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Michael Oher is a homeless African-American teenager who is from a broken home. Mike is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, Mike faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome - as both a football player and student. Mike works hard and, with...
3) Get Low
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For the past 40 years, Felix Bush has been a hermit, living alone on the outskirts of town. He's the stuff of legend--a frightening eccentric whose secluded home is where little boys test their courage by throwing rocks through the dangerous man's windows. When he hears an old friend has died, he makes a rare visit to town to meet with undertaker Frank Quinn to explain how he wants to "get low." He plans his burial plot, his stone, his farewell sendoff,...
4) Child of God
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In 1960's Tennessee, Lester Ballard is a violent loner who has lived in the woods and caves since early childhood. He has no sense of right or wrong or how normal society operates.
5) The river
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A farm couple in Tennessee fight against the local power company that wants to flood their land as part of a plan for future power development.
6) Wheeler
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Wheeler is an aspiring musician from Kaufman, Texas who travels to Nashville with the lifelong dream of trying his hand at country music. The line between reality and fiction blurs as Wheeler chases his dream in this touching tribute to old school country legends.
7) Memphis
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A strange singer with God-given talent drifts through the mythic city of Memphis under its canopy of ancient oak trees, shattered windows, and burning spirituality. Surrounded by lovers, legends, hustlers, preachers, and a wolfpack of kids, the unstable performer avoids the recording studio and is driven to spend time in his own form of self-discovery. Shown in fragments, his journey drags him from love and happiness right to the edge of another dimension....
8) Kill switch
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A highly decorated homicide detective finds himself looking for a cunning killer loose on the streets of Memphis. His desperate pursuit takes him into the dark, depraved underworld of street sex and senseless violence.
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For Rayna James and Deacon Claybourne, the road to intimacy is rocky as ever. Devastated by his sister's death, jealous of Rayna's focus on a sexy recording artist and unsettled in his new role as Maddie's father, Deacon lashes out, forcing Rayna to make some agonizing choices. And, despite having a new baby and a hit movie, Juliette Barnes is spiraling downward in a haze of partying, drugs and booze after her split from Avery.
10) From the rough
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The remarkable true story of Catana Starks from historically black university Tennessee State who became the first African-American woman to coach an all-men's team at the collegiate level. When she signed up to run the club, she expected it to be tough but she had no idea just how challenging it would be. With no scholarships to offer and only one US student willing to work with her, she was forced to reach out across the globe and assemble a ragtag...
11) Bloodworth
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After a forty year absence, E.F. Bloodworth re-enters the lives of the family members he abandoned, upsetting his wife and three grown sons, but forging a new, close relationship with the grandson he never knew.
12) Wild river
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A Tennessee Valley Authority administrator must deal with the racial politics of hiring African American workers. He also must evict an old woman from her home, but then he falls in love with her granddaughter.
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U.S. Marshals: U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard is back with his team of marshals, assigned to track down Mark Sheridan, a murderer and robber. At the same time, Sheridan is out to find the truth himself while keeping one step ahead of Gerard.
Space Cowboys: They had trained body and mind for America's leap into space. But when the moment came, they were replaced. Now, 40 years later, another moment has come and this time it's all theirs. These old-school...