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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

IMDB Rating: 6.00
5423 votes

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Storyline
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captaine Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
Actors
The Sixth Earl of GreystokeRalph Richardson
Capitaine Phillippe D'ArnotIan Holm
Lord Charles EskerJames Fox

The Jungle Book

IMDB Rating: 5.80
3242 votes

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Storyline
A faithful adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of Mowgoli the jungle boy who is raised by wolves after being lost when a tiger attacked an encampment and killed his father. Years later he finds himself re-united with his childhood love Kitty and back in the "civilization" of Colonial India which he finds far less civilized then his jungle haunts. The search for a lost treasure shows who the truly civilized members of society are.
Actors
MowgliJason Scott Lee
Captain William BooneCary Elwes
Katherine 'Kitty' BrydonLena Headey

The Witches

IMDB Rating: 6.50
4691 votes

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Storyline
A young boy, recently orphaned, is taken to England by his grandmother. At a hotel in which they are staying, a group of witches have gathered to prepare a plot to rid the world of all children.
Actors
Miss Eva Ernst/Grand High WitchAnjelica Huston
Helga EveshimMai Zetterling
Luke EveshimJasen Fisher

Pollyanna

IMDB Rating: 7.50
189 votes

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Storyline
Pollyanna is a young orphan with a positive, cheerful personality who comes to live with her wealthy, embittered, spinster aunt. She introduces everyone to her preacher father's favorite "Glad Game" and ends up transforming not only her aunt's life but the entire town. When the selfless, caring Pollyanna is severely injured in an accident, her spirits dip uncharacteristically, and the townsfolk rally around to help her regain her perspective, to rejoice in God and look for the good.
Actors
Aunt PollyAmanda Burton
Mr. PendletonKenneth Cranham
PollyannaGeorgina Terry

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

IMDB Rating: 7.50
23796 votes

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Storyline
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of eighteenth century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.
Actors
Jean-Baptiste GrenouilleBen Whishaw
Court OfficialFrancesc Albiol
Guard 1 DungeonGonzalo Cunill

Nocturna

IMDB Rating: 7.00
37 votes

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Actors
Pastor de gatosImanol Arias
Sr. MokaCarlos Sobera
Estrella PolarNatalia Rodríguez

The Godfather: Part II

IMDB Rating: 9.00
141221 votes

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Storyline
The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Actors
Don Michael CorleoneAl Pacino
Tom HagenRobert Duvall
Kay CorleoneDiane Keaton

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

IMDB Rating: 5.80
14495 votes

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Storyline
Mad Max is a former cop who finds himself in a post-apocolyptic desert town called Bartertown. He is hired by the leader of the city to fight in a gladiator like arena called Thunderdome, so he can kill Auntie's rival master blaster. He is later banished and finds a group of children that survived a plane crash during the war. They believe he is their former pilot Captain Walker. Some of the children leave to find their fabled tomorrow morrow land. So Mad Max has to save them from the desert and from Auntie's Bartertown.
Actors
'Mad' Max RockatanskyMel Gibson
Aunty EntityTina Turner
Jedediah the PilotBruce Spence

Misérables, Les

IMDB Rating: 7.10
8015 votes

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Storyline
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Actors
Inspector JavertGeoffrey Rush
FantineUma Thurman
Jean ValjeanLiam Neeson