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My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

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Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 7.8

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs...

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Withnail & I

Withnail & I

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When t...

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Sweetie

Sweetie

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 6.7

The buttoned-down, superstitious Kay is attempting to lead a normal existence with her new boyfriend Louis. That’s until Sweetie, her rampaging, devil-may-care sister, returns home after an absence, e...

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Streets of Fire

Streets of Fire

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Raven Shaddock and his gang of merciless biker friends kidnap rock singer Ellen Aim. Ellen's former lover, soldier-for-hire Tom Cody, happens to be passing through town on a visit. In an attempt to sa...

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Little Miss Marker

Little Miss Marker

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Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1980 IMDB Rating: 6.3

Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in the 1930s. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his sudden love...

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