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Young Billy Young
After his son is murdered, an aging deputy (Robert Mitchum) puts on his badge and is joined by a young ex-gunfighter (Robert Walker, Jr.) to pursue the killer. Fate will lead to a deadly confrontation with another young gunfighter (David Carradine.)

- 1969
On the Waterfront
A longshoreman and ex boxer named Terry Malloy witnesses a murder perpetrated by his corrupt union. When a beautiful young woman comes into the picture that just so happens to be the murdered man's sister, Terry feels obligated to stand up to his bosses as a result of his recent relations with her.

- Metascore91
- 1954
Extract
Joel, the owner of an extract plant, tries to contend with myriad personal and professional problems, such as his potentially unfaithful wife and employees who want to take advantage of him.

- Metascore61
- 2009
Murderers' Row
Second feature in the Matt Helm series. Secret agent Matt Helm rescues the kidnapped inventor of an ultra-destructive "hello beam" capable of destroying Washington D.C. Stars Dean Martin, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Camilla Sparv, James Gregory, Beverly Adams.

- 1966
Tootsie
Michael Dorsey is an unemployed actor with an impossible reputation. In order to find work and fund his friend's play he dresses as a woman, Dorothy Michaels, and lands the part in a daytime drama. Dorsey loses himself in this woman role and essentially becomes Dorothy Michaels, captivating women all around the city and inspiring them to break free from the control of men and become more like Dorsey's initial identity. This newfound role, however, lands Dorsey in a hot spot between a female friend/'lover,' a female co-star he falls in love with, that co-star's father who falls in love with him, and a male co-star who yearns for his affection.

- Metascore88
- 1982
All Roads Lead Home
The story is about a 12 year old girl who loses her mother in an automobile accident. Her father struggles with the loss of his wife and trying to raise his young daughter who believes her father is partly responsible for her mother's death. Belle's maternal grandfather is a changed man since losing his daughter in the accident. He finds it difficult to have a relationship with Belle since she is a constant reminder of her mother. It is Atticus the new puppy who will change Belle's life and the lives of those who love her.

- 2008
Naked Weapon
Details the workings of a mysterious assassination organization, (codenamed: Naked Weapon), led by its globally feared and master assassin, Fiona Birch. It essays the modus operandi of Fiona where she assassinates a crime mob boss and his mooks. A trained assassin, she violently breaks the spine of a fat mob boss using the infamous Deadly Spine Rip technique.

- 2002
Faith of My Fathers
Based on the autobiography by Senator John McCain and Mark Salter, Faith of My Fathers chronicles the younger years of Senator McCain's life. Beginning as a hotshot Navy pilot through his five yearsof captivity as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, the film captures how his experiences helped shape the man that he has become.

- 2005
Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah
The true story of the disappearance of Sarah Porter. With no help from the police, Sarah's parents are forced to act on their own to find her. They must battle the bureaucracy of the police department while they are searching all over town for clues to Sarah's whereabouts. When the crucial clue is discovered, Shara's father confronts her kidnapper at gunpoint.

- 1996
A Marriage of Convenience
A successful businesswoman gives up her career to raise the son of her deceased sister. Eight years later, his natural father finally finds out about the boy's existence. Prompted by a wise judge, the two decide that it's in the boy's best interest if they enter into a marriage of convenience to help him feel secure. Eventually, with help from the boy, his guardians fall in love.

- 1998
Primal Fear
When a young man, Aaron, is charged with the horrific murder of Archbishop Rushman, hot-shot Chicago lawyer Martin Vail takes on his defense at no charge. Aaron was a homeless street kid before he was taken in by the Archbishop. He's shy and speaks with a stammer. Vail is convinced that Aaron is innocent but after discovering a video that shows Aaron may have had good reason to want the Archbishop dead, he begins to question that conclusion.

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- 1996
Apt Pupil
Ian McKellen and Brad Renfro star in a dark drama about a sixteen-year-old honor student who recognizes an old man living in his hometown as a hunted Nazi. Compelled to reveal the secrets of his death camp past to earn the boy's silence, the German fugitive derives a sinister scheme to implicate the teenager in a dangerous psychological game.

- Metascore53
- 1998
Cop
Story of a dedicated cop, his troubled marriage, and the difficulties he encounters while on a murder case.

