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Blade Runner(1982)   DVD 15Trailer(s) Available
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4 Stars
Science Fiction > General
Ridley Scott
Harrison Ford;  Rutger Hauer;  Edward James Olmos;
Four illegal humanoids land in 21st Century Los Angeles where a Blade Runner is assigned the task of finding and killing them. This director's cut is ...

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Vertigo(1958)   DVD PG
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Thriller > General
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart;  Kim Novak;  Barbara Bel Geddes;
Bizarre psychological drama about a detective who is led through a complicated series of frauds. He falls in love with the woman he is assigned to fol...

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Jaws - 30th Anniversary Special Edition(1975)   DVD 12 This title is part of a series, if you have other titles from this series in your list they will be sent in order.
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Thriller > General
Steven Spielberg
Roy Scheider;  Robert Shaw;  Richard Dreyfuss;
Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw star in Steven Spielberg's classic thriller about an enormous, man-eating shark that terrorizes a quiet...

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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope(1977)   DVD U This title is part of a series, if you have other titles from this series in your list they will be sent in order.
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Science Fiction > General
George Lucas
Mark Hamill;  Harrison Ford;  Carrie Fisher;
The Jedi Knights have been exterminated and the Empire rules the galaxy with an iron fist. Please click on the title for more information.

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Notorious(2009)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Drama > General
George Tillman Jr
Jamal Woolard;  Angela Bassett;  Derek Luke;
This biopic from executive producer Sean 'Diddy' Combs explores the life and death of East Coast rapper Notorious B.I.G. Newcomer Jamal Woolard stars ...

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Schindler's List(1993)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Drama > Historical
Steven Spielberg
Liam Neeson;  Ralph Fiennes;  Caroline Goodall;
The war finds businessman Oskar Schindler joining the Nazi party to make a profit. His dedication to the cause and his generous bribes see him rewarde...

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Gone With The Wind(1939)   DVD PG
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Drama > Period
Sam Wood
Clark Gable;  Vivien Leigh;  Leslie Howard;
Absorbing film version of Margaret Mitchell's Pullitzer Prize-winning novel about life in America's Deep South during the Civil War. Winner of ten Aca...

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Rear Window(1954)   DVD PG
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Thriller > General
Alfred Hitchcock
Grace Kelly;  Wendell Corey;  Thelma Ritter;
This 1954 Alfred Hitchcock classic features Jimmy Stewart as ‘everyman’ newspaper photographer L.B. Jeffries; who has been injured while covering a ra...

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Third Man, The(1949)   DVD PG
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Drama > General
Carol Reed
Orson Welles;  Joseph Cotten;  Trevor Howard;
A writer of Westerns seeks to unravel the mystery of a friend's death in post-war Vienna.

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North By Northwest(1959)   DVD PG
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Thriller > General
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant;  James Mason;  Eva Marie Saint;
Hitchcock's first thriller for MGM in which a businessman is mistaken for a spy. He is pursued by enemy agents because he knows too much. Includes the...

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Godfather Part II, The(1974)   DVD 18 This title is part of a series, if you have other titles from this series in your list they will be sent in order.
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4 Stars
Drama > General
Francis Ford Coppola
Marlon Brando;  James Caan;  Richard Castellano;
'The Godfather' is a Chilling portrait of a Sicilian family's rise and near fall from power in America, and the passage of rites from father to son. B...

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Bonnie And Clyde   DVD 18
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4 Stars
Action/Adventure > General
Arthur Penn
Warren Beatty;  Faye Dunaway;  Gene Hackman;
The true story of one of America's most feared bank robbers.

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Hamlet(1990)   DVD PG
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3 Stars
Drama > General
Franco Zeffirelli
Mel Gibson;  Glenn Close;  Alan Bates;
Acclaimed director Franco Zeffirelli teamed with Mel Gibson for this energetic, earthy adaptation of the classic Shakespeare tragedy. From study abroa...

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Doctor Strangelove(1964)   DVD PG
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Comedy > General
Stanley Kubrick
George C Scott;  Peter Sellers;  Sterling Hayden;
Crazy American General, Jack D. Ripper, unleashes a nuclear strike force against Russia because he is convinced that they are tampering with his natio...

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Judy Garland - In The Good Old Summertime   DVD U
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4 Stars
Music/Performing Arts > Musicals & Music Films
Judy Garland; 
In The Good Old Summertime - a tale of squabbling music shop clerks who don't know they're romantic pen pals - shares a celebrated movie lineage that ...

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Midnight Cowboy(1969)   DVD 18
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4 Stars
Drama > General
John Schlesinger
Jon Voight;  Dustin Hoffman;  Sylvia Miles;
The story of a young Texas hustler who arrives in New York hoping to make a living as a stud for rich women and is befriended by a sick down-and-out. ...

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Steel Magnolias(1989)   DVD PG
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4 Stars
Drama > General
Herbert Ross
Julia Roberts;  Sally Field;  Dolly Parton;
As different as these women's personalities are, there is nothing they can hide from one another. Together they face their greatest fears and highest ...

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Phantom Of The Opera, The(2004)   DVD 12
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4 Stars
Music/Performing Arts > Musicals & Music Films
Joel Schumacher
Gerard Butler;  Emmy Rossum;  Patrick Wilson;
Film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical. Beneath the Paris Opera House lurks a mysterious Phantom who becomes obsessed with Chorus Singer, Ch...

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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest(1975)   DVD 18
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Drama > General
Milos Forman
Jack Nicholson;  Louise Fletcher;  William Redfield;
A rebellious and individualistic patient in a mental hospital battles against the repressive nursing regime.

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Humphrey Bogart Classics - Vol. 1 - Dark Passage(1947)   DVD 15
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4 Stars
Drama > General
Delmer Daves
Humphrey Bogart;  Ingrid Bergman;  Claude Rains;
'Dark Passage' tells of an escapee from San Quentin who was erroneously charged with the murder of his wife.

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