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Shirley Knight

Shirley Knight

Shirley Enola Knight (July 5, 1936 - April 22, 2020) was an American stage, screen, and television actress. She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in 1960 for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and in 1962 for Sweet Bird of Youth.

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Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021)

Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who lived through it, creating a first-hand archive of personal backstage stories and memories. The new docume ...

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Periphery (2018)

A dying woman wishes to see her family through the good times and the bad times she will miss. ...

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The Missing Girl (2015)

THE MISSING GIRL tells the story of Mort, the lonely and disillusioned owner of a comic book shop, and Ellen, the emotionally disruptive graphic novelist he's hired. The story involves the search for a girl who isn't missing and the discovery that it's nev ...

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Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (2015)

Security guard Paul Blart is headed to Las Vegas to attend a Security Guard Expo with his teenage daughter Maya before she departs for college. While at the convention, he inadvertently discovers a heist - and it's up to Blart to apprehend the criminals. ...

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Mercy (2014)

A single mom and her two boys help take care of their grandmother with mystical powers. ...

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Redwood Highway (2013)

Marie, a reluctant resident of a retirement community in Southern Oregon, decides to walk 80 miles down the Redwood Highway to see the ocean for the first time in 45 years. ...

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Elevator (2013)

Nine people are stuck in an elevator. One of them has a ticking bomb that can't be defused. The other eight will do anything to survive. There is no escape and no promise of rescue. As the tension in the elevator mounts the unthinkable soon becomes the onl ...

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Our Idiot Brother (2011)

Everybody has one—the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz, Miranda and Natalie, that person is their perennially upbeat brother, Ned. But as each of their lives begins to un ...

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Listen to Your Heart (2010)

Danny Foster doesn't have much: an apartment as small as his paychecks, no family, and a struggling music career. Yet for him, "every day is a great day to be alive," an attitude he gained from his mother's unwavering optimism during her losing battle with ...

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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)

After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown. ...

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Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)

Mild-mannered Paul Blart has always had huge dreams of becoming a State Trooper. Until then, he patrols the local mall as a security guard. With his closely cropped moustache, personal transporter and gung-ho attitude, only Blart seems to take his job seri ...

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Not Fade Away (2008)

A dark comedy/drama about a daughter struggling with her mothers rapid descent into Alzheimers. ...

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The Other Side of the Tracks (2008)

A depressed young man struggles to move on and escape haunting memories of his girlfriend, killed ten years ago in a train accident. ...

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Open Window (2006)

The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence. ...

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Love and Debate (2006)

A girl goes to Harvard and joins the debate team. She has to deal with a ton of issues, from boyfriends, to ethnicity, to religion, to sexual assault. ...

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Grandma's Boy (2006)

Even though he's 35, Alex acts more like he's 13, spending his days as the world's oldest video game tester and his evenings developing the next big Xbox game. But when he gets kicked out of his apartment, he's forced to move in with his grandmother. ...

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Sudbury (2004)

A family of witches -- sisters Sally and Gillian, their aunts Jet and Frances, and Sally's daughters Antonia and Kylie -- struggle with the blessing and the curse of magical abilities. ...

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A House on a Hill (2003)

A once-successful architect (Philip Baker Hall) has become a grumpy loner, but a young couple plead with him to come out of retirement to rebuild his crumbling old house for them. ...

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Mrs. Ashboro's Cat (2003)

Wes Merritt and his daughter Natalie (14) get more than they bargained for when they buy an old house that was formerly inhabited by the nice old Mrs. Ashboro and her pet cat, Margaret. When strange things start happening in the house, all fingers point to ...

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Fly Cherry (2003)

A young girl dreams of flying, to get away from her neglectful mother, and forms a bond with her mysterious next door neighbor. ...

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Shadow Realm (2002)

Shadow Realm is a compilation of two episodes planned for the short-lived Fox Network television series Night Visions. Each episode contained two stories and were originally hosted by musician/actor/writer Henry Rollins. The Sci-Fi Channel acquired the rig ...

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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)

A mother and daughter dispute is resolved by the "Yaya sisterhood" - long time friends of the mother. ...

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P.S. Your Cat is Dead! (2002)

With his life already in shambles — his girlfriend just dumped him, he's lost his acting gig, and his cat is seriously ill — sad-sack Jimmy Zoole (Steve Guttenberg) comes home New Year's Eve to find a gay burglar (Lombardo Boyar) looting his apartment. ...

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The Salton Sea (2002)

After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and get ...

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Angel Eyes (2001)

A story about a seemingly unlikely couple who cross paths under life-threatening circumstances as though they are destined not only to meet but to save each other's lives. Not once, but twice. ...

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My Louisiana Sky (2001)

A girl comes to terms with her mentally challenged parents. ...

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75 Degrees in July (2000)

Sibling rivalry and other conflicts are revealed as one daughter, now a successful modern artist living in New York, returns to visit her Texas family. ...

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A Marriage of Convenience (1998)

Succesful businesswoman Chris Winslow gives up her career to raise her deceased sister's son, Kevin. Eight years later, she must contend with the boy's father who was unaware of his son's existence. Prompted by a wise judge, they decide to enter into a mar ...

