Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.
Casts Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, John Fiedler, Louis Gossett Jr., Steven Perry, Joel Fluellen, Louis Terrel
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IMDB 6.7 | Nov , 1999
This semi-autobiographical film by Barry Levinson follows various members of the Kurtzman clan, a Jewish family living in suburban Baltimore during the 1950s. As teenaged Ben completes high school, he falls for Sylvia, a black classmate, creating inevitable tensions. Meanwhile, Ben's brother, Van, attends college and becomes smitten with a mysterious woman while their father tries to maintain his burlesque business.The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio
IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 2005
A Midwestern housewife supports her large family by entering contests for ad slogans sponsored by consumer product companies, while dealing with abuse from her alcoholic husband. Based on a true story.Dark Victory
IMDB 7 | Apr , 1939
Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.On the Riviera
IMDB 6 | Apr , 1951
In this fast-paced remake of the Maurice Chevalier vehicle Folies Bergère, talented Danny Kaye plays both a performer and a heroic French military pilot.Winter Light
IMDB 7.9 | Feb , 1963
A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.Before I'm Dead
IMDB 9 | Mar , 2021
After experiencing a mass shooting that took his wife's life, Nolan now suffers Agoraphobia. Pummeled by fear, Nolan refuses to leave the confines of his home. However, when the laws of time and space begin to do strange things within his apartment's walls, he must battle his fears or suffer a fate worse than death.Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
IMDB 6.3 | Sep , 2018
A case of mistaken identity results in unexpected romance when the most popular girl in high school and the biggest loser must come together to win over their crushes.Hungry Wives
IMDB 5.3 | Dec , 1972
Joan Mitchell is an unhappy, middle-aged suburban housewife with an uncommunicative businessman husband and a distant 19 year old daughter on the verge of moving out of the house. Frustrated at her current situation, Joan seeks solace in witchcraft after visiting a local tarot reader and leader of a secret black arts wicca set, who inspires Joan to follow her own path. After dabbling in witchcraft and believing she has become a real witch, Joan withdraws into a fantasy world and sinks deeper and deeper into her new lifestyle until the line between fantasy and reality becomes blurred.The Exterminating Angel
IMDB 7.9 | May , 1962
A formal dinner party starts out normally enough, but after the bourgeois group retire to the host’s music room, they inexplicably find themselves unable to leave.War and Peace
IMDB 7.6 | Apr , 1968
A seven-hour epic adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy. The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.The Color of Pomegranates
IMDB 7.4 | Oct , 1969
The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his muse. The production tells Sayat-Nova's dramatic story by using both his poems and largely still camerawork, creating a work hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.Medea
IMDB 6.6 | Dec , 1969
Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.Shame
IMDB 7.5 | Sep , 1968
In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of their lives.The Pillow Book
IMDB 6.4 | Sep , 1995
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IMDB 7.9 | Nov , 1967
Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. While their clan prepares for the wrath of the German king, Mikolás is sent to pressure his neighbor Lazar into a defense pact. Persuasion fails and he abducts Lazar's daughter Marketa on the eve of her initiation as a nun in an act of vengeance.Bullet Ballet
IMDB 6.9 | Dec , 1998
After his girlfriend commits suicide, a man becomes embroiled in gang warfare attempting to obtain a gun in hopes to kill himself.TÁR
IMDB 7.1 | Sep , 2022
As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present.The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
IMDB 6.7 | Oct , 1951
The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.West of Zanzibar
IMDB 7 | Nov , 1928
A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife.He Who Gets Slapped
IMDB 7.6 | Dec , 1924
After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and becomes infatuated with a showgirl colleague whose father intends to marry her off to the baron.