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The Secret of NIMH

The Secret of NIMH

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Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 7.5

A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to tran...

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My Favorite Year

My Favorite Year

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Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the variety show he writes for. But when Swann arrives,...

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The Grey Fox

The Grey Fox

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Old West highwayman Bill Miner, known to Pinkertons as "The Gentleman Bandit," is released in 1901 after 33 years in prison, a genial and charming old man. Entering a world unfamiliar to him, he retur...

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The Man from Snowy River

The Man from Snowy River

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the lowlands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its fee...

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Frances

Frances

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 7.2

The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.

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Diner

Diner

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Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Set in 1959, Diner shows how five young men resist their adulthood and seek refuge in their beloved Diner. The mundane, childish, and titillating details of their lives are shared. But the golden mome...

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The Dark Crystal

The Dark Crystal

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Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 7.1

On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race of Skeksis find and use th...

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Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe, Fast Times follows a group of high school students growing up in Southern California. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a lo...

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Half a Life

Half a Life

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 7

Michel Recanati was a militant leader in the May, 1968 riots in Paris, organizing many groups to meet, discuss, and act on leftist principles both before and after the disturbances. He was imprisoned...

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Smithereens

Smithereens

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 6.7

A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York's waning punk scene.

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