brothers

Band of Brothers

Adapted from Stephen Anbrose’s bestseller, the series follows the men of Easy Company, 101st Airborne Division, from their training in Georgia during the spring of 1942, to the D-Day invasion, the horrendous Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of the concentration camps, and the final victory in 1945…

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The Battle of Algiers

The Battle of Algiers

The film depicts the fight between the rebels (or FLN) in Algeria and the French occupiers from 1954-1962. The most bloody battle is the one for Algiers. The FLN was based in the Casbah section of Algiers…

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Breaker Morant

Breaker Morant

This true story is set in South Africa during the Second Boer War (1899-1902). The Boers were Dutch colonialists and their descendants who were battling the British for more control and influence in South Africa…

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Das Boot

Das Boot

In 1942, during World War II, Hitler launched his submarines (U-boats) in the Atlantic with the mission to destroy English merchant shipping and starve the English people. And thus began what is known as the “The Battle of the Atlantic.” However, in time, Britain and the U.S. were able to destroy many of the submarines by protecting merchant ships with destroyer escorts, using breakthrough radar technology, and dropping depth charges when submarines were spotted…

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Foreign Correspondent

Foreign Correspondent

August 1939 is a month before Europe became engulfed in World War II. Mr.Powers, the editor of the New York Morning Globe is fed up with the inability of his celebrated reporters to get…

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Gallipoli

Gallipoli

Archy and Frank are young, penniless Australians who decide to hop a freight train and join the Australian army. Australia is part of the British Empire that is in the midst of fighting Germany and the Ottoman Empire in World War I. Frank and Archy end up together and are sent…

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The Guns of Navarone

The Guns of Navarone

During World War II, the Nazi army plans to annihilate 2,000 British soldiers marooned on the island of Kheros in the Aegean Sea…

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Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence is a Lieutenant in the British Army during World War I. He’s irascible and often insolent to his superiors. Mr. Dryden, of the Arab Bureau, has an idea.  He’ll send Lawrence to Arabia to assess…

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Letters From Iwo Jima

Letters From Iwo Jima

In 2005, Japanese archeologists on the island of Iwo Jima discovered a trove of letters written by Japanese soldiers during the bloody battle on the island…

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