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Kramer vs. Kramer

Kramer vs. Kramer

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Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking...

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My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady

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Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1964 IMDB Rating: 7.8

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

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Everything Everywhere All at Once

Everything Everywhere All at Once

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2022 IMDB Rating: 7.8

An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.

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A Letter to Three Wives

A Letter to Three Wives

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Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1949 IMDB Rating: 7.7

A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.

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How Green Was My Valley

How Green Was My Valley

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Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1941 IMDB Rating: 7.7

A man in his fifties reminisces about his childhood growing up in a Welsh mining village at the turn of the 20th century.

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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 7.7

A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, re...

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Ordinary People

Ordinary People

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Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1980 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth...

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The French Connection

The French Connection

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1971 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.

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Gravity

Gravity

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Film Age rating: 11 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, dis...

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The Last Emperor

The Last Emperor

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Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1987 IMDB Rating: 7.7

A dramatic history of Puyi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his d...

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