The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)

A 110-year-old former Louisiana slave (Cicely Tyson) reminisces about her life and society from the Civil War to germinating civil rights.

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The Ogre (1996)

A simple Parisian's (John Malkovich) love of children involves him in a Nazi scheme to kidnap boys and train them as SS troops during World War II.

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The Brothers McMullen (1995)

Three Irish-American brothers (Jack Mulcahy, Mike McGlone, Edward Burns) ponder women and one another while living together on Long Island.

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Black Friday (2004)

In March 1993, Islamic militants execute a series of devastating bomb blasts that rocks Mumbai, India, and kills more than 300 people.

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The Red Tent (1971)

Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (Sean Connery) leads a 1928 North Pole air search for Italian explorer Umberto Nobile (Peter Finch).

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The Cheat (1915)

After a wealthy man (Sessue Hayakawa) brands a woman (Fannie Ward) for revoking their loan agreement, she shoots him, and her husband (Jack Dean) takes the blame in court.

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Son of a Lion (2007)

A Pakistani boy tests weapons but wishes to go to school.

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Antarctica (1984)

During an expedition to Antarctica, a blizzard forces explorers to abandon 15 sled dogs in the frozen wasteland.

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Walking Across Egypt (1999)

An elderly Southern widow, Mattie Rigsbee (Ellen Burstyn), begrudgingly starts to acknowledge that she can't live on her own. When Mattie becomes friends with the town dogcatcher, Lamar Benfield (Mark Hamill), she is also introduced to his orphaned nephew, Wesley (Jonathan Taylor Thomas). Although Wesley has been in trouble with the law and incarcerated for auto theft, Mattie sees potential in the boy and tries to point him in the right direction by allowing him to live with her.

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The Clay Bird (2002)

In East Pakistan a strict Muslim (Jayanto Chattopadhyay) enrolls his young son (Nurul Islam Bablu) in an Islamic school, where the boy befriends the class outcast (Russell Farazi).

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