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When a vivacious half-breed Indian girl named Pearl (Jennifer Jones) is sent to live with the Texas land baron Senator McCanles (Lionel Barrymore), conflict abruptly arises. Hot-blooded Pearl captures the attention of the Senator's sons: Jesse (Joseph Cotten) and fiery Lewt (Gregory Peck).

Soon both of the brothers are vying for her affections, leading to betrayal, wild desert shoot-outs and a lustful but destructive love-hate relationship between Pearl and Lewt.

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Elroy 'Junior' Jackson (Jeff Bridges) is a kid full of attitude who helps his bootlegger father run their homemade whiskey. When Junior crashes into a police blockade, they arrest his father who's looking at a lengthy prison stretch.

Junior needs to raise some fast cash to get him released and hits the demolition derby circuit. His natural skill behind a wheel sees him swiftly move on to stock car racing and finally a chance to make it big on the famous 'Nascar' circuit.

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The enigmatic Vampire Hunter known only as D has been hired to track down Meier Link, a notoriously powerful vampire who has abducted a human woman named Charlotte Elbourne. D's orders are strict - find Charlotte, at any cost. For the first time D faces serious competition.

The Markus Brothers, a family of Vampire Hunters, have been hired for the same bounty. D must intercept Meier and conquer hostile forces on all sides in a deadly race against time. Despised by Vampires for his profession and by Humans for the blood in his veins, D relentlessly pursues his prey, little expecting where his journey will ultimately take him, as long buried secrets resurface once more.

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What if there was no tomorrow? What if you knew the world was coming to an end? How - and with whom - would you spend your last hours on earth? These are the questions facing a number of very different individuals ahead of the millennium in this beautifully shot drama.

Don McKellar plays an architect who plans to meet his maker alone, while others party, or pray, in groups. A recently married couple make a suicide pact, but are caught apart and struggle to get back together. One man pursues final sexual conquests and a weak woman strives to gain courage. As the end of the world approaches, these strangers' lives end up interacting.

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Russia, early 1990s. Amid post-Soviet chaos, a brilliant young man, Vadim Baranov (Paul Dano), charts his path. First an artist, then a reality TV producer, he becomes the spin doctor to a rising KGB agent: Vladimir Putin (Jude Law).

At the heart of power, Baranov shapes the new Russia, blurring the boundaries between truth and lies, belief and manipulation. Only the magnetic Ksenia (Alicia Vikander) is beyond his control, tempting him away from this dangerous game. Years later, after retreating into silence and shrouded in mystery, Baranov finally opens up, revealing the dark secrets of the regime he helped build.

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Taylor (David Jonsson) gets by in prison, a world of parties, drugs, violence and gangs and so far, has kept out of trouble. However, with the arrival of new cellmate Dee (Tom Blyth), the chance to make early parole and get his life back are put in jeopardy.

'Wasteman' is an intense and emotionally charged thriller about loyalty, survival and the true cost of redemption.

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Frank, Roger and their wives take off for Colorado in a recreational vehicle, looking forward to some skiing and dirt biking.

While camping en route, they witness a satanic ritual human sacrifice, but local sheriff finds no evidence to support their claims and urges them to continue on their vacation. On the way, however, they find themselves repeatedly attacked by cult members, and they take measures to defend themselves.

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Michael Chambers (Peter Gallagher) is a drifter and a charmer living on his good looks and luck. When he returns to the place he calls "home", he is greeted by a mother starting her new life, a brother driven by jealous rage and Rachel (Alison Elliot), the woman he left behind.

In a frantic attempt to get Rachel back, Michael makes a desperate and very dangerous deal. When passion ignites into obsession, a treacherous game of "who do you trust?" spins a deadly web of intrigue and murder.

Rex Harrison is the orchestra conductor who believes his wife has been having an affair. While conducting, he plans various forms of revenge, each played out with the greatest of precision and skill. When it comes to putting his plans into action things run a little less smoothly.

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Psychotic arsonist Dennis Pitt (Anthony Perkins) is not long out of jail when he befriends young high school student Sue Ann (Tuesday Weld). He explains he is a secret agent on a mission and she is thrilled to team up with him.

But it soon becomes unclear who is manipulating who, as Sue Ann has some psychological issues and a murderous intent of her own.

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Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson star in this ground-breaking comedy classic. Way ahead of its time, it's been described as 'Pythonesque' and has influenced generations of comedians.

Somewhere amid the non-stop gags and hysterical mayhem there's a plot involving the staging of a musical, a romance, a bumbling private eye and a man who keeps wandering on with a pot plant for 'Mrs Jones'! But any plot is incidental to the speed, imagination and sheer craziness that has been said to outstrip the Marx Brothers (Time Out Film Guide). And there's even room for the greatest Lindy Hop dance routine ever filmed.

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When two business colleagues (Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien) become stranded on a deserted island as the only survivors of a plane crash, they must overcome past grievances and work together to stay alive.

But they're not in the office anymore, and an unsettling, wryly humorous battle of wills and wits begins in this original, darkly comedic psychological thriller.

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Superbly directed by Frank Perry (The Swimmer, Play It as It Lays), with a scathing screenplay by Eleanor Perry (David and Lisa, Ladybug Ladybug), 'Diary of a Mad Housewife' tells the story of Tina Balser (Carrie Snodgress) a frustrated housewife trapped in an unhappy marriage to an insufferably

controlling, status-obsessed bore (Richard Benjamin). Tina seeks solace in a fling with an abusive lover, the arrogant writer Georg Prager (Frank Langella), who treats her like a sex object, leading to therapy and further unhappiness.

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After antiwar activists Annie and Arthur Pope (Christine Lahti and Judd Hirsh) blew up a napalm lab in 1971, they became lifelong fugitives. They and their children have stayed just one step ahead of the law, running from state to state, job to job, identity to identity.

But now elder son Danny (River Phoenix) wants to stop running from a past not his. And to do so, he might never see his on-the-lam family again.

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When Marine Captain Bob Hyde (Bruce Dern) leaves for Vietnam, his wife Sally (Jane Fonda) volunteers at a local hospital. There she meets Luke Martin (Jon Voight), a former sergeant whose war injury has left him a paraplegic.

Embittered with rage and filled with frustration, Luke finds new hope and confidence through his growing intimacy with Sally. The relationship also transforms Sally's feelings about life, love and the horrors of war. And when, wounded and disillusioned, Sally's husband returns home, all three must grapple with the full impact of a brutal, distant war that has changed their lives forever.