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21) Raging bull
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English
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Robert De Niro stars as Jake La Motta, the controversial prize fighter of the 1940's, who rose from the streets of the Bronx to the heights of his sport, only to find disillusionment and corruption as well as fame.
22) Moll Flanders
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The story is based on the Defoe character, Moll Flanders who is a high-spirited and beautiful, but also destitute young woman living as a social outcast in 18th century England.
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John Deakin is a secret agent posing as a thief on his way to jail. Boarding a special government train in handcuffs, he begins a terrifying journey that brings him face-to-face with death. Various passengers on an 1873 train across the frozen west to Fort Humboldt turn out to have smuggling and murder in mind.
24) The naked spur
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English
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Smooth-talking outlaw Ben Vandergroat reasons to his captors, three bounty hunters thrown together by chance. They're taking him to justice in Abilene, but Ben has other ideas.
25) The thin man
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English
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The thin man: "The start of it all! Nick and Nora Charles invite you to bring your own alibi to Dashiell Hammett's jaunty whodunit about a missing inventor that made William Powell and Myrna Loy the champagne elite of sleuthing"--Container.
After the thin man: "New Year's Eve and a new mystery surrounding the philandering husband of Nora's cousin. Round up the usual suspects, including James Stewart in an early screen role."--Container.
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26) Man of the West
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When the train he is on gets robbed, Link Jones finds himself unwillingly reunited with some old acquaintances. Dock Tobin, the gang's sadistic half-crazed patriarch, was like a father to Link some twenty years ago and welcomes him back into the gang. To survive, Link must take up his old killing ways. But what was once his family has now become his hell.
27) Dodsworth
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"Sam Dodsworth is a small town rags-to-riches millionaire who finds that his money cannot bring him happiness. His unsatisfied wife Fran, seeking glamour and sophistication, persuades him to take her on a grand tour of Europe, where she promptly deserts him for a romantic but penniless baron. Brokenhearted, Sam meets Edith, a widow who arouses passions he never thought he had and sets him on a collision course with his wife, unleashing a torrent of...
28) Women in love
Series
Criterion collection volume 916
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English
Description
Set in an English mining community on the crest of modernity, this traces the shifting currents of desire that link the emancipated Brangwen sisters to a freethinking dreamer and a hard willed industrialist, as well as the men's own erotically charged friendship.
30) The birdcage
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The story of a middle-aged gay couple's comic encounter with a self-righteously straight and conservative family. Armand and Albert reluctantly accept young Val's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down.
31) Midnight cowboy
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Criterion collection volume 925
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English
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"A picaresque story of friendship that captured a city in crisis and sparked a new era of Hollywood movies. Joe Buck, a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy city women finds a companion in Enrico 'Ratso' Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida. A critical and commercial success despite controversy, [it] became the first X-rated film to receive the best picture Oscar, and decades...
32) 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...
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Story of two candidates for their party's presidential nomination. One is an intellectual with a sense of morality, the other an opportunist who would win at all costs. The deciding factor is the endorsement of the out-going president who thrives on political in-fighting and deplores indecision.
34) A global affair
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In this screwball romantic comedy, Bob Hope stars as a department head in the United Nations, who finds himself in the unlikely role of "Dad" to an abandoned baby. The loveable but inept bachelor is then lured by a bevy of international beauties to offer up the child for an adoption & to a safe haven, away from him!
35) Overboard
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English
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A super-rich and pretentious socialite winds up in the world of a struggling carpenter with four kids.
37) F.I.S.T
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English
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Follows the rise and fall of union leader Johnny Kovak from his beginnings as an idealistic blue collar worker to head of the Federation of Inter-State Truckers.
38) Licence to kill
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Bond 50 volume disc 16
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English
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"James Bond is on possibly his most brutal mission yet. Bond's good friend, Felix Leiter, is left near to death, by drug baron Franz Sanchez. Bond sets off on the hunt for Sanchez, but not everyone is happy. MI6 does not feel Sanchez is their problem and strips Bond of his license to kill. Bond is now more dangerous than ever. Bond gains the aide of one of Leiter friends, known as Pam Bouvier and sneaks his way into the drug factories, which Sanchez...
39) Lifeforce
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"A mission to investigate Halley's Comet discovers an even more fascinating phenomenon: a drifting spacecraft transporting several humanoids in suspended animation"--Container label.
40) Species
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When a creature genetically engineered through extraterrestrial intelligence escapes from observation, scientist Xavier Fitch assembles an elite team of experts to track it down. These experts--a government assassin, an "empath", a biologist and an anthropologist combine their expertise and trace their prey to Los Angeles. There, in the form of a stunning young woman, the alien initiates a horrific plan: to mate with unsuspecting men and produce offspring...