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Matewan

Matewan

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 7.9

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympa...

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Lone Star

Lone Star

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1996 IMDB Rating: 7.4

When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.

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The Secret of Roan Inish

The Secret of Roan Inish

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Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1994 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie – a seal who can tur...

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Passion Fish

Passion Fish

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Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1992 IMDB Rating: 7.3

After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own.

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Eight Men Out

Eight Men Out

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Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 7.2

A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.

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Return of the Secaucus Seven

Return of the Secaucus Seven

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1980 IMDB Rating: 7

Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a...

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Lianna

Lianna

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1983 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Lianna's life is a succession of domestic errands and boring faculty parties, however her heaviest cross to bear is dealing with her waning marriage to Dick. In order to find intellectual stimulus, Li...

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Sunshine State

Sunshine State

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Film Age rating: 6 Year: 2002 IMDB Rating: 6.8

A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.

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The Brother from Another Planet

The Brother from Another Planet

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 6.8

An alien slave crash-lands in New York City while being pursued by two Men in Black bounty hunters. His attempt to find a place for himself on Earth parallels that of the immigrant experience.

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Honeydripper

Honeydripper

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Film Age rating: 9 Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 6.7

In 1950s Alabama, the owner of the Honeydripper juke joint finds his business dropping off and against his better judgment, hires a young electric guitarist in a last ditch effort to draw crowds durin...

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