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21) Breaker Morant
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English
Description
Three soldiers become scapegoats in a trial meant to draw attention from the crimes of their commanders.
22) Sounder
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English
Description
Set in rural Louisiana during the Depression, this heartfelt story tells of a sharecropper family struggling to overcome adversity.
23) The Outlaw
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English
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This infamous western adventure is loosely based on the story of Pat Garrett Thomas Mitchell and Billy The Kid Jack Beutel.
24) Just A Gigolo
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English
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After World War I, a war hero returns to Berlin to find that there's no place for himhe has no skills other than what he learned in the army, and can only find menial, lowpaying jobs. He decides to become a gigolo to lonely rich women.
26) OneEyed Jacks
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English
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After robbing a Mexican bank, Dad Longworth takes the loot and leaves his partner Rio to be captured, but Rio escapes and searches for Dad in California.
27) The Big Combo
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English
Description
The Big Combo is a gripping gangster movie, often overlooked, this movie is a fine example of the evocative film noir style that became so popular during the 40's and 50's.
28) My Man Godfrey
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English
Description
My Man Godfrey is a 1936 American hilarious screwball comedy starring William Powell and Carole Lombard.
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The Red and the Black, by Stendhal, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
30) Scanners (DVD)
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other 'scanners' have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
31) Eraserhead (DVD)
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
An obscure man with a vertical head of hair is living with his spaced-out girlfriend and their fetus-like child. By the end of the film, Henry is decapitated and processed into erasers in this bizarre horror film which closely approaches a nightmare.
34) Swamp Thing
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English
Description
After a violent incident with a special chemical, a research scientist is turned into a swamp plant monster.
37) The Ruling Class
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English
Description
A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. Their other, somewhat more respectable, family members plot to steal the estate from him murder and mayhem ensue.
38) Bagdad Caf
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English
Description
A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel on Earth and decides to make it brighter.
39) Madame Bovary
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In “Madame Bovary”, Charles, an awkward country doctor courts and weds Emma, the beautiful young daughter of a patient. Emma, unsuited to the role of housewife, quickly gets restless and begins to explore her passions. This leads to infidelities which she hides from Charles and, eventually, mounting debts as she turns to merchandise for her happiness. Flaubert’s novel is cited as the first example of literary realism and has been called a “perfect”...
40) Cousin Bette
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Cousin Bette (1846) is a novel by French author Honoré de Balzac. Part of Balzac's La Comédie humaine sequence, the novel is recognized as being the author's last fully-realized work, and features several characters who appear elsewhere throughout his legendary series. It has inspired several film and television adaptations, as well as earned comparisons to Shakespeare's Othello and Tolstoy's War and Peace.
The novel focuses on the life and exploits...
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