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Plot Movie Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an underserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice A magic nanny comes to work for a cold banker's unhappy family In 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes A beautiful but amoral model sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties A misogynist and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a bet that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable to high society The story of the struggles of a young Egyptian queen who must resist the imperialist urges of Rome Marius dreams of leaving his boring existence behind him and going out to sea, but that would mean leaving the girl who loves him An Australian outback family is torn between the father's desire to continue life as a nomadic sheep-herder and the mother and son's desires to settle down in one place King Henry II's three sons and his wife variously plot to force him to finally choose an heir to the throne A naive male prostitue and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City Matt and Christina Drayton are a couples whose attitudes towards race are challenged when their daughter brings home a black fiancee A middle-aged iconoclast, doggedly avoiding the tedium of employment and conventional life, faces the prospect of losing custody of his young ward A younger man is seduced by an older woman and then proceeds to fall in love with her daughter The story of a famous battle in the Texan War of Independence that saw the deaths of Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie A fast talking, hard drinking con man helps a female evangelist sell religion to small town America An English King comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confident, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the king's An uptight English writer traveling to Crete finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba Following the murder of a prominent leftist, an investigator tries to uncover the truth while government officials try to cover up their roles A matchmaker travels to Yonkers to meet and find a match for a 'well known unmarried half a millionaire' Without hostile intent, a Soviet submarine runs aground off the coast of New England, causing the locals to go into a tizzy The epic story of a flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his attacks on Aqaba and Damascus during World War I A bitter aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other Two children of feuding families in renaissance Italy fall in love An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single-high stakes match A veterinarian learns form his pet parrot how to talk to animals

Plot Movie A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to a Naval officer widower The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German point of view A 35 year-old school school teacher who lives with her mother begins to have to make decisions about her life when she begins a summer affair The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when he rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage The story of Anne Boleyn, brief Queen of England The story of a rebellious, independent U.S. Navy machinist mate aboard the USS San Pablo in 1920s China A somewhat romanticized account of the career of a notoriously violent bank robbing couple and their gang An African-American detective from Philadelphia is asked to investigate a murder in a racist Mississippi town An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop The story of a man who leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life The overlapping stories of several passengers on an ocean liner bound to Germany from Vera Cruz in 1933 A man living in a English mining town dreams of becoming an artist; romance ensues A man tries to rise in his company by letting letting his executives use his home for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets to close Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love An African-American itinerant worker encounters a group of East German nuns who are convinced he has been sent by God to help them build a new chapel IN World War II, A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun encampment that commands a key sea channel The story of the director's uncle, a member of the Greek minority in 19th century Turkey who dreams of coming to the United States A con man comes to a midwestern town with a scam using a boy's marching band program, but things don't go according to plan The life story of influential comedian Fanny Brice The true story of the overthrow of Captain WIlliam Bligh on his own ship Four generations of the Prescott family move ever westward, from western New York state to the Pacific Coast The life of a married Russian doctor/poet who falls for a political activist's wife and experiences hardships during the Bolshevik Revolution The adopted son of a British country squire is a lady charmer who lives life bed to bed, while managing to get into enough mischief to come within moments of being hanged An orphan runs away from an orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor

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