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Ladies in Black

Ladies in Black

Ladies in Black
IMDb: 6.8
109

Adapted from the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John, Ladies in Black is an alluring and tender-hearted comedy drama about the lives of a group of department store employees in…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Flint

Flint

Flint
IMDb: 6.2
96

A woman deals with the toxic water scandal in Flint, Michigan, and the effect it has on her family.

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Mr. Church

Mr. Church

Mr. Church
IMDb: 7.6
104

A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook – Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead…

Genre: Drama
Peace, Love & Misunderstanding

Peace, Love & Misunderstanding

Peace, Love & Misunderstanding
IMDb: 5.9
96

A conservative lawyer named Diane takes her two teenage children Jake and Zoe to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock after her husband asks for a divorce.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mao’s Last Dancer

Mao’s Last Dancer

Mao’s Last Dancer
IMDb: 7.3
117

At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao’s cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Contract

The Contract

The Contract
IMDb: 5.6
96

Attempting to recover from a recent family trauma by escaping into the woods for a peaceful hiking trip, an ex-lawman and his young son stumble across a dangerous contract killer.

And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself

And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself

And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself
IMDb: 6.5
112

In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa invites studios to shoot his actual battles against Porfírio Diaz army to raise funds for financing guns and ammunition. The Mutual Film Corporation,…

Evelyn

Evelyn

Evelyn
IMDb: 7
92

Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care…

Genre: Drama
Bride of the Wind

Bride of the Wind

Bride of the Wind
IMDb: 5.7
99

A biopic of Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustav Mahler (as well as Walter Gropius and Franz Werfel), and the mistress of Oskar Kokoschka.

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Double Jeopardy

Double Jeopardy

Double Jeopardy
IMDb: 6.5
105

Framed for the murder of her husband, Libby Parsons survives the long years in prison with two burning desires sustaining her — finding her son and solving the mystery that…

Paradise Road

Paradise Road

Paradise Road
IMDb: 6.8
122

A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.

Genre: Drama, History, War
Last Dance

Last Dance

Last Dance
IMDb: 5.7
103

Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a woman convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. As…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Silent Fall

Silent Fall

Silent Fall
IMDb: 5.9
101

Having seen the double murder of his parents, autistic youth Tim Warden is sent to therapy with controversial therapist Dr. Jake Rainer. Jake tries to probe the silent child about…

A Good Man in Africa

A Good Man in Africa

A Good Man in Africa
IMDb: 5
94

Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish Arthur Fanshawe, who…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rich in Love

Rich in Love

Rich in Love
IMDb: 6.1
105

Warren Odom, a rich Southern gentleman, is left in a state of shock when his wife, Helen, leaves him unexpectedly. With Helen gone, Warren’s kindhearted teenage daughter, Lucille, cares for…

Genre: Drama
Mister Johnson

Mister Johnson

Mister Johnson
IMDb: 6.4
101

In 1923 British Colonial Nigeria, Mister Johnson is an oddity — an educated black man who doesn’t really fit in with the natives or the British. He works for the…

Genre: Drama
Black Robe

Black Robe

Black Robe
IMDb: 7.1
101

Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict…

Her Alibi

Her Alibi

Her Alibi
IMDb: 5.8
94

A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers’ block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy

Driving Miss Daisy
IMDb: 7.3
99

The story of an old Jewish widow named Daisy Werthan and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. From an initial mere work relationship grew in 25 years a strong…

Genre: Drama
Aria

Aria

Aria
IMDb: 5.7
96

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound, and is an…

Genre: Music
Crimes of the Heart

Crimes of the Heart

Crimes of the Heart
IMDb: 6.3
105

Three sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother’s suicide.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
King David

King David

King David
IMDb: 5.3
114

This is a movie about the life of Israel’s king David.

Tender Mercies

Tender Mercies

Tender Mercies
IMDb: 7.3
92

Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Puberty Blues

Puberty Blues

Puberty Blues
IMDb: 5.9
87

Two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of Sydney ingratiate themselves with a new group of boys.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Breaker Morant

Breaker Morant

Breaker Morant
IMDb: 7.8
107

During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Money Movers

Money Movers

Money Movers
IMDb: 6.5
92

A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.

The Getting of Wisdom

The Getting of Wisdom

The Getting of Wisdom
IMDb: 6.5
101

The Getting of Wisdom is based on the 1910 novel by Henry Handel Richardson (born Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson). Her novel is thought to be an account of her own…

Genre: Drama
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
IMDb: 5.5
93

Barry McKenzie’s Aunt Edna is kidnapped by Count Von Plasma, the vampire head of an isolated Eastern European dictatorship who mistakes her for the Queen of England and thinks that…

Genre: Comedy
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
IMDb: 5.6
114

Barry McKenzie sets off for England with his aunt, Edna Everage, to advance his cultural education. Bazza is an innocent abroad, fond of beer, Bondi and beautiful sheilas, but he…

Genre: Comedy