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Tales of the City

Tales of the City

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 1993 IMDB Rating: 8.3

A naive Midwestern young woman moves to the liberated San Francisco of the 1970s.

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The Thin Blue Line

The Thin Blue Line

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 8

Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas.

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Tomorrow

Tomorrow

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Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1972 IMDB Rating: 7.5

A lonely farmer takes in a pregnant woman and looks after her. After she gives birth, tragedy strikes.

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Stand and Deliver

Stand and Deliver

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and...

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Heartland

Heartland

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Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Widowed Elinor Randall and her young daughter Jerrine arrive in a barren stretch of Wyoming in 1910 after Elinor's application for work as a housekeeper is accepted by Clyde Stewart, a rancher. The wo...

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The Killing Floor

The Killing Floor

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 7.3

During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement.

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

Go Tell It on the Mountain

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 6.7

This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling...

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Smooth Talk

Smooth Talk

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Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 6.5

In the Northern Californian suburbs, free-spirited teenager Connie spends her summer days thinking about boys and arguing with her mom. But her idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirta...

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Billy Galvin

Billy Galvin

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 6.3

Conflict arises between a steelworker and his son. The father wants the boy to have a chance to make more of himself than he did, but the son wants to follow in his father's footsteps and become a ste...

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The Europeans

The Europeans

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Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 6.2

A New England household is upset by the arrival of two cousins from Europe.

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