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1) Marathon Man
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Doc Levy (Roy Scheider) is an American secret agent who has been running interference between the US government and escaped Nazi war criminal Szell (Laurence Olivier). Believing that Doc has stolen a valuable cache of gems, Szell emerges from his South American hiding place and heads for New York. He has Doc killed, then kidnaps Doc's in-the-dark brother Babe (Dustin Hoffman). Repeating the phrase "Is it safe?" over and over, Szell, a onetime concentration...
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Four friends indulge in a carefree Cambodian holiday, but their sun-soaked retreat quickly takes a horrific turn when one of the travelers disappears. As the search ensues, the others return home, racked with guilt and struggling to return to their daily lives. Does one of them hold the answer to the fate of their lost companion? Tightly-held secrets from their life-altering trip are brought to light, revealing clues to the whereabouts of their missing...
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In this exciting conclusion to the Breaking Backbones Hacker Trilogy, Cy and Ying are locked in a lover's triangle while their respective governments try to exploit them for their access to a powerful new Artificial Intelligence (AI) named Telos.
From their hideout at the Russian River, Cy and her freedom hackers are using Telos to systematically dismantle Damian Strandeski's criminal empire and redistribute the criminal gains to victims, the needy,...
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The Parallax View, a superb drama about one man's paranoia that turns out to be total, incredible fact, ranks amount the best political thrillers. Warren Beatty is a news reporter who, along with seven others, witnesses the assassination of a political candidate. When the other seven die in "accidents," the newsman begins to doubt the official position: that a lone madman was responsible for the crime. He imagines a sophisticated network of highly...
7) Highwaymen
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When his wife is killed by a maniac, Rennie Cray, played by Jim Caviezel, takes to the road in his classic Plymouth Barracuda muscle car to find her murderer, a merciless serial killer.
8) The Hunter
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Steve McQueen's last movie shows the dynamic talent of the late, great actor in one of his most memorable roles: the true story of Ralph "Papa" Thorson, a modern day bounty hunter. Thorson's exploits are detailed as he pursues a number of fugitives who have skipped bail. The chase comes full circle when he becomes the quarry of a vengeful psychopath. McQueen's multi-dimensional performance as Thorson, a man born in the wrong age, is counterpoint to...
9) Dark Blue
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When the LAPD's elite Special Investigations Squad (SIS) is assigned a high-profile quadruple homicide, veteran detective Eldon Perry (Kurt Russell) takes the case. Known for his tough street tactics and a fiery temper, Eldon also tutors rookie Bobby Keough (Scott Speedman) in the grim realities of police intimidation and corruption. While navigating the tumultuous neighborhoods of South Central L.A., Perry and Keough must track down the cold-blooded...
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From acclaimed director Martin Scorsese (Casino, Taxi Driver) comes one of his most compelling and unforgettable movies. Nicolas Cage stars as Frank Pierce, a paramedic on the brink of madness from too many years of saving and losing lives. One fateful night, Frank meets Mary Burke (Patricia Arquette), the daughter of a man Frank tried to save. Together, Frank and Mary confront the ghosts of the past, and discover that redemption can be found among...
11) The Betsy
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A prestigious cast headed by Sir Laurence Olivier (as a Detroit auto mogul), Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Duvall and Jane Alexander bring to the screen Harold Robbins' sudsy best selling novel.
12) The Russia House
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From the pen of master spy novelist John LeCarre comes this riveting tale in which a British publisher (Sean Connery) and a beautiful Russian editor (Michele Pfeiffer) are sucked into the deadly world of espionage.
13) New Port South
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An impressionable senior at New Port South High School in the northern suburbs of Illinois, bored in his goody-goody surroundings, thinks he's uncovered a cover-up concerning a senior of a couple of years ago who were thrown out of school and put in a insane asylum. Using the story of the mistreated student to rally the other students at school, he leads a revolution against the teachers, only to end up as crazy as the student he champions.
14) Flesh and Bone
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Arlis Sweeny (Quaid) leads a life as simple and unchanging as his native West Texas plains. He stocks vending machines, moving from town to town and from one familiar lover to another. Kay Davies (Ryan) also calls the road her home. Running from a broken marriage, she doesn't know where she headed, but any place is better than where she's been. Fate brings them together and gives them a future, until a figure from the past - Arlis's father (James...
15) The Machinist
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In this psychological thriller an industrial worker hasn't slept in a year and is living a nightmare where cryptic notes appear and he has visions of a co-worker no one else can see. Are these mysteries part of a plot to drive him mad? Or, has fatigue simply robbed him of reason?
16) Before And After
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Dr. Carolyn Reiser's family practice is interrupted when she's called to the emergency room to help with a local teenage girl who's been bludgeoned to death. That night she and her husband, Ben, are shocked when the local sheriff comes by to see if their son, Jacob is home. Jacob was the victim's boyfriend and is suspected in her murder. When Jacob does not return home for days, Carolyn and Ben suspect the worst. Finally, he returns home and confesses...
17) Blue Velvet
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A sensual mystery thriller about strange happenings in a small North Carolina town. A college student stumbles across a bizarre mystery and wants to know more, perhaps too much more. The strange world he's found lurking beneath his hometown's picture-postcard veneer is about to become much stranger, becoming an unforgettably fascinating and forboding world.
18) No Place to Hide
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Drew Barrymore inadvertently hooks up with Kris Kristofferson, a hard-edged cop who must try to keep them both alive and protect the young girl from the psycho who murdered her sister.
20) Last Dance
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In this compelling romantic drama, Rick Taft, a cocky young lawyer from a wealthy family, is assigned the clemency case of Cindy Liggeu, a woman on death row. Rick is surprised to discover that after years of death row appeals, Cindy no longer wants to fight to save her life. Rick pleads with Cindy to give him the information he needs to prove that she is a different person than the teenager who brutally murdered two people while strung out on drugs....
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