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Similar Movies:

New York, New York

Trap Jazz

The Cotton Club

The Terminal

Lost Highway

Short Cuts

A Time to Kill

Freedom Writers

The Color Purple

B. Monkey

Sweet Smell of Success

Sweet and Lowdown

Cerises au marasquin

Dear Mr Shakespeare: Shakespeare Lives

Sense and Sensibility

Nalen

Gang Boy

Le Samouraï

Hi-De-Ho

High-Rise