The World According to Garp(1982)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 13

A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.



Dragonslayer(1981)

Combined Rating:
34
Combined Critics Rating: 20

A young wizarding apprentice is sent to kill a dragon which has been devouring girls from a nearby kingdom.



Places in the Heart(1984)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 21

In central Texas in the 1930s, a widow, with two small children, tries to run her small 40-acre farm with the help of two disparate people.



A Passage to India(1984)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 16

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.



Running on Empty(1988)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 18

The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live a life of his own.



Mona Lisa(1986)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 19

A man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.



Young Sherlock Holmes(1985)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 14

When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.



Jagged Edge(1985)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 18

San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires ...



Night Shift(1982)

Combined Rating:
33
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A morgue attendant is talked into running a brothel at his workplace after a deceased pimp is sent there. However, the pimp's killers don't look too kindly on this new 'business', nor does the morgue's owner.



The Bostonians(1984)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 39

A Boston feminist and a conservative Southern lawyer contend for the heart and mind of a beautiful and bright girl unsure of her future.



The Elephant Man(1980)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.



The Stunt Man(1980)

Combined Rating:
32
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A fugitive stumbles on a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out, and falls for the leading lady.



The Great Muppet Caper(1981)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 15

Kermit, Gonzo and Fozzie are reporters who travel to Britain to interview a rich victim of jewel thieves and help her along with her secretary, Miss Piggy.



The French Lieutenant's Woman(1981)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A film is being made of a story, set in 19th century England, about Charles, a biologist who's engaged to be married, but who falls in love with outcast Sarah, whose melancholy makes her ...



Glory(1989)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 0

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.



Chances Are(1989)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 18

A reincarnated man unknowingly falls in love with his own daughter from his previous life. Once he realizes this, he tries to end their relationship before angels erase his memory.



Gorky Park(1983)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 17

A Moscow police officer investigates a triple homicide and stumbles upon a high-level political conspiracy in the local government.



Dune(1984)

Combined Rating:
31
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Duke's son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis when they assassinate his father and free their desert world from the emperor's rule.



The Russia House(1990)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 13

An expatriate British publisher unexpectedly finds himself working for British intelligence to investigate people in Russia.



The Sheltering Sky(1990)

Combined Rating:
30
Combined Critics Rating: 17

The American artist couple Port and Kit Moresby travel aimlessly through Africa, searching for new experiences that could give sense to their relationship. But the flight to distant regions only leads both deeper into despair.




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