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Shirley Knight

Shirley Knight was an American actress known for her work on stage, film, and television. She began her career in the late 1950s and went on to receive critical acclaim for her roles in films such as "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" and "Sweet Bird of Youth." Knight passed away in 2020 at the age of 83.

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As Good as It Gets

As Good as It Gets

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer of romantic fiction, is rude to everyone he meets, including his gay neighbor, Simon. After Simon is hospitalized, Melvin finds his life tu...

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Indictment: The McMartin Trial

Indictment: The McMartin Trial

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1995 IMDB Rating: 7.6

The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unqualified child cruelty "expert" videotapes the childre...

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Sweet Bird of Youth

Sweet Bird of Youth

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1962 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his home town as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble wh...

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Listen to Your Heart

Listen to Your Heart

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Danny Foster doesn't have much: an apartment as small as his paychecks, no family, and a struggling music career. Yet for him, "every day is a great day to be alive," an attitude he gained from his mo...

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If These Walls Could Talk

If These Walls Could Talk

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1996 IMDB Rating: 6.9

A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow a recently widowed nurse struggling to take control...

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Grandma's Boy

Grandma's Boy

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2006 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Even though he's 35, Alex acts more like he's 13, spending his days as the world's oldest video game tester and his evenings developing the next big Xbox game. But when he gets kicked out of his apart...

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My Louisiana Sky

My Louisiana Sky

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 6.9

A girl comes to terms with her mentally challenged parents.

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Juggernaut

Juggernaut

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1974 IMDB Rating: 6.6

A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship.

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21 Hours at Munich

21 Hours at Munich

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1976 IMDB Rating: 6.3

A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.

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Redwood Highway

Redwood Highway

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 6.3

Marie, a reluctant resident of a retirement community in Southern Oregon, decides to walk 80 miles down the Redwood Highway to see the ocean for the first time in 45 years.

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