Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama. From Wikipedia.

  • Title: Tennessee Williams
  • Popularity: 3.627
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1911-03-26
  • Place of Birth: Columbus, Mississippi, USA
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Tennessee Williams Movies

  • 2002
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    The Yellow Bird

    The Yellow Bird

    1 2002 HD

    A young girl escapes the boredom of a small town existence in the 1930s.

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  • 1973
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    Tennessee Williams' South

    Tennessee Williams' South

    10 1973 HD

    The brutes and the belles. The gadflies and the good ol' boys. The taboos and the profound truths. They're all part of a tennessee state of mind -- a...

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  • 1955
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    The Rose Tattoo

    The Rose Tattoo

    6.9 1955 HD

    A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her.

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  • 2010
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    Beautiful Darling

    Beautiful Darling

    5.8 2010 HD

    James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her...

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  • 1951
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    The Screen Director

    The Screen Director

    6 1951 HD

    A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film...

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  • 1994
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    Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

    Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

    1 1994 HD

    A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by...

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  • 2014
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    And the Oscar Goes To...

    And the Oscar Goes To...

    7 2014 HD

    The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy...

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  • 2021
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    Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation

    Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation

    3 2021 HD

    The parallel lives of writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-83): two friends, two geniuses who, while creating...

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  • 1958
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    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    7.6 1958 HD

    An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy...

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  • 1951
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    A Streetcar Named Desire

    A Streetcar Named Desire

    7.6 1951 HD

    A fading southern belle moves in with her sister in New Orleans where her ferocious brother-in-law takes stabs at her sanity.

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  • 1951
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    A Streetcar Named Desire

    A Streetcar Named Desire

    7.6 1951 HD

    A fading southern belle moves in with her sister in New Orleans where her ferocious brother-in-law takes stabs at her sanity.

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  • 1984
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    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    5.5 1984 HD

    An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy...

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  • 1962
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    Sweet Bird of Youth

    Sweet Bird of Youth

    6.85 1962 HD

    Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his home town as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him...

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  • 1956
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    Baby Doll

    Baby Doll

    7.1 1956 HD

    Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for...

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  • 2008
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    The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond

    The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond

    5.2 2008 HD

    Tells the story of Fisher Willow, the disliked 1920s Memphis débutante daughter of a plantation owner with a distaste for narrow-minded people...

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  • 1962
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    Period of Adjustment

    Period of Adjustment

    5.711 1962 HD

    A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own.

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  • 1959
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    Suddenly, Last Summer

    Suddenly, Last Summer

    7.302 1959 HD

    The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went...

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  • 1959
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    Suddenly, Last Summer

    Suddenly, Last Summer

    7.302 1959 HD

    The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went...

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  • 1966
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    This Property Is Condemned

    This Property Is Condemned

    6.3 1966 HD

    Owen Legate, a railroad official, comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down the local railway - the town's main income. But Owen unexpectedly finds...

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  • 1955
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    The Rose Tattoo

    The Rose Tattoo

    6.9 1955 HD

    A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her.

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  • 1989
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    Sweet Bird of Youth

    Sweet Bird of Youth

    5.8 1989 HD

    Tennessee William’s masterful melodrama about an aging movie star who, appalled by her own image on the screen, flees from her movie premiere...

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  • 1968
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    Boom!

    Boom!

    6.177 1968 HD

    Explores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniless poet who has nothing but the ability to fill a...

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  • 2002
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    The Yellow Bird

    The Yellow Bird

    1 2002 HD

    A young girl escapes the boredom of a small town existence in the 1930s.

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  • 2014
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    National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire

    National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire

    7.5 2014 HD

    As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the...

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  • 1965
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    Orpheus steigt herab

    Orpheus steigt herab

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1979
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    Bourbon Street Blues

    Bourbon Street Blues

    5.9 1979 HD

    An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "The Lady Larkspur Lotion" created by Douglas Sirk with the assistance of his film students and Rainer Werner...

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  • 2007
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    Suddenly Last Summer

    Suddenly Last Summer

    1 2007 HD

    Dr. Vaginal Davis gives what John Water's describes as "phenomenal" and what George Kuchar calls "a riveting" performance as Mrs. Venable, the...

