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1. A television journalist is told by a CIA agent that three of his closest friends are Soviet spies, and cooperates with the agent in trying to "turn" one of them into a double agent.
2. A boy in 1940s Indiana wants a certain special present for Christmas, but everyone from his mother, teacher, and even Santa seem determined that he not get it.
3. A Seattle high school student accidentally hacks into a U.S. Defense Department computer and almost triggers a nuclear war.
4. A junior executive at a Texas oil company is sent to buy a Scottish village as the site for a new refinery, but the villagers hold out for a higher price, even though they are excited by the offer and willing to sell.
5. A white Philadelphia stockbroker's life is ruined and his job and home taken by a black street hustler, all to settle a bet by two rich brothers.
6. The intricacies of human life, from birth to death and points in between, are explored in this British comedy film.
7. The residents of a small California town experience the aftermath of a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union.
8. A teacher falls into a coma after a car accident and upon awakening finds that he has psychic abilities.
9. A seemingly indestructible English pirate escapes from prison and goes after his buried treasure, joined by a scientist, a lord, and his previously unknown son.
10. A scientist and his partner develop a way to record people's experiences and emotions on tape, but their company is determined to sell the technology to the government for military use.
11. Journalists covering the 1979 civil war in Nicaragua have an affair, then fake a photograph, which aids the rebels when it is published.
12. A World War II English prisoner of war in a Japanese camp bonds with the camp commandant before he is executed and the commandant reassigned.
13. This comedy film, a remake of a 1942 movie, is a story about a Polish theater troupe who plot to escape from the Nazis in World War II Warsaw.
14. In this comedy, a laid off Detroit auto engineer takes over the household while his wife takes a job at an ad agency.
15. A Los Angeles judge learns that a cabal of his fellow judges are targeting criminals that slip through the justice system on technicalities.
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