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Dangerous Minds
1995 • Drama
Former Marine Louanne Johnson lands a gig teaching in a pilot program for bright but underachieving teens at a notorious inner-city high school. After having a terrible first da…
Why matched: genres Drama
Simon Birch
1998 • Drama • Comedy • Family
Simon Birch and Joe Wenteworth are boys who have a reputation for being oddballs. Joe never knew his father, and his mother, Rebecca, is keeping her lips sealed no matter how mu…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Sparkle
1976 • Music • Drama
Three sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group in the 1960s.
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
The Super
1991 • Comedy
Louie Kritski is a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ghetto apartment that he is threatened with jail time. The judge gives him another option -- he…
Why matched: genres Comedy
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
1974 • Thriller • Crime
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
She's the One
1996 • Romance • Comedy
Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's i…
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy
The Real Blonde
1998 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
An aspiring actor and his girlfriend handle life's frustrations, while his friend seeks fulfillment with a blonde.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Oliver's Story
1978 • Drama • Romance
Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hours don't ease his pain, espe…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
From the Hip
1987 • Drama • Comedy
Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must reexamine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a promotion in his firm, and h…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
It Could Happen to You
1994 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
Charlie Lang is a simple, kindhearted New York City cop. When he realizes he has no money to tip waitress Yvonne Biasi, Lang offers her half the winnings of his lottery ticket.…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Mandingo
1975 • Drama • Romance • History
Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settles on his own cousin, Blanch…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Stars & Bars
1988 • Comedy
A British art expert leaves New York to buy a long-lost Renoir from a Georgia eccentric.
Why matched: genres Comedy
The Ambulance
1990 • Thriller • Comedy • Action
When the woman of his dreams is snatched by a strange ambulance, a young man risks it all to find her and tracks down a trafficking ring.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Comedy
The Hurricane
1999 • Drama
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
Why matched: genres Drama
Lone Star
1996 • Drama • Mystery • Romance
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
Jefferson in Paris
1995 • Drama • Romance • History
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a cou…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Mickey Blue Eyes
1999 • Romance • Crime • Comedy
An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "favors" would be asked of him.
Why matched: genres Romance, Crime
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
1974 • Drama • TV Movie
In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her s…
Why matched: genres Drama, TV Movie
The Gambler
1974 • Drama • Crime
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to de…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Malcolm X
1992 • Drama • History
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and th…
Why matched: genres Drama, History