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 The age of innocence by   The age of innocence
"A ravishing romance about three wealthy New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle, the ironicall ...
 
 The color purple by   The color purple
The heart-wrenching story of a young black girl in the early 20th century who's forced into a brutal ...
 
 Sideways by   Sideways
Miles is a divorced man and a failed writer who teaches junior high English. He decides to take his ...
 
 Smoke signals by   Smoke signals
Depicts two young Native Americans, Victor and Thomas, who leave their small town to retrieve the re ...
 
 Million dollar baby by   Million dollar baby
Frankie is a former boxing manager, who initially refuses to train Maggie due to her gender and age. ...
 
 Mystic River by   Mystic River
Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after a brutal murder. Reformed confict J ...
 
 Stardust by   Stardust
Tristan hopes to win the heart of his beautiful, but shallow love, Victoria. He promises to recover ...
 
 The Joy Luck Club by   The Joy Luck Club
Follows the story of four lifelong friends, whose lives are filled with joy and heartbreak, and show ...
 
 The reader by   The reader
What have we learned (and what might we have forgotten) from history's bloody backwash? Guilt, love ...
 
 Memoirs of a geisha by   Memoirs of a geisha
In 1929, an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion distric ...
 
 Girl with a pearl earring by   Girl with a pearl earring
17-year-old Griet must work to support her family, so she becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Ve ...
 
 Beloved by   Beloved
After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver ...
 
 Fried green tomatoes by   Fried green tomatoes
A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and ...
 
 The accidental tourist by   The accidental tourist
Award-winning drama about the trials of one man. After a man loses his son and his wife leaves him, ...
 
 A River runs through it by   A River runs through it
Academy Award-winning director Robert Redford captures the majesty of the Montana Wilderness and the ...
 
 Sophie's choice by   Sophie's choice
A drama set in post-World War II Brooklyn revolves around Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survi ...
 
 Of mice and men by   Of mice and men
Tells the story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers who are able to realize their ...
 
 The postman always rings twice by   The postman always rings twice
Steamy tale of a drifter offered a job at a roadside diner by the owner, an easy-going older man. Wh ...
 
 The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Rob ... by   The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford
Everyone in 1880s America knows Jesse James. He's the nation's most notorious criminal and is being ...
 
 The old man and the sea by   The old man and the sea
An aging Cuban fisherman, alone in a small skiff, catches a magnificent marlin and must defy the sea ...
 
 Ordinary people by   Ordinary people
The "ordinary" existence of an upper middle class family is shattered with the death of the older so ...
 
 The year of living dangerously by   The year of living dangerously
Guy Hamilton, an ambitious Australian reporter on his first overseas assignment, is befriended by a ...
 
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