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"Horror movies can reveal much more than we realize about psychological disorders--and clinical psychology has a lot to teach us about horror. Our fears--mortality, failure, loneliness--can be just as motivating as our wishes or desires. Horror movie characters uniquely reveal all of these to a wide audience. If explored in an honest and serious manner, our fears have the potential to teach us a great deal about ourselves, our culture, and certainly...
4) The ring
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A young journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone in a week of viewing it.
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New York City radio host Erica Bain is working and living a wonderful life. One night she and her fiancé, David, are brutally attacked. David is killed and Erica is almost beaten to death. Erica is traumatized and in order to cope and work past the tragic event, Erica becomes someone else. She buys a gun and begins to roam the streets at night looking to take her revenge on the men who were responsible for the attack. Late one night, Erica is in...
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NYPD Detective John McClane has faced some brutal terrorists in his career, but now, he's about to face what may be his most dangerous enemy yet. John, who occasionally does work for the United States Department of Homeland Security, receives a call to bring in a hacker named Matt Farrell, because there has been a breach in an FBI computer system. Farrell is one of the many hackers who are suspected in the attack. After John gets to Matt's apartment,...
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Danny Archer is an ex-mercenary turned smuggler. Solomon Vandy is a local Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join together for two dangerous missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son. The son was conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside....
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"Alfred Hitchcock is not often associated with a social justice movement. But in 1956, the world's most famous director focused his lens on an issue that cuts to the heart of our criminal justice system: the risk of wrongful conviction. The result was THE WRONG MAN, a wrenching and largely overlooked drama based on the real-life arrest of Queens musician Christopher "Manny" Balestrero for two robberies he did not commit. With documentary-like authenticity,...
10) Premonition
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A housewife's life is shattered when she finds out her husband has been killed in a car accident, but when she awakes the next morning, she finds him alive and well.
12) Fracture
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Ted Crawford is a wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous structural engineer who lives in Los Angeles. He shoots his wife and entraps her lover. After the police arrive, he signs a confession. At his arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot D.A. who is getting ready to leave for a civil-law firm. He is told by everyone the case is open and shut....
13) One hour photo
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Sy is a photo-shop counter man at a discount store. He is an obsessive loner who convinces himself that he's part of a customer's family. His fantasy breaks down when he discovers the family is not as perfect as he had imagined.
14) Argo
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On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics still felt today. But there's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped. And a mid-level agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them.
16) D.O.A: D.O.A
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Time is running out for Dexter Cornell. He has just twenty-four hours to find out who poisoned him and why. In his bizarre and deadly search everyone has a secret and is a suspect, even the woman who loves him.
Frank Bigelow, told he's been poisoned and has only a few days to live, tries to find out who killed him and why.
18) The negotiator
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Maverick negotiator Danny Roman is framed for embezzlement and the murder of his partner and best friend. Newly married and faced with an unjust prison sentence, Roman turns hostage-taker to smoke out the guilty ones in his own squad.
20) Break up
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Jimmy awakens in the hospital after a beating by her abusive husband, Frank, to learn that Frank has died in a fiery crash and she is the prime suspect, leaving Jimmy to try and clear her own name and prove that Frank is not only still alive, but trying to set her up.
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