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Film · 10 connectionsTaking a break from their dreary lives, close friends Thelma and Louise embark on a short weekend trip that ends in unforeseen incriminating circumstances. As fugitives, both women rediscover the strength of their bond and their newfound resilience.
Directed byRidley Scott
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2002 · 116 min · Adventure · Drama · Fantasy
An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
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1991 · 128 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
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1997 · 139 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance
A misanthropic author, a single mother and waitress, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.
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1993 · 97 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller
A young street hustler attempts to escape the rigors and temptations of the ghetto in a quest for a better life.
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Cozy, a dissatisfied housewife, meets Lee at a bar. A drink turns into a home break-in, and a gunshot sends them on the run together, thinking they've committed murder.
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1997 · 125 min · Crime · Drama · Romance · Thriller
When a desperate man’s car breaks down in a bizarre desert town while evading vengeful bookies, he becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle. Caught between a married couple, he’s faced with deadly contracts to kill them both.
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1998 · 169 min · Adventure · Drama · Romance
The mother of a severely traumatized daughter enlists the aid of a unique horse trainer to help the girl's equally injured horse.
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1995 · 93 min · Crime · Drama · Romance · Thriller
After a woman discovers her husband cheating on her, she decides to go on a road trip with her husband's mistress. While driving the two women pick up a hitchhiker, who may be on the run from the cops. With the police on their tail, the women inadvertently fall in with the criminal.
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1998 · 101 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller
In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go disastrously wrong, leading to dissent, violence, and murder.
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1995 · 115 min · Comedy · Drama
After breaking up with her girlfriend, a nightclub singer, Jane, answers a personal ad from Robin, a real estate agent with AIDS, seeking a cross-country travel partner. On their journey from New York City to Los Angeles, the two stop by Pittsburgh to pick up Jane's friend Holly, who is trying to escape an abusive relationship. With three distinct personalities, the women must overcome their differences to help one another.
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