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84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
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84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.
Style: romantic, sweet, touching, sincere, inspirational, offbeat, intellectual, feel good, sentimental, serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: bookstore, book, correspondence, friendship, writers, post war, dentist, pen pal, marriage, longing, voice over narration, love, bittersweet, death, poet, kindness, inspiration, heartache, angst, platonic, hospital, male female friendship, letter, protest, breaking the fourth wall ...
Time: 1940s, 60s, 1950s, year 1987, 50s, 20th century, 1960s ...
Place: new york, london, england, usa, europe
Keyword: marketplace, movie theatre

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Shadowlands (1993)
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Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
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Time: 1950s, year 1993, 60s, 20th century, 50s
Place: england, europe
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The Remains of the Day (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
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Duration: 110 min.
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Duration: 108 min.
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Style: sentimental, emotional, romantic, sad, realistic ...
Audience: date night
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Duration: 106 min.
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Style: touching, sentimental, heartbreaking, inspirational, clever ...
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Duration: 99 min.
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