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💎BLEAK BUT BRILLIANT💎
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No Hollywood happy dappy here, just some f*cking great films.
This playlist is entirely subjective, and I’ll only include films I’ve actually watched. Having said that, I’m totally not into torture porn, or gratuitous hack n slash shite. But… If it’s on this list, I’ve watched it and think it has merit. That doesn’t mean I enjoyed them all, hahahaha… even though I did.😎

🛠 Still under construction…


Creator: Merrigan Able
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Movie: Don't Look Now ( 1973 )
A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.
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Movie: Doubt ( 2008 )
A Catholic school principal questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student.
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Movie: Notes on a Scandal ( 2007 )
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
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Movie: Poison Ivy ( 1992 )
A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of her wealthy family.
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Movie: Rush ( 1992 )
Two small-town Texas cops go undercover to catch a major drug dealer and are sucked into the drug culture, compromising their assignment.
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Movie: Scandal ( 1989 )
Based on the Profumo Scandal of 1963, an affair between an exotic dancer and the Minister of War shakes up the British government.
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Movie: The Long Good Friday ( 1981 )
An up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.
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Movie: A Good Marriage ( 2014 )
After 25 years of a good marriage, what will Darcy do once she discovers her husband's sinister secret?
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Movie: Boxing Helena ( 1993 )
A surgeon becomes obsessed with the seductive woman he once was in an affair with. Refusing to accept that she has moved on, he amputates her limbs and holds her captive in his mansion.
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Movie: Marathon Man ( 1976 )
A graduate history student is unwittingly caught in the middle of an international conspiracy involving stolen diamonds, an exiled Nazi war criminal, and a rogue government agent.
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TV Show: Revelation ( 2020 )
Award-winning reporter Sarah Ferguson presents Revelation, a three-part ground-breaking documentary series on the criminal priests and brothers of the Catholic Church, their crimes laid bare for the first time in their own words.
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Movie: The Blood of Heroes ( 1989 )
In a future, where most of mankind and technology is wiped out, 6 people travel from place to place playing a brutal form of football with a dog skull. They hope one day to play in the league in a city.
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Movie: Return to Sender ( 2015 )
A nurse living in small town goes on a blind date with a man who is not the person he says he is.
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Movie: Conviction ( 2010 )
A working mother puts herself through law school in an effort to represent her brother, who has been wrongfully convicted of murder and has exhausted his chances to appeal his conviction through public defenders.
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Movie: The War Zone ( 1999 )
An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
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Movie: Sauna ( 2008 )
As a 25-year war between Russia and Sweden concludes, two brothers who are part of an effort to outline new border accords become undone by their actions, and their mistreatment of a young woman during their journey.
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Movie: The Railway Man ( 2014 )
A former British Army officer, who was tortured as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labor camp during World War II, discovers that the man responsible for much of his treatment is still alive and sets out to confront him.
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Movie: Less Than Zero ( 1987 )
A college freshman returns to L.A. for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
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Movie: The Salton Sea ( 2002 )
After a tragic incident, a man drifts into a world populated by thugs and speed junkies.
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Movie: The Whistleblower ( 2011 )
A drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex trafficking scandal.
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Movie: The Vanishing ( 1988 )
Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor.
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Movie: Of Mice and Men ( 1992 )
Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.
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Movie: Blown Away ( 1994 )
An Irish bomber escapes from prison and targets a member of the Boston bomb squad.
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Movie: Just Cause ( 1995 )
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
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Movie: Malice ( 1993 )
A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches art, Andy's a college dean. Things are never the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" doctor.
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Movie: The Crying Game ( 1992 )
A British soldier kidnapped by IRA terrorists soon befriends one of his captors, who then becomes drawn into the soldier's world.
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Movie: Alison ( 2016 )
When the going gets really tough, we need ordinary people of extraordinary strength and courage to jolt us into action and offer us hope. In December 1994 Alison Botha became such an individual. She needed a hero that night, so that's what she became.
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Movie: This Boy's Life ( 1993 )
The story about the relationship between a rebellious 1950s teenager and his abusive stepfather, based on the memoirs of writer and literature Professor Tobias Wolff.
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Movie: Straw Dogs ( 1971 )
A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
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Movie: Bonnie and Clyde ( 1967 )
Bonnie Parker, a bored waitress falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
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Movie: Body Heat ( 1981 )
In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman persuades her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.
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Movie: Beautiful Boy ( 2011 )
A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass shooting at his college, then took his own life.
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Movie: Trapped ( 2002 )
When their daughter is abducted and taken for ransom by a gang of serial kidnappers, a young doctor and his wife find themselves held hostage while a 24-hour plan to extort their money is set into motion. Now, with time running out and the health of their asthmatic daughter at serious risk, they find themselves in a life-and-death race against the clock as the "perfect crime" begins spiraling towards an unthinkable, terrifying and deadly conclusion.
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Movie: Rated X ( 2002 )
Biopic of notorious Mitchell Brothers who opened up a successful San Francisco strip club and thriving porn business that led to a downward spiral of power and greed.