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  • 1990
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    Een vreemde liefde

    Een vreemde liefde

    1 1990 HD

    A lonely man tossed by life and hectored by his landlady finds happiness only with an alley cat.

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  • 1976
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    The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

    The Eccentricities of a Nightingale

    7 1976 HD

    The tale of a lonely Southern woman's longing for her handsome next-door neighbor. At once tragic and romantic, the story is a reworking of the...

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  • 1958
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    Three Plays by Tennessee Williams

    Three Plays by Tennessee Williams

    5 1958 HD

    A presentation of Tennessee Williams' three one-act plays: "Moony's Kid Don't Cry", "The Last of My Solid Gold Watches", and "This Property Is...

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  • 1974
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    The Migrants

    The Migrants

    5.7 1974 HD

    A look at the lives of migratory farm workers, focusing on one family.

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  • 1990
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    27 Wagons Full of Cotton

    27 Wagons Full of Cotton

    6 1990 HD

    In order to boost his own cotton ginning business, Jake Meighan sets the local Syndicate Plantation ablaze. the superintendent of the Syndicate...

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  • 1990
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    Orpheus Descending

    Orpheus Descending

    4 1990 HD

    Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage.

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  • 1968
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    Hilsen fra Bertha

    Hilsen fra Bertha

    1 1968 HD

    A prostitute suffers schitzoid dillusions while grasping on to her past loves. She is stricken with "acquired" diseases.

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  • 1976
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    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    4.8 1976 HD

    An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy...

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  • 1995
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    A Streetcar Named Desire

    A Streetcar Named Desire

    7 1995 HD

    Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information...

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  • 1961
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    The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

    The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

    6.7 1961 HD

    Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman...

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  • 2021
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    The Glass Menagerie

    The Glass Menagerie

    6 2021 HD

    Three solitudes behind almost-closed doors; three human frailties; three ways to dream of a different life. The plot is simple, and elusive like a...

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  • 1984
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    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    5.5 1984 HD

    An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy...

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  • 1970
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    Dragon Country

    Dragon Country

    5 1970 HD

    Producer-director Glenn Jordan brought together two Tennessee Williams plays, written twenty years apart, that examine the theme of isolation with...

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  • 1954
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    Senso

    Senso

    7.2 1954 HD

    A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.

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  • 1956
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    Baby Doll

    Baby Doll

    7.1 1956 HD

    Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for...

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  • 1984
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    A Streetcar Named Desire

    A Streetcar Named Desire

    5.5 1984 HD

    Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information...

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  • 1955
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    The Rose Tattoo

    The Rose Tattoo

    6.9 1955 HD

    A grieving widow embarks on a new romance when she discovers her late husband had been cheating on her.

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  • 1970
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    Last of the Mobile Hot Shots

    Last of the Mobile Hot Shots

    4.643 1970 HD

    A new bride gets caught between her decadent husband and his black half-brother.

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  • 2011
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    Le Paradis sur terre

    Le Paradis sur terre

    8 2011 HD

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  • 1977
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    Cat on Fire

    Cat on Fire

    7 1977 HD

    Contractor Mahmoud Abdel Majeed is afflicted with cancer, and his children hide the truth about his illness from him. This man has two sons, the...

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  • 1989
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    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    1 1989 HD

    Based on the play of the same name by Tennessee Williams, staged by the Vl. Mayakovsky Theater.

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  • 2011
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    Here Without Me

    Here Without Me

    7.4 2011 HD

    The story is about the world of a small family with familiar dreams and not so remarkable problems. The mother is trying to lead everything to save...

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  • 1986
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    Noir et blanc

    Noir et blanc

    4.286 1986 HD

    Antoine is an accountant, uptight and withdrawn, married to Edith, who picks out his clothes and shoes. He's assigned to a fitness gymnasium for a...

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  • 1989
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    Трамвай «Желание»

    Трамвай «Желание»

    1 1989 HD

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  • 1950
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    The Glass Menagerie

    The Glass Menagerie

    5.6 1950 HD

    An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.

