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Jack Nicholson returns as private eye Jake Gittes in this atmospheric Chinatown follow-up that's hit upon "the elusive sequel formula for somehow enhancing a great original" (Mike Clark, USA Today).Much has changed since we last saw Jake. The war has come and gone; 1948 Los Angeles teems with optimism and fast bucks. But there's one thing Jake knows hasn't changed: "Nine times out of ten, if you follow the money you will get to the truth." And that's...
2) The Pledge
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A retiring police detective pledges to catch the killer of a young child.
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For six agonizing years, Freddy Gale has waited for John Booth, the man jailed for a crime that destroyed Freddy's life. Now, Booth is out of prison and Freddy's giving him three days before he returns...to even the score! The Crossing Guard is an intense, emotionally charged thriller that delivers!
4) Goin' South
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Sentenced to hang in a backwater western town, horse thief Henry Moon (Jack Nicholson) is saved when frontierswoman Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen) agrees to marry him. Taking advantage of the town law that prohibits the execution of married men, Moon follows Tate back to her ranch, planning all the while to escape at the first possible opportunity. But Tate insists that he honor his end of the bargain at work on the ranch. She has no intention of consummating...
5) Easy rider
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A generation-defining movie about friends who engage in a motorcycle journey across the country to discover the true America. Bonus features include: CD Songtrack, making of documentary, commentary, and British Film Institute Modern Classic Book.
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Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common, except they both have been diagnosed with terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to make a Bucket List of all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die. In the process of completing the list, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find the joy in life.
8) Reds
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Warren Beatty's award winning epic mixes drama and interviews with major social radicals of the period. "REDS" tells the story of the love affair between activists Louise Bryant and John Reed. Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous start of the twentieth century, the two journalists' on-again off-again romance is punctuated by the outbreak of WWI and the Bolshevik Revolution. Louise's assignment in France at the outbreak of the war puts an end...
9) Hoffa
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Traces Jimmy Hoffa's turbulent career from 1935, when he first solicits truck drivers to join the fledgling International Brotherhood of Teamsters, to his disappearance in 1975.
10) Chinatown
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Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair. Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown.
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Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson star in Arthur Penn's intense and startlingly realistic western classic. Rancher David Braxton is a self-made man who has transformed his rugged land into a vast empire. So when his livestock, fortune and family are threatened by a ruthless horse thief (Nicholson), Braxton hires a sadistic bounty hunter (Brando) to track down the outlaw, initiating a complex series of events that result in brutality and savagery far...
12) The Wild Ride
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Johnny Varron is a rebellious youth gang leader who spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in between partying and troublemaking. But when he fatally runs a police officer off the road, the walls begin closing in on Johnny and his world.
13) Wolf
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Film version of the age-old legend of a man who turns into a wolf-like creature under the influence of the full moon.
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Jack Torrance is a writer who, along with his family, comes to the elegant, isolated Overlook Hotel. He is the off-season caretaker. Torrance has never been there before, but maybe he has. The answer lies in a ghostly time warp of madness and murder.
15) How do you know
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A professional softball player discovers she is in the middle of a love triangle after she falls for two different men and wonders when it comes to love, how do you know?
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New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will tolerate him, must leave work to care for her sick son, making it impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast.
17) A few good men
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Cruise stars as a brash Navy lawyer who's teamed with a gung-ho litigator in a politically-explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier, they are confronted with complex issues of loyalty and honor - including its most sacred code and its most formidable warrior.
18) The departed
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In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. Colin Sullivan is a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the police department as an informer for the syndicate. Colin is rising to a position of power within the Special Investigation Unit....
19) The Last Tycoon
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F. Scott Fitzgerald's fascinating tale of studio politics in early Hollywood is breathtakingly adapted to the big screen by Elia Kazan and scriptwriter Harold Pinter. Robert De Niro heads a powerhouse cast as studio head Monroe Stahr, a thinly disguised Irving Thalberg character in command of his studio but haunted by a love lost to the past. Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Theresa Russell, Anjelica Huston and Jack Nicholson contribute...
20) The Raven
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Scream legends Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff play rival magicians whose paths cross when Dr. Craven (Price) hears Dr. Bedlo (Lorre) tap-tap-tapping on his windowpane. You see, Bedlo has been turned into a raven by Dr. Scarabus (Karloff) and when transformed back into his old self he vows revenge. There may be little that’s recognizable from Edgar Allan Poe’s original poem in these sorcerers’ shenanigans, but the comical rivalry...