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Kanopy
83
7.8
/63050/
76
/1327/
74
/796/
3.9
/33452/
91
/45/
91
/1094/
76
/18/
cc age 16+

The Killing Fields (1984)
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid escalating violence, Schanberg makes exit arrangements for Pran and his family. Pran, however, tells Schanberg he intends to stay in Cambodia to help cover the unfolding story — a decision he may regret as the Khmer Rouge rebels move in.
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Hoopla
80
7.9
/82972/
78
/2535/
77
/1772/
3.8
/51499/
84
/44/
87
/2572/
cc age 9+

The Ten Commandments (1956)
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
poster
80
7.8
/39549/
77
/902/
75
/559/
4.3
/115881/
88
/48/
85
/764/
72
/13/

All That Jazz (1979)
Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.
poster
71
6.4
/2326/
63
/41/
58
/39/
3.6
/2633/
94
/18/
73
/19/

Baby It's You (1983)
In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.
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Kanopy
71
7.5
/18582/
74
/443/
72
/702/
3.6
/8381/
72
/113/
82
/625/
59
/30/
cc age 14+

Sarah's Key (2010)
On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands of other jews are being sent to get deported. Sarah however managed to lock her little brother in a closet just before the police entered their apartment. Sixty years later, Julia Jarmond, an American journalist in Paris, gets the assignment to write an article about this raid, a black page in the history of France. She starts digging archives and through Sarah's file discovers a well kept secret about her own in-laws.
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70
6.6
/26034/
69
/687/
64
/487/
3.5
/23490/
81
/37/
69
/1115/
58
/12/
cc age 16+

Fame (1980)
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.
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Amazon Prime Video
68
6.9
/31682/
66
/598/
64
/300/
3.4
/8787/
70
/134/
72
/2411/
61
/30/
cc age 15+

The Wackness (2008)
Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist. Things get more complicated when he falls for one of his classmates, who just happens to be the doctor's daughter. This is a coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, music and what it takes to be a man.
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MGM Plus
67
6.4
/36631/
65
/912/
63
/567/
3.3
/73929/
78
/27/
55
/826/
59
/10/
cc age 14+

Mystic Pizza (1988)
Three teenage girls come of age while working at a pizza parlor in Mystic, Connecticut.
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66
6.7
/133633/
69
/3875/
68
/2275/
3.0
/64616/
57
/58/
82
/11965/
54
/22/
cc age 14+

City of Angels (1998)
When a guardian angel – who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles – becomes captivated by a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple embarks on a tender but forbidden romance spanning heaven and Earth.
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65
6.4
/8907/
69
/278/
62
/169/
3.2
/3256/
78
/27/
51
/71/
58
/18/

Class Action (1991)
A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto manufacturer against charges that their explosion-prone station wagons are unsafe. As her mother begs for peace, Maggie takes on her dad in a trial that turns increasingly personal and nasty.
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Criterion Channel
62
6.7
/54790/
68
/1854/
67
/1107/
3.6
/106479/
63
/41/
61
/827/
50
/10/

Prince of Darkness (1987)
A priest discovers an ancient canister containing a strange liquid in an abandoned church. When a group of graduate students and scientists are tasked with studying it, they unknowingly unleash an evil force waiting to destroy all of humanity.
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The Roku Channel
53
5.9
/3772/
67
/72/
55
/48/
2.9
/1447/
53
/19/
42
/57/

Mr. Wonderful (1993)
Electrician Gus gets the chance to fulfil a childhood dream by buying an old bowling-alley with some of his friends, but first he must find his ex-wife a new husband so he can stop paying alimony.
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Kanopy
69
51
7.0
/2318/
61
/30/
61
/31/
3.7
/5165/
81
/31/
69
/27/
cc age 11+

Hester Street (1975)
A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively populated by other Jewish immigrants. When his wife finally arrives in the New World, however, she has a lot of assimilating to do.
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48
5.9
/87226/
61
/2744/
60
/1627/
2.7
/46323/
20
/163/
40
/9357/
45
/31/
cc age 14+

