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Hamlet

William Shakespeare's tragedy in which a Danish prince seeks vengeance for his father's murder after being visited by his ghost.

Blazing saddles

A spoof of every cliche? in the western film genre, telling the story of an African American sheriff who is sent to clean up a frontier town, with unpredictable results.

The godfather

"Don" Vito Corleone is the head of a New York mafia 'family.' His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father's business. Not given a choice, the business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but gives in to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants to start selling drugs in New York, and needs the Don's influence to further his plan. A clash of old world values and the new ways will exact a terrible price, especially from Michael.

Lawrence of Arabia

Cinematic account of the life of T.E. Lawrence, best known as Lawrence of Arabia.

The Maltese falcon

Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed while tailing a man. The woman who asked his partner to follow the man turns out to be someone who is not what she says she is, and is really involved in something to do with the 'Maltese Falcon', a gold-encrusted life-sized statue of a falcon, the only one of its kind.

Dracula

A vampire terrorizes the countryside in his search for human blood.

Meet the parents

Male nurse Greg Focker wants to pop the question to his girlfried Pam Byrnes. But she's daddy's little girl, and daddy, has some old-fashioned ideas about manners and manhood. So Pam and Greg make a pilgrimage to the Byrnes' homestead on Long Island. Greg gets off the wrong foot with Mr. Byrnes and never recovers. Little white lies mushroom into ghastly whoppers. Greg finds out that Mr. Byrnes was in the CIA for 34 years. And so the weekend goes from bad to worse to mortifying.

Macbeth

Presents a full cast performance of Shakespeare's "Macbeth, " the story of a man who kills the King of Scotland in order to claim the throne for himself.

There's no such thing as a Chanukah bush, Sandy Goldstein

Robin wants a Jewish Christmas tree like her classmate, but her grandfather teaches her to honor cultural differences while taking pride in one's own.

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