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Movie: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring ( 2003 )
A boy is raised by a Buddhist monk on an isolated floating temple where the years pass like the seasons.
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Movie: Southern Comfort ( 1981 )
During a routine exercise, a team of National Guards are threatened by angry and violent locals.
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Movie: Soylent Green ( 1973 )
In the world ravaged by the greenhouse effect and overpopulation, an NYPD detective investigates the murder of a big company CEO.
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Movie: Secretary ( 2002 )
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.
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Movie: Summer of Sam ( 1999 )
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
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Movie: Strictly Ballroom ( 1993 )
Scott Hastings is a champion caliber ballroom dancer, but much to the chagrin of the Australian ballroom dance community, Scott believes in dancing "his own steps". Fran is a beginning dancer and a bit of an ugly duckly who has the audacity to ask to be Scott's partner after his unorthodox style causes his regular partner to dance out of his life. Together, these two misfits try to win the Australian Pan Pacific Championships and show the Ballroom Confederation that they are wrong when they say, "there are no new steps!"
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Movie: Subway ( 1985 )
On improvising a burglary at a shady tycoon's home, Fred takes refuge in the hip and surreal universe of the Paris Metro and encounters its assorted denizens, the tycoon's henchmen and his disenchanted young wife.
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Movie: State of Play ( 2009 )
When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the congressman, his old college friend.
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Movie: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre ( 1967 )
Al Capone's Valentine Day surprise for the rival Bugs Moran gang in 1929 Chicago.
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Movie: Shine ( 1997 )
As a child piano prodigy, David Helfgott's musical ambitions generate friction with his overbearing father, Peter. When Helfgott travels to London on a musical scholarship, his career as a pianist blossoms. However, the pressures of his newfound fame, coupled with the echoes of his tumultuous childhood, conspire to bring Helfgott's latent schizophrenia boiling to the surface, and he spends years in and out of various mental institutions.
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Movie: Shrink ( 2009 )
Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients.
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Movie: The Siege ( 1998 )
The secret U.S. abduction of a suspected terrorist leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York City, which leads to the declaration of martial-law.
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Movie: Shine a Light ( 2008 )
A career-spanning documentary on The Rolling Stones, with concert footage from their "A Bigger Bang" tour.
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Movie: Siege ( 1983 )
During a police strike in Nova Scotia's capital city, a gang of hoodlums end up unintentionally causing the owner of a gay bar to be killed. This escalates into a string of murders with a lone survivor trying to not be next.
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Movie: Satan's Triangle ( 1975 )
The female survivor of a shipwreck and two Coast Guard helicopter pilots sent to rescue her find themselves trapped in a mysterious part of the ocean known as Satan's Triangle.
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Movie: A Bunch of Amateurs ( 2008 )
A sleazy Hollywood agent tricks one of his clients, a faded action star, into playing King Lear in an amateur charity production in England.
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Movie: The Village ( 2004 )
A series of events tests the beliefs of a small isolated countryside village.
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Movie: Signs ( 2002 )
Preacher Graham Hess loses his faith in God after his wife dies in a brutal car accident. He lives with his children and brother in a farmhouse. Crop circles start to appear in their cornfields; Graham dismisses them as mischief by miscreants. After hearing strange noises and watching news coverage on crop circles appearing all over the world, the family grows suspicious of alien activities. Now they must stick together as a family and believe, to survive and escape the ordeal.
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Movie: The Sixth Sense ( 1999 )
A boy who communicates with spirits seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.
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Movie: Straw Dogs ( 2011 )
Los Angeles screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.
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Movie: The Hire ( 2003 )
Recompilation of the all short films of from the series of short films produced by BMW The Hire, starring Clive Owen as the Driver.
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Movie: The Scalphunters ( 1968 )
Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.
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Movie: Sleeper ( 1973 )
A nerdish store owner is revived out of cryostasis into a future world to fight an oppressive government.
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Movie: Shakespeare-Wallah ( 1967 )
The story of a family troupe of English actors in India. They travel around the towns and villages giving performances of Shakespearean plays. Through their travels we see the changing face of India as the old is replaced by the new, Maharajas become hotel owners, sports become more important than culture and the theater is replaced by Bolliwood movies. Based on the travels of Geoffrey Kendal with his daughter Felicity Kendal.
