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21) Capricorn One
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When the head of NASA's manned Mars mission discovers that the capsule meant to carry the astronauts will suffer a catastrophic failure, he forces them to participate in a hoax by broadcasting their 'Mission' from a studio built at an abandoned air force base. Over many months, the astronauts are forced to film broadcasts on their progress. They find out that they are to die upon re-entry. An investigative reporter gets wind that something is amiss...
22) The cat returns
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In an imaginative and lighthearted tale, a young schoolgirl saves the life of a noble cat and is rewarded with a shocking proposal of marriage - to the Cat King's son - and a fateful journey to the extraordinary Kingdom of Cats.
23) The long goodbye
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"[In] Robert Altman's fascinating and original send-up of Raymond Chandler's classic detective story, The Long Goodbye is a gloriously inspired tribute to Hollywood with an ending that's as controversial as it is provocative. Private eye Philip Marlowe faces the most bizarre case of his life, when a friend's apparent suicide turns into a double murder involving a sexy blonde, a disturbed gangster and a suitcase of drug money. But as Marlowe stumbles...
24) A bridge too far
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"In September 1944, flush with success after the Normandy Invasion, the Allies confidently launched Operation Market Garden, a wild scheme intended to put an early end to WWII by invading Germany and smashing the Reich's war plants. However, a combination of battlefield politics, faulty intelligence, bad luck and worse weather led to disaster"--Container.
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"Miles Cullen discovers how interesting life can be when he is transformed from mild-mannered bank teller into daring, ingenious bank robber in a matter of seconds. Held up at the bank by the criminal Reikle, Miles manages to stash most of the money in a safety deposist box first. When Reikle realizes he's been shortchanged, he plans to take revenge, and a great battle of wits ensues. To keep the money, Miles reaches new heights of courage, seducing...
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Poirot investigates the murder of an American heiress on the Blue Train. A young heiress is set to inherit her husband's considerable fortune until his family investigates further. Cora Abernathy calls on Poirot to investigate her brother's death, but his work is interrupted when Cora herself is murdered. Mr. Shaitana, a wealthy but mysterious Londoner, invites Poirot and others to an evening of dinner and bridge, but the affair turns deadly when...
29) Open window
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Living a happy life in Los Angeles, Izzy's life is forever changed when a brutal crime shatters her world. As Izzy battles the nightmares left behind, she finds an inner strength that transforms her and experiences the amazing power of love and forgiveness in surviving the unimaginable.
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In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital on Ellis Island, and healed from illness before becoming citizens. 350 babies were born, and ten times that many immigrants died on Ellis Island and were buried in pauper's graves around New York City.
31) The long goodbye
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"In noir master Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye, Philip Marlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, whom he divorced and remarried and who ends up dead. And now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe." -- Amazon.com
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The characters of Catch-22 are now coming to the end of their lives and the century, as is the entire generation that fought in World War II: Yossarian and Milo Minderbinder, the chaplain, and such newcomers as little Sammy Singer and giant Lew, all linked, in an uneasy peace and old age, fighting not the Germans this time, but The End.
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Bob and his wife Carol are a sophisticated California couple who attend a secluded institute for group therapy. Their original intention is to merely observe, but they become so involved that they decide to test the strength of their marital trust and honesty by experimenting with mutually tolerated affairs. Ted and Alice are their closest friends who find themselves continually amused at the latest Bob & Carol sexual adventures until finally they...
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"The U.S. and the Holocaust examines America's response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Americans consider themselves a 'nation of immigrants,' but as the catastrophe of the Holocaust unfolded in Europe, the United States proved unwilling to open its doors to more than a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of desperate people seeking refuge. Through riveting firsthand testimony of witnesses and survivors who...
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An updated version of Rod Serling's 1960's TV series, each weekly installment presents an episode about some unusual situation that turns out to be even more unusual than initially suspected. Whether the tone of the story is horror, suspense or humor, there is always a surprise twist at the end.
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Roger Folger, age 61, recently lost his wife, Stella, but her spirit hasn't wandered far. In an all-too-earthly way, Roger converses with her disembodied voice in the privacy of the home they shared for many years, and you can bet Stella talks back. Roger fills her in on the latest about their kids and neighbors, while she tells Roger what heaven's like- picture the Ritz-Carlton in Florida, managed by Saint Peter. Worried that Roger is...
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Would you be shocked to find out that the greatest moment of our recent history in space was a disaster that was covered up? Would you be shocked to find out that the greatest hero since Christopher Columbus, a cosmonaut named Yuri Gagarin, turns out to be a lie and that he was not the first man in space, contrary to what the millions of history books claim? Would you be shocked to find out that Yuri Gagarin could not handle his life of a lie, and...
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The Sternwood family, immortalized in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep, is in trouble again.
Lovely Vivian's psychotic sister, Carmen, has disappeared from the sanitarium, and Vivian herself has once again fallen into the clutches of the shady underworld character Eddie Mars. Enter Philip Marlowe, the original tough-but-tender private eye. He saved the Sternwoods once before. The question is: Can he do it again?
40) The automat
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"The Automat recounts the lost history of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, which served affordable food to millions of New Yorkers and Philadelphians for more than a century. Founded by Joseph Horn and Frank Hardart in 1888, it revolutionized the nation's restaurant scene with technology that captured the public's imagination like nothing else. The customer put nickels into slots, and little windows opened to reveal the customer's pick,...