
Maria's Lovers(1984)
A World War II prisoner returns home to his childhood sweetheart. However, back home, he discovers that he has to compete to win her love.


A 1920s mail pilot and a rich man's daughter crash-land on a mountain full of hungry wolves.

Christopher Reeve
Edgar Anscombe

Rosanna Arquette
Tillie Hansen

Jack Warden
Moravia

Sam Wanamaker
Bruno Hansen

Scott Wilson
Jerry Stiller

Tyne Daly
Evelyn Stiller

Marcia Strassman
Rose Stiller

Will Hare
Old Man

Frano Lasić
Daniel Hansen

Jeff Harding
Carson
The Aviator is a drama, adventure, romance film released in 1985. Directed by George T. Miller, it stars Christopher Reeve, Rosanna Arquette, Jack Warden. A 1920s mail pilot and a rich man's daughter crash-land on a mountain full of hungry wolves.
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Newly widowed Frank Fogle embarks on a journey to Ireland to scatter his late wife’s ashes. His estranged son, Sean, recently released from prison, agrees to join only when his father promises that they’ll never see each other again following the trip. After revelations surface about an old flame of Frank’s wife and a charming hitchhiker with plans of her own intervenes, father and son find themselves drawn together in unexpected ways.

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At a crossroads after her divorce, a schoolteacher ventures toward a fresh start in life — and love — when she signs up for a grueling group hiking trip.

Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions alongside each other, which leads to a similarly combative local TV show. At the same time their initial indifference to each other looks like it may evolve into something more romantic.