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Criterion Channel
85
7.9
/8997/
78
/253/
75
/145/
4.1
/23565/
92
/24/
91
/204/
77
/14/

Burden of Dreams (1982)
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.
poster
84
7.9
/136462/
78
/3582/
76
/1995/
4.2
/205658/
94
/71/
92
/2245/
84
/18/
cc age 13+

All the President's Men (1976)
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
poster
83
8.0
/347461/
77
/6300/
77
/3879/
4.2
/521574/
82
/218/
89
/10075/
78
/34/
cc age 17+

Magnolia (1999)
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.
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Kanopy
83
8.5
/381274/
82
/5931/
82
/4746/
4.4
/262581/
96
/67/
94
/4737/
82
/9/
cc age 14+

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.5
/6384/
73
/80/
69
/73/
3.8
/4764/
95
/19/
85
/110/

Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962)
An Irish miser, his morphine addicted wife, their debauched older son, and a gravely ill younger son. A quiet Connecticut vacation home on one foggy day in August 1912 becomes the backdrop for domestic decline.
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Amazon Prime Video
79
7.8
/19659/
76
/441/
75
/407/
4.0
/18993/
67
/21/
86
/376/
71
/5/

Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
A young American soldier, rendered in pseudocoma from an artillery shell from WWI, recalls his life leading up to that point.
poster
79
7.7
/271962/
77
/6233/
77
/4510/
3.9
/200666/
83
/63/
89
/4674/
66
/21/
cc age 14+

Philadelphia (1993)
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
poster
78
7.2
/11280/
72
/217/
69
/215/
3.7
/7697/
94
/17/
81
/153/

The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
Double-crossed and left without water in the desert, Cable Hogue is saved when he finds a spring. It is in just the right spot for a much needed rest stop on the local stagecoach line, and Hogue uses this to his advantage. He builds a house and makes money off the stagecoach passengers. Hildy, a prostitute from the nearest town, moves in with him. Hogue has everything going his way until the advent of the automobile ends the era of the stagecoach.
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MGM Plus
78
7.1
/58309/
70
/1408/
66
/699/
3.5
/46935/
92
/60/
76
/1275/
82
/17/
cc age 13+

Parenthood (1989)
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.
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Amazon Prime Video
77
7.8
/13012/
74
/230/
73
/209/
3.9
/20288/
78
/27/
92
/300/
70
/17/

My Best Fiend (1999)
A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.
poster
77
7.4
/134779/
76
/4258/
71
/1926/
3.8
/82533/
89
/55/
84
/1936/
66
/20/
cc age 17+

Crimson Tide (1995)
After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide threat. U.S. submarine Capt. Frank Ramsey signs on a relatively green but highly recommended Lt. Cmdr. Ron Hunter to the USS Alabama, which may be the only ship able to stop a possible Armageddon. When Ramsey insists that the Alabama must act aggressively, Hunter, fearing they will start rather than stop a disaster, leads a potential mutiny to stop him.
poster
73
6.8
/5706/
70
/100/
64
/72/
3.6
/6947/
91
/22/
60
/85/

Melvin and Howard (1980)
The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes. Inspired by real events.
poster
72
6.7
/17117/
68
/369/
66
/226/
3.4
/12485/
86
/37/
67
/235/
70
/30/

The Paper (1994)
Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchet-man Alicia Clark—Henry's nemesis—impose unpopular cutbacks.
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72
7.0
/20100/
71
/910/
68
/424/
3.4
/11206/
86
/14/
69
/476/

The Day After (1983)
In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town's residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.
poster
70
6.3
/2067/
61
/23/
56
/24/
3.2
/939/
100
/8/
58
/35/

Divorce American Style (1967)
After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.
poster
The Roku Channel
70
6.6
/5185/
69
/122/
65
/99/
3.3
/2149/
88
/8/
53
/40/
68
/7/

Hour of the Gun (1967)
Marshal Wyatt Earp kills a couple of men of the Clanton-gang in a fight. In revenge Clanton's thugs kill the marshal's brother. Thus, Wyatt Earp starts to chase the killers together with his friend Doc Holliday.
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77
70
7.8
/2892/
80
/310/
75
/242/
3.9
/9534/

La Classe américaine (1993)
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)
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69
6.8
/23986/
70
/685/
66
/401/
3.4
/16522/
84
/37/
71
/373/
56
/17/

