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Out of Africa

Out of Africa

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Out of Africa tells the story of the life of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on the autobiograph...

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Into the Storm

Into the Storm

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Film Age rating: 10 Year: 2009 IMDB Rating: 7.1

This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided his beleaguered nation through the crucible of the war years--even as his marriage was encountering it...

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Kill the Irishman

Kill the Irishman

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 7

Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman c...

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Cadillac Records

Cadillac Records

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 7

The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Ho...

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Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2002 IMDB Rating: 7

Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and traine...

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Soul Surfer

Soul Surfer

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

The true story of teen surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack and courageously overcame all odds to become a champion again, through her sheer determination and unwavering faith.

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Crooklyn

Crooklyn

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Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1994 IMDB Rating: 7

From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.

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The Infiltrator

The Infiltrator

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 7

A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.

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Edison, the Man

Edison, the Man

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1940 IMDB Rating: 7

In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New York. He's on his way with the invention of an early...

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Big Eyes

Big Eyes

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Film Age rating: 9 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 7

In the late 1950s and early '60s, artist Walter Keane achieves unbelievable fame and success with portraits of saucer-eyed waifs. However, no one realizes that his wife, Margaret, is the real painter...

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