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Titanic

Titanic

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Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 7.9

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi w...

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Soldier's Girl

Soldier's Girl

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2003 IMDB Rating: 7.8

This true story, which takes place in Fort Campbell, KY, tells the heart-wrenching story of the life and tragic death of soldier Barry Winchell. His love for Calpernia Addams, a transgender nightclub...

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Holding the Man

Holding the Man

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team, Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their romance endured fo...

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Funny Girl

Funny Girl

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Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1968 IMDB Rating: 7.3

The story of the life of comedienne Fanny Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and ev...

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Spoiler Alert

Spoiler Alert

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2022 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Journalist Michael Ausiello embarks on a rollercoaster ride of emotions when Kit Cowan, his partner of 14 years, is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

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The Danish Girl

The Danish Girl

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 7.1

When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with G...

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Allied

Allied

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 7.1

In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the...

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Love Me or Leave Me

Love Me or Leave Me

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Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1955 IMDB Rating: 7.1

A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.

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Cleopatra

Cleopatra

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Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1963 IMDB Rating: 7

Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Ca...

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Christopher and His Kind

Christopher and His Kind

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 7

In 1931, budding author Christopher Isherwood goes to Berlin at the invitation of his friend W. H. Auden for the gay sex that abounds in the city. He falls for street sweeper Heinz, paying medical bil...

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