Clint Eastwood
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Three "spaghetti westerns" featuring Clint Eastwood's nameless anti-hero. A fistful of dollars: Borrowing the plot of Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo, Eastwood plays a gunfighter who comes to a small border town and offers his services to two rival gangs. For a few dollars more: Western drama in which two bounty hunters join forces to capture an outlaw gang leader. The good, the bad and the ugly: Three gunmen set out to find a hidden fortune in this tale...
83) True crime
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A boozing, skirt-chasing and hard-living reporter realizes a death row prisoner scheduled to die at midnight is innocent. He races against time to save the man and perhaps lift his own life out of the trash heap.
84) Magnum force
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Detective Harry Callahan is pitted against an unexpected lawbreaker: one who carries a badge. Sharpshooting rookie motorcycle cops have turned vigilante, rubbing out crooks the courts can't touch. Their real enemy is the system. Unfortunately for them, the system is what Harry is sworn to protect.
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For 35 years Clint Eastwood has called Warner Bros. home. In this film historian Richard Schickel ventures beyond Eastwood's tough, iconic screen personas to reveal the easygoing and thoughtful man behind the magic. Morgan Freeman narrates this insightful profile that features memorable film clips and visits to movie locations, the Warner Bros. lot, and Eastwood's hometown of Carmel where, with humor, candor, and intelligence, Eastwood illuminates...
86) Dirty Harry
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A rock-hard cop attempts to track down a psychopathic killer before a kidnapped girl dies. The killer is released after the cop abuses his civil rights, and hijacks a school bus. The only answer to this vicious killer seems to be death in cold blood.
91) Firefox
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Firefox: A pilot is sent into the Soviet Union on a mission to steal a prototype jet fighter.
Heartbreak Ridge: A Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.
94) Absolute power
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An expert thief witnesses the President and his men committing a murder when he breaks into the home of a Washington official. Now he must run and save himself from the men after him.
95) City heat
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In the 1930s, a private investigator teams up with his old partner to fight the mob, but they can't stand each other.
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After avenging his family's brutal murder by Union Forces in the Civil War, Missouri farmer Josey Wales is on the lam, pursued by a pack of killers. He travels westward alone, but a ragtag group of outcasts is drawn to him, and Wales can't leave his motley surrogate family unprotected.
97) Sudden impact
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In the aftermath of a brutal rape, a beautiful woman has begun to hunt down her attackers. Harry has to find her and stop her before she kills again or her attackers find her.
99) The gauntlet
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A Phoenix police officer is assigned to transport a witness named Guy Mally from Las Vegas in order for her to testify in a mob trial. Mally turns out to be a prostitute with mob ties and incriminating information regarding a high-placed figure. Shockley's suspicions are aroused and the betting line against Mally testifying begins to climb when they are attacked along the way. The pair must face the truth about those they trust, as well as their own...
100) Magnum force
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A mysterious wave of assassinations is sweeping the San Francisco underworld. Detective "Dirty Harry" Callahan (Eastwood) discovers why: sharpshooting rookie policemen have turned vigilante.