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The Boost
1988 • Drama • Romance
Lenny Brown moves to California to find his fortune in tax shelter investments. When the federal government changes the tax laws, poor Lenny finds himself $700,000 in hock with…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Slender Thread
1965 • Drama
Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that she needs to talk to someo…
Why matched: genres Drama
A Child Is Waiting
1963 • Drama
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the s…
Why matched: genres Drama
Garbo Talks
1984 • Drama • Comedy
When New York accountant Gilbert Rolfe finds out his mother has a brain tumor, he is devastated. His incorrigible mother, Estelle, has one last wish: to meet the great Greta Gar…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Yentl
1983 • Music • Drama • Romance
In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly finds love along the way.
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Rich and Famous
1981 • Drama
Two literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich.
Why matched: genres Drama
It's My Turn
1980 • Romance • Comedy
A successful but stressed mathematics professor goes to her father's wedding and falls in love with her father's bride's son, a prematurely retired pro baseball player. She must…
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy
White Palace
1990 • Drama • Romance
Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Legal Eagles
1986 • Crime • Comedy
District Attorney Tom Logan is set for higher office, at least until he becomes involved with defence lawyer Laura Kelly and her unpredictable client Chelsea Deardon. It seems t…
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
Billy Bathgate
1991 • Crime
In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.
Why matched: genres Crime
Storm Fear
1955 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
A wounded bank robber takes over his brother's home.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Running on Empty
1988 • Drama • Romance • Crime
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Heartburn
1986 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't g…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
A Lady Without Passport
1950 • Thriller • Crime
An undercover U.S. Immigration agent falls in love with an immigrant attempting to enter the United States through Havana, Cuba in an illegal smuggling ring.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
Eyewitness
1981 • Thriller
NYC custodian Daryll Deever is a big fan of local news reporter Tony Sokolow, so he is intrigued when she shows up to cover a story at his workplace. There's been a murder in th…
Why matched: genres Thriller
Raw Deal
1986 • Thriller • Crime • Action
Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
Brighton Beach Memoirs
1986 • Comedy
Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he l…
Why matched: genres Comedy
The Firm
1993 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Teachers
1984 • Drama • Comedy
A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still cannot read or write. Amid the…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Drake & Josh Go Hollywood
2006 • Adventure • Crime • Comedy
When Drake and Josh accidentally send their little sister Megan on a plane to L.A., they soon find themselves in the middle of a dangerous situation.
Why matched: genres Adventure, Crime