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The Shining

IMDB Rating: 8.50
130887 votes

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A novelist - Jack Torrance take a job interview as winter caretaker of the isolated, old, huge and beautiful Overlook Hotel. In the interview, Jack is told by the manager himself, that the previous caretaker - Grady, chopped his family and later killed himself with a shotgun. Ignoring the story, Jack brings his wife - Wendy and his son Danny. It happens that Danny, has a mysterious power known as "The Shining" that shows him things from the past and future. Some of the visions come from Tony - "the little boy who lives in Danny's mouth". Danny meets Hallorann - the hotel cook in their first day arriving at the Overlook, who also has this "Shining" and he warns him about the hotel and the sinister Room 237. As the days go by, Danny has visions of previous guests and employees who died at the hotel years before, meanwhile Jack starts driving into insanity, turning more and more aggressive, at the point that Danny and Wendy gets convinced that Jack might try to do the same thing, Grady did.
Actors
Jack TorranceJack Nicholson
Wendy TorranceShelley Duvall
Danny TorranceDanny Lloyd

The Way We Were

IMDB Rating: 6.80
5219 votes

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Katie and Hubbell are students in the same college but with very different lives. She is a communist compromised against the civil war in Spain and the rise of Hitler in Europe, and has to work to pay her studies. He is more interested in sports a and sceptic about politics. However, Katie is impressed by his charm and she still is when they meet some years after.
Actors
Katie MoroskyBarbra Streisand
Hubbell GardnerRobert Redford
J.J.Bradford Dillman

Finding Forrester

IMDB Rating: 7.20
29141 votes

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Jamal Wallace is an inner-city kid from the Bronx who has an aptness at basketball and a genius at writing. While always a C student, Jamal comes to the attention of a prestigious New York prep school when he scores highly on his standardized tests. While Jamal is given a heavy load at his new school, both he and the school know that the real reason they took him on is for his prowess on the court. Befriended by fellow student Claire and helped along by Pulitzer-prize winning author and recluse William Forrester, Jamal pursues his dreams both on and off the court while overcoming obstacles placed by his bitter literature teacher. As Jamal is shaped by Forrester, he finds that he is changing the old writer as well, forcing him to confront his past...and his future.
Actors
William ForresterSean Connery
Jamal WallaceRob Brown
Prof. Robert CrawfordF. Murray Abraham

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

IMDB Rating: 7.80
27101 votes

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Struggling writer Paul Varjak moves into a New York apartment building and becomes intrigued by his pretty, quirky neighbor Holly Golightly. Holly's lifestyle confuses and fascinates Paul; in public she flits through parties with a sexy, sophisticated air, but when they're alone she changes into a sweetly vulnerable bundle of neuroses.
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Holly GolightlyAudrey Hepburn
Paul 'Fred' VarjakGeorge Peppard
2-EPatricia Neal

Harriet the Spy

IMDB Rating: 5.80
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Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. But when Harriet's friends find her secret notebook the tables are turned on her. Can she win her friends back and still keep on going with the spy buisness?
Actors
Harriet M. WelschMichelle Trachtenberg
SportGregory Smith
Janie GibbsVanessa Lee Chester

Girl, Interrupted

IMDB Rating: 7.00
26060 votes

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Susanna is rushed to the hospital. Afterwards she discusses this with a psychiatrist. She had been having some delusions. She had also been having an affair with the husband of her parents' friend. The doctor suggests that combining a bottle of aspirin and a bottle of vodka was a suicide attempt. This she denies. He recommends a short period of rest at Claymoore. Claymoore is a private mental hospital full of noisy, crazy people. Georgina is a pathological liar. Polly has been badly scarred by fire. Daisy won't eat in the presence of other people. Lisa is a sociopath, the biggest exasperation for the staff - like Nurse Valerie - and the biggest influence on the other girls in the hospital. Lisa has a history of escapes, so gaining access to personal medical files is not a problem... Susanna's boyfriend Toby is concerned that she seems too comfortable living with her institutionalized friends...
Actors
Susanna KaysenWinona Ryder
Lisa RoweAngelina Jolie
Georgina TuskinClea DuVall

My Favorite Year

IMDB Rating: 7.20
3234 votes

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It's 1950's New York and the age of live television. Benjy Stone is a young writer on a major comedy-variety show. He is assigned to chaperon that week's guest Alan Swann, a faded movie-star and renowned womanizer and drinker. Benjy's job is to try and keep Swann sober and above all else, make sure he shows up for the live broadcast on Saturday evening. Benjy and Swann have a number of adventures throughout the week, including dinner with Benjy's somewhat eccentric family. In the end, both learn lessons in life from the other.
Actors
Alan SwannPeter O'Toole
Benjy StoneMark Linn-Baker
K. C. DowningJessica Harper

Misery

IMDB Rating: 7.80
30309 votes

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Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy.
Actors
Paul SheldonJames Caan
Annie WilkesKathy Bates
BusterRichard Farnsworth

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

IMDB Rating: 8.20
9489 votes

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Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Actors
Jean-Dominique 'Jean-Do' BaubyMathieu Amalric
Céline DesmoulinsEmmanuelle Seigner
Henriette DurandMarie-Josée Croze

Little Miss Sunshine

IMDB Rating: 8.10
52953 votes

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The Hoover family is the dictionary definition for the word "dysfunctional". The dad Richard is a man who gives lectures on winners and losers, the wife is Sheryl, a chain-smoking, frazzled wife and working mother whose idea of a home cooked meal frequently consists of a bucket of chicken. Her gay brother Frank recently attempted suicide. The grandpa is Edwin, a drug addict. The son is Dwayne a rebel who has vowed not to talk until he gets into the Air Force. And then there is Olive, a seven-year old girl who dreams of going to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. So what happens when they do?
Actors
OliveAbigail Breslin
RichardGreg Kinnear
DwaynePaul Dano
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