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  • The Beguiled picture
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    The Beguiled

    Southern girls and their headmistress (Geraldine Page) punish a sly, wounded Union soldier (Clint...

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    Gods and Generals (2003)

    During the Civil War, Union and Confederate soldiers clash at Bull Run, Fredericksburg and...

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    Boxing Helena (1993)

    A rich surgeon (Julian Sands) operates on the object of his obsession, his grotesquely disfigured...

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    Grindhouse (2007)

    Filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez pay tribute to 1970s-era exploitation films with...

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    Beggars in Ermine

    The Mongram "special" Beggars in Ermine was based on a novel by Esther Lynd Day. Having lost both...

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    Sordid Lives (2001)

    Members of a Texas family gather for their matriarch's funeral and reveal secrets.

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    The Stratton Story

    Inspired by his wife (June Allyson) and son, Chicago White Soxer Monty Stratton (James Stewart)...

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    The Horse Whisperer (1998)

    A New Yorker (Kristin Scott Thomas) takes her daughter and the girl's horse, both traumatized in a...

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    Kings Row (1942)

    Sin surrounds a Freudian doctor (Robert Cummings), his playboy buddy (Ronald Reagan) and the buddy's...

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    Modify

    Stories of people who regard augmenting their bodies as a way of life, whether for artistic reasons...

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    Jennifer Lynch

    Director daughter of David Lynch, whose "Boxing Helena" (1993), about a crazed surgeon who holds...

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    Sur le Seuil

    A disillusioned psychiatrist (Michel Côté) makes disturbing connections between a murderous...

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    The Saddest Music in the World (2004)

    During the Great Depression, a beer baroness (Isabella Rossellini) holds a competition to find the...

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    Strip Search (1997)

    After being hired to locate a missing girl, a vice cop uncovers a ruthless scheme of greed, in the...

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    No Body is Perfect

    An informative survey of non-mainstream and seriously transgressive sexual practices and body art...

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    Journey to Shiloh (1968)

    A Texas cowboy (James Caan) and his buddies ride hundreds of miles to Tennessee to fight for the...

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    Dagon

    A businessman (Ezra Godden) and his girlfriend (Raquel Meroño) arrive in a village inhabited by...

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    The Horsemen

    An Afghan sheik's (Jack Palance) son (Omar Sharif) tries to prove himself to his father in the...

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    Johnny Got His Gun (1971)

    A World War I soldier (Timothy Bottoms) missing arms, legs and a face ponders life in a hospital...

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    The Young Doctors (1961)

    Two pathologists (Fredric March, Ben Gazzara), old and young, clash over critical cases at their...

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    Scream and Scream Again (1970)

    With an acid vat nearby, a mad British doctor (Vincent Price) swaps body parts to create a humanoid...

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    Body Parts (1991)

    A psychologist (Jeff Fahey) loses his arm in an accident and gets another one grafted on, from a...

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    The Accountant

    The O'Dell brothers are desperate. The Accountant is here to help. Not just to save the family farm,...

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    This Old Cub (2004)

    Jeff Santo explores the life and career of his father, Chicago Cub great Ron Santo.

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    The Profession of Arms

    Set in medieval times, the story follows a knight skilled in the art of battle.

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    Ascendancy

    An interesting approach to the English-Irish tensions, this is the first feature film done by...

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    Le Cri Du Coeur

    Alexandre (Eric Damain), the neglected teenager in this drama, finally gets some attention when he...

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    A Zed and Two Noughts (1988)

    This twisted black comedy is obsessed in turn with swans, twins, and decay. Alba Bewick (Andréa...

  • Himmo, Melech Yerushalayim picture
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    Himmo, Melech Yerushalayim

    An emotional tale of those wounded in the 1948 Israeli independence conflict who are gathered in a...

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    Reach For the Sky

    True stor of a British aviator who, after losing both his legs, rejoins the Royal Air Force and...