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1) Oppenheimer
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The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
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Four years after her last encounter with masked killer Michael Myers, Laurie Strode is living with her granddaughter and trying to finish her memoir. Myers hasn't been seen since, and Laurie finally decides to liberate herself from rage and fear and embrace life. However, when a young man stands accused of murdering a boy that he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of violence and terror that forces Laurie to confront the evil she can't control....
3) Caged birds
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Barbara 'Babs' Hug is a young radical lawyer fighting Switzerland's antiquated prison system in the 1980s, and finds it to be an endless, draining battle. One day, she's approached by the country's most wanted criminal, Walter Sturm, in a public square. But Walter isn't your average criminal, as he's recently escaped from prison for the seventh time. Babs quickly sees an opportunity to use his popularity to reform the penal system, and they form an...
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Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he's done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his new friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.
5) Cocaine bear
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An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists, and teens congregate in a Georgia forest where a 500-pound black bear goes on a murderous rampage after accidentally ingesting cocaine.
9) Intregalde
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In a gripping tale of best intentions gone wrong, the story follows a trio of well-meaning aid workers from Bucharest on a food delivery mission to the rural hinterlands of the �Intregalde area of Transylvania. Guided off the beaten path by an elderly villager looking for a local sawmill, they find themselves trapped in an unfamiliar, dangerous place and facing the outer limits of their goodwill for each other and strangers. An inquiry into the...
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A charming tropical tale guaranteed to heat your holidays. Three quirky sisters chase their estranged dad down to his beachside pad in the Caribbean and enjoy a little fun in the sun. But why did he disappear to the islands? Only Joanna knows for sure, and she's sworn to secrecy. Love, laughter, and songs by Cyrus make this a Christmas remember.
11) Haunted mansion
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When Gabbie and her son, Travis, move into a beautiful old mansion only to find they are sharing it with hundreds of pesky ghosts, they reach out to anyone who could possibly help, not knowing they will all become trapped within its walls. The Hatbox Ghost has captured 999 souls and only needs one more to free himself from what binds him to the property, but a discredited academic with his own haunted past may be the only thing standing between the...
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In this homage to Agatha Christie, set in England, an amateur detective finds herself caught up in a real-life whodunit! Miranda Green is summoned to the remote mansion of billionaire Lewis Findley along with five mysterious strangers. What do they all have in common? What's become of their absent host? And who just murdered one of the guests in cold blood? Now Miranda must hunt for hidden clues, interview witnesses, and find the killer before she...
14) Number seventeen
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In an empty London house, a hobo named Ben looks for shelter but instead finds a corpse. When a detective shows up, he questions Ben but is interrupted when a girl falls through the roof. Her father has vanished, and she's received an inscrutable telegram that mentions both the house and a missing necklace. Soon more suspicious characters turn up, all looking for the necklace, and none of them are who they claim to be. With its exhilarating climactic...
16) Article 15
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Based on the socio-political situation of India, the lives of police officers are followed. In a country where discrimination is everywhere, whether related to race or caste, the officers embark on a journey of acceptance and change.
17) The modern way
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Danni, a young disillusioned girl from a working-class family falls in with the wrong crowd, entering a violent underground world. Struggling to find her identity she soon starts committing crimes but each one escalates and her future seems dire. Her family calls in a friend to save her from a life of crime. Now he must battle skinheads, police, and more to save this young woman.
18) Pale rider
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Pale Rider: An unknown stranger rides into a California Gold Rush town and gets caught in the middle of a feud between the mining syndicate and independent miners.
Unforgiven: Bill Munny, a retired, once ruthless killer, turned hog farmer is flat broke. He is a widower with two young children to tend to and feels he has no choice but accept one last bounty hunter mission to find and kill 2 young gunslingers who brutalized and cut up the face of a...
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Having left the hollers of Kentucky 15 years ago, Raylan Givens now lives in Miami, a walking anachronism balancing his life as a U.S. Marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl. His hair is grayer, his hat is dirtier, and the road in front of him is suddenly a lot shorter than the road behind. A chance encounter on a desolate Florida highway sends him to Detroit. There he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent,...
20) Shaolin
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Set in 1920s Republican China, amid chaos created by feuding warlords the monks of the Shaolin Temple try to keep the people fed. A defeated warrior takes refuge with the monks, and tries to protect them when the temple is attacked by his former protégé.
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