Edward R. Pressman
21) Plenty
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Screen adaptation of David Hare's highly acclaimed masterpiece charting the clash of attitudes in the post-war world. Susan Traherne returns home to Britain after World War II, haunted by her experiences as a Resistance fighter in occupied France. Strong-willed and confident, Susan's unconventional behavior begins to destroy her own sanity and alters irreparably the lives of those around her.
22) Sisters
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Two sisters, joined at birth as Siamese twins, are separated in late adolescence. One is lovely, gentle, kind-- the other is quite mad.
23) Homicide
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Criterion collection volume 486
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"Inner-city polive detective Bobby Gold is as bewildered about who he is as who (or what) he's after. Gold's investigation, following the murder of an elderly Jewish candy shop owner leads him down a path of obscure encounters and clues, to a profound reckoning with his own identity"--Container.
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Planet Eternia and the Castle of Greyskull are under threat from the evil Skeletor who wants to take over the planet. A group of freedom fighters, led by the heroic He-Man are accidentally transported to Earth by a mysterious Cosmic Key, which holds the power to make Skeletor all-powerful. Once on Earth, He-Man joins alliances with two teenagers as they attempt to find the key and return home.
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Dr. Moreau is brilliant geneticist on the brink of superseding evolution. When a U.N. diplomat visits the island laboratory he discovers experiments turning animal life forms into human-like beasts. The beasts revolt, threatening not only the island but ultimately all mankind.
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The crow: city of angels: After a brutal attack by an evil drug cartel, the murder victim is brought back to life by a mysterious crow. He destroys his killers one by one, but an enemy has discovered the weakness that can get rid of the hero forever.
The crow: wicked prayer: Luc Crash is the leader of a satanic gang of bikers who murders a young man named Jimmy Cuervo and his girlfriend Lily. Crash's purpose for the murder is to complete a ritual...
27) Judge Dredd
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In a future world where Judges hold the authority of police and the legal system, a former judge plots an overthrow of the government and battles against Dredd (Stallone) in his efforts.
28) Cherry 2000
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When Sam Treadwell permanently short circuits his Cherry 2000 on a wet kitchen floor, he promptly sets out to find replacement parts to reincarnate his perfect man-made woman. Enlisting the aid of a strong-willed, red-headed female tracker, E. Johnson, the two set off for the feared "lawless zone"--The only place where Cherry 2000 parts still exist.
29) Street fighter
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Guile and his companions use their martial arts skills to combat the evil General Bison, who wants to take over the world.
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Criterion collection volume 963
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Harry, a devilish charmer from the Deep South, turns up out of the blue on the South Central Los Angeles doorstep of his old friends. In short order, Harry's presence turns a seemingly peaceful household upside down, exposing smoldering tensions between parents and children, tradition and change, virtue and temptation. Interweaving evocative strains of gospel and blues with rich, poetic-realist images, it is a sublimely stirring film from an autonomous...
31) Blue steel
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Rookie cop Megan Turner is suspended after she kills an armed robber her first night out and no gun is found at the scene. The missing gun has been snatched by Eugene Hunt, a commodities trader and a witness to the shooting. He develops a sick fascination with Megan and commits a series of murders with her name on the bullets. At the same time, Eugene begins dating Megan, but when she finally realizes that he's the serial killer, the young policewoman...
32) The crow
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The tale of young musician Eric Draven who, along with his fiancee, is murdered on the eve of their Halloween wedding. Exactly one year after their deaths, Eric is risen from the grave by a mysterious crow to seek out his killers and force them to answer for their crimes.
34) Dream lover
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A recently married man suspects that his wife's past is not what she's led him to believe.
35) The hand
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A gifted cartoonist's life comes apart at the seams when his drawing hand is accidentally severed. Slowly, painfully, he tries to adjust, but a terrifying evil creeps into his consciousness. And one by one, the people who stand in his way begin to die.
36) American psycho
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A young, handsome man with a Harvard education and success on Wall Street has terrible urges that take him in pursuit of women, greed, and murder.
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Wall Street: A financial wizard who lures an ambitious young broker is lured into the illegal, lucrative world of corporate espionage in this gripping morality tale about the American dream gone wrong. (1987).
Wall Street: money never sleeps: Following a lengthy prison term, Gordon Gekko finds himself on the outside looking in at a world he once commanded. Hoping to repair his relationship with his daughter, Winnie, Gekko forges an alliance with...
39) Bad lieutenant
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A middle aged policeman has no escape from his underground connections with gamblers, drug dealers and cheap sex. A case of a raped nun who forgives her aggressors shakes him deeply. But his quest for changing his life comes too late. The gang he owes gambling money to has no more patience, and shoots him dead.
40) Street fighter
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English
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Guile and his companions use their martial arts skills to combat the evil General Bison, who wants to take over the world.