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poster
Peacock Premium
80
7.8
/262395/
78
/8021/
77
/5073/
4.0
/565807/
87
/150/
90
/6660/
75
/23/
cc age 17+

Misery (1990)
After an accident, acclaimed novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by a nurse who claims to be his biggest fan. Her obsession takes a dark turn when she holds him captive in her remote Colorado home and forces him to write back to life the popular literary character he killed off.
poster
76
7.3
/2689/
76
/33/
70
/24/
3.5
/1181/
78
/41/
69
/23/
6.0
/1251/

Up the Down Staircase (1967)
Sylvia, a novice schoolteacher, is hired to teach English in a high school, but she’s met with an apathetic faculty, a delinquent student body and an administration that drowns its staff in paperwork. The following days go from bad to worse as Sylvia struggles to reach her most troubled students.
poster
MGM Plus
74
7.1
/8072/
69
/131/
66
/101/
3.6
/6811/
100
/13/
73
/152/
72
/7/

The Hospital (1971)
Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospital bed, it appears to Bock to be a case of unforgivable malpractice. Hours later, another doctor, who happens to be responsible for another case of malpractice, is found dead. Despondent, Bock finds himself drawn to Barbara, the daughter of a comatose missionary.
poster
71
6.8
/26705/
73
/1088/
69
/672/
3.1
/31222/
81
/112/
80
/1861/
64
/31/
cc age 7+

Dolphin Tale (2011)
A story centered on the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap.
poster
Hulu
69
7.0
/135140/
71
/3606/
67
/2183/
3.5
/183974/
76
/220/
70
/11086/
66
/34/
cc age 13+

Julie & Julia (2009)
Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
poster
The Roku Channel
68
7.1
/370296/
71
/11951/
69
/5658/
3.4
/427338/
74
/152/
65
/23167/
58
/29/
cc age 16+

The Mist (2007)
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.
poster
67
6.8
/5815/
68
/125/
67
/147/
3.5
/7403/
72
/18/
63
/27/

Fedora (1978)
Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement, only to discover the horrifying truth behind her success.
poster
HBO Max
73
65
7.1
/7236/
67
/115/
62
/56/
3.3
/2720/
92
/13/
80
/293/

The Laramie Project (2002)
"The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage version of "The Laramie Project," the eight-member New York-based Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, recording hours of interviews with the town's citizens over a two-year period. The film adaptation dramatizes the troupe's visit, using the actual words from the transcripts to create a portrait of a town forced to confront itself.
poster
63
6.3
/42434/
68
/1380/
63
/663/
3.1
/18915/
66
/50/
51
/566/
56
/20/
cc age 13+

Doc Hollywood (1991)
After leaving Washington D.C. hospital, plastic surgeon Ben Stone heads for California, where a lucrative practice in Beverly Hills awaits. After a car accident, he's sentenced to perform as the community's general practitioner.
poster
Kanopy
62
6.4
/3548/
61
/62/
63
/65/
3.3
/2924/
75
/8/
59
/40/
64
/6/

Starting Over (1979)
After divorcing his ambitious singer wife, a middle-aged man begins a new relationship with a teacher.
poster
60
6.6
/34893/
67
/1265/
64
/666/
3.4
/19746/
59
/32/
54
/488/
48
/10/

Outland (1981)
On the sunless moon Io, Marshall William T. O’Niel goes toe-to-toe with the corrupt manager of a mining colony and his gang of roughnecks while investigating a rash of worker suicides.
poster
MGM Plus
58
5.7
/9622/
59
/216/
56
/134/
3.0
/6958/
59
/22/
38
/175/
51
/18/

Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.
poster
56
6.1
/18889/
62
/472/
60
/379/
3.3
/26003/
64
/42/
41
/293/
42
/24/

Raising Cain (1992)
Child psychologist Carter Nix is a loving and caring family man, but under this appearance lies a dark and troubled past. Grappling with the consequences of this past on his own psyche and the influence of his returning father and violent brother Cain, Carter becomes involved in a series of murders and kidnappings. Meanwhile, his wife Jenny rekindles an old love affair, placing herself in the crosshairs of her increasingly unstable husband.
poster
55
5.8
/1106/
58
/11/
59
/18/
3.2
/408/
55
/11/
33
/3/

