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7.8
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75
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4.1
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90
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89
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cc age 13+

Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.
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MGM Plus
77
7.1
/54372/
70
/1408/
68
/770/
3.5
/37896/
92
/49/
73
/508/
77
/18/

No Way Out (1987)
Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, Farrell is put in charge of the murder investigation. He begins to uncover shocking clues about the case, but when details of his encounter with Susan surface, he becomes a suspect as well.
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Criterion Channel
79
76
7.5
/12613/
72
/236/
73
/200/
3.8
/14785/
95
/20/
87
/151/
80
/14/

Brute Force (1947)
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
poster
76
6.8
/3773/
65
/66/
62
/63/
3.5
/4487/
95
/40/
78
/50/

The Late Show (1977)
Over-the-hill gumshoe in Los Angeles seeks to avenge the killing of an old pal, another detective who was involved in a case concerning a murdered broad, stolen stamps, a nickel-plated handgun, a cheating dolly, and a kidnapped pussycat.
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Criterion Channel
76
75
7.5
/16773/
72
/386/
72
/276/
3.8
/20635/
86
/28/
79
/299/
74
/10/

The Naked City (1948)
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
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Kanopy
82
73
7.8
/3092/
76
/117/
76
/60/
4.1
/11447/
96
/45/
84
/42/
86
/19/

Los Angeles Plays Itself (2004)
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen takes viewers on a whirlwind tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, investigating the myriad stories and legends that have come to define it, and meticulously, judiciously revealing the real city that lives beneath.
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73
7.0
/4029/
69
/35/
62
/58/
3.7
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69
/13/
81
/65/

A Wedding (1978)
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as the Corelli Italian connection is suspect, security guards watch the gifts rather over-zealously, and Dino's grandma expires in bed just as the reception starts. Could be quite an occasion.
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72
66
6.9
/7751/
70
/147/
68
/141/
3.6
/7289/
91
/23/
66
/63/

While the City Sleeps (1956)
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".
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69
47
6.9
/1696/
61
/25/
62
/37/
3.4
/1480/
86
/87/

Woman in Hiding (1950)
As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if not too well. Having discovered a horrible truth about her new husband, Deborah is now a “woman in hiding,” living in mortal fear that someday her husband will catch up with her again. When a returning GI recognizes Deborah, however, she must decide whether or not she can trust him.
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Hoopla
66
46
6.7
/2172/
65
/39/
62
/41/
3.4
/1784/
68
/244/

Private Hell 36 (1954)
In New York City, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bills are found in a Los Angeles drugstore theft. Police detectives Cal Bruner and Jack Farnham investigate and are led from the drugstore to a nightclub, where singer Lilli is another recipient of a stolen bill. With Lilli's help, the partners track down the remaining money, but both Lilli and Jack are dismayed when Cal decides he wants to keep part of it.
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70
38
7.3
/2654/
67
/33/
63
/30/
3.5
/1144/
80
/17/

All My Sons (1948)
During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when his son plans to marry Deever's daughter.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
46
38
4.9
/3238/
49
/90/
49
/91/
2.7
/2650/
33
/70/

Monster in the Closet (1986)
After several people and a dog are found dead in their closets a "mild-mannered" reporter, a college professor, her son and a befuddled professor band together to uncover the mystery but not without involving the U.S. Army and mass panic.
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60
35
6.6
/2617/
70
/32/
57
/27/
3.2
/987/
45
/263/

Boys' Night Out (1962)
Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman, Kathy, for romantic rendezvous. But Kathy does not tell them that she is a sociology student researching the sexual life of the white middle-class male.
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67
24
7.1
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65
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62
/22/
3.5
/873/

Shakedown (1950)
Jack Early is a photographer who will stop at nothing to climb his way to the very top of the success ladder. On the strength of his sheer tenacity, he gets a job with a major newspaper, and it's not long before he's made a name for himself by charming a notorious crime boss, Nick Palmer, into allowing himself to be photographed. Palmer takes him under his wing, but Early decides to bite the hand that feeds him and sets Palmer and another crime boss, Colton, against one another.
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63
23
6.0
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55
/32/
58
/17/
3.0
/715/
83
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Know Your Enemy: Japan (1945)
Frank Capra-directed propaganda film produced during World War II depicting the United States' new enemy: Japan.
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JustWatch TV
55
21
6.5
/1323/
62
/26/
57
/18/
3.3
/937/
27
/12/

