Liam Neeson
1) Taken
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When his estranged daughter is kidnapped in Paris, former spy Bryan Mills relies on his skills to bring down the ruthless kidnappers and rescue her.
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A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole where he is chosen to receive the first gift of Christmas.
3) The marksman
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Jim, a former Marine who lives a solitary life as a rancher along the Arizona-Mexican border, has his peaceful existence come crashing down when he tries to protect a boy on the run from members of a vicious cartel. When the boy's mother asks him to take her son to her family in Chicago, the two hit the road with the cartel's assassins in pursuit.
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On Sesame Street, you can count on your friends and count with them, too! Join Elmo, Abby, Cookie Monster, and more as they sing, play, and laugh their way from one to twenty. Learning numbers has never been more fun, or more furry! Animations, songs, and other favorite moments from recent seasons make counting as easy as, well, one, two, three! Learning numbers along with little ones are Elvis Costello who wants to count to ten but is missing an...
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Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn't commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison....
6) Battleship
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Based on the classic Hasbro naval combat game, Battleship is the story of an international fleet of ships who come across an alien armada while on a naval war games exercise. An intense battle ensues over sea, land, and air.
7) After.life
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After a terrible car accident, Anna wakes to find the funeral director is preparing her body for her own funeral. Convincing her that she is in transition to the afterlife, the funeral director is leading Anna to accept her own death. But Paul, Anna's grief-stricken boyfriend, can't shake the nagging suspicion that the funeral director is not what he appears to be. As Paul gets close to unlocking the truth, it may be too late as Anna may have already...
8) Honest thief
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After falling in love and wanting to lead an honest life, a notorious bank robber turns himself in, only to be double-crossed by two ruthless FBI agents.
9) Blacklight
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Travis Block is a government operative coming to terms with his shadowy past. When he discovers a plot targeting U.S. citizens, Block finds himself in the crosshairs of the FBI director he once helped protect.
10) Schindler's list
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The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. He employed Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army. At the same time he tries to stay solvent with the help of a Jewish accountant and negotiates business with a vicious Nazi commandant who enjoys shooting Jews as target practice from the balcony...
11) Ponyo
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A young boy named Sosuke rescues a goldfish named Ponyo, and they embarkon a fantastic journey of friendship and discovery before Ponyo's father, apowerful sorcerer, forces her to return to her home in the sea. Ponyo's desire to be human upsets the delicate balance of nature and triggers a giganticstorm. Only Ponyo's mother, a beautiful sea goddess, can restore nature's balance and make Ponyo's dreams come true.
12) The commuter
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A businessman is caught up in a criminal conspiracy during his daily commute home.
13) A monster calls
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Twelve-year-old Conor, dealing with his mother's illness, a less-than-sympathetic grandmother, and bullying classmates, finds a most unlikely ally when a monster appears at his bedroom window. Ancient, wild, and relentless, the monster guides Conor on a journey of courage, faith, and truth.
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Learn how one man reluctantly took on the most powerful institution of his day and won. Martin Luther is credited with expounding a new vision of man's relationship with God and, by extension, a redefinition of man's relationship with authority. Filmed across Europe -- from the rustic rural Germany to the opulence of the Vatican City -- you'll witness the collapse of the medieval world and the birth of the modern age.
15) Made in Italy
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A heart-warming father son story set in glorious Tuscany about bohemian London artist Robert who returns to Italy with his estranged son Jack (Richardson) to make a quick sale of the house they inherited from his late wife. Neither expects to find the once beautiful villa in such a state of disrepair. As Robert and Jack painstakingly restore the villa to its previous glory, they also start to mend their relationship. The future may now look quite...
17) Taken 3
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Ex-covert operative Bryan Mills, whose long awaited reconciliation with his ex-wife is tragically cut short when she is brutally murdered, must use his 'particular set of skills' to track down the real killers, exact his unique brand of justice, and protect the only thing that matters to him now: his daughter.
18) The nut job
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Follow the travails of Surly, a mischievous squirrel, and his rat friend Buddy, who plan a nut store heist of outrageous proportions and unwittingly find themselves embroiled in a much more complicated and hilarious adventure.
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As imminent conflict brews between the powerful Trade Federation and the peaceful planet of Naboo, Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi travel to Naboo to warn the Queen of the galactic fallout which is to follow. Eventually, Naboo is invaded forcing the Jedis to evacuate the planet with the Queen and her court. They travel to the desert planet of Tatooine where they meet a slave boy called Anakin Skywalker who is evidently one...