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Newlywed Rosemary has no idea that her wedded bliss is about to come to a horrific end. After she becomes pregnant, her husband becomes odd, her neighbors border on obsessive, and her normal life turns into a surreal nightmare. Slowly, she begins to realize that a seed of evil has been planted--and she is its host.
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The names Audrey Hepburn and Holly Golightly have become synonymous since this dazzling romantic comedy was translated to the screen from Truman Capote’s best-selling novella. Holly is a deliciously eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. George Peppard plays her next-door neighbour, a writer who is “sponsored” by a wealthy Patricia Neal. Guessing who’s the right man for Holly is easy. Seeing just how...
4) Serpico
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Adaptation of the true story of a young New York police officer refuses to extort money from criminals as the other officers do. His fellow police officers turn against him when he seeks to expose the situation during a grand jury investigation.
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An African Prince Akeem, who rebels against an arranged marriage and heads to America to find a new bride. Akeem's regal father agrees to allow the prince 40 days to roam the U.S., sending the prince's faithful retainer Semmi along to make sure nothing untoward happens. To avoid fortune hunters, Prince Akeem conceals his true identity and gets a ₁Joe job₂ at a fast-food restaurant.
6) Ragtime
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A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
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Martin Scorsese directs one of his most compelling and unforgettable movies, reteaming him with screenwriter Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver), and starring Nicolas Cage. A paramedic on the brink of madness from too many years of reviving and losing lives meets the daughter of a man he tried to save. Together, they confront the ghosts of the past, and discover that redemption can be found among the living. *"An exciting, invigorating return to old preoccupations..."...
9) King Kong
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The Big Apple is besieged by the monstrous ape, King Kong. The gargantuan ape battles attacking aircraft high above the streets of New York and plunges to his death from the top of the World Trade Center.
10) Staying alive
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Five years later and Tony Manero's Saturday Night Fever is still burning. Now he's strutting toward his biggest chance yet-- making it as a dancer on the Broadway stage.
11) Focus
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This story follows a Brooklyn man and his wife who become victims of mistaken identity at the height of World War II. Their bigoted community believes that they are Jews.
12) Death wish
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Paul Kersey, a bleeding-heart liberal, becomes a one-man vigilante after his wife and daughter are violently attacked by a gang of thugs.
13) Harlem nights
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"[A] tale of nightclub owner Sugar Ray, his son Quick and their cantankerous pit boss, Bernie 'Snake Eyes' Wilson, who fight to keep a vicious mobster and a corrupt police force from putting them out of business"--Container.
14) Losing Isaiah
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A woman who has adopted an abandoned child to give it a new life has to fight for him when his birth mother shows up and wants him back.
15) The warriors
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During a New York gang summit, the Warriors are wrongfully accused of a murder and must fight their way back to their "home" turf.
16) 200 cigarettes
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"[A] wildly hip comedy about the quest for Mr. or Ms. Right or at least for Mr. or Ms. Right Now. It's New Year's Eve 1981, and a wild assortment of twentysomething characters are looking for romance in NYC's rollickingg East Village. Can a poser, a hunk, a teeny bopper, a gabby cabbie, a cute klutz, and a bevy of too-cool-to-cope artists find love before the stroke of midnight? The surprising, and delightful answers will be revealed in the clear...
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When Greenwich Village butcher Leo Lemke returns from a North Carolina fishing trip, he can't wait to show off his prize catch: his beautiful new wife, a clairvoyant named Marina, but his pride turns to concern when he hears gossip about a backwoods psychic whose charms are turning hardened city dwellers into lovestruck kids.