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19,907 | [
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19,910 | [
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19,923 | [
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19,957 | [
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19,960 | [
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19,969 | [
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19,975 | [
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19,979 | [
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19,980 | [
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19,981 | [
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20,007 | [
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20,019 | [
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20,023 | [
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20,028 | [
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20,033 | [
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20,064 | [
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20,065 | [
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20,066 | [
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20,067 | [
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20,070 | [
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20,071 | [
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20,076 | [
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20,090 | [
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20,096 | [
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20,103 | [
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20,131 | [
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20,132 | [
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20,141 | [
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20,144 | [
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20,179 | [
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20,219 | [
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20,241 | [
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20,265 | [
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20,282 | [
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20,289 | [
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20,322 | [
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20,325 | [
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20,328 | [
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20,340 | [
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] | 268 | 354 | Vanaja (2006), written and directed by Rajnesh Domalpalli, is an extraordinary film from South India. Mamatha Bhukya plays 15-year-old Vanaja, who lives in a rural area with her loving but alcoholic father. If she is going to succeed in life, she will have to overcome the liabilities of low caste and poverty. <br /><br... | 1 |
20,342 | [
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] | 244 | 302 | Winning 26 out of the 28 awards it was nominated for, there is no doubt that this film will stand as one of the best of 2007. The fact that it was made with non professionals who were trained to act and dance makes it that much more special.<br /><br />It is not a Bollywood production, but it is about art. A lower cast... | 1 |
20,347 | [
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20,351 | [
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20,353 | [
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20,354 | [
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20,359 | [
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20,382 | [
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20,384 | [
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20,394 | [
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20,397 | [
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20,404 | [
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20,412 | [
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20,414 | [
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20,417 | [
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20,423 | [
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20,428 | [
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20,430 | [
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20,431 | [
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20,433 | [
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20,436 | [
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20,444 | [
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20,446 | [
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20,450 | [
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20,454 | [
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20,455 | [
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20,469 | [
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20,482 | [
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20,486 | [
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20,493 | [
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20,505 | [
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20,507 | [
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20,511 | [
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20,521 | [
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20,526 | [
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20,527 | [
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20,529 | [
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20,530 | [
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20,531 | [
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20,552 | [
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20,565 | [
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20,567 | [
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20,578 | [
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] | 308 | 334 | The very first time I heard of Latter Days was when I was renting DVD's and I was interested as I am a member of the LDS Church. I found this movie very heartfelt and in several areas it made me cry. The reason for this is that too many years ago I knew a young man who went through what Aaron (played by Steve Sandvoss)... | 1 |
20,612 | [
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] | 257 | 314 | "Purgatory Flats", shown on cable recently, is a small movie that packs a lot. Harris Done directs with style. The screen play by Mr. Done and Diane Fine makes a good thriller.<br /><br />If you haven't seen the film, perhaps you would like to stop reading.<br /><br />The film is the story about a young L.A. doctor tha... | 1 |