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  • 1950
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    The Glass Menagerie

    The Glass Menagerie

    5.6 1950 HD

    An aging Southern Belle makes life horrible for her ambitious son and crippled daughter because of her dreams of what life should be.

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  • 1966
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    The Glass Menagerie

    The Glass Menagerie

    6 1966 HD

    An adaptation of Tennessee Williams' play about a restless young warehouse worker and would-be poet, Tom Wingfield, his fragile, reclusive sister,...

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  • 1993
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    Suddenly, Last Summer

    Suddenly, Last Summer

    5 1993 HD

    Catharine Holly, a poor relation of a prominent New Orleans family, seems to be insane after her cousin Sebastian dies under mysterious circumstances...

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  • 1987
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    A Streetcar Named Desire

    A Streetcar Named Desire

    1 1987 HD

    Lithuanian version of Tennessee Williams's play.

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  • 1961
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    Summer and Smoke

    Summer and Smoke

    6.74 1961 HD

    In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.

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  • 1973
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    The Glass Menagerie

    The Glass Menagerie

    7.6 1973 HD

    An aging Southern belle's preoccupation with her past and her dreams for her children's futures threaten to smother her painfully shy daughter and...

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  • 2018
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    National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    6 2018 HD

    Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London’s West End in 2017. An...

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  • 1964
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    The Night of the Iguana

    The Night of the Iguana

    7.1 1964 HD

    A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure...

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  • 2004
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    Akale

    Akale

    8 2004 HD

    Margaret's dream of getting her differently abled daughter married shatters when she finds that the boy she chooses for her is engaged to someone...

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  • 1966
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    Ten Blocks on the Camino Real

    Ten Blocks on the Camino Real

    1 1966 HD

    A collection of ten vignettes by Tennessee Williams offering various viewpoints on life, love, and death.

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  • 2003
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    The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

    The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

    6.4 2003 HD

    An aging actress' husband dies of a heart attack en route to Rome, where they'd planned to holiday. There, she rents an apartment and, through the...

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  • 1970
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    Camino Real

    Camino Real

    1 1970 HD

    A group of people in a small, isolated desert town through a series of strange events, begin to come to terms with growing older.

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  • 1958
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    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    7.6 1958 HD

    An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy...

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  • 1976
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    Talk to Me Like the Rain

    Talk to Me Like the Rain

    2 1976 HD

    A small-scale, bare room situation involving a Man and a Woman who are bound together in an endless cycle by their hopeless poverty. Major...

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  • 1960
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    The Fugitive Kind

    The Fugitive Kind

    6.9 1960 HD

    Val Xavier, a drifter of obscure origins, arrives at a small town and gets a job in a store run by Lady Torrence. Her husband, Jabe M. Torrance, is...

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  • 1969
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    The Glass Menagerie

    The Glass Menagerie

    1 1969 HD

    A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.

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  • 1986
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    Orpheus Descends to Hell

    Orpheus Descends to Hell

    1 1986 HD

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  • 1987
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    The Glass Menagerie

    The Glass Menagerie

    6.4 1987 HD

    A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.

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  • 1962
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    Sweet Bird of Youth

    Sweet Bird of Youth

    6.85 1962 HD

    Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his home town as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him...

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  • 2002
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    Desire

    Desire

    1 2002 HD

    Layla lives a peaceful life with her husband Hossam in one of the coastal cities. When her older sister Nemat comes to live with her after facing...

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  • 1998
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    A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere

    A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere

    1 1998 HD

    Recorded live with the San Francisco Opera, the world premiere production of Andre Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire. For his first-ever opera,...

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  • 1978
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    The Kennedy Center Honors

    The Kennedy Center Honors

    7.2 1978 HD

    The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture.

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  • 1975
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    Midi Première

    Midi Première

    10 1975 HD

    Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975...

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  • 1968
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    The Dick Cavett Show

    The Dick Cavett Show

    6.6 1968 HD

    The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.

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  • 1970
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    The Dick Cavett Show

    The Dick Cavett Show

    7.2 1970 HD

    Greek television series

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