Francis Ford Coppola
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The second installment of writer/director Godfrey Reggio's apocalyptic "qatsi" trilogy . Combining stunning cinematography with the exquisite music of award-winning composer Philip Glass. Bold, haunting and epic in scale, this extraordinary film calls into question everything we think we know about contemporary society.
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In the early 1900s, the young Vito flees Sicily for America after the local Mafia kills his family. Vito struggles to make a living, legally or illegally, for his wife and growing brood in Little Italy. There he kills the local Black Hand Fanucci after he demands his customary cut of the tyro's business. With Fanucci gone, Vito's stature grows. The family legacy is upended by Michael's business expansion in the 1950s. Now based in Lake Tahoe, Michael...
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Two decades have passed and crime kingpin Michael Corleone has nearly succeeded in keeping his promise that his family would one day be legit. A philanthropist devoted to public service, Michael is to receive a special award from the Pope for his good works. Determined to buy redemption, Michael and his lawyer B.J. are working on a complicated but legal deal to bail the Vatican out of looming financial troubles. However, trouble looms in the form...
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Celebrates Preston Tucker as the ultimate believer in the American dream. Tucker, builder of the 1948 Tucker Torpedo car, is a dynamic designer and an enthusiastic showman who envision the car of the future. Against mighty odds he manages to build a fleet of them, only to have his factory shut down by Detroit's other three automobile manufacturers.
11) The Outsiders
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Based on S.E. Hinton's book about teenage gangs in 1966 Tulsa, OK. The "Soc's" [Socials] and the "Greasers," and the struggle of growing up as an outsider.
12) The Godfather
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Revenge, envy, and parent-child conflict mix with the rituals of Italian mob life in America. Includes fully restored film and the original and provocative Director's commentary.
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Rudy is a young lawyer fresh out of college who takes the case of his life. He is the only hope of an elderly couple whose insurance company will not pay for an operation that could save their son's life. Rudy takes on this client in his first case after the head of his law office has to hide because he's wanted by the feds. He must overcome many obstacles inside and outside the courtroom as he attempts to find out what it means to be a lawyer and...
14) The Cotton Club
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In 1928 New York, spirits are high and jazz, dancing and gangsters rule supreme. Harlem's Cotton Club is in the center of it all, where rich upper-eastsiders mix with dressed-up mobsters. On stage is gifted coronet player Dixie Dwyer, who dreams of the big time, and tap sensation Sandman Williams who can't touch his girl, the lovely singer Lila Rose Oliver, because of strict club rules. As tension rises, so do tempers, and the nightclub becomes a...
15) Patton
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Story of General Patton in World War II whose military brilliance was balanced by his inability to deal with the social and political aspects of war, causing him difficulties in his dealings with the War Department.
17) Apocalypse now
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Francis Ford Coppola's stunning vision of man's heart of darkness revealed through the peculiar madness of the Vietnam War.
19) Apocalypse now
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A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.