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HBO Max Amazon Channel
80
8.0
/17125/
79
/460/
78
/287/
3.6
/7558/
93
/598/
cc age 15+

Something the Lord Made (2004)
A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
poster
MGM Plus
79
7.6
/40166/
75
/1111/
75
/589/
4.1
/70598/
98
/45/
88
/929/
68
/4/

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
poster
75
7.1
/11214/
72
/566/
69
/237/
3.6
/7000/
90
/10/
76
/157/

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes clear, that the now-sentient Colossus is far more intelligent than its creator realized—with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.
poster
MGM Plus
64
60
6.4
/6528/
70
/206/
61
/104/
3.3
/6760/
67
/9/
61
/98/
60
/4/

White Lightning (1973)
An ex-con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.
poster
71
55
7.3
/2992/
70
/72/
68
/56/
3.7
/1490/
73
/73/

Playing for Time (1980)
When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas chambers.
poster
61
51
6.5
/5528/
71
/146/
63
/86/
3.1
/1328/
45
/11/
60
/89/

MacArthur (1977)
The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.
poster
69
47
6.9
/1865/
67
/65/
65
/59/
3.4
/1080/
79
/41/

Sybil (2007)
A true story of a young woman whose abusive childhood results in her developing a multiple personality disorder.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
70
44
7.4
/3514/
67
/38/
66
/24/
3.3
/687/
77
/78/

Warm Springs (2005)
Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
poster
47
42
5.7
/4022/
64
/142/
56
/89/
2.9
/3385/
29
/7/
31
/59/
39
/5/

Nightmares (1983)
A collection of short stories. In one a woman who leaves her house late at night to drive to the store while a killer is loose encounters some problems. In the second an arcade whiz kid's obsession with a game leads to deadly consequences. In the third a small town priest loses his faith and decides to leave town, but in the desert is stalked by a mysterious black pick-up truck. In the final story, a family's problem with a rat is larger than they think.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
68
34
7.1
/1549/
73
/57/
63
/20/
3.2
/1311/
70
/22/

Miss Evers' Boys (1997)
The true story of the US Government's 1932 Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure having been developed.
poster
68
32
6.7
/1159/
71
/26/
47
/16/
3.3
/315/
80
/5/
77
/22/

A Lesson Before Dying (1999)
In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog, to indicate that he didn't have the sense to know what he was doing. Nevertheless convicted, he is sentenced to die, but his godmother and the aunt of the local schoolteacher convince school teacher go to the convicted man's cell each day to try to reaffirm to him that he is not an animal but a man with dignity.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
71
29
7.1
/1308/
71
/10/
62
/16/
3.4
/206/
78
/502/

For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000)
In the early 1970s, Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval (Andy Garcia) is torn between his own musical dreams and the dreams of his wife, Marianela (Mía Maestro), a fervent supporter of the ideals of the Castro revolution. Also starring Charles S. Dutton as Dizzy Gillespie and José Zúñiga as Paquito D'Rivera, this gripping jazz biopic is at once a detailed portrait of a musician and a stinging critique
poster
71
29
7.2
/1183/
73
/34/
72
/19/
3.3
/397/
73
/30/

Skylark (1993)
Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the children have to leave the farm.
poster
68
27
6.9
/1545/
67
/37/
72
/21/
3.2
/645/

The Karen Carpenter Story (1989)
Story of the meteoric rise and sudden fall of Karen Carpenter, who became a famous singer before battling anorexia and bulimia. This made-for-TV movie is the authorized version of the life of Karen Carpenter and was made with the approval of Richard Carpenter and the Carpenter family.
poster
fuboTV
62
26
7.1
/817/
54
/14/
61
/12/
64
/57/

The Incident (1990)
Small town lawyer, Harmon Cobb, defends a Nazi prisoner of war against murder charges. Set during World War II, Cobb has to contend with the difficulties of defending the devil when the town's only doctor (Barnard Hughes) dies while at "Camp Bremen" in the fictitious town of Bremen, Colorado.
poster
66
26
7.3
/959/
65
/8/
60
/9/
67
/64/

Tribes (1970)
A Marine Corps drill instructor who is disgusted by the fact that the Corps now accepts draftees finds himself pitted against a hippie who has been drafted but refuses to accept the military's way of doing things.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
57
26
6.1
/1058/
59
/41/
61
/39/
3.1
/438/
46
/22/