See You in the Morning (1989)
Three years after his divorce from his model-wife is the psychologist Larry Livingstone ready for a new commitment. He falls in love with the young widow Beth who has two children. But Beth and the children are still in mourning over their dead husband and father and Larry finds it a bit difficult to penetrate their reservations. Larry himself has to deal with his ex-wife and his love for his own two kids. Slowly both Beth and the children realise that they have to go on with their lives and that they have been giving a second chance.
poster
61
54
6.1
/7158/
60
/130/
55
/137/
3.1
/11523/
69
/331/

Highway (2002)
Jack is caught with the wife of his employer, a Vegas thug. The thug sends goons after Jack, who convinces his best friend, Pilot, to flee with him. Pilot insists that they head for Seattle, but doesn't tell Jack why. The goons learn from Pilot's drug source where the youths are headed, and they follow, hell bent on breaking Jack's feet. On the road, Jack and Pilot give a ride to Cassie, a distressed young woman. She and Jack hit it off. They pick up an aging stoner headed to Seattle for Kurt Cobain's memorial, and they help a circus sideshow family. Why is Pilot so set on Seattle, will the goons catch Jack, and is there any way the friends' competing needs can be resolved?
poster
MGM Plus
51
5.3
/1099/
45
/28/
50
/22/
3.0
/423/
29
/14/
47
/23/

Romantic Comedy (1983)
Jason is in need of a collaborator to give him inspiration. Phoebe is a small-town English teacher with an urge to write. On the day Jason is being married, Jason and Phoebe meet and form a partnership.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
52
51
5.5
/8673/
58
/323/
53
/183/
2.9
/11501/
46
/13/
46
/188/

Communion (1989)
A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
45
5.9
/16334/
63
/795/
60
/473/
2.7
/6415/
16
/86/
40
/271/
38
/31/
cc age 14+

And So It Goes (2014)
Nobody likes self-centered realtor Oren Little, and he prefers it that way. He's deliberately mean to anyone who crosses his path and wants nothing more than to sell one final house and retire. His life turns upside-down when his estranged son drops off a granddaughter he never knew existed. Suddenly left in charge of her and with no idea how to take care of a child, he pawns the girl off on his neighbor, Leah -- but he eventually learns how to open his heart.
poster
44
5.4
/3217/
58
/71/
51
/58/
2.8
/1211/
25
/12/
32
/58/

Sibling Rivalry (1990)
Marjorie Turner is suffocating in her marriage and day to day life. An extramarital affair with a stranger seems to be the answer until her paramour has a fatal heart attack, and turns out to be less of a stranger than she could have thought...
poster
62
21
6.5
/621/
76
/8/
55
/10/
55

Independence Day (1983)
Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a waitress in her father's diner, yet she can't help but feel unfulfilled by a life of pouring coffee and grilling hamburgers. Mary Ann's real passion is photography, but pursuing her dream of becoming a photographer means leaving Mercury behind.
poster
55
20
5.7
/1413/
55
/10/
49
/25/
3.1
/622/

Curtain Call (1998)
A bachelor afraid of marriage angers his long-time girlfriend by buying a splendid townhouse just for himself, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of a famous theatrical couple, who teach him about love and commitment.
poster
?
3.1
/34/

Pearl (2012)
When a midwestern poet (Dan Butler) visits an elderly relative (Frances Sternhagen) to bring news of his mother’s recent death, the visit takes an unsettling turn. Adapted from a poem of the same name by former U.S. poet laureate Ted Kooser.
poster
?
6.4
/94/
10
/1/
50
/2/

Labor of Love: The Arlette Schweitzer Story (1993)
When a woman learns she cannot bear children, her mother decides to be a surrogate for her.
poster
?
6.5
/45/
60
/1/

Who'll Save Our Children? (1978)
A childless couple provide shelter for a pair of homeless children. When they try to adopt them the natural parents appear leading to the inevitable court battle.
poster
?
7.1
/19/
10
/1/

Soldier in Love (1967)
The story of the Churchills in the court of Queen Anne.
poster
?
5.6
/35/
75
/4/
70
/1/