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Movie: Scent of a Woman ( 1993 )
A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.
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Movie: Savage Messiah ( 2002 )
Based on real-life events in Canada in the late 1980's, social worker Paula Jackson investigated a commune run by a messiah-like figure who referred to himself as Moses. Jackson's findings uncovered disturbing mental and physical abuses of this cult's members by its maniacal leader. Soon, Jackson found herself fighting to save Moses's followers.
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Movie: Starman ( 1984 )
An alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona. The government tries to stop them.
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Movie: Powaqqatsi ( 1988 )
An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
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Movie: The Misfits ( 1961 )
A divorcée falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically independent lifestyle.
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Movie: Stormy Monday ( 1988 )
In once thriving but now decaying Newcastle upon Tyne, Finney, initially advised not to, has owned and operated a jazz club for ten years, against the odds making it a success and in the process him wealthy. Earnest Irishman Brendan, needing work, responds to the ad placed for a cleaning job at the club, and going against his initial impression, Finney, in what he learns is their shared knowledge and love of jazz, hires Brendan, not only as a cleaner, but to run odd errands, one of the first in the latter category being for Brendan to pick up The Krakow Jazz Ensemble from the airport and get them settled in their hotel, they who will be performing at the club. This job hire occurs concurrently with American Week in the city, a high profile event organized jointly by Cosmo, a Texas businessman, in town looking for investment opportunities, such influx of capital much needed for the city's revitalization. In combination with a new relationship with an American waitress named Kate, who in reality is more than just a waitress unknown to him, Brendan will find that he has walked into a dangerous situation when he gets wind of a potentially deadly incident, with Cosmo's want to invest more than just to make money.
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Movie: Thieves' Highway ( 1949 )
A war veteran turned truck driver attempts to avenge the crippling and robbing of his father at the hands of an amoral produce scofflaw.
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Movie: The Thin Red Line ( 1999 )
Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.
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Movie: Three Times ( 2005 )
(1) "A Time for Love": In 1966, in Kaohsiung, Chen meets May playing pool in a bar when he is joining the army. He sends letters to her and he comes to the bar to meet her again in his leave. However, May had traveled to another place and Chen seeks her out. (2) "A Time for Freedom": In 1911, in Dadaochend, the writer Mr. Chang works for Mr. Liang and frequently travels to a brothel, where he meets the singer. He financially helps the courtesan Ah Mei to become a concubine. When the singer asks him if he would help her to leave the brothel, there is no answer. (3) "A Time for Youth": In 2005, in Taipei, the messy relationship of the photographer Zhen, his girlfriend Jing and a bisexual singer.
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Movie: Trading Places ( 1983 )
A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
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Movie: Traffic ( 2001 )
A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.
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Movie: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three ( 1974 )
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
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Movie: The Towering Inferno ( 1975 )
At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
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Movie: Tora! Tora! Tora! ( 1970 )
In 1941, following months of economic embargo, Japan prepares to open its war against the United States with a surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor.
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Movie: Topaz ( 1969 )
A French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
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Movie: The Two Jakes ( 1990 )
The sequel to Chinatown (1974) finds J.J. "Jake" Gittes investigating adultery and murder, and the money that comes from oil.
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Movie: Too Late the Hero ( 1970 )
A reluctant hero, American Lieutenant Sam Lawson, is seconded to a motley British unit tasked with destroying a Japanese radio on a Philippine island.
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Movie: Trancers ( 1985 )
A gruff bounty hunter travels back in time to 1980s Los Angeles to stop a twisted criminal who can transform people into zombie-like creatures.
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Movie: The Thomas Crown Affair ( 1968 )
A debonair, adventuresome bank executive believes he has pulled off the perfect multi-million dollar heist, only to match wits with a sexy insurance investigator who will do anything to get her man.
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Movie: To Kill a Mockingbird ( 1963 )
Small-town Alabama, 1932. Atticus Finch (played by Gregory Peck) is a lawyer and a widower. He has two young children, Jem and Scout. Atticus Finch is currently defending Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman. Meanwhile, Jem and Scout are intrigued by their neighbours, the Radleys, and the mysterious, seldom-seen Boo Radley in particular.
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Movie: To Catch a Thief ( 1955 )
A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.