Salem Witch Trials (2002)
Salem, Massachusetts. A small town—with no clear governing body—became embroiled in a scandal that forever stands as one of the darkest chapters in American history. For those accused of witchcraft by their neighbors and friends, there was little chance of clearing their names; the mass paranoia that ravaged through the community took the lives of 19 innocent men and women.
poster
25
3.1
/52983/
46
/1608/
40
/1129/
1.6
/49679/
2
/45/
15
/2626/
15
/15/
cc age 13+

Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael, and his family. But a great white shark has followed her there, hungry for more lives.
poster
The Roku Channel
66
23
6.7
/1458/
58
/22/
61
/28/
3.4
/252/
76
/12/

Out of the Ashes (2003)
The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz death camp of World War II.
poster
The Roku Channel
64
21
6.6
/717/
60
/12/
63
/13/
3.0
/360/
73
/24/

Sweet Nothing in My Ear (2008)
Family drama about a deaf and hearing couple who struggle to decide whether or not to give their deaf son a cochlear implant.
poster
52
13
6.9
/335/
54
/5/
42
/5/
44
/39/

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
MGM Plus
51
13
6.2
/812/
45
/9/
57
/9/
3.1
/270/
27
/83/

Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring (1971)
Dennie has returned from a year among the hippies to her superficial, image-conscious suburban family. She must face their disapproval of her actions. They refuse to even try to understand. She must also deal with an ex-lover, and a beloved young sister who is following in her footsteps, wanting the idealistic hippie life but making some rash decisions in the process.
poster
55
11
6.0
/929/
55
/10/
65
/13/
3.1
/215/
Popcorn
36
/5/

Crime and Punishment (1998)
This is the story of Rodya Raskalnikov (Patrick Dempsey), an intellectual who is suspended from University and is living in poverty in 19th century Russia. Raskalnikov believes that in order for great men like Napoleon to accomplish great things, they must be above the law.
poster
59
11
5.8
/640/
52
/12/
65
/14/
3.2
/224/

The Spy in the Green Hat (1967)
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's grandmother (Penny Santon), who is forcing Solo to marry the young woman. He successfully escapes, but is hunted by a legion of stereotyped Italian gangsters. Now that's comedy.
poster
48
10
7.0
/297/
10
/1/
52
/6/
62
/13/

Miss Rose White (1992)
Two sisters, one a Polish concentration camp survivor, the other safely relocated to America with her father, are reunited in New York in 1947.
poster
51
10
5.7
/681/
46
/6/
49
/15/
3.3
/288/
38
/4/

One Spy Too Many (1966)
The men from U.N.C.L.E." are back! This time Robert Vaughn and David McCallum must stop the megalomaniac Alexander from committing the world's greatest crimes.
poster
MGM Plus
57
7
5.9
/347/
53
/8/
55
/10/
62
/2/

Hustling (1975)
Based on Gail Sheehy's book, this film chronicles how a reporter for a New York City magazine decided to investigate the city's prostitution industry to find out just who was making all the money. What she found out caused a firestorm of controversy--that many of the city's richest and most powerful families and corporations benefited directly and indirectly from the illegal sex business.
poster
71
?
7.7
/755/
67
/8/
70
/5/

The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973)
A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives.
poster
46
?
6.2
/165/
20
/1/
57
/3/

The Wall (1998)
The story of three items left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall: a pencil holder, a sheriff's badge, and an electric guitar. Each item connects the living with the dead and are left as either memorials or to heal the wounds of war.
poster
37
?
6.5
/237/
10
/1/

Terrible Joe Moran (1984)
A wheelchair-bound, former boxer deals with his long estranged granddaughter whom is seeking financial help for her writing career and helping her loser boyfriend get out of debt with the local mob.
poster
?
7.1
/67/
66
/5/
55
/2/

Vola sciusciù (2000)
In war-torn Puglia, mute homeless but childlike in spirit fifty-year-old Sciusciù witnesses three Allied paratroopers landing one night and resolves to guide them to safety. He brings them to his trusted friend Annamaria’s farmhouse, persuading her to hide and protect the fugitives.
poster
34
?
5.1
/168/
10
/1/
42
/6/