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Movie: Ripley's Game ( 2003 )
A dying family man in need of money is persuaded to assassinate a European crime boss.
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Movie: Ghost Story ( 1981 )
Two generations of men find themselves haunted by the presence of a spectral woman. When the son of one of the elderly men returns to his hometown after his brother's mysterious death, they attempt to unravel her story.
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Movie: The Hole ( 2001 )
Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.
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Movie: Pacific Heights ( 1990 )
A couple work hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately, one of their tenants has plans of his own.
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Movie: Virginia ( 2010 )
A sheriff sees his state senate bid slide out onto the ice when his daughter begins to date the son of a charming but psychologically disturbed woman with whom the sheriff has engaged in a two-decade-long affair.
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Movie: Prizzi's Honor ( 1985 )
A professional hitman and hitwoman fall in love.
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Movie: An Open Secret ( 2015 )
AN OPEN SECRET looks at the lives of children betrayed and abandoned by a system that essentially funnels them towards sexual predators without any oversight or regard for their safety. It documents not only these young peoples' experiences, but also how some have emerged stronger for their speaking out. It beg the questions of why children working in entertainment aren't afforded the same protections they are afforded at school, and argues for more effective treatment and stronger penalties for child sex offenders.
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Movie: Choke ( 2008 )
Sex addict and colonial theme park worker, Victor Mancini, has devised a complicated scam to pay for his mom's hospital bills while she suffers from an Alzheimer's disease that hides the truth about his childhood. He pretends to choke on food in a restaurant and the person who "saves" him will feel responsible for Victor for the rest of their lives.
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Movie: 1900 ( 1976 )
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
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Movie: Casualties of War ( 1989 )
During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event.
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Movie: The Sea of Trees ( 2016 )
A suicidal American befriends a Japanese man lost in a forest near Mt. Fuji and the two search for a way out.
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Movie: Badlands ( 1974 )
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
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Movie: Out of Africa ( 1985 )
In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
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Movie: A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 )
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
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Movie: Sophie's Choice ( 1983 )
Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live with Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust.
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Movie: Suspect Zero ( 2004 )
A mysterious serial killer is hunting other serial killers, and one F.B.I. Agent suspects there may be more to the vigilante than they imagine.
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Movie: Mommie Dearest ( 1981 )
The abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted.
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Movie: The People vs. Larry Flynt ( 1997 )
The story of a controversial pornography publisher and how he became a defender of free speech.
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Movie: Death and the Maiden ( 1995 )
A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
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Movie: Five Easy Pieces ( 1970 )
A dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest.
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Movie: Summer of Sam ( 1999 )
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
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Movie: Escobar: Paradise Lost ( 2014 )
In Colombia, a young surfer meets the woman of his dreams - and then meets her uncle, Pablo Escobar.
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Movie: My Cousin Rachel ( 2017 )
A young Englishman plots revenge against his late cousin's mysterious, beautiful wife, believing her responsible for his death. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.
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Movie: Exotica ( 1995 )
A man plagued by neuroses frequents the club Exotica in an attempt to find solace, but even there his past is never far away.
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Movie: The Brood ( 1979 )
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.
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Movie: Force Majeure ( 2014 )
A family vacationing in the French Alps is confronted with a devastating avalanche.
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Movie: Eternal Beauty ( 2020 )
This movie follows Jane (Sally Hawkins) who, after being left at the altar, had a breakdown spiralled into a chaotic episode of schizophrenia lasting twenty years in which love (both real and imagined) and family relationships collide. Things change when she begins a darkly comic romance with Mike (David Thewlis), a failed musician and fellow lost soul.
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Movie: Maudie ( 2017 )
An arthritic Nova Scotia woman works as a housekeeper while she hones her skills as an artist and eventually becomes a beloved figure in the community.
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Movie: Beyond the Gates ( 2006 )
A Catholic Priest and an English teacher get stranded in a school in Kigali during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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Movie: Factory Girl ( 2007 )
Based on the rise and fall of socialite Edie Sedgwick, concentrating on her relationships with Andy Warhol and a folk singer.
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Movie: The Getaway ( 1994 )
An ex-con and his devoted wife must flee from danger when a heist doesn't go as planned.
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Movie: Blue Jasmine ( 2013 )
A New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks a million, but isn't bringing money, peace, or love...
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Movie: Dead Ringers ( 1988 )
Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.
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Movie: Drugstore Cowboy ( 1989 )
A pharmacy-robbing dope fiend and his crew pop pills and evade the law.
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Movie: Kafka ( 1991 )
Kafka works during the day at an insurance company, where events lead him to discover a mysterious underground society with strange suppressive goals.
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Movie: Loving Pablo ( 2018 )
A journalist strikes up a romantic relationship with notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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Movie: Dancer in the Dark ( 2000 )
An east European girl goes to America with her young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film.
