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Argo

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Year:2012
Director:Ben Affleck
Written by:Chris Terrio (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
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Arbitrage

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Year:2012
Director:Nicholas Jarecki
Written by:Nicholas Jarecki (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.
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Anna Karenina

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Year:2012
Director:Joe Wright
Written by:Tom Stoppard (Screenplay), Leo Tolstoy (Novel)

Script Synopsis:Trapped in a loveless marriage, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.
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Amour

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Year:2012
Director:Michael Haneke
Written by:Michael Haneke (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

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Year:1974
Director:Joseph Sargent
Written by:Peter Stone (Screenplay), John Godey (Novel)

Script Synopsis:In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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Year:2012
Director:Stephen Chbosky
Written by:Stephen Chbosky (Novel), Stephen Chbosky (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love…
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

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Year:2012
Director:John Madden
Written by:Ol Parker (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose in their old age.
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The Sessions

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Year:2012
Director:Ben Lewin
Written by:Ben Lewin (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien (John Hawkes) maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Green (Helen Hunt) to lose his virginity.
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The Master

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Year:2012
Director:Paul Thomas Anderson
Written by:Paul Thomas Anderson (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.
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War Horse

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Year:2011
Director:Steven Spielberg
Written by:Lee Hall (Screenplay), Richard Curtis (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.
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