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Fried green tomatoes

Evelyn Couch, a woman caught in the slump of middle age, gains a new outlook on life when she befriends Ninny Threadgood, an eighty-year-old woman who tells her the story of the Whistle Stop Cafe and the two women who ran it in the 1930s.

The Marx Brothers silver screen collection

The Marx Brothers goof and bumble their way through a series of hilarious misadventures.

Limelight

An aging clown falls in love with an injured ballerina andhelps her recover and resume her career.

Modern times

A hapless factory worker cracks under the strain of his job and runs amok. Unemployed on the streets of Depression America, he joins forces with a young woman fleeing the childcare authorities, and they embark on a misadventure-filled search for happiness.

The great dictator

Chaplin plays two characters: Adenoid Hynkel, the dictator of Tomania, and a Jewish barber. The barber recovers from amnesia to discover Hynkel is persecuting all the Jews in his country.

Stardust memories

Legendary comic filmmaker Sandy Bates attends a weekend festival of his films, and confronts the meaning of his work, the memories with his one true love, and where he stands with his new girlfriend. A brush with death shows him that his life is worth living and gives him strength to go on.

Sleeper

A cryogenically frozen clarinetist is thawed out 200 years later by anti-government radicals to help overthrow their oppressive and evil dictator--a disembodied nose.

Manhattan

New Yorker Isaac Davis hates his job, doesn't love his girlfriend, and his ex-wife is a lesbian who has written a book about their marriage. Then he meets and falls in lust with a beautiful woman, which starts him on a search for romance and fulfillment.

Love and death

Cowardly scholar Boris attempts to win the heart of the beautiful Sonja, a firebrand anti-Napoleon radical.

Interiors

Three adult sisters cope with their family's imminent dissolution when their father announces his separation from their mentally unbalanced mother.

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