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1) Bookie$
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Three college buddies enter the high-stakes betting racket and when their greed gets in their way, they run afoul of the mob.
2) Moby Dick
Pub. Date
2001
Description
A skipper of a 19th century whaling boat is obsessed with the idea of harpooning the whale that is responsible for the loss of his leg.
Description
A historical drama about the relationship between a Civil War soldier and a band of Sioux Indians. Attracted by the natural simplicity of their lifestyle, John W. Dunbar chooses to leave his former life behind to join them, taking on the name Dances with Wolves. Soon, Dances with Wolves has become a welcome member of the tribe and fallen in love with a white woman who has been raised amongst the tribe. His peaceful existence is threatened, however,...
6) Hoosiers
Description
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.
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
American Betty Mahmoody goes with her daughter and her Iranian-born husband to his native Iran for a vacation. Soon Betty discovers her husband doesn't intend to ever return to America. He will let her go, but her daughter must stay. As a stranger in a foreign police state, Betty has no money, no friends, no rights, and makes a desperate, heroic bid to escape with her child.
11) West side story
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.
12) The Aviator
Pub. Date
2002, 1985
Description
Edgar Anscombe, an airmail pilot and former World War I fighter pilot, reluctantly takes Tillie Hansen as a passenger in his biplane on a cross-country journey. When the plane crashes and the two must rely on each other to survive, they begin to fall in love.
Description
Eccentric inventor Caractacus Potts creates an extraordinary car called Chitty chitty bang bang. It not only drives--but also flies and floats--as it leads him, his two children and his beautiful lady friend, Truly Scrumptious into a magical world of pirates, castles and adventure. There, the group encounter a host of unforgettable characters, including Baron Bomburst of Vulgaria, his persnickety wife, a lovable village toymaker and an evil child...
Description
Hit man Tommy Spinelli has 24 hours to deliver a bag of 8 "former associates" to an angry mob boss in San Diego. But when Charlie, a fellow passenger on his flight, mistakenly takes the bag, the heads go to Baja. When Charlie discovers the bag's horrific contents, he desperately tries to get the bag back to the border.
15) De-Lovely
Description
An original musical portrait of American composer Cole Porter, filled with his unforgettable songs. Porter looks back on his life as if it were one of his spectacular stage shows, with the people and events of his life becoming the actors and actions onstage. Through elaborate production numbers and popular hits, Porter's elegant, excessive past comes to light - including his deeply complicated relationship with his wife, Linda Lee Porter, who was...
16) Platoon
Pub. Date
1986.
Description
In "Platoon," a middle-class college student volunteers for the war in Vietnam because he considers it his patriotic duty. The first thing he encounters on the airport tarmac in Saigon is a cart of body bags. It's downhill from there: endless hikes, ditch-digging, heat, rain, bugs and snakebites, fear and confusion, sleeplessness, and terror when he finally sleeps. He will only gradually, unknowingly, become an adequate soldier--one who has left...
Pub. Date
1988.
Description
The second installment of writer/director Godfrey Reggio's apocalyptic "qatsi" trilogy . Combining stunning cinematography with the exquisite music of award-winning composer Philip Glass. Bold, haunting and epic in scale, this extraordinary film calls into question everything we think we know about contemporary society.
19) Moonstruck
Description
A superstitious Brooklyn widow is ready to get married again. Only this time, she plans on doing it right - even if she has to say "yes" to a man she doesn't really love. When she unexpectedly falls in love with her fiancé's estranged brother Ronny, what happens next is a wonderful romantic complication.
20) Uptown girls
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Molly is the daughter of a deceased rock legend who is, for the first time in her life, forced to work after her manager steals all her inheritance. With help of her friend, Molly becomes the nanny of Ray, the precocious daughter of a busy music executive. She learns as much about being an adult from Ray, as she teachs Ray about being a child.