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On the Waterfront
1954 • Drama • Romance • Crime
A prizefighter-turned-longshoreman with a conscience goes up against labor leaders to expose corruption, extortion, and murder among the union ranks.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951 • Drama • Thriller
A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downward spiral.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
East of Eden
1955 • Drama
In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at ev…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Last Tycoon
1976 • Drama • Romance
Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Man on a Tightrope
1953 • Drama • Thriller
The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performers and wild animals with him.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Splendor in the Grass
1961 • Drama • Romance
A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Panic in the Streets
1950 • Thriller • Crime
A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a ticking time bomb threaten…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
Viva Zapata!
1952 • Drama • History • Western
The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Baby Doll
1956 • Drama
Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for financial reasons. As Archie…
Why matched: genres Drama
Wild River
1960 • Drama • Romance
A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a f…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
America America
1963 • Drama • History
A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America.
Why matched: genres Drama, History
A Face in the Crowd
1957 • Drama
The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Arrangement
1969 • Drama • Romance
An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Visitors
1972 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
Bill, Martha and their little child Hal are spending a quiet winter Sunday in their cosy house when they get an unexpected visit from Mike Nickerson and Tony Rodriguez. Mike and…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller