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Titus
rating:3.3

Titus

1999Runtime:0 minutes
Anthony Hopkins stars as a victorious Roman general who returns from battling the Goths with their queen (Jessica Lange) as his prisoner. But kidnapping is anathema to the Goths, and a devastating cycle of revenge is triggered. Director Julie Taymor takes Shakespeare's bloody classic &NFi;Titus Andronicus&NFi_; and puts it through a phantasmagoric time machine. Highly stylized and thought-provoking, Titus received an Oscar for its brilliant costume design.

Directed by:

  • Julie Taymor
  • rating:3.3 3.3 Average Rating

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    The Preacher's Wife
    rating:3.3

    The Preacher's Wife

    1996Runtime:0 minutes
    When God overhears a church preacher (Courtney B. Vance) despairing the potential loss of a youth center, he dispatches an angel (Denzel Washington) to help him out. Trouble is, the preacher isn't easily convinced that his guardian angel is the real thing. An inspired reworking of the uplifting 1940s movie The Bishop's Wife, The Preacher's Wife stars Washington and Whitney Houston at their dazzling best.

    Directed by:

  • Penny Marshall
  • rating:3.3 3.3 Average Rating

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    The Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love
    rating:3.3

    The Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love

    1995Runtime:0 minutes
    While working part-time at her aunt's gas station, defiant tomboy Randy Dean (Laurel Holloman) falls in love with Evie Roy (Nicole Ari Parker), a rich, straight honor student who's already in a relationship. The two girls navigate the magical and confusing world of young love. Writer-director Maria Maggenti's touching and funny debut won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Independent Film in 1996.

    Directed by:

  • Maria Maggenti
  • rating:3.3 3.3 Average Rating

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    AIDS Jaago
    rating:3.3

    AIDS Jaago

    2007Runtime:0 minutes
    Acclaimed directors Mira Nair, Santosh Sivan, Vishal Bhardwaj and Farhan Akhtar examine the AIDS crisis in India with four short films that dispel common myths and illustrate how the disease affects ordinary people. A closeted gay man hides a secret from his wife, a young man is mistakenly diagnosed with HIV, a truck driver advocates for an HIV-positive child, and an HIV diagnosis brings a family together.

    Directed by:

  • Mira Nair
  • rating:3.3 3.3 Average Rating

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    Compulsion
    rating:3.3

    Compulsion

    2008Runtime:0 minutes
    When a desperate Anjika (Parminder Nagra) learns that her father (Vincent Ebrahim), a successful businessman, has arranged for her to marry a man (Sargon Yelda) she doesn't love, she turns to the family's chauffeur (Ray Winstone) and weighs an offer with life-changing consequences. This steamy drama originally aired on BBC television and was inspired by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's 17th-century tragedy, "The Changeling."

    Directed by:

  • Sarah Harding
  • rating:3.3 3.3 Average Rating

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    Ambulance Girl
    rating:3.3

    Ambulance Girl

    2005Runtime:0 minutes
    In the midst of a serious depression, a food writer (Kathy Bates) changes her career path by training to become an emergency medical technician, hoping that in the process of saving others, she may just save herself. Originally aired on the Lifetime channel, this inspirational made-for-TV movie based on Jane Stern's autobiographical novel co-stars Michael Bach, Robin Thomas and Marcia Kash.

    Directed by:

  • Kathy Bates
  • rating:3.3 3.3 Average Rating

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    The Waiting City
    rating:3.3

    The Waiting City

    2009Runtime:0 minutes
    Radha Mitchell and Joel Edgerton star as adoptive parents-to-be, en route from Australia to Calcutta to pick up their new baby, in this unconventional love story infused with the exotic charms of India from director Claire McCarthy. To foreigners who have never been on Indian soil, the city is at once intoxicating and overwhelming. But it also has the power to pull the couple's already fragile marriage apart at the seams.

    Directed by:

  • Claire McCarthy
  • rating:3.3 3.3 Average Rating

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    Fighter
    rating:3.3

    Fighter

    2007Runtime:0 minutes
    Although her strict father (Sadi Tekelioglu) expects her to study medicine, Aicha (Semra Turan) won't be deterred from training to become a skilled kung fu fighter. But in the process of building up her strength with a professional club, she unexpectedly falls for an adversary. At first, Aicha's passionate relationship with Emil (Cyron Melville) is like fire -- but in the end, her Turkish roots could tear them apart.

    Directed by:

  • Natasha Arthy
  • rating:3.3 3.3 Average Rating

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    Mutum
    rating:3.3

    Mutum

    2007Runtime:0 minutes
    Born into a family scrabbling out a rough existence on their farm in rural Brazil, sensitive 10-year-old Thiago (Thiago da Silva Mariz) tries to make sense of the growing rifts between the adults around him in this lyrical coming-of-age drama. Suffering from his father's abuse and the unhappiness between his parents, Thiago turns to his brother, Felipe (Wallison Felipe Leal Barroso), for insight into their emotionally chaotic world.