Quick Change (1990)
With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation and executes a flawless robbery. The only thing left for the trio to do is make their getaway out of the city and to the airport. It sounds simple enough, but it seems that fate deserts them immediately after the bank heist. One mishap after another conspires to keep these robbers from reaching freedom.
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Disney Plus
68
6.7
/12686/
69
/444/
64
/197/
3.3
/16198/
63
/35/
64
/402/
68
/13/
cc age 12+

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?
poster
67
6.7
/4230/
71
/95/
65
/56/
3.3
/1432/
71
/14/
68
/47/
cc age 10+

Max Dugan Returns (1983)
An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.
poster
67
7.2
/22999/
73
/443/
72
/445/
3.9
/28959/
60
/65/
82
/463/
53
/7/

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
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Hoopla
67
7.0
/11277/
71
/140/
64
/156/
3.4
/5828/
73
/30/
71
/131/
58
/6/

Julia (1977)
At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
poster
Hoopla
67
6.1
/9983/
65
/167/
58
/106/
3.3
/6389/
71
/126/
70
/436/
58
/24/

Beloved (1998)
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved". Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things start to happen...
poster
Amazon Prime Video
65
6.4
/20681/
64
/783/
63
/367/
3.2
/16332/
78
/36/
63
/677/
68
/10/

A Boy and His Dog (1975)
Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War IV, where survivors must battle for food and shelter in the desert-like wasteland. Vic and Blood eke out a meager existence, foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats.
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Disney Plus
64
6.2
/9784/
65
/310/
62
/199/
3.1
/6648/
75
/16/
50
/300/
cc age 10+

The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
Mischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in an attempt to take away a $600 inheritance from his late mother. Fearing for his life, Huck fakes his own death and escapes. He soon runs into his friend, Jim, a slave fleeing his master. Together, the pair embarks on a raft journey down the Mississippi River, staying ahead of pursuers who blame the slave for Huck's alleged murder.
poster
63
6.6
/5160/
71
/128/
62
/110/
3.3
/2557/
75
/8/
67
/71/

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.
poster
63
7.5
/39525/
75
/1033/
71
/581/
3.7
/16564/
57
/30/
81
/738/
46
/8/

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
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MGM Plus
61
6.1
/2010/
58
/29/
55
/22/
3.2
/1517/
67
/6/
44
/21/
67
/8/

The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968)
Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy Minsky's Burlesque is hardly the place for her Dances From The Bible. But the show's comedian Raymond sees a way of wrong-footing the local do-gooders by announcing the new Paris sensation "Mme Fifi" and putting on Rachel's performance as the place is raided. All too complicated, the more so since her father is scouring the town for her and both Raymond and his straight-man Chick are falling for Rachel.
poster
60
6.2
/12334/
65
/294/
59
/110/
3.1
/7929/
35
/20/
54
/356/
57
/20/
cc age 11+

Little Big League (1994)
When the owner of the Minnesota Twins passes away, he bequeaths the team to his preteen grandson. The newly minted head honcho quickly appoints himself manager, causing unrest in an organization that struggles to take orders from a 12-year-old.
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74
60
7.3
/5100/
73
/88/
71
/74/
3.6
/1460/
86
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A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)
A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio.
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73
59
7.3
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64
/44/
71
/29/
3.6
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/18/
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/99/

A Thousand Clowns (1965)
Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. What turns up is a social worker, who falls in love with Murray and a bit in love with Nick. As the child welfare people try to force Murray to become a conventional man (as the price they demand for allowing him to keep Nick), the nephew, who until now has gloried in his Uncle's iconoclastic approach to life, tries to play mediator. But when he succeeds, he is alarmed by the uncle's willingness to cave in to society in order to save the relationship.
poster
58
5.7
/1537/
64
/19/
48
/17/
3.0
/991/
67
/6/
23
/10/

Storyville (1992)
While investigating his own blackmailing, a young politician uncovers his family's deep secrets.
poster
53
6.0
/2695/
55
/21/
58
/31/
3.1
/1566/
29
/7/
51
/24/

The Trial (1993)
Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite being "arrested," is allowed to remain free and go to work. But despite the strange nature of his arrest, Joseph soon learns that his trial, however odd, is very real, and tries desperately to spare himself from the court's judgement.
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MGM Plus
59
50
6.3
/4003/
65
/77/
61
/75/
3.3
/2308/
67
/12/
54
/30/
41
/7/

