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428

7.4

7.6

Wuthering Heights (1939)

Rex Downing as Heathcliff (as a child)

As a boy, Heathcliff is found on the streets by Mr. Earnshaw, who brings him home to live with his two children, Cathy and Hindley. At first reluctant, Cathy eventually welcomes Heathcliff and they become very close, but Hindley treats him as an outcast, especially after Mr. Earnshaw dies. About ten years later, the now grown Heathcliff and Cathy have fallen in love and are meeting secretly on Penniston's Crag. Hindley has become dissolute and tyrannical, and hates Heathcliff. One night, as she and Heathcliff are out together, they hear music and realize that their neighbors, the Lintons, are giving a party. Cathy and Heathcliff sneak to the Lintons and climb over their garden wall, but the dogs are alerted and Cathy is injured. Heathcliff is forced to leave Cathy in their care. Enraged that Cathy would be so entranced by the Linton's glamor and wealth, he blames them for her injury and curses them.

Months later, Cathy is fully recuperated but still living at the Lintons. Edgar Linton has fallen in love with Cathy and soon proposes and after Edgar takes her back to Wuthering Heights, tells Ellen what has happened. Ellen reminds her about Heathcliff, but Cathy flippantly remarks that it would degrade her to marry him. Heathcliff overhears and leaves. Cathy realizes that Heathcliff has overheard, is overcome by guilt and runs out after him into a raging storm. Edgar finds her and nurses her back to health once again, and soon the two marry. (Wikipedia)

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7.2

7.1

Penny Serenade (1941)

Cary Grant and Irene Dunne

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6.6

7.1

3 Godfathers (1949)

John Wayne

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7.7

7.9

Auntie Mame

Jan Handzlik and Rosalind Russell

Patrick Dennis (Jan Handzlik), orphaned in 1928 when his father unexpectedly dies, is placed in the care of Mame Dennis (Rosalind Russell), his father's sister in Manhattan. Mame is a flamboyant and exuberant woman, who hosts frequent parties with eclectic, bohemian guests. Patrick is quickly introduced to his aunt's free-spirited and eccentric friends, including Vera Charles (Coral Browne), a Broadway actress, who spends many of her nights passed out drunk in Mame's guest room, Acacius Page (Henry Brandon), who runs a nudist school, and Lindsay Woolsey (Patric Knowles), a book publisher. (Wikipedia)

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928

7.6

7.9

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

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1914

7.3

Superman (1978)

Phyllis Thaxter and Glenn Ford

Aaron Smolinski

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329

5.8

6.3

Damien: Omen II (1978)

Lee Grant, William Holden and Jonathan Scott-Taylor

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196

5.7

6.3

Baby Boom (1987)

Diane Keaton

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538

5.4

Problem Child (1990)

Amy Yasbeck and John Ritter

Michael Oliver

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1545

7.3

7.7

The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

Daniel Day-Lewis

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109

7.2

7.1

Indochine (1992)

Linh Dan Pham and Catherine Deneuve

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2367

6.4

6.9

Matilda

Embeth Davidtz and Mara Wilson

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152

6.6

6.7

Flirting with Disaster

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462

7.9

Secrets & Lies

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Hortense Cumberbatch (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a successful black middle class optometrist in London who was adopted as a child, has chosen to trace her family history after the death of her adoptive mother. After being warned by public officials about the troubles she could face by tracking her birth mother down, she continues her investigation and is baffled to learn that her birth mother is white; she does not resent this fact and wants to know more about her mother's past. (Wikipedia)

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785

6.8

7.4

The Cider House Rules (2000)

Skye McCole Bartusiak

Homer Wells (Tobey Maguire), an orphan, grows up in a Maine orphanage directed by kindly, avuncular Dr. Wilbur Larch (Michael Caine). Homer is returned twice by foster parents; his first foster parents thought he was too quiet and the second parents beat him. Dr. Larch is addicted to ether and also secretly performs abortions for women. Conditions at the orphanage are spartan, but the children are treated with love and respect, and they are like an extended family. Each night before they go to sleep, Dr. Larch says to the boys, "Goodnight you Princes of Maine, you Kings of New England", as both encouragement and a kind of blessing. (Wikipedia)

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615

5.3

5.8

The Glass House (2001)

Trevor Morgan, Stellan Skarsgård, Diane Lane and Leelee Sobieski

Sixteen-year-old Ruby Baker (Leelee Sobieski) and her eleven-year-old brother Rhett (Trevor Morgan) lose their parents, Dave and Grace, in a car accident. Their parents' will is not a recent one but, in accordance with its terms, the children are placed under the guardianship of family neighbors from some years back, the childless couple Erin Glass (Diane Lane) and Terry Glass (Stellan Skarsgård), who live in a large glass house in Malibu. (Wikipedia)

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