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2) The first 48
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The First 48 follows the nation’s top police departments during the critical first 48 hours of murder investigations.
4) Misty
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Based on Marguerite Henry's award-winning novel, this heartwarming drama centers on Paul and his sister, Maureen, who set out to catch a beautiful, elusive mare called Phantom during Chincoteague Island's annual Pony Penning event.
5) The Rebel
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Anthony Hancock sets out for Paris in an effort to prove his worth as an artist. He becomes friendly with a young English artist, Paul, and agrees to share his studio. He makes statements about art which are absolute nonsense, but are so convincing, he is dubbed a genius. Paul returns to London, leaving all his work at Anthony's disposal. When Anthony's fame spreads, an art connoisseur visits the studio and notices Paul's paintings and, overwhelmed...
8) Rain
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W. Somerset Maugham's powerful story of Sadie Thompson has perhaps the most celebrated version, vividly capturing the lives of several very different human beings, thrown together on Pago Pago during a fierce monsoon. Brilliant performances by Crawford, as the cynical prostitute, and Huston, as the minister who tries to reform her. A 'tour de force' that caused controversy when first released,
9) Palmy Days
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The assistant of a phony psychic leaves the fraudulent business and becomes an efficiency expert.
10) Just a Gigolo
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After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for him--he has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, low-paying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich women.
11) Arrowsmith
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A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
12) On the Yard
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In prison, one prisoner buys some smokes from another. Then he admits he can't pay for it and becomes indebted to him and the interest is rising daily.
13) The Break-In
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Post-war Berlin, 1946: Three small-time, oddball crooks plan the heist of their lives. They want to break into the vault of the German Traffic Credit Union to steal the weekly Reichsbahn payroll. In preparation, they rent the top floor of the building and use it to spy on the bank. Despite several unforeseen incidents, the robbers are able to make off with the loot, but a motley police team gets on their heels. This crime comedy, with a stellar cast...
14) Bicycle Thieves
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Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the **Academy Award–winning** BICYCLE THIEVES, directed by Vittorio De Sica, defined an era in cinema. In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for work, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. Simple in construction and profoundly...
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The mayor of Sonnethal wants to gain attention for both himself and his small town by fostering a leading soccer team and a thriving sports culture. As he prepares plans for the youth club and the team, Barbara Schwalbe, the director of the agricultural school, counters his self-indulgent efforts by establishing a girls’ soccer team that will challenge the boys. Conflicts develop quickly, not only between the mayor and the school director, but also...
16) 8 1/2
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Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s *8 ½* (*Otto e mezzo*) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. An early working title for *8 ½* was "The Beautiful Confusion," and Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act. Winner of two **Academy...
17) Going Places
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Two thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor.
19) Take a Chance
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Archie Burton is watching the exercising of his horses, one of which, TAKE A CHANCE, is entered for the Gold Cup. With Burton is Grayson, his trainer. Grayson's wife, Cicely, arrives. She is irritated by her husband's seeming indifference towards her and is friendly with Carfax, a young man whose real object is to learn the secrets of her husband's stables ...
20) The Dream Lady
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After receiving an inheritance from an uncle, a woman sets up a fortunetelling business.
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