Hemdale Film Corporation.
1) Platoon
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English
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An idealistic new recruit arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his enemy is not just the Viet Cong, but also gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and the anger growing within himself.
2) Best seller
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A professional assassin decided to get revenge for being let go from the corporate empire he helped build by writing a tell all book. The question is who will still remain standing after the the assassin's former employer kidnapps the writer's daughter and a confrontation ensues.
3) Hoosiers
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A basketball coach with a checkered past becomes the new coach of the underdog high school basketball team in a 1951 sleepy Indiana farm town, using methods that infuriate the townspeople.
4) Platoon
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Platoon is the story of every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam. Chris Taylor arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and the anger growing within himself.
5) Platoon
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Follows young Chris Taylor who arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion, and the anger growing within himself.
7) Miracle mile
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When Harry picked up the pay phone he could hardly believe what he heard. Harry thought it was a joke, but the more he considered it, the clearer it became. America had 70 minutes until the bomb would be dropped. And Harry had to spread the word.
9) Platoon
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Young Chris Taylor arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion, and the anger growing within himself. His two commanding officers seem to be in a constant war not only with the enemy but each other and Chris finds himself changing into someone he doesn't recognize.
10) Shag
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Four teenage girls have one last fling before they go their separate ways to college, careers, and marriage.
11) River's edge
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Based on an actual event, a close-knit group of teenagers discover that one of their own has killed his girlfriend. Emotionally ill-prepared, they struggle to differentiate between friendship and responsibility.
12) Criminal law
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Boston attorney Ben Chase's career gets an upward surge when he successfully defends blueblood Martin Thiel during a well-publicized murder trial. But when he realizes that Thiel is the exacting, vicious serial killer he was accused of being, Chase is torn between professional responsibility and his own conscience. Hoping to snare the egotistical killer in a misstep, Chase engages in a tense game of cat-and-mouse with Thiel, blurring the lines between...
14) Salvador
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In 1980, Richard Boyle, a veteran war photographer whose career needs a boost, heads for El Salvador to cover the civil war there. He forms an uneasy alliance with both guerrillas in the countryside who want him to get pictures out to the US press, and the right-wing military, who want him to bring them photographs of the rebels. After the murder of Archbishop Romero, the rape and murder of an American nurse and three nuns, and the death of a fellow...
15) The Terminator
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In 2029, giant super-computers dominate the planet and to destroy man's future by changing the past, they send an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator, back in time to kill a woman whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope. Can Sarah Connor protect herself from this unstoppable menace?
16) Hidden agenda
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When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the man's girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth-- which they soon discover to be contained in an audio tape which the man had with him, exposing political manipulations at the highest levels of government. But such underlying agendas require careful considerations to avoid worse things than murder.
17) River's edge
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English
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Based on an actual event, a close-knit group of teenagers discover that one of their own has killed his girlfriend. Emotionally ill-prepared, they struggle to differentiate between friendship and responsibility.
19) Vincent & Theo
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This is a passionate story of an obsessive artist driven by inexorable demons and his alternately devoted and despairing younger brother, who seems unable to live with him or without him.
20) Best seller
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"Veteran L.A. police Lieutenant Meechum is also a successful novelist who happens to have serious writer's block. Cleve is a former hit man who's ready to remedy that situation by telling all to Meechum in what's certain to be an all-time best seller. Yet Meechum is more interested in justice than royalties and is prepared to send Cleve to prison for life. But when a startling revelation leaves him no choice, Meechum puts pen to paper in a shocking...