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As Night Court begins its sixth hit season, Assistant District Attorney Dan Fielding is listed as missing and presumed dead when his plane crashes in the Arctic Ocean. Judge Harry T. Stone cautions the others against expecting Dan to still be alive after two weeks of search-and-rescue efforts, but Legal Aid Attorney Christine Sullivan refuses to give up hope and prays for Dan's safe return. Dan, meanwhile, is alive on a remote island, saved by a seal....
142) The trial
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"A timeless tale of ordinary terror. Josef K's thirty-fifth birthday begins with a knock on his door. Three sinister agents have arrived from an unidentified agency to arrest him for unidentified crimes. But this is no birthday prank - this is life or death. So begins K's dark descent into a waking nightmare of bizarre humiliations and compulsive procedures"--Back cover.
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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...
144) The tattered dress
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When top lawyer James Blane gets an acquittal for a man who killed another man for sexually roughing up his trophy wife, the murderous town sheriff frames him for bribing a juror in the case.
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Disc 1: Other men's women: Bill and Jack are railroad men. When Bill comes to stay with Jack and his wife, Bill and Lily fall in love. Jack confronts Bill about his suspicions and the two fight, leaving Jack seriously injured. The purchase price: Joan Gordon is a singer tiring of her relationship with Eddie. She flees to North Dakota to become a mail-order bride. Happiness is threatened by her stubborn husband, a lecherous neighbor and the appearance...
146) Daredevil
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By day, blind attorney Matt Murdock toils for justice in Hell's Kitchen. By night, he's Daredevil, a man without fear. He's a masked vigilante stalking the dark streets with an uncanny "radar sense" that allows him to see with superhuman capabilities. When the love of his life is targeted by New York City's ruthless Kingpin and his deadly assassin, Bullseye, Daredevil may be about to meet his match.
149) Caged birds
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Barbara 'Babs' Hug is a young radical lawyer fighting Switzerland's antiquated prison system in the 1980s, and finds it to be an endless, draining battle. One day, she's approached by the country's most wanted criminal, Walter Sturm, in a public square. But Walter isn't your average criminal, as he's recently escaped from prison for the seventh time. Babs quickly sees an opportunity to use his popularity to reform the penal system, and they form an...
150) Signature move
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In Chicago, Zaynab (Fawzia Mirza) is a thirty-something American-Pakistani lawyer who lives with and cares for her recently widowed, TV-obsessed mother (legendary Indian actress Shabana Azmi). Alma (Sari Sanchez) is a free-spirited Mexican-American bookshop owner. After meeting in a bar, the two quickly fall into bed with each other and embark on a romance ... but problems aren't far behind. Zaynab's traditional mother still expects her daughter to...
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Season 7: Laure and Gilou are brought back together by a double homicide in a Chinese restaurant, and the tragic loss of one of their own. Meanwhile, Josp̌hine struggles with life in prison as she awaits trial and Judge Roban faces forced retirement. All of them will have to deal with unexpected hurdles and the ultimate dilemma: give up the truth or betray the institution they have each faithfully served.
Season 8: Gilou finds himself on his own,...
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Heavens Fall: Based on the true story of the Scottsboro Boys, a tragic true story of nine black men who were pulled off an Alabama freight train and accused of raping two young white women, quickly tried, and sentenced to the electric chair. Forcing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, a lone man defends them.
Blue Ridge Fall: In the small town world of Jefferson Creek, North Carolina, star high school quarterback, Danny Shepherd, and his buddies...
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"Academy and Emmy Award-winning writer-director Aaron Sorkin's brilliant screenplay for his hit film The Trial of the Chicago 7--the first of his movie screenplays every published"--from back cover.
"In 1969-1970 the Nixon Administration put eight antiwar activists on trial for riots that took place at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. One, Bobby Seale, was separated from the rest after the judge ordered him bound and gagged in...
158) Love among the ruins
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The scene is Victorian London, where wealthy widow Hepburn is being sued for breach of promise by her much-younger ex-fianc.̌ Olivier is the highly respected barrister engaged to defend Hepburn in court. The usually reserved Olivier relishes the opportunity to see Hepburn, who 40 years earlier had been his lover. He is driven to hilarious distraction by Hepburn₂s adamant insistence that she has never seen him before in her life.
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Heat: A career thief and a detective square off to make sure that the other does not succeed. Vincent Hanna is a brilliant L.A. cop following the trail from a deadly armed robbery to a crew headed by master thief Neil McCauley. The trouble is, McCauley's expertise is at least equal to Hanna's.
Seven: A psychological thriller about two detectives on the trail of a serial killer who chooses his victims according to the seven deadly sins. Veteran Detective...