Women's Prison (1955)
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
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64
17
6.6
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63
/11/
62
/16/
3.3
/437/

Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949)
A federal agent infiltrates a crime syndicate.
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55
12
5.8
/591/
44
/13/
58
/14/
3.1
/390/

Jennifer (1953)
A young woman is hired to take care of an eerie old mansion, where she finds herself entangled with an enigmatic murderer.
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38
12
4.2
/600/
38
/7/
42
/12/
2.7
/1040/
14
/7/
36
/4/

Too Much Sun (1991)
A multimillionaire, whose son is gay and daughter a lesbian, leaves a will with one clause: His children will inherit his money only if at least one of them produces him a grandchild within a year of his death.
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43
9
5.1
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48
/22/
45
/14/
3.0
/359/
14
/5/

Spaceways (1953)
A rocket engineer, responsible for sending a satellite into space, is accused of committing the most extraordinary crime.
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?
5.0
/60/
10
/1/
10
/2/

Valentine Magic on Love Island (1980)
Janis Paige presides over the proceedings at a posh resort, using magical powers to help eight attractive, amiable vacationers discover one another, aided by her nephew and niece in this unsold pilot variation of "Fantasy Island."
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43
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6.0
/157/
10
/1/
60
/2/

Steel Town (1952)
Steve Kostain, nephew of the owner, begins working at a steel mill to learn the business from the bottom up. He rooms with a steel working family, the McNamaras, and falls for the daughter, "Red", who is already involved with another steelworker. Although he is at first has a hard time with his co-workers, he eventually wins them over, and also wins the girl.
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?
6.8
/28/

Actor (1978)
A musical play based on the early years of actor Paul Muni.
poster
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7.2
/45/
63
/3/

Lily for President? (1982)
Comedian Lily Tomlin stars in this comical farce which deals with her experiences running for the office of President of the United States.
poster
43
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5.1
/177/
10
/2/
70
/1/

War Gods of Babylon (1962)
Noble, wise King Sardanapolo and his more soft and naive younger brother Prince Sammash get into a bitter feud over the affections of sweet and alluring innocent peasant girl Mirra. Meanwhile, the treacherous and ruthlessly ambitious General Arbace plots against both siblings.
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59
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6.1
/187/
54
/5/
65
/2/

Blackjack Ketchum Desperado (1956)
A former gunslinger comes to the aid of ranchers battling a murderous land baron.
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51
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5.7
/153/
47
/4/
50
/5/

Sierra Stranger (1957)
A prospector becomes a small town outcast after he rescues a man about to be lynched.
poster
?
7.0
/43/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Calhoun (1964)
Unaired pilot for a drama/adventure series about a county agent.
poster
?
5.8
/40/
10
/1/
80
/2/

The Heist (1972)
An armored-car guard must convince the authorities he is innocent after he is forced to rob his own company.
poster
?
7.0
/43/
10
/1/

The D.A.: Murder One (1969)
A Deputy District Attorney suspects that a nurse has been murdering her rich husbands and relatives by giving them unneeded insulin doses, but his superiors don't believe him.
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38
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5.5
/198/
10
/4/
50
/1/

In Search of America (1971)
Michael (Jeff Bridges) drops out of college with the intention of finding himself. When his parents (Carl Betz and Vera Miles) balk, he talks them into joining him in traveling the country and educating themselves about the state of things. They, along with Grandma (Ruth McDevitt) trick out an old Greyhound bus and hit the road. The picaresque plotline brings the family into contact with a variety of colorful characters. The producers of In Search of America never declared outright that the made-for-TV film was intended as a series pilot, but it ends on an ambiguous note with plenty of loose plot ends. In Search of America was first telecast March 23, 1971.
poster
38
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5.3
/202/
40
/2/
52
/4/

Panic in the City (1968)
An American agent is assigned to track down a renegade Soviet spy who is building an atomic device in Los Angeles and plans to destroy the city with it.
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Amazon Prime Video
41
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6.6
/157/
15
/2/

Battered (1978)
Gritty drama of three interweaving stories of three women of various backgrounds and ages whose marriages are complicated by spouse-abuse by their husbands.
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24
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5.3
/141/
10
/1/
10
/1/