Comes a Horseman (1978)
Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage... they eventually find love.
poster
50
6.1
/6067/
63
/74/
57
/76/
3.0
/1873/
22
/49/
42
/92/

A Thousand Acres (1997)
The lives of an Iowa farmer's three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath them the family's fertile farm.
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Amazon Prime Video
50
5.2
/6079/
63
/176/
53
/108/
2.6
/2789/
38
/8/
30
/152/

Raise the Titanic (1980)
To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic.
poster
77
49
7.6
/535/
61
/10/
76
/16/
3.9
/2162/
82
/218/
89
/10075/

That Moment: Magnolia Diary (2000)
A very in-depth documentary that follows the very over-worked director Paul Thomas Anderson through a gruelling 80+ days of shooting for the film Magnolia (1999), containing behind-the-scenes footage and interviews.
poster
Hoopla
48
5.7
/1919/
56
/31/
57
/30/
3.1
/565/
54
/13/
28
/12/

The Good Mother (1988)
After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by her ex, who claims that her lover has a bad influence on the kid.
poster
The Roku Channel
48
6.1
/2265/
63
/41/
57
/35/
2.9
/1337/
40
/5/
36
/34/

Julius Caesar (1970)
All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, and the resulting war between the faction led by the assassins and the faction led by Mark Anthony.
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Amazon Prime Video
68
45
6.8
/2838/
70
/43/
60
/36/
3.3
/1146/
80
/10/
65
/19/

Isadora (1968)
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.
poster
44
5.6
/1153/
50
/13/
45
/22/
2.9
/584/
31
/13/
48
/10/

Square Dance (1987)
An awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in Fort Worth.
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62
44
6.0
/2268/
58
/82/
57
/45/
3.2
/2279/
88
/8/
50
/6/

Black Rainbow (1989)
Martha Travis is a medium who makes contact with spirits "on the other side" and connects them with their loved ones still alive, in public performances. Trouble begins when she gives a message to Mary Kuron from her husband, Tom. But Tom isn't dead... yet. And Martha not only knows he will die, she also knows who killed him. And the murderer knows she knows...
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Amazon Prime Video
43
5.7
/8590/
61
/238/
58
/138/
2.7
/7254/
9
/11/
67
/453/
32
/12/

Dream a Little Dream (1989)
Bobby Kellar has a crush on Lainie Diamond, girlfriend of school jerk Joel. Coleman is working on an experiment which will help him move into a place where Dreams are reality. When an accident occurs Coleman finds himself in Bobby's body and can only contact Bobby in his dreams.
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77
42
8.4
/809/
71
/23/
76
/14/
82
/66/
74
/538/

Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004 (2006)
This is a collection of Metallica's videos ending with those shot for St. Anger.
poster
67
37
6.8
/1993/
63
/20/
62
/25/
3.4
/538/
76
/322/

The Journey (1959)
A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.
poster
Kanopy
75
37
7.3
/613/
73
/39/
72
/18/
3.4
/345/
93
/15/
78
/2/
63
/5/

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone (2016)
Vancouver-based filmmaker and TV news veteran Fred Peabody explores the life and legacy of the maverick American journalist I.F. Stone, whose long one-man crusade against government deception lives on in the work of such contemporary filmmakers and journalists as Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald, David Corn, and Matt Taibbi.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
50
34
5.0
/2749/
56
/74/
49
/45/
2.7
/1070/
41
/37/

The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)
When the young Texas Ranger, John Reid, is the sole survivor of an ambush arranged by the militaristic outlaw leader, Butch Cavendich, he is rescued by an old childhood Comanche friend, Tonto. When he recovers from his wounds, he dedicates his life to fighting the evil that Cavendich represents. To this end, John Reid becomes the great masked western hero, The Lone Ranger. With the help of Tonto, the pair go to rescue President Grant when Cavendich takes him hostage.
poster
HBO Max
75
33
7.3
/619/
78
/29/
71
/21/
3.6
/953/
91
/11/
65
/2/

Arthur Miller: Writer (2017)
One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, which continue to move audiences around the world today. He also made headlines for being targeted by the House Un-American Activities Committee at the height of the McCarthy Era and entering into a tumultuous marriage with Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. Told from the unique perspective of his daughter, filmmaker Rebecca Miller, Arthur Miller: Writer is an illuminating portrait that combines interviews spanning decades and a wealth of personal archival material, and provides new insights into Miller’s life as an artist and exploring his character in all its complexity.


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