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Fire Down Below
KentuckyBeneath a land of wealth and beauty hides a secret that could kill millions. Undercover has never run so deep. — When an EPA representative is murdered in a small Appalachian community, EPA undercover agent Jack Taggart is sent in—posing as a handyman working with a Christian relief agency—to determine what happened.
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Lawn Dogs
Kentucky The 1990sInnocence is a dangerous friend. — In the affluent, gated community of Camelot Gardens, bored wives indiscriminately sleep around while their unwitting husbands try desperately to climb the social ladder. Trent, a 21-year-old outsider who mows the neighborhood lawns, quietly observes the infidelities and hypocrisies of this overly privileged society. When Devon, a 10-year-old daughter from one family, forges a friendship with Trent, things suddenly get very complicated.
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Mars Attacks!
Kentucky The 1990sNice planet. We'll take it! — 'We come in peace' is not what those green men from Mars mean when they invade our planet, armed with irresistible weapons and a cruel sense of humor. This star studded cast must play victim to the alien’s fun and games in this comedy homage to science fiction films of the '50s and '60s.
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The People vs. Larry Flynt
Kentucky The 1970s The 1980s The 1950sYou may not like what he does, but are you prepared to give up his right to do it? — Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.
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Get on the Bus
Kentucky The 1990sOn October 16, 1996, the one year anniversary of the Million Man March, Spike Lee invites you to lift your head, raise your voice, and...get on the bus. — Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of characters including a laid-off aircraft worker, a man whose at-risk son is handcuffed to him, a black Republican, a former gangsta, a Hollywood actor, a cop who is of mixed racial background, and a white bus driver. All make the trek discussing issues surrounding the march, including manhood, religion, politics, and race.
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The Client
KentuckyA district attorney out for a conviction. A new lawyer out of her league. A young boy who knew too much. — A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is buried. Clifford shoots himself and Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says.
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Half-Cocked
Kentucky The 1990sHalf-cocked is a cult music roadmovie, made in 1994 in Louisville, Nashville and Chattanooga. The movie tells the story about a group of high school teens who steal a van full of music equipment and pretend to be a band, called "Truckstop" (played by the band, Rodan) in order to stay on the road. When the band starts playing gigs, their sound is largely inconsistent and incoherent, however, over time, the band becomes increasingly competent in their musicianship. The film puts much emphasis on the indie/alternative rock subculture.
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The Thing Called Love
KentuckyStand by your dream. — Miranda Presley moves from New York to Nashville to become a songwriter. At an unsuccessful audition she meets James Wright, a promising newcomer. After only a few days they marry but start to quickly regret it.
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The Adventures of Huck Finn
Kentucky The 1830sFor anyone who has ever dreamed of running away from it all — Mischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in an attempt to take away a $600 inheritance from his late mother. Fearing for his life, Huck fakes his own death and escapes. He soon runs into his friend, Jim, a slave fleeing his master. Together, the pair embarks on a raft journey down the Mississippi River, staying ahead of pursuers who blame the slave for Huck's alleged murder.
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The Firm
KentuckyPower can be murder to resist. — Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...
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Days of Thunder
Kentucky The 1990sYou can't stop the thunder. — Talented but unproven stock car driver Cole Trickle gets a break and with the guidance of veteran Harry Hogge turns heads on the track. The young hotshot develops a rivalry with a fellow racer that threatens his career when the two smash their cars. But with the help of his doctor, Cole just might overcome his injuries-- and his fear.
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Mystery Train
Kentucky The 1980sIn Memphis, Tennessee, over the course of a single night, the Arcade Hotel, run by an eccentric night clerk and a clueless bellboy, is visited by a young Japanese couple traveling in search of the roots of rock; an Italian woman in mourning who stumbles upon a fleeing charlatan girl; and a comical trio of accidental thieves looking for a place to hide.
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Great Balls of Fire!
Kentucky The 1950s The 1940sThe true story of a legend. — The story of Jerry Lee Lewis, arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s. His arrogance, remarkable talent, and unconventional lifestyle often brought him into conflict with others in the industry, and even earned him the scorn and condemnation of the public.
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Next of Kin
KentuckyA Chicago cop from the hills of Kentucky. Hunting his brother's killer. Seeking justice country style. — Truman Gates, a Chicago cop, sets out to find his brother's killer. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.
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Gorillas in the Mist
Kentucky The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sAt the far ends of the earth she found a reason to live, and a cause to fight for. — The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
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Fresh Horses
KentuckyLove doesn't have to last a lifetime. — A Cincinnati college student breaks off his engagement to his wealthy fiancée after he falls in love with a backwoods Kentucky girl he meets at a party. She says she's 20, but he finds out she's 16 and married to an abusive husband.
