Young Adam
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
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Intimacy
2001★ 6.2
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1982★ 6.6
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Sweet Sixteen
2002★ 7.0
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1996★ 6.5
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2001★ 5.9
A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service, where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
Convict
2014★ 6.5
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Original Sin
2001★ 6.1
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
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