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2) Afterburn
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English
Description
After her ace fighter pilot husband dies in a plane crash, Janet Harduvel is shocked to discover that the Air Force has blamed his death on "pilot error". Working with her lawyer, Janet discovers that there is every possibility the instruments in the F-16 were at fault, and that the military had initiated a cover-up. For Janet, her husband's good name is all she has left of him and she'll fight to preserve it.
3) Truman
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English
Description
President Truman led the nation through the end of World War II, the beginning of the Cold War, the struggle for civil rights and the creation of the United Nations.
4) Amistad
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English
Description
Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
5) Blue ice
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English
Description
Until the car behind him took out his rear light, Harry Anders (Caine) thought he'd given up spying. Now he has to think again. The car that hit him holds nothing but trouble in the seductive shape of Stacey Mansdorf (Young). Stacey is an ambassador's wife with one aim in mind, tracking down her ex-lover Kyle. What she needs is a tracker-- and a new lover-- and Harry Anders fits the bill.
6) Volunteers
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English
Description
Lawrence Bourne III escapes the bookies to whom he owes $28,000 by swapping places with a friend and going to Thailand with the Peace Corps.
7) Sweet dreams
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English
Description
Sweet Dreams is the true story of the legendary Patsy Cline, charting the most dramatic years of her efforts to become a top country singer.
9) The Hitcher
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English
Description
Horror film depicting a young man's attempts to escape from and later apprehend a psychopathic killer he picked up hitchhiking in the desert.
10) Flashpoint
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English
Description
Bob Logan (Kristofferson) and Ernie Wyatt (Williams) are members of the US Border Patrol in south Texas. They unearth the remains of a man buried at the wheel of a jeep in the desert with a box containing $800,000 in cash and two phone numbers. One number is traced to a person in Washington, D.C., while the other dates back twenty years as the number of the Dallas Police Dept. The patrolmen have unwittingly uncovered a conspiracy surrounding the assassination...
11) Citizen X
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English
Description
Viktor Burakov (Rea), a brilliant forensics expert but an inexperienced detective, is put in charge of investigating the case of a serial killer. As the number of victims continues to rise, the investigation slows to a standstill, buried under government red tape.
13) The enemy within
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English
Description
"In just 69 hours America's military leaders will overthrow the government they have sworn to defend. Only one man can stop them--but he's running out of time." -- Box.
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English
Description
In the 1980s, everyone was making the big bucks and F. Ross Johnson, CEO of RJR Nabisco, wants to make his fortune. He decides to buy out the Nabisco shareholders and take over his company in order to escape the tyranny of the stockholders. Johnson is introduced to the master of the leveraged buyout, Henry Kravis, but afraid of losing the company to this sharp dealer, he decides to make his move with Peter Cohen. Kravis mounts his own buy-out campaign,...
17) The jack bull
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English
Description
A feud becomes a war between a proud rancher and a wealthy, influential landowner in the Old West.
18) Citizen Cohn
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English
Description
Ruthless, destructive, power hungry and insatiable, attorney Roy Cohn could make or break the strongest men in America just for the thrill of the kill.
19) Heaven help us
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English
Description
Set in a Catholic school in Brooklyn in the 1960's, the film tells the story of 16-year-old Michael Dunn who arrives at St. Basil's school in 1965 and immediately befriends all of the misfits in his class. What unfolds is the hilarious and moving story of boys growing up during a tumultuous, important year in their lives.