Joe Mantegna
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Criterion collection volume 399
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English
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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter David Mamet sat in the director₂s chair for the first time for this sly, merciless thriller. Starring Lindsay Crouse and Joe Mantegna, this film is a rich character study told with the cold calculation of a career con artist targeting his next mark.
2) Bugsy
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Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel is a brilliant and violent gangster who leaves behind his criminal empire in New York to run the powerful rackets in Los Angeles. But his tumultuous affair with a Hollywood starlet inspires him to build something even bigger than his growing infamy. By doing this, he enrages his criminal backers. Bugsy will go to any length to see his dream realized, even if it costs him his life.
3) Edmond
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After visiting a fortune teller, Edmond realizes his life is not the one he desires. He decides to flee his previous existence and pursue a new life. Edmond meets a man in a bar who gives his advice that launches a series of mishaps that ultimately guide him through the search for his humanity.
4) Suspect
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"Bizarre evidence leads Kathleen on a dangerous trail from Washington's seamy underbelly to the highest levels of government. And the closer she gets to the answers, the more her life is in danger. Cher and Dennis Quaid take the law into their own hands in this daring suspense thriller where everything is revealed in court--except the truth."
6) 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.
7) Thinner
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"Stephen King's Thinner serves up the story of a 300-pound attorney with an inflated ego to match. A 109-year-old gypsy with a supernatural ax to grind. And a dose of deadly revenge that compels its victim to eat now ... and pay later"--Container.
9) Stateside
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Mark lands in the Marine Corps and meets Dori before he ships out. Mark and Dori are a perfect match of misfits introduced by a friend, Sue, whose mother, is suing Mark. Dori has left the bright lights of Hollywood to fix her life and find help for her schizophrenia. At boot camp, Drill Instructor Skeeter, is on a mission not only to train, but to make a man out of the rebellious teenager. Mark and Dori cling to their romance in spite of the obstacles...
10) Queens logic
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"When childhood friends Al, Dennis, and Eliot get together for Ray's wedding, which may or may not happen, they end up on a roller coaster ride through reality. During one tumultuous, crazy weekend, they face adulthood and each other with newfound maturity and discover what Queens Logic is all about"--Container.
12) Thinner
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Based on the best-seller, Stephen King's Thinner stars Robert John Burke and Joe Mantegna in a story of supernatural terror and countdown to the ultimate payback. A 109-year old gypsy, hell-bent on revenge, exacts a curse so shocking it compels its victim to gorge himself in an effort to avoid shrinking away to nothingness. With time running out and a torture so bizarre and powerful, even death seems a more likely option.
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"Following their divorce, the lives of a restless writer and his inhibited ex-wife take off in outrageously unpredictable directions. While Lee (Kenneth Branagh) explores the wilder side of his newfound freedom, Robin (Judy Davis) begins an improbable transformation from neurotic schoolteacher to high-profile TV talk show host"--Container.
14) Compulsion
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Amy is a vivacious and charismatic gourmet chef, with a dangerous appetite. She uses the most sensual of cuisine to lure her prey and turn them into victims of her twisted methods of controlling relationships and creating intimacy. When Amy realizes her new neighbor Saffron is the former child star she has always idolized, she uses her prowess in the kitchen in an attempt to dominate her through their shared connection with food and sex.
15) Women vs. men
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After a game of pool, Michael and Bruce decide to go to a strip club. Dana returns home and sees them driving away, and decides to follow them. She tracks them to the club, and she's appalled as she watches them get lap dances. She leaves the club and calls Brita to tell her all about it. When Michael and Bruce get back to Michael's place, they find the two women waiting there, angry. Dana throws Michael out. The four of them come together, momentarily,...
16) Childless
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The sudden passing of a teenage girl unsettles the four adults in her life. Jarred by this glimpse of mortality, they struggle to understand, or justify, the current state of their own lives. As each gets ready for the funeral, they speak their private thoughts directly to the camera, leaving it up to the viewer to make sense of these off-kilter, self-serving, yet frequently humorous accounts of the family story.
17) Thinner
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This is a story of supernatural terror and countdown to the ultimate payback. A 109-year old gypsy, hell-bent on revenge, exacts a curse so shocking it compels its victim to gorge himself in an effort to avoid shrinking away to nothingness. With time running out and a torture so bizarre and powerful, even death seems a more likely option.
19) The Bronx bull
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Based on the tumultuous real-life experiences of legendary boxing champion Jake LaMotta, it is a dramatic and stylized biopic with an outstanding ensemble cast. Chronicling LaMotta's violent childhood, to his rise as a world-class boxer, through his life after leaving the ring, it offers an unflinchingly honest look into the heart of a champion.
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Godfather: "The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son."--IMDb.com, 02/03/17.
Godfather Part II: "The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate."--IMDb.com, 02/03/17.
Godfather Part III: "In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in New York and Italy...