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Goodfellas [1990, USA]
"As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster." -- Henry Hill, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1955. (4 more taglines...)
Goodfellas (1990)
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Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama
Actors: Robert De Niro | Ray Liotta | Joe Pesci | Lorraine Bracco | Paul Sorvino | Chuck Low | Frank DiLeo | Frank Sivero | Tony Darrow | Mike Starr | Frank Vincent | Frank Adonis | Catherine Scorsese | Gina Mastrogiacomo | Suzanne Shepherd |
Directors: Martin Scorsese
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This film views the mob lives of three pivotal figures in the 1960's and 70's New York. Ray Liotta plays Henry Hill, a local boy turned gangster in a neighborhood full of the roughest and toughest. Joe Pesci plays Tommy Devito, a pure bred gangster, who turns out to be Henry's best friend. Robert De Niro plays Jimmy Conway, the man who puts the two of them together, and runs some of the biggest hijacks and burglaries the town has ever seen. After an extended jail sentence, Henry must sneak around the back of the local mob boss, Paulie Cicero, played by Paul Sorvino, to live the life of luxury he has always dreamed of. In the end, the friends end up in a hell of a jam, and must do anything they can to save each other, and stay alive.
Casualties of War [1989, USA]
Even in war... murder is murder.
Casualties of War (1989)
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Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, War
Actors: Michael J. Fox | Sean Penn | Don Harvey | John C. Reilly | John Leguizamo | Thuy Thu Le | Erik King | Jack Gwaltney | Ving Rhames | Dan Martin | Dale Dye | Steve Larson | John Linton | Vyto Ruginis | Al Shannon |
Directors: Brian De Palma
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During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event.
Born on the Fourth of July [1989, USA]
A story of innocence lost and courage found.
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
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Genres: Biography, Drama, War
Actors: Tom Cruise | Raymond J. Barry | Caroline Kava | Josh Evans | Jamie Talisman | Anne Bobby | Samantha Larkin | Tom Berenger | Frank Whaley | Jerry Levine | Richard Panebianco | Rob Camilletti | Stephen Baldwin | Michael McTighe | Richard Haus |
Directors: Oliver Stone
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The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Buster [1988, UK]
Charming, lovable... and wanted for the crime of the century! (4 more taglines...)
Buster (1988)
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Genres: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Actors: Phil Collins | Julie Walters | Larry Lamb | Stephanie Lawrence | Ellie Beaven | Michael Attwell | Ralph Brown | Christopher Ellison | Sheila Hancock | Martin Jarvis | Clive Wood | Anthony Quayle | Michael Byrne | Harold Innocent | Rupert Vansittart |
Directors: David Green
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Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can't contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, but finds that he must choose between his family and freedom.
Last Emperor, The [1987, China, UK, France, Italy]
He was the Lord of Ten Thousand Years, the absolute monarch of China. He was born to rule a world of ancient tradition. Nothing prepared him for our world of change.
Last Emperor, The (1987)
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Genres: Biography, Drama, History
Actors: John Lone | Joan Chen | Peter O'Toole | Ruocheng Ying | | Dennis Dun | Ryuichi Sakamoto | Maggie Han | Ric Young | Vivian Wu | Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | Jade Go | Fumihiko Ikeda | Richard Vuu | Tsou Tijger |
Directors: Bernardo Bertolucci
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A biography of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at the age of three was named the Emperor of China, and dies as a gardener at the Botanical Gardens of Peking. Told in an interesting flashback/flashforward style, we learn of Pu Yi's childhood, the time he spent imprisoned in the Forbidden City, his term as the emperor of Japans Manchuguo, and his eventual release back to public life in 1959.
Midnight Express [1978, UK, USA]
Walk into the incredible true experience of Billy Hayes, and bring all the courage you can!
Midnight Express (1978)
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Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Actors: Brad Davis | Irene Miracle | Bo Hopkins | Paolo Bonacelli | Paul L. Smith | Randy Quaid | Norbert Weisser | John Hurt | Mike Kellin | Franco Diogene | Michael Ensign | Gigi Ballista | Kevork Malikyan | Peter Jeffrey | Tony Boyd |
Directors: Alan Parker
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Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
Papillon [1973, USA]
The greatest adventure of escape ever filmed! (2 more taglines...)
