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The Imitation Game
The Imitation Game Academy Award-Winner for Best Adapted Screenplay. Academy Award-nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (TV's SHERLOCK, STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS) shines as real-life war hero and pioneer of modern-day computing, Alan Turing. THE IMITATION GAME follows Turing as he leads a motley crew of scholars, linguists, chess champions, and intelligence officers in cracking the so-called unbreakable codes of Germany's World War II Enigma machine, potentially saving millions of lives by helping to shorten the war. Also...
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Duration: 113
Category: Drama
Language: English (5.1)
Good Will Hunting
Good Will Hunting A true motion picture phenomenon, this triumphant story was nominated for 9 Academy Awards -- winning Oscars for Robin Williams (Best Supporting Actor) and hot newcomers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck (Best Original Screenplay). The most brilliant mind at America's top university isn't a student ... he's the kid who cleans the floors! Will Hunting (Damon) is a headstrong, working-class genius who's failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychol...
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Duration: 126
Category: Drama
Language: English (Stereo)
Still Alice
Still Alice Alice Howland (Julianne Moore), happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease, Alice and her family find their bonds thoroughly tested. Her struggle to stay connected to who she once was is frightening, heartbreaking, and inspiring. Also starring Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth, Alec Baldwin and Hunter Parrish....
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Duration: 101
Category: Drama
Language: Eligible if purchased. Rentals are not eligible.
Dallas Buyers Club
Dallas Buyers Club Matthew McConaughey gives the performance of his career in this uplifting and powerful film inspired by true events. Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) sees his free-wheeling life overturned when he's diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. Determined to survive, Woodroof decides to take matters in his own hands by tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. After finding an unlikely ally in Rayon (Jared Leto), he establ...
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Duration: 116
Category: Drama
Language: Eligible if purchased. Rentals are not eligible.
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Kiss of the Spider Woman KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN starts within the narrow walls of a Latin American prison cell. Molina (William Hurt) is telling his new cellmate, Valentin (Raul Julia), his favorite story. Molina is a delicate homosexual imprisoned for seducing a minor; Valentin is a bearded revolutionary still bleeding from his interrogation. As they trade stories, each draws a new, surprising level of difference between the two heroes: escapism versus realism, romance versus politics, gay versus straight, hero versu...
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Duration: 120
Category: Drama
Language: English (Stereo)
A Taxi Driver
A Taxi Driver A widowed father and taxi driver takes a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising....
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Duration: 137
Category: Drama
Language: Korean (5.1)
Happy End
Happy End Sex, lies and betrayal unhinge the marriage between a successful career woman and her recently unemployed husband. Choi Min-sik (Oldboy & Lucy) stars across Jeon Do-yeon (Secret Sunshine) as the jealous, emasculated husband whose alpha wife carries a passionate love affair with her ex-lover....
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Duration: 100
Category: Drama
Language: English [CC]
Crazy Heart
Crazy Heart Jeff Bridges won an Academy Award for his role as the richly comedic, semi-tragic, romantic anti-hero, Bad Blake, in the debut feature film, Crazy Heart, from writer-director Scott Cooper. Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road, and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can't help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean (two-time Golden Globe nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal), a journalist who ...
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Duration: 111
Category: Drama
Language: Eligible if purchased. Rentals are not eligible.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables Hugh Jackman, Academy Award-winner Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway star in this critically-acclaimed adaptation of the epic musical phenomenon. Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, Les Misrables tells the story of ex-prisoner Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), hunted for decades by the ruthless policeman Javert (Russell Crowe), after he breaks parole. When Valjean agrees to care for factory worker Fantine's (Anne Hathaway) young daughter, Cosette, their lives change forever. This enthrall...
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Duration: 157
Category: Drama
Language: Eligible if purchased. Rentals are not eligible.
Footloose
Footloose Footloose jumps with spirit, dazzling dance numbers and an electrifying musical score. It portrays the timeless struggle between innocent pleasure and rigid morality, when city-boy Ren McCormick (Kevin Bacon) finds himself in an uptight Midwestern town where dancing has been banned. Ren revolts with best friend Willard (Chris Penn) and the minister's daughter (Lori Singer). A treasury of Top 10 songs-Kenny Loggins "Footloose," Shalamar "Dancing In The Sheets," Deniece Williams "Let's Hear It For...
