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Summary: In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that she can re-route her life in a better direction.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 47,566,524
International: $ 16,083,005
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Summary: Libby Day was only eight years old when her family was brutally murdered in their rural Kansas farmhouse. Almost thirty years later, she reluctantly agrees to revisit the crime and uncovers the wrenching truths that led up to that...
Runtime: 1 h 53 min
MPAA: R

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000
Domestic: $ 208,588
International: $ 4,882,264
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Summary: In the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.
Runtime: 1 h 32 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,100,000
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Summary: With hopes of becoming a doctor and not a product of her environment, a Brooklyn teenager is faced with numerous challenges that threaten her dreams.
Runtime: 1 h 32 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 100,000
Domestic: $ 479,169
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Summary: A bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to defend the families, but he discovers everything isn't what it seems.
Release Date: November 21, 1997
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 1 h 52 min
MPAA: R

Country: Canada
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 5,000,000
Domestic: $ 3,263,585
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Summary: A young mother escapes her abusive husband and fights back against a broken housing system. She sets out to build her own home and in the process rebuilds her life and re-discovers herself.
Runtime: 1 h 37 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
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Summary: A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States, Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
Runtime: 2 h 06 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 35,000,000
Domestic: $ 18,337,722
International: $ 6,873,453
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Summary: During the course of a day, a heroin addict overdoses in front of an upper-class couple, attempts to fool welfare by having his girlfriend fake a pregnancy, and frustrates the women in his life with his drug-induced impotence.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: Unrated

Production: Filmfactory
Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 25,000
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Summary: Set in the fictional Dublin suburb of Barrytown, Bimbo is a baker who loses his job after being made redundant. Bimbo then acquires the help of his best friend, Larry, to set up a successful burger van.
Runtime: 1 h 40 min
MPAA: R

Domestic: $ 712,095
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Summary: Will the 30 y.o. Hlynur ever move out of his mother's apartment in ReykjavĂ­k? Social welfare keeps him passive but things change when his mother's Spanish friend, Lola, arrives and stays through Xmas and New Year's Eve.
Runtime: 1 h 28 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Language: Icelandic
Domestic: $ 126,404
International: $ 420,055
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Summary: Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother suspected of child endangerment, a social worker and her own small kids are soon drawn into a frightening supernatural realm.
Runtime: 1 h 33 min
MPAA: R

Distributor: HBO Max
Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 9,000,000
Domestic: $ 54,733,739
International: $ 68,500,000
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Summary: Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
Runtime: 1 h 42 min
MPAA: R

Production: Grandelusion
Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 300,000
Domestic: $ 220,165
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Summary: Daphne and her four children try to cope with the abrupt death of husband/father. As the family seems to fall apart, a sudden incident gives them a chance to heal their 'broken wings'.
Release Date: October 24, 2002
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 1 h 27 min
MPAA: R

Country: Israel
Language: Hebrew
Domestic: $ 421,454
International: $ 338,864
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Summary: A social movie about current life in the north of France. Freddy and his friends are all unemployed. They pass away time by wandering around on their motorcycles and by directing their aggressive feelings towards Arab immigrants. ...
Runtime: 1 h 36 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: France
Language: French
Movie budget: $ 1,200,000
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Summary: After years of hiding, the notorious American leftist radical, Abbie Hoffman, discusses his life, his cause and the opposition he endured.
Runtime: 1 h 47 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 76,424
International: $ 2,664
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Summary: A much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the island. Inspired, the village...
Runtime: 1 h 48 min
MPAA: Unrated

Country: Canada
Language: French
Domestic: $ 9,844,180
International: $ 3,899,136
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Summary: Frankie, an ill-tempered old coach, reluctantly agrees to train aspiring boxer Maggie. Impressed with her determination and talent, he helps her become the best and the two soon form a close bond.
Runtime: 2 h 12 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 30,000,000
Domestic: $ 100,492,203
International: $ 116,271,443
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Summary: This documentary about the culture of intense cinephilia in New York City reveals the impassioned world of five obsessed movie buffs. The filmmakers expose this delightfully deranged cult by capturing the daily lives of its member...
Runtime: 1 h 23 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Language: English
Domestic: $ 11,305
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Summary: The board of directors at a Madison Avenue ad agency must elect a new chairman. In the maneuvering to make sure that enemies don't get votes, all the members accidentally cast their ballot for the board's token black man, Putney S...
Runtime: 1 h 24 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 200,000
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Summary: Grandpa Ward gives a horse he found to his grandchildren, who keep it in their tower-block flat in Dublin. The horse is stolen from them, and the two young boys set out to find it and flee on it.
Runtime: 1 h 37 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Domestic: $ 4,790,801
International: $ 228