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Rocky V(1990)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 44min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 1,425 votes)

A lifetime of taking shots has ended Rocky’s career, and a crooked accountant has left him broke. Inspired by the memory of his trainer, however, Rocky finds glory in training and takes on an up-and-coming boxer.

Perfect Blue(1998)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 21min | Animation, Thriller
4.1/5 (with 1,110 votes)

Pop singer Mima Kirigow looks forward to a bright new career when she quits her chart-topping trio to become an actress. When she lands a role in a sexually charged murder mystery, Mima’s life begins to fall apart.

Directed by Satoshi Kon

Burnt(2015)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 40min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 1,585 votes)

Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.

Revolutionary Road(2008)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 59min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 1,707 votes)

A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.

Jerry Maguire(1996)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 18min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 1,420 votes)

Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he's really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients, save Rod Tidwell, an egomaniacal football player.

Driven(2001)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 56min | Action, Drama
2.6/5 (with 306 votes)

Talented rookie race-car driver Jimmy Bly has started losing his focus and begins to slip in the race rankings. It's no wonder, with the immense pressure being shoveled on him by his overly ambitious promoter brother as well as Bly's romance with his arch rival's girlfriend Sophia. With much riding on Bly, car owner Carl Henry brings former racing star Joe Tanto on board to help Bly. To drive Bly back to the top of the rankings, Tanto must first deal with the emotional scars left over from a tragic racing accident which nearly took his life.

Get Rich or Die Tryin'(2005)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 57min | Drama, Crime, Music
3.4/5 (with 383 votes)

A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.

A Lot Like Love(2005)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 47min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 575 votes)

On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to close friends to ... lovers?

Friday Night Lights(2004)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 58min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 227 votes)

A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles, is seriously injured during the first game of the season, all hope is lost, and the town's dormant social problems begin to flare up. It is left to the inspiring abilities of new coach Gary Gaines to instill in the other team members -- and, by proxy, the town itself -- a sense of self-respect and honor.

Staying Alive(1983)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 33min | Drama, Music
2.9/5 (with 196 votes)

It's five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest challenger yet - making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead(2007)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 57min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 619 votes)

When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.

Hustle & Flow(2005)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 56min | Crime, Drama, Music
3.6/5 (with 157 votes)

With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.

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Honey(2003)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 34min | Music, Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 529 votes)

Honey Daniels dreams of making a name for herself as a hip-hop choreographer. When she's not busy hitting downtown clubs with her friends, she teaches dance classes at a nearby community center in Harlem, N.Y., as a way to keep kids off the streets. Honey thinks she's hit the jackpot when she meets a hotshot director casts her in one of his music videos. But, when he starts demanding sexual favors from her, Honey makes a decision that will change her life.

The Muppets Take Manhattan(1984)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 34min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.2/5 (with 155 votes)

When the Muppets graduate from Danhurst College, they take their song-filled senior revue to New York City, only to learn that it isn't easy to find a producer who's willing to back a show starring a frog and a pig. Of course, Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy won't take no for an answer, launching a search for someone to take them to Broadway.

Ricochet(1991)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 49min | Crime, Thriller, Action
3.0/5 (with 133 votes)

An attorney is terrorized by the criminal he put away years ago when he was a cop.

Red Beard(1965)

3h 5min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 136 votes)

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.

Kinky Boots(2005)

1h 47min | Comedy, Drama, Music
3.4/5 (with 150 votes)

Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central England, but he never thought that he would take his father's place. Charles has a chance encounter with the flamboyant drag queen cabaret singer Lola and everything changes.

Barfly(1987)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 40min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 140 votes)

Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But, they like each other's company—and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life on the skids.

High Art(1998)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 41min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 53 votes)

A young female intern at a small magazine company becomes involved with a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both of whom seek to exploit each other for their respective careers, while slowly falling in love with each other.

Center Stage(2000)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 55min | Drama, Music
3.5/5 (with 147 votes)

A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York to make it as ballet dancers and each one deals with the problems and stress of training and getting ahead in the world of dance.

Post Grad(2009)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 29min | Comedy, Drama
2.5/5 (with 141 votes)

Ryden Malby has a master plan. Graduate college, get a great job, hang out with her best friend and find the perfect guy. But her plan spins hilariously out of control when she’s forced to move back home with her eccentric family.

Get a Job(2016)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 33min | Drama, Comedy
2.7/5 (with 310 votes)

Life after college graduation is not exactly going as planned for Will and Jillian who find themselves lost in a sea of increasingly strange jobs. But with help from their family, friends and coworkers they soon discover that the most important (and hilarious) adventures are the ones that we don't see coming.

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon(2006)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 32min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 181 votes)

The next great psycho horror slasher has given a documentary crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the sleepy town of Glen Echo, all the while deconstructing the conventions and archetypes of the horror genre for them.

A Star Is Born(1954)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 56min | Drama, Music, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 125 votes)

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Leningrad Cowboys Go America(1989)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 19min | Comedy, Music
3.5/5 (with 61 votes)

The Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band.

Directed by Aki Kaurismäki - With Matti Pellonpää, Silu Seppälä, Jim Jarmusch, Duke Robillard, Kari Väänänen, Leningrad Cowboys, ...

Hilary and Jackie(1998)

2h 1min | Drama, Music
3.4/5 (with 39 votes)

The tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.

Two for the Money(2005)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 2min | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 276 votes)

A former college athlete joins forces with a sports consultant to handicap football games for high-rolling gamblers.

Up Close & Personal(1996)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 59min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 94 votes)

Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...

Balls of Fury(2007)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 30min | Comedy, Crime
2.6/5 (with 222 votes)

Randy Daytona was a child ping pong prodigy who lost his chance at Olympic gold when his father is murdered by the mysterious Feng over a gambling debt. 15yrs later he's down on his luck and scraping a living doing seedy back room shows in Vegas; when the FBI turn up and ask for his help to take down Feng... who just happens to love Ping Pong.

Major League: Back to the Minors(1998)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 47min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 43 votes)

At the behest of Roger Dorn -- the Minnesota Twins' silver-tongued new owner -- washed-up minor league hurler Gus Cantrell steps up to the plate to take over as skipper of the club's hapless farm team. But little does he know that Dorn has an ulterior motive to generate publicity with a grudge match between the big leaguers and their ragtag Triple A affiliate.

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