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Netflix
76
7.7
/335832/
76
/7038/
73
/4011/
3.6
/210456/
86
/84/
86
/9101/
67
/30/
cc age 15+

As Good as It Gets (1997)
A misanthropic author, a single mother and waitress, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.
poster
75
6.8
/3672/
64
/31/
59
/46/
3.7
/3402/
85
/13/
81
/72/

Petulia (1968)
Dr. Archie Bollen is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife and is establishing a new life for himself. One night, he catches the eye of Petulia Danner, a charming, free-spirited young woman. Petulia's vibrant personality hides her fear of her abusive husband, David, whose father is a powerful society figure. As Petulia and Archie's feelings for each other grow, they must decide what it is they truly want.
poster
72
6.8
/4599/
63
/52/
65
/74/
3.6
/6722/
88
/16/
61
/46/
66
/10/

The Rain People (1969)
When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions.
poster
66
7.0
/33232/
70
/706/
65
/346/
3.4
/7828/
63
/82/
82
/1111/
41
/30/

The Salton Sea (2002)
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
72
65
7.0
/5518/
71
/127/
66
/81/
3.4
/6178/
86
/7/
73
/165/

If These Walls Could Talk (1996)
A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow a recently widowed nurse struggling to take control of her life in the early 50s, a mother of four balancing raising a family and maintaining a career in the 70s, and a student making a difficult decision with the help of one woman that will change the course of both their lives in the 90s.
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Kanopy
63
6.4
/92303/
64
/2390/
61
/1011/
3.0
/46360/
70
/141/
51
/2396/
60
/39/
cc age 17+

Our Idiot Brother (2011)
Everybody has one—the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz, Miranda and Natalie, that person is their perennially upbeat brother, Ned. But as each of their lives begins to unravel, Ned's family comes to realise that Ned isn't such an idiot after all.
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Criterion Channel
62
7.0
/559/
38
/7/
46
/12/
3.6
/1189/
72
/8/

Dutchman (1966)
A young conservative black man, minding his own business, rides a nearly empty subway car. The only other passenger, a blonde vixen looking for trouble, sizes him up. Sexual tension, racial bigotry and righteous fury collide in a razor's edge confrontation between this unlikely pair.
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MGM Plus
67
61
6.6
/7221/
66
/167/
62
/128/
3.4
/3888/
83
/12/
58
/57/

Juggernaut (1974)
A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship. Inspired by real events.
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YouTube TV
67
60
7.1
/9139/
70
/114/
67
/127/
3.5
/4885/
74
/19/
72
/89/
53
/8/

Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom "Boss" Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.
poster
57
6.9
/92489/
72
/2858/
65
/722/
3.0
/45222/
15
/60/
85
/11588/
33
/15/
cc age 18+

Grandma's Boy (2006)
Even though he's 35, Alex acts more like he's 13, spending his days as the world's oldest video game tester and his evenings developing the next big Xbox game. But when he gets kicked out of his apartment, he's forced to move in with his grandmother.
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fuboTV
58
56
6.3
/14677/
58
/284/
58
/224/
3.0
/3835/
69
/75/
50
/537/
49
/16/
cc age 16+

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
poster
55
6.1
/21736/
67
/555/
61
/252/
3.2
/9923/
43
/143/
65
/1707/
48
/35/
cc age 14+

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother.
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Hoopla
53
5.3
/3121/
49
/48/
52
/25/
2.7
/1912/
33
/27/
54
/93/
54
/16/

Stuart Saves His Family (1995)
A self-help advocate struggles to put his dysfunctional family in its place.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
73
53
7.5
/4905/
72
/81/
69
/65/
3.5
/1897/
79
/17/

Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unqualified child cruelty "expert" videotapes the children describing outrageous stories of abuse. One of the most expensive and long running trials in US legal history, exposes the lack of evidence and unprofessional attitudes of the finger pointers which kept one of the accused in jail for over 5 years without bail.
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Hoopla
70
53
6.9
/4902/
71
/113/
72
/83/
3.2
/685/
76
/110/

Listen to Your Heart (2010)
Danny Foster doesn't have much: an apartment as small as his paychecks, no family, and a struggling music career. Yet for him, "every day is a great day to be alive," an attitude he gained from his mother's unwavering optimism during her losing battle with cancer. It's love at first sight when Danny meets Ariana, a wealthy girl from Greenwich, CT who tragically cannot hear the music she inspires him to write. Ariana, hearing impaired since childhood, is torn between hanging onto the shelter her controlling mother provides and fighting for a love that, if given the chance, might just change her life
poster
52
5.7
/26419/
62
/554/
60
/461/
2.6
/5561/
32
/131/
46
/725/
39
/28/
cc age 16+

