Rosanna Arquette
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Pretenders singer/songwriter Chrissie Hynde tells exactly where she came from and what her crooked, winding path to stardom entailed. Her All-American upbringing in Akron, Ohio, a child of postwar power and prosperity. Her soul's capture, along with tens of millions of her generation, by the gods of sixties rock who came through Cleveland -- Mitch Ryder, David Bowie, Jeff Back, Paul Butterfield, and Iggy Pop among them. Her shocked witness in 1970...
2) Silverado
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Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. It's up to the sharp-shooting foursome to save the day, but first they have to break each other out of jail and learn who their real friends are. Includes featurette.
3) Hal
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Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar winning classics, including Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There. But as contemporaries Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbuster stardom in the 1980s, Ashby's uncompromising nature played out as a cautionary tale of art versus commerce.
4) Pulp fiction
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The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. Academy Award Best Original Screenplay; On National Film Registry.
5) After hours
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The twists and turns of one night in the life of a New York yuppie and the interesting people he comes in contact with from a sexy woman to a crazy ice cream dealer.
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Jacques and his friendly rival Enzo are considered masters of free-diving and have made a career out of this one-of-a-kind competition. Jacques' life-long obsession with diving comes from his unusual bond with the sea, while Enzo thrives on the challenges of its inherent dangers.
7) Deceiver
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A riveting psychological thriller, charged with unbridled suspense and powerful peformances. An edge-of-your-seat mystery that delves into the chilling, murky depths of truth and deception.
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Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski is a mob hitman-turned-informant who ratted on the mob and put his life in jeopardy. He has relocated to suburban Montreal to make a new start. Nick 'Oz' Oseranskiy is Jimmy's next-door neighbor. Nick is a mild-mannered and unhappily married dentist. Nick recognizes Jimmy from the newspaper stories about his mob testimony, and that's when Nick's simple, but boring world turns upside down.
9) Frank & Lola
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The story of two people locked in a battle of passion and obsession. When talented chef Frank meets aspiring fashion designer Lola, he is instantly and violently in love. As the secrets of Lola's dark past are revealed, the lovers are drawn into a web of sex, jealousy and revenge.
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Bored New Jersey housewife Roberta fills her days by reading the personals and following an ongoing romance between Jim and Susan, mysterious drifters who appear to lead the kind of free-spirited life she can only dream about. And dream she does, until the day she actually shows up at the couple's pre-arranged rendezvous in New York City. After a bump on the head, a bout of amnesia turns Roberta into Susan.
13) Northern lights
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Haunted by the death of his partner, former Baltimore cop Nate Burns accepts the job as chief of police in a remote Alaskan town. Once there, he falls for feisty bush pilot Meg Galligan, a woman haunted by her own demons. When Meg's father turns up dead, Nate and Meg finds themselves at the center of a high-profile murder case.
15) Buffalo '66
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A CIA agent and ex-con kidnaps a woman to impress his parents and make them believe he's married, but the woman gets in the way of his deadly plan to hunt down and kill a professional football player.
16) Silverado
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"Get ready for some horse-ridin', gun-totin', whiskey-drinkin' fun" -- on container.
17) The divide
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As nuclear warheads rain down on Manhattan, nine strangers barricade themselves in their apartment building's bunker-like basement controlled by the unhinged superintendent. But within days, supplies dwindle, tempers flare, and the trapped survivors will be overcome by treachery, madness, sexual torment, and savage violence. What follows is intense. It is raw. And it is all brutally, horrifyingly real.
18) Pulp fiction
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Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are two hitmen who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from mob boss Marsellus Wallace, their employer. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together.
19) Lovesong
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Neglected by her husband, Sarah embarks on an impromptu road trip with her young daughter and her best friend, Mindy. Along the way, the dynamic between the two friends intensifies before circumstances force them apart. Years later, Sarah attempts to rebuild their intimate connection in the days before Mindy's wedding.
20) I'm losing you
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A wealthy businessman, trying to juggle a wife, a mistress, and two grown children, slowly loses his battle to save face and keep up appearances.