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Lucas

Lucas

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Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 6.9

A socially inept fourteen year old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends -- Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love -- fall for...

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Saving Grace

Saving Grace

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 6.9

A newly-elected Pope Leo XIV finds himself accidentally locked out of the Vatican. Unknown to the outside world, he winds up in an impoverished Italian village, where his adventures ultimately teach t...

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Heaven Help Us

Heaven Help Us

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Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class as they collide with the repressive faculty and di...

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The Fabulous Baker Boys

The Fabulous Baker Boys

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Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 6.9

The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.

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Suburbia

Suburbia

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 6.9

When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tr...

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Flight of the Navigator

Flight of the Navigator

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Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 6.9

12-year-old David is accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, but when he awakens eight years have passed. His family is overjoyed to have him back, but is just as perplexed as he is that...

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Time Bandits

Time Bandits

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1981 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabri...

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Without a Clue

Without a Clue

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Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Sherlock Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret: Dr. Watson is the brains behind the operation. When Reginald Kincaid, the actor he has hired to play Holmes becomes insufferable, Watso...

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Conan the Barbarian

Conan the Barbarian

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 6.9

A film adaptation of the classic sword and sorcery hero, Conan the Barbarian. A horde of rampaging warriors massacre the parents of young Conan and enslave the young child for years on The Wheel of Pa...

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Ladyhawke

Ladyhawke

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1985 IMDB Rating: 6.9

Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by...

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