Forest Whitaker
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A clumsy clerk overhears the conversation of three coworkers who seem to know about a fix in a horse race and decides to bet a large amount of money. He loses the bet and owes the money to the dangerous and powerful mobster, Fingers. One of the men working for Fingers has the ability of foreseeing the future and he is assigned to collect money for the boss. Fingers's troublemaker nephew Tony is beat up by a gang. The manager of pop-star Trista loses...
63) Freelancers
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The son of a slain NYPD officer joins the force, where he falls in with his father's former partner and a team of rogue cops. His new boss wants to see if he has what it takes to be rogue. When the truth about his father's death is revealed, he won't stop until justice has been served.
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Twelve stories that will have children reading all summer long. Stories include the beloved I Stink, live through a stinky night in the life of a New York City garbage truck that likes to eat alphabet soup and I'm Dirty, find out just how dirty a backhoe can get while doing its' job. Other stories include Mike Mulligan And His Steam Shovel; Trashy Town; The Remarkable Riderless Runaway Tricycle; The Beast Of Monsieur Racine; Arnie The Doughnut; and...
65) Catch .44
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When three friends are sent by their boss to intercept a drug deal at a remote diner, they think nothing of it, until a standoff ensues and the mystery of what brought them together slowly starts to unravel.
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Betty & Coretta: Two extraordinary women-Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Dr. Betty Shabazz, wife of Malcolm X-come to life in this Lifetime Movie Network movie. After their husbands' tragic assassinations, they developed a unique friendship spanning three decades as they carried on the Civil Rights movement while supporting their families as single mothers. Through their strength and dignity, they became role models for millions...
68) Blown away
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When an explosion jolts the city of Boston, bomb squad expert Jimmy dove is pulled out of an early retirement and into the most harrowing work of his career.
69) Phonebooth
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Stu Shepard, a self-centered New York City publicist, suddenly finds himself on the deadly end of a high-powered rifle scope when he picks up a ringing payphone and the man on the other end tells him that he's going to kill him if he hangs up.
70) The crying game
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An unlikely kind of friendship develops between Fergus, an Irish Republican Army volunteer, and Jody, a kidnapped British soldier lured into an IRA trap by another IRA member. When the hostage-taking ends up going horribly wrong, Fergus escapes and heads to London, where he seeks out Jody's lover, a hairdresser named Dil. Fergus changes his name and gets a job as a day laborer. His starts seeing Dil, who knows nothing about Fergus' real background....
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"Imported by the Army for an early morning radio show in Vietnam, disc jockey Adrian Cronauer blasts the formerly staid, sanitized airwaves with a constant barrage of rapid-fire humor and the hottest hits from back home. The G.I.'s love him, but the brass is up in arms!"--Container.
72) Even money
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The lives of nine individuals fate begin to increasingly entwine in a web of addiction and gambling, culminating at one critical moment where their lives will be lost or reclaimed. Struggling writer Kate loses her family's savings at a casino; a washed-up Vegas performer tries to help Kate regain her money; Clyde owes so much money to his dangerous bookie that he asks his NBA-destined nephew to throw a game.
73) My own love song
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After meeting at a psychiatric hospital, damaged souls Jane and Joey change their lives with a road trip after receiving a letter from the son she gave up for adoption years ago. Along the way they encounter colorful people and magical revelations that will changes their lives.
74) Nelson Mandela
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This a story of a young boy who grew up to become president of South Africa. His lifelong quest was to establish equality for people of all colors.
75) Fragments
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On an ordinary day, a deranged man goes on a rampage in a diner and randomly shoots the customers. The survivors of the tragic episode are deeply affected by the shooting, each having a different reaction: the youngest, Anne Hagen, becomes popular at school telling her version of the shooting; her friend Jimmy Jaspersen becomes mute and closes himself to the outer world; waitress Carla Davenport neglects her baby and has several vulgar relationships...
76) Pawn
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An all-night diner. A cop walks in on a robbery in progress. But what happens next, and what happened just before, will change everything you think you know. Now the building is surrounded. There are fingers on every trigger. And one very intense hostage situation is about to take some extremely shocking twists.
77) Bird
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The life of legendary jazz musician Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, directed and produced by jazz fan, Clint Eastwood. The film uses actual recordings by Parker with the backgrounds removed, and accompaniment by modern musicians attuned to the Yardbird's improvisations.
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Good night, gorilla: The zookeeper makes his nightly rounds but never suspects that someone is making mischief along the way. How do dinosaurs say good night: Even dinosaurs make a fuss before bedtime. Happy birthday, moon: Little bear and the moon wish each other happy birthday. Napping house: Granny and all her critters pile on her bed for a nap.
80) The crying game
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An unlikely kind of friendship develops between Fergus, an Irish Republican Army volunteer, and Jody, a kidnapped British soldier lured into an IRA trap by another IRA member. When the hostage-taking ends up going horribly wrong, Fergus escapes and heads to London, where he seeks out Jody's lover, a hairdresser named Dil. Fergus changes his name and gets a job as a day laborer. He starts seeing Dil, who knows nothing about Fergus' real background....