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Set in the American West of the 1940s, director Alan J. Pakula’s COMES A HORSEMAN gives us a pair of little-guy ranchers (Jane Fonda, James Caan) who join forces against the depredations of a ruthless land baron (Jason Robards) determined to expand his empire at whatever cost. Shot by the incomparable Gordon Willis, with music by the great Michael Small, and featuring an indelible Oscar®-nominated performance from longtime stuntman Richard Farnsworth....
5) Talk radio
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A venomous radio talk show host from Dallas, Texas utters a reckless, relentless stream of abuse and sarcasm that both titillates and infuriates his audience. Parading his own "honesty," the shock jock grows increasingly bitter, his outrageous cynicism both an emblem of his self-loathing and a temptation to his more disturbed listeners.
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"The last eighteen years in the life of Jesse James, showing his home life in Missouri, his experiences with Quantrill's raiders, his career of banditry with his brother Frank and the Younger brothers, and his attempt to lead a peaceful life after the disastrous attempt to rob the bank at Northfield, Minn."--IMDb.
10) Genghis Khan
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With Omar Sharif in the title role, Stephen Boyd as his longtime rival/mentor, Françoise Dorléac as the seductive woman between them, James Mason as a Chinese leader, and Eli Wallach as a ferocious villain, the film is a spectacular biopic of the brutal Mongolian military genius Genghis Khan. It follows his rise from captive slave boy to daring guerilla leader, to confidant and ally of the Emperor of China, to savior of the Empire against barbarian...
11) The stone killer
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After shooting a suspect, New York City detective Lou Torrey is sent to Los Angeles and Southern California's Topanga Canyon to track down mob tycoon Al Vescari.
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Riff-Raff: the story of Stevie, a construction worker, and his girlfriend, an unemployed pop singer, serves to show the living conditions of the British poor class.
Raining stones: a Jury Prize-winner at the Cannes Film Festival, about an earnest man driven to desperate measures in an effort to buy his daughter a First Communion dress.
13) Che!
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Biography of Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who helped Fidel Castro in his struggle against the corrupt Batista regime, eventually resulting in the overthrow of that government and Castro's taking over of Cuba. The film covers Guevara's life from when he first landed in Cuba in 1956 to his death in an ambush by government troops in the mountains of Bolivia in 1967.
14) Chiisai ouchi
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The time frame is 1931-1945, as Japan drifts towards war. But while the sociopolitical aspects make an important backdrop, the story is deeply personal: the doomed illicit love between a married matron and her husband's artistic colleague, as observed and later recalled by an innocent servant girl.
15) Fatherland
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"Fatherland is singular director Ken Loach's excursion into the world of European cinema, an ambitious film--written by Trevor Griffiths--about an East German singer-songwriter who exchanges the political repression of his home country for the new pressures of capitalism in the West. The search for his lost father and a skittish relationship with a journalist only add to the young artist's turmoil, beautifully captured by the camera of the brilliant...
16) Bobby Deerfield
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"Intelligently directed by Sidney Pollack (The Way We Were), Bobby Deerfield (1977) is a romantic melodrama starring the beautiful young Al Pacino as an American driver on the European racing circuit who falls in love with an impulsive eccentric (Marthe Keller). Their love affair takes on added depth when she challenges his sullen introversion - and when he discovers her tragic secret. Highlighted by Henri Decaë's dreamy cinematography and a lovely...
17) Cowboy
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"Chicago hotel clerk Frank Harris dreams of life as a cowboy, and he gets his chance when, jilted by the father of the woman he loves, he joins Tom Reece and his cattle-driving outfit. Soon, though, the tenderfoot finds out life on the range is neither what he expected nor what he's been looking for."--IMDB.com (viewed August 9, 2016).
18) Cutter's way
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"Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter."--IMDB.com (viewed August 8, 2016).
19) The glory guys
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"The Glory Guys (1965) is screenwriter Sam Peckinpah's gloss (adapted from Hoffman Birney's novel) on the Custer/Little Big Horn story, directed by Arnold Laven. Andrew Duggan stars as the ill-fated general, badly overseeing a cavalry troop peopled by the spectacular likes of Tom Tryon, Harve Presnell, Michael Anderson Jr., Slim Pickens, and a very young James Caan in a standout performance. Also featuring Senta Berger as the requisite love interest;...
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As a school bus merrily speeds past an army caravan, it suddenly explodes. Stunned and horrified IRA member Martin Fallon flees. He had planted the bomb to kill British soldiers, not to kill innocent children. Now, Fallon seeks to escape his violent life against all odds.
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