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Duration: 107
Category: Drama
Language: English (5.1)
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Yankee Doodle Dandy James Cagney ("White Heat," "Angels With Dirty Faces") danced and sang his way to a well-deserved Academy Award for his outstanding portrayal of vaudeville composer and performer George M. Cohan in this Oscar-nominated biography. Recently selected as one of the top American films of all time by the prestigious American Film Institute and directed by Academy Award-winner Michael Curtiz ("Casablanca"), this joyous musical tribute to one of America's most popular entertainers was nominated for 8 Ac...
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Duration: 125
Category: Drama
Language: Eligible if purchased. Rentals are not eligible.
Made in Malta
Made in Malta Passion is reignited across the Mediterranean islands of Malta between an American filmmaker and his Spanish ex-lover. They may only have twenty four hours together, but the uncovered truth will force them to confront the rest of their lives....
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Duration: 80
Category: Drama
Language: English [CC]
3 Faces
3 Faces Iranian director Jafar Panahis fourth completed feature since he was officially banned from filmmaking is one of his very best....
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Duration: 100
Category: Drama
Language: Persian (5.1)
Kill Me Please
Kill Me Please When a wave of murders begins to terrorize the neighborhood, girls develop a morbid curiosity with the victims-and lines separating life, desire and death begins to break down....
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Duration: 104
Category: Drama
Language: Portuguese (Brazil) (5.1)
Oh Lucy!
Oh Lucy! From Executive Producers Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, dark comedy OH LUCY! follows Josh Hartnett (PEARL HARBOR) and Shinobu Terajima (DEADPOOL 2) on a road trip they'll never forget....
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Duration: 95
Category: Drama
Language: Japanese (5.1)
Bye Bye Germany
Bye Bye Germany BYE BYE GERMANY is a unique and comic look at the postwar period through the story of an enterprising group of Jews determined to extract reparations from their German countrymen - one well-meaning scam at a time....
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Duration: 102
Category: Drama
Language: German (5.1)
Cabaret (1972)
Cabaret (1972) Berlin, 1931. As Nazism rises in Germany, flamboyant American Sally Bowles (Liza Minnelli) sings in a decadent nightclub and falls in love with a British language teacher (Michael York)--whom she shares with a homosexual German baron. But Sally's small, carefree, tolerant and fragile cabaret world is about to be crushed under the boot of the Nazis as Berlin becomes a trap from which Sally's German friends will not escape in this ground-breaking, blockbuster film version of the Broadway musical C...
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Duration: 123
Category: Drama
Language: Eligible if purchased. Rentals are not eligible.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Goodbye, Mr. Chips Academy Award winners Robert Donat and Greer Garson star in the heartwarming story of the love between a shy teacher and his outgoing wife. Although Katherine Chipping (Garson) dies far too young, her love inspires Charles Chipping (Donat) to become an exceptional teacher and schoolmaster in this classic story of honor, manners and the joy of a live lived in the service of others....
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Duration: 114
Category: Drama
Language: Eligible if purchased. Rentals are not eligible.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969) Peter O'Toole and Petula Clark star in a musical adaptation of the classic 1939 Academy Award-winning, heartwarming film about the love between a shy teacher and his outgoing wife. Although singing star Katherine Chipping (Clark) dies far too young, her love inspires Arthur Chipping (O'Toole) to become an exceptional teacher and schoolmaster in this story of honor, manners and the joy of a live lived in the service of others....
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Duration: 154
Category: Drama
Language: Eligible if purchased. Rentals are not eligible.
Going My Way
Going My Way Winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director, the unforgettable classic Going My Way lights up the screen as it warms the heart. Best Actor winner Bing Crosby shines as Father O'Malley, a young priest new to an established but financially failing parish. When his philosophies conflict with those of curmudgeonly Father Fitzgibbon (Best Supporting Actor winner Barry Fitzgerald), the result is a timeless story of patience, compromise and just maybe understanding. Featurin...
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Duration: 126
Category: Drama
Language: Eligible if purchased. Rentals are not eligible.