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1981) Above suspicion
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"A newly married FBI agent is drawn into an illicit affair with his star informant, resulting in a scandal that endangers all his investigations."
1982) Side effects
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The sweet smell of success has always been elusive for Karly Hert. That is, until she lands a lucrative pharmaceutical sales job and meets Zach, a ruggedly handsome, down-to-earth stranger who challenges her views on life and love. Now, Karly is faced with the impossible task of juggling a blossoming romance and her newfound career success. She must decide between listening to her head and following her heart.
1983) Nurse Jackie: Season 5
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After leaving rehab early, Jackie finds sobriety and relative happiness, but that is the calm before the storm. With her marriage coming to an end, a careless accident sends Jackie to her own all Saints Hospital for emergency care. While recovering, she meets NYC policeman Frank Verelli, whose flirtatious advances may lead Jackie into uncharted territory: dating.
1984) Scrubs: Season 6
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The doctors of Sacred Heart make their rounds-- expect big bundles of laughs this year as J.D and Kim, Turk and Carla, and Dr. Cox and Jordan are all expecting little bundles of joy, and the entire crew takes an unforgettable road trip.
1986) Ex machina
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Caleb, a coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions, and motives are blurred as the relationship between Caleb, Ava, and Nathan intensifies....
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The movie introduces a dedicated, quartet of civil servants in the Dead Letter Office of the U.S. Postal System who transform themselves into an elite team of lost-mail detectives. Their determination to deliver the seemingly undeliverable takes them out of the post office into an unpredictable world where letters and packages from the past save lives, solve crimes, reunite old loves, and change futures by arriving late, but always miraculously on...
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CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
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Based on the extraordinary life of Louis Erdrich's grandfather Patrick Gourneau, who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, with lightness and gravity, and unfolds with the elegant prose, sly humor, and depth of feeling of a literary master. Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel-bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation...
1991) It's a wonderful life
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George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all and it's Christmas! As the angels discuss George, his life is shown in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence. Clarence then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn't been for all of his good deeds over the years. Will Clarence be able to convince George to return to his family and forget suicide?...
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A live-action movie based on American Girl's Samantha! Every little girl will want to share Samantha's adventures in the bustling New York City of 1904. Samantha's prim and proper Grandmary is raising her to be a young lady, but her life starts changing the day she meets Nellie O'Malley, the servant girl next door. Though they come from different worlds, they become fast friends, facing happiness and sorrow, adventure and danger together.
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In Betty Reid Soskins 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the lynching of African-Americans was a national disgrace, minstrel shows were the most popular American form of entertainment, women were looked at suspiciously by many for exercising their right to vote, and most African-Americans in the Deep South could not vote at all. From her great-grandmother, who had been enslaved...
1995) The guard
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"Two cops... one an unorthodox Irish policeman and the other a straitlaced FBI agent, must join forces to take on an international drug-smuggling gang"--Container.
1996) Train*Train : Vol. 1
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Train*Train is a hilarious story about the antics of a Japanese train company. Asahi Sarutaa has worked hard to realize his dream of working as a train attendant at Minami Kitazawa Station. The naive Asahi is unaware, though, of Minami's policy to hire only the most handsome of attendants. He finds this out quickly, when he meets his co-workers for the first time and sees that they are all sparkling beauties!
1997) The office special
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Three years after the cameras stopped rolling, the BBC returns to Wernham Hogg to catch up with the staff, past and present, of the most famous paper merchants in Slough. This two-part special finally brings the story to a close.
1998) Bolivia
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A man finds work as an illegal alien in Argentina in order to support his family in Bolivia. The film paints a portrait of struggle among the poor in the modern economy of Argentina, with a focus on the mistreatment of dispossessed workers.
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An eccentric neuroscientist and professor who has visions, Dr. Daniel Pierce (Eric McCormack) has been recruited by the FBI because of his masterful understanding of the human brain and its functions. Pierce's strange and offbeat thoughts and views drive most people away, but his former student Kate Moretti, who has become an FBI agent, is willing to deal with Pierce's oddness because of his imaginative solutions which help solve crimes. Together,...