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Kia is a succubus whose prey is men already given to sin and loose living, whom she leads to their doom. The work has grown dull for her: such men are headed for Hell regardless and offer no challenge, so she decides instead to pit her wits and allure against a truly virtuous man. Ignoring the warnings of her sister Amael, she chooses Marc, who once confronted death bravely. After their night together, Marc's goodness remains unshaken, while Kia herself is left undone by love. Furious, she and Amael summon an incubus to strike at Marc, and the creature makes its first target of his sister, Arndis. Which side will prevail in the contest for these souls?

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Disc 8 contains The Iron Buddha (1970), plus audio commentary by James Mudge and newly translated optional English subtitles. When a notorious and odious villain kills his master and entire clan, the stalwart warrior known as The Iron Buddha sets out on an unquenchable quest for revenge. This engrossing film features fight choreography from the legendary Sammo Hung, who also appears in a small role.

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Disc 9 contains The Jade Faced Assassin (1971), plus 'Facing the Fury', a featurette with Chinese history academic Dr. Lars Laamann on the period provocations of the film, audio commentary by cult film expert Ian Jane, and newly translated optional English subtitles. Wounded in a mishap, the swordsman Zhang Zhen is rescued by the Eldest Sister of the Changchun Sect, who quietly harbors feelings for him. Zhang, however, gives his heart to the maid Yuenu, and the two become parents of twins. When a band of wicked martial artists later murders the couple, the Eldest Sister — bitter that Zhang spurned her — schemes to one day turn his children against each other in revenge. Zhang's friend Lian Lanyan rescues the baby girl, Xiaolu'er, but the boy, Hua Yuchun, is carried off by the Eldest Sister. Lian then crosses paths with the Ten Villains, who overpower him and leave him unconscious. The Villains take Xiaolu'er for themselves; rather than hurt her, they mean to raise her into the most formidable villain of all. Eighteen years on, chance brings the twins face to face.

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Richard Pryor, among the most celebrated comics who ever lived, lays himself bare in this unsparing yet very funny self-portrait. In the wake of a near-fatal incident — he caught fire while high on cocaine — Pryor worked through his inner turmoil by writing, producing, directing, and headlining this layered biographical drama set partly behind the scenes of show business. It follows a young performer's climb to fame, from a boyhood spent in a brothel through the wild experiences that formed his daring comic voice, to the addictions that nearly cost him everything. Much like his stand-up, the film turns Pryor inside out, exposing the deep vulnerability at the heart of his gift.

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Richard Pryor, among the most celebrated comics who ever lived, lays himself bare in this unsparing yet very funny self-portrait. In the wake of a near-fatal incident — he caught fire while high on cocaine — Pryor worked through his inner turmoil by writing, producing, directing, and headlining this layered biographical drama set partly behind the scenes of show business. It follows a young performer's climb to fame, from a boyhood spent in a brothel through the wild experiences that formed his daring comic voice, to the addictions that nearly cost him everything. Much like his stand-up, the film turns Pryor inside out, exposing the deep vulnerability at the heart of his gift.

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Disc 10 contains Mission Impossible (1971), plus 'Impossibly Awesome', an interview with director Joseph Kuo, audio commentaries by James Mudge and Brian Bankston, and newly translated optional English subtitles. The daughter of a slain, respected hero embarks on a desperate, heroic odyssey to take the highly coveted Golden Dragon Sword, a weapon of immense spiritual power, back to the Capitol to keep it safe from those who would abuse its might.

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Arriving after the French New Wave, the sexual revolution, and the unrest of May 1968, Jean Eustache's masterpiece has come to be regarded with something close to reverence. Long difficult to see, his films — from documentaries about the village where he grew up to narrative works drawn closely from his own life — established a candid, unflinching form of realism, and this film is its fullest expression. Its story centers on Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud), a would-be Parisian intellectual sharing a home with his volatile girlfriend, Marie (Bernadette Lafont), who drifts into an affair with the free-spirited Veronika (Françoise Lebrun); the three become entangled in a painful love triangle. Using boldly extended takes and dialogue that feels confessed rather than performed, Eustache portrays a generation coming to terms with the letdown of the 1970s, reaching an intimacy that is almost uncomfortably close.

