Nicky Katt
1) Boiler room
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Seth runs a small-time casino operation out of his apartment. With his streetwise business smarts, he's recruited to join the city's newest and hottest stock brokerage firm, and quickly takes to his new job's instant riches and fast-life pleasures. When he wins the eye and heart of Greg's ex-girlfriend, everything seems too good to be true.
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Alan is a young college student who is trying to get home to see his mother. She has just had a stroke and is in the hospital, and Alan has this underlying fear that he needs to get to her in case she passes away. So, Alan embarks on a 100 mile hitchhike. Along the way, he must confront his many demons - both living and dead - and in the end Alan must make the ultimate choice that will mean life or death for him and his mother.
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A daughter Ellen, gives up her job and boyfriend to take care of her dying mother. Her father, a gifted professor of an English department, is more occupied with having his life running as smoothly as possible than caring for his wife. Living at home, Ellen discovers many new aspects to her parents' personalities, a father who is human despite his imperfections and a mother who loves her family passionately. When her mother finally dies Ellen is suspected...
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New York City radio host Erica Bain is working and living a wonderful life. One night she and her fiancé David are brutally attacked. David is killed and Erica is almost beaten to death. Traumatized and unable to cope with the tragic event, Erica becomes someone else. She buys a gun and begins to roam the streets at night looking to take her revenge on the men who were responsible for the attack. Late one night, she is in the back of a convenience...
6) Insomnia
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Crime never sleeps and neither does the veteran LAPD homicide detective invited to Nightmute, Alaska to head a murder investigation there. He finds the investigation disrupted by an ever-shining midnight sun that wreaks sleep-depriving havoc on his body clock. As his consciousness becomes more unstable, he is nagged by a sense of personal guilt over a second crime that might just be real.
7) Snow angels
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A heartrending portrayal of three couples after an unexpected act of violence disrupts their lives. They experience the profound moments in which they realize how precarious and remarkable life can be.
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Academy Award winner Jodie Foster stars as Erica Bain, host of a New York radio show whose life is shattered by a brutal attack that leaves the love of her life dead, her own body shattered and her sense of safety permanently destroyed. Now, when Erica's fear of her beloved city becomes too much to bear, she arms herself...The first time Erica shoots someone, it is kill or be killed. The second time it is also self-defense ... or did she make a choice...
10) The Limey
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After he is released from prison, an extremely volatile and dangerous English ex-con travels to Los Angeles to find the man he considers responsible for his estranged daughter's death.