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Imitation of Life (1934)

Imitation of Life (1934)

7.5/10 Drama

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter; the two women start a successful business, but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.

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Stella Dallas (1937)

Stella Dallas (1937)

7.4/10 Drama

A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.

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Susan Slade (1961)

Susan Slade (1961)

6.4/10 Drama

Premarital sex, secrets, and society. At 17, shy Susan Slade is on her way to California after a ten-year stay at a remote Chilean mine where her father was chief engineer. Onboard ship, she's romanced by Conn White, a handsome mountain climber on his way to Alaska. Home in Monterey, Susan longs to hear from Conn. Two locals also take a shine to her - Hoyt Brecker, a ...Read all

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The Old Maid (1939)

The Old Maid (1939)

7.6/10 Drama

The arrival of an ex-lover on a young woman's wedding day sets in motion a chain of events which will alter her and her cousin's lives forever.

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Primrose Path (1940)

Primrose Path (1940)

6.9/10 Comedy, Drama

A young woman from a family of prostitutes falls in love with a hard-working man, but when he finds out the truth about her background, their romance becomes jeopardized.

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The Member of the Wedding (1952)

The Member of the Wedding (1952)

6.9/10 Drama, Comedy

A boy steals a powerful magnet from a younger boy and gets him into all sorts of trouble.

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An Impossible Love (2018)

An Impossible Love (2018)

10.0/10 Drama

A chronicle of the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, from 1958 to the present day, which is endangered by an unsteady and manipulative father.

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I Loved a Woman (1933)

I Loved a Woman (1933)

6.0/10 Drama

Art student John Hayden interrupts his studies in Greece to head his father's meat packing business on his father's death. He marries social climber Martha who taunts him for his ideals regarding worker happiness and meat purity. He begins supporting the musical career of singer Laura. During the Spanish American war he sells the Army tainted meat. Martha puts detecti...Read all

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Dodsworth (1936)

Dodsworth (1936)

7.8/10 Drama

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

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All This and Heaven Too (1940)

All This and Heaven Too (1940)

7.5/10 Drama

A duchess' irrational behavior toward the governess of her children triggers tragic events that will change her family's lives forever.

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A Tale of Two Cities (1958)

A Tale of Two Cities (1958)

7.1/10 Drama, History

During the turbulent days of the French Revolution, Frenchwoman Lucie Manette falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay, who's hiding his true identity and purpose.

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The Rose Tattoo (1955)

The Rose Tattoo (1955)

7.0/10 Drama

A Sicilian seamstress who idolizes her husband must deal with several family crises upon his sudden death.

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The Sisters (1938)

The Sisters (1938)

6.9/10 Drama

Three daughters of a small town pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.

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Take a Giant Step (1959)

Take a Giant Step (1959)

6.9/10 Drama

A black high school senior struggles with becoming a man, and living in a middle class white neighborhood in the late 1950s U.S. In protest of the paternalistic views of the Civil War emphasized in his history class, he storms out and gets caught smoking a cigar in the boys' room. Spence's crush on a white classmate goes nowhere because of her father's attitude toward...Read all

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Back Street (1941)

Back Street (1941)

6.8/10 Drama

Five years after meeting and falling in love with a banker, a willful shop girl decides to become his mistress upon learning he has since gotten married and had a son.

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That Certain Woman (1937)

That Certain Woman (1937)

6.7/10 Drama

Mary Donnell, a young legal secretary with a past, elopes with a client's son, but his father has the marriage annulled without knowing she's pregnant.

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Fanny (1932)

Fanny (1932)

10.0/10 Drama

Marius (Pierre Fresnay) goes to sea, pregnant Fanny (Orane Demazis) marries, and Cesar (Raimu) is a godfather in part two of the Marseille trilogy.

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The Best of Everything (1959)

The Best of Everything (1959)

6.6/10 Drama

An expose of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher ups.

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