Genre "Message Movie" Movies
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| 1. Absence of Malice (year: 1981) |
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In this legal drama from director Sydney Pollack, Sally Field stars as Megan, an ambitious newpaper reporter who, based on information from FBI invest ...
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| 2. All Quiet on the Western Front (year: 1979) |
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Years after directing the classic Marty (1955), Delbert Mann became a creator of prestige TV movie projects, none more daunting than his adaptation of ...
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| 3. American History X (year: 1998) |
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Tony Kaye made his feature directorial debut with this dramatic exploration into the roots of race hatred in America. In a shocking opening scene, tee ...
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| 4. Amistad (year: 1997) |
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This Steven Spielberg-directed exploration into a long-ago episode in African-American history recounts the trial that followed the 1839 rebellion abo ...
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| 5. Arranged (year: 2007) |
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Two women whose peoples are often at odds find they're more alike than anyone expects in this drama from directors Stefan C. Schaefer and Diane Crespo ...
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| 6. Aunque Estés Lejos (year: 2003) |
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Directed by Juan Carlos Tabió, Aunque Estés Lejos (So Far Away) initially centers around Marilyn (Susana Pérez), whose first trip back to Cuba after h ...
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| 7. Billy Jack (year: 1971) |
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Actor/auteur Tom Laughlin created the character of Billy Jack in the motorcycle flick The Born Losers. Wandering Christlike through the Southwest, Nat ...
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| 8. Blood Diamond (year: 2006) |
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A South African mercenary and a Mende fisherman find their fates forever intertwined as they embark on a quest to obtain a rare and highly coveted pin ...
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| 9. Blue Collar (year: 1978) |
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Paul Schrader's directorial debut examines the trials of Detroit autoworkers living at the mercy of a heartless corporation and a corrupt union. Survi ...
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| 10. Broken English (year: 1981) |
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| 11. Changing Lanes (year: 2002) |
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Director Roger Michell follows up the hit romantic comedy Notting Hill (1999) with this thought-provoking thriller. Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson ...
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| 12. Coach Carter (year: 2005) |
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The true-life story of a coach who tries to teach his players that there's more to life than basketball is brought to the screen in this sports drama. ...
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| 13. Disclosure (year: 1994) |
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Michael Douglas runs afoul of a treacherous supervisor in this film version of Michael Crichton's novel. Douglas plays Tom Sanders, an executive at Di ...
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| 14. Driving Miss Daisy (year: 1989) |
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Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy affectionately covers the twenty-five year relationship between a wealthy, ...
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| 15. Fury (year: 1936) |
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Fritz Lang's first American film is a vigorous and perceptive indictment of mob law, starring Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney. Katherine (Sidney) leav ...
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| 16. Gandhi (year: 1982) |
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It was Richard Attenborough's lifelong dream to bring the life story of Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi to the screen. When it fi ...
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| 17. Great World of Sound (year: 2007) |
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Filmmaker Craig Zobel explores the shortcuts that some folks are willing to take to become famous while simultaneously exposing the unscrupulous manne ...
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| 18. I Am Sam (year: 2001) |
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Sean Penn stars in this drama as Sam Dawson, a developmentally disabled adult who has been working at a coffee shop and raising his daughter Lucy (Dak ...
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| 19. In the Heat of the Night (year: 1967) |
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The winner of the 1967 Oscar for Best Picture (as well as four other Oscars), In the Heat of the Night is set in a small Mississippi town where an unu ...
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| 20. Inherit the Wind (year: 1960) |
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The Evolution vs. Creationism argument is at the center of the Jerome Lawrence-Robert E. Lee Broadway play Inherit the Wind. Lawrence and Lee's inspir ...
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