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Arriving after the French New Wave, the sexual revolution, and the unrest of May 1968, Jean Eustache's masterpiece has come to be regarded with something close to reverence. Long difficult to see, his films — from documentaries about the village where he grew up to narrative works drawn closely from his own life — established a candid, unflinching form of realism, and this film is its fullest expression. Its story centers on Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud), a would-be Parisian intellectual sharing a home with his volatile girlfriend, Marie (Bernadette Lafont), who drifts into an affair with the free-spirited Veronika (Françoise Lebrun); the three become entangled in a painful love triangle. Using boldly extended takes and dialogue that feels confessed rather than performed, Eustache portrays a generation coming to terms with the letdown of the 1970s, reaching an intimacy that is almost uncomfortably close.

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One hundred years after Alfred Hitchcock made his first film, his standing as one of cinema's most influential directors is undiminished. But how well do his films and his legacy withstand the scrutiny of the present day? That is the question posed by Mark Cousins, the award-winning director of The Story of Film: An Odyssey, The Eyes of Orson Welles, and The Storms of Jeremy Thomas, who approaches it in an audacious new way — by letting Hitchcock speak for himself. As Hitchcock looks back over his own pictures, the film travels across his enormous career, from the striking silents through the celebrated works of the 1950s and 60s to his final films, in a manner both playful and illuminating.

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Quantum physicist Zoya Lowe is trapped reliving the same week, a black hole growing in her chest and just seven days left to live. Unknown to her doctors and family, she has already been through this week countless times. Then she crosses paths with Paula, a gifted student, and the two join forces in a bid to save Zoya's life — and crack the secret of time travel.

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The Blu-ray disc contains Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), plus commentary by the hosts of the Spaghetti Western Podcast, 'A Look Back with Leonard Maltin', commentary with contributions from John Carpenter, John Milius, Alex Cox, Sir Christopher Frayling, Dr. Sheldon Hall and cast & crew, the featurettes 'An Opera of Violence', 'The Wages of Sin', 'Something to Do with Death' and 'Railroad: Revolutionizing the West', 'Locations Then & Now' and production galleries, and the theatrical trailer. In the last days of the Old West, a fight over water in a parched desert town draws three hardened gunmen into a sweeping showdown driven by greed, honor and revenge.

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The 4K UHD disc contains Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), presented in 4K Ultra HD with Dolby Vision and HDR10. In the last days of the Old West, a fight over water in a parched desert town draws three hardened gunmen into a sweeping showdown driven by greed, honor and revenge.

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Disc 2 contains Rape of the Sword (1967), plus audio commentary by James Mudge, an image gallery, and newly translated optional English subtitles. After a legendary green-bladed sword is stolen, two women are sent to recover it, and their search brings them together with a master swordsman hunting the same weapon. The film is thought to be an unofficial, loose adaptation of the 1941 novel that later inspired the 2000 hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

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Disc 1 contains The Silent Swordsman (1967), plus 'Silence is Golden', an appreciation by Hong Kong film critic Andrew Heskins, audio commentary by Ian Jane, and newly translated optional English subtitles. In Song Dynasty China, a young martial arts student sets out to find his lost brother. Drawn into a secretive society, he ends up confronting an evil warlord while two beautiful sisters vie for his heart.

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Disc 11 contains Six Assassins (1971), plus 'A Team Effort', a featurette with Leon Hunt, audio commentary by James Mudge, an image gallery, and newly translated optional English subtitles. A brutal feudal lord governs his territory through fear and the sword. To end his reign of terror, a heroic swordsman gathers a group of warriors for one final attempt to bring the tyrant down.

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After a failed experiment to halt global warming triggers a new ice age that wipes out most life on Earth, the last human survivors live aboard Snowpiercer, a vast train circling the globe on a perpetual-motion engine. A rigid class system imprisons the poorest passengers in the tail while the privileged indulge at the front — and a revolution is brewing.

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After a failed experiment to halt global warming triggers a new ice age that wipes out most life on Earth, the last human survivors live aboard Snowpiercer, a vast train circling the globe on a perpetual-motion engine. A rigid class system imprisons the poorest passengers in the tail while the privileged indulge at the front — and a revolution is brewing.

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This is only for the bonus disc and contains the special features for this release: the documentary "Transperceneige: From the Blank Page to the Black Screen", "The Birth of Snowpiercer", "The Characters", an animated prologue, "Chris Evans & Tilda Swinton on Snowpiercer", "The Train Brought to Life: Behind the Scenes of a Special Screening", and concept art galleries. It does not include the feature film, which is listed separately.

