The Brothers

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The Brothers (2001)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

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Newness

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The Program

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1991 ★ 6.1

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Cosi

Cosi

1996 ★ 6.1

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Almost Friends

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¿Quieres ser mi hijo?

¿Quieres ser mi hijo?

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Class

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Fire with Fire

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1986 ★ 6.2

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A Journal for Jordan

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Strictly Sexual

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2008 ★ 6.1

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Above the Rim

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1994 ★ 7.1

Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.

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Three friends begin a dangerous three-way relationship that spirals out of control, leading to dire consequences that haunt them ten years later.

Small Apartments

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Mumford

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1999 ★ 6.5

When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same name and offers his talent for listening and a disarming frankness, the town's quirkiest citizens scramble for a seat on his couch. As he lightens hearts darkened by old secrets no one realizes he's hiding a whopper of his own, or that he's fallen head over heels for one of his patients!

Jack Goes Boating

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2010 ★ 6.0

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Once Around

Once Around

1991 ★ 6.1

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2017 ★ 6.7

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