Ranald MacDougall
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There’s something funny about those two new priests. In fact, there’s something downright hilarious. Because Robert De Niro and Sean Penn aren’t clergymen at all. They’re escaped cons whose only prayer is to pass themselves off as men of the cloth...and pass right by a police blockade at the border and into the safety of Canada. Demi Moore joins De Niro and Penn in this clever romp scripted by David Mamet. The cons are loose and the comedy...
2) Cleopatra
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Story of the life of Cleopatra, queen of ancient Egypt from her ascension to the throne through her struggle for power and her loves and entanglements with Julius Caesar and Marc Anthony.
3) Queen bee
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In a beautiful, Georgia mansion, the home's matriarch, Eva, rules with an iron fist. Whether it's domineering her alcoholic husband, Avery, or preventing Carol from marrying Judson, Eva controls everyone around her. But when a cousin, Jennifer, comes into town and develops a bond with Avery, Eva wants to take control of the situation again, leading to dark choices.
4) June bride
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Linda is a hard-boiled magazine editor who thinks she can do just fine without love, even after her old flame, Carey, is assigned to work for her. While on assignment covering a small-town wedding, they make some surprising discoveries about the young couple they are writing about, and about their own old romance.
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"In this murder mystery, a woman can not remember the man who claims to be her husband following the murder of a young girl. The woman's uncle runs a mystery radio show, which brings up the questions of who committed the murder, why they murder the girl and who is the man claiming to be her husband." -- container.
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Criterion collection volume 860
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Mildred Pierce is a woman who will do anything to satisfy the demands of her spoiled daughter Veda, including divorce, opening her own business, and possibly murder.
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'Millions Flee from Cities! End of the World!' From a Manhattan skyscraper, Ralph Burton surveys the emptiness announced by that chilling newspaper headline. Nuclear doomsday has come. Ralph is sure he is the last person alive. Then a woman appears and the two form a cautious friendship that's threatened when a third survivor arrives.
11) Possessed
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She loves him when he goes away for months. She loves him when he refuses to marry her. But when callow David Sutton chooses to marry someone else, Louise Howell's love for him takes a darker turn. Give her a gun and she'll love him to death.--Container
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Criterion collection volume 889
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Harry Morgan is an honest charter-boat captain who is facing hard times, takes on dangerous cargo to save his boat, support his family, and preserve his dignity. Left in the lurch by a freeloading passenger, Harry starts to entertain the criminal propositions of a sleazy lawyer, as well as the playful come-ons of a cheeky blonde, making a series of compromises that stretch his morality, and his marriage, farther than he2ll admit.
13) The hasty heart
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The war is suddenly over for two Allied soldiers injured in Burma and sent to a remote jungle hospital. Facing the battle of recovery, the easy-going Yank and the proud yet stubborn Scotsman form a bond with the other patients and Army staff.
14) Bright leaf
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Brant Royle buys and sells tobacco, building a cigarette manufacturing empire, but his empire is starting to crumble. He is romantically drawn to the daughter of the tycoon who had earlier brought ruin to his family, and she may have an agenda of her own.
15) Cleopatra
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Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of this epic-spectacle; its opulence and sweeping grandeur have never been more glorious. Elizabeth Taylor stars as Cleopatra, the glamorous and cunning queen of Egypt. To secure her hold on power, she seduces the rulers of Rome, only to meet her match in Marc Antony, played by Richard Burton. Their passionate romance could decide the fate of the world's greatest empires.
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Mildred Pierce: Mildred sacrifices her life for her greedy daughter, divoring her husband, and building a career as a restaurant owner.
Humoresque: Glamourous socialite Helen Wright takes what she wants--clothes, alcohol, men--ues them up and tosses them aside. Then she meets a brilliant young violinist--but this one she can't break.
Possessed: When callow David Sutton chooses to marry someone else, Louise Howell's love for him takes a dark murderous...
17) Mildred Pierce
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Criterion collection volume 860
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"Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable waitress and eventually as the well-heeled owner of a...