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2) Fort Dobbs
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A western in which a fugitive from the law guides a woman and her son through Indian territory to safety in Fort Dobbs.
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A hard rain is about to fall on a small town in Southern China. In a desperate attempt to find money to save his fiancee's failed plastic surgery, Xiao Zhang, a mere driver, steals a bag containing one million dollars from his boss. News of the robbery spreads fast within the town and, over the course of one night, everyone starts looking for Xiao Zhang and his money.
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Thelma is an abused and neglected wife, while her friend Louise is a bitter, hard-edged waitress. The two decide to take a brief vacation to escape the drudgery of their everyday lives. Immediately, they run into trouble, as Louise shoots and kills a man who tries to rape Thelma in the parking lot of a country bar.
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After antiwar activists Annie and Arthur Pope blew up a napalm lab in 1971, they became lifelong fugitives. They and their children have stayed just one step ahead of the law, running from state to state, job to job, identity to identity. But now elder son Danny wants to stop running from a past not his. And to do so, he might never see his on-the-lam family again. Winner of the Golden Globe Best Screenplay award.
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In the mid-sixties, the maverick American director Monte Hellman conceived of two westerns at the same time. As shot back-to-back for famed producer Roger Corman, they feature overlapping casts and crews. The films - The Shooting, about a motley assortment of loners following a mysterious wanted man through a desolate frontier, and Ride in the Whirlwind, about a group of cowhands pursued by vigilantes for crimes they did not commit, are rigorous,...
9) Apt pupil
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A boy blackmails his neighbor after suspecting him to be a Nazi war criminal.
10) A perfect world
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In Texas, an escaped convict takes a young boy hostage and they form a bond, while being chased by a Texas Ranger, the FBI and local lawmen.
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Sleek thriller set in Greece and Istanbul in1962. Intrigue begins at the Parthenon when wealthy American tourists Chester MacFarland and his young wife Collete meet American expat Rydal, a scammer working as a tour guide. The two befriend him, but a murder at the couple's hotel puts all three on the run together and creates a precarious bond between them as the trio's allegiance is put to the test.
12) Ride
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Desperate to raise money for his daughter's cancer treatment, a retired bull rider teams up with his estranged son and resorts to robbery to secure payment before time runs out. But after the heist goes awry, keeping the money and their freedom requires the duo to outwit a dogged pair of local law enforcement officers, including a justice-minded sheriff who soon suspects that the key to her case may lie uncomfortably close to home.
14) An ordinary man
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An infamous war criminal and former general spending his life on the run from international authorities is suddenly moved to a new hideout, where he develops a relationship with the maid that looks after him. But when he discovers that she is actually an agent hired to protect him, he makes a decision that will drastically change both of their lives.
15) The padre
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Hellbent on justice, retired US Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a small-time con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town, only to be thrown off course by a scrappy sixteen-year-old local girl intent on reuniting with her little sister in the US.
16) Two for Texas
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The tiny mission fortress at San Antonio has fallen after fierce, heroic resistance. Now it seems nothing can stop General Santa Anna and his army from blowing across Texas like a gale-force wind. But the ragtag troops of Sam Houston's Texas Volunteer Army are biding their time. They'll bring the battle to Santa Anna when he least expects it, and bring the cause of independence with them.
17) The gundown
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Seeking revenge and justice, Cole Brandt finds himself in the lawless town of Dead River where he is faced with one last bloody showdown for freedom in order to protect the Majestic Saloon and a beautiful woman.
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Conceived as the ultimate road movie, this decades-in-the-making science-fiction epic from Wim Wenders follows the restless Claire Tourneur across continents as she pursues a mysterious stranger in possession of a device that can make the blind see and bring dream images to waking life. This breathless adventure in the shadow of Armageddon takes its heroes to the ends of the earth and into the oneiric depths of their own souls.
19) The fugitive
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A Chicago surgeon falsely convicted of killing his wife is determined to prove his innocence by leading his pursuers to the one-armed man who actually committed the crime.
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At age 70, Forrest Tucker infamously made his escape from the tough San Quentin prison. Once he had gained his freedom, he embarked on a new set of heists that left investigators scratching their heads and the public fascinated by the story. This true story details Tucker's life which includes a detective wrapped up in the case, and a female who takes a liking to Tucker despite the criminal path he's on.
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