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1. Shirley MacLaine stars as a woman whose wealthy husbands keep dying in this black comedy from 1964.
2. This war drama from 1939 is about a selfish woman who is in love with another woman's husband. She marries a man because he can pay for her family home to be restored, but ends up falling in love with him too late.
3. Kieran Culkin stars as a teenager from a dysfunctional family who runs away to try to find some meaning to life.
4. This fast-paced movie, from 1999, follows three sets of people all trying to accomplish something involving drugs, told from each group's perspective. Sarah Polley and Katie Holmes play two of those involved.
5. A small town man from Vermont, who writes poetry for greeting cards, inherits a fortune and moves to the big city. Although everyone tries to take advantage of him, he outsmarts them all, except a reporter named Babe Bennett. She lies to him to get a story, but then they fall in love. Will that love overcome the betrayal he feels?
6. Studs Cantrell (William L. Petersen) is a past-his-prime baseball player/manager who is urging his team on to win the championship. He must deal with a new rookie, a black homerun hitter (Larry Riley) who has to pretend to be Puerto Rican to avoid racism, owners that want to sell the team, and a baseball groupie who has attached herself to him.
7. This 1945 mystery/comedy was the fifth in a series of movies about sleuths Nick and Nora Charles. They travel to visit Nick's family and find that his father still wishes Nick had become a doctor. Nora thinks if Nick solves a case, his Dad will be proud of him. But how to get a case started...
8. A group of friends (including Rick Schroeder and Noah Wyle) prepare for life after high school graduation, amidst the political and racial upheaval of the 1960s.
9. An idealistic man is appointed to the US Senate, and is bewildered by the corruption he finds all around him. When he refuses to be corrupted, another senator arranges a scandal to disgrace him.
10. A retired car thief must reassemble his crew to steal 50 cars so that his brother will not be killed.
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