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After Veronika's failed attempt to commit suicide, she wakes up in an institution where she is given only weeks to live. As her mind begins to open, she falls in love with a curiously quiet and intriguing patient who rejuvenates her emotions and thirst for the splendor that life has to offer. Includes previews, and trailers.
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Criterion collection volume 920
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A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s.
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The daughter of a pair of werewolves lives in Paris where her mother and stepfather are trying to overcome her lycanthropic disease. A trio of American tourists on a thrill seeking trip around Europe manage to stop her from plunging to her death from the top of the Eiffel tower and are embroiled in a horrific but often hilarious plot.
25) Drama/Mex
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Español
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Two interlaced stories unfold over the course of the same long, hot day in the once lush and now decadent resort town of Acapulco. The first involves the beautiful and cool Fernanda, who is forced to deal with the sudden emergence of her ex-lover, Chino. Her boyfriend, Gonzalo, must now compete with the intense sexual tension Fernanda and Chino share. The second story concerns Jamie, an office worker with hidden indiscretions, attempting suicide in...
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A gritty crime-thriller starring Mel Gibson that tells the tale of two narcotics agents hunting for a cop killer during a crack epidemic. Hoping for leads, Moran and Thorton pay off a junkie informant. Then, in an attempt to provide for his wife and son, Moran involves the stool pigeon in a deadly scheme. This causes the partners to come under the scrutiny of a suspicious internal affairs agent, leading to an explosive finale.
27) Better off dead
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"After Beth, the girl of his dreams, dumps him for the school's arrogant ski-team captain, Lane's prolific and dark imagination runs overtime. He wavers between bungling attempts to kill himself and inept efforts to win his ex-girlfriend back. All the while, Lane's also dealing with his quirky family, dodging a relentless paperboy who's out to collect, amd meeting the charming French exchange student next door who just might be the unexpected key...
28) Permanent record
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David is a popular high school student who seems to have it all-- right up to the very moment he kills himself. He leaves behind a devasted family, stunned friends, and a lot of unanswered questions. Chris is David's best friend and band mate, who seeks answers to those questions as he struggles to come to terms with what happened, without being able to understand why. Chris finds himself overwhelmed and angered by David's sudden, terrible act.
29) Just before I go
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After his wife leaves him, Ted Morgan realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he feels are responsible for creating the shell of a person he has become. The more determined Ted is to confront his demons, to get closure, and to withdraw from his family, the more Ted is yanked into the chaos of their lives. So, when Ted Morgan decides to kill himself, he finds a reason...
30) 2:37
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The story of six high school students and the day that will change their lives forever. Each one, including a popular jock, an awkward outcast, a fragile beauty, an academic overachiever and a closet homosexual, has a dark secret. Every secret carries its own tortuous weight. And for one of them, the pressure will explode today at exactly 2:37.
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George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all and it's Christmas! As the angels discuss George, his life is shown in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence. Clarence then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn't been for all of his good deeds over the years. Will Clarence be able to convince George to return to his family and forget suicide?...
32) Turnabout
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After a troubled man tries to commit suicide, his old friend comes to his rescue, but, soon enough, that friend gets dragged under and into a dark world of temptations.
33) Tormented
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"Can revenge reach beyond the grave? When Darren Mullet, an awkward, bullied boy commits suicide, few kids at his school can do anything but snicker, except for sweet Justine, who delivers a eulogy but admits she can't remember ever meeting the boy. But Mullet knew her, and remembered every humiliation he suffered at school. When his unrepentant tormentors begin getting weird and threatening text messages from the dead boy's phone, they believe they're...
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With impeccable timing, a middle-aged man on the verge of ending his own life receives a huge inheritance. His instant wealth coincides with a likable young woman and her precocious young daughter entering his pleasure-free life. As his feelings for the two grow, his plan to have the money go toward caring for his abusive, mentally-disturbed mother starts going by the wayside.
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"When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancé Elliott Carson probes her relationship to stage mentalist John Triton. In flashback, we see how Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. His partner, Whitney Courtland, uses Triton's talent to make money; but Triton's inability to prevent what he foresees causes him to break up the act and become a hermit. Years later, Triton has new visions and desperately tries to prevent...
36) Grace & gravity
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John Palmer, and American Christian on a work assignment in the UK, stumbles across Chris Arnold, a British atheist who is about to end his life by leaping from a bridge. John's attempts to share his faith are fiercely rejected by Chris, a quick witted and sarcastic Brit who knows the Bible better than he does. John realizes that it will take more than words to save Chris's life.
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"Based on an actual incident reported in 'Time' magazine, Sydney Pollack's feature film directorial debut deals with a woman [who] takes an overdose of prescription pills and calls a crisis clinic for help. [A] college volunteer tries to keep the suicidal woman on the line while asking the police to trace the call"--Container.
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Criterion collection volume 531
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Roughnecker stoker Bill Roberts gets into all sorts of trouble during a brief shore leave when he falls hard for Mae, a wise and weary dance-hall girl, in Josef von Sternberg's evocative portrait of working-class waterfront folk.
39) Guns for hire
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Beatle is a quirky loner who refuses to live by society's rules. Her business cards read 'Towing/Assassination, ' and she even has a hit man infomercial to go along with it. Her only human contact is with her psychiatrist and the stripper/hooker she employs once a week. Everything changes the night she meets Athena Klendon, a suicidal blonde with a secret. With a demented killer on their tail, courtesy of Athena's crooked former employer, the two...
40) "The end"
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Burt Reynolds plays a man who discovers that he has six months to live and prefers to commit suicide but keeps botching the job.
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