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1) Hoosiers
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English
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A basketball coach with a checkered past becomes the new coach of the underdog high school basketball team in a 1951 sleepy Indiana farm town, using methods that infuriate the townspeople.
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A stowaway from darkest Peru, Paddington eventually finds himself alone in Paddington Station, a tag around his neck reading: 'Please look after this bear. Thank you.' When the Brown family takes him home, they get a lot more than they bargained for. Contains 56 episodes, plus three half -hour TV specials, and 15 bonus episodes.
3) Hatari!
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Director Howard Hawks reteams with John Wayne, who heads a group of highly skilled professional game hunters in Africa. Only they don’t use bullets – they capture the ferocious big game with strong rope and cameras for zoos and circus attractions. Nominated for an **Academy Award** for Best Cinematography, Color. *"one of those rare films that genuinely constitutes a 'late masterpiece'." - Derek Adams, **Time Out***
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On the planet Krypton nobody believes Jor-El when he tells them that the planet is doomed. So he and his wife ship their baby son on his way to Earth as the planet explodes. The baby is found by farmers and raise as their own child. As the baby grows to manhood, he learns he possesses super-powers he must hide from the ordinary mortals around him. But the time comes when Supermans powers for good are revealed to the world. Superman battles with supercriminal...
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In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate and start a family. This courtship will begin with a long journey - a journey that will take them hundreds of miles across the continent by foot, one by one in a single file. They will endure freezing temperatures, in brittle, icy winds and through deep, treacherous waters. They will risk starvation and attack by dangerous predators, under the harshest...
7) Blade runner
Pub. Date
[1999]
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English
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Rick Deckard prowls the steel-and-microchip jungle of 21st-century Los Angeles. He's a "blade runner" stalking genetically-made criminal replicants. His assignment: kill them. Their crime: wanting to be human. This new version omits Deckard's voiceover narration, develops in slightly greater detail the romance between Deckard and Rachel, and removes the "uplifting" finale.
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[2008]
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English
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Mariposa is a beautiful butterfly fairy who loves to read and dream about the world outside her home in the land of Flutterfield. Flutterfield is protected by the Queen's glimmering magical flower lights. But when the Queen is poisoned by the evil fairy Henna, the special lights begin to go out one by one. It's up to the brave Mariposa and her friends to journey beyond the safe borders of the city in search of a hidden antidote that will save the...
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The all-American Clark family wins a deluxe European vacation tour. Ecstatic Mr. Clark (who seems to have O.D.'d on "Father Knows Best" reruns) plans a getaway jammed with forced family togetherness, two weeks sure to become a treasure trove of golden Griswald memories. For the Griswalds, it's typical holiday road havoc.
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Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was named Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he wasn't quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon lady took him home to live with her family. So began Edward's fantastical adventures in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia--Container....
13) Wanted
Pub. Date
2008.
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English
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Wes is a 25-year-old nobody who sits behind a desk, and everyone is certain this disengaged slacker will amount to nothing. After his father is murdered, he is recruited into a secret society that trains Wes to avenge his dad's death.
"...immerse yourself as if in a video game."--Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"This over-the-top, ultraviolent, hyperkinetic action thriller pretty much has it all."--Hollywood Reporter
"The thrilling stunts and hyperkinetic...
14) Best men
Pub. Date
2002.
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English
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Fresh out of jail, the groom is met by his friends to escort him to the altar. But on the way, one friend decides to stop and rob a bank, forcing the angry bride to join them in the stand-off.
15) Four brothers
Pub. Date
2005.
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English
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Four adopted brothers come together to bury the woman who raised them. At the funeral, the brothers discover that their mother was murdered, and they vow to seek revenge.
"The main reason this film works so well is that Singleton has assembled an excellent cast to play the brothers."--CNN
"It's a finely-tuned Motor City engine."--L.A. Weekly
"'Four Brothers' is a violent, macho story with a perfect feel for the dynamics between four tough guys...
17) Date movie
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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Julia is looking for love in all the wrong movies, until she snags the man of her dreams. Will a devious ex, a feline with stomach problems, and eccentric in-laws threaten her perfect Hollywood wedding?
"Any movie that tries to parody 'Kill Bill' and 'Dodgeball' in the same scene is ok by me."--Denver Post
"...comedy that's salty and loud..."--Entertainment Weekly
18) The last shot
Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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After years of being on the A-list of complete failures, Hollywood screenwriter Steven Schats meets Joe Devine, a producer who green-lights his movie. But Devine is really an FBI agent using the movie in a sting to bring down the mob.
"Hysterically funny."--Joel Siegel, Good Morning America
19) Bug
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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Agnes, a lonely waitress with a tragic past, rooms in a run-down motel, living in fear of her abusive, recently paroled ex-husband. But when she begins a tentative romance with Peter, she starts to feel hopeful again - until the first bugs arrive.
"A fascinating exercise in paranoia and terror."--Newsday
"...goes exactly where it needs to go...and gets there brilliantly."--San Francisco Chronicle
"...insanely powerful."--New York Magazine
20) Off the map
Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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An 11-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries and comes to terms with love and loss.
"Surprisingly enjoyable and insightful, full of hope and generosity, with characters and a story that not only satisfy but also shed light in various directions."--Detroit Free Press
"Funny and heartbreaking."--Rolling Stone
"The stunning, almost scarily beautiful New Mexico...
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