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Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon |
Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into orbit from a massive gun barrel built into the side of a Welsh mountain, but money troubles, spies and saboteurs ensure that the plan is doomed before it starts... |
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The Legend of Mor'du |
The witch from Pixar's Brave uses magical illustrations to tell the legend of a power-obsessed prince who sought a magic spell that would allow him to wrest control of a kingdom from his brothers, only to destroy that kingdom and his own fate as well. |
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The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete |
Coming of age story about two inner city youths, who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities. |
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai |
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob. |
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The Kiss |
They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss and kiss and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time. (Edison films catalog) |
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Knute Rockne All American |
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne. |
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The Good Lie |
A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned to help them, but the young man struggles to adjust to this new life and his feelings of guilt about the brother he left behind. |
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Soviet Toys |
Considered to be the first animated Soviet film, Soviet Toys was made by the acclaimed director, Dziga Vertov. It is based on political caricatures by V. Deni which appeared in the newspaper 'Pravda'. |
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Cat Ballou |
A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects. |
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Can't Hardly Wait |
It's graduation day at Huntington Hills High, and you know what that means - time to party. And not just any party, either. This one will be a night to remember, as the nerds become studs, the jocks are humiliated, and freshman crushes blossom into grown-up romance. |
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Sarkar |
The authority of a man, who runs a parallel government in Mumbai, is challenged. His son rises to face his enemies. |
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War Room |
The family-friendly movie explores the transformational role prayer plays in the lives of the Jordan family. Tony and Elizabeth Jordan, a middle-class couple who seemingly have it all – great jobs, a beautiful daughter, their dream home. But appearances can be deceiving. In reality, the Jordan’s marriage has become a war zone and their daughter is collateral damage. With the help of Miss Clara, an older, wiser woman, Elizabeth discovers she can start fighting for her family instead of against them. Through a newly energized faith, Elizabeth and Tony’s real enemy doesn’t have a prayer. |
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Party Girl |
Although Mary has little income, she still finds ways to spend her nights at clubs. After being arrested for throwing an illegal rave, she asks her aunt Judy for bail money. Judy then finds Mary a job at her library so that Mary can repay her. Initially, Mary finds the job as a clerk boring and stifling, and prefers to get to know a street food vendor whom she likes. However, Mary must refocus her life once she loses her job and apartment. |
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The Bad News Bears Go to Japan |
In this third film version of the Bad News Bears series, Tony Curtis plays a small time promotor/hustler who takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a series of adventures and mishaps the boys come into. |
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The Love Trap |
A chorus girl loses her job and thus the room she owes back rent on, and ends up being rescued from the street by a dashing rich man. But his family isn't over-accepting of chorus girls joining their family. |