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3) Clueless
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After 25 years, the show remains a smart, charming, and hilarious classic that truly captures what it was like to be a teen in the 1990s. Alicia Silverstone shines as the 15-year-old Beverly Hills High School student who thrives on shopping, enjoys the perfect social life, and plays matchmaker to all her friends, just don't ask her who she's dating, AS IF!
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200 years have passed since Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) made the ultimate sacrifice in Fiorina 161. But over the years, and after seven horrific failures, scientists have finally cloned a perfect replica of Ripley, which includes the alien Queen growing insider her at the time of her death. But this new breed of alien is far more intelligent than its predecessors a fact the scientists don't realize until after The Betty has arrived with additional human...
5) Tightrope
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Clint Eastwood is Wes Block, a lawman teetering on a tightrope that separates him from the man he is trying to be and the man he fears he is. While investigating some brutal sex murders, he realizes there is a chilling link between himself and the suspect.
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A beautiful woman riding in a limosine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a would-be shooter, but before he can pull the trigger, she is injured when her limo is hit by another car. The woman stumbles away from the accident and meets up with a plucky ingenue new to L.A. But are things really as they seem?
8) Shaft
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To stop a racist killer Shaft's got to track down the only eyewitness that can put the bad guy behind bars. As Shaft closes in, so does the danger. Up against corrupt cops and venomous druglords Shaft's out to make crime pay up.
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Addams Family: When long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after twenty-five years in the Bermuda Triangle, the other members of the off-beat Addams clan plan a great celebration, only to begin to suspect that he may not be who he claims to be. Addams Family Values: It's love at first fright when Gomez and Morticia welcome a new addition to the Addams household, Pubert, their soft, cuddly, mustachioed baby boy. As Fester falls hard for voluptuous nanny...
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Three mid-life Manhattanites have more than a longtime friendship in common. After years of helping their hubbies climb the corporate ladder of success, each has been dumped for a newer, curvier model. The trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts--in the wallet!
11) Freeway
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Attempting to flee her life, teenage juvenile delinquent Vanessa Lutz goes to live with her grandmother. While on her way, she meets Bob Wolverton, a charming yet sadistic serial killer. Cognac Festival du Film Policier: Best Actress - Winner (Reese Witherspoon), Critics Awards - Winner (Matthew Bright), Grand Prix - Winner (Matthew Bright); Sundance Film Festival: Grand Jury Price (Dramatic) - Nominee (Matthew Bright); Puchon International Fantastic...
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Brilliant brain surgeon Banzai just made scientific history. Shifting his Oscillation Overthruster into warp speed, he's the first man ever to travel to the Eighth Dimension and come back sane! But when his sworn enemy, the demented Dr. Lizardo, devises a plot to steal the Overthruster and bring an evil army of aliens back to destroy Earth, Buckaroo goes cranium to cranium with the madman in an extra-dimensional battle that could result in total annihilation...
13) Benny & Joon
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A mentally ill young woman who lives with her older brother finds her love in an eccentric young man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
14) Dick
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When, during a class field trip to the White House, two high school girls wander into a top-secret shredding session, the President appoints them "Official White House Dog Walkers" to find out how much they discovered.
15) Blood simple
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A jealous husband hires a detective to murder his wife and her lover.
16) Commando
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Colonel John Matrix is retired from the army. He lives in the mountains of California with his daughter Jenny. Jenny is kidnapped by Bennett, one of John's former soldiers. Bennet's boss, exiled Latin American dictator Arius, demands that John assassinate the president of Arius's country so Arius can reinstate himself as dictator. John is put on a southbound airplane with a guard, but before the airplane can take off, John snaps the guard's neck,...
17) Blood simple
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"Joel and Ethan Coen's career-long darkly comic road trip through misfit America began with this razor-sharp, hard-boiled neonoir set somewhere in Texas, where a sleazy bar owner releases a torrent of violence with one murderous thought ... Blood Simple reinvented the film noir for a new generation, marking the arrival of a filmmaking ensemble that would transform the American independent cinema scene"--Container.
19) Freeway
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A dark comedy which retells the story of Little Red Riding Hood set against a modern background. A 15-year old girl runs away from home after her mom is arrested for prostitution and her stepdad for molesting her. Along the way her car breaks down and a respectable looking guy picks her up. Turns out he's the freeway rapist the news keeps talking about and now he's set his eyes on her. However, she shoots him and escapes but is arrested by the police...
20) The crew
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The story about a set of golden-year goodfellas fighting to protect their last piece of turf! Back in the days when mobsters were larger than life, none lived bigger than Bobby, "Bats", "The Brick", and "Mouth". But now well into retirement, the old crew find themselves suddenly facing eviction from their run-down Miami Beach hotel -- The Raj Mahal. That's when they decide there's only one thing left to do -- turn back the clock and pull one last...