Sleuth
On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.
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Dutchman
Duration: 0 h 55 m | 1966
A young conservative black man, minding his own business, rides a nearly empty subway car. The only other passenger, a blonde vixen looking for trouble, sizes him up. Sexual tension, racial bigotry and righteous fury collide in a razor's edge confrontation between this unlikely pair.
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