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Double Indemnity

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Year:1944
Director:Billy Wilder
Written by:James M. Cain (Novel), Billy Wilder (Screenplay), Raymond Chandler (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.
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Don’t Drink the Water

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Year:1994
Director:Woody Allen
Written by:Woody Allen (Theatre Play), Woody Allen (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international spying incident when Walter photographs a sunset in a sensitive region. In order to stay out of jail, the Hollanders take refuge in the American Embassy, which is temporarily being run by the absent Ambassador's diplomatically incompetent son, Axel.
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Donnie Darko

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Year:2001
Director:Richard Kelly
Written by:Richard Kelly (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
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Don’t Say a Word

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Year:2001
Director:Gary Fleder
Written by:Anthony Peckham (Screenplay), Patrick Smith Kelly (Screenplay), Andrew Klavan (Novel)

Script Synopsis:When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he's horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who knows a secret..
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Dolores Claiborne

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Year:1995
Director:Taylor Hackford
Written by:Stephen King (Novel), Tony Gilroy (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.
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Dogville

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Year:2003
Director:Lars von Trier
Written by:Lars von Trier (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make it worth their effort, so Grace works hard under the employ of various townspeople to win their favor. Tensions flare, however, and Grace's status as a helpless outsider provokes vicious contempt and abuse from the citizens of Dogville.
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Dogma

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Year:1999
Director:Kevin Smith
Written by:Kevin Smith (Writer)

Script Synopsis:The latest battle in the eternal war between Good and Evil has come to New Jersey in the late, late 20th Century. Angels, demons, apostles and prophets (of a sort) walk among the cynics and innocents of America and duke it out for the fate of humankind.
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Do the Right Thing

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Year:1989
Director:Spike Lee
Written by:Spike Lee (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
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Dirty Harry

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Year:1971
Director:Don Siegel
Written by:Harry Julian Fink (Screenplay), Rita M. Fink (Screenplay), Dean Riesner (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath. Harry eventually collars Scorpio in the process of rescuing a kidnap victim, only to see him walk on technicalities. Now, the maverick detective is determined to nail the maniac himself.
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Die Hard

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Year:1988
Director:John McTiernan
Written by:Roderick Thorp (Novel), Jeb Stuart (Screenplay), Steven E. de Souza (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking McClane sets out to single-handedly rescue the hostages and bring the bad guys down.
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