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1) The secret
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A businessman, a former young runner for criminals, is framed for murder and must protect the women he loves from a charming yet dangerous suitor.
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Lucius Meeks was regarded as an evil gunslinger who had an affair with the fiancée of the town's owner, Joshua Carter, and shot them both dead in the street. When Daniel Meeks returns to the town of his birth to search for his biological family many years later, he finds the reality much different. Lucius' ghost appeals to Danny to fight for ownership of the town and free his great-great grandfather's soul.
3) The tempest
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This bewitching play, Shakespeare's final work, articulates a wealth of the playwright's mature reflections on life and contains some of his most familiar and oft-quoted lines. The story concerns Miranda, a lovely young maiden, and Prospero, her philosophical old magician father, who dwell on an enchanted island, alone except for their servants - Ariel, an invisible sprite, and Caliban, a monstrous witch's son. Into their idyllic but isolated lives...
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Scrooge: Tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge and his redemption at Christmas.
Beyond tomorrow: three wealthy, self-involved businessmen are spending Christmas together. They invite two strangers to dinner, satisfied that they successfully played matchmakers, the trio boards a plane for an important meeting. Unfortunately, the plane crashes and they arrive back at the mansion as ghosts.
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In Kick the can, a children's game somehow offers rejuvenative powers to an old man. In Steel, Lee Marvin's boxing robot breaks so he must enter the fight disguised as his own robot. In Game of pool, a young pool player finds himself playing against a long-dead master pool shark, with his life as the stakes. In Walking distance, an advertising agent visits his home town and slips thirty years into his childhood.
6) Hamlet
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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.
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William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," is a classic comedy of mistaken identities, a device employed in a number of the bard's plays, which is believed to have been written sometime between 1601 and 1602. When Viola is shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria she is separated from her twin brother Sebastian, who she mistakenly believes to be dead. With the help of the ship captain who rescues her, she enters into the service of Duke Orsino, who has fallen...
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Eva's class is putting on a play, Snowy White and the seven owlets, but Eva is a little disappointed when she is cast as the Magic Mirror (and Snowy White's understudy); the owl students are making all the sets, props, and costumes, and rehearsal is a little chaotic--but the play is going well until Snowy White hurts her leg and Eva has to fill in for real.
18) The glimmer man
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The desperate hunt for a serial killer has just gotten rougher for LAPD homicide detectives Jack Cole and Jim Campbell. They've become partners. Wearing Buddhist prayer beads, relying on ancient potions and living by Eastern philosophies, ex-New Yorker Cole is unlike any partner the street savvy Campbell has ever seen. The way Campbell sees it, secretive Cole is also something else: suspect #1 in their murder investigation.
20) High Spirits
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Impoverished Peter Plunkett hatches the perfect plan to save his debt-ridden Irish castle: lure American tourists by advertising the place as haunted! But when Peter and his wacky staff don sheets and chains to go a-haunting, they scare up more than paying guests ... they arouse the real ghosts of Castle Plunkett, as moldy and murderous a crew of spooks who ever terrorized the Celtic countryside. Or fell in love with a mortal.
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