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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 132 min.
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Plot: A shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" uses terrorist tactics to fight against his totalitarian society.
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Cast: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, John Hurt. Directed by James McTeigue.
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Categories: Action ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and finds hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the victims of the movies they're watching.
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Cast: Luke Wilson, Kate Beckinsale, Frank Whaley, Ethan Embry. Directed by Nimrod Antal.
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Categories: Mystery/Suspense ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 77 min.
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Plot: A tribute to Val Lewton, the producer of a series of memorable low-budget horror films
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Cast: Narrated by Martin Scorsese. Directed by Kent Jones.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Entertainment |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: A porter and a top-model have to pretend to be a couple in order to salvage a CEO's marriage. In French with English subtitles.
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Cast: Gad Elmaleh, Alice Taglioni, Kristin Scott Thomas, Richard Berry. Directed by Francis Veber.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Marital Relations |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 120 min.
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Plot: Based on actual events, a plot to assassinate Hitler is unfurled during the height of WWII.
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Cast: Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Carice van Houten. Directed by Bryan Singer.
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Categories: War ∙ History ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 73 min. B&W
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Plot: A young traveler arrives in a remote castle and starts seeing weird, inexplicable sights. In German with English subtitles.
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Cast: Julian West, Maurice Schutz, Rena Mandel, Sybille Schmitz. Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer.
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Categories: Horror ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 135 min.
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Plot: A successful publisher's life takes a turn for the surreal after a car accident with a jealous lover leaves him disfigured.
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Cast: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell, Jason Lee. Directed by Cameron Crowe.
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Categories: SciFi/Fantasy ∙ Corporations ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 99 min.
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Plot: A car delivery driver runs into trouble with the police.
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Cast: Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Charlotte Rampling, Dean Jagger, Victoria Medlin, Paul Koslo, Robert Donner, Timothy Scott. Directed by Richard C. Sarafian.
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Categories: Automobile ∙ Criminal Law ∙ Law Enforcement |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 141 min.
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Plot: Growing up poor, a nanny defies her poverty-stricken background and is introduced to London's most exclusive social circle.
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Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Eileen Atkins, Jim Broadbent, Gabriel Byrne, Romola Garai, Bob Hoskins, Rhys Ifans, James Purefoy, Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Directed by Mira Nair.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Property ∙ Estates |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 90 min.
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Plot: An attempted assassination on the President of the United States is told from several different perspectives.
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Cast: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Bruce McGill, Edgar Ramirez, Saïd Taghmaoui, Ayelet Zurer, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt. Directed by Pete Travis.
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Categories: Government ∙ Mystery/Suspense ∙ National Security |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 192 min.
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Plot: An Indian Air Force pilot languishes in prison without speaking, 22 years after rescuing a stranded Pakistani girl. In Hindi with English subtitles.
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Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukherjee, Manoj Bajpai, Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini. Directed by Yash Chopra.
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Categories: Sentencing ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 125 min.
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Plot: Unbeknownst to her family, a devoted wife and mother in 1950's England secretly helps women terminate unwanted pregnancies.
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Cast: Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Peter Wight, Daniel Mays, Alex Kelly, Adrain Scarborough. Directed by Mike Leigh.
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Categories: Women ∙ Medical ∙ Drama |
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Rated: R Stars: ****1/2
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Format: DVD 128 min.
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Plot: An alcoholic lawyer stumbles upon one last chance to redeem himself by taking on a controversial case that no one is supposed to win.
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Cast: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason, Milo O'Shea. Directed by Sidney Lumet.
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Categories: Medical ∙ Ethics ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 55 min.
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Plot: Inter splices random chatter captured on film of the genuinely eccentric residents of Vernon, Florida.
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Cast: Participants portray themselves. Directed by Errol Morris.
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Categories: Documentary ∙ Comedy |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 128 min.
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Plot: A San Francisco detective with a paralyzing fear of heights becomes entangled in a mystery surrounding a beautiful woman.
