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1. Which 1978 movie was based on a Billy Hayes book, directed by Alan Parker, and tells the story of an American student sent to a Turkish prison for trying to smuggle drugs out of Turkey? It starred Brad Davis, Randy Quaid and John Hurt.
2. Which 1964 Brazilian horror film (both directed by and starring José Mojica Marins) was the first installment of the 'Coffin Joe Trilogy'? The movie is about an undertaker (Coffin Joe) looking for the perfect woman to bear his immortal, superior child.
3. This movie was directed by Matthew Chapman and starred Jennifer Jason Leigh, Peter Coyote and Steve Buscemi. Which 1988 movie is about a young woman recovering from a nervous breakdown who inherits 'Midnight', an abandoned nightclub in a questionable part of town, from a mysterious uncle?
4. This movie was based on the book of the same name where John Kelso, a magazine reporter, is sent to Savannah and ends up covering a murder and the subsequent trial of Jim Williams. Which 1997 movie was directed by Clint Eastwood and starred Kevin Spacey, John Cusack and Jack Thompson?
5. Directed by Peter Walker and starring James Aubrey, Mark Burns and Alison Elliott, this movie was released in 1979. Which movie is about Mike Beresford, a rich, successful lyricist, who meets and starts a relationship with a young woman, Ginny Wilshire, who he later finds out to be only 14?
6. Which 1969 movie, directed by John Schlesinger, was about Joe Buck - a man who quits his job as a dishwasher in a Texan diner, dresses as a cowboy and heads to New York with the intention of becoming a hustler? This movie starred Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman and Sylvia Miles.
7. This movie is about an office repairman who kills women after they reject his advances. Two detectives are sent on his trail, made harder to follow because he commits his crimes while naked to reduce evidence left behind. Which 1983 movie starred Charles Bronson, Gene Davis and Kelly Preston, and was directed by J Lee Thompson?
8. Which movie is based on the autobiographical book of Jerry Stahl, and follows his downward spiral of a $6000 a week drug habit when he was only making $5000 a week in Hollywood? This movie starred Ben Stiller, Elizabeth Hurley, Owen Wilson, Cheryl Ladd, was directed by David Veloz and was released in 1998.
9. Based on a novel by William Wharton and taking place in France in 1944, this movie is about two groups of soldiers (American and German) who come to spend Christmas together, with the German squad preferring to surrender than to die in war. Which 1992 movie was directed by Keith Gordon and starred Ethan Hawke, Kevin Dillon and Gary Sinise?
10. This movie is about bounty hunter, Jack Walsh, who embarrasses the FBI by finding the 'un-findable' Jonathan 'The Duke' Mardukas. In order to collect his bounty, Walsh has to get The Duke to Los Angeles from New York. Which 1988 Martin Brest directed movie starred Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin and Dennis Farina?
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