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Rad
Kentucky The 1980sA hometown kid on his BMX against the best in the world. At Helltrack... the heat is on. — A BMX racer, who lives in a small town with his mother and sister, is faced with a tough decision, qualify for Helltrack or take his SATs in order to attend college.
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The Return of the Living Dead
Kentucky The 1980sThey're Back From The Grave and Ready To Party! — When foreman Frank shows new employee Freddy a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. As the epidemic spreads throughout the town, and the creatures satisfy their hunger in gory and outlandish ways, Frank and Freddy fight to survive with the help of their boss and a mysterious mortician.
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Marie
Kentucky The 1970sCriminals went free. Officials were bribed. Witnesses were threatened. The F.B.I. couldn't stop it. One woman did. She challenged the State of Tennessee and put criminal justice on trial. — A single mother takes a job with the government where she is confronted with corruption.
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Chattanooga Choo Choo
KentuckyThe song that kept America chuggin' along is this summer's funniest movie! — The owner of a professional football team must restore the titular train and run it from Tennessee to NYC in 24 hours if he is to inherit $1 million in this comedy.
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Kentucky Woman
KentuckyA woman faces harassment and humiliation when she goes to work as a coal miner to support her small son and ailing dad.
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Stripes
Kentucky The 1980sThe story of a man who wanted to keep the world safe for democracy...and meet girls. — John Winger, an indolent sad sack in his 30s, impulsively joins the U.S. Army after losing his job, his girlfriend and his apartment.
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Coal Miner's Daughter
KentuckyShe became a singer because it was the only thing she could do. She became a star because it was the only way she could do it. — Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.
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Harlan County U.S.A.
Kentucky The 1970sWhich Side Are You On? — This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA.
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Treasure of Matecumbe
Kentucky The 1860sThe richest adventure of them all — In post-Civil War Kentucky, young David Burnic becomes the unexpected heir to the family secret, a map leading to buried treasure on the Florida isle of Matecumbe.
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Sheba, Baby
KentuckyQueen Of The Private Eyes — Sheba, a Chicago private detective returns back home to Louisville, Kentucky, to help her father fight mobsters.
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W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings
Kentucky The 1950sBack in 1957, sweet-talking W.W. lived in a '55 Olds, loved bubble gum, Errol Flynn, country music, fried chicken, robbing filling stations, and a girl named Dixie. Not necessarily in that order. — Story of a happy-go-lucky small time crook who runs into a country music group looking for their big break. They end up helping each other out in unexpected ways.
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The Hatfields and the McCoys
Kentucky The 1800sA retelling of the famous feud between two mountain families, the Hatfields and the McCoys, in rural Kentucky in the late 1800s.
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Huckleberry Finn
Kentucky The 1830sThe Greatest Of All American Adventure Stories. — Huckleberry Finn is a 15-year-old boy who has had a difficult relationship with his often violent father for a long time. When Dad tried to kidnap him, Huck decides to run away from home, and heads out of town on a raft. Huck is soon joined by Jim, a runaway slave who is no more eager to see his master than Huck is to see his father. As the two friends make their way down the Mississippi, they're faced with a variety of challenges and adventures.
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Walking Tall
Kentucky The 1960sTake your best shot... 'cause it'll probably be your last. — Buford Pusser's a wrestler, whose wife wants him to settle down, so they go to his home town in Tennessee, where he plans to get into business with his father. But he is shocked to discover all sorts of graft and corruption going on. And when he is a victim of it and decides to strike back by running against the corrupt sheriff. And he wins and wages his own little war against them
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Two-Lane Blacktop
KentuckyYou can never go fast enough... — A driver and a mechanic travel around the United States hopping from drag strip to drag strip in a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air coupe. They race for money, betting with their competitors. The pair gains a young and talkative female stowaway. Along the way they unintentionally attract a well-to-do drifter driving a new Pontiac GTO. This older man, looking for attention, antagonizes their efforts.
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I Walk the Line
KentuckySheriff Tawes walks the line between duty and desire, between law and violence, between honor and shame — Tawes is the sheriff in a godforsaken little hole somewhere in Tennessee. A man of strong moral fibre he is always quick to judge others and follows the law zealously. Then he meets Alma, a young beautiful girl who turns his world upside down. Unable to ignore his feelings he starts having an affair with her. But in small town nothing is secret for long...
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The Liberation of L.B. Jones
KentuckySome of his best friends were black... some of her best friends were white. — Undertaker L.B. Jones, the richest black man in his county of Tennessee, is divorcing his wife for infidelity with a white policeman. Taking a stand against racism, he is greeted with a hostile bunch of Southern bigots and other various stereotypes.
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The Moonshine War
Kentucky The 1930sThe 18th amendment prohibited drinking. It didn't say a word about killing, double-crossing or blowing things up. — A federal agent attempts to make some real money before the alcohol ban is lifted so he sets his sights on the whiskey cache of an old army buddy.
