Sam Shepard
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Set in California apple country in the 1930s, nine hundred migratory workers rise up and join forces to protest unfair wages and working conditions. As the labor strike wears on and conflict grows between the apple pickers and the local growers' association, what begins as a fight for their rights turns into an all-out battle for survival in this star-studded retelling of John Steinbeck's beloved novel.
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"Based on the acclaimed play, three eccentric Southern sisters come together for the most unlikely reunion in this tale of family loyalty and the ultimate sibling rivalry. The Magrath girls must confront a stormy past and ultimately find that it is their differences that will bring them together"--Container.
63) Purgatory
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Wild Bill Hickock, Doc Holiday, Jesse James, and Billy the Kid, all deceased greats of the untamed West, get a last chance to undo their violent pasts in a mysterious town that's west of the Pecos and south of Eternity.
64) The return
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Joanna Mills is a tough young woman who is determined to learn the truth behind the increasingly terrifying supernatural visions that have been haunting her. As a sales representative for a trucking company, Joanna has made a successful career for herself. But her private life has been difficult. She is estranged from her father, is being stalked by an obsessed ex-boyfriend, and fears that she is losing control. She sees and feels the brutal murder...
65) Defenseless
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T.K. Katwuller is a lawyer defending real estate tycoon Steve Seldes against charges of hiring teenage girls to perform in porno films, which is complicated by the fact that he is her lover and the husband of an old friend. When her client is murdered, the apparent victim of a teenager's outraged father, only the engimatic Detective Butell remains tempered enough to expose the truth of the real killer.
66) The pledge
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A veteran police detective, on the day of his retirement, handles the case of a seven-year-old girl who has been brutally murdered. When a mentally retarded man confesses to the murder and then kills himself, the detectives consider the case closed, but was he actually the murderer? Before long, evidence is uncovered that suggests the the girl was just one in a series of brutal killings involving young girls and a mysterious man.
67) Country
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When government bureaucrats threaten to take away the farm that has bound their family together for generations, Jewell and Gil Ivy decide to fight at all costs.
68) Savannah
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Based on the true story of Ward Allen, who shuns his plantation rights to live his life as a hunter on the river.
70) Leo
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For a class assignment, a troubled young boy named Leo, begins to write to Stephen, a convicted felon in prison. Through their letters, Stephen has a lifeline to the outside world and Leo finds fatherly strength and guidance as he struggles with his mother's tragic past. When he is released from prison, Stephen sets out on a journey to help the boy and perhaps in the process, he can redeem himself. On his way, some co-workers help him, while others...
71) Walker Payne
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Walker Payne, a divorced ex-con and deadbeat dad, doesn't have much going for him. Walker is given one shot, a chance to turn his life around, but the cost will be high - maybe higher than any decent man can bear.
72) The only thrill
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"Reece McHenry runs a clothing store where he meets Carol, a seamstress and single mother, looking for work. The two soon find they are attacted to each other but are afraid of expressing their emotions. As the years pass, the deep friendship develops into love, but perhaps because of time and circumstances, it may be too late. Now, Carol's daughter and Reece's son, who have been friends since childhood, have fallen in love and may be making the same...
73) Resurrection
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A woman who experiences clinical death as the result of a car accident returns to life with the amazing ability to heal others. Attributing her powers to human love rather than divine intervention, she begins to aid the residents of her childhood town.
74) Inhale
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A district attorney is desperate to save the life of his daughter, desperate enough to head to Mexico and gamble everything on getting her the illegal organs she needs to live. A searing suspense-thriller that proves breaking the law is the least a father will do to save someone he loves.
75) Ruffian
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The story of the filly Ruffian, who dominated horse racing in the early 1970s, until a broken leg at Belmont Park ended her career and her life.
76) Felon
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Wade Porter is a loving family man who loses everything when he accidentally kills the burglar who broke into his home. Convicted of involuntary manslaughter, Wade is sentenced to three years at a maximum security facility. Forced to share a cell with a notorious mass murder and subjected to brutal beatings, Wade soon realizes he's in for the fight of his life if he is to survive the block.
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Patti Smith is a renowned singer, songwriter, poet and activist. Her music, poetry, and politics are fearless, funny, raw and original. Traces Patti's punk-poet roots through the trials of daily life and untimely deaths that have formed her life and art. Touches on her early days in New York City and includes the people dearest to her, her family, and the political causes she champions.
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Training day: On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears. John Q: A down-on-his luck father, whose insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant, takes the hospital's emergency room hostage until the doctors agree to perform the operation. Fallen: Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings...
80) Hamlet
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A contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's epic story of passion, betrayal and revenge. The president of the Denmark Corporation is dead, and already his wife is remarried to the man suspected of his murder. No one is more troubled by this than her son, Hamlet. Now, after this hostile takeover, trust is impossible, passion is on the rise and vengeance is in the air.