Blackbird
A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.
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2014★ 6.5
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What Maisie Knew
2013★ 7.1
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Bang the Drum Slowly
1973★ 6.1
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2020★ 8.2
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2017★ 7.5
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2025★ 6.9
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TalhotBlond
2012★ 6.3
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
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2018★ 5.8
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2017★ 5.8
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1984★ 6.3
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.
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2015★ 7.1
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
Hello Sister, Goodbye Life
2006★ 6.1
A college student must take care of her 7-year-old half sister after the death of their parents.
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2009★ 6.4
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2019★ 6.1
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1991★ 6.2
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2015★ 6.8
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2020★ 6.7
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