John Malkovich
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Breakfast of Champions (1973) provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of Vonnegut's obsessions. His recurring cast of characters and American landscape was perhaps the most controversial of his canon; it was felt by many at the time to be a disappointing successor to Slaughterhouse-Five, which had made Vonnegut's literary reputation.
The core of the novel is Kilgore Trout, a familiar character very deliberately modeled
...5) Ava
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AVA (Jessica Chastain) is a deadly assassin who works for a black ops organization, traveling the globe specializing in high profile hits. When a job goes dangerously wrong she is forced to fight for her own survival.
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Jerome goes to art school in the hopes of having his genuine ability recognized. Instead he finds that his teachers are self-obsessed has-beens and his peers are jaded and floundering. To make matters worse, Jerome finds himself being investigated for a series of gruesome stranglings. He becomes obsessed with a lovely student named Audrey, but she is more interested in the hunky Jonah, whose crude yet acclaimed paintings of cars and tanks make Jerome...
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A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel, overbearing mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister. An all-star version of the Tennessee Williams classic. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival** and **Toronto International Film Festival**.
9) Klimt
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A portrait of Austrian artist Gustav Klimt (John Malkovich), whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
10) The new pope
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The unconventional follow-up to 2017₂s The Young Pope begins with Lenny Belardo, aka Pope Pius XIII, in a coma after a heart attack as the Holy See searches for his replacement. British intellectual Sir John Brannox is elected to the papal throne, assuming the name John Paul III. He soon finds that his predecessor₂s shadow looms large: The fiercely devoted cult of Pius XIII believes their pope will return, and their conviction proves hard to shake....
11) I’m Going Home
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Gilbert Valence (Michel Piccoli) is a successful theater actor appearing in Eugene Ionesco's "Exit the King," when he learns that his wife, daughter and son-in-law have all been killed in a car accident. When an American film director (John Malkovich) offers him a role in an English-language production "Ulysses," the rigors of playing a younger man make Valence confront his grief and have him realize just how deep his pain lies. At the age of 93,...
12) The Survivalist
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After a viral pandemic decimates the world, a survivalist is forced to take on a group of heavily armed religious fanatics who believe that he is harboring a woman who could be the key to ending the virus and repopulating the world.
13) Mile 22
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An elite American intelligence officer, aided by a top-secret tactical command unit, tries to smuggle a mysterious police officer with sensitive information out of the country.
14) Cut Bank
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Looking to leave his sleepy town of Cut Bank, Dwayne McLaren hatches a get-rich scheme to get himself out. But when Dwayne's plan backfires and he's swept into a murder investigation led by the local sheriff, he discovers that Cut Bank is a small town full of deadly surprises.
15) White elephant
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When an assassination attempt is witnessed by two cops, Gabriel Tancredi, an ex-marine turned mob enforcer, is ordered by his ruthless mob boss to eliminate any and all threats. With an eager underling out to prove himself, rival gangs making moves and a rising body count, every step Tancredi makes threatens lives--including his own.
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Set in 18th century France, this is the story of two bored aristocrats and the havoc they wreak when they play dangerous games with people's lives. The beautiful widow Merteuil challenges rakish Valmont to seduce a virtuous young married woman, never suspecting that he would violate his personal credo and fall in love.
17) Rounders
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In this gripping drama, Mike McDermott (Matt Damon), a talented poker player, quits gambling after a tough loss, focusing on law school and his relationship. However, when his childhood friend Worm (Edward Norton) is released from prison and buried in debt, Mike is drawn back to the tables in a game he cannot afford to lose.
18) Secretariat
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Behind every legend lies an impossible dream. Witness the spectacular journey of an incredible horse named Secretariat and the moving story of his unlikely owner, a housewife who risked everything to make him a champion.
19) Con air
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A prison parolee on a flight home finds the airplane taken over by other criminals attempting to free a murderer.
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Buck Howard is a mentalist extraordinaire who used to spend his days in the limelight. But nowadays, it's become clear to everyone but Buck that his act has long ago lost its luster. Yet, Buck is convinced his comeback is imminent. With the help of his new personal assistant, recent law school drop-out and would-be writer Troy, not to mention his fiery publicist, Buck surprisingly lands back in the American consciousness, taking Troy along for the...