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Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 658 ratings · 30 Jan 1987 · English · 1h 29m · Released
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.
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American Graffiti
Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 11 Aug 1973 · English
A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
Top Secret!
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Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.
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Bound for Glory
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A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the suffering and strength of America's working class.
My Dinner with Andre
Movie · 7.5 / 10 · 11 Oct 1981 · English
Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.
Lifeboat
Movie · 7.4 / 10 · 28 Jan 1944 · English
During World War II, a small group of survivors is stranded in a lifeboat together after the ship they were traveling on is destroyed by a German U-boat.
Big Wednesday
Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 26 May 1978 · English
Three 1960s California surfers fool around, drift apart and reunite years later to ride epic waves.
Blue Moon
Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 17 Oct 2025 · English
On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator, Richard Rodgers, celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical, “Oklahoma!”
The Vast of Night
Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 1 Jun 2019 · English
At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.
Beaches
Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 21 Dec 1988 · English
A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.
Last Vegas
Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 31 Oct 2013 · English
Aging pals Billy, Paddy, Archie, and Sam have been best friends since childhood. When Billy finally proposes to his much-younger girlfriend, all four friends go to Las Vegas to celebrate the end of Billy's longtime bachelorhood and relive their glory days. However, the four quickly realize that the intervening decades have changed Sin City and tested their friendship in ways they had not imagined.
Genius
Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 10 Jun 2016 · English
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.