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12,148 | [
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12,154 | [
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12,170 | [
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12,175 | [
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12,181 | [
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12,182 | [
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12,205 | [
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12,215 | [
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12,218 | [
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12,221 | [
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12,223 | [
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12,235 | [
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12,237 | [
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12,248 | [
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12,253 | [
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12,256 | [
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12,263 | [
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12,269 | [
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12,270 | [
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12,276 | [
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12,277 | [
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12,287 | [
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12,294 | [
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12,301 | [
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12,310 | [
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12,312 | [
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12,319 | [
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12,328 | [
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12,334 | [
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12,344 | [
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12,351 | [
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12,356 | [
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12,357 | [
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12,360 | [
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12,363 | [
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12,383 | [
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12,387 | [
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12,396 | [
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12,407 | [
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12,410 | [
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12,418 | [
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12,428 | [
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12,437 | [
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12,439 | [
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12,440 | [
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and I haven't even got as far as the infant-terrible's critically reviled early work. And afte... | 0 |
12,445 | [
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12,446 | [
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12,447 | [
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12,466 | [
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12,484 | [
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12,485 | [
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12,492 | [
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12,494 | [
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12,496 | [
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12,520 | [
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12,521 | [
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12,530 | [
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12,553 | [
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12,557 | [
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12,584 | [
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12,588 | [
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12,612 | [
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12,624 | [
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12,625 | [
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12,643 | [
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12,649 | [
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12,668 | [
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12,671 | [
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12,672 | [
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12,673 | [
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12,685 | [
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12,686 | [
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12,696 | [
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12,697 | [
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12,702 | [
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12,723 | [
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12,727 | [
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12,737 | [
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12,741 | [
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12,742 | [
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12,750 | [
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] | 265 | 311 | I have never seen this in the theater, my second viewing was tonight on big screen DVD as opposed to old VHS tape from rental store.<br /><br />Saucey for it's time and I'm sure the Hayes code was pushed to it's limits.<br /><br />Hitch's pallet here is the "game play" between two combatants. And yes if Guy calls the c... | 1 |
12,791 | [
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] | 308 | 376 | What exactly do people expect when they watch an Al Adamson film? Are they expecting classic cinema that is wonderful beyond belief and will leave them with lasting memories? You'd think so by some of the reviews. Al Adamson's films are trashy and sleazy and cheesy, not much more, so if you go into them knowing that al... | 1 |
12,799 | [
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] | 273 | 330 | Kannathil Muthamittal was simply one of the most touching and sincere movies ive seen in a long time. the story of an adopted girl who on her 9th birthday learns the truth about her parentage. she sets out in an endeavour to find out more about her real mother and learns that her mother is now a terrorist.<br /><br />t... | 1 |
12,801 | [
