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Henry Spencer (Jack Nance), living in a decaying industrial center, gets his girlfriend Mary X (Charlotte Stewart) pregnant. After meeting her odd family, he finds himself in the care of their deformed child in his small, dark apartment.

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Based on a true story of the largest group escape from a high security Nazi POW camp, involving British and American soldiers working together to cause a mass distraction that would waste Nazi resources.

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Documentary chronicling the chaotic creation of Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic Vietnam war movie.

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Stuart Sawyer (Justin Kirk) and Nicole Reilly (Julianne Nicholson) fall in love a bit too quickly, move in together, get married, and increasingly wonder if it was the right decision.

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In an oppressive, dystopian future, worker THX 1138 (Robert Duvall) leads a monotonous existence of repetitive labor and sedatives. His mate LUH 3417 (Maggie McOmie) stops the drugs, and the two begin a downward slide leading to their imprisonment and THX’s eventual decision to escape the society.

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Reuben (Elliot Gould) is double-crossed by casino mogul Willy Banks (Al Pacino), leading Danny Ocean (George Clooney) to round up the usual suspects for a hugely audacious heist motivated by revenge.

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Increasingly, the “American Dream” is funded with borrowed money. This documentary investigates the credit industry, revealing a large business segment based entirely on keeping customers in a state of perpetual debt. The scope expands to politics and our government’s policy of borrowing today to bankrupt tomorrow.

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Nervous director Julian Marsh (Warner Baxter) helms the Broadway musical “Pretty Lady” in the midst of the Great Depression, starring Bebe Daniels (Dorothy Brock) and wide-eyed ingenue Peggy Sawyer (Ruby Keeler).

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Snarky high school graduates Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) find humor in the oddballs and weirdos that surround them, namely record collector Seymour (Steve Buscemi) and wacky art teacher Roberta (Illena Douglas). Based on a graphic novel by Dan Clowes.

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In the near future, crime is the norm in Detroit. Searching for new crime-fighting options, fatally wounded cop Alex Murphy is merged with robotics to form the cyborg “RoboCop.”

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