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He Was a Quiet Man

IMDB Rating: 7.30
6162 votes

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Storyline
A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. His supervisor picks on him. As he's screwing his courage to the sticking place, he drops a bullet; while on the floor looking for it, another colleague does exactly what Bob has been planning. Bob emerges a hero and the one colleague he likes, a woman with a bright smile, is severely wounded. Can Bob help her through despair and find himself and joy in life? Or, as everyone says, is this impossible for a man like him?
Actors
Bob MaconelChristian Slater
Goldie/Maurice GregoryJohn Gulager
Scott HarperJamison Jones

Neverwas

IMDB Rating: 6.70
1099 votes

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Storyline
A well-educated psychiatrist leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father, a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children's book. Acclimating to his position, he encounters a schizophrenic who helps him to discover the book's secrets and his place in the story.
Actors
Zach RileyAaron Eckhart
Gabriel FinchIan McKellen
T.L. PiersonNick Nolte

Charlie Bartlett

IMDB Rating: 7.50
4075 votes

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Wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett is failing miserably at fitting in at a new public high school run by the world-weary Principal Gardner. As he begins to better understand the social hierarchy, Charlie's honest charm and likability positions him as the resident "psychiatrist" dishing out advice, and the occasional prescription with his partner and fellow student, Murphy Bivens, to other students in need. Along the way, he decides to take some of his own advice, find romance, and learn to accept who he is, thus wielding a witty dark comedy about the angst-filled years before college.
Actors
Charlie BartlettAnton Yelchin
Principal GardnerRobert Downey Jr.
Murphey BivensTyler Hilton

Factotum

IMDB Rating: 6.50
3886 votes

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Storyline
This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.
Actors
Henry ChinaskiMatt Dillon
JanLili Taylor
LauraMarisa Tomei

The Cook

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Over a long holiday weekend, unable to escape the confines of their sorority house, a handful of unsuspecting girls are left behind to enjoy the quiet sanctuary. The normal house staff has taken off for the weekend, leaving the girls to fend for themselves. Thankfully someone was kind enough to send them a temporary replacement chef to cook their meals. However, when the girls start disappearing one-by-one, they begin to suspect something may not be quite right with... THE COOK!
Actors
The CookMark Hengst
AmyMakinna Ridgway
BunnyKit Paquin

Sideways

IMDB Rating: 7.80
47569 votes

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Storyline
Miles Raymond, a failed writer and divorcé who teaches junior high school English takes his best friend, former hot actor Jack, on a weeklong drive up to California's wine country. There they explore the nature of their failures and question their relationships. Jack, about to get married, has an affair with a woman and wonders whether he should call off his wedding. Miles questions whether or not he made the right choice while trying to form a relationship with the woman's best friend, a fellow oenophile who is a waitress at a restaurant that he frequents often when visiting that part of the country.
Actors
MilesPaul Giamatti
JackThomas Haden Church
MayaVirginia Madsen

The Beguiled

IMDB Rating: 7.10
2437 votes

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Storyline
During the civil war, injured Yankee soldier, John McBurney is rescued on the verge of death by a teenage girl from a southern boarding school. She manages to get him back to the school, and at first the all-female staff and pupils are scared. As he starts to recover, one by one he charms them and the atmosphere becomes filled with jealousy and deceit.
Actors
Cpl. John McBurneyClint Eastwood
Martha FarnsworthGeraldine Page
Edwina DabneyElizabeth Hartman

Atonement

IMDB Rating: 8.20
4525 votes

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Storyline
In the summer of 1935, 13-year-old Briony Tallis observes a flirtation between a servant's son, Robbie, and her older sister, Cecilia, that she childishly misconstrues. Briony's misunderstanding leads to a terrible crime whose consequences follow them through World War II.
Actors
Briony Tallis, aged 13Saoirse Ronan
Grace TurnerBrenda Blethyn
BettyJulia West

The Lost Boys

IMDB Rating: 6.80
17466 votes

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Storyline
Financial troubles force a recent divorcee and her teenage sons Mike and Sam to settle down with her father in the California town of Santa Carla. At first, Sam laughs off rumours he hears about vampires who inhabit the small town. But after Mike meets a beautiful girl at the local amusement park, he begins to exhibit the classic signs of vampirism. Fearing for his own safety, Sam recruits two young vampire hunters to save his brother by finding and destroying the head vampire.
Actors
Michael EmersonJason Patric
Sam EmersonCorey Haim
Lucy EmersonDianne Wiest
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