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Wise Blood
1979 • Drama • Comedy
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up hi…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
The Accidental Tourist
1988 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
After the death of his son, travel writer Macon Leary seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife is having similar problems. They separate, and Macon meets a strange,…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Inside Moves
1980 • Drama
After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Rory begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. When Jerry the bartender sudd…
Why matched: genres Drama
Tom and Huck
1995 • Drama • Adventure • Family
A mischievous young boy, Tom Sawyer, witnesses a murder by the deadly Injun Joe. Tom becomes friends with Huckleberry Finn, a boy with no future and no family. Tom has to choose…
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
Off Beat
1986 • Comedy
Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Deceived
1991 • Thriller
The murder of a museum curator places art dealer Jack Saunders under suspicion for selling forged treasures to museums. When Jack suddenly dies in a car crash, his wife Adrienne…
Why matched: genres Thriller
The Telephone
1988 • Drama • Comedy
Crazy out of work actress Vashti Blue spends all her time in her small apartment with her pet owl and her telephone, which she uses to try and solve all her problems with life.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Stardust Memories
1980 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Deer Hunter
1978 • Drama • War
Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their l…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
Joe the King
1999 • Drama • Crime
A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Breaking Away
1979 • Drama • Comedy
Dave, nineteen, has just graduated high school, with his three friends: the comical Cyril, the warm hearted but short-tempered Moocher, and the athletic, spiteful but good-heart…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
The Scarlet Letter
1995 • Drama • Romance
Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Crossing Delancey
1988 • Romance • Comedy
Thirty-something Isabelle spends her time going from her tiny, solitary West Side apartment to that of her grandmother on the Lower East Side. While her grandmother plots to fin…
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy
The Amityville Horror
1979 • Horror
George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Victorian mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville,…
Why matched: genres Horror
Synecdoche, New York
2008 • Drama
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Why matched: genres Drama
Girlfriends
1978 • Drama • Comedy
A photographer and her best friend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she fee…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Please Give
2010 • Drama • Comedy
In New York City, a husband and wife butt heads with the granddaughters of the elderly woman who lives in the apartment the couple owns.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
The Namesake
2006 • Drama
The American-born son of Indian immigrants strives to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.
Why matched: genres Drama
The Good Shepherd
2006 • Drama • Thriller • History
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and di…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller