Movies By highest critic rating on Prime

Burning (2021)

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Gone: RT: 94/67 IMDB: nan chan: Prime
Directors: EVA ORNER Genres: Documentary
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In Burning, Academy® & Emmy-award winning Australian filmmaker Eva Orner takes an unflinching look at the unprecedented, catastrophic Australian bushfires of 2019-2020 and shines a light on the global issue of climate change. The documentary delves into the disaster that unfolded across Australia, analyzing the irreversible damage, and the roles played by the federal government and media.

The Pride of The Yankees (1943)

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Gone: RT: 94/89 IMDB: 7.7 chan: Prime
Directors: Sam Wood Genres: Drama, Family
Stars: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth
The story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig.

Penny Serenade (1941)

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Gone: RT: 94/75 IMDB: 7.1 chan: Prime
Directors: George Stevens Genres: Romance, Drama
Stars: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan
Grant and Dunne adopt a baby after their unborn baby dies. Dunne contemplates divorce, recollecting the joys and griefs she has shared with her husband.

The Deeper You Dig (2020)

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Gone: RT: 94/57 IMDB: 5.6 chan: Prime
Directors: John Adams Genres: Horror, Drama
Stars: John Adams, Toby Poser, Zelda Adams
Bogus tarot card reader Ivy and her teenage daughter Echo are an unconventional but loving team. But when reclusive Kurt moves in down the road, a tragic accident results in Echo's murder, causing three lives to collide in mysterious and wicked ways. Kurt believes he can hide his secret beneath the earth but Echo, refusing to accept death, burrows into his head until he can feel her in his bones.

Penny Serenade (1941)

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Gone: RT: 94/75 IMDB: 7.1 chan: Prime
Directors: George Stevens Genres: Romance, Drama
Stars: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi
A couple's big dreams give way to a life full of unexpected sadness and unexpected joy.

A Farewell To Arms (1932)

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Gone: RT: 94/53 IMDB: 6.5 chan: Prime
Directors: Frank Borzage Genres: Drama, Romance, War
Stars: Helen Hayes, Gary Cooper, Adolphe Menjou
A tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Henry and Nurse Catherine Barkley during World War I. The action takes place in Italy and the two fall in love during the war and will stop at nothing to be together. The film also analyses Lt. Henry's feelings on war and the purpose of fighting.

Ulee's Gold (1997)

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Gone: RT: 94/75 IMDB: 7.0 chan: Prime
Directors: Victor Nunez Genres: Drama
Stars: Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson, Christine Dunford
When his family and livelihood are threatened by a long-buried secret, Vietnam vet and third-generation beekeeper Ulee Jackson (Peter Fonda) must confront his past, break through his emotional walls and find the strength to change.

Last Resort (2002)

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Gone: RT: 94/85 IMDB: 7.2 chan: Prime
Directors: Pawel Pawlikowski Genres: Romance, Drama
Stars: Dina Korzun, Paddy Considine, Artyom Strelnikov
Tanya, young and naïve, leaves Moscow with her street-wise 10-year-old son Artiom to meet her English fiancé. But after he fails to turn up at the airport, Tanya and her son find themselves virtually imprisoned in a dead-end seaside resort where all refugees are forced to live. Desperate to escape their nightmarish world, Tanya forges an unusual alliance with amusement arcade manager Alfie.

The Dead Center (2019)

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Gone: RT: 94/46 IMDB: 5.8 chan: Prime
Directors: Billy Senese Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Stars: Shane Carruth, Poorna Jagannathan, Jeremy Childs
As a very dead suicide victim (Jeremy Childs, 'Preacher') disappears from the morgue, troubled psychiatrist Daniel Forrester (Shane Carruth, 'Primer') is drawn to help a mysterious catatonic patient in the emergency psych ward, where a spate of mysterious deaths occur. As Forester investigates further, a desperate race begins against the forces of evil that threaten to swallow him whole.

Invisible Life (2019)

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Gone: RT: 94/89 IMDB: 7.8 chan: Prime
Directors: Karim Ainouz Genres: Drama
Stars: Julia Stockler, Carol Duarte, Flavia Gusmao
Set in 1950s Rio de Janeiro, the film revolves around two sisters, living restricted lives with their conservative parents. However, each nourishes a passionate dream: Eurídice of becoming a renowned pianist; Guida of finding love. In a dramatic turn of events, they are separated and forced to live apart. They take control of their destinies, while never giving up hope of finding one another.

Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway (2020)

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Gone: RT: 94/80 IMDB: 5.7 chan: Prime
Directors: Miguel Llansó Genres: Science Fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Action
Stars: Daniel Tadesse, Guillermo Llansó, Agustín Mateo
The year is 2035, and Special Agent Gagano dreams of leaving the CIA. Before he can hand in his resignation, a cyber virus attacks Psychobook, the CIA's operating system, forcing him to enter cyberspace to combat the threat. Before long the virus starts to reach out into the real world, destabilising the socio-political order, and Gagano must find a way out of the VR world before it's too late.

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel (2012)

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Gone: RT: 94/79 IMDB: 7.6 chan: Prime
Directors: Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, Frédéric Tcheng Genres: Documentary
Stars: Diana Vreeland, Lauren Bacall, Diana Von Furstenberg
A look at the life and work of the influential fashion editor of Harpers Bazaar, Diana Vreeland.

Faith Based (2020)

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Gone: RT: 94/61 IMDB: 5.4 chan: Prime
Directors: Vincent Masciale Genres: Comedy
Stars: Luke Barnett, Tanner Thomason, Margaret Cho
When two friends come to realize that every low budget Christian movie starring 90's TV actors makes millions of dollars, they set out on a mission to make "A Prayer in Space", the story of the first prayer ever to be prayed... in space.

The Deeper You Dig (2020)

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Gone: RT: 94/57 IMDB: 5.6 chan: Prime
Directors: Toby Poser, John Adams Genres: Horror, Drama
Stars: John Adams, Toby Poser, Zelda Adams
When a girl is senselessly murdered, she proves that love won't stay buried.

Newton (2017)

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Gone: RT: 94/82 IMDB: 7.7 chan: Prime
Directors: Amit V Masurkar Genres: Comedy, Drama
Stars: Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Anjali Patil
As India, the world’s largest democracy, braces itself for another general election - with 9 million polling booths, more than 800 million voters, and costing nearly $5 billion -- Newton Kumar, a rookie government clerk finds himself entrusted with a task that appears deceptively simple: conducting elections in a remote village in the jungles of central India.

Drug War (2013)

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Gone: RT: 94/77 IMDB: 7.0 chan: Prime
Directors: Johnnie To Genres: Action, Drama, Crime
Stars: Louis Koo, Hanglei Sun, Wallace Chung
Manufacturing just 50 grams of meth in China will earn you a death sentence. Timmy Choi just got caught making tons. Now he's in the custody of Captain Zhang, and has one chance to avoid execution - turn informant and help the cops bring down the powerful cartel he's been cooking for.

Swallows & Amazons (2017)

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Gone: RT: 94/62 IMDB: 6.2 chan: Prime
Directors: Philippa Lowthorpe Genres: Adventure, Family
Stars: Rafe Spall, Andrew Scott, Kelly Macdonald
Four children (The Swallows) go on a sailing adventure to an island where they encounter a rival group of kids (The Amazons). Rivalry quickly turns to comradery when pirates threaten all they hold dear.

Newton (2017)

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Gone: RT: 94/82 IMDB: 7.7 chan: Prime
Directors: Amit V Masurkar Genres: Comedy, Drama
Stars: Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Anjali Patil
As India, the world’s largest democracy, braces itself for another general election - with 9 million polling booths, more than 800 million voters, and costing nearly $5 billion -- Newton Kumar, a rookie government clerk finds himself entrusted with a task that appears deceptively simple: conducting elections in a remote village in the jungles of central India.

Acute Misfortune (2018)

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Gone: RT: 94/83 IMDB: 6.6 chan: Prime
Directors: Thomas M. Wright Genres: Drama
Stars: Daniel Henshall, Toby Wallace, Gillian Jones
The Film adaptation of Erik Jensen's award-winning biography of Adam Cullen is the story of the biographer and his subject, as it descends into a dependent and abusive relationship.

Shot! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock (2017)

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Gone: RT: 94/45 IMDB: 6.8 chan: Prime
Directors: Barnaby Clay Genres: Documentary, Music
Stars: Mick Rock
Shot! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock delves into the mind of rock’s greatest living photographer who captured the likes of David Bowie, Queen, Blondie, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and Lady Gaga in their most iconic poses.

Heathers (1989)

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Gone: RT: 93/83 IMDB: 7.2 Revenue: 1.1M Budget: 3.0M chan: Prime
Directors: Michael Lehmann Genres: Comedy, Crime
Stars: Winona Ryder, Christian Slater
Winona Ryder, Christian Slater and Shannen Doherty star in this cruelly hilarious dark comedy. which became one of the biggest cult classics of the 80.

The Fly (1986)

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Gone: RT: 93/83 IMDB: 7.6 Revenue: 60.6M Budget: 15.0M chan: Prime
Directors: David Cronenberg Genres: Horror, Science Fiction
Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz
In a remake of the 1958 cult classic, a young scientist transforms himself into a fly in an experiment gone horribly wrong.

Dillinger (1973)

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Gone: RT: 93/74 IMDB: 7.0 Revenue: 2.0M Budget: 1.0M chan: Prime
Directors: John Milius Genres: Action, Crime, Drama
Stars: Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips
True-life story of gangster John Dillinger. His violent life of crime made headline news in the thirties, an he robbed banks across the midwest. A folk hero of sorts, dillinger was caught in a whirl of machine guns, fast cars and beautiful women. But it came to a bloody end in 1934 when the FBI gunned him down.

Val (2021)

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Gone: RT: 93/90 IMDB: 7.7 chan: Prime
Directors: Leo Scott, Ting Poo Genres: Documentary
Stars: Val Kilmer
Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial actors has been documenting his life and craft through film. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster films like Top Gun & Batman. This raw and wildly original documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled look at what it means to be an artist.

Herself (2021)

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Gone: RT: 93/83 IMDB: 7.0 chan: Prime
Directors: Phyllida Lloyd Genres: Drama
Stars: Clare Dunne, Harriet Walter, Conleth Hill
Single-mother Sandra (Clare Dunne) escapes her abusive partner with her two young children, only to find herself trapped in temporary accommodation. After months of struggling, she decides to self-build an affordable home, but rebuilding a life from the ground up cannot be done alone.

Inherit the Wind (1960)

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Gone: RT: 93/91 IMDB: 8.1 chan: Prime
Directors: Stanley Kramer Genres: Drama, History
Stars: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly
Spencer Tracy and Frederic March go head-to-head as opposing attorneys in this blistering courtroom drama about the famed "Scopes Monkey Trial" where a Tennessee teacher must defend himself for teaching Darwinism.

Funny Girl 4K [Ultra HD] (1968)

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Gone: RT: 93/85 IMDB: 7.4 Revenue: 52.2M Budget: 14.0M chan: Prime
Directors: William Wyler, Herbert Ross Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Stars: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford
Barbra Streisand's debut film won her the Academy Award(r) for her performance as singer-comediene, Fanny Brice. Nominated for seven other awards, this classic musical film contrasts Fanny's onstage antics with her offstage romance with dashing gambler, Nicky Arnstein (Omar Shariff).

I'll See You in My Dreams (2015)

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Gone: RT: 93/68 IMDB: 6.7 Revenue: 7.4M chan: Prime
Directors: Brett Haley Genres: Drama, Comedy
Stars: Blythe Danner, Martin Starr, June Squibb
When Carol (Blythe Danner) seeks out new experiences with the help of friends (June Squibb, Rhea Perlman and Mary Kay Place), she unexpectedly finds romance (Sam Elliot).

Sylvie's Love (2020)

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Gone: RT: 93/76 IMDB: 6.8 chan: Prime
Directors: Eugene Ashe Genres: Drama, Romance
Stars: Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha, Eva Longoria
When a young woman meets an aspiring saxophonist in her father’s record shop in 1950s Harlem, their love ignites a sweeping romance that transcends changing times, geography, and professional success.

