Harvey Keitel
1) Blindside
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Penfield Gruber (Harvey Keitel) once was a great scientist, but is now reduced to managing a sleazy hotel. Gruber monitors the daily comings and goings of his tenants, mainly for his own interest, until underworld figures ask him to spy on a suspected double-crosser. While watching the man, Gruber overhears a murder plot.
4) Smoke
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A group of people's lives intertwine when a New York cigar store manager, Auggie, befriends them. Among them is a writer, a reluctant father, a streetwise teen, and Auggie's long-lost ex-girlfriend...who returns with some surprising news!
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Do you believe? Young Frances and Elsie do. They say they've encountered the supernatural. They've met fairies. The photos the girls take of the winged beings put them at the center of a real-life controversy that sweeps England during World War I. Everyone is caught up in the excitement, including two of the era's most renowned men: Sherlock Holmes' author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Peter O'Toole) and master illusionist Harry Houdini (Harvey Keitel)....
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It's nonstop laughs when a wacky group of locals visits the neighborhood cigar shop, looking for good times and finding plenty of hilarious fun! But when the greedy owner threatens to close the shop for good-and turn it into a trendy vegetarian restaurant-the neighborhood proves they'll do just about anything to save their favorite hangout!
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Thirteen years after her father was slain and the only evidence left at the crime scene was a pamphlet for a secret shrouded religious order known as 'The Ministers,' a New York City homicide detective sets out to discover the truth behind her father's gruesome death, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers.
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When a missing page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth surfaces, Ben Gates' great-great grandfather is suddenly implicated as a key conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The page is one of 18 pages missing from Booth's diary. When doing more research, the conspiracy takes Ben, Abigail, and Riley from Buckingham Palace to the White House - both places they break into - and even stealing a page from a secret book. But in order to see...
10) Thelma & Louise
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Thelma is an abused and neglected wife, while her friend Louise is a bitter, hard-edged waitress. The two decide to take a brief vacation to escape the drudgery of their everyday lives. Immediately, they run into trouble, as Louise shoots and kills a man who tries to rape Thelma in the parking lot of a country bar.
11) The comedian
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A look at the life of an aging insult comic named Jack Burke.
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The Gecko brothers, two dangerous outlaws on a wild crime spree, kidnap a father and his two kids then head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety. But when they face the bar's truly notorious clientele, they're forced to team up with their hostages in order to make it out alive!
13) Red dragon
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Will Graham is an FBI agent who brought Hannibal Lecter to justice; however, his confrontation with Lecter proved to be a bloody, near-death experience. Retiring from the Bureau, he moves to Florida. However, a particularly grisly killer is on the loose, and Jack, Graham's one-time mentor at the Bureau, asks him to return to duty to find him. "The Tooth Fairy" is a vicious murderer who kills entire families at once, covering the eyes of his victims...
15) The congress
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Drafthouse Films volume 24
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More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, an aging actress decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent and the head of Miramount Studios, her alias will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want with no restrictions.
16) Bad lieutenant
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A middle aged policeman has no escape from his underground connections with gamblers, drug dealers and cheap sex. A case of a raped nun who forgives her aggressors shakes him deeply. But his quest for changing his life comes too late. The gang he owes gambling money to has no more patience, and shoots him dead.
17) The piano
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With this sublimely stirring fable of desire and creativity, Jane Campion became the first woman to win a Palme d'Or at Cannes. Holly Hunter is achingly eloquent through the silence in her Academy Award-winning performance as Ada, an electively mute Scottish woman who expresses her innermost feelings through her beloved piano. When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds...
19) Sister act
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"A sassy low-rent lounge singer is forced to hide out from the mob in the last place anyone would look for her -- a convent. While she's there, her irreverent behavior attracts a flock of faithful followers and turns the nuns' tone-deaf choir into a soulful chorus of swingin', singin' sisters. But when the group earns rave reviews, her sudden celebrity jeopardizes her hidden identity"--Container.
20) The two Jakes
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Jack Nicholson returns as private eye Jake Gittes in this atmospheric Chinatown follow-up that's hit upon "the elusive sequel formula for somehow enhancing a great original" (Mike Clark, **USA Today**). Much has changed since we last saw Jake. The war has come and gone; 1948 Los Angeles teems with optimism and fast bucks. But there's one thing Jake knows hasn't changed: "Nine times out of ten, if you follow the money you will get to the truth." And...