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Joan Howell (Sandra Dee), a young maid-for-hire, starts dating wealthy businessman Tom Milford (Bobby Darin). Ashamed of her tiny apartment, she receives him at a swanky apartment she cleans — not knowing it is actually his. Tom plays along with the deception until Joan learns the truth and plots a sweet revenge in this romantic comedy of mistaken identity.

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Disc 5 contains Twelve Deadly Coins (1969), plus audio commentaries by James Mudge and Brian Bankston and newly translated optional English subtitles. An ambush on a gold escort, the theft of the fortune they were guarding, and the mission to win it back all trace back to a feud between two brothers that began twenty years earlier — and to a seemingly unbeatable fighting technique called the 'Twelve Deadly Coins.'

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Disc 4 contains Twin Blades of Doom (1969), plus audio commentary by James Mudge, a Celestial trailer, and newly translated optional English subtitles. Determined to avenge his parents' murder, a young man sets out to track down the gang behind it, but is ambushed and badly beaten. Rescued by a family of street performers, he resumes his quest for vengeance — now also fighting to defend his newfound friends when the gang attacks their village.

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Disc 6 contains Vengeance Is a Golden Blade (1969), with audio commentaries by James Mudge and film historian Brian Bankston, newly translated optional English subtitles, and the Celestial trailer. Betrayed by his own wife, a swordsman is ambushed by the ruthless Long Brothers, who seize his prized Golden Dragon blade and leave him a shattered man. Years afterward, his daughter sets out to settle the score and win back the family sword. Meng-Hua Ho (The Mighty Peking Man, The Flying Guillotine) directs this rousing story of revenge.

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In the near future, a virus has transformed almost all of Humanity into bloodthirsty Infected. Among the survivors, Marko, seven years old, is fiercely protected by his father, a seemingly cruel man who hides a heavy secret. Because the young boy is not a child like the others: he carries within him a unique gift. While the Infected multiply, Marko's survival represents the last chance to save the human species from extinction...

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All 14 episodes from the second series of the relaunched sci-fi adventure drama, starring David Tennant as the latest incarnation of the legendary Time Lord. In this series, the tenth Doctor takes companion Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) to New Earth and struggles to overcome the effects of regeneration. In the opening Christmas episode London is deluged by Santa Claus impersonators and Christmas trees intent on malice. Mankind is threatened by a planetary invasion and there's only the Prime Minister to battle it out. The episodes are: 'The Christmas Invasion', 'New Earth', 'Tooth and Claw', 'School Reunion', 'The Girl in the Fireplace', 'Rise of the Cybermen', 'The Age of Steel', 'The Idiot's Lantern', 'The Impossible Planet', 'The Satan Pit', 'Love and Monsters', 'Fear Her', 'Army of Ghosts' and 'Doomsday'.

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Traveling with the elusive jazz vocalist and trumpeter Chet Baker, Bruce Weber weaves together the life story of a jazz great. The film uses excerpts from Italian B movies, rare performance footage, and candid interviews with Baker, musicians, friends, battling ex-wives, and his children in what turned out to be the last year of his life. Winner of the 1989 Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award, Let's Get Lost has become an important document in the career of the filmmaker on the life of a jazz legend. Since its release in 1989 Let's Get Lost has introduced a whole new generation of jazz enthusiasts to the timeless talent of the late Chet Baker.

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Disc 2 (Blu-ray) contains Sanctum (2011), plus audio commentaries, deleted scenes, and the documentaries Sanctum: The Real Story and Nullarbor Dreaming. Master diver Frank McGuire has explored the South Pacific's deep underground Esa-ala Caves for months. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood during a hurricane, Frank's team—including his 17-year-old son Josh and financier Carl Hurley—are forced to radically alter plans. With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it out. The unavoidable question: Can they survive?

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Master diver Frank McGuire has spent months exploring the Esa'ala cave system, a vast network of deep underground caverns in the South Pacific. When a flash flood triggered by a hurricane cuts off the team's exit, Frank, his 17-year-old son Josh, financier Carl Hurley and the rest of the crew are forced to find another way out. With supplies running low, they must pick their way through an underwater labyrinth, facing the question of whether any of them will survive.

