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fuboTV
80
7.4
/3349/
68
/40/
64
/38/
3.7
/1923/
100
/10/
84
/32/

I Never Sang for My Father (1970)
Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns him that moving so far away could be hard on his father. Just before the wedding, the mother dies. Hackman's sister (who has been disowned by their father for marrying a Jewish man) advises him to live his own life, and not let himself be controlled by their father.
poster
The Roku Channel
48
5.3
/2754/
65
/116/
53
/42/
2.6
/1309/
43
/7/
38
/35/
35
/6/

Oh, God! Book II (1980)
God appears before 11-year-old Tracy Richards to ask for her help to spread his word and influence over the world which she suggests the slogan 'Think God.' Naturaly, Tracy's divorced parents think Tracy's crazy, and plot to halt her 'heaven-sent' mission to spread God's word.
poster
43
5.4
/788/
41
/5/
42
/13/
3.1
/265/
22
/2/

The Last Married Couple in America (1980)
Jeff and Mari Thompson are contently married, but they are stunned to see many of their friends and neighbors going through separations and divorces. Seemingly surrounded by people with domestic problems, Jeff and Mari begin to question their own relationship.
poster
62
18
6.4
/906/
73
/19/
64
/5/
3.2
/256/
65
/13/
42
/4/

The Promise (1979)
A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.
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52
14
6.3
/906/
55
/6/
53
/13/
3.3
/580/
24
/12/

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)
Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor husband, her alienated daughter and estranged son.
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48
10
5.4
/796/
48
/26/
48
/13/
3.1
/271/
31
/4/

Backfire (1988)
Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him unresponsive to her needs. Mara wants out, but she also wants Donnie's money. When Mara meets a mysterious stranger, Reed, at a local bar, she believes she has found the right person to help her out of her predicament. But Mara worries that Donnie's sister, Jill, is on to her.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
57
9
5.6
/489/
58
/10/
67
/10/
3.1
/302/
44
/3/

Do You Know the Muffin Man? (1989)
Roger Dollison, a police officer, and his wife, Kendra, are living the American dream. They have two children, Teddy and Sandy, a lovely home, and a dog named Rex. What they know and how they live as a family is irreparably changed one day when it is discovered that a classmate of Teddy's is the apparent victim of sexual abuse and molestation at the respected neighborhood daycare center. Like all other parents, the Dollisons are tormented — "we should have known, we should have seen" — but their devastation is complete when Teddy tells his own story, one he promised his abusers he would never tell.
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7.8
/17/
10
/1/

Rings Around the World (1967)
While writing a book on the circus, author John Shawcross reflects upon the great acts he has seen over the years and the mystique of circus people. He recalls the solo trapeze act of La Mara; Tarzan, Sahib, and their elephant; Marco's sword-balancing act; an archery act in which Grey Arrow shoots an apple off the head of Zuni, his wife; the Mascott Sisters' head-to-head balancing act on a high ladder; the juggling of Rudy Cardenas; high bar specialists, the Tongas; Gunther Gebel Williams with his tiger; the flying bar act of the Laribles; Carl Sembach-Krone's trained horses; lion tamer Pablo Noel; the Gaonas and the Four Titos on the trampoline; the Flying Armors on the flying trapeze; Frieda Krone and her elephants; Fredy Knie, Sr., and his Lippizaner; the Francesco Clowns; Lilly Yokoi on her bicycle; Mendez and Seitz on the tightrope; and Pauline Schumann on the trick horse.
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6.4
/60/
10
/1/
70
/1/

Fatal Judgement (1988)
A Massachusetts nurse (Patty Duke) is accused of exercising Fatal Judgment in this made-for-TV movie. While tending a seriously ill cancer patient, the nurse administered a generous dose of morphine. The patient died, which is why the woman is now on trial for murder.
poster
38
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6.9
/146/
10
/1/

Hobson's Choice (1983)
Daughter of the owner of a shoe store rebels against her father by marrying one of his employees.
poster
65
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7.3
/474/
63
/12/
59
/11/

Consenting Adult (1985)
Young and shy Jeff discovers his attraction to men. After struggling with himself he comes out to his parents. Mum eventually listens to his son and tries to understand his feelings, but his Dad would rather die — which, in the end, he really does, leaving behind a mother, her son and his friend to work those things out Jeff and his Dad had never the courage to talk about.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
55
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6.0
/221/
51
/7/

Absolute Strangers (1991)
A husband tries to keep his comatose wife alive by allowing doctors to terminate her pregnancy. Hearing about this, anti-abortion protesters start a legal campaign to gain legal custody of the fetus.
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?
6.0
/36/
20
/1/

Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye (1977)
Based on the best-selling book, this movie focuses on John F. Kennedy's first run for a congressional seat in 1946.
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?
6.5
/85/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Country Gold (1982)
An aging country singer becomes irritated with the success of a popular young country singer. However, she is not yet ready to become yesterday's news.
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58
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6.7
/273/
50
/1/

Innocent Victims (1996)
Army Sergeant Tim Hennis is wrongly convicted of killing the wife and children of an Air Force captain. Based on a true story.
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?
7.2
/95/

After the Fall (1974)
Adaptation of Arthur Miller's semi-autobiographical play about Quentin, a Jewish intellectual from New York who must reexamine his life and his troubled relationship with Holga.
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MGM Plus
80
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5.3
/284/
61
/5/
100
/1/
88
/51/

Dragonfly (1976)
A man, recently released from a mental hospital, tries to track down his family.
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40
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6.3
/162/
10
/1/
50
/1/

Child's Cry (1986)
A social worker starts working with a shy, withdrawn 6 year old whom she believes is the victim of sexual abuse.
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57
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6.2
/203/
64
/5/
45
/4/

Call Me Anna (1990)
Patty Duke portrays herself in this made-for-tv biopic about her struggles as a child star growing into adulthood.
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fuboTV
56
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6.2
/193/
35
/2/
57
/3/
70
/5/

To All My Friends on Shore (1972)
An airport redcap works hard to get his family out of the ghetto, only to discover that his son has sickle-cell anemia.
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Amazon Prime Video
66
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6.3
/207/
36
/3/
100
/1/

My First Love (1988)
Widow Jean Miller thinks she's ready for a new romance with her high school sweetheart, Sam Morrissey, a physician of considerable means. The only thing standing in the way of rekindling this first love is the presence of his very attractive, very together 39-year-old girlfriend, Claire.
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6.5
/78/
55
/2/
20
/1/

Burning Rage (1984)
While coal fires burn beneath a depressed mining town a greedy businessman stops at nothing to buy up the mineral rights.
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55
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6.5
/118/
53
/3/
47
/3/

A Death in the Family (2002)
A young wife's religious faith is shaken when her husband dies in a car accident.
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38
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5.0
/319/
10
/1/
55
/3/

The Affair (1973)
A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer who becomes her first love.
poster
51
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5.2
/272/
50
/3/

Confessions: Two Faces of Evil (1994)
Two men being questioned in a police station on Christmas Eve both confess to the murder of a cop. With both stories seeming plausible, an investigator is called in to determine which suspect is telling the truth - and why the other one is lying. Crime drama, starring James Earl Jones and Jason Bateman.


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