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1) Performance
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Follow a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation, on the run and looking for a place to hide. He ends up hiding out with a reclusive rock superstar. It all leads up to a shocking final performance for the rock star.
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"Unemployed Polly Parrish impulsively picks up a baby left at orphanage doors at Christmas. Everyone assumes the foundling is hers, including Polly's playboy ex-boss, who offers her a job if she'll live up to her maternal duties. A paycheck would be handy, so Polly complies. Then the boss's tycoon dad assumes the infant is his secret grandson, and things really spin out of control"--Container.
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When John Barratt meets Count Jacques De Gué while vacationing in the South of France, the lonely university professor can't believe his eyes, the Count is his exact double! But when Barratt awakens after a night of heavy drinking, he finds De Gué has vanished, leaving the professor in his place. Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier.
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A mysterious man works as a cabaret piano player to hide his identity as the leader of a fight against the Nazis' construction of a vital North African railroad. Then a strawberry-blonde songstress catches his eye. Kathryn Grayson and Gordon MacRae star in this 1952 version of the musical adventure.
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After the King of Marshovia invites her to visit her late husband's homeland, wealthy American Crystal Radek takes off for Paris when she discovers it's a plot to marry her off so she can pay the Marshovian debt. Followed by Count Danilo, who's been ordered by the King to woo her, Crystal finds that she's attracted to the man although they've never been introduced. Posing as a chorus girl, Crystal quickly wins his heart.
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"Every princess needs a Prince Charming. But lovely Princess Veronica didn't expect hers to be bellhop Jimmy Dobson. Leslie is a bedridden former dancer who secretly loves Jimmy in this frothy fairy tale set in prewar Manhattan's version of a palace: an elegant hotel complete with royal grounds (Central Park, of course). The fun begins when Jimmy mistakes Veronica for a new maid. She plays along, the two strike up a friendship and complications --...
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Suspicion: Well-to-do wallflower Lina McLaidlaw is in love, perhaps in danger. She suspects that Johnnie Aysgarth, the playboy who swept into her life and married her, is a murderer and that she may be his next victim.
I Confess: Father Michael Logan hears a killer's confession. Eyewitnesses then point to a priest as the murderer, and the sacrament of penance forbids Logan to speak out, even in his own defense, when circumstantial evidence targets...
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Taking an assumed name to hide his real identity, Adam rents a house from Rosemary Howard, the only single woman in a paradise filled with lonely housewives and workaholic husbands. There's trouble in Paradise when Adam begins advising the wives on their sex lives while their husbands grow increasingly jealous and indignant.
12) The rain people
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"Unsure of herself, two months pregnant and feeling trapped, Natalie Ravenna leaves her sleeping husband a note and drives away from her Long Island home one rainy morning to find herself. She meets two lonely men who bring tenderness and tragedy her way"--Container.
14) The wrong man
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Nightclub musician Manny Balestrero is falsely accused of a robbery, an accusation that ruins his life.