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Autumn Sonata

Autumn Sonata

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1978 IMDB Rating: 8.1

After a seven-year absence, Charlotte Andergast travels to Sweden to reunite with her daughter Eva. The pair have a troubled relationship: Charlotte sacrificed the responsibilities of motherhood for a...

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The Deer Hunter

The Deer Hunter

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1978 IMDB Rating: 8.1

A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregn...

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King

King

Series Age rating: 12 Year: 1978 IMDB Rating: 8

The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stretching from his days as a Southern Baptist minister in the South of the 1950s until his assassination in Memphis in 1968.

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A Woman Called Moses

A Woman Called Moses

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1978 IMDB Rating: 7.8

A television miniseries based on the life of Harriet Tubman, the escaped African American slave who helped to organize the Underground Railroad, and who led dozens of African Americans from enslavemen...

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The Marriage of Maria Braun

The Marriage of Maria Braun

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Maria marries a young soldier in the last days of World War II, only for him to go missing in the war. She must rely on her beauty and ambition to navigate the difficult post-war years alone.

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Watership Down

Watership Down

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1978 IMDB Rating: 7.6

When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.

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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1978 IMDB Rating: 7.3

The true story of a part aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as a result snaps in a violent and horrific manner.

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Interiors

Interiors

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Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1978 IMDB Rating: 7.3

When Eve, an interior designer, is deserted by her husband of many years, Arthur, the emotionally glacial relationships of the three grown-up daughters are laid bare. Twisted by jealousy, insecurity a...

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The Buddy Holly Story

The Buddy Holly Story

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Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1978 IMDB Rating: 7.2

A chronicle of the rise and brief career of rock 'n' roll star Buddy Holly, who aspires to play music the way he wants it to sound. Holly and his band, the Crickets, are first invited to record in Nas...

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The Wild Geese

The Wild Geese

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1978 IMDB Rating: 6.8

A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned o...

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