Ivory Hunters (1990)
An author discovers that his missing research assistant's disappearance may be related to illegal trade in ivory tusks. He's then asked by the local inspector to help him find the poachers.
poster
42
?
6.6
/108/
40
/2/
20
/1/

Tomorrow's Child (1982)
The wife of a research geneticist agrees to the experimental procedure of a 'test-tube baby' by having her fetus brought to full term in a glass jar in a laboratory.
poster
MGM Plus
?
6.7
/82/
50
/3/
53
/6/

Memorial Day (1983)
An attorney finds himself at the center of a surprise reunion with the veterans of his platoon from Vietnam.The reunion stirs up painful memories and disturbing secrets for all involved.
poster
?
6.6
/38/
10
/1/
60
/1/

The Sunshine Patriot (1968)
An American spy tries desperately to get out from behind the Iron Curtain with some crucial microfilm with the Communist security police close on his heels.
poster
?
6.6
/20/
10
/1/

The Man Who Died Twice (1973)
A painter who surfaces after having disappeared for seven years finds himself contending with art forgeries and a crooked art dealer.
poster
?
6.2
/88/
10
/1/
10
/1/

Somebody's Daughter (1992)
A stripper and her bodyguard become involved in a murder.
poster
?
7.1
/44/
80
/2/

Friendly Persuasion (1975)
During the Civil War, a Quaker couple risks their lives by helping runaway slaves.
poster
51
?
5.6
/238/
36
/3/
62
/4/

There Must Be a Pony (1986)
Marguerite Sydney is a celebrated Hollywood star attempting a comeback after a stay in a mental hospital, as well as trying to re-establish a relationship with her teenage son, and risking a romance with a mysterious stranger.
poster
65
?
6.7
/412/
57
/9/
77
/3/
62
/2/

Bojangles (2001)
The life of the legendary showman Bill Robinson, African American tap dancing star of stage and screen, better known as Mr. Bojangles.
poster
35
?
6.0
/152/
10
/1/

Of Pure Blood (1986)
A mother investigating her son's mysterious death finds much more than she bargained for. Casting director Alicia Browning (Remick) takes leave of her job in NYC to investigate what happened to her son Mark (Browning) in Germany. Her persistence uncovers perplexing details that lead to the discovery of some very unsettling, and dark personal memories!
poster
43
?
6.5
/267/
10
/1/
55
/4/

Choices of the Heart (1983)
Jeannie Donovan, a party-girl searching for that something missing in her life, finds it in El Salvador, hooking up with three nuns and a heartful of ache, love, and horror in the midst of a civil war. This is a true story of the four American churchwomen murdered in the Central American countryside, and the indifference of the American government to their sad and desperate story.
poster
46
?
5.2
/515/
35
/5/
45
/8/
50
/6/

Coast to Coast (1980)
Madie is a neurotic, wealthy woman who escapes from a New York state mental hospital where her unwholesome husband had her committed to avoid the trial of a expensive divorce. Madie hitches a ride back to California with a certain Charles Callahan, a debt-ridden truck driver. Madie and Charles eventually fall in love while evading an assortment of bad guys including a pair of thugs hired by Madie's husband to prevent her from returning to California, and a repo man sent to reclaim Charles' truck
poster
?
7.0
/46/
10
/1/
70
/1/

Man on a String (1972)
A government agent, out to destroy a crime ring, finds himself in the middle of a mob war.
poster
?
3.6
/56/
10
/2/
5
/1/

Street Fighter (1959)
A delinquent teenage boy strives to become an upstanding citizen following the tragic death of the girl he loves.
poster
53
?
6.1
/272/
52
/4/
73
/3/
29
/1/

My Antonia (1995)
After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska.
poster
73
?
7.2
/278/
62
/4/
85
/2/

Amber Waves (1980)
A drifter stranded in Kansas accepts a job offer from a wheat harvester who, in desperation over his cancer and financial woes, attempts suicide but becomes a father-figure to the young man.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
62
?
6.7
/186/
56
/3/
60
/1/
3.3
/366/

Freedom (1981)
Talented musician and free spirit Libby chafes under the rule of her divorced journalist mother, so she seeks emancipation from her parents and hits the road, soon joining the ranks of a traveling carnival. She gains the freedom she has longed for but learns some hard lessons along the way.


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