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Roald Dahl's The Witches(2020)

1h 46min | Kids & Family, Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy, Horror
3.3/5 (with 885 votes)

In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.

Directed by Robert Zemeckis - With Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Chris Rock, Jahzir Bruno, Codie-Lei Eastick, ...

The Conjuring(2013)

R
| 1h 52min | Horror, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 4,274 votes)

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.

Directed by James - With Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson de Chiappo, Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor, Mackenzie Foy, Joey King, ...
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Annabelle Comes Home(2019)

R
| 1h 46min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 1,212 votes)

Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her “safely” behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest’s holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target—the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.

Directed by Gary Dauberman - With Mckenna Grace, Madison Iseman, Patrick Wilson de Chiappo, Vera Farmiga, Katie Sarife, Steve Coulter, ...

First Man(2018)

PG-13
| 2h 21min | History, Drama
3.5/5 (with 2,044 votes)

A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.

Directed by Damien Chazelle - With Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Corey Stoll, Kyle Chandler, Jason Clarke, Patrick Fugit, ...
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Annabelle(2014)

R
| 1h 39min | Horror
2.9/5 (with 2,414 votes)

John Form has found the perfect gift for his expectant wife, Mia - a beautiful, rare vintage doll in a pure white wedding dress. But Mia's delight with Annabelle doesn't last long. On one horrific night, their home is invaded by members of a satanic cult, who violently attack the couple. Spilled blood and terror are not all they leave behind. The cultists have conjured an entity so malevolent that nothing they did will compare to the sinister conduit to the damned that is now... Annabelle.

Directed by John R. Leonetti - With Alfre Woodard, Annabelle Wallis, Brian Howe, Tony Amendola, Ward Horton, Joseph Bishara, ...
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Judas and the Black Messiah(2021)

R
| 2h 5min | Drama, History
3.8/5 (with 334 votes)

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 wages for O’Neal’s soul.

Directed by Shaka King - With Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback, Ashton Sanders, Darrell Britt-Gibson, ...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)

PG-13
| 2h 46min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 4,926 votes)

I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans, from the end of World War I in 1918 into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, Benjamin Button, is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.

Directed by David Fincher - With Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Tilda Swinton, Mahershala Ali, ...
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Minions(2015)

PG
| 1h 31min | Kids & Family, Animation, Adventure, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 4,398 votes)

Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over the world.

Directed by Pierre Coffin, Kyle Balda - With Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud, Jennifer Saunders, Michael Keaton, ...
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The Grand Budapest Hotel(2014)

R
| 1h 40min | Comedy, Drama
4.0/5 (with 5,639 votes)

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

Directed by Wes Anderson - With Ralph Fiennes, Saoirse Ronan, Edward Norton, Jude Law, Owen Wilson, Tilda Swinton, ...
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark(2019)

PG-13
| 1h 48min | Horror, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 939 votes)

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Sarah and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

Directed by André Øvredal - With Austin Abrams, Gabriel Rush, Dean Norris
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Once Upon a Time in America(1984)

R
| 3h 49min | Drama, Crime
4.3/5 (with 1,840 votes)

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.

Directed by Sergio Leone - With Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Burt Young, Tuesday Weld, ...
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Blow(2001)

R
| 2h 4min | Crime, Drama
3.7/5 (with 1,675 votes)

A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.

Directed by Ted Demme - With Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Franka Potente, Ray Liotta, Rachel Griffiths, Paul Reubens, ...
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The Trial of the Chicago 7(2020)

R
| 2h 10min | Drama, History
3.9/5 (with 956 votes)

What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

Directed by Aaron Sorkin - With Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Keaton, Frank Langella, John Carroll Lynch, ...
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The Dreamers(2003)

NC-17
| 1h 52min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 1,084 votes)

A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister.

Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci - With Michael Pitt, Eva Green, Louis Garrel, Anna Chancellor, Robin Renucci, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, ...

Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro(1979)

PG
| 1h 42min | Kids & Family, Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
3.8/5 (with 335 votes)

After a successful robbery leaves famed thief Lupin the Third and his partner Jigen with nothing but a large amount of expertly crafted counterfeit bills, he decides to track down the forgers responsible—and steal any other treasures he may find in the Castle of Cagliostro, including the 'damsel in distress' he finds imprisoned there.

