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1960s Movies

Bye Bye Braverman (1968)

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When idealistic minor author Leslie Braverman dies suddenly from a heart attack at the age of 41, his four best friends decide to attend his funeral. The quartet of Jewish intellectuals drawn from the four corners of Manhattan consists of public relations writer Morroe Rieff from the Upper East Side, poet Barnet Weinstein from the Lower East Side, book reviewer Holly Levine from the Lower West Side, and Yiddish writer (and chronic complainer) Felix Ottensteen from the Upper West Side.

1980s Movies

Being There (1980)

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Being There movie storyline. Chance is mentally challenged, those that know him who would probably call him simple. He doesn’t know how to read or write.

1970s Movies

Shampoo (1975)

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Shampoo movie storyline. Thirty-something George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairdresser, who spends as much time sleeping with his female clients as he does doing their hair. Whether they want to admit it, all the women in his life are for the most part aware that they are are not the only one with whom he is sleeping.

1970s Movies

…And Justice for All. (1979)

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…And Justice for All movie storyline. Arthur Kirkland (Al Pacino), an idealistic defense attorney in Baltimore, cares about his clients and visits his aging grandfather, who put him through law school, every week.

1970s Movies

Heaven Can Wait (1978)

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Heaven Can Wait movie storyline. Joe Pendleton is a football quarterback, who has not been playing a great deal because of injuries. But now it appears he has fully recovered and the coach wants to make him the starting quarterback.

1970s Movies

Dreamer (1979)

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Dreamer movie storyline. A young man dreams and struggles to become a championship bowler, knowing that determination and sacrifice must come first. Tim Matheson is the Dreamer in this story which many saw as heavily inspired by Rocky. “Dreamer” is a ten-pin whiz in his small town of Alton, Illinois, but wants to make it in the big time on the professional tour.

1970s Movies

The Champ (1979)

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The Champ movie storyline. Director Franco Zeffirelli (Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet) trades in his puffy shirts for boxing gloves in this 1979 re-make of the Wallace Berry/Jackie Cooper classic. Jon Voight plays Billy Flynn, a down-on-his-luck boxer who is working as a stable man for horses in Florida. T.J. (Ricky Schroder) is his plucky son who looks after him. An unrepentant gambler and drinker, Billy needs looking after.

1980s Movies / Woody Allen Movies

September (1987)

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September movie storyline. Lane is selling the family home and moving to New York. At the moment she has her mother Diane and step-father Lloyd living with her, as well as her sister Stephanie.

1970s Movies

All the President’s Men (1976)

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All the President’s Men movie storyline. On June 17, 1972, the Washington DC police apprehend five men who broke into the National Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building.

1950s Movies

From Here to Eternity (1953)

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James Jones’ best-selling, hard-hitting novel of on-duty/off-duty military life among recruits in the pre-Pearl Harbor era of 1941 – on the eve of WWII. A combination romance, combat and melodramatic film set at the Schofield Barracks Army base on Oahu. Sensitive bugler Pvt. Robert E. Lee “Prew” Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) is dealt harsh treatment when he stubbornly refuses to fight for the company’s boxing team.