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You Got To Know When To Hold 'Em, Know When To Fold Em... — Kenny Rogers stars as Brady Hawkes, as the titular gambler, embarks on a journey to meet a son he never knew after the latter sends him a letter. Along the way, Brady meets Billy Montana (Bruce Boxleitner) and the two become friends. Billy (while trying to help Brady in his quest) fancies himself as a professional poker player on his own. Although Billy makes mistakes along the way (some of these include: trying to find a way to cheat or do some smooth talking), Brady makes sure that he stays on good behavior during a train ride to Yuma, CA. The duo help prostitute Jennie Reed (Lee Purcell) who has trouble with a train baron. At the end, Brady's son's stepfather (Clu Gulager) is confronted.
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Berlin Alexanderplatz
🇩🇪 Germany The 1920sBerlin Alexanderplatz, originally broadcast in 1980, is a 14-part television film adapted and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder from the Alfred Döblin novel of the same name, and stars Günter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa, Elisabeth Trissenaar and Gottfried John.
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A Christmas Without Snow
CaliforniaA divorced woman (Michael Learned) moves to San Francisco from Omaha with her young son. She's trying to re-build her life after her divorce, she leaves her son with his grandmother. She joins the choir of a local church. She has some issues with the choirmaster (John Houseman) who tries to get the choir into shape before the Christmas concert. The choir overcome some personal setbacks as they all deal with personal issues. Zoe (Michael Learned) thinks of quitting the choir all together when push comes to shove.
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A Tale of Two Cities
England 🇫🇷 FranceDissolute barrister Sydney Carton becomes enchanted and then hopelessly in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves and marries Charles Darnay, and remains oblivious to Carton's undimmed devotion to her. When Darnay is ensnared in the deadly web of the French Revolution and condemned to die by the guillotine, Sydney Carton concocts a dangerous plot to free the husband of the woman he loves.
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Playing for Time
🇵🇱 PolandWhen a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas chambers.
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Coach of the Year
IllinoisOne determined man can make a difference — An ex-football star, paralyzed from the waist down during Vietnam, accepts the challenge of coaching football in a juvenile reform school.
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The Georgia Peaches
GeorgiaThe Peach Sisters. They're mixed up with moonshine and money ... with cops and robbers ... in the funniest caper since the South had smokies! — Two sisters & their moonshinerunning boyfriend outwit the Dragon Lady of the Southern crime belt in this comedy car chase / action-packed undercover investigation story.
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Gideon's Trumpet
The 1960sTrue story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case led to the Supreme Court's decision which extended this right to all criminal defendants.
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Cream in My Coffee
The 1930sPast and present intertwine: An elderly couple returns to the hotel where they became close when they were young and flashbacks to the earlier visit reveal the origins of both their pleasures and problems. Somewhere between the past and the present, Dennis Potter attempted to find "the shape of a life, of two lives..."
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Revenge of the Stepford Wives
ConnecticutThe Stepford Wives Return With a Vengeance... — A TV reporter arrives in the quiet town of Stepford to launch an investigation into why the town has the lowest divorce and crime rates in America. However, she begins to notice some bizarre behavior in the women of the town, discovering that Stepford is not as clean cut as it seems.
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The Scarlett O'Hara War
California The 1930sThis is the story of how one of the famous movie roles was cast. The role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.
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Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1940sWell-intentioned history lesson; the decision to drop the atom bomb, the secrecy surrounding the mission, and the men who flew it.
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Catherine de Heilbronn
The Middle AgesIn the Middle Ages, the earl Wetter von Stahl is accused of having bewitched Catherine, the daughter of the blacksmith of Heilbronn. The earl tries to be exonerated by proceeding himself to the interrogation of the young woman, who apparently shows an "unnatural possession".
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The Promise of Love
The 1960sA woman who gave up college to marry her Marine boyfriend becomes a widow soon after her husband is sent to Vietnam.
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White Mama
New YorkA poor, elderly white woman living in a tenement in a black ghetto is befriended by a neighborhood boy, and the two of them form a mutually beneficial relationship: he provides her companionship and protection, and she becomes the mother he never had.
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This Year's Blonde
California The 1950s The 1940sThe untold love affair that launched Marilyn Monroe's career! — First he seduced her. Then he made her a star. He was Johnny Hyde, 52-year-old agent, friend, lover. She was an unemployed starlet — destined to be America's greatest sex goddess. Theirs was a sizzling romance — torrid, touching, tragic.
