Ridley Scott
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Mercy Street volume 4
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The Green girls plot to help Tom escape. Dr. Foster guides Samuel through a delicate operation.
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Mercy Street volume 6
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President Lincoln's visit sets in motion a rebel plot and offers an opportunity to free James Sr.
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Mercy Street volume 5
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The unexpected visit of a hospital inspector throws the staff into disarray.
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Mercy Street volume 3
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Dr. Foster operates on his brother, a Confederate soldier. Alice realizes the depth of Tom's trauma.
105) Black Rain
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Director Ridley Scott's international crime thriller stars Michael Douglas as Mike Conklin, a New York detective under investigation for corruption. When yakuza hit man Sato (Yusaku Matsuda) kills two American mobsters in New York, he's extradited to Osaka to face trial, with Conklin and Charlie Vincent (Andy Garcia) as his escorts. Mistakenly turning over their prisoner to yakuza disguised as police, Conklin and Vincent realize, after running down...
106) European short films
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The second collection of European short films from Cinema16. This specially compiled two-disc edition of classic, cult and award winning shorts from European filmmakers marks the launch of Cinema16 in the US. It features previously unseen short films and early works by some of today's most notable European filmmakers, as well as award-winning films from its rising stars. The release features some of the best shorts from Cinema16's previous releases...
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Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & microchip jungle of the 21st century. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as 'replicants.' Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 6 "skin jobs," theslang for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The...
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Hollywood on Set volume 7
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Jodie Comer, Winslow Fegley, Kevin Smith, and other inspiring actors and filmmakers, examine the profound and rewarding process of creating the films The Last Duel (2021), Nightbooks (2021), Masters of the Universe: Revelation (2021).
109) Blade runner: Disc 3
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Los Angeles, 2019. Man has developed the technology to create 'replicants, ' human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed lifespans. Rick Deckard is an LAPD Blade Runner who prowls the steel and micro-chip jungle of the 21st century for the assumed humanoids. Originally in retirement, he is forced to re-enter the force when six replicants escape from an offworld colony to Earth. The replicants are to be terminated upon detection....
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Jack Parsons is a brilliant and ambitious blue-collar worker of 1930s Los Angeles who started as a janitor at a chemical factory but had fantastical dreams that led him to birth the unknown discipline of American rocketry. Along the way, he fell into a mysterious world that included sex magic rituals at night, and he became a disciple of occultist Aleister Crowley. Parsons used Crowley's teachings of self-actualization to support his unimaginable...
111) White squall
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Screen great Jeff Bridges captains a crew of prep school students on a sailing voyage intended to teach them fortitude and discipline. But just before their return, nature teaches them the toughest lesson of all, turning this journey at sea into a test of the crew₂s courage and will to survive.
112) American woman
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Set in rural Pennsylvania, Deb Callahan's life is changed forever when her teenage daughter mysteriously disappears. Deb is left to raise her young grandson and navigates the trials and tribulations of subsequent years, until a long-awaited discovery of the truth is revealed.
113) The Browning Version
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The Emperor’s Club. Dead Poets Society. Stand And Deliver. Film fans fondly recall them as tales of a teacher who inspires his students. The Browning Version the memorable story of a student who inspires his brilliant yet beleaguered and unappreciated teacher. Albert Finney, Matthew Modine and Greta Scacchi star in this richly layered work of truth, tears and triumph. In a widely acclaimed performance, Finney plays a brilliant but stern classics...
114) Trespassing Bergman
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A group of filmmakers visit Ingmar Bergman's house on the remote Swedish island of Faro to discuss his legacy, and the art of filmmaking. Ingmar Bergmans life and his key films as seen and told by the greatest actors and directors of our time. Candid, funny and explicit interviews with the likes of Lars Von Trier, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Isabella Rossellini and Michael Haneke - some shoot at Bergmans last home on the island of Fårö - interwoven...
115) Alien anthology
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The complete story of Lieutenant Ellen Ripley's recurring battles with members of a parasitical extraterrestrial species.
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Lord of war: Chronicles the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa to selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, and through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s. He is relentlessly pursued by a determined federal agent and his inner demons sway between his drive for success and the immorality of what he does.
Face/off: FBI Special Agent Sean Archer...
118) Death on the Nile
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"Although Belgium's premiere sleuth Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) plans a spectacular Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer, the trip turns into a terrifying search for a murderer after a picture-perfect couple's honeymoon is cut tragically short. Set against a sweeping landscape of pyramids and desert vistas, Death on the Nile features a stunning ensemble cast. Based on Agatha Christie's beloved novel, this tale of unbridled passion...
119) Four feature films
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American Gangster: "Harlem crime boss Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) and outcast cop Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe) are plunged into a legendary confrontation when Roberts sets out to bring down Lucas's multimillion-dollar empire."--Back of case.
The hurricane: "Denzel Washington plays Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, a man who, in the prime of his boxing career, finds himself wrongfully convicted of murder and later joins forces with activists to prove...
120) Gladiator: Troy
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Troy : Two emerging nations clash after Paris, a Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Seeing this as an opportunity to gain power, Agamemnon sets off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the...