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Half nelson

A high school teacher with a drug habit finds a friendship in an unlikely source - one of his troubled students. Will their relationship help them or harm them?.
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Inside man

NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into an already volatile situation.
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Mi vida loca

Sad Girl and Mousie, once best friends, become enemies after they are both impregnated by Ernesto, a local drug dealer in Echo Park, Los Angeles, but when Ernesto is murdered by a rival gang leader, the balance of power changes, and the girls must learn to make the best choices for themselves.
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Gladiator

A Roman general is betrayed and his family brutally murdered by a corrupt prince, so he comes to Rome as a gladiator in order to seek revenge.
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Titanic

Uses newsreels, diaries, and interviews with survivors to chronicle the history of "Titanic" and its fateful maiden voyage; features the deep-sea expedition to unearth the ship's secrets; and explores the pop culture phenomenon the tragedy has become.
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Purgatory

Wild Bill Hickock, Doc Holiday, Jesse James, Billy the Kid and more deceased greats of the untamed West get a last chance to undo their violent pasts in a mysterious town that's West of the Pecos and south of Eternity.
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Boycott

Montgomery, Alabama, 1955
Rosa Parks is arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. The African-American community, under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., organizes a boycott of the busing system and calls national attention to segregation laws and the civil rights movement.
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A history of violence

Tom Stall becomes a local hero after killing two criminals intent on robbing his diner in small-town Indiana and leaving no witnesses, but Tom's past is called into question when the media hype attracts three mobsters who insist they have an old score to settle with the quiet family man.
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The petrified forest

A fugitive killer (Bogart) holds disillusioned writer Alan Squier (Howard),waitress and would-be artist Gabby Maple (Davis), and a handful of others hostage in an Arizona diner.
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Little Caesar

A small-time Chicago hoodlum rises to criminal fame and power.
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