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Year
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IMDb Rating
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Description
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Film
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1973
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9.2
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The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
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The Godfather
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1975
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9.0
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The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
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The Godfather Part II
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1994
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8.9
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In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
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Schindler's List
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1995
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8.8
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The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the events of Vietnam, Watergate and other historical events unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, whose only desire is to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.
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Forrest Gump
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2004
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8.8
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Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
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1976
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8.6
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A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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1992
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8.6
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A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
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The Silence of the Lambs
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2020
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8.6
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Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
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Parasite
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1944
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8.5
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A cynical American expatriate struggles to decide whether or not he should help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape French Morocco.
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Casablanca
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2001
|
8.5
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A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.
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Gladiator
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2007
|
8.5
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An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
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The Departed
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1961
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8.3
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A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
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The Apartment
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1963
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8.3
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The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
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Lawrence of Arabia
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1974
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8.3
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Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.
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The Sting
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1985
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8.3
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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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1996
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8.3
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Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.
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Braveheart
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2000
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8.3
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A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
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American Beauty
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1951
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8.2
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A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
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All About Eve
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1993
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8.2
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Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid."
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Unforgiven
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2002
|
8.2
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After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
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A Beautiful Mind
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2019
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8.2
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A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.
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Green Book
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1935
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8.1
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A renegade reporter and a crazy young heiress meet on a bus heading for New York, and end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops.
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It Happened One Night
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1940
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8.1
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A manipulative woman and a roguish man conduct a turbulent romance during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
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Gone with the Wind
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1941
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8.1
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A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.
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Rebecca
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1955
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8.1
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An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.
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On the Waterfront
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1958
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8.1
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British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, not knowing that the allied forces are planning to destroy it.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
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1960
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8.1
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After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
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Ben-Hur
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1977
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8.1
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A small-time boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight a heavy-weight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
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Rocky
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1979
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8.1
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An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
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The Deer Hunter
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1987
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8.1
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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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2005
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8.1
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A determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional.
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Million Dollar Baby
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2008
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8.1
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Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.
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No Country for Old Men
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2014
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8.1
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In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
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12 Years a Slave
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2016
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8.1
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The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
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Spotlight
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1931
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8.0
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A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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1947
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8.0
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Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
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The Best Years of Our Lives
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1966
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8.0
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A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.
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The Sound of Music
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1978
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8.0
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Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall.
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Annie Hall
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1983
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8.0
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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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1989
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8.0
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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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1991
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8.0
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Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.
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Dances with Wolves
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2009
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8.0
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A Mumbai teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".
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Slumdog Millionaire
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2011
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8.0
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The story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.
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The King's Speech
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2022
|
8.0
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As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her passion at Berklee College of Music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
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CODA
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1939
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7.9
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A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family.
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You Can't Take It with You
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1946
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7.9
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The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
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The Lost Weekend
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1968
|
7.9
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A black police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.
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In the Heat of the Night
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1971
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7.9
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The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
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Patton
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2012
|
7.9
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An egomaniacal film star develops a relationship with a young dancer against the backdrop of Hollywood's silent era.
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The Artist
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2023
|
7.9
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A middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.
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Everything Everywhere All at Once
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1965
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7.8
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Snobbish phonetics Professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make flower girl Eliza Doolittle presentable in high society.
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My Fair Lady
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1970
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7.8
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A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.
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Midnight Cowboy
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1980
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7.8
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Ted Kramer's wife leaves him, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation.
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Kramer vs. Kramer
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1998
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7.8
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A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
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Titanic
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1936
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7.7
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First mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1788 mutiny.
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Mutiny on the Bounty
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1942
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7.7
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At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.
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How Green Was My Valley
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1956
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7.7
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A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.
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Marty
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1967
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7.7
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The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.
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A Man for All Seasons
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1972
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7.7
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A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.
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The French Connection
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1981
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7.7
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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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1988
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7.7
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The story of the final Emperor of China.
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The Last Emperor
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2006
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7.7
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Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
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Crash
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2013
|
7.7
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Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
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Argo
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2015
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7.7
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A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.
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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
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1943
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7.6
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A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.
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Mrs. Miniver
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1949
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7.6
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Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.
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Hamlet
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1954
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7.6
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In Hawaii in 1941, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second-in-command are falling in love.
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From Here to Eternity
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1929
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7.5
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Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.
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Wings
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1950
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7.5
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The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.
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All the King's Men
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1962
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7.5
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Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
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West Side Story
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2010
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7.5
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During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
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The Hurt Locker
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2021
|
7.5
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A woman in her sixties who, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
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Nomadland
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1933
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7.4
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A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.
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Grand Hotel
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1969
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7.4
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After being sold to a mortician, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor.
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Oliver!
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1984
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7.4
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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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1997
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7.4
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At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.
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The English Patient
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2017
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7.4
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A young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.
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Moonlight
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1990
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7.3
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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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2018
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7.3
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At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.
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The Shape of Water
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1938
|
7.2
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The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair.
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The Life of Emile Zola
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1948
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7.2
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A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.
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Gentleman's Agreement
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1952
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7.2
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Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.
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An American in Paris
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1982
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7.2
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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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1986
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7.2
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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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1999
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7.1
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The world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.
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Shakespeare in Love
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2003
|
7.1
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Two death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.
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Chicago
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1945
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7.0
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When young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of the church's newest member.
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Going My Way
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1957
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6.8
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A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.
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Around the World in 80 Days
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1937
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6.7
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The ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed.
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The Great Ziegfeld
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1959
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6.7
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Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.
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Gigi
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1953
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6.6
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The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.
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The Greatest Show on Earth
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1964
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6.5
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The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England.
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Tom Jones
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1932
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5.9
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A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Cimarron
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1934
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5.8
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A portrayal of the triumphs and tragedies of two English families, the upper-crust Marryots and the working-class Bridgeses, from 1899 to 1933.
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Cavalcade
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1930
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5.7
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A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.
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The Broadway Melody
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