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1) Rectify
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After spending 20 years on Death Row for the rape and murder of his teenage girlfriend, Daniel Holden is going home. His conviction has been vacated due to new DNA evidence, thrusting him back into a world he no longer knows. As he struggles to adapt to his new life, his return will reignite the fears of a small town and threaten to shatter his family's fragile peace. Daniel's alleged crime divided a community. His freedom could tear it in half.
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This documentary chronicles the life of Candy Darling, star of the Andy Warhol movies Women in Revolt and Flesh. Born James Slattery in 1944, Darling acted in several other films and in various plays, including Tennessee Williams's Small Craft Warnings. The film features interviews with colleagues, contemporaries and friends of Candy, including John Waters, Peter Beard, Holly Woodlawn, Bob Colacello, Geraldine Smith, Pat Hackett, and Ron Delsener....
5) I'm your man
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The life and work of Leonard Cohen is celebrated in Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man. The documentary also includes performances and interviews by artists that Cohen has inspired including U2, Beth Orton, Jarvis Cocker, Rufus Wainwright, and more.
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A pregnant 12 year-old girl who won't reveal who the father is walks chest deep into the freezing waters of a New Zealand lake and disappears. Robin Griffin is called in to investigate and becomes more and more obsessed. As she searches, she slowly begins to realize that finding the girl is tantamount to finding herself, a self she has kept well hidden. A powerful and haunting story about our search for happiness, where the dream of paradise attracts...
11) Garbage warrior
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Using empty beer cans, old tires, plastic bottles and other garbage, iconoclastic architect Michael Reynolds, based in New Mexico, has been building ecologically sustainable structures for 35 years. Calling his structures "earthships," Reynolds has had conflicts with government officials over inflexible zoning and housing laws, but his architectural ideas were put to use in the Andaman Islands following the 2005 tsunami.
13) Under milk wood
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This ambitious film, based on a radio play by poet Dylan Thomas, tells of the lives of several colorful characters living in a small Welsh town. Throughout, a background voice (native Welshman Richard Burton), narrates the day-in-the-life action.
14) RrrrRick
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Rick toils in a soulless office, trying to keep on the good side of the Big Boss, obnoxious 20-something Duke. While still good for a martini, a back slap and a zinger, Rick secretly seethes inside. A chance encounter with an old college buddy takes a strange turn when the friend offers, for a price, to murder a person of Rick's choice. At first the idea of a murder scheme seems like a sick joke - until Rick learns a big secret about the Big Boss....
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Dean is trapped in a working class suburb with an abusive father and a doormat mother whose job at a London restaurant allows her to regale her son with stories of her famous customers. Dean decides to runaway from home and assumes the identity of Alex Gryffoyn, the son of Lady Gryffoyn who owns a posh gallery. Soon he finds himself in the world of sex, cocaine, and disco upper class, funding his new life through credit card fraud. But Dean eventually...
16) Carlos
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Criterion collection volume 582
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An epic, intensely detailed account of the life of the infamous international terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez - also known as Carlos the Jackal. One of the twentieth century's most wanted fugitives, Carlos was committed to violent left-wing activism throughout the seventies and eighties, orchestrating bombings, kidnappings, and hijackings in Europe and the Middle East.
17) Jesus in India
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A former fundamentalist from Texas travels to India to investigate the unaccounted years in the life of Jesus Christ (age 12 to 30). Features inteviews with scholars and religious authorities.
19) Hugo Pool
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The story of a sexy pool cleaner and her experiences with wacky customers, strange parents and a man stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease. In the course of one day she cleans 44 pools, deals with dangerous clients, and still finds love.
20) Amy's O
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Amy has recently published a self-help book in which she discusses why a woman doesn't need a man in her life to feel fulfilled. But Amy isn't so sure she believes her own advice. Feeling conflicted, she ends up sharing her problems with a priest at a nearby Catholic church. As Amy's book hits the stores, her publicist snags Amy an appearance on a radio show hosted by a popular but foul-mouthed "shock jock." He is exactly the sort of man Amy warns...