Karen Black
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"In this award-winning film which was the first to use 'virtual sets, ' Academy-Award winner Tilda Swinton embodies Lady Ada Lovelace, daughter of Romantic poet Lord Byron, and the mathematics genius who developed what became the world's first computer language 100 years before computers were invented. Ada's story is channeled through Emmy (Francesca Faridany), a contemporary computer scientist researching artificial life. By using her own DNA genetic...
2) Nashville
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Nashville interweaves the stories of 24 characters over 5 days during a political rally in the capital of country music.
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In Julie, an aggressive college student seduces and ultimately blackmails his seemingly shy English professor; in Millicent and Therese, two polar-opposite sisters become increasingly hell-bent on the undoing of one another; and in Amelia, a woman falls prey to a murderous Zuni fetish doll.
4) The outfit
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"You know how it is. You hit us. We hit you." Career thief Earl Macklin pays no mind to the mobster's threat. He intends to put a big hurt on an L.A crime outfit. He, his girlfriend, and his partner will avenge the murder of Macklin's brother by cutting down gangland operations bit by violent bit.
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Three astronauts are forced by NASA to participate in an elaborate hoax. Capricorn One makes the first 'manned' mission to Mars but the astronauts remain on Earth to be filmed in a studio made up to look like the Martian surface. When the empty capsule burns up on re-entry, the world believes the astronauts to be dead. A struggle ensues between the government and the astronauts whose very existence incriminates NASA.
7) Family plot
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A phony psychic and a private eye search for a lost heir, getting mixed up in a diamond theft at the same time. This version has been digitally remastered.
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"Alexander Portnoy has a problem. He thinks he's living his life in the middle of a Jewish joke. Lying on a psychoanalyst's couch, Portnoy unravels his endless complaint with the one-track selfishness of an aging adolescent. He whines, he howls, he dredges his character and comes up empty-handed. For years, Alexander Portnoy has been led about by his libido...and has been unable to satisfy it. Now he can. He's met the Monkey, an uninhibited, air-headed...
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Two couples, Jerry, Bill, Mary, and Denise, are out on the road hoping to write a book on offbeat roadside attractions. When the four meet Captain Spaulding, they learn of the legend of Dr. Satan. The four take off in search of finding the tree that Dr. Satan was hung from. They pick up hitchhiker Baby. When their car breaks down, Baby invites them into her house. The two couples meet the Firefly family, a murderous clan of bizarre people. When the...
11) Five Easy Pieces
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Character study of a talented pianist who has given up a promising career and now works on oil rigs. After 20 years he returns home to his father's deathbed, perhaps to reconcile himself with his fear of failure and desire for greatness.
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Airport: The original airplane disaster movie in which a passenger brings an explosive device on board the aircraft.
Airport 1975: A mid-air collision leaves a 747 without a pilot and little hope for survival.
Airport '77: A 747 is trapped underwater in the Bermuda Triangle. It's a race against time and the elements to save the passengers and crew!
The Concorde: Airport '79: At twice the speed of sound, the Concorde must evade a vicious attack...
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Cinderella: Cinderella is a slave to her wicked stepmother and her selfish stepsisters, until her Fairy Godmother arrives and turns her into a radiant princess ; The little mermaid: When a young mermaid falls in love with a human being, she makes a deal with the Sea Witch and sacrifices everything to be with him ; The dancing princesses: After the king discovers that his daughters' dancing shoes are worn out every night, he offers to let anyone who...