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MGM Plus
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7.8
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79
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74
/9544/
3.8
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95
/83/
88
/26759/
71
/8/
cc age 11+

Ghostbusters (1984)
After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign pays off when a knockout cellist hires the squad to purge her swanky digs of demons that appear to be living in her refrigerator.
poster
80
7.8
/39720/
77
/902/
74
/566/
4.3
/124761/
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.
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77
7.6
/19722/
76
/346/
74
/343/
4.0
/39138/
81
/31/
69
/451/
67
/17/
cc age 14+

Running on Empty (1988)
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Their survival is threatened when their eldest son falls in love with a girl, and announces his wish to live his life on his own terms.
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MGM Plus
73
7.0
/55523/
69
/1434/
69
/1079/
3.6
/114213/
83
/60/
74
/579/
74
/16/

Dressed to Kill (1980)
After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.
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Fandango at Home Free
73
6.9
/81279/
68
/2946/
66
/1501/
3.6
/77302/
89
/227/
69
/1053/
79
/44/
cc age 17+

A Most Violent Year (2014)
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
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70
7.3
/10266/
71
/183/
70
/176/
3.6
/6562/
68
/25/
74
/171/

The Front (1976)
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
poster
65
6.8
/4133/
66
/114/
66
/53/
3.3
/1881/
71
/14/
79
/93/
54
/12/
cc age 13+

Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)
Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.
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64
7.0
/1302/
57
/19/
57
/9/
3.5
/230/
67
/18/
77
/63/
44
/15/

Man of the Century (1999)
If ever a man seems lost in time, it would be Johnny Twennies, a newspaper writer who talks, walks and fights like he stepped out of the Jazz Age. When a pack of thugs threaten his life unless he plants a fake news story, Johnny proves he's got plenty of moxie -- and that some ideas, like chivalry and justice, never go out of style.
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Hoopla
63
6.6
/2338/
68
/45/
63
/42/
3.6
/6202/
50
/16/
73
/80/

Times Square (1980)
When a 13-year-old girl befriends a defiant antisocial child of the streets, the mismatched runaways set off to the Big Apple to find their own adventure.
poster
62
6.6
/238199/
70
/10927/
65
/4727/
3.2
/235596/
55
/44/
61
/9560/
56
/14/
cc age 10+

Ghostbusters II (1989)
The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.
poster
61
5.9
/46558/
62
/1274/
61
/1087/
2.9
/23879/
58
/24/
55
/1029/
50
/13/

Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986)
An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.
poster
60
6.6
/1739/
61
/34/
66
/33/
3.5
/1501/
43
/7/
52
/12/

Daniel (1983)
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his experiences to the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted.
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58
6.4
/1091/
53
/11/
53
/16/
3.2
/531/
80
/5/
45
/4/

Hide in Plain Sight (1980)
True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Program.
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Amazon Prime Video
57
6.2
/26192/
63
/842/
58
/607/
3.0
/9220/
54
/145/
41
/286/
58
/38/

Fading Gigolo (2013)
Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.
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Amazon Prime Video
57
6.2
/63381/
62
/1841/
60
/965/
2.9
/42589/
34
/97/
37
/1008/
57
/27/
cc age 17+

All Good Things (2010)
Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.
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Netflix
54
6.9
/350011/
70
/13246/
65
/6202/
3.2
/367098/
47
/64/
57
/1444188/
37
/14/
cc age 14+

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The Ace is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!
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Amazon Prime Video
54
6.3
/29693/
61
/419/
59
/496/
3.0
/19775/
43
/42/
42
/358/
42
/25/

Celebrity (1998)
The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one lavish party to another and engages in numerous empty romances, he starts to doubt the worth of his work. Meanwhile, top TV producer Tony falls for Robin and introduces her to the world of celebrity.
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Kanopy
47
5.6
/12593/
61
/555/
55
/316/
2.6
/4378/
47
/19/
26
/82/
38
/9/

A Case of You (2013)
Young writer Sam has a crush on Birdie, the cute and quirky barista at his local coffee shop. When his conventional attempts to woo her crash and burn, he takes his efforts online, creating an Internet profile embellished with all of the details that would make him Birdie’s dream guy. When the harebrained scheme is a surprise success and Birdie falls for his exaggerated alter ego, Sam must keep up the act or lose his dream girl forever.
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The Roku Channel
62
46
6.5
/2465/
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/78/
55
/32/
3.2
/683/
67
/43/
62
/261/
62
/15/

