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Kanopy
80
7.8
/125407/
77
/2913/
77
/1838/
3.9
/129626/
79
/29/
90
/1311/
65
/11/
cc age 16+

Mississippi Burning (1988)
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
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78
7.2
/26316/
71
/504/
71
/549/
3.7
/16092/
84
/45/
83
/272/
71
/9/

Birdy (1984)
Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull through?
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Peacock Premium
78
7.6
/41927/
77
/1120/
72
/576/
3.8
/37379/
90
/51/
90
/1220/
73
/23/
cc age 16+

The Commitments (1991)
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
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78
8.0
/88953/
81
/2517/
79
/1587/
4.1
/105707/
73
/30/
89
/4367/
47
/13/

Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
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fuboTV
76
7.5
/92788/
74
/1929/
75
/1813/
3.7
/67499/
90
/31/
88
/1399/
59
/11/
cc age 16+

Midnight Express (1978)
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
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Kanopy
75
7.2
/102246/
72
/2555/
71
/1647/
3.7
/78257/
82
/34/
81
/1419/
61
/14/

Angel Heart (1987)
A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.
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Kanopy
74
6.8
/20614/
72
/516/
66
/299/
3.5
/23889/
79
/29/
80
/925/
71
/7/
cc age 8+

Bugsy Malone (1976)
New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded "splurge gun". As the custard pies fly, Bugsy Malone, an all-round nice guy, falls for Blousey Brown, a singer at Fat Sam's speakeasy. His designs on her are disrupted by the seductive songstress Tallulah who wants Bugsy for herself.
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73
6.8
/3290/
70
/48/
63
/47/
3.5
/1941/
86
/14/
74
/43/
68
/11/

Shoot the Moon (1982)
After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.
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70
6.6
/25973/
69
/684/
64
/483/
3.5
/23490/
81
/37/
69
/1115/
58
/12/
cc age 16+

Fame (1980)
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.
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Hoopla
68
6.7
/3251/
70
/68/
61
/57/
3.3
/939/
64
/11/
73
/38/

Come See the Paradise (1990)
In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack falls for the owner's daughter, Lily, but they are forced to elope to Seattle when her father forbids the relationship. The couple marry and have a daughter, but when World War II breaks out, Jack is powerless to stop his new family's forced internment.
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Kanopy
67
7.3
/24248/
73
/405/
73
/339/
3.6
/10149/
52
/84/
81
/838/
54
/32/
cc age 15+

Angela's Ashes (1999)
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
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Hulu
64
6.3
/39157/
65
/803/
61
/494/
3.0
/26822/
63
/38/
68
/1796/
45
/23/
cc age 13+

Evita (1996)
The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, an Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.
poster
60
7.5
/131154/
75
/2928/
74
/2118/
3.5
/45203/
19
/155/
81
/2962/
31
/36/
cc age 17+

The Life of David Gale (2003)
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
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Amazon Prime Video
56
5.9
/13875/
62
/267/
56
/184/
2.9
/5616/
41
/17/
44
/195/

The Road to Wellville (1994)
An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kellogg's corn flakes.
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5.8
/50/
10
/1/

Footsteps (1974)
Gemma Jones stars as a woman suffering from hyperacusis, which affects the muscles of the ears. As a result she has become highly sensitive to noise, a condition that is only exacerbated by living in a crowded boarding house.
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?
10
/1/

A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema (1986)
Documentary presenting Alan Parker’s view of British cinema with comments from Richard Lester and others and location report from King’s Lynn on the making of Hugh Hudson’s Revolution, starring Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, and Nastassja Kinski.
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?
4.4
/22/
10
/1/

Our Cissy (1974)
An old man travels to London from the North Country, accompanied by his son, in order to find the truth about his daughter's suicide.
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?
6.5
/36/
30
/1/

No Hard Feelings (1976)
This short feature, an early directing credit for Alan Parker, shows the reality of life during the WWII air raids with none of the traditional 'Blitz spirit' so often portrayed. Eric spends the nights crammed into a brick shelter with his dad, sister and her screaming kids, and every bombardment brings tears over the loss of his mother in an earlier raid. When he learns his sweetheart is to be evacuated, he finally buckles under the stress.
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61
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6.8
/178/
50
/1/
67
/3/

The Evacuees (1975)
The experiences of two young Jewish boys evacuated from Manchester to Blackpool during the Blitz.


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