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Movie: Thunderbolt and Lightfoot ( 1974 )
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organize a daring new heist.
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Movie: To Live and Die in L.A. ( 1985 )
A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
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Movie: Trust ( 1991 )
After being thrown out of her house, Maria encounters a married woman who complains of not having children. Maria ends up in an abandoned house, where she meets Matthew. When a baby is kidnapped Maria sets out to find the woman.
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Movie: The Truman Show ( 1998 )
An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show.
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Movie: True Crime ( 1999 )
Can an over-the-hill journalist uncover the evidence that can prove a death row inmate's innocence just hours before his execution?
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Movie: Treasure Island ( 1950 )
The treasure seeking adventures of young Jim Hawkins and pirate captain Long John Silver.
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Movie: Training Day ( 2001 )
On his first day on the job as a Los Angeles narcotics officer, a rookie cop goes beyond a full work day in training within the narcotics division of the L.A.P.D. with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be.
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Movie: Ulzana's Raid ( 1972 )
After fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror, an inexperienced young lieutenant is assigned to track him down.
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Movie: The Unbelievable Truth ( 1990 )
A man returns to his home town after serving a prison sentence for homicide, and finds that the details of the crime have been forgotten and replaced with local legends and rumors.
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Movie: Uncle Buck ( 1989 )
Bachelor and all round slob, Buck, babysits his brother's rebellious teenage daughter and her cute younger brother and sister.
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Movie: United 93 ( 2006 )
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
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Movie: The Unloved ( 2009 )
Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a children's home. Through her eyes, we follow Lucy's struggle to cope with the system. Her saving is her self-belief and her certainty that she is being watched over and protected by the holy spirit. Hers is a heroic quest for love, beauty and transcendence.
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Movie: Unstoppable ( 2004 )
Dean has PTSD after a wet-job gone bad in Bosnia. Waiting for his police girlfriend at a diner, some bad guys inject him with a hallucinogen. It sends him back to traumatic experiences in Bosnia and he reacts violently.
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Movie: V for Vendetta ( 2006 )
In a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman.
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Movie: The 3 Worlds of Gulliver ( 1960 )
Doctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the town he lives. He signs on to a ship to India, but in a storm he's washed off the ship and ends up on an island, which is inhibitated by very tiny people. After he managed to convince them he's harmless and is accepted as one of their citizens, their king wants to use him in war against a people of giants. Compared to them, even Gulliver is a gnome.
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Movie: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ( 1955 )
A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
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Movie: 2010: The Year We Make Contact ( 1984 )
In this sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), a joint American-Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to discover what went wrong with the U.S.S. Discovery against a backdrop of growing global tensions. Amongst the mysteries the expedition must explain, are the appearance of a huge black monolith in Jupiter's orbit and the fate of H.A.L.; the Discovery's A.I. computer. Based on the novel by Arthur C. Clarke.
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Movie: Avanti! ( 1972 )
A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon-father's body only to discover dad died with his mistress of long standing.
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Movie: The Accidental Tourist ( 1989 )
An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles.
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Movie: American Splendor ( 2003 )
An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.
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Movie: Alien Autopsy ( 2006 )
Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947.
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Movie: Amadeus ( 1984 )
The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
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Movie: Alphaville ( 1965 )
A U.S. secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.
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Movie: Arlington Road ( 1999 )
A man begins to suspect his neighbors are not what they appear to be and their secrets could be deadly.
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Movie: Alligator ( 1980 )
A baby alligator is flushed down a Chicago toilet and survives by eating discarded laboratory rats injected with growth hormones. The small reptile grows gigantic, escapes the city sewers, and goes on a rampage.
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Movie: All That Jazz ( 1979 )
Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.
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Movie: Accepted ( 2006 )
A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.
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Movie: A Wednesday ( 2008 )
A retiring police officer reminisces about the most astounding day of his career. About a case that was never filed but continues to haunt him in his memories - the case of a man and a Wednesday.
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Movie: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore ( 1975 )
A recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer.
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Movie: Affliction ( 1999 )
A deeply troubled small-town cop investigates a suspicious hunting death while other events jeopardize his sanity.
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Movie: Jabberwocky ( 1977 )
A young peasant, with no interest in adventure or fortune, is mistaken as the kingdom's only hope when a horrible monster threatens the countryside.