Ira & Abby (2006)
A neurotic, young psychology student, with low self-esteem, has a chance encounter with a free-spirited, extremely gregarious woman who works at the Paris Health Club in New York City, and who suggests that they immediately get married to see how it will work out. Both of the student's parents are analysts, and they provide the happy couple with a gift certificate for a year of marriage counseling as a wedding present.
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46
5.6
/4580/
60
/94/
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2.7
/2095/
22
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38
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A Stranger Among Us (1992)
Detective Emily Eden is a tough New York City cop forced to go undercover to solve a puzzling murder. Her search for the truth takes her into a secret world of unwritten law and unspoken power, a world where the only way out is deeper in.
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MGM Plus
55
44
6.0
/3905/
63
/88/
53
/75/
3.2
/5165/
58
/26/
33
/20/

Last Embrace (1979)
Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a mental asylum, after which he eventually returns to work. But, once again, he begins to doubt his sanity when he receives a bizarre death threat written in Hebrew. Not knowing which of his colleagues wants to kill him, Hannan teams up with pretty young college student Ellie Fabian to attempt to unravel the mystery.
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43
4.7
/12760/
53
/181/
45
/161/
3.2
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40
/60/
39
/302/
51
/16/

Ishtar (1987)
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
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fuboTV
81
40
7.4
/520/
76
/85/
68
/16/
3.5
/964/
100
/11/
92
/3/

Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (2020)
The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the "Ghostbusters" franchise.
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MUBI
71
38
6.4
/534/
65
/12/
58
/12/
3.5
/1130/
100
/8/
68
/7/
72
/12/

Candy Mountain (1988)
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker.
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82
/45/
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/29/
3.9
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Curmudgeons (2016)
The best part of getting old is no longer caring what anybody thinks. Eighty years-old and in assisted living, Ralph Pajovic is involved in a relationship that makes his family anxious. On a crisp, winter day, his unlucky-in-love granddaughter comes for what seems like an ordinary visit. A curmudgeon by nature, Ralph can’t possibly predict the surprise she has in store for him.
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Amazon Prime Video
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35
6.0
/1349/
60
/35/
57
/32/
3.2
/254/
67
/27/
33
/37/
61
/10/

Roadie (2012)
After 20 years on the road with Blue Oyster Cult, Jimmy Testagros returns to his hometown to life with his ailing mother. Complications arise when he falls for an old friend, who is now married to his longtime nemesis.
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Hoopla
35
4.8
/1659/
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/43/
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2.8
/745/
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Funny About Love (1990)
As political cartoonist Duffy and his bride Meg fail to conceive, he and sorority girl Daphne succeed.
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31
5.3
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/54/
2.8
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20
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Out on a Limb (1992)
While heading to the town where his sister, Marci, lives, big-city banker Bill Campbell is robbed by a woman who takes everything he has, including his clothes and a business document worth millions of dollars. Bill eventually reunites with Marci, who is in a tizzy because she thinks their stepfather has been killed. While trying to determine if his sister is right, Bill must also get back his valuable paperwork.
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6.7
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65
/49/
56
/24/
3.3
/636/
67
/28/

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies (1994)
While working for a Hollywood movie studio, Indy finds that he is no match for the wily megalomaniacal director Erich von Stroheim when the two lock horns over the ever increasing budget of Stroheim's film Foolish Wives. Though battered by the film industry, Indy decides to give it one more chance and goes on a location shoot with legendary director John Ford. Ford and his cronies, including aging gunman Wyatt Earp, help him see the magic of movies and moviemaking, and when an actor is accidentally killed, Indy pitches in to save the film.
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Kanopy
48
23
4.3
/1134/
60
/71/
53
/48/
3.0
/797/
24
/12/

The Girl on the Train (2014)
When documentary filmmaker Danny Hart boards a train at Grand Central Station he has no reason to expect anything more than a pleasant ride to upstate New York to interview the subjects for his latest project. But a chance encounter with a mysterious young woman leads him on a journey of a very different sort. Within the blink of an eye his life of complacency is left behind for a world in which the line between fantasy and reality is blurred...a world of intrigue, danger, and the possibility of blood
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6.8
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/4/
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3.7
/1188/

Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers (1972)
An aspiring actress from Kansas comes to New York and meets a host of zany characters.
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Hoopla
52
13
6.2
/616/
47
/8/
60
/2/
3.3
/255/
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/6/
50
/12/

I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982)
An adaptation of Barbara Gordon's nonfiction account of her addiction to Valium.
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?
10
/1/

Divorced Kids' Blues (1987)
A 15-year-old struggles through the politics of divorce as his parents split up.
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6.0
/88/
60
/1/

Whiskey School (2005)
Leopold De Angeli is a talented playwright, but like many scribes he fancies the drink a little too much. In the hopes of saving Leopold's life, his theater friends come together to stage an intervention for him.
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?
6.6
/17/

