HBO Pictures
1) Amistad
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English
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AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny on board a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
3) Truman
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English
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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) Afterburn
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English
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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.
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It is 1943 and the Germans are winning the Second World War as the U.S. suffers huge losses on the ground and in the air. Four newly recruited pilots are united by a desire to serve their country, at a time when Black flyers are not welcomed in the Air Force. Now, through the brutal demands of their training, to the perils of flying over nations at war, the men they call "The Tuskegee Airmen" must undertake the riskiest mission of their lives--to...
6) Amistad
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English
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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.
7) Sweet dreams
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English
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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.
8) Blue ice
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English
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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.
9) Volunteers
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English
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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.
11) The Hitcher
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English
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Horror film depicting a young man's attempts to escape from and later apprehend a psychopathic killer he picked up hitchhiking in the desert.
12) The Rat Pack
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English
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Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop, known as "The Rat Pack", set the style and the pace for 1950s America. But when President Kennedy, newly elected with the support of the Pack, is advised that the friends who made him shouldn't be the friends he keeps, the Rat Pack discovers that lady luck has chosen another partner.
13) Citizen X
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English
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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.
14) Flashpoint
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English
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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...
16) The enemy within
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English
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"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
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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,...
20) The jack bull
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English
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A feud becomes a war between a proud rancher and a wealthy, influential landowner in the Old West.