Angel Eyes (2001)
A story about a seemingly unlikely couple who cross paths under life-threatening circumstances as though they are destined not only to meet but to save each other's lives. Not once, but twice.
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Starz
50
5.3
/123996/
57
/5248/
54
/2662/
2.5
/227757/
34
/116/
43
/16322/
39
/24/
cc age 12+

Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)
When a shopping mall is taken over by a gang of organized crooks, it's up to a mild-mannered security guard to save the day.
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Amazon Prime Video
48
5.5
/16270/
57
/332/
55
/311/
2.9
/8702/
23
/31/
39
/147/

Diabolique (1996)
The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed scheme to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The psychological strain starts to weigh on the two women when a retired police investigator begins looking into the man's disappearance on a whim.
poster
59
47
6.0
/2559/
58
/81/
56
/58/
3.1
/3068/
86
/7/
34
/24/

The Sender (1982)
A disturbed telepathic man is able to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him.
poster
71
47
7.3
/2999/
70
/73/
68
/56/
3.7
/1554/
74
/14/

Playing for Time (1980)
When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas chambers.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
45
5.0
/10608/
58
/270/
56
/243/
2.4
/10839/
26
/19/
50
/227/
30
/9/

Endless Love (1981)
As their romance unfolds, Jade and David's growing love for one another becomes the scorn of Jade's father. However, when Jade's grades begin to drop, her father forbids the young couple from seeing each other for 30 days. Driven insane with frustration and desire, David attempts to reverse the decision, with catastrophic results.
poster
45
4.9
/6123/
58
/477/
51
/258/
2.2
/3200/
27
/44/
46
/11/

Mercy (2014)
A single mom and her two boys help take care of their grandmother with mystical powers.
poster
MGM Plus
64
43
6.6
/2295/
61
/29/
55
/31/
3.3
/1822/
75
/8/
61
/18/

The Group (1966)
It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper-class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The film documents the years between their graduation and the beginning of the World War in Europe, and shows, in a serialized style, their romances and marriages, their searches for careers or meaning in their lives, their highs and their lows.
poster
The Roku Channel
44
42
5.3
/7644/
51
/300/
49
/119/
2.3
/5413/
24
/107/

Elevator (2013)
Nine people are stuck in an elevator. One of them has a ticking bomb that can't be defused. The other eight will do anything to survive. There is no escape and no promise of rescue. As the tension in the elevator mounts the unthinkable soon becomes the only reasonable solution.
poster
Hoopla
42
5.2
/27332/
57
/630/
57
/613/
2.5
/12034/
22
/49/
30
/410/
36
/28/

Color of Night (1994)
A color-blind psychiatrist is stalked by an unknown killer after taking over his murdered friend's therapy group and becomes embroiled in an intense affair with a mysterious woman who may be connected to the crime.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
38
4.7
/6428/
57
/177/
50
/135/
2.5
/2755/
21
/109/
22
/6/

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search for money, gold and a small amount of plutonium.
poster
58
37
6.2
/2360/
69
/62/
60
/39/
3.2
/466/
25
/8/
70
/48/

Little Boy Blue (1997)
Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The dad harbors a secret, and he goes to murderous lengths to keep it hidden. The young man, Jimmy, who has suspicions, but little comes out until a Yankee woman comes to town.
poster
Starz
34
4.5
/44295/
56
/3562/
51
/1657/
1.9
/81765/
6
/62/
34
/1227/
13
/16/
cc age 11+

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015)
Security guard Paul Blart is headed to Las Vegas to attend a Security Guard Expo with his teenage daughter Maya before she departs for college. While at the convention, he inadvertently discovers a heist - and it's up to Blart to apprehend the criminals.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
64
31
6.3
/708/
62
/22/
59
/13/
89
/9/
51
/16/

Redwood Highway (2013)
Marie, a reluctant resident of a retirement community in Southern Oregon, decides to walk 80 miles down the Redwood Highway to see the ocean for the first time in 45 years.
poster
MGM Plus
60
28
6.3
/1364/
57
/25/
62
/22/
3.3
/514/
56
/1822/