Skin Deep (2011)
A woman repays a loan she borrowed long ago from an unscrupulous lender.
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?
7.6
/11/

Gareeb Nawaz's Taxi (2010)
A Bangladeshi Cab Driver in New York City embarks on his own journey of self-discovery when a drag queen hails his cab.
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Fandango at Home Free
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5.9
/88/
15
/2/

Hudson River Blues (1997)
Hoping to help their marriage, a Manhattan lawyer (Rya Kihlstedt) brings her burned-out husband (Robert Stanton) to her mother's home upstate.
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?
6.1
/53/
10
/1/
60
/2/

A Doctor's Story (1984)
A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.
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64
?
6.9
/168/
60
/1/

A Jersey Tale (2004)
Jersey City teen Ray Ray Morales is wasting time in a low paying job until a local loan shark offers him a job — making sure that Ray Ray's friend, an immigrant pawnbroker makes his weekly payments.
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Amazon Prime Video
42
?
5.9
/145/
40
/3/
30
/2/

My Old Man (1979)
An unlucky horse trainer, Frank Butler, wins big at the track and buys his 16-year old daughter a horse to salvage their relationship. When Frank is hurt prior to the opening race, Jo must go it alone.
poster
?
7.0
/40/
60
/1/

Aktorka (2015)
A documentary about Elzbieta Czyzewska, one of Poland's greatest actresses, a beauty icon of the 1960s, who died in 2010. She had a great career in Poland, but the filmmakers focus more on her attempts to make a name for herself as an actress in America, after her sudden emigration to the United States with her husband, American journalist David Halberstam. Friends and acquaintances of Elzbieta Czyzewska speak without embellishment about her failed marriage, her battle with alcoholism won after years, and her attempts to return to Poland. This is a story about the fate of the actress at different stages of her career: at the top, at the bottom and in between.
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7.0
/34/
10
/1/

Largo Desolato (1990)
A fictionalized autobiographical play written by Czechoslovakian playwright-turned-president Vaclav Havel in 1984 upon his release from a four-and-one-half-year prison term for political subversion. The play focuses on two days in the life of a dissident writer who is awaiting the knock at the door that may send him to prison.
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The Roku Channel
57
?
6.9
/110/
56
/3/
47
/4/

Invitation to a Suicide (2005)
Raised in an insular Polish immigrant neighborhood in Brooklyn where he's destined to become a poor baker like his father, Kaz Malek attempts to steal from a Russian mobster and run away with the girl of his dreams, Eva. Not cut out for a life of crime, he ends up with a $10,000 debt to the mobster who threatens to kill his father. Unable to pay or face his father's death, Kaz comes up with a novel plan: he'll hang himself and sell tickets to the show. He is surprised to find, however, that the mobster as well as the neighborhood are extremely supportive of this idea... not to mention his father. But even if he can sell the tickets will he really go through with it? By the time this dark comedy reaches its surprising conclusion, Kaz learns that sometimes embracing death is the only way to a better life.
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53
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6.9
/334/
54
/5/
42
/5/
50
/2/

Never Forget (1991)
Mel and Jane Mermelstein are a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. Mel is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz, and Jane, a Southern Baptist from Tennessee. Their four children are good kids, typical Americans, with just enough orneriness to irritate each other, but enough love and class to pull together when it counts.
poster
55
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6.0
/532/
48
/7/
65
/4/
50

Perfect Witness (1989)
An innocent man is thrust into a political power struggle in this drama. After witnessing a mob killing, New York restaurant owner Sam Paxton (Aidan Quinn) reports the crime. Overzealous attorneys (Brian Dennehy and Stockard Channing) put pressure on Paxton to testify in court, but Paxton is in a tough spot when the mob starts threatening his family. Paxton now faces an impossible choice: testify and put his family at risk … or go to jail.
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70
?
6.1
/110/
74
/5/

Night-Flowers (1979)
Two Vietnam vets, Tom and Nordi, live sad lives in a crumbling New Jersey city. Sharing a one room apartment, they talk about their inability to hold down real work, struggle to get noticed at the VA and fail to connect with women. This changes for Tom when he meets Marcella and they begin a relationship. However, he can't escape his past with Nordi and the toxic bond soon takes a gruesome turn.
poster
51
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6.5
/370/
64
/5/
26
/3/
38
/7/

Looking for an Echo (2000)
The lead singer of an oldies group reminisces about the good ol' days and a potential comeback.
poster
61
?
6.3
/221/
60
/6/
60
/1/

Kojak: Ariana (1989)
One of Kojak's old enemies uses Ariana, a young Greek girl, as bait to trap the legendary New York detective. Meanwhile, Kojak finds himself a brash young associate.


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