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(0)Maximilian Schell
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A young woman visiting her father's homeland in the Soviet Republic of Estonia, discovers he's part of the dissident anti-Soviet underground. At first repelled by the country's lack of luxuries, her compassion grows when she learns Christmas is not allowed to be celebrated, the churches are closed, and the citizens are living in fear. She soon joins forces with the rebellion's leader and becomes engulfed in the struggle with the KGB. Based on historical...
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Stephen and Bloom are brothers who have been con artists since they were kids. Stephen is the mastermind, while Bloom is the main character of Stephen's stories. As adults, they travel the world and never enlist the same people twice in their cons, except for their consistent sidekick, the mysterious and primarily silent Bang Bang, a Japanese woman who just appeared in their lives one day and happens to have a penchant for blowing things up. As Bloom...
4) Left luggage
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A young jewish philosophy student, with little knowledge of the many strict rules of the Hassidic way of life, becomes the nanny for a family that she learns to respect. Her parents are both concentration camp survivors and her father is obsessed with finding the two pieces of luggage he buried in Antwerp at the start of World War II.
5) Abraham
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Abraham leaves the pagan land of Ur for the promised land of Canaan, after being promised by God that doing so will cause his descendents to become a great and numerous tribe.
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American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.
8) Deep impact
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'Deep Impact' is the story of the world's reaction to a death sentence. As a comet approaches the earth which might not be destroyed or divertedbefore it reaches earth, each individual struggles in the face of extinction to find what most matters to him or her.
9) The chosen
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Explores the friendship between an Orthodox Hasidic Rabbi and the son of a progressive Jewish family.
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In Paris at the onset of WWII, wealthy Jewish doctor Michele marries Stanislaus, a penniless yet cunning Polish chess master. She is later hauled off to Dachau and is assumed dead after her failure to return at the war's end. But Michele is not dead after all and returns to Paris under a new identity to find Stanislaus romancing her beautiful young stepdaughter. Murderous twists and turns abound in this stylish Hitchcockian chiller.
12) Topkapi
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Sophisticated thieves attempt to steal a jewel-encrusted dagger from a museum with an impregnable security system.