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Top gun: At the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School, cocky, young pilots compete against one another in the air as well as on the ground. Bonus features include commentary, featurette, music videos, behind-the-scenes, and more.
Jerry Maguire: A sports agent suffers a mental breakdown and must place all his chips on one athlete to save his career.
Mission impossible: Ethan Hunt, a secret agent framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from...
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In the early 1930's, before Hollywood began enforcing a self-imposed Production Code, many films allowed for extraordinary frankness including nudity, adultery and prostitution. In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles. In this restored and remastered three-movie collection, three daring young actresses are featured in racy, riveting star vehicles. Jean Harlow...
85) Patch Adams
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Based on the true story of a compassionate but outrageous med student who risks his career by defying the medical profession with his unwavering belief that laughter is the best medicine.
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Glass key: "Ed Beaumont ... is the loyal right-hand man of Paul Madvig ... , a slightly corrupt politician who is accused of murder"--Container.
Phantom lady: "Carol Richman ... attempts to clear her boss ... of a murder he did not commit"--Container.
Blue dahlia: "A WWII veteran ... is accused of killing his unfaithful wife and races against time to find the real murderer with the help of a sympathetic stranger"--Container.
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Internes Can't Take Money: Bullets fly and tensions rise when a desperate woman (Barbara Stanwyck) must turn to Dr. Kildare (Joel McCrea) for help getting her child back from gangsters. ; The Great Man's Lady : A reflective 100-year old woman (Barbara Stanwyck) looks back on her extraordinary sacrifice helped her husband (Joel McCrea) become one of the nation's greatest men. ;The Bride Wore Boots: It's a comedy of errors when a bookish husband (Robert...
88) The hard way
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To help bring some authenticity to his next role, a Hollywood movie star teams up with a street-wise New York City detective who's none-too-thrilled about him tagging along on the trail of a cold-blooded serial killer.
89) Phantom lady
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An unhappily married man spends the evening on a no-names basis with a woman he picks up at a bar. He later returns home, only to find the police in possession and his wife strangled. Every effort to establish his alibi fails; oddly, no one seems to remember seeing the phantom lady. In prison, the man gives up hope, but his secretary (secretly in love with him) doggedly follows evanescent clues through shadowy nocturnal streets. Will she be able to...
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Coal miner's daughter: The story of country singer Loretta Lynn.
The best little whorehouse in Texas: The town sheriff and regular patron attempts to save the legendary Chicken Ranch from a television preacher.
Smokey and the bandit: A trucker takes on a runaway bride and a trailer full of beer with a sheriff in hot pursuit.
Fried green tomatoes: An unhappy housewife befriends an elderly woman in a nursing home and hears her remarkable story.
93) Harvey
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"Good-natured Elwood P. Dowd, whose constant companion is Harvey, a six-foot tall rabbit that only he can see. To his sister, Veta Louise, Elwood's obsession with Harvey has been a thorn in the side of her plans to marry off her daughter. When Veta Louise decides to put Elwood in a mental hospital, a hilarious mix-up occurs and she finds herself committed instead. It's up to Elwood to straighten out the mess with his kindly philosophy, and his 'imaginary'...
94) Munich
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Inspired by real events, this reveals the intense story of the secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and assassinate the eleven Palestinians believed to have planned the 1972 Munich massacre of eleven Israeli athletes and the personal toll this mission of revenge takes on the team and the man who led it.
95) Straight outta Compton ; screenplay by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff ; directed by Gary Gray
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In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking viewers back to where it all began, the film tells the true story of how these cultural rebels-armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent-stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world's...
96) Because of him
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A young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous Broadway star.
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Lon Chaney as Quasimodo looks as if he had just stepped out from the original illustrations of Victor Hugo's novel. The sets depicting fifteenth-century Paris covered nineteen acres of Universal Pictures' back lot and included the facade of Notre Dame Cathedral. Filming took six months and the climactic sequence employed 2000 extras, but it's Lon Chaney's performance that makes the character unforgettable. Mastered from a multi-tinted 16mm print struck...
100) Uncle Tom's cabin
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Eliza is a slave who flees a Kentucky plantation after her son and a dignified father figure, Uncle Tom, are sold to a rival landowner. Her Dickensian quest eventually places her in the backwater kingdom of the sadistic Simon Legree. But the film's most memorable sequence is Eliza's flight to freedom across a treacherous ice floe (a staple of the many stage productions, which D.W. Griffith shamelessly appropriated for his 1920 film Way Down East)....