Movies Like Tea and Sympathy

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Designing Woman

1957·1h 58m·★ 6.7·Vincente Minnelli

2 shared crewDir. Vincente MinnelliDP: John Alton

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2012·1h 43m·★ 7.9·Stephen Chbosky

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2016·1h 46m·★ 8.4·Makoto Shinkai

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American History X

1998·1h 59m·★ 8.5·Tony Kaye

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1989·2h 9m·★ 8.1·Peter Weir

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Donnie Darko

2001·1h 54m·★ 8.0·Richard Kelly

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Brokeback Mountain

2005·2h 14m·★ 7.7·Ang Lee

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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

1974·1h 33m·★ 8.0·Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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2000·1h 51m·★ 7.7·Stephen Daldry

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All About My Mother

1999·1h 41m·★ 7.8·Pedro Almodóvar

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Breakfast at Tiffany's

1961·1h 55m·★ 7.5·Blake Edwards

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Bad Education

2004·1h 45m·★ 7.4·Pedro Almodóvar

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Yesterday

2004·1h 36m·★ 7.5·Darrell James Roodt

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2005·1h 30m·★ 7.4·Hany Abu-Assad

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Walk on Water

2004·1h 43m·★ 7.3·Eytan Fox

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2003·2h 8m·★ 6.8·Nancy Meyers

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Cavafy

1996·1h 25m·★ 5.7·Yannis Smaragdis

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The Cobweb

1955·2h 4m·★ 6.3·Vincente Minnelli

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How Good Is Tea and Sympathy?

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