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Shawshank redemption
Convicted for a murder he did not commit, a quiet banker struggles to cope with prison life and develops a friendship with another inmate
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Little women
Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in mid-nineteenth-century New England
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If Beale Street could talk
A young couple in Harlem struggle with the woman's pregnancy while trying to prove that the man is innocent of a crime
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Hate u give
A girl from a poor black neighborhood attending a rich mostly white prep school witnesses her childhood friend being killed by a police officer and faces a difficult dilemma
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Crazy rich Asians
When an American-born Chinese woman attends a wedding in Singapore with her boyfriend, she discovers that his family is very wealthy and other women in his social class are trying to date him
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Age of innocence
Story of the manners and morals of New York society in the later 1800s, focusing on a handsome young lawyer who cannot decide between passion and propriety in his women
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Election
Tracy Flick, a straight-A go-getter, is determined to be student council president, but teacher Jim McAllister decides to derail her campaign by recruiting another candidate
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Call me by your name
The son of an Italian professor forms a relationship with his father's summer research assistant
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Hidden figures
Follows three African American women working as human computers for NASA during the space race of the 1950s and 1960s
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Arrival
After alien ships arrive at locations around Earth, a linguist is called in to translate and understand the alien language
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Heartburn
A New York food critic and a columnist from Washington D.C. meet at a wedding and shortly thereafter decide to get married, but their relationship becomes strained as she puts family life ahead of her career while he continues philandering
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Gone girl
A man falls under suspiscion when his wife mysteriously disappears
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The Wolf of Wall Street
In the 1990s a wealthy stockbroker becomes involved in a securities scam that leads him to a life of crime and corruption
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12 years a slave /
Tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was abducted in Washington, D.C., and forced to spend the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation
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Misery
Suffering injuries from a car accident, novelist Paul Sheldon is taken in by his biggest fan, Annie Wilkes, whose care turns to torture when she dislikes his new book
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Perks of being a wallflower
An introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors who introduce him to the real world of high school
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Talented Mr. Ripley
When Tom Ripley is sent to Italy to bring home a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy, he instead befriends him, then kills him and assumes his life
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All the president's men
The story of two young reporters of the Washington Post who picked up the Watergate story from the beginning and stayed with it through doubts, denials and discouragements
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Social network
Despite the success of Facebook, Harvard student and founder Mark Zuckerberg finds his personal life in turmoil as he faces legal disputes over ownership of the site
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Jurassic Park
A scheme to open a theme park featuring real dinosaurs cloned from DNA turns into a catastrophe
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Joy Luck Club
The stories of four native-born Chinese women and their American-born daughters, showing the influence each has on the others' lives, and how they are the same and different
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Beloved
On a journey to find freedom, Sethe is confronted by the secrets that have haunted her for years. Then, an old friend from her past reenters her life and with his help, Sethe may finally be able to rediscover who she is and regain her lost sense of hope
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Children of men /
Set in 2027, scientists are at a loss to explain why humans can no longer procreate, but the discovery of a lone pregnant woman leads to a desperate journey to protect her and save the future of mankind
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Devil wears Prada
A young aspiring jounralist, with no knowledge of fashion, lands a job as the assistand to a demanding fashion magazine editor
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Howl's moving castle
A young woman named Sophie flees to the moving castle of a notorious wizard named Howl after she is cursed to look old beyond her years; while at the castle she falls in love with Howl who can see Sophie's true self despite the curse
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To kill a mockingbird /
When a white woman in Alabama accuses a black man of rape, the outcome of the trial is a foregone conclusion and no lawyer except Atticus Finch will defend the accused
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Mean girls /
Having been home-schooled and raised in the African bush, Cady is unprepared for the cut-throat politics of public school
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Fight club
Follows a chronic insomniac and a soap salesman whose therapeutic fight club and anti-consumerist perspectives begin to spiral out of control
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One flew over the cuckoo's nest
A rebellious patient battles a nurse and the rest of the staff at the mental institution where he has been sent for evaluation in order to avoid a prison sentence
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Silence of the lambs
A young female FBI agent is sent to interview notorious killer, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, in hope of obtaining information that will help the Bureau catch another killer
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Pride & prejudice
In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the romantic entanglements of her four sisters, and her feelings for a brooding gentleman
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Color purple
The story of Celie, a poor black woman from the south, whose friendship with two women helps her overcome the brutality of her father and husband
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Princess bride
Buttercup loves Westley, but when he is captured by pirates and assumed dead, she is chosen by the evil Prince Humperdinck to be his bride, beginning a series of fantastic efforts to free her
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