Barry Levinson
1) Rain Man
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Charlie (Tom Cruise) just discovered he has an autistic brother named Raymond (Dustin Hoffman) and is taking him on the ride of his life. Or is it the other way around? Raymond first pushes hot-headed Charlie to the limits of his patience and then pulls him completely out of his self-centered world. And what began as an unsentimental journey for the brothers becomes so much more. Winner of four Academy Awards®, including Best Picture, Best...
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A movie producer tries to save his two films from falling apart while managing the chaos of two failed marriages. Based on the best-selling memoir by veteran Hollywood producer Art Linson and directed by Academy Award-winning Barry Levinson. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival** and **Sundance Film Festival**.
3) Diner
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Set in Baltimore in 1959, a group of school buddies meet and socialize before they go off on their separate ways.
5) Rain man
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A callous young hustler living in California finds his father has died and left him only rose bushes and a '49 Buick convertible. Feeling cheated out of what he thinks should be his 3 million dollar inheritance, he kidnaps the autistic brother he never knew he had, and takes him on the ride of his life.
6) Bandits
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Strap yourself in for one hilarious action-comedy starring Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton and Cate Blanchett! Escaped convicts Joe (Willis) and Terry (Thornton) are on the run and out of money. When they devise an ingenious bank robbery scheme, their newfound infamy as the "sleepover bandits" threatens to go bust over a third partner, a sexy, eccentric housewife named Kate (Blanchett) whose indecisiveness as to which of the two bandits she wants...
8) Sphere
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A thousand feet below the ocean surface, fear can kill. Two-time Academy Award-winner Dustin Hoffman stars with Sharon Stone and Samuel L. Jackson in the science fiction thriller SPHERE. When a team of scientists--psychologist Norman Goodman (Hoffman), biochemist Beth Halperin (Stone) and mathematician Harry Adams (Jackson)--descends into the murky ocean depths to explore an ancient spacecraft resting on the Pacific floor, they discover the ship's...
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Tom Dobbs makes an off-hand comment on his late night talk show that he would be a better president than the leader who currently occupies the White House. A grassroots campaign conducted by his legions of fans finds him unexpectedly ushered into the Oval Office and forced to live up to his promise. Unfortunately for Dobbs, he finds out that his surprise victory was actually the result of a voting computer glitch and not winning the majority vote...
10) Bugsy
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Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel is a brilliant and violent gangster who leaves behind his criminal empire in New York to run the powerful rackets in Los Angeles. But his tumultuous affair with a Hollywood starlet inspires him to build something even bigger than his growing infamy. By doing this, he enrages his criminal backers. Bugsy will go to any length to see his dream realized, even if it costs him his life.
11) Liberty Heights
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In the tradition of "Diner," "Tin Men," and "Avalon," Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson continues with this story of 1950s Baltimore -- a period of great change with issues of race, religion and class distinction causing turmoil between two generations of a Jewish family. Starring Adrien Brody , Joe Mantegna , Neuwirth and Orlando Jones.
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When a corrupt judge is charged with rape, Arthur Kirkland must defend him. Kirkland has had problems with the judge in the past, including one incident when the judge wrongly sentenced his client, Jeff McCullaugh, because of a technicality. Kirkland faces a moral and legal dilemma, especially difficult because the judge admits he is guilty.
13) Sleepers
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Four young friends from Hell's Kitchen get into trouble and are sent to reform school, where they are sexually abused by guards. Years later, two of the boys are seeking revenge and rely on the other two boys to protect them.
15) Paterno
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The film centers on Joe Paterno, who, after becoming the winningest coach in college football history, is embroiled in Penn State's Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, challenging his legacy and forcing him to face questions of institutional failure regarding the victims.
16) The natural
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A once-promising baseball player on his way to stardom in the big leagues, finds his dreams shattered when a mysterious woman and a silver bullet end his career prematurely. Sixteen years later, armed with his childhood bat "Wonderboy," he comes back to baseball, joins the roster of the lowly New York Knights to see if he can overcome physical pain and the nefarious forces around him to lead his team to the pennant.
17) The alto knights
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The Alto Knights follows two of New York's most notorious organized crime bosses, Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, and how their separate paths to power place them on a deadly collision course.
18) Toys
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When his army general uncle takes over Zevo Toys, toy designer Leslie Zevo's whimsical, carefree world changes overnight, and he must find a way to save the company and grow up without losing his playful spirit.
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Claude Eastman, a composer who has it all; an acclaimed career, oodles of money and a ravishing Italian wife, Daniella. However, his life hits a sour note when he suspects his wife of cheating with handsome nemesis Max Stein. In fact, he's so convinced of her infidelity, he plans to orchestrate a delicious act of revenge.
20) Sphere
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"In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel rests on the ocean floor. Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend to the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a massive spaceship, undamaged from it's fall from the sky-and at least three hundred years old"--IMDb...