Movies By highest critic rating on Prime

Afternoon Delight (2013)

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Gone: RT: 66/41 IMDB: 5.7 chan: Prime
Directors: Joey Soloway Genres: Comedy, Drama
Stars: Kathryn Hahn, Jane Lynch, Josh Radnor
In this sexy comedy starring Glee's Jane Lynch, Transparent's Kathryn Hahn, and Juno Temple, a Los Angeles mom puts her idyllic life in jeopardy when she tries to rescue a stripper by taking her in as a live-in nanny. From the creator of Transparent, Joey Soloway.

2 Days In New York (2012)

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Gone: 2022-03-01RT: 66/42 IMDB: 6.0 Revenue: 1.7M Budget: 8.0M chan: Prime
Directors: Julie Delpy Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Stars: Chris Rock, Julie Delpy
A visit from relatives overseas disrupts a New York couple's home life and initiates two unforgettable days of family mayhem.

Cosmopolis (2013)

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Gone: RT: 66/31 IMDB: 5.1 Revenue: 6.1M Budget: 20.5M chan: Prime
Directors: David Cronenberg Genres: Drama
Stars: Robert Pattinson, Sarah Gadon, Paul Giamatti
Eric Packer, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager, heads out in his tricked-out stretch limo, while remotely wagering his company's massive fortune. His trip across the city quickly turns into a wild, hypnotic odyssey as he encounters explosive city riots and a parade of visitors. Having started the day with everything, Packer's perfectly ordered, doubt-free world is about to implode.

Peterloo (4K UHD) (2019)

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Gone: RT: 66/42 IMDB: 6.5 chan: Prime
Directors: Mike Leigh Genres: History, Drama
Stars: Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Neil Bell
Included with your Prime membership. Internationally acclaimed and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mike Leigh portrays one of the bloodiest episodes in British history, the infamous Peterloo Massacre of 1819, where government-backed cavalry charged into a peaceful crowd of 60,000 that gathered in Manchester, England to demand democratic reform.

Reaching For The Moon (2014)

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Gone: RT: 66/69 IMDB: 7.0 chan: Prime
Directors: Bruno Barreto Genres: Drama, Romance
Stars: Miranda Otto, Glória Pires
Set in 1950s Brazil, this sumptuous drama recounts Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop (Miranda Otto, "Lord of the Rings") and her love affair with famed architect Lota de Macedo Soares. From Oscar-nominated Brazilian director Bruno Barreto ("Four Days in September"), "Reaching for the Moon" is an intimate snapshot of the search for inspiration, wherever and however you find it.

Traitor (2008)

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Gone: 2022-03-01RT: 65/64 IMDB: 7.0 Revenue: 23.5M Budget: 22.0M chan: Prime
Directors: Jeffrey Nachmanoff Genres: Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime
Stars: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Sa??d Taghmaoui
Academy Award nominee Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, Crash) and Guy Pearce (Memento, L.A. Confidential) star in a taut international thriller set against a jigsaw puzzle of covert counter-espionage operations.

Apocalypto (2006)

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Gone: RT: 65/79 IMDB: 7.8 Revenue: 120.7M Budget: 40.0M chan: Prime
Directors: Mel Gibson Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller, History
Stars: Rudy Youngblood, Gerardo Taracena, Raoul Max Trujillo
As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, a young man is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression.

The Final Master (2016)

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Gone: RT: 65/61 IMDB: 6.9 chan: Prime
Directors: Xu Haofeng Genres: Action, Drama, Comedy
Stars: Fan Liao, Jia Song, Shih-Chieh King
In 1930s China, unrest rules the nation. Chen, the last Wing Chun master, arrives in Tianjin to expand his kung fu - but his ambition gets him entangled in a power struggle between Tianjin's martial arts Grandmaster, a dominant underworld Madam, and the town's military leaders.

Pumpkinhead (1988)

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Gone: RT: 65/48 IMDB: 6.2 Revenue: 4.4M Budget: 3.5M chan: Prime
Directors: Stan Winston Genres: Fantasy, Horror
Stars: Lance Henkriksen, Jeff East, John Di Aquino
A father (Lance Henriksen) invokes the demon Pumpkinhead to avenge his son's death at the hands of big-city bikers in this horror classic filled with the essence of evil.

The Wall (2017)

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Gone: RT: 65/42 IMDB: 6.2 Revenue: 1.8M chan: Prime
Directors: Doug Liman Genres: Thriller, War, Drama
Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, John Cena, Laith Nakli
A deadly psychological thriller that follows two soldiers pinned down by an Iraqi sniper, with nothing but a crumbling wall between them.

