TV Movie, Drama
Mel and Jane Mermelstein are a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. Mel is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz, and Jane, a Southern Baptist from Tennessee. Their four children are good kids, typical Americans, with just enough orneriness to irritate each other, but enough love and class to pull together when it counts.
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Shooting for Socrates
Basquiat
Life Is Beautiful
Minyan
Lifeboat
Lucas
Philadelphia
The Diary of Anne Frank
Nico, 1988
North Country
The Souvenir
The Souvenir: Part II
Dreyfus
Mysterious Skin
The Quiet Earth
Hunger
Swing Kids
My Beautiful Laundrette
Fatherland
Pretty in Pink
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IMDB 6.8 | Jul , 2014
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IMDB 6.6 | Aug , 1996
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.Life Is Beautiful
IMDB 8.4 | Dec , 1997
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.Minyan
IMDB 4.7 | Aug , 2020
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IMDB 7.4 | Jan , 1944
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IMDB 6.7 | Mar , 1986
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IMDB 7.7 | Dec , 1993
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IMDB 7.2 | Mar , 1959
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IMDB 6.8 | Oct , 2017
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IMDB 7.2 | Feb , 2005
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IMDB 6.1 | May , 2019
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IMDB 6.5 | Oct , 2021
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IMDB 0 | Apr , 1931
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IMDB 7.7 | Mar , 2005
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IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 1985
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IMDB 7.2 | May , 2008
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IMDB 6.7 | Mar , 1993
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IMDB 6.7 | Nov , 1985
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IMDB 6.2 | Nov , 1994
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IMDB 6.7 | Feb , 1986
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