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A Father for Brittany (1998)

Keith and Kim Lussier are a childless couple who are given custody of a 3-month-old foster child, Brittany. However, tragedy strikes when Kim dies of cancer in the middle of the adoption process, leaving Keith to fight for Brittany's custody alone. ...

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The Wedding (1998)

Shelby Coles (Halle Berry) is engaged to marry talented white jazz musician Meade Howell, but the pair face opposition from both Meade's family, who object to an inter-racial marriage, and Shelby's parents, who want her to marry a professional. As Shelby i ...

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As Good as It Gets (1997)

Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer of romantic fiction, is rude to everyone he meets, including his gay neighbor, Simon. After Simon is brutally attacked and hospitalized, Melvin finds his life turned upside down when he has to lo ...

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Convictions (1997)

It has been nine years since Bancroft's character shot Brown's son. She goes to the prison to vent her rage at him over what he did, and discovers he's not the monster she thought he was. ...

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Little Boy Blue (1997)

Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The dad harbors a secret, and he goes to mur ...

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Somebody Is Waiting (1996)

An alcoholic father must take control of his wayward children when their mother is killed. ...

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Dying to Be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story (1996)

Story about a runner whose bulimia and anorexia threatens both her dream of competing in the Olympics and her marriage to Denver's mayor. ...

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Mary & Tim (1996)

Another adaptation of the novel "Tim", about the love that develops between a mentally challenged young man and the older, lonely widow who takes him under her wing. ...

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The Uninvited (1996)

A family, trying to pull themselves together after losing their infant son, moves into a new home, where, almost immediately, the mother begins experiencing paranormal phenomena. She finds it playful at first, but as it grows increasingly malevolent, she i ...

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If These Walls Could Talk (1996)

A powerful, intimate portrait of three women living in the same house during different eras who all face unplanned pregnancies. The vignettes follow a recently widowed nurse struggling to take control of her life in the early 50s, a mother of four balancin ...

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Diabolique (1996)

The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed scheme to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The psychological strain starts to weigh on the two wom ...

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A Promise to Carolyn (1996)

When two sisters can no longer go on living with the painful memory of their baby sister being murdered 37 years ago by their stepmother, together they try to uncover the truth. ...

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Stolen Memories: Secrets from the Rose Garden (1996)

A young boy goes to spend the summer with his aunts in the South. He finds himself drawn to Jessica, who the other aunts describe as "slow," and he eventually discovers there's more to Jessica and his other aunts than meets the eye. ...

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Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)

The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unqualified child cruelty "expert" videotapes the children describing outrageous stories of abuse. One of the mos ...

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Stuart Saves His Family (1995)

A self-help advocate struggles to put his dysfunctional family in its place. ...

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Dad, the Angel & Me (1995)

A divorced doctor finds himself in real trouble living with his daughter alone now. But fortunately a guardian angel is watching over the lives of both of them. ...

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Death in Venice, CA (1994)

A stressed out writer's getaway is complicated by advances from a lascivious 17-year-old relative. ...

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Color of Night (1994)

A color-blind psychiatrist is stalked by an unknown killer after taking over his murdered friend's therapy group and becomes embroiled in an intense affair with a mysterious woman who may be connected to the crime. ...

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A Part of the Family (1994)

A bright young New York physician takes her husband, a jokey/cynical tabloid reporter, home to Illinois to meet her parents. ...

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The Yarn Princess (1994)

Margaret, who has certain mental disabilities, struggles when her husband, Jake, is diagnosed with schizophrenia and the authorities wish to take her children away from her. She has to prove in a court of law that she is capable of taking care of her famil ...

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Baby Brokers (1994)

A woman (Cybill Shepherd) financially supports the natural parents in hope of adopting their newborn, but she discovers she is the victim of a scam. ...

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The Secret Life of Houses (1994)

A nine-year-old girl with a mother in the hospital decides to live alone and fend for herself. ...

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A Mother's Revenge (1993)

A girl is beaten and raped by someone from the school, but he doesn't go to prison because there is no proof about it. Now, the girl's mother tries to reveal the truth... ...

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When Love Kills: The Seduction of John Hearn (1993)

A woman places an ad in the "Soldier of Fortune" magazine to hire a contract killer. ...

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To Save a Child (1991)

A doctor and his pregnant young wife move into a small New Mexico town. At first the locals are friendly and pleased to see them, but soon the wife begins to suspect that their new neighbors' motives are more than just hospitality. ...

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Shadow of a Doubt (1991)

Charlie is a young woman who is thrilled that her favorite Uncle Charlie is coming home for good. But she soon discovers that her namesake, a "Wall Street financier," has a deep, dark secret. And knowledge of that secret by anyone can prove to be deadly. ...

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Bump in the Night (1991)

Martha "Red" Tierney used to be a hot-shot reporter, but that was before alcohol took over her life. One morning Martha's son, Jonathan, leaves for school, stopping first to meet his father for breakfast. But Jonathan never meets his dad. Instead, he is pi ...

