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Author John Winston loves his wife and children. He never considered deceiving them...until he meets singer Alicia Ralph. She wants to escape a bad marriage. As they flee from Los Angeles to Montreal, they learn the extremes to which love or hate can drive both good and bad people.
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Letitia and Godfrey Gorm are retired monarchs living lives of Caribbean tranquility in Tobago, but when Melloria, their former kingdom, is invaded by Slobodia they fly back to join the fight against the invaders. Capture and incarceration follow, made worse for Letitia by being forced to watch hours of TV soaps and quiz shows in her prison cell.Her rescue by Live-Action Role Players disguised as dreaded Slobodian prets brings little relief since Godfrey...
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Four fishermen find twenty million dollars on an island. Now they have to keep the cash from the drug cartel and pirates who claim it. The setting for this thrill and laugh-a-minute tale is the notorious Palawan Passage in the South China Sea. Deacon and his friends face off the criminals, and then deal with a greedy churchman and competing nations who claim ownership of the island. A renegade American, a beautiful schoolteacher, and a Japanese hermit...
5) Mother
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Czech
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The four best friends are confident, having fun, discussing, relationships and sex. But they're also taking care of kids, or they're pregnant.
6) Unsaid
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Deutsch
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Marie and Sarah test the boundaries of love and friendship while on holiday on the beautiful island of La Palma. One night they sleep together on the edge of a dusty volcano. Marie hurries to leave the island and runs into the arms of her slightly older boyfriend, Ben. A few months later, Sarah shows up at the door pushing her to make a decision.
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Ivan Korske and Bobby Zane are two high school seniors embarking on the most important winter of their lives in a quest for the New Jersey state high school wrestling championship. Ivan Korske is the pride of Lennings, a rural town tucked away in the farmlands of western Jersey, and the odds-on favorite to be crowned state champion in the 129-pound weight class. For Ivan, the stakes are impossibly high. A state championship fulfills a promise he made...
8) Nebraska
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From Academy Award® winner Alexander Payne, comes the story of a father and his adult son who embark on a journey to claim a million-dollar prize. What begins as a fool's errand becomes a search for the road to redemption.
9) Exteriors
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Three gay men grapple with modern love: Wyatt's best friend falls for his ex, Jason's one-night stand reemerges as his pool client, and therapist Peter's obsession threatens his client's newfound love.
10) Nine Nights
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When an accident kills her twin brother, a teenager refuses to believe he's dead. As the 'Nine Night' - a Caribbean mourning ritual begins, her descent into paranoia unleashes long-buried secrets, which threatens to destroy her family.
11) Space Moms
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Space MOMs is based on the inspiring true story of normal, middle class working moms who also happen to be brilliant rocket scientists. These underdogs help India triumph over impossible odds in its historic Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM).
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Still reeling from getting kicked out of her sister's apartment, Cassandra falls hard and fast for Nathan, a local DJ. As his coercive control increases and his demands grow darker, Nathan soon isolates her from her friends and family. Confused and desperate, she must figure out how to save another from the same fate and decide what her own freedom is worth.
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Romanzo Criminale volume 2
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Italiano
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Roberta and Ice's relationship runs into trouble, while the gang wages a bloody battle to keep a rival cartel from gaining control of Rome's drug trade. In Italian.
15) River's Edge
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The lives of a group of teenagers are thrown into a moral spin when one of them murders his girlfriend. Faced with the brutal reality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police, or to help him escape the consequences of his dreadful deed.
16) Chinatown
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Jake Gittes, a private eye, uncovers a web of personal and political scandals while he is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra marital affair.
17) Switchback
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A serial killer is on the loose. And he's kidnapped the son of the FBI agent pursuing him. But who is the killer? With powerful performances by Quaid and Glover, Switchback zigzags through sensational thrills and surprises around each turn.
18) The Kite Runner
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Amir is a young Afghani from a well-to-do Kabul family; his best friend Hassan is the son of a family servant. Together the two boys form a bond of friendship that breaks tragically on one fateful day.
19) Babel
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From acclaimed Director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Amores Perros, 21 Grams) comes the third film in his trilogy, Babel, a critically celebrated and emotionally gripping film about the barriers that separate humankind.
20) Concrete Bayou
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Trafficked or Triumphant?
In ancient times, King Xerxes ruled the powerful Persian Empire and chose his wives from the most beautiful virgins in the kingdom. The young maidens lived in the palace harem, then moved to concubine quarters once they had a night with the King- at his discretion. Esther, orphaned as a child, was being reared by a family member and was brought to Xerxes like so many others. Did she live the rest of her life as a concubine,...
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