Leif Erickson
2) Show boat
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English
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Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
3) Joan of Arc
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15th century French peasant girl, Joan, rouses a nation and inspires the world with her faith and bravery. Fiercely believing that she is directed by God, Joan triumphantly leads an Army into battle against the British, who are driven from France. When a new king is crowned, Joan's influence grows and makes him wary of her power, ultimately betraying her to martyrdom.
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The original 20th century landmark science fiction thriller that played on the paranoia and Communist threat invading Atomic Age America in the 1950s. A young boy is awakened during a storm to witness a flying saucer land in the field behind his home. No one will believe his story as, one by one, the townspeople are captured and put under the control of sinister forces from the planet Mars.
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"The original 20th century landmark science fiction thriller that played on the paranoia and Communist threat invading Atomic Age America in the 1950s. A young boy is awakened during a storm to witness a flying saucer land in the field behind his home. No one will believe his story as, one by one, the townspeople are captured and put under the control of sinister forces from the planet Mars"--Container.
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Lucy Harbin goes berserk when she finds her husband in bed with another woman. With her three-year-old daughter accidentally witnessing the grisly act, Lucy axes the couple to death, then spends twenty years in a mental institution for the double murder. After she is released, she moves in with her brother, his wife, and her own daughter, now age twenty-three. Her nightmare is over, or is it? When a series of axe murders suddenly occurs in the neighborhood,...
8) Mirage
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English
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A suspenseful drama in which a physiochemist suffers from amnesia and tries to unravel the mysteries locked in his mind and understand why he is the target of hit men.
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After a tragic attack leaves him a widower, 'Big John' enters into a marriage with Victoria, the daughter of a powerful neighboring rancher. With Victoria's brother Manolito in tow, together the Cannons must manage the ranch, their new family dynamic, and the perils of the West.
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Deep in the Arizona Territory lies the High Chaparral Ranch, run by 'Big John' Cannon along with his brother Buck and son Billy Blue. After a tragic attack leaves him a widower, 'Big John' enters into a marriage with Victoria, the daughter of a powerful neighboring rancher. With Victoria's brother Manolito in tow, together the Cannons must manage the ranch, their new family dynamic, and the perils of the West.
12) Arabian nights
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Lavish epic of brother fighting brother to win political power and the love of a woman, mesmerizing Scheherazade, the fiery dancing girl who will prove to be one man's downfall and another's greatest reward.
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David and Goliath: prophets foretell that a young shepherd named David will rise up and seize the crown from King Saul of Israel after battling the giant Goliath to the death.
Hill number one: This is a portrayal of Christ's resurrection.
I beheld His glory: follows Christ's fateful trip to Mount Calvary towards his crucifixion, which so moved Cornelius, a non-believer, that he found his faith.
Martin Luther: recounts the tale of Luther's break...
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English
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Deep in the Arizona Territory lies the High Chaparral Ranch, run by "Big John" Cannon along with his brother Buck and son Billy Blue. After a tragic attack leaves him a widower, "Big John" enters into a marriage with Victoria, the daughter of a powerful neighboring rancher. With Victoria's brother Manolito in tow, together the Cannons must manage the ranch, their new family dynamic, and the perils of the West.
15) Roustabout
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English
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Elvis plays a bad-boy singer roaming the highways on his Japanese motorcycle.
17) Kiss them for me
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Desperate to keep his men on the straight and narrow while on a 4-day leave from the Navy, a Lieutenant commits a trio to becoming spokesmen at a local shipyard. Before long, one is courting the shipmaker's voluptuous daughter with hilarious results.
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Criterion collection volume 647
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Marlon Brando gives the performance of his career as the tough prizefighter-turned-longshoreman Terry Malloy in this raggedly emotional tale of individual failure and institutional corruption. This film charts Terry's deepening moral crisis as he must choose whether to remain loyal to the mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly and Johnny's right-hand man, Terry's brother, Charley, as the authorities close in on them.
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"A prank phone call leads to a night of pure terror. With her parents away on an overnight trip, Libby amuses herself by joining her friend Kit in calling up strangers and whispering, 'I saw what you did.' When Libby dials Steve Marak, a psychopath who just murdered his wife, his jealous neighbor listens in on the call, a conversation that ends with the panicky killer determined to silence them all"--Container.
20) Night monster
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"Kurt Ingston is a helpless cripple due to the incompetence of three doctors. He invites them to visit him at his estate on the pretext of donating money to medicine. One by one, the doctors are mysteriously murdered. The spooky mansion is filled with strange characters, any one of whom could be the killer. There is the ominous butler, the grim housekeeper, the lecherous chauffeur, a mystic and Ingston's demented sister. Trying to solve the murders,...