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The Pelican Brief

The Pelican Brief

The Pelican Brief
IMDb: 6.6
141

Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.

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A Perfect World

A Perfect World

A Perfect World
IMDb: 7.5
138

A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day
IMDb: 7.9
134

A rule bound head butler’s world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
Judgment Night

Judgment Night

Judgment Night
IMDb: 6.6
110

While racing to a boxing match, Frank, Mike, John and Rey get more than they bargained for. A wrong turn lands them directly in the path of Fallon, a vicious,…

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Gettysburg

Gettysburg

Gettysburg
IMDb: 7.7
254

Summer 1863. The Confederacy pushes north into Pennsylvania. Union divisions converge to face them. The two great armies clash at Gettysburg, site of a theology school. For three days, through…

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Genre: Drama, History, War
The Good Son

The Good Son

The Good Son
IMDb: 6.4
87

A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who’s the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.

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Freaked

Freaked

Freaked
IMDb: 6.3
86

A vain actor, his best friend, and an activist end up at a mutant freak farm run by a weirdo scientist.

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Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
IMDb: 4.3
87

Jason Voorhees, the living, breathing essence of evil, is back for one fierce, final fling! Tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, everyone now assumes…

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Genre: Horror
Coneheads

Coneheads

Coneheads
IMDb: 5.3
88

With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toilet paper, aliens Beldar and Prymatt don’t exactly blend in with the population of Paramus, N.J. But for some reason,…

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Dennis the Menace

Dennis the Menace

Dennis the Menace
IMDb: 5.5
94

Mr. Wilson’s ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he’ll need Dennis’s tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when…

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Genre: Comedy, Family
Sliver

Sliver

Sliver
IMDb: 5.0
108

A woman moves into an apartment in Manhattan and learns that the previous tenant’s life ended mysteriously after they fell from the balcony.

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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Hot Shots! Part Deux

Hot Shots! Part Deux

Hot Shots! Part Deux
IMDb: 6.6
86

Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team,…

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Genre: Action, Comedy, War
Dave

Dave

Dave
IMDb: 6.8
110

Bill Mitchell is the philandering and distant President of the United States. Dave Kovic is a sweet-natured and caring Temp Agency operator, who by a staggering coincidence looks exactly like…

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Genre: Comedy
Benny & Joon

Benny & Joon

Benny & Joon
IMDb: 7.2
98

A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
This Boy’s Life

This Boy’s Life

This Boy’s Life
IMDb: 7.3
115

In 1957, a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to find a new life, and end up in Seattle, where the mother meets a polite garage…

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Genre: Drama
Jack the Bear

Jack the Bear

Jack the Bear
IMDb: 6.5
99

Story of the relationships between two sons and their father, who moves the family to California and becomes a tv horror show host after the death of his wife.

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Genre: Drama
Alive

Alive

Alive
IMDb: 7.1
120

The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team’s plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced…

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Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes
IMDb: 7.7
130

Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch
IMDb: 7.1
115

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill’s pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway,…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Father of the Bride

Father of the Bride

Father of the Bride
IMDb: 6.5
105

George Banks is an ordinary, middle-class man whose 21 year-old daughter Annie has decided to marry a man from an upper-class family, but George can’t think of what life would…

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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Bugsy

Bugsy

Bugsy
IMDb: 6.8
134

New York gangster Ben ‘Bugsy’ Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn’t hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
IMDb: 7.2
113

On the eve of retirement, Kirk and McCoy are charged with assassinating the Klingon High Chancellor and imprisoned. The Enterprise crew must help them escape to thwart a conspiracy aimed…

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My Own Private Idaho

My Own Private Idaho

My Own Private Idaho
IMDb: 7.1
102

In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Henry IV,” Mike Waters is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel…

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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Necessary Roughness

Necessary Roughness

Necessary Roughness
IMDb: 6.1
108

When the Texas Southern Armadillos football team is disqualified for cheating and poor grades, the University is forced to pick from a team that actually goes to school. Will they…

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Genre: Comedy
The Fisher King

The Fisher King

The Fisher King
IMDb: 7.6
138

Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.

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Genre: Comedy, Drama
La Belle Noiseuse

La Belle Noiseuse

La Belle Noiseuse
IMDb: 7.8
238

The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on his countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer…

Genre: Drama
Dead Again

Dead Again

Dead Again
IMDb: 7.0
107

In 1949 composer Roman Strauss is executed for the vicious murder of his wife Margaret with a pair of scissors. In 1990s Los Angeles a mute amnesiac woman shows up…

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Genre: Romance, Thriller
The Commitments

The Commitments

The Commitments
IMDb: 7.6
118

Jimmy Rabbitte, just a tick out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Return to the Blue Lagoon

Return to the Blue Lagoon

Return to the Blue Lagoon
IMDb: 5.2
98

In this sequel to the 1980 classic, two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple…

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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Barton Fink

Barton Fink

Barton Fink
IMDb: 7.7
116

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Hot Shots!

Hot Shots!

Hot Shots!
IMDb: 6.7
84

Recruited to join a top-secret mission for the Air Force, a renegade pilot finds himself coping with an incompetent admiral and a carefully selected squadron of flyers who are either…

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Genre: Action, Comedy, War
The Rocketeer

The Rocketeer

The Rocketeer
IMDb: 6.4
108

Straight from the pages of a pulp comic from a past era, the Rocketeer recreates 1930s Hollywood, complete with gangsters, Nazi spies, and the growth of the Age of Aviation….

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City Slickers

City Slickers

City Slickers
IMDb: 6.7
112

New York meets the west in this comedy starring Billy Crystal. Three New York businessmen decide to take a “Wild West” vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing…

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Genre: Comedy
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead
IMDb: 6.1
105

Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother’s summer-long absence. While the babysitter looks after her rambunctious younger siblings, Sue Ellen can party and have fun. But then…

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Genre: Comedy, Family
Hudson Hawk

Hudson Hawk

Hudson Hawk
IMDb: 5.8
100

Eddie Hawkins, called Hudson Hawk has just been released from ten years of prison and is planning to spend the rest of his life honestly. But then the crazy Mayflower…

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What About Bob?

What About Bob?

What About Bob?
IMDb: 7.0
100

Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on a new patient: Bob Wiley. An exemplar of neediness and a compendium of phobias, Bob…

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Genre: Comedy
Drop Dead Fred

Drop Dead Fred

Drop Dead Fred
IMDb: 5.9
103

When Elizabeth returns to her mother’s home after her marriage breaks up, she recreates her imaginary childhood friend, Fred, to escape from the trauma of losing her husband and her…

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Career Opportunities

Career Opportunities

Career Opportunities
IMDb: 5.9
83

Josie, the daughter of the town’s wealthiest businessman, faces problems at home and wishes to leave town but is disoriented. Her decision is finalized after she falls asleep in a…

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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
IMDb: 6.0
88

The Turtles and the Shredder battle once again, this time for the last cannister of the ooze that created the Turtles, which Shredder wants to create an army of new…

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The Hard Way

The Hard Way

The Hard Way
IMDb: 6.3
111

Seeking to raise his credibility as an actor and to land a role as a tough cop on a new show, Hollywood action star Nick Lang works a deal with…

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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime