Laurel Canyon
When an uptight young man and his fiancée move into his libertine mother's house, the resulting clash of life attitudes shakes everyone up.
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2016★ 6.3
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If These Walls Could Talk 2
2000★ 6.5
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2003★ 6.0
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2016★ 7.3
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In contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.
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Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
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A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
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2013★ 6.4
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
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1968★ 6.0
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