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Disc contains Sanjuro (1962) in 4K UHD, plus audio commentary by Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince. Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Akira Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed Sanjuro. In this sly companion piece to Yojimbo, jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a 'proper' samurai on its ear. Less brazen in tone than its predecessor but equally entertaining, this classic character's return is a masterpiece in its own right.

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At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television – and culture – forever. Directed by Jason Reitman and written by Gil Kenan & Reitman, Saturday Night is based on the true story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live. Full of humor, chaos, and the magic of a revolution that almost wasn't, we count down the minutes in real time until we hear those famous words…

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Nothing wrong with a man taking pleasure in his work. I won't deny my own personal desire to turn each sin against the sinner." Gluttony, greed, sloth, envy, wrath, pride, lust — everyone has a sin. For detectives William Somerset and David Mills they live among these sins, every day, a crumbling city of crime all around them. But nothing can prepare the partners for the killings they are about to experience, all of which begins when they find a morbidly obese man who has died from the forced ingestion of spaghetti. What starts as one bizarre crime turns into a case of serial murders as a predator named John Doe begins to execute victims by paying homage to the "deadly sin" they represent. Directed by David Fincher and starring Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kevin Spacey, Seven is hailed by critics as, "An intensely claustrophobic, gut-wrenching thriller."

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At the height of World War II, the 918th Bomb Group suffers devastating losses and Brigadier General Frank Savage (Gregory Peck) is sent to take command. Because of his strong discipline his men resent him, and although Savage remains impersonal under heavy attack and unrelenting fire fights, he becomes personally involved in their well-being — a dangerous position for any leader, especially in the middle of a war.

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Disc 1 (4K UHD) contains Yojimbo (1961) — 4K digital restoration with uncompressed monaural soundtrack and optional DTS-HD Master Audio Perspecta 3.0 soundtrack. The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa's visually stunning and darkly comic Yojimbo. To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage. Remade twice, by Sergio Leone and Walter Hill, this exhilarating genre-twister remains one of the most influential and entertaining films of all time.

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Wealthy businessman Sam Treadwell's android wife — a Cherry 2000 model — shorts out, so he hires the tough, freewheeling tracker E. Johnson to hunt down an exact replacement for her.

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This is only for the bonus disc and contains the special features from Disc 2 of Kino Lorber's two-disc Special Edition: “Tales from Zone 7”, a feature-length oral-history documentary on the making of Cherry 2000 (150 min.); “The Zen of Julie Weiss”, a filmed interview with costume designer Julie Weiss in discussion with director Steve De Jarnatt (50 min.); the Cherry 2000 storyboards (Parts 1 & 2); “Red Bennies Burlesque”, a tribute to Cherry 2000; “The Making of Cherry 2000”, an archival on-location and behind-the-scenes featurette; a 2015 interview with actor Tim Thomerson; and deleted and expanded scenes with a gag reel (60 min.).

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John Wayne leads a team of highly skilled professional game hunters in Africa who capture ferocious big game alive—with strong ropes and cameras rather than bullets—for zoos and circuses, in work that pits man against beast. Directed by Howard Hawks, “Hatari”—Swahili for “danger”—blends action, adventure, romance and broad comedy.

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Crooked LAPD officer Dennis Peck can launder money, run a scam and fix a bad rap—he can even, for the right price, arrange a murder. When Internal Affairs investigator Raymond Avilla sets out to bring him to justice, the slick, cold-blooded Peck fights back, intent on taking Avilla's career, his marriage and even his sanity down with him.

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Crooked LAPD officer Dennis Peck can launder money, run a scam and fix a bad rap—he can even, for the right price, arrange a murder. When Internal Affairs investigator Raymond Avilla sets out to bring him to justice, the slick, cold-blooded Peck fights back, intent on taking Avilla's career, his marriage and even his sanity down with him.

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In 1950s Brooklyn, Stanley, Butchey, Chico and Wimpy—four leather-jacketed friends in a “gang” of cool rebels—just want to have fun, but despite their tough appearance, reality, a.k.a. adulthood, keeps rearing its ugly head.

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A young man meets and falls in love with a young woman at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, in the neighborhood known as Miracle Mile. After he misses their date, a misdialed phone call tips him off that the United States is about to start a nuclear war with the Soviet Union, and he frantically searches for her through the night so they can escape Los Angeles together.

