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21) Oliver's Story
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English
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The love story continues. Ryan O'Neal returns as Oliver Barrett IV in Oliver's Story, based on Erich Segal's follow-up novel to Love Story. Candice Bergen (TV's Murphy Brown) brings elegant charm to the role of Marcie Bonwitt, a recently divorced career woman. The two are a perfect match-equally rich and beautiful, equally independent and yet vulnerable from their respective losses, and equally shy about commitment to another person. Through his relationship...
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Catherine Sloper (Jennifer Jason Leigh), favored by neither beauty nor brilliance, is a wallflower of another age. the daughter of a wealthy and distinguished physician (Albert Finney), she has forever been the victim of her father's callous remarks that she possesses none of her deceased mother's loveliness, charm or finesse. Under her father's oppression, Catherine is a shy and awkward young woman tottering into spinsterhood - until she is suddenly...
23) Letting Go
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English
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Unlucky in love, strangled at work, and tormented at home, Joel Slater is desperately searching for a way to juggle his life. But sometimes, the secret to happiness begins with Letting Go.
24) Just A Sigh
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Français
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A dreamlike exploration of an inexplicable, overwhelming passion, JUST A SIGH is set in motion when a broke actress (Emmanuelle Devos) who's between stage performances in Calais takes a quick jaunt to Paris for an audition. On the train, she meets an attractive, mysterious Irish stranger (Gabriel Byrne). Intrigued, she follows him into the metropolis and soon finds herself facing the possibility of an entirely new life.
25) The Gift Of Love
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English
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A wealthy Orphan is dutifully resigned to an arranged-for marriage to a man of "socially acceptable class", but when her heart is captured by a young Swiss immigrant, she struggles between her relative's expectations, and her own heart.
26) Gross Anatomy
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English
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Most first-year med students at Chandler University's esteemed school of medicine approach gross anatomy the systematic dissection of the human body with fear, nervous stomachs, and the daunting knowledge that their futures depend on a passing grade. Joe Slovak isn't like his fellow freshmen. A cocky, bright, and outspoken rebel who doesn't believe in sacrificing his social life for long nights of studying, Joe follows his own lesson plan, a curriculum...
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中文(繁體)
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A delicious comedy about food, fatherhood and family ties. Widower Tao Chu, Taiwan's most famous chef, struggles with accepting his three daughters' newfound appetite for boys, an interest that begins to break the family apart with hilarious and often touching results.
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Financial manager by day and musician by night, Nate Holden hears a beautiful female voice one evening singing outside his apartment in sync while he plays his piano. Mysteriously, the voice turns out to be the coat check girl at the local jazz club. After Nate strikes a deal with Chloe to perform with him, their chemistry undeniably becomes closer with every song they play.
29) Northanger Abbey
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Intrigue, adventure, and romance fill this enchanting dramatization of Jane Austen's last novel. With a love of Gothic tales and a head full of fantasy and fiction, young Catherine Morland enters the decadent society of 18th-century Bath. When Henry Tilney invites her to his ancestral home, Northanger Abbey, a dark mystery makes her blood run cold. What does the sinister General Tilney want? Will the truth destroy her one chance at love?
30) Hard Time Bus
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English
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Mark Bishop's carefree, happy life is turned upside down when he learns that his fiancee is thinking about leaving the country with another man. Set in London with an all-black cast.
31) Falling In Love
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English
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Falling In Love is a shining example of the magic that's created when two of Hollywood's biggest and brightest stars join forces in one special film. Multiple Academy Award Winners Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep are together again for the first time since The Deer Hunter. In Falling In Love they play Frank Raftis and Molly Gilmore, two everyday people who meet first by chance, and later by choice. There's just one thing standing between Frank and...
32) Short Term 12
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Short Term 12 is told through the eyes of Grace (Brie Larson), a twenty-something supervisor at a foster care facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker, committed to the kids in her charge – and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason (John Gallagher Jr.). While the subject matter is complex, this lovingly realized film finds truth and humor in unexpected places.
33) Un Amor
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Español
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Childhood friends Bruno and Lalo are inseperable, until Lisa enters their lives. Beautiful and free-spirited, she quickly turns both their heads, igniting a passionate but heartbreaking love triangle - before suddenly leaving town without a word. Lisa resurfaces much later; Bruno is married and Lalo divorced, and none have them have been able to completely shake their memories of that summer 30 years ago. When Lisa reunites the group, those old feelings...
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New Yorker Harvey Shine (Academy-Award®-winner Dustin Hoffman) is on the verge of losing his dead-end job as a jingle writer. Warned by his boss (Richard Schiff) that he has just one more chance to deliver, Harvey goes to London for a weekend wedding for his daughter but promises to be back on Monday. When he misses the plane and is fired on the spot, Harvey strikes up a conversation with Kate (Academy-Award®-winner Emma Thompson), a slightly prickly,...
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Greta's (Hilary Duff of A CINDERELLA STORY) a trip, but she's no vacation. At sixteen, she's beautiful, seriously rebellious, and full of sarcastic wit that barely disguises her hurt inside. Pushed aside by her mother, Greta is shipped off to her grandparents for the summer, and she's not happy about it. In fact, she fully intends to kill herself before the summer is over and is currently compiling a notebook of suicide methods. Greta is a stunning...
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George Gattling (Giamatti) finds little fulfillment as an auto upholsterer, the patriarch of a broken family, and the occasional lover of a lonely psychology student (Williams). When stricken with a family tragedy, George becomes obsessed with taming a wild, red-tail hawk. At his weakest moment, he locks himself into a battle of wills with a fierce creature that would rather die than succumb.
37) Daydream Nation
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Caroline (Kat Dennings of THE 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN, NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST, TV's 2 BROKE GIRLS) is facing a teenager's nightmare: Her widowed father has moved them from the city to a tiny town in the middle of nowhere where the major tourist attraction is an industrial fire that seems destined to burn forever. Concocting new ways of getting high is a major hobby for most of Caroline's classmates, including the lovelorn...
38) Eastern Boys
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Français
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Arriving from all over Eastern Europe, the men who loiter around the Gare du Nord train station in Paris are scraping by however they can, forming gangs for support and protection, ever fearful of being caught by the police and deported. When the middle-aged, bourgeois Daniel approaches a boyishly handsome Ukrainian who calls himself Marek for a date, he learns the young man is willing to do anything for some cash. What Daniel intends only as sex-for-hire...
39) Speechless
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Mandarin
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A guy is found by the police swimming naked. He can't, or refuses to, speak and is sent to a hospital. Since no diagnosis can be made, he will be transferred to a mental hospital, when his male nurse decides to take another route. Slowly the reason for his speechlessness becomes clear. Together with the nurse's girlfriend and a female friend of the silent stranger, their history is explained.
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