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Matilda

Matilda

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Film Age rating: 5 Year: 1996 IMDB Rating: 7

An extraordinarily intelligent young girl from a cruel and uncaring family discovers she possesses telekinetic powers and is sent off to a school headed by a tyrannical principal.

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Chronicle

Chronicle

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 7

Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage...

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Affliction

Affliction

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1998 IMDB Rating: 6.9

A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in him slowly disintegrating mentally.

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Sons of Perdition

Sons of Perdition

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 6.9

An inside look at polygamist teens who have become religious refugees in mainstream America.

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Women Talking

Women Talking

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2022 IMDB Rating: 6.9

A group of women in an isolated religious colony struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.

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Gardens of the Night

Gardens of the Night

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Film Age rating: 18 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 6.8

After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselves living on the street.

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It

It

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Series Age rating: 14 Year: 1990 IMDB Rating: 6.8

In 1960, seven outcast kids known as "The Losers' Club" fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the demon once and for all when it returns to t...

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The Unloved

The Unloved

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2009 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a children's home. Through her eyes, we follow her struggle to cope with the system; her only savin...

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In a Glass Cage

In a Glass Cage

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Film Age rating: 18 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 6.7

A former nazi child-killer is confined in an iron lung inside an old mansion after a suicide attempt. His wife hires him a full-time carer, a mysterious young man who is driven slowly mad by the old m...

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Joe the King

Joe the King

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 1999 IMDB Rating: 6.7

A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother.

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