20,649 | [
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] | 259 | 360 | Before I saw this film I didn't really expect to much from it, although my friend advised otherwise. Due to this request from my friend I decided I was really going to watch this film. The minute I sat down to view the film I was absolutely blown away. From the credits I was falling of my seat; I just couldn't contain ... | 1 |
20,651 | [
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] | 275 | 376 | This ingenious and innovate comedy packs many moments priceless and great sense of pace, though overlong. Chaplin's satire with several classics scenes , he has dual role as a Jewish barber and dictator Hynkel, an offensive portrayal of Hitler . Then the barber is mistaken for the Hitlerian tyrant and happen bemusing e... | 1 |
20,652 | [
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] | 238 | 340 | "The Great Dictator" is, arguably, one of Charlie Chaplin's most widely-known films. It is notorious for it's blatant satire of Adolf Hitler and Nazism. Until watching it, I only knew of it's fame. Now I know how much the film deserves it.<br /><br />The film basically shows the exploits of the somewhat clumsy, ambitio... | 1 |
20,661 | [
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] | 229 | 313 | Written, produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin, this is the great actor's anti-Nazi propaganda piece, skewering Adolf Hitler.<br /><br />Chaplin plays Adenoid Hynckel, the dictator of Tomania, as well as a Jewish barber who is Hynckel's spitting image. His parody of Hitler is brilliant. Anyone who has ever seen news... | 1 |
20,667 | [
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] | 262 | 319 | This movie is the absolutely perfect way to explain what a good movie is. It is a movie both for children and parents, and it is "timeless". I saw this movie before Ocean's Eleven and must admit that the actors in OE has class in advance, but the play of Klatretøsen is much more down-to-earth and moving. Why i say Ocea... | 1 |
20,681 | [
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] | 292 | 378 | I've seen this movie twice on Transilvania International Film Festival(TIFF), the movie is in competition and I really hope that Esteban Sapir will get one of the awards (at least the best image award). <br /><br />As a silent cinema fan I'm interested in contemporary movies that quote or recreate the language of the y... | 1 |
20,690 | [
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] | 273 | 334 | Although the concept of a 32 year old woman portraying a 12 year old girl might be a stretch for today's <br /><br />sophisticated audiences,in the 1920's this was what the fans of Mary Pickford desired and expected from their favorite star. The opening scene displays Annie's tomboyish character as the apparent leader ... | 1 |
20,691 | [
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] | 302 | 361 | The Diary of Anne Frank is the second best-selling nonfiction book in the world, and for good reason. Nonetheless, sitting through this documentary about her life, which fills in some of the details where the diary left off, I thought, "Just another documentary about Anne Frank." I found it to be competent but not extr... | 1 |
20,698 | [
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] | 214 | 308 | Tomorrow Is Another Day is NOT the sequel to Gone with the Wind but a lovers-on-the-lam story, and a surprisingly alert and moving one as well. For a supposed hack relegated to B-minus features like The Devil Thumbs A Ride, Felix Feist proves adept at filling his work with unexpected, inventive details. Steve Cochran l... | 1 |
20,701 | [
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20,714 | [
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] | 305 | 374 | Once a year in America, Saturday morning would give way to new cartoons, usually sometime in America. Just about the time school started.<br /><br />I guess this was to make not having school on Saturdays that more bearable.<br /><br />One Friday night before the premiere of the new Saturday morning cartoons, a movie c... | 1 |
20,715 | [
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] | 262 | 319 | The family happiness is crumbling when, the from the beginning rich father Ward (Michael Ontkean), gets poor and cannot support the family any longer. Then the mother Faye (Jaclyn Smith) has to take the role as the breadwinner in the family and starts to work in order to support the family and at the same time, periodi... | 1 |
20,718 | [
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] | 210 | 315 | This is certainly a good film, beautifully photographed and evocatively acted. Yet one should certainly criticize it, and Mizoguchi, for it is not without flaws and weaknesses. Mizoguchi really cared for women, and wanted to make statements on man's lack of sympathy and total cruelty, yet he sometimes gets ahead of him... | 1 |
20,748 | [
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] | 268 | 339 | In the early 19th century, a young woman with a harelip falls foul of her family's ambition and the superstitions of the local community, but she meets a man who may see her differently, and just may, change Pru's life forever.<br /><br />Precious Bane is a British Broadcasting Corporation adaptation of the highly accl... | 1 |
20,756 | [
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] | 259 | 314 | I recently bought this movie on DVD at a discount store for $5. Although it is a no-frills DVD on the Geneon label (just the movie that starts playing immediately - no menu, no special features) the picture and sound quality were EXCELLENT. The movie is based on the true story of one of the biggest bank robberies in hi... | 1 |
20,762 | [
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] | 315 | 397 | When Pinky, a qualified electrician, is released from prison, his parole officer has found him a job working at a big city bank. When some of the crime underworld from his past learn of his position they plan to exploit it and rob the bank. Pinky is at first horrified because he really wants to go straight, but when a ... | 1 |
20,783 | [
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