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Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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Categories: Law Enforcement ∙ Mystery/Suspense |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (2 disc set) 133 min.
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Plot: A young woman relentlessly searches for her fiance, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War I. In French, with English subtitles.
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Cast: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jean-Pierre Becker, Dominique Bettenfeld, Clovis Cornillac, Marion Cotillard, Jean-Pierre Darroussin. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
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Categories: Military ∙ Romance ∙ Foreign |
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Rated: R Stars: ***1/2
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Format: Blu-ray/DVD 132 min.
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Plot: The story of Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States under George W. Bush, from 2001 until 2009.
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Cast: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Alison Pill, Eddie Marsan, Justin Kirk, LisaGay Hamilton . Directed by Adam McKay.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Government ∙ Biography |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 97 min.
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Plot: Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.
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Cast: Javier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson, Patricia Clarkson, Kevin Dunn, Rebecca Hall, Chris Messina. Directed by Woody Allen.
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Categories: Romance ∙ International ∙ Drama |
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Rated: NR Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 100 min. B&W
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Plot: A prominent lawyer goes after a blackmailer who threatens gay men with exposure.
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Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Peter McEnery. Directed by Basil Dearden.
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Categories: Drama ∙ Sexuality |
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Rated: PG Stars: ****
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Format: DVD (3 disc set) 6 hours, 55 min.
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Plot: The early life of Queen Victoria, from her ascension to the throne at the tender age of 18 to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert.
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Cast: Jenna Coleman, Nell Hudson, Tommy Knight. Directed by Daisy Goodwin.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Drama ∙ History |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD (3 disc set) 7 hours, 30 min.
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Plot: The early life of Queen Victoria, from her ascension to the throne at the tender age of 18 to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert.
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Cast: Jenna Coleman, Adrian Schiller, Nell Hudson, Daniela Holtz, Tom Hughes. Directed by various.
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Categories: Television ∙ Drama ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 141 min.
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Plot: The the trials and tribulations of the life of Edith Piaf
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Cast: Marion Cotillard, Emmanuelle Seigner, Jean-Paul Rouve. Directed by Olivier Dahan.
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Categories: Biography ∙ Children ∙ Drama |
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Rated: PG-13 Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 104 min.
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Plot: A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.
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Cast: Richard Jenkins, Hiam Abbass, Haaz Sleiman. Directed by Thomas McCarthy.
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Categories: Immigration ∙ Housing ∙ Drama |
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Rated: G Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 85 min.
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Plot: Lucky arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas and will be ready to race once he has the money to buy an engine.
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Cast: Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, Cesare Danova, William Demarest, Nicky Blair. Directed by George Sidney.
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Categories: Comedy ∙ Musical ∙ Domestic Relations |
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Rated: R Stars: ***
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Format: DVD 98 min.
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Plot: A small time operator returns to his hometown, a seductively vibrant but lawless sprawl of shantytowns, gated villas and nightclubs. In French with English subtitles.
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Cast: Manie Malone, Patsha Bay. Directed by Djo Munga.
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Categories: Foreign ∙ Drama ∙ Organized Crime |
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Rated: R Stars: ****
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Format: DVD 121 min.
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Plot: When the aunt of two orphaned girls dies, the spirit of their dead mother reappears.
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Cast: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave. Directed by Pedro Almodóvar.
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Categories: Women ∙ Romance ∙ Estates |
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Rated: NR Stars: ***1/2
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Format: DVD 116 min.
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Plot: An American POW leads a group of prisoners in an escape from the Germans in WWII.
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Cast: Frank Sinatra, trevor Howard, raffaella Carra. Directed by Mark Robson.
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Categories: War ∙ Action ∙ International |
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The Wolf Law Library welcomes your suggestions for additions to the Feature Film Collection! If there is a law-related movie you feel we might be missing, please submit your suggestion to the Circulation & Reserve Desk at lawcir@wm.edu.
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