Martin Balsam
1) Catch-22
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**Oscar** winner Mike Nichols superbly directs this cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller’s scathing black comedy about a small group of pilots in the Mediterranean in 1944. There are winners and losers, opportunists and survivors. Separately and together they are nervous, frightened, often profane and sometimes pathetic. Almost all are a little crazy. CATCH-22 is an anti-war satire of epic proportions. Nominated for The UN Award and Best Cinematography...
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Hercule Poirot is a dapper detective, aboard the Orient Express, for whom murder-solving is a precise, intellectual exercise. When murder occurs, Poirot agrees to interview all aboard the famous trains Calais coach, hoping to find the killer of an American millionarie before the local police arrive.
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In 1941 the Japanese are at odds with the United States on a number of issues which they are attempting to resolve via their Washington embassy. In case this diplomacy fails, the military are hatching plans for a surprise early Sunday morning air attack on the U.S. base at Pearl Harbor. American intelligence is breaking the Japanese diplomatic messages but few high-ups are prepared to believe that an attack is likely, let alone where or how it might...
9) Hombre
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"John Russell, a white man raised by an Arizona Apache tribe, is forced to confront the society he despises when he sells the boarding house he inherits. While leaving town by stagecoach, several bigoted passengers insist he ride with the driver. But when outlaws leave them all stranded in the desert, Russell may be their only hope for survival"--Container.
10) Death rage
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A former mob assassin comes out of retirement to find and kill the man who murdered his brother, only to learn that the murder was only the bait in a trap set for him.
11) Raid on Entebbe
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"It was June 1976 that an Air France plane carrying 244 passengers and a crew of 12 on a flight from Athens to Paris was hijacked by terrorists who forced the captain to alter course and eventually land at Uganda's Entebbe Airport. With the tacit approval of president Idi Amin, the passengers were held hostage and threatened with death if the Israeli government didn't comply with their captor's demand to release 53 Palestinian so-called freedom fighters...
12) Death wish 3
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Kersey has returned to the Rotting Apple at the invitation of a friend from Korean War days whose neighborhood is being terrorized by a gang of vicious young thugs. Arriving only to find his old buddy slain, Kersey resolves to terminate the hoodlums' crime wave and restore the frightened neighborhood to its people.
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Disgruntled Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She only gets to meet her lover Sam during lunch breaks and they cannot get married because of Sam's alimony high payments. One Friday, Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and run, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off...
14) Al Capone
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An account of the life of Al Capone, tracing his rise to the top of Chicago's underworld.
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First broadcast in Italy in 1984, The Octopus (La Piovra) is an international blockbuster, running 18 years and producing nine follow-up series. In Series 2, it gets personal for Police Inspector Corrado Cattani. His lust for revenge drives him undercover, where he discoversa multi-million dollar arms deal. Helped by a familiar foe, the Countess Olga Camastra, whose love for him leads her to break the criminals' code of silence, Cattani works both...
16) The stone killer
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After shooting a suspect, New York City detective Lou Torrey is sent to Los Angeles and Southern California's Topanga Canyon to track down mob tycoon Al Vescari.
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Delta Force: Political extremists have taken innocent people hostage, and only super soldiers Major Scott McCoy and Colonel Nick Alexander can rescue them.
Delta Force 2: Delta Force Colonel Scott McCoy is back on a daring mission to destroy a deadly South American drug cartel. Against all odds McCoy and his squad must fight their way through an intense battle to free hostages being held by a notorious drug lord.
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Holly Golightly is a carefree New York playgirl who is scouring Manhattan looking for a suitable millionaire to marry. However, when Paul Varjak, a struggling young writer, moves into her apartment building, she becomes interested in him. Paul gets swept into Holly's dizzying, delightfully unstructured lifestyle.
19) After the fox
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Wildly funny farce that gives the comic genius of Peter Sellers free reign as he assumes several wacky personalities, each one funnier than the last!
20) Time limit
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Former POW Major Harry Cargill has not only been charged with collaboration, he's even signed a confession. His court martial should be an open-and-shut case, except that his judge advocate, colonel William Edwards, is suspicious of its ease. Cargill refuses to answer questions or defend himself, but as Edwards investigates, he uncovers a horrifying truth that will shake the Army to its core.