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2) Lady Cocoa
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Foxy Lady Cocoa is out to take down her mobster boyfriend, but his thugs plan to stop her from testifying against him. With a cast that includes Lola Falana and former NFL star Mean Joe Greene, director Matt Cimber (The Black 6; Butterfly) creates a stirring piece of street action for lovers of the Blaxploitation era.
3) Mount Joy
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An upcoming national tour could be the big break for small town rock sensations The Living Daylights. However, the disappearance of the lead singer's girlfriend, who is also the bands manager, and the devastating secret she harbors could mean the end to it all. Inspired by true events.
4) Gung Ho!
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The newly formed second Marine Raider Battalion face a frightening first mission during the early days of WWII: to rout the much larger Japanese garrison on Makin Island. Gritty and realistic, Gung Ho! relies on actual combat footage and a cast of reliable Hollywood tough guys, including Randolph Scott as Col. Thorwald, Noah Beery Jr. as Cpl. Kurt Richter, and a young Robert Mitchum in one of his earliest roles as the swaggering Pig-Iron Matthews!...
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A theatrical producer sacrifices his own career to boost the fortunes of a gifted young performer in this musical gem from 1938. Lena Horne makes her feature-film debut as Ethel Andrews, an aspiring singer, and belts out tunes such as I Know You Remember and Don't Let Our Love Song Turn Into A Blues.
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Oliver and Lucy Sinclair were raised on treasure hunts. Their father would hold a hunt each year, sending his children gallivanting around the house and island to find hidden prizes and secrets. But, like all children do, Oliver and Lucy grew up. After a year of estrangement, their eccentric father unexpectedly passed away, and the two siblings journey back home to put his affairs in order. Oliver leaves behind a very pregnant girlfriend and...
7) Algiers
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Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr are an ill-fate couple in this Hollywood remake of the French classic Pepe le Moko. Boyer is Pepe, a jewel thief hiding out in Casbah, the maze-like and mysterious native quarter of Algiers. He's a master criminal who rules his field, but when he meets the beautiful Parisian Gaby (Lamarr in her American film debut), he begins to question his shady existence. Directed by John Cromwell (Dead Reckoning, The Prisoner of Zenda)...
8) Sugar!
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Leslie (Tony Award Winner Alice Ripley), a housewife and 50-plus-year-old piano teacher, decides to follow her lifelong dream of becoming a rock 'n roll singer - much to the chagrin of her husband (SAG Award Winner Robert Clohessy), who is running for political office, and her daughter (Leah Barker), who is about to embark for college.
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In order to save her father from ruin, Clarissa Giles, an intelligent and independent Kentucky girl, must marry Malcolm Wakefield, the son of a wealthy Chattanoogan steel baron. But their marriage is not a happy one: Malcolm disrespects and ignores Clarissa, and Clarissa must suffer in silence for the good of her family. So when Clarissa meets Captain Phillip Burke, a Union surgeon who is a prisoner of war, she volunteers to assist him. Soon sparks...
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