    Directed by:

  • Sandra Kogut
  • rating:3.3 3.3 Average Rating

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    Foxfire
    rating:3.3

    Foxfire

    1996Runtime:0 minutes
    In this adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates's controversial novel, four high school girls' have their lives changed forever when a defiant, charismatic drifter (Angelina Jolie) unites them and inspires them to exact revenge on their sexually abusive biology teacher. The quintet then spirals toward anarchy as they abduct and blackmail the father of one of the girls -- an act they come to rue when they find themselves on the lam and battling for survival.

    Directed by:

  • Annette Haywood Carter
  • rating:3.3 3.3 Average Rating

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    Salt of This Sea
    rating:3.3

    Salt of This Sea

    2008Runtime:0 minutes
    Born in Brooklyn to Palestinian refugee parents, Soraya (Suheir Hammad) decides to journey to the country of her ancestry when she discovers that her grandfather's savings have been frozen in a Jaffa bank account since his 1948 exile. She soon finds, however, that her simple plan is a complicated undertaking -- and one that takes her farther from her comfort zone (both geographically and emotionally) than she'd imagined in this romantic drama.

    Directed by:

  • Annemarie Jacir
  • rating:3.3 3.3 Average Rating

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    Masterpiece Theatre: The Song of the Lark
    rating:3.3

    Masterpiece Theatre: The Song of the Lark

    2001Runtime:0 minutes
    Alison Elliott (The Wings of the Dove) stars as Thea Kronborg in this stunning adaptation of Willa Cather's moving novel that follows the life of a passionate young woman who transcends her rural upbringing to become a world-class opera singer. Adapted by Emmy-nominated screenwriter Joseph Maurer, this made-for-TV production features standout supporting performances from Maximilian Schell, Tony Goldwyn and Arliss Howard.

    Directed by:

  • Karen Arthur
  • rating:3.3 3.3 Average Rating

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    A Matter of Sex
    rating:3.3

    A Matter of Sex

    1984Runtime:0 minutes
    After watching men with less impressive credentials pad their salaries with high-paying promotions, disgruntled female bank tellers (led by Jean Stapleton of "All in the Family" fame) stage an organized protest for union rights. But in the small town of Willmar, Minn., speaking out doesn't make a woman popular. Oscar-winning actress Lee Grant directs her daughter, Dinah Manoff, in this made-for-television drama based on actual events.

    Directed by:

  • Lee Grant
  • rating:3.3 3.3 Average Rating

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    Swept from the Sea
    rating:3.3

    Swept from the Sea

    1997Runtime:0 minutes
    Shunned by her seaside farming community, servant girl Amy Foster (Rachel Weisz) reciprocates with silence and is thus branded a halfwit. She finds a kindred spirit, though, when shipwrecked Ukrainian Yanko Gooral (Vincent Perez) ambles onto her master's farm. While the rest of the townsfolk spurn the disheveled stranger, Amy gently cares for him, giving rise to romance, marriage and a child -- but tragedy lies just around the corner.

    Directed by:

  • Beeban Kidron
  • rating:3.3 3.3 Average Rating

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    Brick Lane
    rating:3.3

    Brick Lane

    2007Runtime:0 minutes
    Set in the 1980s, this cross-cultural drama follows young Nazneem (Tannishtha Chatterjee), a Bangladeshi woman who's immigrated to London for an arranged marriage to a middle-aged man, leaving her beloved family, including her sister Hasina, behind. While Hasina leads a life of adventure back home, Nazneem struggles to accept the isolation and unhappiness in her new life, until an unexpected visitor comes along and changes everything.

    Directed by:

  • Sarah Gavron
  • rating:3.3 3.3 Average Rating

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    Tribute
    rating:3.3

    Tribute

    2009Runtime:0 minutes
    Former child star Cilla McGowan (Brittany Murphy) moves to Virginia's Shenandoah Valley to restore a mansion that belonged to her grandmother, a legendary actress. But once there, she discovers some shocking secrets about her grandmother's death. Meanwhile, a bond begins to form between Cilla and her handsome neighbor, Ford Sawyer (Jason Lewis). Tippi Hedren co-stars in this Lifetime Original Movie based on the novel by Nora Roberts.

    Directed by:

  • Martha Coolidge
  • rating:3.3 3.3 Average Rating

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    Now and Then
    rating:3.8

    Now and Then

    1995Runtime:0 minutes
    Waxing nostalgic about the bittersweet passage from childhood to puberty in this tender coming-of-age tale, four childhood girlfriends -- Teeny, Chrissy, Samantha and Roberta -- recall the magical summer of 1970. During their walk down memory lane, they reconcile experiences with boys, secrets, bullies and more. Lesli Linka Glatter directs; Gaby Hoffmann, Ashleigh Aston Moore, Cloris Leachman, Thora Birch and Christina Ricci co-star.

    Directed by:

  • Lesli Linka Glatter
  • rating:3.8 3.8 Average Rating

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    Now and Then (1995)
    A heartwarming movie about four childhood girlfriends who, in adulthood reunion, relive their experience of the life-changing summer of 1970, including a mystery death, divorce, standing up to the boys, first kiss, and the meaning of true friendship. Each explores her unique identity amidst family and friends. Beautifully directed by Lesli Linka Glatter.
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