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IMDB Rating: 6.70
23332 votes

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John Clasky is a devoted dad whose skills as a chef have offered his family a very upscale life, including a summer home in Malibu and a breathtaking new Mexican housekeeper, named Flor. She and her daughter Cristina have recently emigrated to L.A. from Mexico and are trying to find a better life. When they move in with the Claskys for the summer, Flor has to fight for her daughter's soul as she discovers that life in a new country is perilous!
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John ClaskyAdam Sandler
Deborah ClaskyTéa Leoni
Flor MorenoPaz Vega
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Doctor Zhivago

IMDB Rating: 8.00
22479 votes

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A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the revolution but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.
Actors
Dr. Yuri ZhivagoOmar Sharif
LaraJulie Christie
TonyaGeraldine Chaplin
Also posted in 1965, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, War | Comments (0)

13 Going on 30

IMDB Rating: 6.10
24438 votes

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It's 1987, and geeky Jenna wants to be popular. After her 13th birthday party goes awry, Jenna wishes she could just be 30 instead - only to wake up and discover that she's flash-forwarded 17 years. Now a sexy, successful magazine editor, Jena finds out that being an adult isn't necessarily all it's cracked up to be.
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Jenna RinkJennifer Garner
Matt FlamhaffMark Ruffalo
Lucy WymanJudy Greer
Also posted in 2004, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

The Miracle Worker

IMDB Rating: 8.00
4712 votes

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Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation, her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute, which sends them a "half-blind Yankee schoolgirl" named Annie Sullivan to tutor their daughter. Through persistence and love, and sheer stubbornness, Annie breaks through Helen's walls of silence and darkness and teaches her to communicate.
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Annie SullivanAnne Bancroft
Captain Arthur KellerVictor Jory
Kate KellerInga Swenson
Also posted in 1962, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Dangerous Beauty

IMDB Rating: 7.00
4918 votes

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In 16th century Venice, courtesans enjoy unique privileges: dressed richly in red, they read, compose poetry and music, and discuss affairs of state with the men who govern the Republic. When Veronica Franco comes of age, she cannot marry Marco Venier, whom she loves, because she is well born but penniless. Her choice: cloister or courtesan. She steels her heart, and with beauty and intelligence becomes the best. She's a heroine when she helps convince France to aid Venice in war with Turkey, but when plague descends, the Church charges her with witchcraft. At her inquisition, she must match wits with an old rival, speak for all women, and call courage from Venier.
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Veronica FrancoCatherine McCormack
Marco VenierRufus Sewell
Maffio VenierOliver Platt
Also posted in 1998, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Thirteen

IMDB Rating: 7.00
23589 votes

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Tracy is a more unpopular girl who desperately wants to befriend the most popular girl in school Evie. When Evie finally becomes her friend she leads Tracy into a world of drugs, sex, violence, and theft in which her mother can not save her.
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Tracy Louise FreelandEvan Rachel Wood
Evie ZamoraNikki Reed
NoelVanessa Anne Hudgens
Also posted in 2003, Biography, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

FairyTale: A True Story

IMDB Rating: 6.20
1892 votes

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Based on factual accounts, this is the story of two young girls that, somehow, have the ability to take pictures of winged beings... which certainly causes quite a stir throughout England during the time of the first World War. Everyone, except the girls who think it's quite normal, are excited about this "photographic proof" that fairies exist... even the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini pay the girls a visit.
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Harry HoudiniHarvey Keitel
James CollinsJason Salkey
Sir Arthur Conan DoylePeter O'Toole
Also posted in 1997, Drama, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Mystery | Comments (0)

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner

IMDB Rating: 7.70
8693 votes

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Joey Drayton brings her fiancé, Dr. John Prentice, home to sunny San Francisco to meet her affluent parents. Their liberal persuasions are now put to the test, for although the young man is an ideal choice (he's highly and internationally respected in the medical field, and he's impeccably mannered, handsome, well dressed and of a respectable California family), he's black. The film, which covers one busy day in the Drayton home, is essentially a drawing-room comedy, a series of cross-conversations between the young doctor and the girl's parents, and finally between all sets of parents and offspring. A simple dinner is extended to include the doctor's parents, who fly up from Los Angeles for the evening, and the crusty but benevolent old Irish priest, a friend of the family. Thus, the title of the film . . .
Actors
Matt DraytonSpencer Tracy
Dr. John Wade PrenticeSidney Poitier
Christina DraytonKatharine Hepburn
Also posted in 1967, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Center Stage

IMDB Rating: 6.20
6353 votes

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After auditions, 12 young dancers make it to the American Ballet Academy. They'll prepare for the student showcase to determine who will be asked to join the American Ballet Company. Tensions mount between Jonathan, the company's aging choreographer, and Cooper, his best dancer, who also wants to choreograph. The brilliant Maureen seems poised for success, but she discovers that life is passing her by. Jody, whose body may be the wrong type and whose technique is ragged, elicits Cooper's interest. The edgy, smart-mouthed Eva loves to dance but seems destined to be stuck in the back of the chorus. The showcase will decide their fates.
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Jody SawyerAmanda Schull
Eva RodriguezZoe Saldana
Maureen CummingsSusan May Pratt
Also posted in 2000, Drama, High IMDB rating, Music | Comments (0)

Steel Magnolias

IMDB Rating: 6.80
12265 votes

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Revolving around Truvy's Beauty Parlor in a small parish in modern-day Louisiana, STEEL MAGNOLIAS is the story of a close-knit circle of friends whose lives come together there. As the picture opens, we find Drum Eatenton shooting birds in the trees of his back yard in preparation for his daughter's wedding reception that afternoon. Shortly thereafter, M'Lynn and Shelby (Drum's wife and daughter) depart for Truvy's to get their hair done for the wedding. "Just the sweetest thing," Annelle Depuy Desoto (who may or may not be married because her marriage may not be legal) is introduced to Truvy's customers as her new "glamour technician." While in the chairs, the sour-tempered Ouiser Boudreaux shows up and entertains the assemblage with her barbs. It seems that the only one of the group who truly understands Ouiser is Clairee who is recently widowed and looking for a diversion. As she says, later in the picture, "If you can't find anything good to say about anybody, come sit by me." Filled with humor and heartbreak, these "Steel Magnolias" make us laugh and cry as the realities of their lives in tiny Chiquapin Parish unfolds.
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M'Lynn EatentonSally Field
Truvy JonesDolly Parton
Ouiser BoudreauxShirley MacLaine
Also posted in 1989, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)
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