Robert Benton
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The action-packed gangster epic details the rise and fall of notorious mobster Dutch Schultz. His story is told through the eyes of his young protege Billy Bathgate, who is an ambitious and streetwise kid seduced by the power, money, and glamour of crime. He soon begins to seriously question if his passport to the good life will come from the fiery Dutch and his gang.
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Psychotherapist Dr. Sam Rice's life is upset by the savage murder of his client Bynum. The antique dealer is the victim of a female Jack The Ripper, and Rice may be next. The alluring Brooke Reynolds walks out of Bynum's past and quickly becomes part of Rice's life. As Rice falls in love with the deeply-troubled Brooke, the evidence points to her as the murderer.
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It's Christmas Eve in icebound Wichita, Kansas, and this year Charlie Arglist just might have something to celebrate. Charlie is an attorney for the sleazy businesses of Wichita, along with his unsavory associate, the steely Vic Cavanaugh, the two have just successfully embezzled $2 million from Kansas City boss Bill Guerrard. But the real prize for Charlie is the stunning Renata, who runs the Sweet Cage strip club. Charlie hopes to slip out of town...
7) Bad company
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A tale of friendship and survival set during the 1860s focuses on a roguish group of runaways living by their wits and natural instinct. Two of them are complimentary opposites: Drew is a good boy from God-fearing stock in Ohio, out West to evade the draft, and Jake is a scruffy scoundrel-a saddle tramp not above an occasional larceny. Along the trail they encounter a variety of varmints and renegades. And eventually, they find themselves older and...
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In this affectionate story of small town life in upstate New York, Sully, a fitfully employed 60-year-old construction worker, is a cheerful curmudgeon who has made a lifetime of bad decisions. He unexpectedly has a chance to make right some of them when his estranged son and grandson drop back into his life.
10) Bonnie and Clyde
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The story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who robbed banks across the country during the Depression era.
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Arizona Territorial Prison inmate Paris Pittman is a schemer, a charmer and quite popular among his fellow convicts. Especially with $500,000 in stolen loot hidden away and a plan to escape and recover it. New warden Woodward Lopeman has other ideas about Pittman. Each man will have the tables turned on him in a twisting, turning Wild West tale of brawls, chases, shootouts and wry wit.
12) The human stain
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Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid...
13) Feast of Love
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A rustic Oregon town is the backdrop for this tale of men and women touched by love's inescapable spell. From Bradley (Greg Kinnear), the hopeless romantic who looks for love in all the wrong places; to Harry (Morgan Freeman), a local professor with the wisdom and experience to guide those close to him; to young, beautiful Chloe, who defies fate in romancing the troubled Oscar. This ode to life and love in all its funny, sexy, crazy facets will touch...
14) Bad Company
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This tale of friendship and survival set during the days of the 1860's focuses on a roguish group of runaways living by their wits and natural instincts. Two of them in particular are complementary opposites: Drew is a good boy from God-fearing stock in Ohio, out West to evade the draft. Jake is a scruffy scoundrel - a saddle tramp not above a little larceny here and there. Along the trail they encounter a variety of varmints and renegades. And eventually,...
15) The Human Stain
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Coleman Silk has a secret. A terrible, fifty-year-old secret that the esteemed college professor has kept hidden from everyone - including his wife, his children and his down-and-out young lover – and it's about to ruin his entire life.