Misery Loves Company (2003)
A documentary presenting the behind the scenes of Rob Reiner's classic "Misery", with Reiner himself, Kathy Bates, James Caan, Frances Sternhagen, writer William Goldman, Barry Sonnenfeld (the film's cinematographer) presenting their views on the film years later of its release and the impact "Misery" had in their professional lives.
poster
?
6.6
/33/
40
/2/

The Dining Room (1984)
Six actors play over 50 characters across 18 scenes from different families that overlap and intertwine in a single dining room. Set in a typical well-to-do household, the mosaic of interrelated scenes - some funny, some touching, some rueful - create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the upper-middle-class WASP.
poster
56
?
6.3
/560/
56
/9/
54
/10/

The Con (1998)
A lonely gas station attendent in Mississippi falls in love with a con woman who wants to get her hands on an inheritance he doesn't know about.
poster
Kanopy
?
7.0
/70/
10
/1/

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg (1980)
A mysterious stranger descends on the small town of Hadleyburg to teach its deceitful residents a lesson
poster
?
6.0
/54/

Mother and Daughter: The Loving War (1980)
A love-hate relationship among three generations of women, spanning 30 years.
poster
?
7.0
/49/
10
/1/

Follow Your Heart (1990)
An ex-marine, in search of some defining life direction, unexpectedly faces a hurdle when his jeep breaks down in a sparsely populated Wyoming town. While waiting for parts to repair the vehicle he takes a temporary job as a rest area attendant and moves onto a ranch run by a one-legged widow with a mentally handicapped son. When an abandoned Vietnamese girl joins the group, the scene is ready for confrontation and tragedy.
poster
44
?
5.9
/205/
33
/3/
40
/3/

Reunion (1994)
The undying bond between a mother and her beloved son nearly destroys the lives of an entire family. Jessie Yates (Marlo Thomas) is torn between the ghost of her son and the life she has created with her husband and family.
poster
?
7.4
/50/
48
/7/
82
/6/

When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist' (2008)
Behind the scenes documentary on the making of the film.
poster
?
6.6
/13/
60
/1/

Jessica Tandy: Theatre Legend to Screen Star (2003)
This is a lovely documentary that pays tribute to the career of star Jessica Tandy, as the filmmakers recall what it was like to work with this marvelous actress. This featurette is fairly short, but it offers fine insight, history and heart
poster
65
?
6.4
/688/
66
/27/
61
/17/
68
/6/

Resting Place (1986)
A television movie set in Rockville, Georgia, in 1972. Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Officer, arrives in this sleepy little town with the body of Lieutenant Dwyte Johnson, a Vietnam war hero. It's Laird's job to help Johnson's parents bury their son. But since the dead hero was black, his parents are turned away by the white racists who maintain the town's "all-white" cemetery.
poster
48
?
6.1
/263/
46
/3/
42
/5/

Two People (1973)
Evan Bonner is a deserter from the Vietnam war; he is on his way back to America to give himself up when he meets Deirdre McCluskey, a beautiful if petulant model. The two make an unlikely couple, but once in France the magic of Paris works its charm and these two vulnerable people finally find each other.
poster
52
?
4.9
/288/
60
/2/
50
/2/

She Woke Up (1992)
A socialite comes out of a coma determined to identify her assailant who may be a family member with a motive to strike again.
poster
?
10
/1/
53
/3/

Vault of Horror I (1994)
A compilation of three episodes from the Tales from the Crypt series ("Carrion Death", "None but the lonely heart" and "Abra Cadaver") with some famous cast and directors.
poster
48
?
5.7
/415/
42
/7/
58
/8/
38
/6/

Prototype (1983)
An intelligent android (Michael) constructed by a research team is taken outdoors and successfully passed off as human in a trial run. When the government hears of this, they order their own set of tests in Washington. When the project leader realizes the military want the android for a soldier, he can't accept it, and he and Michael go into hiding to avoid their clutches.
poster
71
?
6.2
/262/
53
/3/
100
/1/

To Live Again (1998)
A loopy mother locks her teenage daughter in her room after allegedly showing signs of being crazy. Over a decade later, somebody finally investigates, removes the daughter from the mother's care, and attempts to rehabilitate the daughter.


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