Dolemite Is My Name
The story of Rudy Ray Moore, who created the iconic big screen pimp character Dolemite in the 1970s.
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1976★ 6.1
Dolemite comes to the rescue of Queen Bee, whose nightclub is threatened by the Mafia.
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1981★ 6.1
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The Dirt
2019★ 7.4
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Shampoo
1975★ 6.0
On Election Day, 1968, irresponsible hairdresser and ladies' man George Roundy is too busy cutting hair and dealing with his girlfriends and mistress Felicia Karpf, whose husband Lester is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend Jackie.
Goltzius & the Pelican Company
2012★ 6.1
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
1970★ 6.1
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1992★ 6.7
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The Long Riders
1980★ 6.7
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1990★ 6.0
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Choke
2008★ 6.1
A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother's hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death.
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1998★ 7.2
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Small Apartments
2012★ 5.8
When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved brother, and a crew of misfit characters force him on a journey where a fortune awaits him.
Nightwatching
2007★ 6.2
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night Watch.
Filth
2013★ 6.8
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from borderline personality disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way in a bid to secure promotion.
The Stanford Prison Experiment
2015★ 6.8
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2008★ 5.9
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2020★ 6.3
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Family Weekend
2013★ 6.3
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1969★ 6.3
After returning to Los Angeles from a group therapy session, documentary filmmaker Bob Sanders and his wife, Carol, find themselves becoming vigilante couples counselors, offering unsolicited advice to their best friends, Ted and Alice Henderson. Not wanting to be rude, the Hendersons play along, but some latent sexual tension among the four soon comes bubbling to the surface, and long-buried desires don't stay buried for long.
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