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A psychological thriller examining the plight of undocumented female immigrants hoping to make a life in New York City. Shot on Super 16mm with an intimate, voyeuristic sensibility, MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAND chronicles one harrowing day in the life of Luciana, a young immigrant woman struggling to make ends meet while striving to escape her past.
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Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission, not...
4) Kill Shot
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Ex-Navy SEAL Jackson Hardison works in rural Montana as a hunting guide. While accompanying a mysterious new client into the mountains, the duo stumbles upon a gruesome plane crash and $100 million in stolen drug money. They quickly must fight their way out when hunted down by a group of terrorists sent to recover the cash.
5) Memento
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Three-time Oscar nominee Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, Inception) directs this critically acclaimed mystery. Leonard (Guy Pearce) is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty, however, of locating his wife's killer is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago,...
7) Imaginary
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From Blumhouse comes a chilling tale of childhood and repressed memories of the past. After Jessica moves back into her childhood home in Louisiana with her family, the reappearance of an imaginary friend from her youth sets in motion a threatening scavenger hunt with Jessica's stepdaughter, Alice. As Jessica's memories begin to surface, aided by cryptic stories from an elderly neighbor about a portal to the spirit world, she realizes the imaginary...
8) Inside Man
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The perfect bank robbery quickly spirals into an unstable and deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a criminal mastermind, a determined detective, and a power broker with a hidden agenda. One wrong move could mean disaster.
9) Torn Curtain
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An American scientist travels to East Germany to uncover Soviet missile secrets. This version has been digitally remastered. Part of the Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection.
10) Easy Virtue
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Larita Filton poses for a portrait in an artist's studio. Her husband's bad behavior drives her into the artst's arms where her husband discovers her. The artist shoots the husband, but doesn't kill him, and the husband files for divorce. After being disgraced Larita flees to France where she meets an upstanding British man.
11) Fail Safe
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The unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military's chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
12) Drive-Away Dolls
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The film follows Jamie, an uninhibited free spirit lamenting yet another breakup with a girlfriend, and her shy friend Marian, who desperately needs to loosen up. In search of a fresh start, the two embark on a spontaneous road trip to Tallahassee, but things quickly go awry when they cross paths with a group of incompetent criminals along the way.
13) Madame Web
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Cassandra Webb is a New York City paramedic who starts to show signs of clairvoyance. Forced to confront revelations about her past, she must protect three young women from a mysterious adversary who wants them dead.
14) Vertigo
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A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
15) Family Plot
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A phony psychic and a private eye search for a lost heir, getting mixed up in a diamond theft at the same time. This version has been digitally remastered. Part of the Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece Collection.
16) Confess
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A political thriller that charts the exploits of disillusioned ex-hacker Terell Lessor. A return to New York, coupled with a humiliating attempt at getting a new job, serves as the catalyst for him to take action against those who slighted him in the past. Employing strategically placed spy-cams, and operating in tandem with backer, strategist and lover Olivia, he captures compromising footage and broadcasts the edited clips via a newly-minted website....
17) Cover Story
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An ambitious magazine editor gets too caught up in a high-stakes sex scandal and is framed for murder.
18) Shutter Island
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When US Marshal Teddy Daniels arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, what starts as a routine investigation quickly takes a sinister turn. As the investigation unfolds and Teddy uncovers more shocking and terrifying truths about the island, he learns there are some places that never let you go.
19) Sleepy Hollow
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A New York magistrate orders Ichabod Crane to travel to the small town of Sleepy Hollow to investigate two murders. Crane is determined to apprehend the Headless Horseman and prove him to be a flesh-and-blood mortal.
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Straight Forward volume 3
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Ravn captures Ida and issues Sylvia an ultimatum: come back within 24 hours, or Ida will be killed. In New Zealand, Sylvia races against the clock to organize an exchange of incriminating files against Ravn to save her daughter, while at the same time convincing Ravn and Qvist that she's still in Denmark.
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