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Gattaca

Gattaca

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Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 7.8

In a future society in the era of indefinite eugenics, humans are set on a life course depending on their DNA. Young Vincent Freeman is born with a condition that would prevent him from space travel,...

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The Castle

The Castle

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Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 7.6

A Melbourne family is very happy living near the Melbourne airport. However, they are forced to leave their beloved home (by the Government and airport authorities) to make way for more runways. 'The...

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Nil by Mouth

Nil by Mouth

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 7.3

The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and R...

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Love Jones

Love Jones

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who starts dating Nina Moseley, a beautiful and talented photographer. While trying to figure out if they've got a "love thing" or are just "kicking it...

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Eve's Bayou

Eve's Bayou

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Summer heats up in rural Louisiana beside Eve’s Bayou, 1962, as the Batiste family tries to survive the secrets they’ve kept and the betrayals they’ve endured.

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Firelight

Firelight

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1998 IMDB Rating: 7.2

In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later s...

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The Full Monty

The Full Monty

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Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.

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In the Company of Men

In the Company of Men

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Two business executives--one an avowed misogynist, the other recently emotionally wounded by his love interest--set out to exact revenge on the female gender by seeking out the most innocent, uncorrup...

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Bent

Bent

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in...

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Cube

Cube

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 7.1

A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.

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