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    Be Like Others

    Iranian men undergoing sex-change surgery reveal what life in their country is like for them.

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    The Detective (1968)

    A New York detective (Frank Sinatra) sends a sniveling suspect to the electric chair, then learns he...

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    The Green Mile (1999)

    In 1935 a head prison guard (Tom Hanks) realizes a man (Michael Clarke Duncan) on death row may be...

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    Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)

    The baron (Peter Cushing) puts an angry man's soul in the body of a woman (Susan Denberg) beautified...

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    The Visit (1963)

    A rich woman (Ingrid Bergman) returns to her poor European hometown to buy the execution of a man...

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    Sasaeng-gyeoldan

    A low-level drug pusher is pressured by a corrupt cop to help him catch a local drug lord.

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    Dead Man Walking (1995)

    A nun (Susan Sarandon) helps a double murderer (Sean Penn) deal with his actions and prepare for his...

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    Mr. Death: the Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)

    Director Errol Morris profiles Leuchter, the reinventor of the electric chair, and questions him on...

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    Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)

    Childhood friends, a gangster (James Cagney) and a priest (Pat O'Brien), meet as adults in their old...

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    The Littlest Rebel (1935)

    The old Edward Peble play The Littlest Rebel was gussied up in 1935 as a Shirley Temple vehicle. The...

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    Mary of Scotland (1936)

    Queen Elizabeth (Florence Eldridge) jails Queen Mary (Katharine Hepburn) for 18 years, then puts her...

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    The Passion of Joan of Arc

    A French peasant girl (Renee Falconetti) opposing occupying British forces is tried for heresy and...

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    The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)

    Laughton won an Oscar for his portrayal of the 16th-century English monarch in Alexander Korda's...

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    The Tower of London (1939)

    The mad Duke of Gloucester becomes Richard III (Basil Rathbone) by having rivals removed by his...

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    Dove

    Adapted from the warhorse stage play by Willard Mack, The Dove proved a so-so vehicle for Norma...

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    Hangmen Also Die! (1943)

    A Czech doctor (Brian Donlevy) hides with a professor (Walter Brennan) and his daughter (Anna Lee)...

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    Joan of Arc

    Director Victor Fleming's final film features Ingrid Bergman as a vivid and luminous Joan of Arc,...

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    Destroyer (1988)

    An executed mass murderer comes back from the dead to wreak havok on a film crew shooting inside the...

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    Sleepstalker: The Sandman's Last Rites

    As a boy, a young reporter named Griffin witnessed the death of his parents by a ruthless murderer...

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    Dekalog 5 (1995)

    Jacek, a pimply youth, hires a taxi, directing the driver to a remote location and brutally...

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    Welcome to Spring Break (1990)

    A college football star's womanizing buddy is brutally murdered while they're on vacation together.

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    Prison (1988)

    The spirit of a long-dead prisoner returns for revenge, haunting the prison's new governor.

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    Vercingetorix

    A Gallic chieftain (Christopher Lambert) unites the tribes of his region to force Julius Caesar...

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    True Crime (1999)

    An investigative reporter (Clint Eastwood) has only 12 hours to prove a condemned man's (Isaiah...

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    Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (1990)

    True story about an affair between a showgirl and an American Army officer during World War II in...

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    The Crow: Salvation (2000)

    After he is wrongly executed for his lover's murder, a young man is resurrected to avenge both their...

  • Attack of the Giant Leeches picture
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    Attack of the Giant Leeches

    A bartender sends his wife (Yvette Vickers) and her lover (Michael Emmett) into a swamp where large...

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    Danton (1982)

    French populist Georges Danton (Gérard Depardieu) clashes with Robespierre (Wojciech Pszoniak)...

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    William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist III (1990)

    A police detective (George C. Scott) investigates a series of slayings done in the style of an...

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    The First Power (1990)

    A Los Angeles policeman (Lou Diamond Phillips) hunts a killer (Jeff Kober) brought back from the gas...