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61) Shadowlands
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Based on a true story, C.S. Lewis is a world-renowned writer and professor. Unmarried, he leads a gentleman₂s life filled by intellectual pursuits, remaining untouched by any great passion until he meets Joy Gresham. Slowly he opens his heart to this woman, and their romance shatters the walls of his cloistered world. But life is made up of delicate balances, and Lewis must confront a terrible truth: that a heart awakened to great love is also opened...
62) The human factor
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When a leak in the British Secret Service is discovered in Russia, two agents become the target of the government's investigation: Arthur Davis is a high-living bachelor whose attempts at a secret rendezvous arouse suspicions; and Maurice Castle, who eight years earlier had defied his government. One of the men is selling secrets to the Communists, and in the course of the investigation, the suspected double agent is eliminated by the government....
63) Shadowlands
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Based on a true story, C.S. Lewis is a world-renowned writer and professor. Unmarried, he leads a gentleman's life filled by intellectual pursuits, remaining untouched by any great passion until he meets Joy Gresham. Slowly he opens his heart to this woman, and their romance shatters the walls of his cloistered world. But life is made up of delicate balances, and Lewis must confront a terrible truth: that a heart awakened to great love is also opened...
64) Cry freedom
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Story of the horrors of apartheid, based on the true story of the friendship between white newspaper reporter Donald Woods and South African Black activist Stephen Biko.
65) Cry freedom
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Story of Black activist Stephen Biko (Washington) and a liberal white newspaper editor Donald Woods (Kline) who risks his own life to bring Biko's message to the world.
66) Brighton rock
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The emotionally and physically scarred gang leader Pinkie Brown courts and marries a local waitress he detests to stop her from testifying against him.
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One of the most diabolical mysteries ever concocted comes to vivid life in this all-star version of the classic Agatha Christie thriller! Summoned to an isolated, elegant hotel in the middle of the desert, several strangers find themselves accused at dinner of heinous crimes that have escaped punishment ... until now. Now they're being murdered off one by one in a pattern from a chilling nursery rhyme, and suspicion grows as they realize the killer...
68) Jurassic Park
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On a remote island, a wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening, the park's security system breaks down, the prehistoric creatures break out, and the excitement builds to surprising results.
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Jurassic Park: "Journey to an amazing them park on a remote island where dinosaurs once again roam the Earth and five people must battle to survive among the historic predators"--Container.
Lost world: Jurassic Park: "Four years after the disaster at Jurassic Park, two groups are in a race against time that will determine the fate of the remote island's prehistoric inhabitants"--Container.
Jurassic Park III: "Adventure runs wild when a renowned...
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Criterion collection volume 939
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After miraculously surviving a jump from his burning plane, RAF pilot Peter Carter encounters the American radio operator to whom he has just delivered his dying wishes and, face-to-face on a tranquil English beach, the pair fall in love. When a messenger from the afterlife arrives to correct the clerical error that spared his life, Peter must mount a fierce defense for his right to stay on earth.
74) In love and war
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Academy Award winner Richard Attenborough's epic love story about Ernest Hemingway and the romance that inspired him to write his masterpiece A Farewell to Arms. A story of desperate love and imminent danger, it chronicles the relationship between 18-year-old Hemingway and Agnes von Kurowsky, the medical aide who nursed him back to health after a devastating battlefield injury.
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"One of the most diabolical mysteries ever concocted comes to vivid life in this all-star version of the classic Agatha Christie thriller! Summoned to an isolated, elegant hotel in the middle of the desert, several strangers find themselves accused at dinner of heinous crimes that have escaped punishment ... until now. Now they're being murdered off one by one in a pattern from a chilling nursery rhyme, and suspicion grows as they realize the killer...
76) Brannigan
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"Brannigan is a tough Chicago cop who travels to London to hunt down an escaped gangster. When British officials lose track of the racketeer, Brannigan takes charge and shows stodgy Scotland Yard how things are done the good old American way. But Brannigan's also being tailed by a hit man and must bulldoze his way through danger to face his enemies in not one, but two deadly showdowns"--Container.
77) All night long
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The classic tale Othello is translated and retold to the world of 1960's London jazz clubs. Over the course of one eventful evening, during the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic partners Aurelius Rex and Delia Lane, a jealous & ambitious drummer, Johnny Cousin, attempts to tear the interracial couple apart.
78) Dunkirk
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It is early May: the year 1940. In London , the civil population, lulled into an atmosphere of false security, goes about its business as usual. even the official war communiques merely report activity on the front. But Charles Forman, war correspondent, knows better. As the war in France takes a turn for the worse, he signs on with the Merchat Navy and volunteers for the greatest mission ever mounted, the evacuation of Dunkirk.
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A cargo plane on a routine flight suddenly hits a high-turbulence storm, forcing a crash landing hundreds of miles off course in the barren Gobi desert. Among the survivors, one eccentric passenger leads the crew to build a new plane - against all odds, against all hope, and sometimes - against each other.
80) Brannigan
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Chicago police lieutenant Jim Brannigan is sent to the UK to escort organized crime boss Ben Larkin back to the USA but Larkin's hit men prepare an ambush for Brannigan.