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Queen of the Damned

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Year:2002
Director:Michael Rymer
Written by:Scott Abbott (Screenplay), Michael Petroni (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Lestat de Lioncourt is awakened from his slumber. Bored with his existence, he has now become this generation's new Rock God. While in the course of time, another has arisen, Akasha, the Queen of the Vampires and the Dammed. He wants immortal fame, his fellow vampires want him eternally dead for his betrayal, and the Queen wants him for her King. Who will be the first to reach him? Who shall win?
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The Lost Son

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Year:1999
Director:Chris Menges
Written by:Eric Leclere (Writer), Margaret Leclere (Writer), Mark Mills (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a call from an old friend from the Paris police department, now a businessman whose brother-in-law is missing. The missing man's parents hire Xavier over their daughter's objections, and quickly he finds himself in the realm of children's sexual slavery.
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Straight to Hell

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Year:1987
Director:Alex Cox
Written by:Alex Cox (Author), Dick Rude (Author)

Script Synopsis:A gang of bank robbers with a suitcase full of money go to the desert to hide out. After burying the loot, they find their way to a surreal town full of cowboys who drink an awful lot of coffee.
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Repo Man

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Year:1984
Director:Alex Cox
Written by:Alex Cox (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
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Zulu Dawn

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Year:1979
Director:Douglas Hickox
Written by:Cy Endfield (Screenplay), Anthony Story (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.
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Viridiana

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Year:1961
Director:Luis Buñuel
Written by:Julio Alejandro (Screenplay), Luis Buñuel (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
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Sounder

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Year:1972
Director:Martin Ritt
Written by:Lonne Elder III (Screenplay), William H. Armstrong (Novel)

Script Synopsis:The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, the wife and mother, Rebecca Morgan, sends the oldest son, who is about 11 years old, to visit his father at the camp. The trip becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. During the journey he stays a little while with a dedicated Black schoolteacher.
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The Scarlet Letter

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Year:1995
Director:Roland Joffé
Written by:Nathaniel Hawthorne (Novel), Douglas Day Stewart (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the name of the father, is "convicted" of adultery and forced to wear a scarlet "A" until an Indian attack unites the Puritans and leads to a reevaluation of their laws and morals.
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Salt of the earth

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Year:1954
Director:Herbert J. Biberman
Written by:Michael Wilson (Writer)

Script Synopsis:The issues the miners strike for include equity in wages with Anglo workers, and health and safety issues. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but at home he treats his wife, Esperanza Quintero, as a second class citizen. Esperanza, who is pregnant with their third child, is usually passive, but she changes her attitude when the men are forced to end their picketing by a Taft-Hartley Act injuction.
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Mystery of the Wax Museum

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Year:1933
Director:Michael Curtiz
Written by:Don Mullaly (Screenplay), Carl Erickson (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Sculptor Ivan Igor struggles in vain to prevent his partner from burning his wax museum, and his "children". Years later, Igor starts a new museum in New York, but his maimed hands confine him to directing lesser artists. People begin disappearing; Igor takes a sinister interest in Charlotte, fiancée of his assistant Ralph, but arouses the suspicions of roommate, wisecracking reporter Florence.
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