The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)

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Gone: RT: 93/75 IMDB: 7.0 chan: Prime
Directors: Gessner,Nicholas Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Stars: Jodie Foster, Mort Shuman, Martin Sheen
Rynn is a 13 year-old girl living alone in a big house in a small town who will stop at nothing to maintain her secrets and independence from prying adults intent at getting to the truth.

Trilogy of Terror (1975)

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Gone: RT: 93/56 IMDB: 6.6 chan: Prime
Directors: Dan Curtis Genres: Horror, Thriller, TV Movie
Stars: Karen Black, Robert Burton, John Karlen
Three bizarre horror stories all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing tormented women. Written by Richard Matheson (The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, The Outer Limits, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour et al.).

Wargames (1983)

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Gone: RT: 93/76 IMDB: 7.1 Revenue: 79.6M Budget: 12.0M chan: Prime
Directors: John Badham Genres: Action
Stars: Matthew Broderick, Ally Sheedy, Barry Corbin
A young computer whiz kid accidentally connects into a top-secret super-computer, which has complete control over the U.S. nuclear arsenal. It challenges him to a game between America and Russia, and he innocently starts the countdown to World War 3. Now the kid has to convince the computer he wanted to play a game and not the real thing.

The Bear (1988)

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Gone: RT: 93/82 IMDB: 7.7 Revenue: 138.2M Budget: 25.0M chan: Prime
Directors: Jean-Jacques Annaud Genres: Adventure, Drama, Family
Stars: Bart the Bear
Set in 19th-century British Columbia, The Bear follows the story of a young cub and an adult grizzly as they join forces to survive the perils inherent in their mountain habitat. With each passing obstacle, the two bears further develop a friendship that can only make them stronger - but will it be enough for them to overcome their most deadly enemy?

Hotel Coolgardie (2017)

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Gone: RT: 93/91 IMDB: nan chan: Prime
Directors: Pete Gleeson Genres: Documentary
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In remotest red-dust Australia is the sleepy mining town of Coolgardie. When two Finnish girls take jobs in the town's pub, they find themselves in a trial of endurance, and soon realise that pouring pints is the least of their work. Amusing, disturbing, and thoroughly bizarre, this candid documentary reveals the struggles of adapting to life in an insular community.

Things To Come (1936)

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Gone: RT: 93/55 IMDB: 6.7 chan: Prime
Directors: William Cameron Menzies Genres: Drama, Science Fiction
Stars: Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.

Sayonara (1957)

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Gone: RT: 93/79 IMDB: 7.1 chan: Prime
Directors: Logan,Joshua Genres: Drama, Romance
Stars: Marlon Brando, Patricia Owens, James Garner
An American jet ace has a poignant affair with the star performer of a famed Japanese acting company.

The Hitch-Hiker (1953)

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Gone: RT: 93/61 IMDB: 7.4 chan: Prime
Directors: Ida Lupino Genres: Crime, Thriller
Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
Two fishermen pick up a psychotic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.

The Naked Kiss (1964)

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Gone: RT: 93/80 IMDB: 7.3 Budget: 0.2M chan: Prime
Directors: Samuel Fuller Genres: Crime, Drama
Stars: Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante
Kelly's path towards happiness is thrown amiss when she witnesses a shocking event, which threatens not just her happiness, but her mental health as well.

Giant Little Ones (2019)

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Gone: RT: 93/84 IMDB: 7.2 chan: Prime
Directors: Keith Behrman Genres: Drama
Stars: Josh Wiggins, Darren Mann, Taylor Hickson
Franky Winter (Josh Wiggins) and Ballas Kohl (Darren Mann) have been best friends since childhood. They are high school royalty: handsome, stars of the swim team and popular with girls. They live a perfect teenage life - until the night of Franky's epic 17th birthday party, when Franky and Ballas are involved in an unexpected incident that changes their lives forever.

My Name is Pauli Murray (2021)

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Gone: RT: 93/88 IMDB: 6.6 chan: Prime
Directors: Julie Cohen, Betsy West Genres: Documentary
Stars: Pauli Murray, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Patricia Bell-Scott
Overlooked by history, Pauli Murray was a legal trailblazer whose ideas influenced RBG’s fight for gender equality and Thurgood Marshall’s civil rights arguments. This is a portrait of their impact as a non-binary Black luminary: lawyer, activist, poet, and priest who transformed our world.

