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1) The grifters
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Three con artists walk on the razor's edge of life. Lilly has decided it's time to get out, and wants her son out, too. But Roy has fallen for sleek Myra, who wants him for her partner.
2) Blue ice
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English
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Until the car behind him took out his rear light, Harry Anders (Caine) thought he'd given up spying. Now he has to think again. The car that hit him holds nothing but trouble in the seductive shape of Stacey Mansdorf (Young). Stacey is an ambassador's wife with one aim in mind, tracking down her ex-lover Kyle. What she needs is a tracker-- and a new lover-- and Harry Anders fits the bill.
4) The Rat Pack
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Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop, known as "The Rat Pack", set the style and the pace for 1950s America. But when President Kennedy, newly elected with the support of the Pack, is advised that the friends who made him shouldn't be the friends he keeps, the Rat Pack discovers that lady luck has chosen another partner.
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In the not-so-distant future, strong-willed and beautiful Kate possesses a precious commodity that most women have lost and most men want to control: fertility. Forced into a brain-washing boot camp that turns fertile women into surrogate mothers for social-elite men and their infertile wives, Kate thinks she's made out well when she's assigned to an eminent party leader. But when she learns that he's sterile, she's faced with an impossible choice:...
7) A Bronx tale
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English
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A hard-working bus driver must stand up to the local mob boss if he is to keep his son from falling into a life of crime.
8) Ricochet
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English
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Pursued by a pyschotic killer that everyone else thinks is dead, a policeman turns for help to his childhood friend, now a hustler and dealer.
9) Dawg
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English
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Doug is cool, carefree, he loves women, but mostly he's a dawg. Women love him, that is until he disappears in a cloud of exhaust. Everything changes the day Anna comes along, because she has news about an inheritance that could be his on one condition - he has to track down the women he betrayed and get them to say "I forgive you". Anna, and the women in Doug's life, are about to try and teach this old dawg some new tricks.
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English
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Its January 1977 and Gary Gilmore is about to become the first convicted murderer to be executed in a decade. Gary's youngest brother, Mikal, can help prevent the execution, but first he has to get to know the brother he barely remembers. Born of a brutal father, raised in a family haunted by death, religion and superstition, the brothers discover their shared past.
11) Cinema paradiso
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Italiano
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A young boy in a small Italian village is befriended by the projectionist at the movie theater, the Cinema Paradiso. As the boy grows up, he learns to love films, and is encouraged by his good friend to pursue his dream of one day making movies.
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English
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Pekar is a frustrated file clerk working at the local V.A. Hospital. He is also a comic book fan who befriends the young illustrator Robert Crumb and is soon inspired to create comic books based on his own life. Along his bumpy journey he meets, marries and falls in love with Joyce, an admiring comic book seller.
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In this trilogy, different women face different social and political climates in choosing what to do about an unplanned pregnancy. In 1952, a recently widowed nurse (Demi Moore) must decide whether to go through with an illegal abortion. In 1974, a mother of four (Sissy Spacek) struggles to raise a family and have a career shortly after abortion was legalized. In 1996, a college student (Anne Heche) decides on getting an abortion during a climate...
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An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy Dandridge still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Yet against the odds, she beat out many more famous rivals for the role of Carmen Jones, becoming the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award.
19) Heaven help us
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English
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Set in a Catholic school in Brooklyn in the 1960's, the film tells the story of 16-year-old Michael Dunn who arrives at St. Basil's school in 1965 and immediately befriends all of the misfits in his class. What unfolds is the hilarious and moving story of boys growing up during a tumultuous, important year in their lives.
20) Deadly voyage
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English
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A group of African stowaways on a Russian freighter bound for France is discovered by the crew and murdered one by one. One man escapes and fights to stay alive long enough to reach port.