21 Hours at Munich (1976)
A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.
poster
66
25
7.1
/887/
30
/2/
64
/14/
3.3
/206/
80
/5/
87
/6/

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie is afraid of going out on dates, but eventually makes friends with a troubled Jewish boy Sammy Golden, and his son is a mama's boy. He finally storms out of the house when Cora falsely accuses him of having an affair with Mavis Pruitt.
poster
48
24
6.1
/1261/
69
/26/
53
/23/
40
/42/
20
/102/

Open Window (2006)
The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
61
21
6.9
/1124/
53
/13/
62
/12/
3.2
/303/
Popcorn
59
/28/
cc age 11+

My Louisiana Sky (2001)
A girl comes to terms with her mentally challenged parents.
poster
37
17
5.5
/687/
37
/4/
40
/12/
24
/17/
36
/22/
33
/11/

P.S. Your Cat is Dead! (2002)
With his life already in shambles — his girlfriend just dumped him, he's lost his acting gig, and his cat is seriously ill — sad-sack Jimmy Zoole (Steve Guttenberg) comes home New Year's Eve to find a gay burglar (Lombardo Boyar) looting his apartment. Taking the intruder hostage, Jimmy threatens to unleash his pent-up rage on the would-be thief but instead begins to bond with his captive.
poster
58
16
6.1
/428/
64
/5/
58
/7/
50
/35/

Ice Palace (1960)
Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon Zeb "Czar" Kennedy and rugged activist leader Thor Storm, two rough-hewn men whose bitter 40-year rivalry mirrored their powerful land's struggle for statehood.
poster
45
15
5.1
/1062/
44
/22/
46
/14/
42
/17/

Sexual Life (2005)
As they seek romance and sexual gratification, the lives of eight Los Angeles natives — including a teenager, a wedding photographer and a hotel desk clerk — converge on a carousel of carnal encounters.
poster
55
14
5.5
/657/
56
/18/
54
/18/
2.8
/451/
cc age 10+

Mrs. Ashboro's Cat (2003)
Wes Merritt and his daughter Natalie (14) get more than they bargained for when they buy an old house that was formerly inhabited by the nice old Mrs. Ashboro and her pet cat, Margaret. When strange things start happening in the house, all fingers point to the presence of Margaret, who died the same day as Mrs. Ashboro. But why has she come back to haunt them?
poster
?
8.3
/65/
10
/1/

Hoggs' Heaven (1994)
A young poet wins his first prize of $250, but his family is not supportive.
poster
?
6.4
/31/
10
/1/

A Part of the Family (1994)
A bright young New York physician takes her husband, a jokey/cynical tabloid reporter, home to Illinois to meet her parents.
poster
?
5.8
/92/
53
/8/

A House on a Hill (2003)
A once-successful architect (Philip Baker Hall) has become a grumpy loner, but a young couple plead with him to come out of retirement to rebuild his crumbling old house for them.
poster
?
6.6
/82/
70
/1/
57
/3/

Sudbury (2004)
A family of witches -- sisters Sally and Gillian, their aunts Jet and Frances, and Sally's daughters Antonia and Kylie -- struggle with the blessing and the curse of magical abilities.
poster
?
10
/1/

Benders (1994)
Franny, an alcoholic, develops a relationship with Jack, a telephone crisis hotline operator. Jack is a recovering addict himself and is fighting his own demons; he killed a young boy while D.U.I.. As Franny and Jack become closer, they help one other become healthier and happier people.
poster
?
7.7
/22/

The Secret Life of Houses (1994)
A nine-year-old girl with a mother in the hospital decides to live alone and fend for herself.
poster
?
6.4
/24/

Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time (2006)
The making of the film with Drew Casper.
poster
?
7.1
/41/

Medical Story (1975)
A young intern goes up against three older surgeons as to whether or not a young actress should get a hysterectomy.
poster
?
5.4
/10/
10
/1/

Kennedy's Children (1982)
In 1974, five former activists from the 1960s meet in a bar, but do not relate. Each is lost in his or her own memories of more hopeful, revolutionary days.
poster
?
7.0
/48/
55
/2/

Fly Cherry (2003)
A young girl dreams of flying, to get away from her neglectful mother, and forms a bond with her mysterious next door neighbor.
poster
56
?
5.5
/174/
52
/4/
62
/5/

Baby Brokers (1994)
A woman (Cybill Shepherd) financially supports the natural parents in hope of adopting their newborn, but she discovers she is the victim of a scam.


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