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  • Schindler’s List

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    The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

  • Open Fire

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    Based on real events from 1983; DC Peter Finch is awarded a medal for the courage he showed in arresting a dangerous criminal. Meanwhile transvestite David Martin is released once again from prison – he’s provocative and aggressive and, when he’s caught again during a burglary, he shoots one of the police officers, leading to…

  • Justice in a Small Town

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    A civil service worker in Georgia places her family at risk when she agrees to help expose high-level corruption.

  • In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness

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    After a very messy divorce, a man starts suspecting his ex-wife and her new boyfriend of various crimes.

  • Quiz Show

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    Herbert Stempel’s transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, ‘Twenty-One.’ However, when the show introduces the highly skilled contestant Charles Van Doren to replace Stempel, it compels Stempel to let out his frustrations and call out the show as rigged. Lawyer Richard Goodwin steps in…

  • Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg

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    A young mother is accused of convincing four teenagers to murder her husband, who she claims abused her during their ten-year relationship.

  • The Madness of King George

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    Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his hapless doctors attempt the ineffectual cures of the day. Meanwhile, Queen Charlotte and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger attempt to prevent the king’s…

  • Tonya & Nancy: The Inside Story

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    Based on the true story of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, rivals for the USA Olympic Ice Skating team. When Kerrigan is savagely attacked, people begin to wonder if the intense rivalry between the two was motivation for someone.

  • Heavenly Creatures

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    Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. This friendship gradually develops into an intense and obsessive bond.

  • It Could Happen to You

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    Charlie Lang is a simple, kindhearted New York City cop. When he realizes he has no money to tip waitress Yvonne Biasi, Lang offers her half the winnings of his lottery ticket. Amazingly, the ticket happens to be a winner, in the sum of $4 million. True to his word, Lang proceeds to share the…

  • Masters of Sex

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    William Masters and Virginia Johnson are real-life pioneers of the science of human sexuality. Their research touched off the sexual revolution and took them from a midwestern teaching hospital to the cover of Time magazine and multiple appearances on Johnny Carson’s couch. He is a brilliant scientist out of touch with his own feelings, and…

  • How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)

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    To win back his ex-girlfriend, a nerdy teen starts selling ecstasy online out of his bedroom — and becomes one of Europe’s biggest dealers.

  • Legacy of Sin: The William Coit Story

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    A young man begins to suspect that his mother may have murdered his father.

  • The Young Poisoner’s Handbook

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    Graham Young is a teenage misfit living in suburban London in the 1960s. He hates his stepmother but loves chemistry, and the two impulses unite in a wicked plot to slowly poison her. After she dies, he’s found guilty and sent to a psychiatric hospital, where an idealistic doctor thinks he can be cured.

  • 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

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    71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.

  • Serving in Silence – The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

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    After serving in the military for more than twenty years, including a tour of duty in Vietnam, Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer (Glenn Close) had seen her share of battles. But nothing could prepare her for the fight ahead: an intensely personal struggle against the U.S. Army when she becomes the highest ranking officer ever to be…

  • Operation Dumbo Drop

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    Five Green Berets stationed in Vietnam in 1968 grudgingly undertake the mission of a lifetime — to secretly transport an 8,000-pound elephant through 200 miles of rough jungle terrain. High jinks prevail when Capt. Sam Cahill promises the Montagnard villagers of Dak Nhe that he’ll replace their prized elephant in time for an important ritual.…

  • Citizen X

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    Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetence and those in power. The story is told from the viewpoint…

  • Something to Talk About

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    Grace King Bichon, who is managing her father’s riding-stable, discovers that her husband Eddie is deceiving her with another woman. After confronting him in the middle of the night on the streets of their small home town, she decides to stay at her sister Emma Rae’s house for a while to make up her mind.…

  • Apollo 13

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    The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy.

  • Braveheart

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    Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord’s soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.