The Silence of the Lambs

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Year:1991
Director:Jonathan Demme
Written by:Ted Tally (Screenplay), Thomas Harris (Novel)

Script Synopsis:Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
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The Shining

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Year:1980
Director:Stanley Kubrick
Written by:Stanley Kubrick (Screenplay), Stephen King (Novel), Diane Johnson (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
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The Shawshank Redemption

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Year:1994
Director:Frank Darabont
Written by:Stephen King (Author), Frank Darabont (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
*4649

The Seventh Seal

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Year:1957
Director:Ingmar Bergman
Written by:Ingmar Bergman (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
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The Secret of My Success

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Year:1987
Director:Herbert Ross
Written by:Jim Cash (Screenplay), Jack Epps Jr. (Screenplay), AJ Carothers (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room.
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The Searchers

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Year:1956
Director:John Ford
Written by:Alan Le May (Novel), Frank S. Nugent (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
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The Santa Clause

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Year:1994
Director:John Pasquin
Written by:Leo Benvenuti (Screenplay), Steve Rudnick (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Scott Calvin is an ordinary man, who accidentally causes Santa Claus to fall from his roof on Christmas Eve and is knocked unconscious. When he and his young son finish Santa's trip and deliveries, they go to the North Pole, where Scott learns he must become the new Santa and convince those he loves that he is indeed, Father Christmas.
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The Sad Sack

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Year:1957
Director:George Marshall

Script Synopsis:Private Meredith Bixby is so out of step in the Army that his six weeks of planned basic training has now stretched to 17 months. After he loses a tank, WAC Major Shelton, a psychologist, is assigned to make a good soldier out of him. She requests Corporal Dolan and Private Stan Wensalawsky to help with the training. Dolan and Stan both have scores to settle with Bixby and their "guidance" leads to more mishaps. Sergeant Pulley has them shipped out to Morocco. On leave in North Africa, Bixy wanders alone into a bar, has a few Moroccan Delights, which he thinks are malted milks, and becomes convinced that exotic singer-dancer Zita is THE girl for him.
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The Running Man

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Year:1987
Director:Paul Michael Glaser
Written by:Stephen King (Author), Steven E. de Souza (Author)

Script Synopsis:By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.
*4643

The Rules of Attraction

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Year:2002
Director:Roger Avary
Written by:Roger Avary (Writer), Bret Easton Ellis (Writer)

Script Synopsis:The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
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