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1) Clifford
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A mischievous and obnoxious 10-year-old boy makes life pure hell for his bachelor uncle while his parents are in Hawaii.
2) Down Terrace
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Father and son Bill and Karl have just been released from jail free and clear, but all is not well at Down Terrace. Patriarchs of a small crime family, their business is plagued with infighting. Karl has had more than he can take of his old man's philosophizing and preaching, and Bill thinks Karl's dedication to the family is seriously compromised when he takes up with an estranged girlfriend who claims to be carrying his baby.
3) Ghost World
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Based on the well-known comic, GHOST WORLD tells the story of neo-cool Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) who, faced with graduation from high school take a hard look at the world they wryly observe and decide what they really want. When Enid takes an interest in the offbeat Seymour (Steve Buscemi) and Rebecca focuses her attention on their mutual romantic fixation Josh (Brad Renfro), the girls friendship is forever changed.
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Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of 'old money' privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like Young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there -- and sets about finding it.
5) Bad Actress
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Alyssa Rampart-Pillage is a washed up TV queen whose career has been reduced to starring in commercials for her husband Bernie's appliance empire. When their tree-hugging daughter Topanga dies in a tragic golf ball incident, Bernie goes off the spiritual deep end and tries to give away their fortune. But what starts off as tragedy quickly turns into career re-invention for Alyssa. And as the body count rises, so does her star.
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In this wry German dark comedy, Walter is a professional hitman who has just botched a job. Forced to leave the city, he takes up an offer from eccentric crime boss Berger to protect his house (and young, pretty, free-spirited wife Sybille) in a remote region of the Carpathian Mountains. At Walter's side is Micky, his chatty, thrill-seeking old friend. After a freak accident, what seemed to be a nice, easy holiday job for the hapless pair soon becomes...
7) Catch-22
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Mike Nichols superbly directed this cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller’s scathing black comedy, a tale of a small group of flyers in the Mediterranean in 1944. There are winners and losers, opportunists and survivors. Separately and together they are nervous, frightened, often profane and sometimes pathetic. Almost all are a little crazy. Catch-22 is an anti-war satire of epic proportions.
8) Sandbar
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A haunted ex-Marine spends one crazy day with his estranged son.
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Lance Clayton once dreamed of a career as a rich and famous writer. He has only managed to be a single dad and high school poetry teacher. His son is a jerk who won't give him the time of day, and his girlfriend won't acknowledge publicly that they are dating. A freak accident provides Lance his worst tragedy, and greatest opportunity at fame, fortune, and popularity. But can he live with the knowledge of how he got there?
12) Amour Fou
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Based on the double suicide of a German romantic poet and his muse, this gorgeous period piece is a darkly humorous postmodern take on love, life, and death.
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Suspense-master Willam Golman (Marathon Man) wrote the novel from which this bizarre black comedy was adapted. It's the extraordinary account of a plumber who kills a dowdy matron, a priest who kills a dowdy matron, and a policeman who kills a dowdy matron. Actually they're all the same man, a psychotic master of disguise brilliantly played by versatile Rod Steiger. The killer also gets his kicks phoning in clues to detective George Segal. All of...
14) Between Us
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Two couples reunite over two incendiary evenings where anything can happen in this darkly comedic drama of best friends, marriage, love, disappointment and dreams.
15) Arthur Newman
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Wallace stages his own death and buys himself a new identity as Arthur Newman. However, Arthur's road trip towards a new life is interrupted by the arrival of the beautiful but fragile Mike, who is also trying to leave her past behind. Drawn to one another, these two damaged souls begin to connect as they break into empty homes and take on the identities of the absent owners.
16) Cheap Thrills
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A recently fired father facing eviction agrees to take on an escalating series of insane challenges in exchange for cash payments from a rich couple with a twisted sense of humor.
17) Shock Value
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Miles Fowler makes horror movies. After witnessing a real life murder, he blackmails the killer to star in his next film, but when cameras roll, "creative differences" put everyone's life in turnaround.
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Awakening from a near fatal overdose, Chris embraces a second chance at life. Required to enroll into a 12-Step Program, and mandated to state psychiatrist appointments, he is forced to revisit his chaotic past; a history that revolves around his friend Andy and her autistic brother Frankie. Follow Chris as his past and present converge revealing a deranged cocktail of addiction, mental disorder and hope. Will Chris surrender to the monsters that...
19) Alice
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When Alice follows the White Rabbit into Wonderland, so begins this dream expedition into the astonishing landscape of childhood, through many dangerous adventures, and ultimately to Alice's trial before the King and Queen of Hearts. Czech animator Jan Svankmajer has created a masterpiece of cinema, a strikingly original interpretation of Lewis Carroll's classic tale. Svankmajer's Alice remains true to the absurdity of Carroll's original, but bears...
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