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Nick Lang (Michael J Fox) is a popular movie star who desperately wants to break out of his "nice guy" screen image.

Believing he'll land a role as a tough homicide detective if he can hang out with the real thing, Lang leaves Hollywood to spend a few weeks on the streets of New York with detective John Moss (James Woods). A gritty no-nonsense cop on the trail of a ruthless serial killer, the last thing Moss needs is an annoying sidekick. But his boss - a fan of Nick Lang's movies - insists, and Moss must find ways to get Lang out of his hair while pursuing the murderer.

When Communist paratroopers descend on a high school football field in Colorado, a group of the school's students wages an all-out guerilla war to save their town - and their country! An all-star cast, including Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen and Harry Dean Stanton, delivers powerful performances in this gripping story of courage and patriotism.

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Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new principal Rick Latimer (James Belushi) bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns -when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security (Louis Gossett, Jr.

) try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.

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Brie Larson puts in a star making performance as the passionate and tough Grace, a formidable friend of the kids in her charge, and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason (John Gallagher Jr.).

But Grace's inability to open up emotionally has put a strain on their relationship, and when she crosses paths with a gifted, but troubled teenage girl with whom she has a charged connection, she is forced to confront her own past and to face the surprising future that suddenly presents itself.

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When the otherwise peaceful American town of Tarker's Mills is disrupted by the horrific discoveries of mutilated bodies of residents, the whole town is out for justice. The population believes this to be the work of a maniac, but during a search a mysterious, hairy creature is spotted.

This strange creature is noticed only once a month, and always by the full moon…

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Elizabeth Olsen stars as a rookie FBI agent tasked with solving the brutal murder of a young woman in a Native American reserve. Enlisting the help of a local hunter (Jeremy Renner) to help her navigate the freezing wilderness, the two set about trying to find a vicious killer hidden in plain sight.

The closer they get to the truth the greater the danger becomes with a town full of explosive secrets ready to fight back.

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When former boxer Bradley Thomas (Vince Vaughn) loses his job and is faced with the breakdown of his marriage, he decides to take a job as a drug courier to turn his fortunes around and provide a comfortable life for his wife Lauren (Jennifer Carpenter).

Just as his situation begins to improve, a savage gunfight lands Bradley in jail where he has to make a series of impossible, chilling decisions to protect those he holds dear. Backed into a corner, Bradley now finds himself forced to commit ever more ferocious acts of violence across a vicious prison battleground on the path to the most dangerous confinement of all - Cell Block 99 .

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Best friends Anthony (Luke Wilson), Dignan (Owen Wilson), and Bob (Robert Musgrave) stage a wildly complex, mildly successful robbery of a small bookstore, then go "on the lam".

During their adventures, Anthony falls in love with a South American housekeeper, Inez (Lumi Cavazos), and they befriend local thief extraordinaire Mr. Henry (James Caan). 'Bottle Rocket' is a charming, hilarious, affectionate look at the folly of dreamers, shot against radiant southwestern backdrops, and the film that put Anderson and the Wilson brothers on the map.

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"Amadeus" triumphs as gripping human drama, sumptuous period epic, glorious celebration of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It's 1781 and Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) is the competent court composer to Emperor Joseph II.

When Mozart (Tom Hulce) arrives at court, Salieri is horrified to discover that the godlike musical gifts he desires for himself have been bestowed on a bawdy, impish jokester. Mad with envy, he plots to destroy Mozart by any means. Perhaps, even murder.

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New York in 1963 and if you're young you belong to a gang and if you're Italian you belong to 'The Wanderers'. A collection of kids caught up in love, friendship and pubescent fumbles.

Interspersed in their lives are bitter clashes with rival gangs - none more feared than the Baldies and their heavyweight leader Terror.

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Scott (Keifer Sutherland) and Ralph (Robert Downey Jr.), two small-town class-of-'67 high school graduates, venture off to college to sow some wild oats - and stay one step ahead of the draft board.

But when Ralph is expelled from school, he suddenly becomes a prime candidate for serving in his country's armed forces. And when the lifelong friends take drastic - and illegal - measures to ensure Ralph's freedom, they trigger a chain of events that will forever change their friendship, their lives… and how a town thinks of war.

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When two brothers uncover the startling secret of the living dead following the murder of their friend, what seems like a horrible unending nightmare becomes terrifying reality! A mortuary's embalming cellar is the site for supernatural evil- including a floating sphere with razor-sharp protruding

daggers which seeks out victims and drains the blood from their heads. As the brothers learn more and more about what is really going on at Morningside Mortuary, they get deeper into trouble... until it may be too late to escape!

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Big time rock singer Ellen Aim (Diane Lane) is playing her hometown when she is grabbed from the stage by local bike gang The Bombers, led by the menacing Raven (Willem Dafoe).

Tom Cody (Michael Paré), a tough ex-soldier and Ellen's ex-boyfriend returns home to get her back and he's ready to take on the whole gang.

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Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Matthew McConaughey and Kevin Spacey portray the principals in a murder trial that brings a small Mississippi town’s racial tensions to the flashpoint.

Amid a frenzy of activist marches, Klan terror, media clamour and brutal riots, an unseasoned but idealistic young attorney mounts a stirring courtroom battle for justice.

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New Grenada is a planned community in the rolling plains west of Denver. It is a soulless oasis of split level homes, coffee mornings and crushing blandness, where the adults strive to attract investment and their neglected kids are left to make their own entertainment.

When the youth centre closes at dusk, this means vandalism, drug-taking, theft and general hooliganism, resulting in the accidental shooting of a police officer. When the town's parents gather the next night to discuss the degeneration situation, they soon discover the kids have had all they can take.