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A Walk in the Spring Rain
KentuckyA sophisticated, middle-aged grandmother, wed to a New York law professor, falls in love with a down-to-earth Tennessee farmer.
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Slaves
Kentucky The 1850sThe tamings...The desires...The furies...of the Old South! — A Kentucky slave fights for his freedom from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves in their revolt.
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Goldfinger
Kentucky The 1960sEverything he touches turns into excitement! — Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.
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Youngblood Hawke
KentuckyHe was young and crude, some kind of country-boy joke, but a woman could feel him across a room. — An unknown Kentucky writer (James Franciscus) comes to New York and pursues fame and women (Suzanne Pleshette, Genevieve Page).
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The Hustler
KentuckyThey called him Fast Eddie. He was a winner. He was a loser. He was a hustler. — Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Kentucky The 19th CenturyThe most exciting adventures a boy ever had! Hilarious escapades, hair-raising adventures on the fabulous Mississippi! — From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone on his way down the muddy Mississippi.
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Band of Angels
Kentucky The 1860sYou're no blue blood any more, honey. The master bought you...and now he's waitin'! — Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widower father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and he sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly however, Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress. The plantation is to be sold to pay off her father's debts and as the daughter of slave, Amatha is also to be sold as property. She is bought by a Louisiana plantation owner, Hamish Bond and over time she grows to love him until she learns he was a slave-trader. She tries again to become part of white society but realizes that her future lies elsewhere.
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April Love
KentuckyA teenager (Pat Boone), recently in trouble with the police, is sent to live with his aunt and uncle on their Kentucky farm in order to rediscover life's values. Director Henry Levin's 1957 musical remake of "Home In Indiana" also stars Shirley Jones, Arthur O'Connell, Jeanette Nolan and Dolores Michaels.
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Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer
Kentucky The 18th CenturyThrill to the daring exploits of the bold pioneer who blazed the Wilderness Road...and had to fight his Red brother to bring peace to the new frontier! — Daniel Boone leads settlers into Kentucky, but must battle Shawnee Indians who have been persuaded by a French renegade that Boone and the settlers are there to kill them and steal their land.
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Glory
KentuckyYOU'LL FALL IN LOVE as she herself falls in love! — A lovesick girl (Margaret O'Brien) and her grandfather (Walter Brennan) groom their filly for the Kentucky Derby.
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The Kentuckian
Kentucky The 1820sHunter...Frontiersman...Adventurer! — A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.
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Many Rivers to Cross
Kentucky The 18th CenturyKENTUCKY ADVENTURE in CINEMASCOPE — Packaged and sold as an outdoor actioner, Many Rivers to Cross is as much a comedy as anything else. Robert Taylor stars as 18th century trapper Bushrod Gentry, who is himself entrapped into marriage by the spunky Mary Stuart Cherne (Eleanor Parker). Escaping his marital responsibilities (which were impressed upon him on threat of death), Gentry heads into the North Country, with Mary in hot pursuit. Hero and heroine spend the rest of the picture taking turns rescuing each other from hostile Indians. Some of the humor is predicated upon the wholesale slaughter of the "redskins", and as such is a bit hard to take when seen today. Supporting Taylor and Parker are Victor McLaglen as the heroine's burly father, and TV-stars-to be James Arness (Gunsmoke) and Russell Johnson and Alan Hale Jr. (Gilligan's Island).
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The Hole Idea
KentuckyA scientist invents the portable hole, only to have a thief steal his samples to go on a crime spree.
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The Sun Shines Bright
Kentucky The 1890sJUDGE BILLY PRIEST...the only man who ever called Mallie Crump a Lady — John Ford weaves three "Judge Priest" stories together to form a good- natured exploration of honour and small-town politics in the South around the turn of the century. Judge William Priest is involved variously in revealing the real identity of Lucy Lake, reliving his Civil War memories, preventing the lynching of a youth and contesting the elections with Yankee Horace K. Maydew.
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14 Carrot Rabbit
Kentucky The 1890sYosemite Sam (as Chilikoot Sam) tries unsuccessfully to steal gold from Bugs Bunny during the Yukon gold rush.
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The Story of Seabiscuit
KentuckyThe horse that won the heart of a nation... — Horse trainer Shawn O'Hara and his lovely niece, Margaret, come to America to escape the memory of an accident involving Margaret's brother, Danny. Working with thoroughbreds in Kentucky, Shawn takes a liking to a yearling named Seabiscuit, and fights to convince the horse's owner that the tiny horse with big knees will become a top-notch racehorse. Meanwhile, Margaret begins a tentative relationship with jockey Ted Knowles, but is haunted by her brother's death in a steeplechase spill. Written by Ray Hamel
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