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
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Sleepers(1996)

R
| 2h 27min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 1,167 votes)

Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.

Directed by Barry Levinson - With Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro, Vittorio Gassman, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt, ...
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A Bronx Tale(1993)

R
| 2h 1min | Drama, Crime
3.9/5 (with 708 votes)

Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.

Directed by Robert De Niro - With Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato, Taral Hicks, Francis Capra, Kathrine Narducci, ...
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The Deer Hunter(1978)

R
| 3h 4min | Drama, War
4.0/5 (with 1,324 votes)

A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.

Directed by Michael Cimino - With Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Savage, John Cazale, Meryl Streep, George Dzundza, ...
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Palm Trees in the Snow(2015)

2h 44min | Drama, History, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 214 votes)

Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.

Directed by Fernando González Molina - With Mario Casas, Adriana Ugarte, Macarena García, Laia Costa, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Celso Bugallo Aguiar, ...
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Girl, Interrupted(1999)

R
| 2h 7min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 1,336 votes)

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

Directed by James Mangold - With Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Tambor, Vanessa Redgrave, ...
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Sister Act(1992)

PG
| 1h 40min | Music, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 1,186 votes)

A Reno singer witnesses a mob murder and the cops stash her in a nunnery to protect her from the mob's hitmen. The mother superior does not trust her, and takes steps to limit her influence on the other nuns. Eventually the singer rescues the failing choir and begins helping with community projects, which gets her an interview on TV—and identification by the mob.

Directed by Emile Ardolino - With Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes, Bill Nunn, ...
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Vice(2018)

R
| 2h 12min | Drama, History, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 1,244 votes)

George W. Bush picks Dick Cheney, the CEO of Halliburton Co., to be his Republican running mate in the 2000 presidential election. No stranger to politics, Cheney's impressive résumé includes stints as White House chief of staff, House Minority Whip and defense secretary. When Bush wins by a narrow margin, Cheney begins to use his newfound power to help reshape the country and the world.

Directed by Adam McKay - With Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Alison Pill, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Bill Pullman, ...
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Marrowbone(2017)

R
| 1h 51min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Horror
3.6/5 (with 501 votes)

A young man and his three younger siblings are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

Directed by Sergio G. Sánchez - With George MacKay, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Mia Goth, Kyle Soller, Tom Fisher, ...
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The Butler(2013)

PG-13
| 2h 12min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 1,191 votes)

A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.

Directed by Lee Daniels - With Forest Whitaker, Alex Pettyfer, John Cusack, Robin Williams, Terrence Howard, James Marsden, ...

The Boys in the Band(2020)

2h 1min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 146 votes)

At a birthday party in 1968 New York, a surprise guest and a drunken game leave seven gay friends reckoning with unspoken feelings and buried truths.

Directed by Joe Mantello - With Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer, Andrew Rannells, Charlie Carver, Robin de Jesús, ...
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The Wife(2018)

R
| 1h 40min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 415 votes)

A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Directed by Björn Runge - With Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater, Max Irons, Annie Starke, Elizabeth McGovern, ...
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The Man Without a Face(1993)

PG-13
| 1h 55min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 188 votes)

Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfigured from an automobile accident ten years earlier, in which a boy was incinerated—and for which he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

Directed by Mel Gibson - With Nick Stahl, Mel Gibson, Margaret Whitton, Geoffrey Lewis, Richard Masur, Michael DeLuise, ...
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being(1988)

R
| 2h 51min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama
3.6/5 (with 145 votes)

Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet invasion occurs, all three flee to Switzerland. Sabina begins an affair, Tom continues womanizing, and Tereza, disgusted, returns to Czechoslovakia. Realizing his mistake, Tomas decides to chase after her.

Directed by Philip Kaufman - With Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint, Erland Josephson, Donald Moffat, ...
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Love & Mercy(2015)

PG-13
| 2h | Drama, Music, History
3.6/5 (with 244 votes)

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, Wilson, under the sway of a controlling therapist, finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter.

Directed by Bill Pohlad - With Brett Davern, Elizabeth Banks, Graham Rogers, John Cusack, Kenny Wormald, Paul Dano, ...
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Scrooged(1988)

PG-13
| 1h 41min | Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 509 votes)

Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing staff member Eliot Loudermilk on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.

Directed by Richard Donner - With Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bobcat Goldthwait, David Johansen, ...
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