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Attica
The 1970sAttica !!! Attica !!! Attica !!! — A behind the scenes look of the 1971 prisoners revolt at the Attica prison.
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Friendly Fire
🇻🇳 Vietnam Iowa The 1970sIn war, the only thing worse than death is not knowing the truth. — In March 1970, a U.S. Army officer arrived at the Iowa farm of Peg and Gene Mullen and informed them that their son Michael had been killed in Vietnam by "friendly fire." Their determined attempts to learn more about the circumstances of their son's death are the subject of this true account film.
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The Babysitter
WashingtonShe drove the mother mad. She seduced the father. Now, what's going to happen to little Tara? — Overprotective mother Liz Benedict meets 18-year-old orphan Joanna Redwine and hires her as house help and live-in companion to rambunctious daughter Tara. Liz's husband Jeff isn't too thrilled with the arrangement, and his fears soon prove justified when Joanna begins to manipulate everyone and to slowly destroy the family. Meanwhile, next-door neighbor Dr. Linquist investigates and discovers Joanna has a disturbing past.
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The Long Days of Summer
Connecticut The 1930sA Season of Innocence Shattered by Hatred — A sequel to praised T.V. movie 'When Every Day Is The Fourth Of July': A Jewish attorney and his son battle anti-Semitism in pre-war New England. Generally well done.
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The Gadfly
🇮🇹 Italy The 1840sThe movie set in 1840s Italy under the dominance of Austria, a time of tumultuous revolt and uprisings. The story centers on the life of the protagonist, Arthur Burton, as a member of the Youth movement, and his antagonist, Padre Montanelli. A thread of a tragic relationship between Arthur and his love Gemma simultaneously runs through the story. It is a story of faith, disillusionment, revolution, romance, and heroism.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
🇩🇪 Germany The 1910sThey left for war as boys, never to return as men. — At the start of World War I, Paul Baumer is a young German patriot, eager to fight. Indoctrinated with propaganda at school, he and his friends eagerly sign up for the army soon after graduation. But when the horrors of war soon become too much to bear, and as his friends die or become gravely wounded, Paul questions the sanity of fighting over a few hundreds yards of war-torn countryside.
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Spare Parts
New Mexico 🇩🇪 Germany The 20th CenturyThe cutting edge in medical terror! — Honeymooning couple Monica and Mike check into a motel in New Mexico. All seems normal until an ambulance pulls up and abducts Mike. Monica narrowly escapes and, with the help of truck driver Bill, discovers the awful secret of the motel and the ambulance service.
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The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan
The 1970s The 1890sHoping to repair their marriage, Jennie Logan and her husband move into a beautiful Victorian manor. When Jennie tries on an antique dress she finds in the attic, she is transported back one hundred years, where she meets the house's previous owner, David. As her feelings for David grow, it becomes clear that Jennie is not only torn between two men and two times, but she also faces danger in both worlds.
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Elvis
Nevada The 1970s The 1950sThe King lives on! — This biopic traces Elvis Presley’s life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom to his triumphant conquering of Las Vegas.
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An American Christmas Carol
New Hampshire The 1930sCharles Dicken's Victorian London becomes America's great Depression in this exciting new film — In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.
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The Jericho Mile
CaliforniaBehind the wall of this prison is a man traning to challenge the Olympic record.. — Rain Murphy is a man sentenced to life in prison, choosing to do his time in near-isolation, and engages in distance running when given the opportunity for free-time. While his form and speed capture the attention of prison officials who believe he could be competitive for the Olympics, Murphy expresses disinterest. But when the one man he has befriended is taken advantage of by political groups within the prison, Murphy decides to pursue the opportunity presented to him in his memory.
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The Plumber
South AustraliaWhen your waterworks come back to haunt you! — At first simply grating, the presence of a hard-edged, macho plumber who damages more than he repairs and returns day after day soon turns menacing for the intellectual wife of a distracted doctor.
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Orphan Train
The 1850sAn uplifting adventure for the whole family — Telling of the story of the Orphan Trains. The first form of foster care in the United States.
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The Corn Is Green
WalesA strong-willed teacher, determined to educate the poor and illiterate youth of an impoverished Welsh village, discovers one student whom she believes to have the seeds of genius in him.
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A female doctor returns from the city to her home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Appalachia in the 1930s, intending to bring modern medical care to the area's impoverished and ill-educated residents. However, she finds herself going against the local "medicine woman," who believes that her simple, backwoods remedies and methods are sufficient and distrusts the new doctor's "big-city" ways.