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This is only for the bonus disc and contains the special features from Disc 2 of Kino Lorber's two-disc Special Edition: the short films “Tarzana” (1978) and “Eat the Sun”; “Grace for Grace”, audio readings of two award-winning stories by Steve De Jarnatt (83 min.); “Johnie's Supporting Cast Reunion” (2015 featurette, 14 min.) and “Johnie's Supporting Cast Reunion – Part 2” (25 min.); “Harry and Julie”, a 2015 interview with stars Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham (12 min.); “Scoring Miracle Mile”, an interview with composer Paul Haslinger (16 min.); “Excavations From the Editing Room Tar Pits”, deleted scenes, outtakes and bloopers (11 min.); “Diamond in the Rough – Refining the Diner Scene”, with script text, storyboards, stills, clips and VHS rehearsal footage; “Paul Chadwick Storyboards”, storyboards in sequence (40 min.); “The Extra Extras”, several small pieces and short films relating to the making of the film and De Jarnatt's early career; a tribute to the crew, cast and staff in a photo montage (16 min.); and the alternate “Diamond” ending (4 min.).

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Emmy winner Tony Shalhoub returns as Adrian Monk, the brilliant sleuth with obsessive-compulsive disorder who fought crime — and grime — on the streets of San Francisco for eight quirky seasons of TV. More than a decade later, the "defective detective" is back to solve one last, very personal case involving his stepdaughter Molly, a journalist preparing for her wedding. Traylor Howard, Jason Gray-Stanford, Ted Levine and Hector Elizondo reprise their roles as Natalie Teeger, Randy Disher, Leland Stottlemeyer and Dr. Neven Bell in a feature-length movie that recaptures the original show's irreverent spirit, with clever surprises for the germaphobic 2020s.

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Japanese restaurateur Akira Saito has left a secret life as a ninja behind and moved his wife and two young sons from Japan to the United States to chase the American dream. Their fresh start collapses when they fall foul of a gang of vicious jewel thieves, and the violence that follows forces Akira to take up his sword again and deliver a ninja's revenge in an action-packed showdown.

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During a heavyweight championship fight in Atlantic City, flamboyant police detective Rick Santoro witnesses the assassination of a ringside government official, and 14,000 fans become 14,000 suspects. What the eyewitnesses saw, what the casino's spycam network reveals and what a mysterious woman in white knows all lead Santoro to a shattering truth he does not want to believe.

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Dutch trader Laurent Van Horn is wrongly imprisoned by the Spanish governor of Cartagena and sentenced to hang for trespassing. He breaks out with other unjustly jailed prisoners and resurfaces as the rakish pirate Barracuda, scourge of the Spanish Main, rescuing the fair Francesca from marriage to the governor and avenging the wrongs done to him and his crew.

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The story of Tim Ballard, a former U.S. government agent who quits his job to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers.

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Ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards searches for his niece, captured by the Comanches who massacred his family. Refusing to surrender to hunger, thirst, the elements or loneliness, he encounters something unexpected in his five-year search: his own humanity.

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Ex-Confederate soldier Ethan Edwards searches for his niece, captured by the Comanches who massacred his family. Refusing to surrender to hunger, thirst, the elements or loneliness, he encounters something unexpected in his five-year search: his own humanity.

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Set in a world of corruption and deceit, The Apprentice examines Donald Trump's efforts to build his real estate business in New York in the 1970s and 1980s.

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A feisty widow is determined to make a better life for herself and her young son in Arapaho, Wyoming: strong-willed and self-sufficient, Josie decides to raise sheep in the middle of cattle country. Defying tradition, she buys her herds, renovates a dilapidated ranch and challenges the resistance of the enraged cattlemen — and as fights, gunfire and an all-out riot erupt, she organizes the ladies of Arapaho to come to her aid, even against their own cattle-owning husbands.

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In 1943, the crew of the U.S.S. Tiger Shark, an American submarine in the Atlantic, rescues three survivors of a British hospital ship sunk by a German attack. One of the survivors, a nurse, raises tensions among the all-male crew from the moment she steps aboard. The commanding officer does his best to keep the unruly crew in line, but after the sub suffers damage from a barrage of Nazi depth charges, a series of increasingly spooky occurrences begins to rattle everybody aboard.