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1) Deadly game
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DCI Harry Taylor has no respect for red tape or political reputations - but he's great at catching criminals. And all his unorthodox skills will be needed as an extraordinary situation unfolds on his doorstep: a metal box of radioactive material is found at a dump in Stepney, East London, but before the police can arrive it is stolen in a violent raid. With security agencies across the world on red alert, it's Harry and his unconventional team from...
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Two rival con men — sophisticated Lawrence (two-time Oscar®-winner Michael Caine, Actor in a Supporting Role for "Hannah And Her Sisters" and Actor in a Supporting Role for"The Cider House Rules") and third-rate American hustler Freddy (Steve Martin, "Three Amigos!") — make a wager. The first one to extract {dollar}50,000 from the next woman they meet wins...and the other leaves town. The bet is on and the stakes are high in this hysterically...
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A sly, sophisticated love story that is a showcase for its two Oscar-winning stars: Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson. With a sparklingly witty screenplay from Academy Award-winner Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in love), and directed by Joseph Losey, The romantic Englishwoman is a wildly entertaining ride.
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Manhattan therapist Dr. Robert Elliott (Michael Caine) faces the most terrifying moment of his life, when a psychotic killer begins attacking the women (Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen) in his life with a straight razor stolen from his office. Desperate to find the murderer before anyone else is hurt, Elliott is drawn into a dark and disturbing world, and finds himself lost in a deadly maze of obsession, deviance and deceit, where harmless erotic...
6) Best Sellers
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In a last-ditch effort to save the boutique publishing house her father has left her, an ambitious young editor (Plaza) goes on a book tour with a bitter, booze-addled author (Caine) who put the publishing house on the map decades ago.
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Popular Chicago weatherman Dave Spritz (Nicolas Cage) has a shot at the big time when a national morning television show calls him for an audition. Professionally, Dave is on top of the world, but his personal life is in complete disarray. The harder he tries to hold on, the more he loses his grip. His painful divorce, his Pulitzer Prize-winning dad’s (Michael Caine) illness, and trouble with his kids have Dave poised on the knife’s edge between...
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King Midas and the golden touch: One day King Midas sees a beautiful butterfly illuminated by the golden light of the afternoon sun. He is so taken with it that he wishes for the power to turn all things he touches into gold. But when a strange messenger arrives and grants him his wish, King Midas soon comes to realize that there are some things in life more precious than gold.
Jack and the beanstalk: In this comic English folktale, young Jack foolishly...
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Shirley Maclaine (*The Apartment, Terms Of Endearment*) portrays an amazing array of characters over seven satirical vignettes that attempt to tackle the universal subjects of love and adultery. From a distraught widow dealing with amorous advances, a bored housewife becoming a hooker, suicidal lovers, naked poetry reading and psychotic socialites to a chance encounter on public transport that leads to a bittersweet, poignant conclusion. Michael Caine,...
11) Alfie
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Alfie is the ultimate Ladykiller. He is wonderfully successful with women -- and rarely gets emotionally involved with them. But in this charming comedic drama, Alfie experiences a series of reversals that threaten his carefree lifestyle: his health is put into question, his child is adopted by another man, he gets a married woman pregnant, and when he finally does decide to settle down, he is rejected for a younger man. Capturing the changing attitudes...
12) The Italian job
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Charlie, the mastermind of a Venice heist, is overseen by John, a lifelong criminal. But the thieves are ruthlessly double-crossed by one of their own, Steve. In order to get their stolen gold bars back, Charlie enlists John's reluctant safecracking-prodigy daughter, Stella. But Steve proves himself to be one step ahead of them, and Charlie finds that he'll have to make some daring last-minute changes to their plan by creating the largest traffic...