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The Sweet Scent of Death (1984)

An overworked American ambassador working in the UK attempts to spend more time with his wife by visiting a countryside mansion, but soon the trip turns into a nightmare with his wife haunted by a stalker seemingly from her past. ...

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With Intent to Kill (1984)

A high school football hero Bo Reinecker tries to piece together the events leading up to murder of his girl friend Lisa Nolen. Claiming to have experienced a total blackout, Bo is ultimately found not guilty of the murder by reason of insanity and placed ...

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The Sender (1982)

A disturbed telepathic man is able to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him. ...

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Kennedy's Children (1982)

In 1974, five former activists from the 1960s meet in a bar, but do not relate. Each is lost in his or her own memories of more hopeful, revolutionary days. ...

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Endless Love (1981)

As their romance unfolds, Jade and David's growing love for one another becomes the scorn of Jade's father. However, when Jade's grades begin to drop, her father forbids the young couple from seeing each other for 30 days. Driven insane with frustration an ...

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Playing for Time (1980)

When a Jewish songstress is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task—using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas chambers. ...

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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)

After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search for money, gold a ...

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Champions: A Love Story (1979)

Two teens become romantically involved as they train for a skating championship. ...

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The Defection of Simas Kudirka (1978)

Based on the true story of the attempted defection in 1970 by a Lithuanian seaman seeking political asylum in the United States. Kudirka was denied asylum and returned to the Soviets, charged with treason, and sentenced to ten years of hard labor. It was l ...

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21 Hours at Munich (1976)

A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes. ...

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Return to Earth (1976)

The story of Buzz Aldrin, the second astronaut to walk on the moon, and the problems he had after his return to Earth, including the breakup of his marriage, a nervous breakdown and his hospitalization for psychiatric problems. ...

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Medical Story (1975)

A young intern goes up against three older surgeons as to whether or not a young actress should get a hysterectomy. ...

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Friendly Persuasion (1975)

During the Civil War, a Quaker couple risks their lives by helping runaway slaves. ...

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Please Stand by for Murder (1975)

The wife of a TV executive thinks she might have committed a murder and is tormented by a stalker while locked inside an empty TV station. ...

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Juggernaut (1974)

A terrorist demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he has planted aboard a trans-Atlantic cruise ship. ...

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The Country Girl (1974)

Frank Elgin's career in the theater is all washed up — but his friend Bernie thinks he can make a comeback, as long as his wife Georgie doesn't interfere. ...

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The Lie (1973)

An Ingmar Bergman script. Produced for Swedish Television as "Reservatet" (1970) and for BBC as "The Lie" (1971). An American couple is trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno. ...

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Secrets (1971)

A woman's unfulfilling marriage leads her into a passionate affair with a wealthy extramarital lover. ...

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The Rain People (1969)

When a housewife finds out she is pregnant, she runs out of town looking for freedom to reevaluate her life decisions. ...

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Filmmaker (1968)

A behind-the-scenes documentary by George Lucas about 29-year-old Francis Ford Coppola and his crew creating the 1969 film "The Rain People. ...

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Petulia (1968)

Dr. Archie Bollen is having a midlife crisis. He's just divorced his wife and is establishing a new life for himself. One night, he catches the eye of Petulia Danner, a charming, free-spirited young woman. Petulia's vibrant personality hides her fear of he ...

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The Counterfeit Killer (1968)

A Secret Service agent poses as a waterfront hit man to infiltrate a global ring of counterfeiters. ...

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Shadow Over Elveron (1968)

A corrupt sheriff knows the secrets of everyone in town and uses that information to go unchallenged. But after the arrest of an innocent teenager, the new doctor cannot keep quiet and tries to get the community to stand up for what is right. ...

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The Outsider (1967)

Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quickly when bodies start dropping and the savvy P.I. is the primary suspect in an attractive woman's death. This NBC TV movie se ...

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Dutchman (1966)

A young conservative black man, minding his own business, rides a nearly empty subway car. The only other passenger, a blonde vixen looking for trouble, sizes him up. Sexual tension, racial bigotry and righteous fury collide in a razor's edge confrontation ...

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The Group (1966)

It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The film documents the years between their graduation and the beginning of the World War in Europe, ...

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Flight from Ashiya (1964)

Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air Force rescue pilots must overcome their personal problems and differences to embark upon a dangerous mission to save raft-bound Japanese survivors from a mur ...

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House of Women (1962)

An innocent, pregnant prison inmate (Shirley Knight) becomes the bad warden's (Andrew Duggan) personal favorite. ...

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Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local ...

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The Couch (1962)

A psychopath calls the police before he kills, in between sessions with his father-figure analyst. ...

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The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)

In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie is afraid of going out on ...

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Ice Palace (1960)

Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon Zeb "Czar" Kennedy and rugged activist leader Thor Storm, two rough-hewn men whose bitter 40-year rivalry ...

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Five Gates to Hell (1959)

A group of nurses, doctors and nuns are taken hostage in Vietnam and sent up river to a castle hideout so they can cure an ailing war general. ...

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