The Year of Spectacular Men (2018)

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Gone: RT: 65/63 IMDB: 5.7 chan: Prime
Directors: Lea Thompson Genres: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Stars: Zoey Deutch, Madelyn Deutch, Lea Thompson
Izzy Klein has (barely) graduated from college, broken up (sorta) with her boyfriend, and has a bad case of pre-real-world millennial-itis. Throughout the year, she falls in and out of some not so romantic romances, and figures out that when it totally feels like the end of your story, it’s often just the beginning.

A Rage in Harlem (1991)

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Gone: RT: 65/51 IMDB: 5.9 Revenue: 10.4M Budget: 8.0M chan: Prime
Directors: Bill Duke Genres: Crime, Comedy
Stars: Forest Whitaker, Gregory Hines, Robin Givens
When a beautiful seductress from Mississippi arrives in Harlem with a fortune in gold . . . everyone wants a piece of it. Everyone, that is, except Jackson, a quiet naive man. When he crosses paths with this sexy con artist, he unexpectedly enters a world of greed and decadence where nothing is as it seems. Adopted from the novel by Chester Himes.

Suspiria (2018)

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Gone: RT: 65/65 IMDB: 6.8 Revenue: 6.3M Budget: 20.0M chan: Prime
Directors: Luca Guadagnino Genres: Horror, Thriller
Stars: Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe's artistic director (Swinton), an ambitious young dancer (Johnson), and a grieving psychotherapist (Ebersdorf). Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

Planet Of The Humans (2020)

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Gone: RT: 65/65 IMDB: 6.9 chan: Prime
Directors: Jeff Gibbs Genres: Documentary
Stars: Al Gore, Bill McKibben, Richard Branson
"Planet of the Humans" dares to say what no one will-that we are losing the battle to stop climate change by following leaders who have taken us down the wrong road-selling out the green movement to bankers and billionaires. This urgent, must-see movie is guaranteed to generate anger, debate, and, hopefully, a willingness to see our survival in a new way-before it's too late.

A Girl Like Her (2013)

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Gone: RT: 65/80 IMDB: 7.0 chan: Prime
Directors: Amy S. Weber Genres: Drama
Stars: Hunter King, Lexi Ainsworth, Jimmy Bennett
Everybody's dream girl. One girl's nightmare. Based on a million true stories, a girl like her follows 16-year-old Jessica and her hidden camera that documents the merciless bullying handed down by Avery, the most popular girl in school.

Dil Dhadakne Do (2015)

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Gone: RT: 65/72 IMDB: 6.9 Revenue: 22.0M Budget: 13.0M chan: Prime
Directors: Zoya Akhtar Genres: Drama, Family, Romance, Comedy
Stars: Anil Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Ranveer Singh
This family drama is about a high-class Mehra family get together with their family and friends. The family along with their dear ones meet on a cruise to celebrate the 30th wedding anniversary of the Mehera's where a few series of encounters changes their outlook towards life forever.

Finding Altamira (2016)

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Gone: RT: 65/46 IMDB: 6.0 Budget: 8.5M chan: Prime
Directors: Hugh Hudson Genres: Drama, History
Stars: Antonio Banderas, Golshifteh Farahani, Rupert Everett
Life and events of the man who realized one of the most important discoveries of the 19th century: Altamira's caves.

Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss (2020)

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Gone: RT: 65/52 IMDB: 5.6 chan: Prime
Directors: Vivieno Caldinelli Genres: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Stars: Kate Micucci, Sam Huntington, Taika Waititi
In this offbeat comedy, a young midwestern couple finds the perfect apartment in Los Angeles, except there’s a catch – the apartment is home to a bizarre cult.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)

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Gone: 2022-03-02RT: 64/66 IMDB: 6.6 Revenue: 603.9M Budget: 150.0M chan: Prime
Directors: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath Genres: Family, Adventure, Animation, Comedy
Stars: Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett Smith, David Schwimmer
Your favorite castaways are back - still together and still lost! One of the top movies of the year, DreamWorks Animation's MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA is "even better than the first!" (Mark Hyman, FOX-TV). You'll laugh out loud as this outrageous comedy takes you on an African adventure like no other.

Ladies in Lavender (2004)

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Gone: RT: 64/66 IMDB: 7.0 Revenue: 20.4M chan: Prime
Directors: Charles Dance Genres: Drama, Romance
Stars: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Daniel Bruhl
Aging spinster sisters Ursula (Judi Dench) and Janet (Maggie Smith) discover a young man (Daniel Brühl) near death on the beach by their home in a small Cornish fishing village. Taking him in, they discover that he is Andrea, a violinist from Krakow, Poland, who had been swept off an ocean liner on which he was sailing to a fresh start in America.