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] | 297 | 374 | The Director of Kannathil Muthamittal directed the first Indian film I had seen "Dil Se" which led me down the path of buying well over 122 Hindi DVDs in the<br /><br />course of four months. I can say I understood the total attraction, I was<br /><br />somehow confused as to why the film would stop for "music videos".... | 1 |
12,823 | [
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] | 280 | 385 | During the final throes of the Vitnam war, our central character, Capt. Willard (Martin Sheen) is dispatched by the CIA on an illegal one-man mission to assassinate a renegade US Marine commander, Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has allegedly gone 'completely insane', but who is successfully waging a private cross-b... | 1 |
12,827 | [
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] | 333 | 386 | Somewhere on IMDb there is a discussion about the greatest director of all times (Spielberg, Copolla and others are named there). The greatest argument was around Spielberg and whether he is or isn't a great director. The problem with Spielberg is that while he is a master technician, most of his films lack depth.Savin... | 1 |
12,829 | [
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] | 243 | 308 | After the success of the first two 'Godfather' films in 1972 and 1974 respectively, Francis Ford Coppola embarked on an ambitious attempt to bring home the reality of the war in Vietnam, which had concluded with the fall of Saigon to the Vietcong in 1975
The plot was loosely based on the book 'Heart of Darkness,' a st... | 1 |
12,838 | [
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] | 311 | 393 | Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece was a great ending for a golden decade of American cinema. In the 1970s there was an atmosphere of tolerance, open-mindness, and progressiveness among the studios that allowed the making of major films by a few of the best directors that the United States has ever had. I am not a hist... | 1 |
12,847 | [
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] | 256 | 315 | This is an apocalyptic vision of the hell of our contemporary world. The social criticism of our shallow, commercially oriented values is what makes this film an exceptional vision of the "war is hell" cliché, underscored by a mythical journey upriver to Cambodia by a special forces captain whose mission is to eliminat... | 1 |
12,849 | [
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] | 277 | 363 | Breathtaking at it's best, intriguing at it's worst, Francis Ford Coppala's groundbreaking epic 'Apocalypse Now' is one of the most iconic and celebrated motion pictures of the 20th century, and in my opinion, the greatest ever film depiction centered around America's involvement in Vietnam.<br /><br />What I like most... | 1 |
12,851 | [
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] | 332 | 390 | One thing that came across to me in watching this film is that it was fun/exciting for the cast and crew; I could sense that they were going up against the budget constraint with enthusiasm & dedication because they apparently liked the people involved. <br /><br />I tend to like B movies that are original and have hea... | 1 |
12,854 | [
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] | 277 | 309 | Me and my mates used to gather together in one house to watch this on a Friday night before going to the pub. It was the only programme that ever made us miss opening time. It is one of the best comedies I have ever watched if not the best. David Jason was brilliant and was compared many times to Buster Keaton with his... | 1 |
12,916 | [
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] | 291 | 374 | Jessica Bohl plays Daphne, the sexually precocious suburban teenager struggling with the hell of high school. Daphne's neighbor is Buddy (Richard Brundage), a depressed middle-aged man still angry over loosing his wife. Daphne is attracted to world of prostitution because it promises to cure her of barely legal boredom... | 1 |
12,935 | [
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] | 303 | 359 | Set in Hungary in November 1956, this is the story of a group of foreign nationals who were trying to leave the country at the time of the Uprising.<br /><br />Once the airport is closed, the titular journey begins on a bus taking them to Austria. As would be obvious, they are stopped on their way which is where they c... | 1 |
12,939 | [
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] | 275 | 341 | Yul Brynner is Major Surov, a singing, dancing, vodka-drinking Russian Officer stationed near the Austrian -Hungarian border during the Hungarian uprising of 1956 in Anatole Litvak's The Journey. Though the film has yet to be released on video or DVD, it remains one of Brynner's most compelling performances. Because of... | 1 |
12,955 | [
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] | 264 | 347 | Although it doesn't seem very promising for a long stretch, Renoir's French Cancan ends up being an effortlessly charming film. The story is cliché: a laundry girl, Nini (Françoise Arnoul), is discovered by a night club owner, Danglard (Jean Gabin). Danglard steals her from her baker boyfriend and drops his current gir... | 1 |
12,982 | [
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] | 291 | 399 | Legendary hammy and arrogant horror movie star Conrad Radzoff (splendidly played with wicked sardonic aplomb by Ferdy Mayne) dies of a heart attack. A bunch of drama school students steal Radzoff's corpse from its crypt and take it to a rundown mansion so they can party with it. Radzoff comes back to life and picks off... | 1 |
12,988 | [
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] | 260 | 356 | Red Skelton plays a radio detective known as "The Fox" in "Whistling in the Dark," also starring Ann Rutherford, Conrad Veidt, Eve Arden, Virgina Grey and Rags Ragland. Wally Benton, aka "The Fox" finds his plans to marry his fiancé Carol (Rutherford) thwarted when he's kidnapped by a the leader of a sham cult (Veidt).... | 1 |
12,989 | [
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] | 240 | 303 | You have to be awfully patient to sit through a film with one-liners so flat and unfunny that you wonder what all the fuss was about when WHISTLING IN THE DARK opened to such an enthusiastic greeting from audiences in the 1940s.<br /><br />On top of some weak one-liners and ordinary sight gags, the plot is as far-fetch... | 1 |
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