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Fries with gravy, a cherry cola. Friendship, bragging rights...and does Sinatra or Mathis croon the best makeout music? Before there was the counterculture of the '60s, there was the counter culture.

From his Oscar-nominated script, Barry Levinson makes his directing debut with this endearing study of pals in transition. Film-debuting Ellen Barkin plays a neglected wife. Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern, Mickey Rourke, Kevin Bacon, Timothy Daly and Paul Reiser - chosen from over 600 hopefuls - play the up-all-night buddies who work out the remnants of adolescence during ritual grazings at a busy steel-and-vinyl hangout in 1959 Baltimore. Stars, laughs, interlocking stories: entertainment is the daily special in Diner.

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The Iron Lady is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of The United Kingdom.

One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world.

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In Africa two lions on a man-eating rampage have shut down the construction of a railway. The beasts hunt together, showing no tear of man or fire. What's more, they're killing for sport rather than for food - and they have an almost supernatural"! knack for knowing what traps await them.

Big-game hunter Remington (Michael Douglas) and construction engineer Patterson (Val Kilmer) set out to stop these unstoppable monsters. Rut, in this astonishing tale of man against beast, the hunters become the hunted.

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In Cranesport, Maine, former teacher Justin McLeod (Mel Gibson) has been an outsider since the day he arrived in the peaceful village. For the last seven years, his hideous scarred face and the mystery surrounding his past have made him the object of rumour and scorn.

As the only boy in his family, twelve year old Chuck Norstadt (Nkk Stahl) is living as an outsider in his own home. Chuck dreams of attending the same military school his father did - but he needs help to pass the school's gruelling entrance exam. When Chuck approaches McLeod for help, the two soon overcome their fears and differences to develop a strong friendship which transforms their lives.

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A murder trial has upset the quiet community of San Piedro, and now this tranquil village has become the center of controversy. For Ishmael Chambers (Ethan Hawke), a local reporter, the trial strikes deep emotional chord when he finds his former lover is linked to the case.

As he investigates the killing, he uncovers some startling clues that lead him to a shocking discovery.

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Glenn Ford and Italian screen legend Alida Valli star in this gripping and spectacular 1950 action drama set in the Swiss Alps. 'The White Tower' is an Alpine Peak that has never been tamed by man. It is said to be impossible to climb and to conquer. To attempt it is to invite certain death.

The White Tower killed Carla Alton's (Alida Valli) father. Now, to fulfil her father's dream, she has assembled her own team of mountaineers to attempt one last, desperate assault on the murderous mountain...A distinguished supporting cast includes Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Claude Rains and Lloyd Bridges. Based on the best-selling 1945 novel by James Ramsey Ullman.

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Inspired by the classic Universal film, The Wolfman stars Benicio Del Toro as Lawrence Talbot, a haunted nobleman who returns to his family estate after his brother's fiancee, Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt), begs him to help find her missing love.

Reunited with his estranged father (Anthony Hopkins), Talbot sets out to find his brother... and discovers that a beast with an insatiable bloodlust has been killing villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline (Hugo Weaving) has come to investigate. But as he hunts for the nightmarish beast, Talbot discovers a horrifying destiny for himself.

"The Post" tells the incredible true story of the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post's Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) and editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) as they strive to expose a massive cover-up of devastating government secrets, risking their careers and very freedom in a fight for the truth.

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After his father (Pat Hingle) finds him a job at the CIA, Christopher Boyce (Timothy Hutton) discovers the less reputable side of the American government through handling classified documents.

As he grows increasingly disillusioned, Boyce decides to sell the information to the Russians in an act of defiance. A drug-addicted friend of Boyce's, Daulton Lee (Sean Penn), becomes involved in the plot and acts as a middleman between Boyce and the Soviets but the erratic Lee fails to cover his tracks.

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As cop and criminal, two ruthless professionals have the same outlook and code. LA. Takedown, directed by Michael Mann, is a complex and gripping thriller about Vincent Hanna an obsessive cop tailing a callous and clinical armed robber Patrick McLaren.

They first meet across a crowded cafe and after a heist goes wrong Hanna and McLaren confront each other in a full scale battle on the streets of Los Angeles.

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Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner (Marcia Gay Harden) are at the centre of New York's 1940s art scene, but as Krasner neglects he work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally.

Pollock and Krasner escape to the country and marry, and soon, Pollock creates work that makes him the first internationally famous modern painter in America. But with fame and fortune comes a volatile temper and severe self-doubt; before long, Pollock's life threatens to explode.

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A blue Volvo makes it sway through the fading light on a chilly winter evening in Upstate New York. Kim, George and their eight-year old son Miles are city dwellers stealing a week-end away at a friend's country farmhouse.

But a freak accident sets off a chain of events that will alter their lives forever...

Jean Arthur stars as Alice Sycamore, the stable family member of an offbeat clan of free spirits who fall for Tony Kirby (James Stewart), the down-to-earth son of a snooty, wealthy family. Amidst a backdrop of confusion, the two very different families rediscover the simple joys of life.

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It's been eleven years since the downfall of arch-criminal and master-of-disguise Dr. Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge), now sequestered in an asylum under the watchful eye of one Professor Baum (Oskar Beregi).

Mabuse exists in a state of "catatonic graphomania", his only action the irrepressible scribbling of blueprints that would realise a seemingly theoretical "Empire of Crime". But when a series of violent events courses through the city, police and populace alike start asking themselves with increasing panic: "Who is behind all this?!" The answer borders on the realm of the impossible...

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Based on true events, A Haunting delves into shocking mysteries that plague normal people that are drawn into seemingly unexplainable events spawned from a tragedy that has left behind spirits determined to wreak havoc and have a final say.

A Haunting in Connecticut

Ed and Karen Parker rent a rambling old house in Connecticut so they can be near the hospital where their 14 year old son Paul is being treated for cancer. The day they move in they notice crucifixes hanging over the doorways and they find the basement room filled with head tags, toe tags, coffin keys and religious medals, only then do they realise the house is an old funeral parlour. Although they withhold this information from their children, Paul makes an ominous announcement; "We have to leave here...This house is evil"
A Haunting in Georgia
Andy and Lisa Wyrick are concerned that their four year old daughter Heidi, has two imaginary play mates; "Mr. Gordy", an elderly man who pushes her on the swing and "Con", a younger man Heidi describes as "missing an arm and covered in blood". When Lisa tells her neighbour of Mr. Gordy and Con, she is astonished to learn that both men once lived in the area and they've been dead for years...and so begins the family's living nightmare...