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Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Semyon heads the syndicate and is the proprietor of a plush Trans-Siberian restaurant. But his friendliness at the restaurant masks a cold and brutal core. Fortunes are tested by Semyon's volatile son and enforcer, Kirill. But Nikolai's carefully maintained...
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Hollywood royalty Shirley MacLaine gives one of her greatest performances in this spectacular musical based on Neil Simon's Broadway hit inspired by Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria. Director Fosse broke new cinematic ground with this freewheeling, visually stunning story of a lovelorn New York dance hall hostess, Charity Hope Valentine, who dreams of old-fashioned romance but gives her heart to one undeserving guy after another.
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Three very close-knit upper middle-class couples periodically take vacations together. These gatherings turn into a bittersweet exploration of not only their friendship, but divorce and its consequences, after one of the men leaves his wife for a much younger woman.
4) Raggedy man
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A young divorced woman and her two children try to forge a life for themselves in a small Texas town during World War II.
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Phoebe Frost, an upright Republican member of Congress, travels to Berlin to look into reports of corruption among the occupying American forces. She enlists an Army captain in her crusade and finds herself falling for him, unaware that he is the man romantically involved with a German cabaret singer who can lead army investigators to a high-level Nazi war criminal.
11) Road to Utopia
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Bing and Bob get caught up in a race to stake their claim to the veins of a Klondike gold mine after nabbing the deed from a couple of vicious killers. Since the boys themselves are skipping town after a shady deal, they decide to adopt the murderers' identities and take the opportunity to get to know the beautiful and ambitious Dorothy Lamour.
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Hell bent for leather (1960): "Clay Sentell stops into the town of Sutterville after having his horse stolen, only to be mistaken by the townsfolk for a murderer named Travers. Captured and sentenced to die, Sentell flees with a hostage until he can prove his innocence"--Container.
14) The midnight man
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A former Chicago policeman who has just been released from prison for shooting his wife's lover takes a job as a campus night watchman at Jordon College. When a coed, the daughter of a prominent senator, is murdered and the local sheriff tries to pin the crime on a creepy night janitor, Slade decides to start his own unauthorized investigation that takes the lid off the hornets' nest.
15) Posse from hell
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Posse from hell (1961): "Four escapees from death row ride into the town of Paradise, enter the Rosebud Saloon and unleash hell. Murphy and John Saxon head up a posse to take down the killer quartet"--Container.
16) Charley Varrick
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Charley Varrick is a small-time crook who outfoxes the mob and makes a desperate run for the Mexican border and safety.
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Hogan is a drifter who rides into town and single-handedly rescues a local nun from a gang of attackers. After meeting a band of Mexican revolutionaries bend on resisting the French occupation of Mexico, the cowboy and Sister Star decide to join forces with the freedom fighters and set off on a deadly mission to capture the enemy's garrison.
18) Jungle fever
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A black architect begins an affair with his working class Italian secretary. Their relationship causes them to be scrutinized by their friends, cast out from their families and shunned by their neighbors in this moving view of inner-city life.
19) Mo' better blues
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A jazz trumpeter obsessed with his music and indecisive about his girlfriends finds his life is fragile when he must come to the aid of his manager.
20) Madame X
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"When widowed Holly Parker (Lana Turner), neglected by her new wealthy socialite husband (John Forsythe), is romantically pursued by playboy Phil Benton (Ricardo Montalban), tragedy strikes. Constance Bennett in her last film role, playing Holly's mother-in-law, turns nemesis, forcing her to leave her husband and infant son to protect their reputation. Travelling the world in a haze of drugs and alcohol for twenty\ years, Holly returns to her home...