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2) Gravity
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"Dr. Ryan Stone ... is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski. ... On a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalski completely alone, tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the darkness. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into...
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Lucas Jackson is a man who refuses to be nailed down, conform to rules and regulations, or fit into society, and now, he's on a chain gang. He's a likable enough guy, always smiling, always ready for a little fun. He eats 50 hard-boiled eggs on a bet and collects all the money in the camp. He's more or less like the people he hangs around with, except he won't be pushed. He knows his own mind. This makes him the only prisoner with guts enough to talk...
5) Casablanca
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Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if you're wanted by the Nazis. Such a man is Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, whose only hope is Rick Blaine, a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one, especially Victor's wife Ilsa, the ex-lover who broke his heart. Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's transport out of the country and bitter Rick must decide what counts more.
6) Now, voyager
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A young woman escapes the smothering influence of her wealthy and very conservative mother through the help of a psychiatrist and an ocean cruise, where she finds love, which helps her to become her own person.
7) Barry Lyndon
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An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's position in 18th century aristocracy.
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Lucas Jackson is a man who refuses to be nailed down, conform to rules and regulations, or fit into society, and now, he's on a chain gang. He's a likable enough guy, always smiling, always ready for a little fun. He eats 50 hard-boiled eggs on a bet and collects all the money in the camp. He's more or less like the people he hangs around with, except he won't be pushed. He knows his own mind. This makes him the only prisoner with guts enough to talk...
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Fighting caravans: Clint Belmet convinces French-born Felice into posing as his wife to help him evade a misdemeanor jail term. Clint joins a wagon train heading for California, taking Felice with him, and begins to fall in love with the girl.
A farewell to arms: An American officer in the Italian ambulance corps falls in love with an English Red Cross nurse.
Meet John Doe: A genial homeless unemployed baseball pitcher is hoaxed into protesting...
10) Grand Hotel
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Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he misses the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls, but ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats his lowly bookkeeper, Kringelein, but in the end it is Kringelein who holds all...
11) Dodsworth
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"Sam Dodsworth is a small town rags-to-riches millionaire who finds that his money cannot bring him happiness. His unsatisfied wife Fran, seeking glamour and sophistication, persuades him to take her on a grand tour of Europe, where she promptly deserts him for a romantic but penniless baron. Brokenhearted, Sam meets Edith, a widow who arouses passions he never thought he had and sets him on a collision course with his wife, unleashing a torrent of...