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Songcatcher
2001 • Music • Drama
After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural sc…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
1980 • Documentary
A zesty paean of praise to the greater glories of garlic. This lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, cultivation and culinary/curative powers of the stinking rose fe…
Why matched: genres Documentary
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
1988 • Comedy • Documentary
Directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film Gates of…
Why matched: genres Comedy, Documentary
Killing Lincoln
2013 • Drama • Documentary
April 14, 1865. One gunshot. One assassin hell-bent on killing a tyrant, as he charged the 16th President of the United States. And in one moment, our nation was forever changed…
Why matched: genres Drama, Documentary
The Dead Pool
1988 • Thriller • Crime • Action
Dirty Harry Callahan returns for his final film adventure. Together with his partner Al Quan, he must investigate the systematic murder of prominent figures. By the time Harry l…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
Freedom
2014 • Music • Drama
Two men separated by 100 years are united in their search for freedom. In 1856 a slave, Samuel Woodward and his family, escape from the Monroe Plantation near Richmond, Virginia…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Lolita
1997 • Drama • Romance
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Road to Wellville
1994 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kell…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Cherry Falls
2000 • Thriller • Mystery • Horror
When students in the small town of Cherry Falls learn a serial killer is targeting virgins, they realize their only chance of survival is to throw a “Pop Your Cherry” party.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
Field of Lost Shoes
2015 • Drama • History • War
A group of teenage cadets sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Va…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Burden of Dreams
1982 • Documentary
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal strug…
Why matched: genres Documentary
The Contender
2000 • Drama • Thriller
The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival. When Senator Laine Hanson is…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The New World
2005 • Drama • Romance • History
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Fair Game
2010 • Drama • Thriller
A devoted wife and mother leads a secret life as a CIA agent until her husband’s article exposes a scandal, putting her identity and loved ones at risk. As her world crumbles, s…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Lincoln
2012 • Drama • History
The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action d…
Why matched: genres Drama, History