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Slumdog Millionaire

by: Boyle, Danny
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After coming within one question of winning 20 million rupees on the Hindi version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 18-year-old Mumbai slumdog Jamal Malik is arrested on suspicion of cheating. While in custody, Jamal regales a jaded police inspector with remarkable tales of his life on the streets, as well as the story of Latika, the woman he loved and lost.

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A hunter stumbles upon a dead body, $2 million and a stash of heroin in the woods. He absconds with the cash, but brutal thief Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with a local sheriff on his trail.

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To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While undercover cop Billy Costigan curries favor with mob kingpin Frank Costello, career criminal Colin Sullivan rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.

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A 36-hour period in the diverse metropolis of post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles is the theme of this unflinching drama that challenges audiences to confront their prejudices. Lives combust when a Brentwood housewife and her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple all converge.

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Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn't prepared for female boxer Maggie Fitzgerald. Winner of the Oscar awards for best picture, best director, best actress, and best supporting actor.

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Frodo and Sam make their way to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring. Aragon learns of his destiny as the true King and the others prepare for a massive battle that will determine the fate of Middle-Earth.

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The biography of John Nash, an arrogant and handsome mathematical genius, whose early success in his life comes crashing down around him in a struggle against schizophrenia. After years, Nash finally overcomes his demons and receives the Nobel Prize.

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When general Maximus is choosen by Emperor Aurelius, a jelous Commodus (Aurelius' heir) kills Maximus' family. Maximus is enslaved to fight in the gladiatorial areanas, while he plots his revenge against Commodus.

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An unhappy man decides to live life as he did when he was happiest and reverts to his teenage ways. His family can only look on as he quits his corporate job to flip burgers, smokes pot with the neighbor kid and lusts after his teenage daughter's best friend.

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The story of William Wallace a Scotsman who unites his countrymen to liberate themselves from English control.

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Through three turbulent decades, Forrest rides a tide of events that whisks him from physical disablility to football stardom, from Vietnam hero to shrimp tycoon, from White House honors to the arms of his one true love

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Steven Spielberg's greatest film. Schindler's List, based on the book by Thomas Keneally, tells the true story about a Nazi industrialist who saved more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps during World War II.

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Two retired, down-on-their luck outlaws pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey.

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Story of a Civil War hero who travels west where he is assigned to an abandoned fort. His nearest neighbors are members of a Sioux tribe, and they gradually become friends. He marries a tribe woman and ultimately must make a decision about the tribe and their life when he realizes what their fate will be at the hands of the white man

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The true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who runs a coffee plantation in Kenya in 1914.

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Views the life and music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart through the memories of an envious rival, Salieri

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Woody Allen's semiautobiographical portrait of his amorous, but ultimately mismatched, relationship with co-star Diane Keaton. Allen uses satire and comedy to portray this "nervous romance" for modern times.

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Rocky Balboa, a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere, gets his million-to-one shot at love, self-respect and the world heavyweight boxing crown--and comes out a winner

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The story of a man whose rebelliousness pits him against the head nurse of a mental ward and the full spectrum of institutional repression

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In the early 1900s, the young Vito flees Sicily for America after the local Mafia kills his family. Vito struggles to make a living, legally or illegally, for his wife and growing brood in Little Italy. There he kills the local Black Hand Fanucci after he demands his customary cut of the tyro's business. With Fanucci gone, Vito's stature grows. The family legacy is upended by Michael's business expansion in the 1950s. Now based in Lake Tahoe, Michael conspires to make inroads in the Las Vegas and Havana pleasure industries by any means necessary. As he realizes that even his allies are tr

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The Corleone family nearly falls from power in America but rises to observe the passage of rites from father to son. There is a balance between family life and the ugly business of crime in which they are engaged.

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Story of General Patton in World War II whose military brilliance was balanced by his inability to deal with the social and political aspects of war, causing him difficulties in his dealings with the War Department.

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When Henry VIII seeks approval from the aristocracy to divorce his wife and marry Anne Boleyn, Sir Thomas More finds himself caught between a murderous king and the powerful Roman Catholic Church. Richly crafted with spectacular period details and a fine supporting cast, director Paul Zinnemann's drama swept the Oscars for 1966, winning six golden statuettes, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director.

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The 1965 film based on the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical has earned its status as one of America's favorite movies. Andrews and Plummer are delightful!

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A Cockney waif is transformed by a linguistics professor into an elegant lady

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Presents the story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity