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21) Thief
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Criterion collection volume 691
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Frank is a professional safecracker. He wants to quit to start a new life, but the mobsters disagree.
22) Cougars, Inc
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Sam has been kicked out of every school across the country. When he learns that his mother can no longer afford to keep him in school, he and his friends start their own escort service, Cougars, Inc., to help pay for his tuition. Through this hilarious new job, Sam and his friends explore the generation of 'Cougars' who are desperately trying to stay young, and love every lesson they are taught. Special features include commentary, a featurette, and...
23) Show me a hero
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In an America generations removed from the greatest civil rights struggles of the 1960s, the young mayor of a mid-sized American city is faced with a federal court order that says he must build a small number of low-income housing units in the white neighborhoods of his town. His attempt to do so tears the entire city apart, paralyzes the municipal government and, ultimately, destroys the mayor and his political future.
24) The hollow point
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When a drug cartel deal goes horribly wrong, a sheriff with violent tendencies and his young replacement join forces to investigate.
25) Curly Sue
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Chicago. Another town, another innocent scam for vagabond Bill Dancer and the curly-topped orphan he's cared for since infancy. This time, however, Bill hits the jackpot and his newest con whisks them both from the poorhouse to the penthouse with lots of laughs along the way.
26) Only the lonely
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Comedy about a 38-year old Chicago cop who still lives with his mother, a domineering widow used to controlling her son's life. When he meets and falls in love with a young woman, Mama sets out to break up the romance.
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"Hubie is a hopeless romantic in love with Marina, the most beautiful penguin in all of Antarctica. When he magically stumbles upon the perfect pebble, he knows he has to find the courage to ask Marina to mate with him for life. But the evil penguin Drake, who also wants Marina, has other plans, and he throws Hubie into the ocean. Castaway Hubie meets the fearless Rocko, a penguin determined to fly, and together they must get Hubie home before the...
28) Mademen
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A man in the Federal Witness Protection Program got caught stealing 12 million dollars from some very bad men. Double crossed by his own wife, this former "made man" must outwit four mobsters sent to track him down and a crooked sheriff.
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A star-studded computer-generated movie that lends a madcap twist to the cherished "Nutcracker" tale. When young teen, Marie, falls asleep awaiting the return of her parents, she enters the magical world of her Nutcracker Prince-- a gift from her uncle. Together with a zany band of mixed nuts and a sugar Plum Fairy, Marie helps her prince reclaim his kingdom from Reginald, the evil Mouse King.
30) K-9
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English
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Thomas Dooley, an unorthodox narcotics cop, teams with Jerry Lee, a superbly trained police dog, to bust drug dealers. Not too thrilled to be paired up, through a series of shoot-outs, brawls and romantic misadventures, they develop a grudging respect for each other.
31) Twin Peaks
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English
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Picks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town are stunned when their homecoming queen is murdered.
34) Mr. Destiny
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A junior executive finds his wildest dreams have come true when he bumps into a mysterious stranger.
35) Real men
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Nick Pirandello, the best CIA agent in the world, recruits Bob Wilson, a meek, ultra civilized paper pusher who avoids confrontation at all costs, for a vital mission. It's no easy job because they're being chased by the Russians as well as renegade CIA agents, but in the course of their adventure each learns something from the other.
36) The jungle
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Upton Sinclair's novel The jungle brought to light the appalling sanitation and working conditions of Chicago's meatpacking industry. This program presents the life of author and polemicist Upton Sinclair, including contributions to literature and journalism as well as to social reform, and how his novel prompted Congress to pass the first food safety laws.
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Jim is the macho Everyman who challenges his gorgeous and feisty wife, Cheryl, with his stubborn manliness but contagious charm. Tagging along with Jim and Cheryl are their three precocious kids. A success at his construction business and the family breadwinner at home, Jim feeds his other passion - blues music - playing with his six-man garage band. He keeps Cheryl in turmoil with his boyish bravado and ever willful antics, but their underlying love...
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K-9, K-911, and K-9: P.I., three comedies featuring James Belushi as a cop with a partner, a dog Jerry Lee, a German shepherd. They weren't exactly the perfect pair, but when this cop learns to trust his new best friend, and his dog teaches his "master" a few new tricks, these two unlikely partners become an unstoppable team. It's a guaranteed case of high-speed thrills, wall-to-wall action and out-of-control laughs, because when these two are unleashed,...