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1. (1992) He came to England and turned their friend into one of the living dead. They have called him a monster, and are determined to kill him, pursuing him all the way back to his native Transylvania to accomplish the task.
2. (1982) A fragile concentration camp survivor finds a soul mate with an obsession about the Holocaust. For a while it looks like their love might sustain them both, but in the end their demons prove too much to bear, and they commit suicide together. Before she dies she tells her story to Stingo, a young writer who has become their new neighbour and friend.
3. (1985) He was just a little Amish boy, traveling with his mother to visit relatives after the death of his father. Alone in the washroom he witnessed the brutal killing of an undercover narcotics officer. The investigating detective is thrilled to have a witness. Only when the boy identifies one of the killers, and someone shoots him, does he realize how serious things really are. Cultures collide as he hides out in the Amish community until he's recovered from his injury.
4. (2001) Several movies have been made about the Whitechapel killings of Jack the Ripper. This version presents Detective Abberline as an opium-smoking psychic, who uses his visions to protect one of the targeted prostitutes that he has fallen in love with.
5. (1994) If I hadn't fallen off his roof and died, then Scott would never have put on the suit. If he had never put on the suit, he would never have begun the transformation that ended a year later when he assumed the full duties and responsibilities of my former position.
6. (2003) It was the loss of his wife Coral, and their 400 or so eggs that turned Marlin into such an over-protective father. With only one offspring surviving the predator's attack it was difficult for him to let go...which is what caused the problem that the whole movie was based upon.
7. (1994) Three flatmates (that's British for roommates - since this is a British film) interview for a fourth to help share the expenses. The one they choose turns out to be a rather unsociable fellow, and they soon discover why when they find that he's died in his room. But it's the suitcase full of cash, which they decide to keep, that really intrigues them. After drawing the short straw, and having to cut up the body, David becomes paranoid in the extreme, a characteristic which soon comes in handy when the bad guys come looking for the money.
8. (1994) A bunch of friends dash around Scotland and England, trying to find love while attending a bunch of weddings. A slightly different perspective on the subject raises its head when one of their number succumbs to a heart attack, and they all attend his funeral.
9. (1982) Just because she has no desire to marry and become a slave to some man, Jenny is considered a 'sexual suspect'. After raising a son all on her own, she writes a book on the subject, which becomes almost a manifesto for women's rights. She is so much of a figure-head that she is killed by an assassin, leaving her son to try and struggle on with her legacy. But then he is also killed - by one of the radical women that his mother tried to help.
10. (1975) Many people never felt safe going swimming in the ocean again, after seeing this film about nature's most perfect feeding machine, and three men's efforts to kill it. The movie was based on a novel by Peter Benchley.
11. (1963) They might have been prisoners-of-war, but they were also Allied Officers, and it was their sworn duty to try to escape, in this fact-based movie. But the escape they staged went far beyond anything that had been done before, and the Gestapo responded in anger. After being recaptured, and while on their way back to the prison camp, 50 of the escapees were taken out into a field and shot in cold blood.
12. (2001) She was the wife of a man sentenced to be executed - he was one of the prison guards charged with seeing out the execution. Her son died when he was hit by a car - his son died when he shot himself. He was raised a bigot - she was African-American. And yet somehow they managed to find, and draw strength from each other.
13. (2003) The Dark Lord Sauron can only be completely destroyed when the ring of power is also destroyed. It is in this movie that our hobbit friends Sam and Frodo finally accomplish this seemingly impossible task.
14. (1998) A huge asteroid was threatening the very existence of Earth, so a crew of oil drillers went up to try and destroy it before it could strike. The plan was to plant a nuclear bomb deep within the asteroid's core, and then detonate it from far away. But things didn't go as planned, and one man had to stay behind on the asteroid, and make the ultimate sacrifice so that the rest of the world could live.
15. (1999) He was a mountain of a man, sentenced to be executed for the brutal killing of two little girls. But instead of a blood-thirsty killer, he was really one of the few real miracles in the world - a simple man with the healing touch. His jailers learned it, and had to come to terms with the fact that they were killing one of God's greatest gifts on Earth.
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