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Movie: Adrift in Manhattan ( 2008 )
The lives of three lonely strangers intersect while commuting on New York's 1 and 9 subway lines.
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Movie: Loch Ness ( 1996 )
A scientist tries to prove the existence of the Loch Ness monster.
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Movie: I Like Money ( 1962 )
Mr. Topaze ('Peter Sellers') is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy (Nadia Gray), a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise (Michael Gough) questions him and tells Topaze that if what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.
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Movie: The Assassination of Richard Nixon ( 2004 )
Based on real life events, Assassination is set in 1974 and centers on a businessman who decides to take extreme measures to achieve his American dream.
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Movie: Arthur ( 1981 )
Arthur spends his time with booze and whores. His dad has a wife lined up for him that he keeps rejecting - until it's her or being cut off from $750,000,000. Then he goes shopping where he falls in love with a shoplifter.
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Movie: Antichrist ( 2009 )
A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
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Movie: The American President ( 1995 )
Comedy-drama about a widowed U.S. President and a lobbyist who fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception", and sparks fly anyway.
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Movie: American Gigolo ( 1980 )
A Los Angeles male escort, who mostly caters to an older female clientèle, is accused of a murder which he did not commit.
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Movie: Till Death Us Do Part ( 1969 )
The film version of '""Till Death Do Us Part" (1965)'. tells the story of Alf Garnett and his family living through the London Blitz.
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Movie: The Alf Garnett Saga ( 1972 )
Based on the BBC television series, and a sequel to 'Till Death Us Do Part (1968)', it tells of the family relationship between Alf Garnett, his wife, daughter and son-in-law, all living in a council flat.
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Movie: Exposed ( 2016 )
A police detective investigates the truth behind his partner's death. The mysterious case reveals disturbing police corruption and a dangerous secret involving an unlikely young woman.
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Movie: The Shootist ( 1976 )
A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.
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Movie: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ( 1962 )
A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.
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Movie: Method ( 2004 )
A celebrity actress who gets her dream role playing real-life 19th century serial killer Belle Gunness in a feature film, starts to take on the characteristics of the character both on-screen and off.
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Movie: Atlas Shrugged: Part I ( 2011 )
Railroad executive Dagny Taggart and steel mogul Henry Rearden form an alliance to fight the increasingly authoritarian government of the United States.
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Movie: Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike ( 2012 )
Railroad owner Dagny Taggart and steel mogul Henry Rearden search desperately for the inventor of a revolutionary motor as the U.S. government continues to spread its control over the national economy.
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Movie: The Passion of Ayn Rand ( 1999 )
Upon the death of Ayn Rand (Dame Helen Mirren), Barbara Branden (Julie Delpy) recounts the story of her dealings with the enigmatic twentieth century philosopher and author. Barbara and her husband, Nathaniel Branden (Eric Stoltz), meet Rand and her husband, Frank O'Connor (Peter Fonda) and immediately establish a rapport. Rand takes the youthful Nathaniel under her wing and begins to show a non-platonic interest in her protégé. Barbara must sit by as the two begin what becomes a long, tumultuous affair.
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Movie: OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies ( 2006 )
Secret agent OSS 117 foils Nazis, beds local beauties, and brings peace to the Middle East.
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Movie: Cat City ( 2008 )
A private investigator is hired by a woman to determine if her husband, a big land developer, is having an affair. What looks like a simple case soon turns into a murder investigation and the motive may not be as clear as it seems.
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Movie: Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 )
A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.
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Movie: Blood Diamond ( 2006 )
A story following Archer, a man tortured by his roots. With a strong survival instinct, he has made himself a key player in the business of conflict diamonds. Political unrest is rampant in Sierra Leone as people fight tooth for tooth. Upon meeting Solomon, and the beautiful Maddy, Archer's life changes forever as he is given a chance to make peace with the war around him.
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Movie: The Blood on Satan's Claw ( 1971 )
In 17th-century England, the children of a village slowly convert into a coven of devil worshipers.
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Movie: Bobby ( 2006 )
The story of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was shot in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and twenty-two people in the hotel, whose lives were never the same.
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Movie: Batman Begins ( 2005 )
After training with his mentor, Batman begins his fight to free crime-ridden Gotham City from corruption.