Evelyn (2002)

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Gone: RT: 64/77 IMDB: 7.0 chan: Prime
Directors: Bruce Beresford Genres: Drama
Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Aidan Quinn, Alan Bates
Based on the true story of Desmond Doyle (Pierce Brosnan), who after losing his job and watching his wife leave the country with another man, has his children taken away by an arcane custody law. Doyle cleans up his act and wages an unlikely legal battle to regain custody.

I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)

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Gone: RT: 64/44 IMDB: 6.0 Revenue: 9.6M Budget: 24.0M chan: Prime
Directors: Amy Heckerling Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, Paul Rudd, Saoirse Ronan
A mother falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time. Mother Nature messes with their fates.

Last Rampage (2017)

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Gone: RT: 64/49 IMDB: 5.7 chan: Prime
Directors: Dwight Little Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Stars: Robert Patrick, Heather Graham, Bruce Davison
The true crime thriller of Gary Tison and Randy Greenawalt's escape from prison and the murderous rampage that followed.

Dead Ant (2019)

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Gone: RT: 64/43 IMDB: 4.8 chan: Prime
Directors: Ron Carlson Genres: Comedy, Horror
Stars: Tom Arnold, Sean Astin, Jake Busey
When the '80s one-hit-wonder glam-metal band Sonic Grave embarks on a road trip to Coachella in hopes of a comeback, their peyote trip pit stop in Joshua Tree incites a grisly attack, and they must "rock" themselves out of harm's way.

Saint Ralph (2005)

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Gone: RT: 64/85 IMDB: 7.4 Revenue: 0.5M chan: Prime
Directors: Michael McGowan Genres: Comedy, Drama
Stars: Adam Butcher, Campbell Scott, Gordon Pinsent
Saint Ralph is the unlikely story of Ralph Walker, a ninth grader who outran everyone's expectations except his own in his bold quest of trying to win the 1954 Boston Marathon.

Big Eden (2000)

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Gone: RT: 64/79 IMDB: 7.3 Revenue: 0.5M chan: Prime
Directors: Thomas Bezucha Genres: Drama, Romance
Stars: Arye Gross, Eric Schweig, Tim DeKay
After hearing that his Grandpa Sam has had a stroke, successful artist Henry leaves his big city life to return to his idyllic birthplace. As he tends to his grandfather, he must also come to terms with his semi-closeted sexuality. Amidst this flurry of painful experiences, he fails to notice the advances of the Pike, a sensitive outdoorsman who also cares for Grandpa Sam.

I Bury the Living (1958)

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Gone: RT: 64/49 IMDB: 6.3 chan: Prime
Directors: Albert Band Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Stars: Richard Boone, Tehodore Bikel, Peggy Maurer
A bone-chilling story of cemetary manager Robert Craft (Boone), a disturbed man who comes to believe that he is actually God. Robert discovers that when he sticks a black pin into a wall-sized map of the cemetary, he can cause the owner of that plot to die. After several such untimely deaths, Robert believes he has the power of life and death. But will Robert still believe this once he discovers the true secret behind these deaths?

Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (English Subtitled) (2015)

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Gone: RT: 64/77 IMDB: 7.7 Revenue: 5.2M Budget: 5.1M chan: Prime
Directors: Dibakar Banerjee Genres: Action, Mystery, Drama
Stars: Sushant Singh Rajput, Anand Tiwari, Neeraj Kabi
The origin story of famous Bengali sleuth Byomkesh Bakshi created by Saradindu Bandopadhyay.

Section 375 (2019)

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Gone: RT: 64/100 IMDB: 8.1 chan: Prime
Directors: Ajay Bahl Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Stars: Akshaye Khanna, Richa Chadha, Meera Chopra
A celebrated Bollywood director Rohan Khurana stands accused by a female member of his crew, Anjali Dangle of having raped her at his residence.

Mardaani (2014)

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Gone: RT: 64/71 IMDB: 7.3 Revenue: 7.6M Budget: 2.1M chan: Prime
Directors: Pradeep Sarkar Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Stars: Rani Mukerji, Sanjay Taneja, Priyanka Sharma
Shivani Shivaji Roy, an audacious Police officer of the Mumbai police, is in the chase to capture Karan/Walt , a crime warlord who is involved in child trafficking and drugs. When Pyaari, a beloved teenager, is abducted by his gang, she makes it her mission to serve hell to these disgusting offenders of the law.

