John Malkovich
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Set in 18th century France, this is the story of two bored aristocrats and the havoc they wreak when they play dangerous games with people's lives. The beautiful widow Merteuil challenges rakish Valmont to seduce a virtuous young married woman, never suspecting that he would violate his personal credo and fall in love.
65) Red
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Frank is a former black-ops CIA agent living a quiet life alone, until the day a hit squad shows up to kill him. With his identity compromised, Frank reassembles his old team; Joe, Marvin, and Victoria, and sets out to prove that they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Stand back and watch the bullets fly in this explosive action-comedy.
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In the year 2707, war rages between Earth's four giant corporations as they battle over the planet's dwindling resources. Amid heavy combat, an errant shell shatters an ancient buried seal, releasing a horrific mutant army from its eternal prison deep within the Earth to fulfill the ages-old prophesy and save mankind.
68) Napoleon
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Drama about the years in the life of Napoleon Bonaparte from his first decisive battle to his bitter defeat and exile.
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Shout select volume 7
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During the post-war boom period of the late '40s, Willy Loman is an aging, traveling salesman, who despairs that his life his been lived in vain. Facing dispensability and insignificance in a heated, youthful economy, Willy is not ready to part with his cherished fantasies of an America that admires him for personable triumphs in the marketplace.. But the reality is far more difficult than that, and the measure of Willy's self-delusion and contradictions...
71) In tranzit
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A bitter game of cat and mouse ensues when a group of German POWs are accidentally sent to a female-run Soviet prison camp after WWII. As each group learns that things are not always as they seem, they realize that sometimes prejudices are unjustly held and love can be found in even the worst places.
72) Afterwards
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A high-powered attorney finds his life turned upside down when he is visited by an ominous doctor who predicts people's deaths. Unable to stop the fatal predictions, the lawyer races against time to put his life in order before he becomes death's next victim.
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In the year 2707, war rages between Earth's four giant corporations as they battle over the planet's dwindling resources. Amid heavy combat, an errant shell shatters an ancient buried seal, releasing a horrific mutant army from its eternal prison deep within the Earth to fulfill the ages-old prophesy and save mankind.
75) Les misérables
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In early 19th century France the paroled prisoner Jean Valjean seeks redemption, regains his social standing, and rises to the rank of mayor. He encounters a beautiful but desperately ill woman named Fantine and cares for her daughter, Cosette, after her death. All the while he is obsessively pursued by the policeman Javert, who vows to make him pay for the crimes of his past.
76) Con air
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Cameron Poe is a highly decorated US ranger. He is convicted of manslaughter after protecting his wife from a drunken brawler. After eight years in prison he is being paroled and going home to his wife and daughter. His ride home is on the Jailbird, a secure air craft designed for prisoner transport. The plane is transporting some of society's most vicious murderers to Feltham Penitentiary, Lousiana's toughest maximum security prison. A surprising...
77) Johnny English
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Working for the MI7 agency, Johnny English is suddenly promoted to super spy after Agent One is assassinated and every other agent is blown up at his funeral. When entrepreneur Sauvage sponsors an exhibition of the Crown Jewels and the valuable gems disappear on the opening night, the newly designated agent must jump into action. Tracking the thieves' underground escape route, English locks in on Sauvage despite repeated assurances by boss Pegasus...
79) Jennifer 8
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"They are the unidentified victims of an unsolved crime spree, women linked by a killer's gruesome handiwork and by police files giving them the code name 'Jennifer'. Homicide invenstigator John Berlin believes he's made a breakthrough in the case when he uncovers a key witness: a young blind woman named Helena. Yet who can rely on the testimony of a witness who cannot see? Who can trust Berlin when he is ultimately suspected of the murders? And who...
80) Drunkboat
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Drunkboat tells the story of a young teenager, Abe who manipulates the unsuspecting help of his alcoholic uncle to buy a boat from a con man named Mr. Fletcher when his mother Eileen is out of town. The story resonates with the struggle of Uncle Mort, making the story much deeper than a simple tale of a boy and his boat. Both the uncle and Abe come of age in the story.