A Day Without a Mexican

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A Day Without a Mexican (2004)

Comedy, Mystery

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1977 ★ 6.4

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Born in East L.A.

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1987 ★ 5.8

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The Super

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1991 ★ 6.0

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2025 ★ 6.3

A young Indigenous game warden arrests an infamous poacher only to discover that the poacher knows the location of a plane carrying millions of dollars that has crashed in a frozen lake. When a group of criminals and dirty cops are alerted to the poacher’s whereabouts, the warden and the poacher team up to fight back and escape across the treacherous lake before the ice melts.

Everything Everywhere All at Once

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Sorry to Bother You

Sorry to Bother You

2018 ★ 6.8

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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

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Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.

Watermelon Man

Watermelon Man

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A racist insurance agent lives in a typical suburban neighborhood, but his bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight.

Americana

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2025 ★ 6.3

When a rare Lakota Ghost Shirt falls into the black market in a small town in South Dakota, the lives of local outsiders and outcasts violently intertwine.

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2023 ★ 6.5

When Audrey's business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo, her irreverent, childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat, her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye, Lolo's eccentric cousin. Their no-holds-barred, epic experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging, and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are.

In the Loop

In the Loop

2009 ★ 7.0

The US President and the UK Prime Minister are planning on launching a war in the Middle East, but—behind the scenes—government officials and advisers are either promoting the war or are trying to prevent it.

Hellfire

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2026 ★ 6.7

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As Good as Dead

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2022 ★ 6.2

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2018 ★ 7.3

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Mike Bassett: England Manager

Mike Bassett: England Manager

2001 ★ 7.0

After England's football (soccer) manager has a heart attack, Mike Bassett is hired as the new manager and promptly announces the team will win the World Cup.

A Million Ways to Die in the West

A Million Ways to Die in the West

2014 ★ 6.0

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Super Troopers

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2001 ★ 6.6

Five bored, occasionally high and always ineffective Vermont state troopers must prove their worth to the governor or lose their jobs. After stumbling on a drug ring, they plan to make a bust, but a rival police force is out to steal the glory.

Mr. Baseball

Mr. Baseball

1992 ★ 5.8

Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find it in him?

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