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Nisa, a beautiful princess from Brazil, is concerned over the destruction of her homeland and the rainforests by a giant, multinational corporation and travels to Los Angeles to meet with the company's chairman. She is prevented from arranging a meeting so she accepts a job as a maid to make ends meet while she's in America. She falls in love with Jason, the handsome son of her employer, and teaches him the passionate and erotic dance of her home--...
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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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Rachel and her girlfriends Charlene and Monica are realizing what they want in a man is not what they're getting in their men. Every woman at church loves Rachel's husband, Deacon Clarence-- especially the preacher's flirty daughter, Chantel. As Rachel's marriage is collapsing and their love grows apart, Rachel's new boss Damion Marshall is giving her reason to leave. Charlene struggles to hold on to what's left of her marriage, as her husband Bruce...
4) Grand Prix
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"The revved up Oscar winner about the world's most celebrated racing experience! Nine races. One champion. James Garner, Yves Montand, Brian Bedford and Antonio Sabato portray Formula One drivers competing to be the best in this slam-you-into-the-driver's-seat tale of speed, spectacle, and intertwined personal lives. Eva Marie Saint and Toshiro Mifune also star. John Frankenheimer (who 32 years later would again stomp the petal to the metal for...
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Erik Kernan is an up-and-coming sports reporter who rescues a homeless man only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect the Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.
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Magazine writer Patrick is everything a family could hope for-- he's handsome, polite and a big success in the Big Apple. But when he returns home to his traditional, rural Southern family, two worlds collide with a sudden jolt. As one shocking truth after another is revealed, Patrick and his eccentric family struggle to respect one another.
9) Step up
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Tyler is a rebel from the wrong side of Baltimore¹s tracks. The only thing that stands between him and an unfulfilled life are his dreams of one day making it out of there. Nora is a privileged ballet dancer attending an elite school of dance in Baltimore. The only thing standing in the way of her brilliant future is finding a great dance partner for her senior showcase. When trouble with the law lands Tyler with a community service gig at Maryland...
11) Now & forever
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From the moment they meet, despite their clashing cultures, John and Angela form an unbreakable bond. One fateful night, John rescues Angela from a wicked act of betrayal. Soon Angela flees town setting in motion a chain of life changing events.
12) Chrystal
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Chrystal is a physically and emotionally damaged woman who is reunited with her husband, Joe. Sixteen years earlier, while being chased by the law, Joe plunged the family car off a dark mountain road with Chrystal and their young son inside. Chrystal was left behind with a broken neck, Joe was sent to prison, and the boy was never found. Still inhabited by pain all these years later, Chrystal faces Joe, who has returned home from prison seeking to...
14) Tony Takitani
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Tony is an illustrator who's been alone all his life ... until he meets Eiko, a beautiful woman who transforms his life. The only problem is that Eiko is a compulsive shopper with a penchant for high-end couture that leads to darkly satiric consequences.
15) Avanim =: Stones
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A young woman splits her time between her job at her father's Tel Aviv firm, her husband and child, and her lover. Her life becomes altered forever when the lover is killed by a suicide bomber.
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Actress and filmmaker Asia Argento directed this faithful screen adaptation of J.T. Leroy's novel/memoir, which documents one boy's truly harrowing road to adulthood. Jeremiah is the seven-year-old son of Sarah, an unstable and unwed mother who abandoned her son and left him to be raised by foster parents. Jeremiah has come to love his guardians, and is devastated when Sarah arrives at their doorstep, demanding her child back. Threatening Jeremiah...
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Criterion collection volume 253
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A drama detailing the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and how her family struggles to save her from herself.
18) The sisters
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Three sisters living in a college town struggle with the death of their father, while trying to reconcile relationships in their own lives.
19) Fingerprints
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In this terrifying supernatural thriller a troubled teenager sets out on a grisly path to discover the disturbing truth behind a well-known urban legend. Haunted for fifty years by the horrifying tale of a train colliding with a school bus killing all the children aboard the small town left behind continues to suffer as a stomach-churning chain of murders claims victim after victim. Brought to life by a stand-out cast including Kristin Cavallari (Laguna...
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