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Movie: The Painted Veil ( 2006 )
A British medical doctor fights a cholera epidemic in a small Chinese village, while being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
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Movie: The Killing Room ( 2009 )
Four individuals sign up for a psychological research study only to discover that they are now subjects of a brutal, classified government program.
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Movie: Beyond the Limit ( 1983 )
During Dirty War, half-English doctor in Argentina befriends the police, the rebels and the alcoholic Honorary British Consul, whose Latino wife he seduces. When the consul is mistakenly kidnapped by the rebels, he must pick a side.
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Movie: Wonderland ( 2003 )
In the police investigation of a brutal crime scene, one man was at the center of it all: legendary porn star John Holmes.
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Movie: Terms of Endearment ( 1983 )
Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.
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Movie: Consenting Adults ( 1992 )
During a joint dinner at the restaurant, the neighbors offer to exchange wives for one night. It was a joke, but only at first.
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Movie: Beast ( 2018 )
A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.
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Movie: The Human Stain ( 2003 )
When a disgraced former college dean has a romance with a mysterious younger woman haunted by her dark, twisted past, he is forced to confront a shocking fact about his own life that he has kept secret for fifty years.
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Movie: Christiane F. ( 1981 )
A teen girl in 1970's Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies and falls in love with a drug-abusing male prostitute.
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Movie: Bad Company ( 1972 )
A god-fearing Ohio boy dodging the Civil War draft arrives in St. Joseph, MO where he joins up with a hardscrabble group of like runaways heading west.
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Movie: Murder in the First ( 1995 )
An eager and idealistic young attorney defends an Alcatraz prisoner accused of murdering a fellow inmate. The extenuating circumstances: his client had just spent over three years in solitary confinement.
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Movie: Communion ( 1989 )
Oct.4 and Dec.26 the Strieber family drives from NYC to their cabin in the woods. Both nights there are some powerful lights outside and maybe aliens. The dad is mentally affected by the "bad dream", goes to the shrink and is hypnotized.
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Movie: The Cider House Rules ( 2000 )
A compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world.
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Movie: Unlawful Entry ( 1992 )
Happily married Michael and Karen Carr call the police after a failed robbery in their Los Angeles home. Before long, Officer Pete Davis arrives and helps arrange the installation of a new security system, taking extra interest in the couple's case. As a result, the grateful Carrs invite Pete over for dinner, and as one thing leads to another, they strike up an unexpected friendship. However, as the lonely policeman develops an intense fixation on the Carrs, Pete's take on friendship turns into a dangerous obsession. What happens when the cure is worse than the disease?
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Movie: The Donner Party ( 1992 )
In 1846, a large wagon train left Springfield, Illinois for California. In July of that year, following the advice of The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California written by a pro-emigration promoter named Lansford Hastings, the Donner party left the main body of emigrants to take a never before tried "shortcut" across the Great Basin. The Donner Party arrived at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, the last mountain pass before California, weeks behind schedule and short of food. The first blizzard of the season started only one day before they planned to head up and over the Sierra Nevada. With 95% of their journey already completed, they would be forced to wait months to make the final push, enduring the most unfavorable Sierra Nevada winter in history. The group was trapped on the eastern side of the Sierra for five months, culminating in death and cannibalism. Of the 87 men, women, and children in the Donner Party only 46 survived to reach California.
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Movie: Rumble Fish ( 1983 )
Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.
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Movie: Savage Grace ( 2007 )
A dramatization of the shocking Barbara Daly Baekeland murder case, which happened in a posh London flat on Friday 17 November 1972. The bloody crime caused a stir on both sides of the Atlantic and remains one of the most memorable American Tragedies...
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Movie: Against All Odds ( 1984 )
Against All Odds is a 1984 American romantic neo-noir thriller film directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges and James Woods alongside Jane Greer, Alex Karras, Richard Widmark and Dorian Harewood. A remake of Out of the Past (1947), the film's plot is about an aging American football star who is hired by a mobster to find his girlfriend.
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Movie: Edmond ( 2006 )
A fortune-teller's teasing rumination sends Edmond Burke lurching into New York City's hellish underworld.
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Movie: While We're Young ( 2015 )
A middle-aged couple's career and marriage are overturned when a disarming young couple enters their lives.
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Movie: Infamous ( 2006 )
While researching his novel "In Cold Blood", Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
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Movie: White Oleander ( 2002 )
A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
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Movie: The Last Picture Show ( 1971 )
In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.
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Movie: White Squall ( 1996 )
Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyage.
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Movie: The China Syndrome ( 1979 )
A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.
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Movie: LBJ ( 2017 )
Lyndon B. Johnson aligns himself with John F. Kennedy, rises to the Presidency, and deals with the civil rights struggles of the 1960s.
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Movie: Play Misty for Me ( 1971 )
A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture.
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Movie: Heart of Darkness ( 1994 )
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
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Movie: The Island ( 1980 )
A journalist takes his son with him to investigate pirate activity off the coast of Florida. But he gets stranded on a mysterious island--where he might not be alone.