Kangaroo
Jul 24, 1986 | IMDB 6
108 min Watch NowDrama
A mild-mannered English conscientious objector moves to what he feels will be the relative calm of Australia after World War I, but gets caught in the middle of violent battles between the rising trade unions and fascist groups.
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The Secret Scripture
The Light Between Oceans
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The Tracker
Places in the Heart
The United States of Leland
Introduction to Another Life
The Painted Veil
Sophie's Choice
The Tender Hook
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IMDB 8 | Oct , 2007
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IMDB 6.3 | Jul , 2008
Befriended by aristocrat Sebastian Flyte, Oxford student Charles Ryder finds that the power and privilege experienced by the family is seductive. On a visit to the ancestral home, Brideshead, he falls in love with his friend's sister, Julia. However, as his ties to the Flytes deepen, Ryder finds himself at odds with their strong Roman Catholicism.In the Land of Women
IMDB 5.9 | Apr , 2007
After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he gets mixed up in the lives of the mother and daughters who live across the street.The Boys
IMDB 6.4 | May , 1998
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IMDB 6.7 | Jul , 1991
Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie, a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna's Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist looking for recruits.Death Defying Acts
IMDB 6 | Sep , 2007
On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.Die gelbe Nachtigall
IMDB 0 | Mar , 1975
Fanny Hobichler, a young promising actress, moves to Vienna in the 1920s in order to pursue her big break. She draws inspiration and seeks help from the popular stage actor Albert Kortz who once started out from the same provincial town as she did and was a close friend of her late father. Kortz, however, dreams of retiring as he is tired of his fame and having to deal with the short-tempered theatre director Jason. Together, they try to outwit Jason.The Golden Era
IMDB 6.6 | Oct , 2014
The story of writer Xiao Hong comes alive through memories of her great love affair, literary influence and escape from China during World War II.Family
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1953
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IMDB 7.3 | Mar , 2017
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IMDB 7.1 | Sep , 2016
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IMDB 8 | Dec , 2008
Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.The Tracker
IMDB 6.8 | Aug , 2002
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IMDB 7.2 | Sep , 1984
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IMDB 6.5 | May , 2003
A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl Madison, a teacher at the prison, decides to write about Leland's case. Meanwhile, others affected by the murder, including Becky and her sister, Julie, must contend with their own problems.Introduction to Another Life
IMDB 5.2 | Jul , 1992
A writer with a writer's block is tormented by his lack of inspiration. His girlfriend shows up and talks to him about his writing and her father. After she leaves, her father, an ex officer of the military and ex communist party member, rings the doorbell. After a tense introduction, the father starts to retell his life in order to try to explain why he did things that his daughter hates him for. It is not clear if writer's girlfriend and her father are part of writer's fiction, memories or reality.The Painted Veil
IMDB 7.3 | Dec , 2006
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.Sophie's Choice
IMDB 7.3 | Dec , 1982
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.The Tender Hook
IMDB 5.2 | Sep , 2008
The story is about Iris's rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish English lover, McHeath, and Art, an earnest young boxer. Within the flawed moral landscape, each character struggles to establish their sovereignty.The Trip
IMDB 6.1 | Nov , 2002
When 19-year-old gay-rights activist Tommy and 24-year-old Alan first meet in 1973, they find themselves on the opposite sides of the political coin...