Sex Ed (2014)

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Gone: RT: 64/40 IMDB: 5.6 chan: Prime
Directors: Isaac Feder Genres: Romance, Comedy
Stars: Haley Joel Osment, Lorenza Izzo, Kevin Hernandez
First time teacher Eddie Cole turns his detention class into Sex Ed., but he might not be the best teacher since his students seem to have more experience than him.

The Mimic (2021)

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Gone: RT: 64/65 IMDB: 4.6 chan: Prime
Directors: Thomas F. Mazziotti Genres: Comedy
Stars: Thomas Sadoski, Jake Robinson, Austin Pendleton
A screenwriter (Thomas Sadoski) explores the lighter side of a sociopath when he befriends a new neighbor (Jake Robinson) on the local newspaper. After unsettling rendezvous, he sets out to learn his true intentions.

Mardaani (2014)

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Gone: RT: 64/71 IMDB: 7.3 Revenue: 7.6M Budget: 2.1M chan: Prime
Directors: Pradeep Sarkar Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Stars: Rani Mukerji, Sanjay Taneja, Priyanka Sharma
India is the world's hub for child sex trafficking. Shivani Shivaji Roy, Senior Inspector, Crime Branch, Mumbai Police, sets out to confront the mastermind behind a child trafficking mafia, who makes the mistake of kidnapping and smuggling a teenage girl, Pyari. What follows is a cat and mouse game between a fearless cop and a young and ruthless mafia kingpin in a war which is very personal.

Detective Byomkesh Bakshy (2015)

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Gone: RT: 64/77 IMDB: 7.6 Revenue: 5.2M Budget: 5.1M chan: Prime
Directors: Dibakar Banerjee Genres: Action, Mystery, Drama
Stars: Anand Tiwari, Swastika Mukherjee, Neeraj Kabi
Detective Byomkesh Bakshy - the film is set in the Second World War torn Calcutta during the 1940s and follows the first adventure of Byomkesh Bakshy (Sushant Singh Rajput), a recent college graduate, as he pits himself against an evil genius who is out to destroy the world. Watch the mystery unfold and ‘Expect the Unexpected’.

Sinister (2012)

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Gone: 2022-03-01RT: 63/61 IMDB: 6.8 Revenue: 82.5M Budget: 3.0M chan: Prime
Directors: Scott Derrickson Genres: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, James Ransone
A true crime writer moves his family into a home where the previous occupants were brutally executed, hoping to find inspiration in the crime scene.

The Brothers (2001)

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Gone: 2022-03-01RT: 63/85 IMDB: 6.4 chan: Prime
Directors: Gary Hardwick Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Stars: Bill Bellamy, Morris Chestnut, Shemar Moore
Four African-American friends take a closer look at their personal lives when one of them announces plans to get married. A perceptive comedy-drama. with D.L. Hughley, Gabrielle Union.

Still of the Night (1982)

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Gone: RT: 63/49 IMDB: 6.1 Budget: 10.0M chan: Prime
Directors: Robert Benton Genres: Thriller, Drama
Stars: Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy
Roy Scheider and Meryl Streep star in a highly charged, Hitchcock- inspired murder mystery set among New York's chic world of high- rolling antique brokers. Co-stars Jessica Tandy.

Throw Momma from the Train (1987)

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Gone: RT: 63/54 IMDB: 6.3 Revenue: 57.9M Budget: 14.0M chan: Prime
Directors: DeVito,Danny Genres: Comedy, Crime
Stars: Billy Crystal, Danny DeVito, Anne Ramsey
A bitter professor who wants his ex-wife dead and one of his students with an over-bearing mother contemplate exchanging murders-but will they actually go through with it?...

My True Fairytale (2021)

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Gone: RT: 63/99 IMDB: 6.6 chan: Prime
Directors: D. Mitry Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Stars: Emma Kennedy, Darri Ingolfsson, Corin Nemec
Angie Goodwin, 17, along with her best friends, Sarah and Andre, go through a horrific car crash. While her friends miraculously survive, Angie disappears. She decides to fulfill her childhood fantasy and embarks on a mysterious journey.

6 Days (2017)

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Gone: RT: 63/46 IMDB: 6.2 Budget: 1.5M chan: Prime
Directors: Toa Fraser Genres: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Stars: Mark Strong, Abbie Cornish, Jamie Bell
Unfolding over six terrifying days, this film tells all sides of the incredible true story of six heavily-armed gunmen who invaded the Iranian Embassy in London, taking 26 people hostage. Negotiators, police, politicians and the highest military officials wrestle over the correct response, all observed by some of the world's first live TV news coverage.

