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Year
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Description
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Movie
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1989
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An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
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Driving Miss Daisy
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1989
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Maverick teacher John Keating uses poetry to embolden his boarding school students to new heights of self-expression.
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Dead Poets Society
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1989
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Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
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My Left Foot
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1988
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Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.
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Rain Man
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1987
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The story of the final Emperor of China.
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The Last Emperor
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1986
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A young soldier in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
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Platoon
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1985
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In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
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Out of Africa
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1985
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A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.
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The Color Purple
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1985
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Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the eccentric scientist Doc Brown.
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Back to the Future
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1984
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The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
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Amadeus
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1984
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A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
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Once Upon a Time in America
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1983
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Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love, and her daughter's family problems.
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Terms of Endearment
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1982
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The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
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Gandhi
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1982
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A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
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1981
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Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics.
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Chariots of Fire
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1981
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In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
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1980
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The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.
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Ordinary People
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1980
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The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
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Raging Bull
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1980
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After the Rebels are brutally overpowered by the Empire on the ice planet Hoth, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader and a bounty hunter named Boba Fett all over the galaxy.
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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
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1980
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A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
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The Shining
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