Ferris Webster
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English
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As World War II rages on, the Germans open Stalag Luft III, a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp, designed to hold even the craftiest escape artists. In doing so, however, the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history. Together, under the guidance of the brilliant Bartlett the resourceful Hendley, and the steely, determined Hilts, the men plot, scheme, and dig their way to freedom at any cost!
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Criterion collection volume 803
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English
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A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis-induced conditioning to carry out the orders of the enemy upon release. When a decorated Korean War veteran who has been brainwashed starts to commit political assassinations, his old military commander begins to suspect and must stop him.
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Distributed by Warner Home Video
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[2008]
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English
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Dorian Gray is an innocent young man who has his portrait painted by a close friend. Soon after he falls under the influence of amoral Lord Henry Wotton. Dorian soon jilts his fiancee, which leads to her suicide. This is the start of a life of increasing debauchery. Dorian realizes that the outward signs of this are apparent only in the portrait. Eventually the picture, secreted in his childhood playroom, becomes almost hideous to behold. But Dorian...
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Warner Home Video
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[2010, 1976]
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English
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With fresh memories of his family's slaughter by Red Leg soldier Terrill, Confederate Josey Wales refuses to join his captain Fletcher and the rest of his comrades in surrender to a U.S. Army regiment. Deemed a dangerous outlaw after a bloody one-man battle with that regiment, Josey is pursued by U.S. Cavalry soldiers led by the unwilling Fletcher and the murderous Terrill, as well as by bounty hunters who eventually learn how coolly lethal Wales...
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Warner Home Video
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[2002]
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English
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Philo Beddoe, a regular easy-going, beer-drinking truck driver and the toughest barroom brawler west of the Rockies, lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. When he finally falls in love, it's with a flighty singer who leads him on a crazy chase across the Southwest.
7) Lili
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Turner Entertainment Co
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2012.
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English
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"Orphan Lili Daurier joins a carnival and falls under the spell of its star, a suave magician. But it is the show's crippled, embittered puppeteer who truly loves Lili, a love he can express only through his puppets"--Container.
8) Seconds
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Criterion collection volume 667
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The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Desperate to escape his life, Arthur succumbs to a mysterious organization's offer of a new identity and a fresh start. Surgically transformed into the handsome, young Tony Wilson, he begins a jet-set existence among a community of "Reborns." Nominated for Best Cinematography at the **Academy Awards** Nominated for the Palme d'Or at the **Cannes Film Festival.**
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English
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Philo Beddoe, the easygoing truck driver and bare-knuckle brawler, and his 165-pound orangutan pal, Clyde, get into more mischief in this faster and funnier sequel to Every Which Way but Loose. Beddoe is hoping to 'retire' from fighting. But a new contender lures him back, and mobsters kidnap his girl to ensure he'll turn up for the showdown. Ma, Orville, and those hapless motorcycle morons called the Black Widows all return for more fun.
10) Madame Bovary
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English
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Lonely Emma Bovary longs for romance, glamour, and possessions. Wedded to a country doctor, she instead gets routine, motherhood, and penny-pinching. So, when she catches the eye of a handsome aristocrat, Emma risks all to reach for what she thinks will be happiness. Jennifer Jones stars in this lush adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's famous novel that scandalized 19th century France. The film's capstone is the stunning ballroom scene, contrasting Emma's...
12) Hour of the gun
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English
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"Guns don't stay in their holsters long when vigilantes Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday meet outlaws in the Wild West. With the dust barely settled at the OK Corral, the notorious Clanton brothers unleash their revenge. One by one, they gun down Wyatt Earp's brothers -- but they won't have the last shot. Using his US Marshal's badge as his authority, and Doc Holliday as his deputized right-hand man, Earp begins a zealous pursuit of vengeance that the...
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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"'Bachelors make the best soldiers,' declares Captain Stephen Maddocks, who knows the West can only be tamed by men as single-minded as he is. So with renegade Indians on the warpath, he has no patience for the love triangle that erupts between greenhorn officers and a beauty promised to one of them -- or for the chaos it will cause"--Container.
15) If winter comes
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Turner Entertainment Co
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[2012]
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English
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"On the rebound from a broken heart, a writer marries another woman, but secretly longs for his former love. His life takes an unexpected turn when she returns, hoping to rekindle their relationship. With England on the brink of war, he finds even more trouble at the office when he is falsely accused of having an affair with a young, pregnant coworker, leading to further tumult and tragedy"--Container.
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Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Under the watchful eye of its owner Frank Wallingham, the Wallingham Freighting Company is bound for Denver with forty wagons of whiskey to quench the town's thirst. But there are others who have plans of their own for the load of libations including temperance leader Cora Templeton Massingale, who wants it destroyed, the Sioux Indians who want it for themselves, ditto the Denver citizens militia, as well as the Irish teamsters hired as wagon drivers....