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| It's Christmas time and there's only one thing on Ralphie Parker's Christmas list this year: a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-Shot, Range Model Air Rifle, but many obstacles stand in the way of his dream because every adult that he confronts keeps telling him he'll shoot his eye out. Meanwhile The Old Man just got a major award (a lamp shaped like a woman's leg), and Mom is making sure The Old Man doesn't come near her turkey, Ralphie's friend gets his tongue stuck to a flag pole, and Ralphie utters the f-word infront of his father. Christmas is drawing nearer and Ralphie visits Santa at the department store in hopes of asking him for his dream gift. Will he receive it? Let's hope so. Search keywords
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Categories: 1983, Canada, Comedy, Family, USA
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| An adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world—a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, USA
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| Two best friends — one unlucky-in-love divorcee and the other a fun-loving bachelor — have their lives turned upside down when they're unexpectedly charged with the care of 7-year-old twins while on the verge of the biggest business deal of their lives. The not-so-kid-savvy bachelors stumble in their efforts to take care of the twins, leading to one debacle after another, and perhaps to a new-found understanding of what's really important in life. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Comedy, Crime, Drama, USA
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| Convinced that a CNN cameraman is her true love, an eccentric crossword puzzler trails him as he travels all over the country, hoping to convince him that they belong together. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Comedy, USA
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| This epic depiction of thirty years of Chicano gang life in Los Angeles focuses on a teen named Santana who, with his friends Mundo and the Caucasian-but-acting-Hispanic J.D., form their own gang and are soon arrested for a break-in. Santana gets into trouble again and goes straight from reform school to prison, spending eighteen year there, and becoming leader of a powerful gang, both inside and outside the prison, while there. When he is finally released, he tries to make sense of the violence in his life, in a world much changed from when last he was in it. Search keywords
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Categories: 1992, Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance, USA
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| Jason Gedrick and a small group of Marines are stranded in the remote Afghan desert. But it ain't the Taliban that's worrying them, it's these giant refugees from Tremors. In fact the big worms prove to be an ally of sorts by doing better against the Taliban than themselves but battling these enemies is something not covered in their training. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Action, Horror, Thriller, USA, War
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| Three teams of criminals share the same Brooklyn block, but each exists in a separate genre of film. The Amateurs are trapped in a 1970's anti-hero movie. The Sputniks live in black and white. The Moolies can't escape their rap video life. But they all share a hatred of Connie, a racist local pawn shop owner and mafia widow. So when Connie has a heart attack, each team decides it's time to find out what's inside her legendary safe. Unfortunately they all plan their big score for the same night. Search keywords
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Categories: 2008, Action, Comedy, Crime, USA
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| Provocative, funny and profoundly moving, Bastardy is the
inspirational story of one man's journey into the light. For
forty years and with infectious humour and optimism, Jack
Charles has juggled a life of crime with another successful
career - acting. Since founding the first Aboriginal theatre
company in the 1970s, Jack has performed with Australia's most
renowned actors and directors in feature films, TV series and
hundreds of plays.
Filmmaker Amiel Courtin-Wilson follows Jack over seven years,
gradually blurring the line between director and accomplice as
Jack continually traverses the criminal and acting worlds.
However, the law finally catches up with Jack and when he
faces a jail sentence he might not survive, he is forced to
decide if he can go straight for the first time in his life. Search keywords
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Categories: 2008, Australia, Documentary
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| In the Sahara desert, a sandstorm batters a deserted drilling station. Thomas "Jack" Jackman (Paul) a security patrolman, battles through the high winds to find out why all contact with the station has been lost. Originally built for gas exploration, and then abandoned, the site had recently been taken over by a multi-national research team intent on drilling deeper into the earth's crust than ever before. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Australia, Hungary, Thriller, UK, USA
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| Every soldier wrestles with his conscience over killing. Although most decide to kill, some refuse. Made with official permission from the U.S. Army, SOLDIERS OF CONSCIENCE reveals that far more soldiers decide not to kill than we might expect. Search keywords
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Categories: 2007, Documentary, USA, War
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| Samson and Delilah's world is small- an isolated community in the Central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival. Lost, unwanted and alone the discover that life isn't always fair, but love never judges. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Australia, Drama
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| For the first time, Playmobil toys come to swashbuckling life in this interactive pirate adventure, which lets viewers choose the outcome with over two dozen possible and equally exciting storylines. When Jack and Amelia find themselves on a pirate ship with Capt. Gruff and his band of scallywags, they get more than they bargained for — 28 times more — and they're going to need all the help they can get to find the treasure buried on Skull Island. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Family, USA
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| Norma and Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child, receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger, delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. But, pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world; someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, USA
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| It is a simple tale of pen-friendship between two very different people; Mary Dinkle, living in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia and New Yorker Max Horovitz. Spanning 20 years and 2 continents, Mary and Max's friendship survives much more than the average diet of life's ups and downs. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Animation, Australia, Comedy, Drama
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| Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career. Search keywords
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Categories: 1983, Drama, USA
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| Silent as a painting, the movie shows us day-dreamer Hermie and his friends Oscy and Benjie spending the summer of '42 on an US island with their parents - rather unaffected by WWII. While Oscy's main worries are the when and how of getting laid, Hermie honestly falls in love with the older Dorothy, who's married to an army pilot. When her husband returns to the front, Hermie shyly approaches her. Search keywords
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Categories: 1971, Drama, USA
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| This, the second adaptation of Raymond Chandler's novel, is much closer to the source text than the original - _Murder, My Sweet (1944)_ (qv), which tended to avoid some of the sleazier parts of the plot - but still concerns private eye Philip Marlowe's attempts to locate Velma, a former dancer at a seedy nightclub and the girlfriend of Moose Malloy, a petty criminal just out of prison. Marlowe finds that once he has taken the case, events conspire to put him in dangerous situations, and he is forced to follow a confusing trail of untruths and double-crosses before he is able to locate Velma. Search keywords
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Categories: 1975, Crime, Mystery, Thriller, USA
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| A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s. Search keywords
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Categories: 1979, Comedy, Drama, Sport, USA
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| As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement. At last everyone, even Ann, takes her creation seriously...but publisher D.B. Norton has a secret plan. Search keywords
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Categories: 1941, Comedy, Drama, Romance, USA
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| Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is in love with him, and he discovers that he is in love with her. He must choose between an exciting life at sea, and a boring life with the woman he loves. And Fanny must choose between keeping the man she loves, and letting him live the life he seems to want. Search keywords
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Categories: 1961, Drama, Romance, USA
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