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Beat Street (1984) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Beat Street
director: Stan Lathan actor: Guy Davis / Rae Dawn Chong …
An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.
April 6, 2026 watched
Dance/musical movies not usually my thing, but I enjoyed this slice of 80s B Boy life from the Bronx.

Saw the start in the #SundayFunnies watch party on Mastodon, completed later.
Drama HipHop USA Musical RaeDawnChong
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The Natural (1984) IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData
The Natural
director: Barry Levinson actor: Robert Redford / Robert Duvall …
other title: Il migliore / Den bedste …
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.
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Kes (1970) NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB
Kes
director: Ken Loach actor: David Bradley / Freddie Fletcher …
other title: Os Dois Indomáveis
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.
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Black Robe (1991) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Black Robe
director: Bruce Beresford actor: Lothaire Bluteau / Sandrine Holt …
other title: Manto nero / Black Robe - I Indianernes Vold …
Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict Catholic rules and ideals to try and impose his religion.
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Throne of Blood (1957) Douban IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData
蜘蛛巣城
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Toshirō Mifune / Isuzu Yamada …
other title: Il trono di sangue / Blodets trone …
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit's prophecy by murdering his lord and usurping his place. Director Akira Kurosawa's resetting of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in feudal Japan is one of his most acclaimed films.
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The Lost One (1951) IMDb WikiData
Der Verlorene
director: Peter Lorre actor: Peter Lorre / Karl John …
other title: Un uomo perduto / Der Verlorene …
A German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy.
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Get Low (2010) Douban WikiData IMDb
Get Low
director: Aaron Schneider actor: Robert Duvall / Bill Murray …
other title: Get Low - A Lenda de Felix Bush / Am Ende des Weges …
A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.
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John Q (2002) Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB
John Q
5.6 (5 ratings) director: Nick Cassavetes actor: Denzel Washington / James Woods …
other title: John Q. / John Q. - Verzweifelte Wut …
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.
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Almost Famous (2000) Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb
Almost Famous
7.8 (6 ratings) director: Cameron Crowe actor: Billy Crudup / Frances McDormand …
other title: Quasi famosi / Quase Famosos …
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band, Stillwater.
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The Hero (1966) IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData
নায়ক
director: Satyajit Ray actor: Uttam Kumar / Sharmila Tagore …
other title: Nayak: The Hero / Le Héros …
Arindam, a matinee idol, is going by train to collect an acting award. On the train, he is confronted by Aditi, a journalist who somewhat unwillingly starts to take his interview. Arindam, won over by Aditi's naivete, starts to disclose his past, his fears and his secrets.
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Hidden Assets (Series 1) (2021) NeoDB Douban TMDB
Hidden Assets Season 1 part of TV Series: Hidden Assets
director: Kadir Ferati Balci / Thaddeus O'Sullivan actor: Simone Kirby / Angeline Ball …
A routine raid led by Emer Berry, a detective in the Irish Criminal Assets Bureau, reveals that a small-time drug dealer has been receiving substantial funding from a seemingly untraceable source – not in cash, but in rough diamonds. When these diamonds are linked to a series of bombings in Belgium, Emer is forced to work with Police Commissioner Christian De Jong.
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That Thing You Do! (1996) IMDb TMDB
That Thing You Do!
director: Tom Hanks actor: Tom Hanks / Tom Everett Scott …
other title: Music Graffiti / Tudo Por um Sonho …
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
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The Commitments (1991) TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Commitments
director: Alan Parker actor: Robert Arkins / Michael Aherne …
other title: Os Commitments / Die Commitments …
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
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The Dry (2021) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Dry
director: Robert Connolly actor: Eric Bana / Genevieve O'Reilly …
other title: Chi è senza peccato - The Dry / Canicule …
Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound — the unsolved death of a teenage girl.