Jack Nicholson
81) The two Jakes
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In this sequel to Chinatown, it is 1948 Los Angeles and private investigator Jake Gittes must solve a case of suspected adultery turned murder that's tied to a grab for oil and to Jake's own past.
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A few good men: 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 ; Jerry Maguire: A sports agent suddenly discovers his scruples and promptly loses his job. But with the help of one loyal...
83) Corman's World
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The director of more than fifty films and producer of over 300 more, prolific B-movie maven Roger Corman is profiled in this biographical documentary from filmmaker Alex Stapleton. From LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS to ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL, the documentary explores the wide variety of films that encompass Corman's prolific and enduring career.
84) Heartburn (DVD)
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Rachel is a successful food writer who puts love and motherhood ahead of her career. Mark is a woman-chasing newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. She lives in New York, he lives in Washington, D.C., and if all those complications don't give a relationship heartburn, nothing will!
85) The departed
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In South Boston, the Massachusetts State Police 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...
86) Horror classics
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The Terror: A cavalry officer is bewitched by a beautiful woman who leads him into a trap.
Carnival of souls: Friends are forced off a bridge and all are presumed dead but one survived. Now she has to battle her personal demons.
Revenge of the zombies: A private eye looks into a mysterious death on a mansion in the Louisiana swamps.
87) Blood & wine
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In this film, Nicholson is a wealthy wine dealer who has distanced himself from his wife with his philandering and from his son with his negligence. After he steals a diamond necklace with the help of a safecracker partner, things start coming apart. His wife sets out to interrupt what she thinks is another one of his weekend dalliance, but is really his trip to pawn the jewels.
88) Thunder Island
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A hit man hijacks a boat and the married couple aboard in order to carry out a contract on a deposed dictator in the Caribbean.
89) Reds
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The story of John Reed, American Communist, journalist and activist, whose love affair with writer/feminist Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton) unfolds against the explosive backdrop of the Russian Revolution.
91) Gas-s-s-s
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Roger Corman collection volume 1
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English
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Gas-s-s-s: When a deadly gas kills everyone over 25, the world devolves into a chaotic and zany struggle for power. And as a band of peace-loving hippies goes cross-country to find utopia--only to find football fascists and demented dictators--they soon discover that even the American dream has a touch of gas!
The trip: Paul Groves is a TV commercial director whose estranged wife, Sally, is pressuring him to sign their divorce papers. Feeling strain...
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Criterion collection volume 734-735
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English
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In the mid-sixties, the maverick American director Monte Hellman conceived of two westerns at the same time. As shot back-to-back for famed producer Roger Corman , they feature overlapping casts and crews. The films - The Shooting, about a motley assortment of loners following a mysterious wanted man through a desolate frontier, and Ride in the Whirlwind, about a group of cowhands pursued by vigilantes for crimes they did not commit, are rigorous,...
97) Hoffa
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Fictionalized biography of Jimmy Hoffa, tracing his career from 1935 to his mysterious disappearance in 1975.
98) The two Jakes
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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: ₁Nine times out of ten, if you follow the money you will get to the truth.₂ And that's the trail he follows when a routine case of marital hanky panky explodes into a murder that's tied to a grab for oil and Jake's past.
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Some of the best known names in the horror-sci-fi genre business provide amusing commentary on rare vintage cult film trailers. (Viewers also have the choice of watching them without the critique as well.) Included twenty trailers, twenty commentaries, and a bonus movie: The Little Shop of Horrors!