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1993
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Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing6.96 1993 HD
In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Emma Thompson
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1988
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Stand and Deliver
Stand and Deliver7.63 1988 HD
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Edward James Olmos
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1991
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Cabeza de Vaca
Cabeza de Vaca6.79 1991 HD
An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One...
Genre: Action
Cast: Juan Diego
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1983
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Testament
Testament6.43 1983 HD
It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Jane Alexander
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1995
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Safe
Safe6.98 1995 HD
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Julianne Moore
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1988
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The Thin Blue Line
The Thin Blue Line7.68 1988 HD
Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas.
Genre: Crime
Cast: Randall Adams
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1986
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Native Son
Native Son5.60 1986 HD
In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Victor Love
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1995
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My Family
My Family7.56 1995 HD
Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Edward James Olmos
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1983
Movies
El Norte
El Norte7.20 1983 HD
Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the...
Genre: Adventure
Cast: Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez
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1989
Movies
Longtime Companion
Longtime Companion6.82 1989 HD
During the summer of 1981, a group of friends in New York are completely unprepared for the onslaught of AIDS. What starts as a rumor about a...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Bruce Davison
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1994
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Amateur
Amateur6.30 1994 HD
A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Isabelle Huppert
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1991
Movies
Daughters of the Dust
Daughters of the Dust6.50 1991 HD
In 1902, an African-American family living on a sea island off the coast of South Carolina prepares to move to the North.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Cora Lee Day
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1985
Movies
Smooth Talk
Smooth Talk6.30 1985 HD
Connie, the fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family, finds her summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations shattered...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Laura Dern
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1988
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The Wizard of Loneliness
The Wizard of Loneliness5.80 1988 HD
After his mother dies and father goes to fight in World War II, a young boy moves in with his aunt and uncle who live in the countryside. Lonely and...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Lukas Haas
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1989
Movies
Bloodhounds of Broadway
Bloodhounds of Broadway5.70 1989 HD
This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Matt Dillon
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1994
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Golden Gate
Golden Gate4.00 1994 HD
A brash 22-year-old FBI agent trumps up charges of Communist spying against a Chinese laundryman. Ten years later, he wants to make amends to the man...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Matt Dillon
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1983
Movies
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez6.80 1983 HD
Forced to run from Texas Rangers after a heated misunderstanding leads to the death of a lawman, Mexican American farmer Gregorio Cortez sets off in...
Genre: Western
Cast: Edward James Olmos
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1996
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Passion
Passion7.20 1996 HD
Giorgio, a young soldier, is in love with the married Clara and becomes her lover. But they are separated when Giorgio is posted far away, where he...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Donna Murphy
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1991
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Into the Woods
Into the Woods8.01 1991 HD
In a woods filled with magic and fairy tale characters, a baker and his wife set out to end the curse put on them by their neighbor, a spiteful witch.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Bernadette Peters
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1992
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Simple Men
Simple Men6.70 1992 HD
Dennis is a handsome and bookish college student. His brother, Bill, is a roughhewn ladies' man and thief. Together they search for their dad,...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Robert John Burke