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Young Mr. Lincoln

Young Mr. Lincoln

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Film Age rating: 1 Year: 1939 IMDB Rating: 7.5

In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first love, Ann Rutledge, to pursue law. Following her tr...

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Lenny

Lenny

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1974 IMDB Rating: 7.5

The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the establishment as too obscene for the public.

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The Fighting Sullivans

The Fighting Sullivans

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Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1944 IMDB Rating: 7.5

The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual deaths in action in the Pacific theater are chronicled in...

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King Richard

King Richard

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2021 IMDB Rating: 7.5

The story of how Richard Williams served as a coach to his daughters Venus and Serena, who will soon become two of the most legendary tennis players in history.

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Richard Jewell

Richard Jewell

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely susp...

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The Ron Clark Story

The Ron Clark Story

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2006 IMDB Rating: 7.5

A passionate and innovative teacher leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. But to break through to this students, Ron Clark must use unconventional methods, including...

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I Want to Live!

I Want to Live!

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1958 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Barbara Graham is a woman with dubious moral standards, often a guest in seedy bars. She has been sentenced for some petty crimes. Two men she knows murder an older woman. When they get caught they st...

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Beautiful Boy

Beautiful Boy

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 7.4

After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.

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Grey Gardens

Grey Gardens

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Film Age rating: 10 Year: 2009 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Based on the life stories of the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis raised as Park Avenue débutantes but who withdrew from New York society, taking shelter at their Long Island summer h...

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Judas and the Black Messiah

Judas and the Black Messiah

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2021 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle...

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