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"St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Here, under the watchful eyes of several priests, thirty boys work, learn, and worship. Peter Barlow, orphaned as a child by a gruesome murder, has made a new life here. As he approaches adulthood, he has friends, a future...a family. Then, late one stormy night, a group of men arrive at their door, one of whom is badly wounded, occult symbols carved into his...
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"What is the price of magic? Not the magic of tricks and illusions, but the kind that heats cities, powers armies, and transforms continents. Magic that forges empires. The Brannic Empire owes its existence to this magic and for those in power, no price is too great. Even when that price is their own children. For it is the ashes of those with magical abilities that the Church of Alchemy harvests to fuel this machine of empire. So the furnaces burn,...
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The struggle between the strictures of religion and humankind's brute animal nature plays out amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote Iceland in this stunning psychological epic from director Hlynur Pl̀mason. In the late nineteenth century, Danish priest Lucas made the perilous trek to Iceland's Southeastern coast to establish a church. There, the arrogant man of God finds his resolve tested as he confronts the harsh terrain, temptations...
5) Redsight
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"A blind priestess with the ability to manipulate space-time, Korinna, a weapon of the Imperium, must choose sides, seize her power and fulfill her destiny when she is drawn to notorious space pirate Aster Haran who sheds new--and dangerous--light on her world"--
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"Suspicion": A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her. "Strangers on a train": A psychotic socialite attempts to force a professional tennis star to prove a theory that two complete strangers can get away with murder. "I confess": A priest who comes under suspicion for murder cannot clear his name without breaking the seal of the confessional. "Dial M for murder": A tennis player frames...