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Hoosiers

Hoosiers

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Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Failed college coach Norman Dale gets a chance at redemption when he is hired to coach a high school basketball team in a tiny Indiana town. After a teacher persuades star player Jimmy Chitwood to qui...

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True Stories

True Stories

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Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 7.2

A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.

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Children of a Lesser God

Children of a Lesser God

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Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Starting his new job as an instructor at a New England school for the deaf, James Leeds meets Sarah Norman, a young deaf woman who works at the school as a member of the custodial staff. In spite of S...

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The Hitcher

The Hitcher

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 7.2

On a stormy night, young Jim, who transports a luxury car from Chicago to California to deliver it to its owner, feeling tired and sleepy, picks up a mysterious hitchhiker, who has appeared out of now...

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The Great Mouse Detective

The Great Mouse Detective

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Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 7.1

When the diabolical Professor Ratigan kidnaps London's master toymaker, the brilliant master of disguise Basil of Baker Street and his trusted sidekick Dawson try to elude the ultimate trap and foil t...

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Malcolm

Malcolm

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills and, with Frank...

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Sukhamo Devi

Sukhamo Devi

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 7

Nandan (Shankar) an introverted singer from a poor background falls in love with Devi (Urvashi). Their friends Sunny (Mohanlal) and his girlfriend Thara (Geetha) are quite the opposite and are extreme...

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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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She's Gotta Have It

She's Gotta Have It

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 6.8

The story of Nola Darling's simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men is told by her and by her partners and other friends. All three men wanted her to commit solely to them; Nola res...

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In a Glass Cage

In a Glass Cage

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Film Age rating: 18 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 6.7

A former nazi child-killer is confined in an iron lung inside an old mansion after a suicide attempt. His wife hires him a full-time carer, a mysterious young man who is driven slowly mad by the old m...

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