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1) Winchester
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A widow haunted. A house possessed. A family cursed. Step inside the most haunted house in history in this chilling film inspired by true events.
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Robie is suspected of a new rash of gem thefts in the luxury hotels of the French Riviera, and he must set out to clear himself. Meeting pampered heiress Frances, he sees a chance to bait the mysterious thief with her mother's fabulous jewels. His plan backfires, however, but Frances, who believes him guilty, proves her love by helping him escape. In a spine-tingling climax, the real criminal is exposed.
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Set in the expansive Japanese community of Sao Paulo in Brazil, the largest Japanese diaspora in the world, the film follows Akemi, an orphan who discovers she is the heiress to half of the Yakuza crime syndicate. Forging an uneasy alliance with an amnesiac stranger who believes an ancient sword binds their two fates; Akemi must unleash war against the other half of the syndicate who wants her dead.
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"All the earnest paleontologist wants is an intercostal clavicle to complete his brontosaurus skeleton. What he gets is an out-of-control toboggan ride with a scatterbrained heiress nuts about him (or maybe just nuts). Riding along are a dog named George, a leopard named Baby, a snooty society matron with a spare million, a caretaker on the sauce and more"--Container.
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When a mysterious heiress asks famed but unscrupulous art appraiser and auctioneer Virgil Oldman to evaluate her late parents' collection yet remains forever unseen behind closed doors, it ignites a spark of curiosity in the normally austere Virgil that soon grows into an all-out obsession. Before long everything in Virgil's carefully constructed life threatens to come apart as he delves ever further into the world of intrigue surrounding his enigmatic...
6) The heiress
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A graceful drawing-room drama and piercing character study driven by emotional uncertainty and lacerating cruelty, William Wyler₂s film, starring Montgomery Clift and Olivia de Havilland (in an Oscar-winning turn), is classic Hollywood filmmaking at its most psychologically nuanced.
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Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight, about a spoiled runaway socialite and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter who is determined to get the scoop on her scandalous disappearance. The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the...
9) Soy tu dueña
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Valentina inherits her family's fortune and is joined by her cousin Ivana and aunt Isabel in her Mexico City home. Unbeknownst to her, Ivana harbors a deep resentment and jealousy toward Valentina and begins an affair with her fiance, Alonso. They conspire to take over Valentina's fortune. On their wedding day, Alonso leaves Valentina at the altar to run away with Ivana. Valentina, hurt and humiliated, escapes to her country villa, where she meets...
10) Bringing up Baby
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All the earnest paleontologist wants is an intercostal clavicle to complete his brontosaurus skeleton. What he gets is an out-of-control toboggan ride with a scatterbrained heiress nuts about him (or maybe just nuts). Riding along are a dog named George, a leopard named Baby, a snooty society matron with a spare million, a caretaker on the sauce, and more.
12) Midnight lace
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In this woman-in-peril suspense film, set in London, the sanity of a newlywed heiress comes into question when, after a number of unwitnessed near-fatal accidents and life-threatening phone calls, she claims to be the target of a stalker. As time passes and her reports of more calls and a visit from a mysterious stranger nobody else sees are met with skepticism by everybody, the woman begins to unravel and becomes increasingly paranoid, suspecting...
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"The Halloween season has never been sweeter for young businesswoman Elyse Samford: She recently inherited a multi-billion-dollar candy company from her retired father. A legal issue brings her to Higgins Attorneys and Sons, where she meets Rob Carelli, a young and harried lawyer. The two cross paths again--but this time in costume--at Elyse's opulent masked ball. They enjoy a magnificent waltz together, but it will take some real magic to help this...
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Seemingly trapped within the spare yet surreal and terrifying confines of her husband's mansion, she begins to fear for her life when his sublimated hatred for women starts to bubble over and his strange obsession for violent deaths leads her to believe that she may be next.
15) New moon
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"Based on the inspiring operetta about a beautiful young French heiress and a dashing revolutionary nobleman irresistibly drawn together in 19th century New Orleans"--container.
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Criterion collection volume 1194
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Freaks: A tale of love, deception, and retribution set among troupe of carnival sideshow performers, shunned by society because of their physical deformities.
The unknown: An unrequited infatuation leads a circus knife-thrower on the run from the law into a troubled state, but when the circus owner discovers the desperate man's secret identity, things become markedly worse.
The mystic: A confederacy of unsavory characters conspire to cheat an heiress...
17) Winchester
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Eccentric firearm heiress believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.
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Deborah Kerr inherits an estate and three ardent suitors in this zany romantic comedy. When an old soldier she met during the war leaves her his ranch in Texas, British heiress Alison Kirbe sets sail for America to claim her 50,000 acres of land, also along for the crossing are a con man, a wolf and a no-nonsense lawyer, three bachelors who compete for her hand.
20) Endless night
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Mike Rogers had a childhood fantasy about what life would be like as an adult; he'd have a beautiful wife, they would live in a beautiful home, and this would be a peaceful and deserved reward for a turbulent early life. When he meets Ellie Gutman at a lovely, remote spot known as Gypsy's Acre, suddenly it is all within his grasp. However, things are not as idyllic as they seem--local legend has it that the land is cursed, and several terrible accidents...