The Invasion (2007)
Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that transforms anyone who comes into contact with it into unfeeling drones while they sleep. Carol realizes her son holds the key to stopping the spread of the plague and she races to find him before it is too late.
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37
6.1
/3782/
63
/60/
57
/63/
3.1
/817/
40
/10/
38
/29/

Two Bits (1995)
It's a hot summer day in 1933 in South Philly, where 12-year old Gennaro lives with his widowed mom and his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding tight to his last quarter, which he's promised to Gennaro and which Gennaro would like to have to buy a ticket to the plush new movie theater. But grandpa's not ready to pass on the quarter or pass on to his final reward: he has some unfinished business with a woman from his past, and he enlists Gennaro to act as his emissary.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
61
35
6.2
/2346/
62
/77/
62
/34/
3.1
/490/
60
/5/
58
/12/

Witness Protection (2011)
Would you be willing to walk away from everyone and everything you've ever known in exchange for your safety? This is the question facing career criminal Bobby "Bats" Batton (Tom Sizemore); on the outs with the mob and facing prosecution for a number of serious crimes, Batton is offered a deal by the FBI in which he will be given immunity in exchange for testifying against his former partners. However, Batton will have to join the Federal Witness Protection Program, which means that he, his wife, and his children will never again see their friends and family.
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Amazon Prime Video
46
19
5.3
/648/
33
/8/
59
/10/
3.1
/224/
40
/10/
37
/19/
39
/6/

The Jimmy Show (2002)
A failed New Jersey inventor embarks on a career as a standup comic, turns to drink, and labors to keep his family together.
poster
?
6.4
/40/

The Last Tenant (1978)
Family members face hard decisions about the care of their elderly father who needs constant care and can no longer safely live alone, which particularly affects the eldest son's life, placing his impending marriage in jeopardy.
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48
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6.5
/328/
42
/4/
40
/2/

Love, Honor & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage (1993)
The story of Rosalie Bonnano, the daughter of a powerful New York Mafia boss who married the son of her father's rival, another powerful New York Mafia boss.
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?
6.1
/95/
20
/1/

The Prosecutors (1996)
Drama (and prospective pilot) about the lives of three women who work in the New York City DA's office: one a brilliant prosecutor of high-profile cases whose husband is shot and killed in an armed robbery; a second, her tough, bitter, chain-smoking, boozing, wheelchair-bound former mentor; a third, a Latina who is an ambitious legal intern.
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fuboTV
33
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5.6
/124/
10
/2/

Active Adults (2017)
Malcolm and Lily try to start their lives as they watch Malcolm's grandparents' fall apart.
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Kanopy
60
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6.7
/99/
50
/2/
51
/6/
3.7
/372/

MURDER and murder (1996)
Mildred and Doris are two middle-aged white women, from very different backgrounds, who become lovers and set up house together. Film explores the pleasures and uncertainties of later-life emotional attachment and lesbian identity in a culture that glorifies youth and heterosexual romance.
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?
7.0
/60/
37
/4/

Nurse (1980)
Michael Learned plays Mary Benjamin, a recently widowed woman who, confronted with her son's departure for college, decides to resume her career as a head nurse in a Manhattan hospital in this pilot movie for the short-lived TV series.
poster
35
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6.4
/139/
10
/1/

Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number (1983)
An Argentinian newspaper publisher is imprisoned by his government for dissent.
poster
?
5.9
/136/

Murder in Black and White (1990)
A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate.
poster
67
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6.6
/272/
70
/6/
58
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3.5
/228/
92
/12/
50
/4/

Weddings and Babies (1960)
A photographer struggles to make enough money to marry his fiancee, who is starting to believe he's delaying their marriage deliberately.
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54
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5.5
/331/
43
/3/
50
/9/
3.2
/213/

Soup for One (1982)
A neurotic young New Yorker believes he has found his perfect match and desperately tries to win her over.
poster
51
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5.7
/336/
45
/5/
50
/5/

Love Child (1982)
The true-story of Terry Jean Moore, a young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "five dollar" robbery. While In prison, she gets pregnant by a jailer and must fight to keep her child.
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Hoopla
40
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7.1
/107/
10
/1/

The Power and the Glory (1963)
Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant determined to capture him.


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