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This Happy Breed (1944)
Comedy | Drama
Robert Newton and Celia Johnson are surpassingly affecting as Frank and Ethel Gibbons, a couple with three children whose modest household is touched by joy and tragedy from the tail end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.
Starring: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, Amy Veness, Stanley Holloway, John Mills
Director: David Lean
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
George Bailey is a small-town man whose life seems so desperate he contemplates suicide. He had always wanted to leave Bedford Falls to see the world, but circumstances and his own good heart have led him to stay. He sacrficed his education for his brother's, kept the family-run savings and loan afloat, protected the town from the avarice of the greedy banker Mr. Potter, and married his childhood sweetheart. As he prepares to jump from a bridge, his guardian angel intercedes, showing him what life would have become for the residents of Bedford Falls is he had never lived.
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers
Director: Frank Capra
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City of God / Cidade de Deus (2002)
Crime | Drama
Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a housing project built in the 1960's that–in the early 80's–became one of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro. The tale tells the stories of many characters whose lives sometimes intersect. However, all is seen through the eyes of a singular narrator: Busca-Pé, a poor black youth too frail and scared to become an outlaw, but also too smart to be content with underpaid, menial jobs. He grows up in a very violent environment. The odds are all against him. But Busca-Pé soon discovers that he can see reality differently than others. His redemption is that he's been given an artist's point of view as a keen-eyed photographer. As Busca-Pé is not the real protagonist of the film–only the narrator–he is not the one who makes the decisions that will determine the sequence of events. Nevertheless, not only his life is attached to what happens in the story, but it is also through Busca-Pé's perspective of life that one can understand the complicated layers and humanity of a world, apparently condemned to endless violence.
Starring: Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino da Hora, Matheus Nachtergaele, Phelipe Haagensen, Seu Jorge
Director: Fernando Meirelles
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Legendary Amazons / The 14 Amazons / The Lady Generals of Yang Family / Yang men nv jiang zhi jun ling ru shan (2011)
Action | War
Legendary Amazons is a Frankie Chan's film about the real life story of the Yang family women generals, who took up fighting after the men in their family were slaughtered. It is a retelling of the same story from the Shaw Brothers "classic 14 Amazons" and a 1960 film "Women Generals of the Yang Family".
Starring: Cecilia Cheung, Xiaoqing Liu, Richie Ren, Pei-pei Cheng, Xiao Ming Yu, Kathy Chow, Zihan Chen, Qiao-qiao Jin, Na Yu, Yukari Ôshima
Director: Frankie Chan
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Tags: Cecilia Cheung, Frankie Chan, Kathy Chow, Na Yu, Pei-pei Cheng, Qiao-qiao Jin, Richie Ren, Xiao Ming Yu, Xiaoqing Liu, Yukari Ôshima, Zihan Chen
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Between Love and Hate / Yeonae, geu chameulsu-eomneun gabyeoum (2006)
Comedy | Romance
A young man is forced by convention to grow up, marry and abandon his friends and lover.
Starring: Seung-woo Kim, Jin-Young Jang, Sung-jin Nam
Director: Hae-gon Kim
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Battle Force (2012)
Action | War
In the thick of WWII, the 1st Special Service Force unit is called to duty on a secret rescue mission. Challenged by Nazis at every turn, our band of heroes bunker in a bombed out city and race against time to relay a message that is crucial to the Allies invasion of Sicily. Cornered and caught between a rock and a hard place, they only have one option: fire more bullets!
Starring: Scott Martin, Clint Glenn Hummel, Tony Pauletto
Director: Scott Martin
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Monster Brawl (2011)
Action | Comedy | Horror | Sport
Eight classic monsters fight to the death in an explosive wrestling tournament set inside an abandoned and cursed graveyard.
Starring: Dave Foley, Art Hindle, Robert Maillet, Jimmy Hart, Lance Henriksen, Kevin Nash
Director: Jesse T. Cook
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Harold and Maude (1971)
Comedy | Romance
Harold (Bud Cort) is a death-obsessed teenager who hangs around in cemeteries and drives a hearse. When he attends a funeral and meets his polar opposite Maude (Ruth Gordon), a life-loving 79-year-old, a strange love affair ensues. However, the offbeat nature of their pairing, and their defiance of social convention, causes upset all around.
Starring: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner, Ellen Geer, Eric Christmas
Director: Hal Ashby
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Tags: Bud Cort, Charles Tyner, Cyril Cusack, Ellen Geer, Eric Christmas, Hal Ashby, Ruth Gordon, Vivian Pickles
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The Seventh Seal / Det sjunde inseglet (1957)
Drama | Fantasy
Disillusioned and exhausted after a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight (Max von Sydow) encounters Death on a desolate beach and challenges him to a fateful game of chess.
Starring: Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Bibi Andersson
Director: Ingmar Bergman
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Tags: Bengt Ekerot, Bibi Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Ingmar Bergman, Max von Sydow, Nils Poppe
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Evita (1996)
Biography | Drama | Musical
Film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's smash stage musical detailing the life and death of Argentina's controversial First Lady.
Starring: Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail, Victoria Sus
Director: Alan Parker
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Cruel Passion / Justine (1977)
Drama
Justine is a nubile young virgin cast out of a French orphanage and thrust into a depraved world of prostitution, predatory lesbians, a fugitive murderess, bondage, branding, and one supremely sadistic monk. It's a twisted tale of strange desires, perverse pleasures and the ultimate corruption of innocence as told by the Marquis de Sade.
Starring: Koo Stark, Martin Potter, Lydia Lisle
Director: Chris Boger
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Newsies (1992)
Drama | Family | Musical
July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed found the strength to band together and challenge the powerful.
Starring: Christian Bale, David Moscow, Bill Pullman, Robert Duvall
Director: Kenny Ortega
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Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Okwe, a kind-hearted Nigerian doctor, and Senay, a Turkish chambermaid, work at the same West London hotel. The hotel is run by Senor "Sneaky" and is the sort of place where "dirty business" like drug dealing and prostitution takes place. However, when Okwe finds a human heart in one of the toilets, he uncovers something far more sinister than just a common crime.
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Sophie Okonedo, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Director: Stephen Frears
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Alien Opponent (2010)
Action | Sci-Fi
The owner of a small-town junkyard offers a cash reward to whomever can kill her uninvited, space-suited alien guest when its spacecraft crash-lands into her barn. Every wacko within 100 miles turns out, and before long, the junkyard is transformed into a war zone of man vs. man vs. machine vs. alien vs. God only knows what.
Starring: Jeremy London, Roddy Piper, Cuyle Carvin
Director: Colin Theys
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