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1) Memento
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Three-time Oscar nominee Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, Inception) directs this critically acclaimed mystery. Leonard (Guy Pearce) is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty, however, of locating his wife's killer is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago,...
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The comedy This Is The End follows six friends trapped in a house after a series of strange and catastrophic events devastate Los Angeles. As the world unravels outside, dwindling supplies and cabin fever threaten to tear apart the friendships inside. Eventually, they are forced to leave the house, facing their fate and the true meaning of friendship and redemption.
4) Her
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"Set in Los Angeles in the slight future, ... Theodore, a complex, soulful man ... makes his living writing touching personal letters for other people. Heartbroken after the end of a long relationship, he becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system, which promises to be an intuitive and unique entity in its own right. Upon initiating it, he is delighted to meet "Samantha", a bright, female voice ... who is insightful, sensitive and surprisingly...
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Jack and Terry. Hank and Edith. They're two married couples and best friends with much in common. Jack and Hank are professors at Cedar County College. Terry and Edith are both stay-at-home moms. What will split them apart is that Jack and Edith are secret lovers. The interlocked foursome go into uncharted realms of anger, confrontation and lust - and making decisions that may or may not let love slip away.
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Criterion collection volume 764
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Language and violence.
Parry is a homeless history professor who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights and damsels in distress. Jack is New York's #1 shock deejay, whose off-hand arrogance triggers a tragedy which ruins his career. Penniless and without prospects, Jack finds himself plucked from disaster by the most improbable of saviors-Parry. And so the amazing story of the Fisher King unfolds a modern quest for redemption and the...
7) Tully
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This coming-of-age film explores a legacy of love between a family of men, and the events of one summer that change their world forever.
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Criterion collection volume 1180
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Two women, a turquoise Thunderbird, the ride of a lifetime. With this pop-culture landmark, screenwriter Callie Khouri and action auteur Ridley Scott rewrote the rules of the road movie, telling the story of two best friends who find themselves transformed into accidental fugitives during a weekend getaway gone wrong leading them on a high-speed Southwest odyssey as they elude police and discover freedom on their terms.
9) Jesus' son
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A rumpled, hapless young man in his twenties, FH bounces through his days with his dreams and hallucinations blurring and merging into reality. The shaky center of his universe is his beloved on-again, off-again, girlfriend Michelle.
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In "El mariachi", a would-be musician is mistaken for a criminal and must fight for his life. "Desperado" tells the story of a guitar player out for vengeance against the men who murdered his girlfriend. In "Bedhead", a young girl must use telekinetic powers to battle her brother.
11) Halloween
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The story of seven people barricaded inside a farmhouse while an army of flesh-eating zombies lurks just outside.
12) The Order
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"The Order: Journey to a turbulent world under siege as reformed artifact smuggler Rudy travels to Jerusalem to rescue his museum-curator father who's been kidnapped by ruthless fanatics. There he recovers a sacred scroll believed to hold dangerous secrets of an underground sect. Framed for murder by a scheming police chief, Rudy enlists the aid of a mysterious beauty to clear his name and wages a one-man battle to recapture the ancient scroll before...
13) Cross my heart
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"Share the misery of a disastrous night out in a frank and funny look at romantic facades and sexual mores in the confusing world of the '80s. It's the third date for David who is so desperate to impress Kathy that he borrows his friend's new car, gets the keys to a posh apartment and tells her he's received a promotion when he's actually been fired. Kathy has her secrets too, specifically an addiction to nicotine and a seven-year-old daughter. As...
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"When two young American GIs desert their platoon in the final days of World War II, they will find themselves struggling against all odds to stay alive. Their strange and violent journey will bring them together with a band of orphans who are expertly trained killing machines in an attempt to defeat a Nazi battalion"--Container.