The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch (1982)
It's quiet in Chastity Gulch, a small town in the Wild West. The men of the village are all in the army and fight their battles far away. The women are getting very bored! At once a bunch of robbers drops into the saloon. They love the beer but are also looking for beautiful women. Will the town whores keep these delightful men for themselves or will the doctor's wife and the mayor's wife also get a part of the fun?
poster
MGM Plus
35
?
5.5
/185/
10
/2/
36
/5/

This Girl for Hire (1983)
In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in Hollywood who sets out to solve the murder of a obnoxious mystery writer. Along the way, Brady gets help from her flamboyant mother Zandra, a washed-up actress, as well as Brady's live-in boyfriend Wolfe who runs a memorabilia shop.
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27
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4.0
/212/
40
/2/
28
/5/

Double Negative (1980)
Mentally tortured photojournalist attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
poster
36
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4.8
/133/
50
/2/
10
/1/

Love on the Run (1985)
A criminal lawyer goes on the run with her new lover — a convict she had as a client and whom she helped escape from prison.
poster
43
?
5.6
/135/
30
/2/
45
/2/

Settle the Score (1989)
Katherine Whately, a tough, young Chicago cop, comes home to her small town to settle her teenage rape. She is welcomed by her brother but shunned by her father. Josh, the town doctor, is her only ally in her quest for the truth. Together Katherine and Josh find the bloody trail of a serial murderer and shatter the lie that is two decades old.
poster
48
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6.2
/113/
35
/2/
50
/2/

Models Inc. (1952)
The wealthy owner of a modeling agency keeps a new student in the high life, unaware that she and a recently released convict share a criminal and personal history.
poster
57
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6.1
/148/
57
/7/
54
/7/

Illegal Entry (1949)
Long before he became producer/director of The Tonight Show, Fred DeCordova helmed the Universal meller Illegal Entry. Howard Duff, who later worked with DeCordova on the TV series Mr. Adams and Eve, stars as Bert Powers, an undercover agent for the U.S. Department of Immigration. While attempting to bring a vicious gang of alien smugglers to justice, Powers falls in love with Anna Duvak (Marta Toren), a gang member who is Not What She Seems.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
61
?
5.9
/291/
63
/11/
64
/6/

The Broken Star (1956)
A deputy sheriff defies local ranchers to investigate a Mexican's murder.
poster
59
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5.9
/279/
47
/7/
75
/2/

Tanganyika (1954)
A landowner in colonial Africa leads a safari through Nukumbi territory in order to capture an escaped criminal.
poster
?
5.6
/20/
10
/1/

Roar of the Crowd (1953)
Johnny Tracy, son of veteran race driver Pop Tracy, is working his way up on the racing circuit, but is urged by his sweetheart, Marcy Parker, to give up the track if he wants to marry her. He persuades her to marry him on the promise that he will quit after racing once in the Indianapolis 500, but he is injured in a qualifying race and goes to work as a spark plug salesman for Mackey, an old family friend. He is a failure at selling but Marcy changes her attitude towards his racing, and he qualifies for the 500.
poster
The Roku Channel
?
6.0
/79/
26
/3/

In the Glitter Palace (1977)
The ex-girlfriend of a lawyer, who left him for a lesbian lover, asks him to defend her lover in a murder case.
poster
58
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6.3
/382/
52
/4/
60
/9/

Spy Hunt (1950)
Roger Quain, escorting two zoo-bound black panthers on the train from Milan to Paris, is unaware that a Western agent, Catherine Ullven, has hidden a microfilm in the collar of one of the animals. But when the train is derailed in the Swiss Alps and the panthers escape, she is forced to involve him in her mission, which now includes enemy agents hunting the microfilm, the animals, Catherine and Roger.
poster
64
?
6.2
/128/
67
/3/

Snatched (1973)
The wives of three wealthy men are kidnapped and held for a $3 million ransom, but one of the men doesn't want to pay his share.
poster
53
?
6.4
/150/
43
/3/
67
/3/

A Little Game (1971)
A hostile youngster who will stop at nothing to break up his mother's marriage is suspected of homicide, and his stepfather fears that he may be the boy's next victim.
poster
Starz Apple TV Channel
61
?
6.3
/379/
64
/11/
50
/4/
3.4
/363/

Red Canyon (1949)
A former outlaw goes straight and is determined to catch and tame a wild stallion. Western.


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