- 1988
A Hole in the Head
The story of the problems of a footloose widower and his 12-year-old son, a near-bankrupt Miami Beach hotel, a bongo-playing showgirl and a matchmaking sister-in-law.

- 1959
What's Cooking?
In Los Angeles, the loosely intertwined stories of four different extended families from four different ethno-cultural backgrounds - the Hispanic Avilas, the Vietnamese Nguyens, the Jewish Seeligs and the black Williamses - gathering for their respective Thanksgiving dinners are presented. Their stories are remarkably similar, but each with their own ethno-cultural spin: turkey with a twist being prepared primarily by the head female of the household, largely ethnic sides accompanying the turkey, football on television, and family dysfunction in many different forms pervading the atmosphere of the gathering, the elephant or elephants in the room which most in the know don't want to be discussed on what is supposed to be this day of thanks. A single event at one of the dinners has a profound effect on all four gatherings.

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- 2000
A Mother's Testimony
Just released from jail, Kenny Carlson is happily received at home by mother Sharon and, after an initial hesitation, by doting kid brother Bobby, while sister Dede looks down on him. Kenny soon gets a job, but the family worries when he arranges for his former prison mate Warren Stubbs to be engaged too, and welcomes him at home. The men become suspects in a senseless nocturnal crime.

- 2001
Cry from the Mountain
A father and son embark on an emotional kayaking trip. The father has taken his son into the deep Alaskan wilderness to tell him that he is divorcing the boy's mother, who is pregnant and waiting for them back home. While on the trip, the father and son get involved in a potentially fatal accident. Fortunately, an enigmatic mountain man appears to save them. Later he helps the troubled twosome find hope and salvation through God. Meanwhile, the wife also finds a new life through old-time religion, and happiness ensues all around.

- 1985
Glass House: The Good Mother
Young siblings Abby and Ethan are adopted by outwardly perfect parents Eve and Raymond Goode, only to find that that their new guardian's remote mansion is far from the idyllic abode that it initially appears to be.

- 2006
Electra Glide in Blue
A short Arizona motorcycle cop gets his wish and is promoted to Homicide following the mysterious murder of a hermit. He is forced to confront his illusions about himself and those around him in order to solve the case, eventually returning to solitude in the desert.

- 1973
Romero
In El Salvador, the new bishop speaks out against the death squads and the terror campaign the government is using in an attempt to crush the guerilla war that is being waged against them. This is seen as disloyality and the number of priests attacked goes up and even churches are shut down by the government. Based on a true story, Romero was assassinated in March, 1980.

- 1989
Inherit the Wind
A biblical orator (Kirk Douglas) opposes a liberal lawyer (Jason Robards) defending a man for teaching Darwinism in the 1920s South.

- 1988
Million Dollar Murder
Wall Street golden boy Ted Ammon falls madly in love with sassy saleswoman Generosa Rand, marries her, and wants to start a family. Unable to conceive, the couple try other methods; when they prove unsuccessful, they adopt twins, a boy and a girl. When Ted realizes that Generosa has a mental illness, he wants her to seek help, but she refuses, thinking he's saying she is crazy like her mother. During a bitter divorce procedure, she spends millions just to spite him, no matter how willingly he swallows the absurd terms; tries to turn both kids against Ted; and cheats on him with Danny Pelosi, a dodgy contractor with a criminal record. After Ted dies in suspicious circumstances, Generosa turns against Danny just as meanly, in favor of an English nanny/nurse once she is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

- 2005
Ring of Fire
This is the story of the decades-long love affair between June Carter and her husband, Johnny Cash, a love that was stretched to the breaking point by Johnny's addiction to pills.

- 2013
Love Everlasting
High-school senior Bridger Jenkins is an outsider with hidden scars and a lifelong dream to see the ocean. His mother has done everything in her power to give her son a good life despite their poverty, but their world is once again upended when his abusive stepfather threatens their lives. On the road with only $197 to their names, Bridger and his mother embark on the journey of a lifetime. But a series of obstacles foil their plan and they end up stuck in a small town that will change their destiny. When Bridger has a chance encounter with a brown-eyed beauty shrouded in insecurity, sparks fly and an everlasting bond is ignited between two misfits longing for acceptance and true love.

- 2016