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1) Vanish
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"A nameless woman appears to be just another body at the morgue--until Boston medical examiner Maura Isles sees the corpse open its eyes. The now-frantic Jane Doe is rushed to the hospital, where with cool precision she shoots a security guard and seizes hostages, one of whom is pregnant homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. As the tense hours tick by, Maura joins forces with Jane's husband, FBI agent Gabriel Dean, to track down the killer's identity....
2) Orbit
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A passenger on a 2009 space flight, Kip Dawson faces death after a micrometeorite damages the capsule and kills the pilot, and types his epitaph on the ship's computer, unaware that his writings are being read on the Internet by a horrified public.
3) Stargate
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A secret military mission takes a group of men through an Egyptian artifact known as the Stargate to an ancient civilization on the other side of the universe. Once there, they must battle the astoundingly powerful sun god, Ra, before they can find their way home.
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To save the life of a young girl who's being stalked by a ruthless hit man, Lincoln and his protégé, Amelia Sachs, are called upon to do the impossible: solve a truly "cold case" -- one that's 140 years old. The Twelfth Card is a two-day cat-and-mouse chase through the streets of uptown Manhattan as quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs try to outguess Thompson Boyd -- by all appearances a nondescript, innocuous man, but one whose...
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On an overseas flight to London a journalist, Buck Williams, and a pilot, Rayford Steele, are caught in the middle of the most incredible event in history. Suddenly, without warning, dosens of passengers simply vanish into thin air... As chaos and anarchy engulf the world, both men set out on vastly different paths in a desperate search foe answers
10) Cocoon
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"When visitors from a distant galaxy return to earth on a secret mission, their other-worldly powers afford a group of senior citizens who had expected nothing more from life than bingo, shuffleboard, aches and pains, the chance to recapture their youth"--Container.
11) The crucible
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A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret love-conjuring ceremony. When the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a devastating climax.
12) Desk set
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A classic Hepburn-Tracy romance, about the head of the research department at a TV network and an absent-minded computer genius.
15) Charade
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A trio of crooks relentlessly pursues a young American through Paris for the fortune her dead husband stole from them.
17) Bat out of Hell
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Documentary on the making of the rock album "Bat out of Hell" by Meat Loaf; includes live performances of songs from the album.
18) To catch a thief
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A retired American jewel thief living on the French Riviera seeks to prove his innocence by exposing the burglar who has been imitating his technique.
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Prehistoric sharks: The great white shark is the most dangerous and feared of sharks today. But Earth's ancient oceans were ruled by his even more menacing ancestor nicknamed Megatooth--the most spectacular marine predator ever to roam the seas. As big as a Greyhound bus, this mega-shark weighed more than 20 times as much as today's great white and satisfied his voracious appetite by feasting on the largest prey in the ocean--whales. In our film,...
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