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18,099 | [
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] | 250 | 302 | Married To The Mob was one of the first VHS tapes that I had along with Coming To America and Grease. I still have fond memories of this film after all these years. Hell, I still have the VHS of this film in good condition.<br /><br />The story: Undercover cop Mike Downey(Matthew Modine)is sent to spy on Angela De Marc... | 1 |
18,106 | [
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18,110 | [
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18,113 | [
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18,130 | [
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18,163 | [
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18,169 | [
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18,182 | [
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18,183 | [
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18,187 | [
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18,197 | [
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18,209 | [
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18,234 | [
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18,255 | [
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18,267 | [
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18,268 | [
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18,271 | [
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18,291 | [
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18,296 | [
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18,311 | [
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18,314 | [
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18,317 | [
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18,324 | [
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18,329 | [
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18,335 | [
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18,336 | [
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18,343 | [
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18,344 | [
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18,350 | [
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18,354 | [
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18,364 | [
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18,365 | [
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18,372 | [
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18,391 | [
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18,392 | [
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18,394 | [
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18,420 | [
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18,431 | [
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18,450 | [
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18,451 | [
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18,468 | [
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18,469 | [
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18,471 | [
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18,482 | [
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18,487 | [
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18,496 | [
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18,501 | [
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18,503 | [
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18,534 | [
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18,535 | [
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18,553 | [
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18,558 | [
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18,571 | [
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18,576 | [
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18,585 | [
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18,598 | [
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18,609 | [
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18,623 | [
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18,632 | [
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18,670 | [
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18,673 | [
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18,682 | [
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18,704 | [
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18,705 | [
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18,710 | [
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18,726 | [
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18,728 | [
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18,729 | [
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18,734 | [
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18,737 | [
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18,738 | [
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18,740 | [
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18,744 | [
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18,748 | [
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18,749 | [
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18,757 | [
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18,770 | [
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18,775 | [
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] | 295 | 337 | I think it was way back in 1987 that we had our exams and my friend and I saw in the papers that one of the theatres was playing 'teen deviyan'. We decided to go just for the heck of it without hoping anything great. But we were in for a pleasant surprise. The movie was made in 1965 but even by today's standards, the p... | 1 |
18,793 | [
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] | 235 | 316 | I saw Teen Devian in 1993 telecasted in Doordarshan on a Friday night, and could scarcely believe that such a remarkable film was ever made in Bollywood. It was mind blowing a film with a "modern" storyline, superb music, three lovely ladies and my fave superstar Dev Anand.In this unusual storyline, Dev falls in love... | 1 |
18,800 | [
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] | 256 | 324 | I loved Complete Savages! Why did they cancel it anyway? They should have made a second season and so on... God! They always cancel the good shows... and leave all the boring stuff. Nothing interesting at TV since Complete Savages is gone. This show was a great idea. A single firefighter father with five crazy sons and... | 1 |
18,822 | [
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] | 281 | 340 | A rich experience is to be gained from watching this film.<br /><br />This is a seemingly simple story of a gifted pupil, Yiu Kwok, who later becomes a teacher of classical Chinese poetry. He is married with two sons, and things at home seem normal. He still loves his wife after twenty years of marriage, and his sons a... | 1 |
18,823 | [
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] | 308 | 384 | Let me say first off that I am a huge fan of the original series Lonesome Dove and the book it was based from. I have put off watching this sequel for the better part of 10 years due to the bad reviews I'd heard about it. If Tommy Lee Jones wasn't playing Capt. Call I didn't see the point. If Larry McMurtry wasn't invo... | 1 |
18,826 | [
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] | 258 | 326 | Let me begin by saying that there is no bigger fan of the original "Lonesome Dove" than I. Both the Pulitzer Prize-winning book and the towering mini-series adapted from it stand alone in my experience as moving, dramatic, believable, and engrossing works. There is no comparison between "Lonesome Dove" and any Western ... | 1 |
18,838 | [
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] | 270 | 325 | Having seen the movie years ago and been disappointed by its squandered potential, when I heard that it was becoming a TV series, I flatly refused to watch it. My best friend became a rabid fan immediately, and knowing my love for horror movies, could not believe that I wouldn't watch a single episode. I told him that ... | 1 |
18,854 | [
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] | 256 | 319 | I saw Le Conseguenze Dell'Amore on the 2005 Rotterdam Filmfestival, It was the first of ten films I saw there.<br /><br />Le Conseguenze has left the most powerful impression of the ten films. From the first shot, you know the movie is going to be something special. The beautiful cinematography left me in awe of what c... | 1 |
18,864 | [
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] | 244 | 303 | Stylish, thought provoking, cool and gripping just four aspects of a film that will long remain in the thoughts of this viewer.<br /><br />Slow-paced it may be at the beginning but the director beguiles with beautiful camera work, sophisticated compositions and elegant editing. The unfolding of the story, not so much... | 1 |
18,909 | [
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] | 246 | 311 | Wonderful family film that should be a staple at Christmas time. It's a mystery to me why it isn't. A true lost film that I first encountered, flickering away on my old 19" black and white RCA, when the Million Dollar Movie was still in vogue on Channel 9 in New York City. This Rudolph Mate directed fantasy should be n... | 1 |
18,911 | [
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] | 275 | 338 | I watched this movie a long time ago, but I've always loved it. The story is about a young girl, Sally O'Moyne who finds out at a young age that when she prays to St. Anne, her prayers are answered, hence her missing lunch pail and a mean neighbor who tattles on her and she prays, that someone should give him a black e... | 1 |
18,918 | [
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] | 248 | 301 | -That's pretty much the whole soundtrack to this film. I just saw this baby at the Munich Film Festival and it rocked the house. Director Doug Pray is never seen in this documentary, nor I think he is even heard, but he has done a very intimate look into the lives and history of the "mixer." He has segmented his film i... | 1 |
18,935 | [
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] | 305 | 379 | In August Days/Dies d'agost Marc Recha has given us a sun-saturated Catalan documentary-style road movie that's mostly a meandering improvised meditation on brotherhood and reclaiming the dead. The beautiful sometimes large-scale, richly atmospheric 35 mm. landscape images, nice soundtrack and Catalan-language narratio... | 1 |
18,938 | [
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18,941 | [
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18,943 | [
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] | 265 | 341 | My first review at IMDB, after a few years of using this site constantly...<br /><br />Anyways, saw this on the tube the other night, loved it. It's in the mindset of a Dangerous Minds or a Substitute, but much better. Was sure for a moment that Rex was Speedy Levitch, in Waking Life, but after checking, it doesn't see... | 1 |
18,944 | [
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] | 312 | 355 | I think it's the sort of film you either love or hate and I'm really not the type to go in for arty movies. My mother rented "mullhuland DR" the other night and I nearly ran from the room, ha. But I love this film.<br /><br />We recorded "The Beat" one night when we had just let the tape run and got a great film that w... | 1 |
18,948 | [
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] | 280 | 350 | You don't have to be a Notre Dame football fan to enjoy this, because I am not....but, as a football fan in general, this was fun to watch. It almost makes me a Fighting Irish devotee. If you can't get caught up in the emotion in this film, gridiron fan or not, you better check your pulse because this is an emotional f... | 1 |
18,957 | [
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18,962 | [
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] | 314 | 384 | Although this small film kind of got lost in the wake of On The Waterfront, Edge Of The City can certainly hold its own with that star studded classic. It's another story about the docks and the code of silence that rules it.<br /><br />Next to the corrupt union that Lee J. Cobb ran in On The Waterfront, Jack Warden is... | 1 |
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