I Heart Huckabees (2004)

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Gone: RT: 63/75 IMDB: 6.6 Budget: 22.0M chan: Prime
Directors: David Russell Genres: Comedy, Romance
Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Huppert; Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law
A frustrated young environmentalist who is being exploited by a corporate schemer hires a pair of "Existential Detectives" to investigate a peculiar ongoing coincidence that leads him to fall under the influence of their nihilistic competitor.

6 Days (2017)

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Gone: RT: 63/46 IMDB: 6.2 Budget: 1.5M chan: Prime
Directors: Toa Fraser Genres: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Stars: Mark Strong, Abbie Cornish, Jamie Bell
Unfolding over six terrifying days, this film tells all sides of the incredible true story of six heavily-armed gunmen who invaded the Iranian Embassy in London, taking 26 people hostage. Negotiators, police, politicians and the highest military officials wrestle over the correct response, all observed by some of the world's first live TV news coverage.

Radioactive (2020)

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Gone: RT: 63/41 IMDB: 6.3 Revenue: 3.5M chan: Prime
Directors: Marjane Satrapi Genres: Drama, Romance, History
Stars: Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley, Aneurin Barnard
Pioneer – Rebel – Genius | Don’t miss Rosamund Pike in the incredible, true-story of Marie Curie and her Nobel Prize-winning work that changed the world.

Knights of Badassdom (2014)

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Gone: RT: 63/37 IMDB: 5.6 chan: Prime
Directors: Joe Lynch Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy
Stars: Ryan Kwanten, Peter Dinklage, Steve Zahn
Live-action role players conjure up a demon from Hell by mistake and they must deal with the consequences.

Blackbird (2020)

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Gone: RT: 63 IMDB: 6.6 chan: Prime
Directors: Roger Mitchell Genres: Drama
Stars: Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslett, Mia Wasikowska
Lily (Susan Sarandon) summons her daughters Jennifer (Kate Winslet) and Anna (Mia Wasikowska) for one final family reunion as she looks to end her battle with a terminal illness. Amid the bittersweet farewell, unresolved feelings surface.

Molokai: The Story Of Father Damien (1999)

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Gone: RT: 63/76 IMDB: 6.9 chan: Prime
Directors: Paul Cox Genres: Drama
Stars: David Wenham, Sam Neill, Kris Kristofferson
The touching story of Father Damien, who went to the island of Molokai to minister to the lepers who had been exiled there.

The Curse of Buckout Road (2019)

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Gone: RT: 63 IMDB: 4.2 chan: Prime
Directors: Matthew Currie Holmes Genres: Horror
Stars: Evan Ross, Henry Czerny, Dominique Provost-Chalkley
A college class project on creation and destruction of modern myth, turns terrifying when a trio of young people come to realize the urban legends surrounding the famed Buckout Road may, in fact, be REAL.

Bachna Ae Haseeno (2008)

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Gone: RT: 63/56 IMDB: 6.1 Revenue: 9.6M Budget: 2.4M chan: Prime
Directors: Siddharth Anand Genres: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Stars: Ranbir Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Minissha Lamba
Bachna Ae Haseeno', is the story of a handsome young man, Raj (Ranbir Kapoor), who realises the value of love only after he encounters three women in his life. The commitment phobic Raj breaks up with Mahi and Radhika, before meeting Gayatri in Sydney, who changes his idea about true love, and turns him into a new man.

Bachna Ae Haseeno (2008)

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Gone: RT: 63/56 IMDB: 6.2 Revenue: 9.6M Budget: 2.4M chan: Prime
Directors: Siddharth Anand Genres: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Stars: Ranbir Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Minissha Lamba
"Meet Raj (Ranbir Kapoor),who keeps falling in love. It’s not his fault that he’s a heartbreaker. Come discover his three love stories; Raj & Mahi (Minissha Lamba), Raj & Radhika (Bipasha Basu), Raj & Gayatri (Deepika Padukone). Different ladyloves at different times in his life. And each of them, teach him a little bit about love & a little bit about life, in their own sweet, sexy or sassy way.

Kansas City (1996)

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Gone: RT: 63/43 IMDB: 6.4 Budget: 18.0M chan: Prime
Directors: Robert Altman Genres: Thriller, Drama, Music, Crime
Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Steve Buscemi, Miranda Richardson
Blondie O'Hara resorts to desperate measures when her low-level hood husband Johnny gets caught trying to steal from Seldom Seen, a local crime boss operating out of jazz haunt The Hey-Hey Club. Out on a limb, Blondie kidnaps laudanum-addled socialite Carolyn, hoping her influential politician husband can pull the right strings and get Johnny out of Seldom Seen's clutches.