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Big Time

Big Time

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Film Age rating: 5 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 8

Bringing his unique sense of humor to this bizarre and original piece of moviemaking, Tom Waits takes the audience through a musical journey with his jazzy, quirky, bluesy tunes presented as you would...

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The Unknown

The Unknown

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Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1927 IMDB Rating: 7.7

A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.

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Wings

Wings

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Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1927 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutu...

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Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire

Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 7.6

"Bird on a Wire" follows Leonard Cohen on his 1972 European tour.

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Marjoe

Marjoe

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Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1972 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the "church tent" Revivalist circuit, commenting on the showmanship of Evangelism and "the religion busines...

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Street Angel

Street Angel

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Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1928 IMDB Rating: 7.3

A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.

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Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1968 IMDB Rating: 7.2

In Manhattan's Central Park, a film crew directed by William Greaves is shooting a screen test with various pairs of actors. It's a confrontation between a couple: he demands to know what's wrong, she...

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Shadows

Shadows

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Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1959 IMDB Rating: 7.2

The relationship between Lelia, a light-skinned black woman, and Tony, a white man is put in jeopardy when Tony meets Lelia’s darker-skinned jazz singer brother, Hugh, and discovers that her racial he...

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The Watermelon Woman

The Watermelon Woman

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1996 IMDB Rating: 7.1

A young black lesbian filmmaker probes into the life of The Watermelon Woman, a 1930s black actress who played 'mammy' archetypes.

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Of Human Bondage

Of Human Bondage

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1934 IMDB Rating: 7

A young man finds himself attracted to a cold and unfeeling waitress who may ultimately destroy them both.

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