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The Banishing(2021)

1h 37min | Horror
3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

In the 1930s, a young reverend and his family are forced to confront their worst fears when they discover their new home holds a horrifying secret.

Directed by Christopher Smith

The Green Mile(1999)

R
| 3h 9min | Fantasy, Drama, Crime
4.3/5 (with 6,117 votes)

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.

Directed by Frank Darabont - With Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell, Michael Jeter, ...
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom(1984)

PG
| 1h 58min | Adventure, Action
3.7/5 (with 3,364 votes)

After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.

Directed by Steven Spielberg - With Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Jonathan Ke Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone, ...
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The Aviator(2004)

PG-13
| 2h 50min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 1,978 votes)

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Directed by Martin Scorsese - With Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, ...
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Changeling(2008)

R
| 2h 21min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.8/5 (with 1,523 votes)

Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.

Directed by Clint Eastwood - With Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Riki Lindhome, Michael Kelly, Jeffrey Donovan, Amy Ryan, ...
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Mirror(1975)

1h 47min | Drama, History
4.1/5 (with 273 votes)

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - With Margarita Terekhova, Oleg Yankovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Larisa Tarkovskaya, Alla Demidova, Mykola Hrynko, ...

Race(2016)

PG-13
| 2h 14min | Action, Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 617 votes)

Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.

Directed by Stephen Hopkins - With Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Jeremy Irons, William Hurt, Carice van Houten, Amanda Crew, ...
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The Remains of the Day(1993)

PG
| 2h 14min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 414 votes)

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 post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.

Directed by James Ivory - With Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox, Christopher Reeve, Hugh Grant, Ben Chaplin, ...
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The Color Purple(1985)

PG
| 2h 34min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 566 votes)

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa.

Directed by Steven Spielberg - With Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Adolph Caesar, Rae Dawn Chong, ...
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Murder on the Orient Express(1974)

PG
| 2h 8min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 447 votes)

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

Directed by Sidney Lumet - With Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Michael York, Jean-Pierre Cassel, ...
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Angels with Dirty Faces(1938)

NR
| 1h 37min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.9/5 (with 89 votes)

In New York, the boys Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly are best friends and small time thieves. After a robbery, Rocky is arrested and sent to a reformatory school, where he begins his criminal career. Jerry escapes and later becomes a priest. After three years in prison, Rocky is released and demands the return of $100,000 deposited with his solicitor - prior to his jail term.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, George Bancroft, Dead End Kids, ...

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?(1962)

NR
| 2h 15min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
4.0/5 (with 332 votes)

Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a successful child star, cares for her crippled sister Blanche, whose career in later years eclipsed that of Jane. Now the two live together, their relationship affected by simmering subconscious thoughts of mutual envy, hate and revenge.

Directed by Robert Aldrich - With Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Maidie Norman, Marjorie Bennett, Anna Lee, ...
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Lost Horizon(1937)

2h 12min | Adventure, Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 58 votes)

British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.

Directed by Frank Capra, Andrew Marton - With Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Sam Jaffe, John Howard, H. B. Warner, Edward Everett Horton, ...
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The Purple Rose of Cairo(1985)

PG
| 1h 22min | Fantasy, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 347 votes)

Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising her spirits, where she watches dashing archaeologist Tom Baxter time and again.

Directed by Woody Allen - With Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Dianne Wiest, Zoe Caldwell, Deborah Rush, ...
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Idlewild(2006)

2h 1min | Crime, Drama, Music
2.8/5 (with 19 votes)

A musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his piano player and partner Percival must choose between his love, Angel or his obligations to his father.

Directed by Bryan Barber - With Andre 3000, Big Boi, Paula Patton, Terrence Howard, Cicely Tyson, Macy Gray, ...
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Johnny Dangerously(1984)

PG-13
| 1h 30min | Comedy, Crime
3.2/5 (with 61 votes)

An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.

Directed by Amy Heckerling - With Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Peter Boyle, Marilu Henner, Maureen Stapleton, Griffin Dunne, ...

The Journey of Natty Gann(1985)

PG
| 1h 41min | Adventure
3.5/5 (with 35 votes)

America is in the depths of the Great Depression. Families drift apart when faraway jobs beckon. A courageous young girl confronts overwhelming odds when she embarks on a cross-country search for her father. During her odyssey, she forms a close bond with two diverse traveling companions: a magnificent, protective wolf, and a hardened drifter.

Directed by Jeremy Kagan - With Meredith Salenger, John Cusack, Ray Wise, Jed, Lainie Kazan, Scatman Crothers, ...
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Places in the Heart(1984)

PG
| 1h 51min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.6/5 (with 40 votes)

In 1930s Texas, a widow and her family fight to save their home by harvesting cotton.

Directed by Robert Benton - With Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Danny Glover, John Malkovich, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, ...
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The Man Who Planted Trees(1987)

30min | Animation, Drama
4.1/5 (with 56 votes)

This animated short film tells the story of a shepherd who repairs the ruined ecosystem of a secluded valley by singlehandedly cultivating a forest over a thirty year period.