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Charlie Muffin
🇩🇪 Germany The 20th CenturyCharlie Muffin, top British Intelligence operative, has just broken up a major Soviet spy network in England. However, a new Director with new ideas takes over and wants Charlie out. But then a high-ranking Soviet spy-master hints that he wants to defect, and both British Intelligence and the CIA want him and will do anything to get him. Charlie may be the only man who can bring the defection off successfully, but is the whole thing an elaborate set-up? And when your so-called allies are stabbing each other and you in the back to get this prize, whom can Charlie trust on either side?
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The Kid from Left Field
CaliforniaA television remake of the 1953 feature film. Stars Gary Coleman.
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Death Car on the Freeway
CaliforniaHe Kills With a Van. Beautiful Women Are His Victims. Until One Meets Him Head On! — An unknown, psychotic driver uses his van to kill unsuspecting female drivers on the freeway.
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The Man in the Santa Claus Suit
New YorkThe mysterious owner of a costume shop rents a Santa Claus suit to three very different men: a math teacher trying to get the nerve to propose, a homeless restaurateur trying to hide from the mob, and a harried political speech writer visiting with his estranged wife and son. Their lives are inexorably changed by their experience of playing Santa Claus.
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Dummy
Illinois The 20th CenturyA deaf and dumb young man is accused of murdering a prostitute and defended by a deaf lawyer.
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Undersea Super Train: Marine Express
The 2000sThe plot of Marine Express can be described in two parts. The first part focuses on the people boarding the train and the problems they encounter on it. The second part takes place after the train has stopped at its half-way point, an island that used to be home to an ancient civilization millennia ago and has its fair share of secrets.
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The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
Kansas The 1890s The 1880s The 1870sThey could save their brother. Or themselves. — A light-hearted view of the Dalton Gang's legendary raid on Coffeyville, Kansas and the years leading up to it as the brothers form themselves into a gang of horse thieves, train and bank robbers with their arch enemy, Detective Will Smith, constantly on their heels.
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The Legend of the Golden Gun
🇺🇸 United States of America The 1860sIn Kansas during the middle of the Civil War, John Golden is left for dead and his family has been killed by the ruthless Confederate outlaw William Quantrill. Rescued by runaway slave Joshua Brown, Golden is determined to get revenge. With the help of a legendary gunfighter and a special gun, Golden must not only deal with Quantrill and his men, but has to dodge General Custer and his army, as well.
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The Seekers
🇺🇸 United States of America The 18th CenturyThe sons and grandchildren of Philip Kent make a life for themselves in America. (Episodes 5 and 6 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
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The Cracker Factory
OhioThe only way to stop feeling trapped was to stop feeling at all. — Suicidal suburban housewife drifts in and out of asylums.
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The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal
New York The 1910sThe story of a fire in the Triangle Shirt Mfg. Co. building in New York City in 1911 that resulted in the deaths of 146 employees, mostly young women. The ensuing investigation revealed the company's almost total disregard for its workers' safety in pursuit of increased production and profits, and resulted, among other things, in the passage of new worker safety laws and the formation of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
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The House on Garibaldi Street
🇮🇱 Israel 🇦🇷 Argentina The 1960sWhen Israeli officials learn than Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann may be living in Argentina, they send a team of secret agents to apprehend him.
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Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure
Massachusetts The 17th CenturyIn 1620, the Assembly of the Pilgrims decides to emigrate to the young America because of the persecution they suffer by the English crown. The film tells the adventurous journey of the Pilgrims to an unknown land and future.
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The true and tragic story of a very young and very talented comedian from the 70's whose sudden rise to fame had some of it's benefits, as well as some of it's burdens.
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Christmas Lilies of the Field
ArizonaSometime after the events in 'Lilies of the Field' (1963) Homer Smith returns to the Church he helped build to find the nuns have taken in a group of homeless children.
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The Girls in the Office
TexasFour women employed by a chic department store discover that they must choose between love and a career.
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The Amazing Captain Nemo
District of Columbia California Atlantic Ocean The 1970sHis goal was Atlantis - but first he must conquer the menace of the depths! — Captain Nemo (José Ferrer) is found in suspended animation under the sea and revived by modern-day Navy men in order to battle a fiendish mad scientist (Burgess Meredith).
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Someone's Watching Me!
CaliforniaA woman is being watched in her apartment by a stranger, who also calls and torments her. A cat-and-mouse game begins.
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Dr. Strange
New YorkBattle of the sorcerers burns the screen with electric flame — A psychiatrist becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth in order to battle an evil Sorceress from the past.
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