Papillon (1973)
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Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Actors: Steve McQueen | Dustin Hoffman | Victor Jory | Don Gordon | Anthony Zerbe | Robert Deman | Woodrow Parfrey | Bill Mumy | George Coulouris | Ratna Assan | William Smithers | Val Avery | Gregory Sierra | Vic Tayback | Mills Watson |
Directors: Franklin J. Schaffner
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Safecracker Henri Charriere (Steve McQueen), also known as Papillon ("butterfly"), is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in a French penal colony on Devil's Island whose name speaks for itself. He keeps his mind on an escape. Papillon befriends his cell-mate Louis Dega (Dustin Hoffman), a counterfeiter, who agrees to join forces to escape from the prison. But they are captured and incarcerated in solitary confinement. Papillon makes numerous escape attempts which are foiled every moment either by an informant or by force majeure. Despite the consequent recapture and even more horrible conditions, Papillon tries not to lose heart and continues his attempts to gain freedom.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid [1969, USA]
Just for the fun of it! (3 more taglines...)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
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Genres: Adventure, Biography, Crime, Western
Actors: Paul Newman | Robert Redford | Katharine Ross | Strother Martin | Henry Jones | Jeff Corey | George Furth | Cloris Leachman | Ted Cassidy | Kenneth Mars | Donnelly Rhodes | Jody Gilbert | Timothy Scott | Don Keefer | Charles Dierkop |
Directors: George Roy Hill
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Butch and Sundance are the two leaders of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. Butch is all ideas, Sundance is all action and skill. The west is becoming civilized and when Butch and Sundance rob a train once too often, a special posse begins trailing them no matter where they run. Over rock, through towns, across rivers, the group is always just behind them. When they finally escape through sheer luck, Butch has another idea, "Let's go to Bolivia". Based on the exploits of the historical characters.
Bonnie and Clyde [1967, USA]
"The strangest damned gang you ever heard of. They're young. They're in love. They rob banks." (3 more taglines...)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
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Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Actors: Warren Beatty | Faye Dunaway | Michael J. Pollard | Gene Hackman | Estelle Parsons | Denver Pyle | Dub Taylor | Evans Evans | Gene Wilder | Harry Appling | Owen Bush | Patrick Cranshaw | Garry Goodgion | Clyde Howdy | Russ Marker |
Directors: Arthur Penn
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Adrift in the Depression-era Southwest, 'Clyde Barrow' (qv) and 'Bonnie Parker (II)' (qv) embark on a life of crime. They mean no harm. They crave adventure — and each other. Soon we start to love them too. But nothing in film history has prepared us for the cascading violence to follow. Bonnie and Clyde turns brutal. We learn they can be hurt — and dread they can be killed.
Lawrence of Arabia [1962, UK]
A mighty spectacle of action and adventure! (Australia) (2 more taglines...)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
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Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, War
Actors: Peter O'Toole | Alec Guinness | Anthony Quinn | Jack Hawkins | Omar Sharif | José Ferrer | Anthony Quayle | Claude Rains | Arthur Kennedy | Donald Wolfit | I.S. Johar | Gamil Ratib | Michel Ray | John Dimech | Zia Mohyeddin |
Directors: David Lean
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T. E. Lawrence is a young maladjusted lieutenant in the British Army in North Africa during World War One. Unhappy with his current assignment coloring maps, he is ecstatic when he is offered a job as an observer in what is now Arabia. At this point, the story of his life becomes the stuff that legends are made of.
Geronimo [1962, USA]
No bullet could kill him. No army could capture him. (1 more taglines...)
Geronimo (1962)
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Genres: Action, Biography, Western
Actors: Chuck Connors | Kamala Devi | Pat Conway | Armando Silvestre | Adam West | Lawrence Dobkin | John Anderson | Enid Jaynes | Ross Martin | Denver Pyle | Nancy Rodman | Amanda Ames | Eduardo Noriega | Claudio Brook | Joe Higgins |
Directors: Arnold Laven
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An Apache warrior who defies U.S. attempts to bring the Indians under control grapples with an array of U.S. soldiers sent to subdue his revolt. Sympathetic scouts seek to bring Geronimo back to the reservation before he is hunted down.
To Hell and Back [1955, USA]
The Exciting True-Life Story Of America's Most Decorated Hero
To Hell and Back (1955)
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Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Actors: Audie Murphy | Marshall Thompson | Charles Drake | Jack Kelly | Gregg Palmer | Paul Picerni | David Janssen | Richard Castle | Bruce Cowling | Paul Langton | Art Aragon | Felix Noriego | Denver Pyle | Brett Halsey | Susan Kohner |
Directors: Jesse Hibbs
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True-life account of the military career of Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier in WWII. Native of Texas, he was placed in charge of his many younger siblings on the death of his mother and decided to join the military at the age of 18 to provide for them. His many acts of bravery and heroism during the US military advance through Italy, France and into Germany earn him increasing rank and responsibility as well as the respect of his comrades in arms. Eventually he receives two dozen of the highest medals the US and France can bestow, culminating in the awarding of the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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