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Directed by Robert Michael LewisOrigin USAGenres DramaActors George Peppard,
Barnard Hughes,
William Dozier,
William Windom,
Nina, Baroness van Pallandt,
Claudette NevinsRating76%
It is a history of the Sam Sheppard (George Peppard), an Ohio doctor wrongly accused of murdering his wife, despite his good defense at trial, Sam is unjustly convicted of murdering his wife, 2h3
Directed by Mimi LederOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
RomanceThemes Films about alcoholism,
Films about education,
Medical-themed films,
Films about drugsActors Kevin Spacey,
Helen Hunt,
Haley Joel Osment,
Jay Mohr,
Jim Caviezel,
Jon Bon JoviRating72%
When Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) begins seventh grade in Las Vegas, Nevada, his social studies teacher Eugene Simonet (Kevin Spacey) gives the class an assignment to devise and put into action a plan that will change the world for the better. Trevor's plan is a charitable program based on the networking of good deeds. He calls his plan "Pay It Forward", which means the recipient of a favor does a favor for three others rather than paying the favor back. However, it needs to be a major favor that the recipient cannot complete themselves., 1h45
Directed by Betty ThomasOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
RomanceThemes Films about alcoholism,
Medical-themed films,
Films about drugsActors Sandra Bullock,
Viggo Mortensen,
Dominic West,
Elizabeth Perkins,
Diane Ladd,
Steve BuscemiRating60%
Gwen Cummings (Sandra Bullock) spends her nights in a drunken haze with her boyfriend, Jasper (Dominic West). She ruins her sister (Elizabeth Perkins) Lily's wedding by showing up late and disheveled, delivering a drunken, rambling speech, and knocking over the wedding cake. Intoxicated, Gwen steals a limousine from the reception, tries to locate a cake store, and winds up losing control of the car and crashing into a house. She is given a choice between 28 days in jail or in a rehab center, and she chooses rehab. , 1h39
Origin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
Comedy,
Documentary,
CrimeThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about music and musicians,
Films about drugs,
Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
Musical films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Macaulay Culkin,
Seth Green,
Chloë Sevigny,
Wilmer Valderrama,
Diana Scarwid,
Dylan McDermottRating61%
Based on the book Disco Bloodbath, by James St. James, the film opens with Michael Alig as a small-town outcast who lived with his mom before moving to New York. Michael learns the New York party scene from James St. James, who teaches him the "rules of fabulousness", which mostly revolve around attracting as much attention to oneself as possible., 2h3
Directed by Robert AltmanOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Richard Gere,
Helen Hunt,
Farrah Fawcett,
Laura Dern,
Shelley Long,
Kate HudsonRating47%
Dr. Sullivan Travis (aka "Dr. T.") (Richard Gere) is a wealthy Dallas gynecologist for some of the wealthiest women in Texas who finds his life beginning to fall apart starting when his wife, Kate (Farrah Fawcett), suffers a nervous breakdown and is committed to the state mental hospital. Dr. T's eldest daughter, Dee Dee (Kate Hudson), is planning to go through with her approaching wedding despite the secret that she is romantically involved with Marilyn (Liv Tyler), the maid of honor. Dr. T's youngest daughter, Connie (Tara Reid), is a spunky conspiracy theorist who has her own agenda, while Dr. T's loyal secretary, Carolyn (Shelley Long), has romantic feelings for him, which are not mutual. Dr. T's sister-in-law, Peggy (Laura Dern), meddles in every situation she stumbles into, while one woman, Bree (Helen Hunt), a golf instructor, offers him comfort., 1h48
Directed by Jonathan KaplanOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Comedy,
Comedy-drama,
Action,
Comic science fictionThemes Films about animals,
Environmental films,
Medical-themed films,
Comedy science fiction films,
Films about apes,
Films about disabilities,
Political films,
Sign-language films,
American Sign Language films,
Films about language and translationActors Matthew Broderick,
Helen Hunt,
William Sadler,
Stephen Lang,
Jonathan Stark,
Jean SmartRating62%
The film begins with graduate student Teri MacDonald (Helen Hunt) and her work training a chimpanzee named Virgil to use American Sign Language. When her research grant is not renewed, Virgil is taken away. Teri is told that Virgil will be sent to a zoo. Instead, he is taken to an Air Force base to be used in a top-secret research project involving platforms designed to simulate the operation of aircraft. , 1h35
Directed by Ben LewinOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
Comedy,
RomanceThemes Films about writers,
Medical-themed films,
Films about sexuality,
Erotic films,
Films about disabilities,
Films about virginityActors John Hawkes,
Helen Hunt,
William H. Macy,
Moon Bloodgood,
Adam Arkin,
W. Earl BrownRating71%
In Berkeley, California in 1988, Mark O'Brien is a poet who is forced to live in an iron lung due to complications from polio. Due to his condition, he has never had sex. After unsuccessfully proposing to his caretaker Amanda, and sensing he may be near death, he decides he wants to lose his virginity. After consulting his priest, Father Brendan, he gets in touch with Cheryl Cohen-Greene, a professional sex surrogate. She tells him they will have no more than six sessions together. They begin their sessions, but soon it is clear that they are developing romantic feelings for each other. Cheryl's husband, who loves her deeply, fights to suppress his jealousy, at first withholding a love poem that Mark has sent by mail to Cheryl, which she eventually finds. After several attempts, Mark and Cheryl are able to have mutually satisfying sex, but decide to cut the sessions short on account of their burgeoning feelings.