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One Eight Seven (1997) TMDB IMDb WikiData
One Eight Seven
director: Kevin Reynolds actor: Samuel L. Jackson / John Heard …
other title: Codice omicidio 187 / 187 …
After surviving a stabbing by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles. There, he resumes teaching as a substitute teacher. The education system, where violent bullies control the classrooms and the administration is afraid of lawsuits, slowly drives Garfield mad. He then moves to California to be a sub for a predominantly Native Hispanic/Latin-American high school in Los Angeles. He is tormented by members of a Native Hispanic/Latino-American tag crew named K.O.S. (Kappin’ off Suckaz).
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All Night Long (1962) IMDb WikiData TMDB
All Night Long
director: Basil Dearden actor: Patrick McGoohan / Keith Michell …
other title: Die heiße Nacht / Tout au long de la nuit …
Over the course of one eventful evening, the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic partners Aurelius Rex and Delia Lane, a jealous, ambitious drummer, Johnny Cousin, attempts to tear the interracial couple apart.
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On Tour (1990) IMDb WikiData
Turné
director: Gabriele Salvatores actor: Diego Abatantuono / Laura Morante …
other title: Turné / Nosotros tres
Two actors leave on a theatrical tour, but there is a matter to be settled: one has become the lover of the other's girl-friend and since they are very good friends, cannot bring himself to tell him.
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Mediterraneo (1991) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Mediterraneo
director: Gabriele Salvatores actor: Diego Abatantuono / Claudio Bigagli …
other title: Mediterráneo / Jeg elsker soldater
WWII: When a group of Italian soldiers washes up on a Greek island after the Allies sink their ship, the men initially believe that the region is deserted. However, they discover that the islanders have been in hiding, and the soldiers, winning the trust of the locals, gradually become part of the community. As the Italians ease into an idyllic existence, they begin to forget about war and pursue romance with the lovely women of the island.
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Let Him Go (2020) NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB
Let Him Go
director: Thomas Bezucha actor: Diane Lane / Kevin Costner …
other title: Uno di noi / Um de Nós …
Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas.
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Interior Chinatown (2024) NeoDB TMDB Douban
Interior Chinatown Season 1 part of TV Series: Interior Chinatown
7.3 (7 ratings) director: Taika Waititi / Ben Sinclair … actor: Jimmy O. Yang / Ronny Chieng …
Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural, tries to find his way into the larger story–and along the way discovers secrets about the strange world he inhabits and his family’s buried history.
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Billy Elliot (2000) NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Billy Elliot
8.4 (7 ratings) director: Stephen Daldry actor: Jamie Bell / Gary Lewis …
other title: Billy Elliot - I Will Dance / Billy Elliot (Quiero bailar) …
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.
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The Lives of Others (2006) TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Das Leben der Anderen
8.9 (23 ratings) director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck actor: Martina Gedeck / Ulrich Mühe …
other title: Le vite degli altri / De andres liv …
In 1983 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.
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City of God (2002) Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData
Cidade de Deus
8.7 (14 ratings) director: Fernando Meirelles actor: 亚历桑德雷·罗德里格斯 / Leandro Firmino …
other title: Cidade de Deus / La Cité de Dieu …
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood, while José “Zé” Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer diving into a dangerous life of crime.
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Secondhand Lions (2003) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Secondhand Lions
director: Tim McCanlies actor: Michael Caine / Robert Duvall …
other title: Lições Para Toda Vida / Löwen aus zweiter Hand …
The comedic adventures of an introverted boy left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles, whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the men's lives.
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The Illegal Immigrant (1985) Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
非法移民
director: Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting actor: Ching Yong-Cho / Wu Fu-Sheng …
other title: Eine Woche Heiratsfrist / 非法移民
The lead, arrested and processed after a police raid on a Canal St. clothing workshop. He has no status in HK, where he'd swam, or the US, where he arrived as a stowaway, to avoid metal detectors which would pick up the bullets still in his body.
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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 TMDB Douban
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.