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The Godfather

Marlon Brando - Paramount Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

BRANDO IS DON VITO CORLEONE, THE SYMPATHETIC GODFATHER OF A NEW YORK CRIME FAMILY, WHOSE BUSINESS IT IS TO MAKE OFFERS PEOPLE CAN'T REFUSE. VISUALLY BEAUTIFUL AND IMAGES OF TIMES ANDLOCALES CONTRAST THE FILM'S GRAPHIC VIOLEN.
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The Shawshank redemption

Tim Robbins
Format: DVD

"Red" Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship and his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison....
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Pulp Fiction

John Travolta - Miramax Lionsgate
Format: DVD

The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
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Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Mark Hamill - 20th Century Fox Video
Format: DVD

Yes, it's true that serious home-theater lovers who want spectacular sound and anamorphically enhanced picture can always watch the 2004 version of the movie also included in this set. But chances are good that they already picked up the trilogy edition of all three films, so their...
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GoodFellas (1990)

Martin Scorsese - Warner Home Video
Format: DVD

Martin Scorsese's 1990 masterpiece GoodFellasimmortalizes the hilarious, horrifying life of actual gangster Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), from his teen years on the streets of New York to his anonymous exile under the Witness Protection Program. The director's kinetic style is perfect...
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The Godfather Part II - The Coppola Restoration

~ Al Pacino - Paramount
Format: DVD

The sequel to The Godfather shows us the world of Don Vito Corleone before and after the story in the original film. Pacino is his son Michael, who struggles to bring the family into the modern age. In the film's extended flashback sequences, DeNiro is the young Vito as he gains power in the New York...
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Schindler's list DVD

Liam Neeson; Ben Kingsley; Ralph Fiennes; Caroline Goodall; Jonathan Sagalle; All authors - Universal
Format: DVD

The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. He employed Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army. At the same time he tries to stay...
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The Matrix (1999)

Lilly Wachowski - Warner Home Video
Format: DVD

Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells of a computer hacker (Reeves) who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth. The computers are powered by human beings...
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Fight club

David Fincher; Brad Pitt; Edward Norton; Helena Bonham Carter; Meat Loaf ; All authors - Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggresion into therapeutic "fight clubs", an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
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Raiders of the lost ark (Motion picture)
Indiana Jones and the raiders of the lost ark
Aventuriers de l'arche perdue

Steven Spielberg - Paramount
Format: DVD

"Indy ... and his feisty ex-flame Marion Ravenwood ... dodge booby-traps, fight Nazis and stare down snakes in their incredible worldwide quest for the mystical Ark of the Covenant"--Container.
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Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Format: DVD

When Steven Spielberg was an adolescent, his first home movie was a backyard war film. When he toured Europe with Duel in his 20s, he saw old men crumble in front of headstones at Omaha Beach. That image became the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan, his film of a mission following the D-day...
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The silence of the lambs

Kenneth Utt; Edward Saxon; Ron Bozman; Ted Tally; Jonathan Demme; All authors - MGM Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned to help find a missing woman to save her from a psychopathic serial killer who skins his victims. Clarice attempts to gain a better insight into the twisted mind of the killer by talking to another psychopath Hannibal Lecter, who used to be a respected...
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Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy

~ Michael J. Fox - Universal Studios
Format: DVD

Experience one of the most popular movie series of all time like never before with the Back to the Future 25th Anniversary Trilogy! Join Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) and a time traveling DeLorean for the adventure of a lifetime as they travel to the past,...
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Gladiator Signature Selection

Russell Crowe - Dreamworks Video
Format: DVD

A man robbed of his name and his dignity strives to win them back, and gain the freedom of his people, in this epic historical drama from director Ridley Scott. In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus (Russell Crowe)...
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Two-Disc Widescreen Theatrical Edition) (2001)

Peter Jackson - New Line Home Video
Format: DVD

As the triumphant start of a trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring leaves you begging for more. By necessity, Peter Jackson's ambitious epic compresses J.R.R. Tolkien's classic The Lord of the Rings, but this robust adaptation maintains reverent allegiance to Tolkien's...
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Time Warner Entertainment. - Warner Home Video
Format: DVD

One of the key movies of the 1970s, when exciting, groundbreaking, personal films were still being made in Hollywood, Milos Forman's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest emphasized the humanistic story at the heart of Ken Kesey's more hallucinogenic novel. Jack Nicholson was born...
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Casablanca

Michael Curtiz - Distributed by Warner Home Video
Format: DVD

Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if your name is on the Nazis' most-wanted list. Atop that list is Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) , whose only hope is Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) , a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one ... especially...
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The Shining (Two-Disc Special Edition) (2007)

Stanley Kubrick - Warner Home Video
Format: DVD

Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is less an adaptation of Stephen King's bestselling horror novel than a complete reimagining of it from the inside out. In King's book, the Overlook Hotel is a haunted place that takes possession of its off-season caretaker and provokes him to murderous...
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Braveheart (1995)

Mel Gibson - Paramount
Format: DVD

A stupendous historical saga, Braveheart won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for star Mel Gibson. He plays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish commoner who unites the various clans against a cruel English King, Edward the Longshanks (Patrick McGoohan). The scenes...
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Apocalypse now

Francis Ford Coppola; John Milius; Martin Sheen; Marlon Brando; Robert Duvall; All authors - Paramount
Format: DVD

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.
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Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition) (1941)

Orson Welles - Turner Home Ent
Format: DVD

Arguably the greatest of American films, Orson Welles's 1941 masterpiece, made when he was only 26, still unfurls like a dream and carries the viewer along the mysterious currents of time and memory to reach a mature (if ambiguous) conclusion: people are the sum of their contradictions,...
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Inception

Christopher Nolan - Warner Bros. Entertainment
Format: Book

Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world...
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Titanic (Motion picture : 1997)

James Cameron - Paramount
Format: DVD

Two people from different worlds meet and fall in love on the brief, tragic maiden voyage of the grand ocean liner Titanic.
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Seven. lllll ll

Brad Pitt - New Line Home Entertainment, 2004.
Format: DVD

A psychological thriller about two detectives on the trail of a serial killer who chooses his victims according to the seven deadly sins.
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Jaws

Roy Scheider; Robert Shaw; Richard Dreyfuss; Richard D Zanuck; David Brown; All authors - Universal Studios
Format: DVD

A man-eating shark causes havoc off the Long Island coast and three men join together to hunt and destroy it.
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Jurassic Park

Steven Spielberg - Universal
Format: DVD

Director Steven Spielberg's Jurassic masterpiece is back in this Collector's Edition containing interviews and special behind-the-scenes footage.One of the most successful films in worldwide box office history, Jurassic Park remains a most compelling and spectacular experience....
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Clint Eastwood - MGM (Video & DVD)
Format: DVD

By far the most ambitious, unflinchingly graphic and stylistically influential western ever mounted, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is an engrossing actioner shot through with a volatile mix of myth and realism. Clint Eastwood returns as the "Man With No Name," this time teaming...
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Die Hard

John McTiernan - 20th Century Fox
Format: DVD

Bruce Willi stars as New York City Detective John McClane, newly arrived in Los Angeles to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia) . But as Mclane waits for his wife's office party to break up, terrorist take control of the building. While the terrorist...
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