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Jessica Chastain
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An intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall, and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. In the 1970s and 180s, Tammy Faye and her husband, Jim Bakker, rose from humble beginnings to create the world2s largest religious broadcasting network and theme park, and were revered for their message of love, acceptance, and prosperity. Tammy Faye was legendary for her indelible eyelashes, her idiosyncratic singing, and her eagerness to embrace...
4) Crimson Peak
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When her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, a young woman is swept away to a house atop a mountain of blood-red clay; a place filled with secrets that will haunt her forever. Between desire and darkness, between mystery and madness, lies the truth.
5) The help
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Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
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As a war between rival queen sisters Ravenna and Freya escalates, Eric and fellow warrior Sara, members of the Huntsmen army raised to protect Freya, try to conceal their forbidden love as they combat Ravenna's wicked intentions.
"...gorgeous special effects..."--Newsday
"...plenty entertaining...even charming."--Vanity Fair
"...superior to its predecessor in almost every way..."--AV Club
7) Coriolanus
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The story of the Roman general Caius Martius Coriolanus, and his quest for revenge after his banishment from Rome.
8) The Martian
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After a bad storm blows across Mars Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind. Now stuck on a hostile planet he must find a way to signal to Earth and in the meantime, survive on limited supplies.
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The impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950's that follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
11) George & Tammy
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Nominated for four Emmy Awards, George & Tammy chronicles the country music power couple, Tammy Wynette and George Jones, whose complicated but enduring relationship inspired some of the most iconic music of all time. George and Tammy's legacy, both musically and romantically, remains one of the greatest love stories ever told.
12) Interstellar
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With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.
"A knockout one minute, a punch-drunk crazy film the next, Interstellar is a highly stimulating mess."--Chicago Tribune.
"As the rare director whose singular vision is buoyed by infinite artistic freedom, Christopher Nolan would be derelict if he...
13) Molly's game
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The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.
14) Interstellar
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Chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
15) The 355
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CIA agent Mason 'Mace' Brown joins forces with a rival German agent, a cutting-edge computer specialist and a Colombian psychologist when a top-secret weapon falls into the hands of a group of mercenaries. Together, the four women embark on a breakneck mission to save the world while staying one step ahead of a mysterious figure who's tracking their every move.
16) Miss Julie
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A wealthy aristocrat and her father's valet's innocent flirtation turns into a heated and dangerous affair that tests the boundaries of class and desire.
19) The Forgiven
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Speeding through the Moroccan desert to attend an old friend's lavish weekend party, a wealthy London couple is involved in a tragic accident with a local boy. But when they attempt to cover up the incident, the boy's father arrives seeking justice.
20) Ava
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A deadly assassin is forced to fight for her own survival when a job goes terribly wrong.
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