Breakin’ (1984)
Director: Joel Silberg
Actors: Adolfo Quinones, Ben Lokey, Christopher McDonald, Lucinda Dickey, Michael Chambers, Phineas Newborn III
Country: United States of America
Charlatan (2020)
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Waffle Street (2015)
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In Her Place (2014)
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Eva (1948)
Love Letters (1945)
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The Maid (2014)
An emotionally troubled teenager gets into a passionate relationship with the older French woman working in his father’s house.
Black & White (1999)
Chris O’Brien, devote Catholic and rookie cop with LAPD, is assigned to partner with the hard-edged, street-smart Nora Hugosian. A serial killer is loose, and all the victims are low-life…