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    Fear and Trembling (2004)

    Amélie, a dreamy and romantic young Belgian woman, arrives in Japan to begin work as a translator...

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    Night Patrol (1984)

    Essentially a knock-off of the "Police Academy" series, this slapstick comedy tells the idiotic tale...

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    Number One With a Bullet (1987)

    A suave Los Angeles detective (Billy Dee Williams) and his quirky partner (Robert Carradine) hunt a...

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    The Outpost (1995)

    A critique on the injustices of the Stalinist years in Eastern Europe, as told through a Kafkaesque...

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    Police Story II (1988)

    His personal war against crime has earned Kevin Chan a demotion from detective to traffic cop just...

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    Hei Pao Shi Jian (1987)

    A technical consultant-interpreter on a major Sino-German civil engineering project loses his job...

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    Die Dreckschleuder

    In this zany send-up of European television's many cheesy variety shows, a handsome emcee has been...

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    The Last Laugh (1925)

    An elderly hotel doorman (Emil Jannings) loses status and self-pride after being demoted to the...

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    Blondie's Reward

    The long-running "Blondie" series was slowly heading into the homestretch when Blondie's Reward came...

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    Disorderly Conduct

    The troubled career of a luckless motorcycle cop provides the basis for this police drama. His...

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    The Great O'Malley (1937)

    His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly...

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    The House Across the Street

    A demoted managing editor (Wayne Morris) continues hounding a racketeer, as an advice columnist.

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    Oil for the Lamps of China

    This drama about corporate treachery was based on the best-selling novel by Alice Tisdale Hobart....

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    The Peacekeeper

    Military specialists (Dolph Lundgren, Montel Williams) try to thwart a terrorist (Michael Sarrazin)...

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    La Demolición

    Returning to his old office in an abandoned wool factory, the loopy Beto Luna pretends to carry on...

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    Nine Lives Are Not Enough

    Sawyer, a reporter with a nose for news, writes an expose on a gangster. When the gangster sues for...

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    Der Letzte Mann

    A proud doorman's humiliation after his demotion.

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    TV

    Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgement (1997)

    Police superintendent Jane Tennison finds herself "demoted" and transferred to Manchester. She is...