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Dead Poets Society

IMDB Rating: 7.80
69947 votes

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Painfully shy Todd Anderson has been sent to the school where his popular older brother was valedictorian. His room-mate, Neil, although exceedingly bright and popular, is very much under the thumb of his overbearing father. The two, along with their other friends, meet Professor Keating, their new English teacher, who tells them of the Dead Poets Society, and encourages them to go against the status quo. Each, in their own way, does this, and are changed for life.
Actors
John KeatingRobin Williams
Neil PerryRobert Sean Leonard
Todd AndersonEthan Hawke
Also posted in 1989, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Shine

IMDB Rating: 7.50
17016 votes

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Based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott, this delightful movie charts the early and traumatic early years. Telling the story in flashback we see David as he grows up and into a child prodigy while his father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his childhood in Europe and the loss of his family in the concentration camps. David finally breaks away from his father and goes away to study overseas, he later suffers a breakdown and returns to Australia and a life in an institution. Many years later he is released and through several twists of fate (in reality even more unlikely than film portrays) he starts playing a piano in a bar before finally returning to the concert hall.
Actors
David Helfgott - AdultGeoffrey Rush
TonyJustin Braine
SylviaSonia Todd
Also posted in 1996, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, Music, Romance | Comments (0)

American Beauty

IMDB Rating: 8.50
126467 votes

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Lester and Carolyn Burnham are on the outside, a perfect husband and wife, in a perfect house, in a perfect neighborhood. But inside, Lester is slipping deeper and deeper into a hopeless depression. He finally snaps when he becomes infatuated with one of his daughters friends. Meanwhile, his daughter Jane is developing a happy friendship with a shy boy-next-door named Ricky who lives with a homophobic father.
Actors
Lester BurnhamKevin Spacey
Carolyn BurnhamAnnette Bening
Jane BurnhamThora Birch
Also posted in 1999, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (34)

A Thousand Acres

IMDB Rating: 5.80
1556 votes

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A THOUSAND ACRES is a drama about an American family who meets with tragedy on their land. It is the story of a father, his daughters, and their husbands, and their passion to subdue the history of their land and its stories.
Actors
Ginny Cook SmithJessica Lange
Rose Cook LewisMichelle Pfeiffer
Caroline CookJennifer Jason Leigh
Also posted in 1997, Drama | Comments (0)

Legends of the Fall

IMDB Rating: 6.80
15702 votes

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Set in the Rocky Mountains of Montana in the early 1900s, this is a tale of love, betrayal, and brotherhood. After being discharged, Colonel Ludlow decides to raise his three sons in the wilds of Montana, where they can grow up away from the government and society he has learned to dispise. The three brothers mature and seem to have an unbreakable bond, until Susanna enters their lives. When Samuel, the youngest of the three, returns from college he brings with him his beautiful fiance, Susanna. The eldest son, Alfred, soon finds himself in love with his brother's fiance, and things get worse when he discovers a growing passion between Susanna and Tristan. Colonel Ludlow's favorite son, Tristan is willful and as wild as the mountains. As the brothers set out to fight a war in Europe, suspicion and jelousy threatens to tear apart their once indestructable bond.
Actors
Tristan LudlowBrad Pitt
Col. William LudlowAnthony Hopkins
Alfred LudlowAidan Quinn
Also posted in 1994, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, Western | Comments (0)