Directed by Frédéric Back

The Other(1972)

PG
| 1h 48min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
3.3/5 (with 43 votes)

Chilling and eerie, this supernatural tale of good versus evil coils around twin brothers living with their grandmother in a sleepy rural area during the summer of 1935. After his grandmother encourages Niles to develop what seem to be psychic gifts, Niles starts to suspect that his twin may be involved in recent fatal accidents.

Directed by Robert Mulligan - With Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, John Ritter, Lou Frizzell, Portia Nelson, Victor French, ...

Swallows and Amazons(2016)

1h 37min | Adventure, Kids & Family
3.2/5 (with 34 votes)

Four children dream of escaping the tedium of a summer holiday with their mother. When finally given permission to camp on their own on an island in the middle of a vast lake, they are overjoyed. But when they get there they discover they may not be alone… The battle for ownership of a lonely island teaches them the skills of survival, the value of friendship and the importance of holding your nerve.

Directed by Philippa Lowthorpe - With Andrew Scott
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Grey Owl(1999)

1h 57min | Action, Drama, Romance / Love, Western
2.9/5 (with 21 votes)

Archie Grey Owl is a trapper in Canada in the early 1930s when a young Iroquois woman from town asks him to teach her Indian ways. They live in the woods, where she is appalled at how trapped animals die. She adopts two orphaned beaver kits and helps Archie see his way to stop trapping. Instead, he works as a guide, a naturalist writer, and then the Canadian government hires him to save the beaver in a conserve by Lake Ajawaan in Prince Albert National Park. He writes a biography, which brings him attention in Canada and invitations to lecture in England. Before he leaves, he and Anahareo (Pony) marry. In England, his secret is revealed. Will Anahareo continue to love him?

Directed by Richard Attenborough - With Pierce Brosnan, Charles Powell, Graham Greene, Jacques Lussier, John Dunn-Hill, J.D. Walsh, ...
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Brighton Rock(1948)

1h 32min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 28 votes)

Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as "Pinkie" – the film's main thematic concern is the criminal underbelly evident in inter-war Brighton.

Directed by John Boulting, Roy Boulting - With Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Carol Marsh, Constance Smith, Harcourt Williams, ...
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The Marathon Family(1982)

1h 32min | Comedy, Drama
3.9/5 (with 27 votes)

The Topalović family has been in the burial business for generations. When the 150 yrs old Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.

Directed by Slobodan Šijan - With Milivoje Tomić, Mija Aleksić, Pavle Vujisić, Danilo Stojković, Bogdan Diklić, Zoran Radmilović, ...

Fools' Parade(1971)

G
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 7 votes)

When a trio of ex-convicts led by Mattie Appleyard is released from prison, they hope to open a general store using money Mattie has saved during his 40-year sentence. This attempt is met with great resistance from a corrupt prison official and the banker who issued Mattie the check.

Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen - With James Stewart, George Kennedy, Kurt Russell, Strother Martin, Anne Baxter, William Windom, ...

7 Women(1966)

1h 27min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan.

Directed by John Ford - With Anne Bancroft, Margaret Leighton, Flora Robson, Sue Lyon, Mildred Dunnock, Betty Field, ...
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The Stars Fell on Henrietta(1995)

PG
| 1h 49min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he convinces himself and local Don Day that there is oil on Day's land. The financially strapped Day puts everything into finding oil...but at what cost?

Directed by James Keach - With Robert Duvall, Aidan Quinn, Frances Fisher, Brian Dennehy, Billy Bob Thornton
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Berlin '36(2009)

1h 40min | Drama, History
2.7/5 (with 12 votes)

Berlin 36 is a 2009 German film telling the fate of Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann in the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was replaced by the Nazi regime by an athlete later discovered to be a man. The film is based on a true story and was released in Germany on September 10, 2009. Reporters at Der Spiegel challenged the historical basis for many of the events in the film, pointing to arrest records and medical examinations indicating German authorities did not learn Dora Ratjen was male until 1938.

Directed by Kaspar Heidelbach - With Karoline Herfurth, Sebastian Urzendowsky, Axel Prahl, Julie Engelbrecht, Thomas Thieme, August Zirner, ...

Christ Stopped at Eboli(1979)

3h 40min | War, Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 22 votes)

In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.

Directed by Francesco Rosi - With Gian Maria Volonté, Lea Massari, Alain Cuny, Irene Papas, Paolo Bonacelli, Antonio Allocca, ...

Two Stage Sisters(1964)

1h 52min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

In pre-revolutionary China, two young girls, Chunhua and Yuehong Xing, rise through the ranks of Chinese opera, but with their artistic success comes a new series of personal and social challenges. After they're sold to a Shanghai opera and the revolution dawns, Yuehong radicalizes and devotes her career to politically progressive performances, while Chunhua flees to avoid turmoil. As the world changes around them, they fight to maintain their friendship.

Directed by Xie Jin - With Xie Fang
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