Will Patton
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"This story is true. All the characters are real and were alive during the great manhunt of April 1865. Their words are authentic and come from original sources: letters, manuscripts, trial transcripts, newspapers, government reports, pamphlets, books and other documents. What happened in Washington, D.C., that spring, and in the swamps and rivers, forests and fields of Maryland and Virginia during the next twelve days, is far too incredible to have...
102) Princess Kaiulani
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A Hawaiian princess valiantly fights to protect the future of her people.
103) Blood On Her Name
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A woman's decision to cover up an accidental killing spirals out of control when her conscience demands she return the dead man's body to his family.
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Stephen King introduces each of these short stories with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it. There are connections between stories -- themes of morality, the afterlife, guilt, what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the past. "Afterlife" is about a man who died of colon cancer and keeps reliving the same life, repeating his mistakes over and over again. Several stories feature...
105) The Spitfire Grill
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Oscar-winner Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist) headlines this critically praised drama about a young woman, just out of prison, who finds spiritual redemption working at a cafe in Maine.
106) Skeleton crew
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Age-old images of fear fuse with the iconography of contemporary American life in this collection of tales from the modern master of horror.
107) American Violet
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Falsely accused of distributing narcotics in a school zone, Dee Roberts (Beharie) is offered a deal she can't refuse: plead guilty and accept a 10-year suspended sentence. The alternative: risk serving 16-to-25 in jail.
108) In The Deep Woods
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Joanna Warren mourns the loss of her friend, the victim of a grisly serial killer who especially targets successful young women. He dumps their bodies in the deep woods and completely covers his tracks, leaving the police befuddled.
109) Romeo is Bleeding
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In this rough-and-tumble neo-noir, Gary Oldman stars as Sgt. Jack Grimaldi, a veteran cop who watches other people for a living. Once, in the faded past of his youth, it was an important job but now Jack sees that life on the other side of the binoculars has that little extra something-extra sex, extra money, extra excitement. Now, Jack gets in over his head when he falls for the ultimate femme fatale (Lena Olin). Also starring Annabella Sciorra and...
110) A Mighty Heart
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After her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (Dan Futterman, Urbania), is kidnapped by terrorists, Mariane (Jolie) heads a desperate search for clues in a frantic race against time to locate her missing husband.