Wildlike (2014)

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Gone: RT: 93/77 IMDB: 6.6 chan: Prime
Directors: Frank Hall Green Genres: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Stars: Bruce Greenwood, Ella Purnell, Brian Geraghty
An unlikely friendship forms in the spectacular Alaskan wilderness, giving a runaway girl hope and sanctuary in America's last frontier.

Thappad (4K UHD) (2020)

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Gone: RT: 93/72 IMDB: 6.8 chan: Prime
Directors: Anubhav Sushila Sinha Genres: Drama
Stars: Gracy Bitin Goswami, Manju Gupta, Sandeep Yadav
Thappad is a story of Amrita whose seemingly perfect life is shattered when her husband slaps her once in a party. But is one slap enough to question what a relationship stands for?

Only The Animals (2021)

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Gone: RT: 93/77 IMDB: 7.0 Revenue: 0.9M Budget: 5.0M chan: Prime
Directors: Dominik Moll Genres: Drama, Crime
Stars: Denis Ménochet, Laure Calamy
Following a snowstorm, a car is found on the road leading to a few remote farms. The driver is missing. The police have no leads, but there are five people who know that they are linked to this disappearance. All five have their own secrets, but can't begin to suspect that this mystery began far from the wind-swept mountains of their home, on another continent altogether.

Pass Over (2018)

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Gone: RT: 93/60 IMDB: 5.8 chan: Prime
Directors: Spike Lee Genres: Drama
Stars: Jon Michael Hill, Julian Parker, Ryan Hallahan
Academy Award nominee and Honorary Oscar winning Spike Lee captures the poetry, humor and humanity of this urgent and timely play about two young black men talking shit, passing the time, and dreaming of the promised land. A provocative riff on Waiting for Godot, PASS OVER by newcomer Antoinette Nwandu.

Thappad (2020)

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Gone: RT: 93/72 IMDB: 6.8 chan: Prime
Directors: Anubhav Sushila Sinha Genres: Drama
Stars: Gracy Bitin Goswami, Manju Gupta, Sandeep Yadav
Thappad is a story of Amrita whose seemingly perfect life is shattered when her husband slaps her once in a party. But is one slap enough to question what a relationship stands for?

Saturday Church (2018)

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Gone: RT: 93/73 IMDB: 5.7 chan: Prime
Directors: Damon Cardasis Genres: Romance, Drama, Music, Fantasy
Stars: Luka Kain, Indya Moore, Mj Rodriguez
A 14 year old boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process. Festival Favorite of Tribeca 2017

A Death in the Gunj (2017)

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Gone: RT: 93/80 IMDB: 7.5 chan: Prime
Directors: Konkona Sensharma Genres: Drama, Thriller
Stars: Vikrant Massey, Ranvir Shorey, Kalki Koechlin
Set in 1979, A Death in the Gunj is a coming of age story, about a shy student Shutu who uses a family trip to escape from his failed semester. Shutus' quiet unraveling is overlooked by his family until the holiday ends with an implosion.

Saturday Church (2018)

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Gone: RT: 93/73 IMDB: 5.7 chan: Prime
Directors: Damon Cardasis Genres: Romance, Drama, Music, Fantasy
Stars: Luka Kain, Margot Bingham, Regina Taylor
A 14 year old boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process.

Hang 'Em High (1968)

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Gone: RT: 92/73 IMDB: 7.0 Revenue: 6.8M Budget: 1.8M chan: Prime
Directors: Ted Post Genres: Western
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper
Clint Eastwood makes his western movie debut starring in this brazen tale about a rampaging band of vigilantes who make two mistakes: they hang the wrong man and they don't finish the job.

Lilies of the Field (1963)

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Gone: RT: 92/86 IMDB: 7.6 chan: Prime
Directors: Ralph Nelson Genres: Comedy, Drama
Stars: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann
Sidney Poitier won the Best Actor Oscar as a warm, sensitive handyman who, while stranded in an Arizona desert town, builds a chapel for a lively group of nuns (including Lilia Skala).