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The Jehovah's Witnesses are a fast-growing, media-shy religious sect that believe that Armageddon is rapidly approaching. Its members find fulfillment in their tight-knit community and in church activities, including the extensive proselytizing required by the faith. Children raised as Jehovah's Witnesses are often torn between the rewards of conforming to its laws and the freedoms of a secular world. This program focuses on the pressures adolescents...
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Why do people sometimes intervene in acts of violence, but not so in others? The horrifying case of two-year-old James Bulger, murdered by two older children, threw into light this very confronting aspect of human behavior. Seen distressed by an estimated 38 people, no one intervened. Why? Why will an individual raise an alarm when alone, but not when sitting with a group of strangers? This is a fascinating and lucid look at the Bystander Effect,...
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Starr Carter navigates the perilous waters between her poor, black neighborhood and her prestigious, mainly white private school. This all changes when she finds herself in the middle of racial activism after her best friend is shot by police officers, and she's forced to make a decision. Allow the media to skewer her friend to protect the status quo, or stand up and tell the truth in memory of Khalil?
4) 9 bullets
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A former burlesque dancer turned author discovers a second chance at life and redemption when she risks everything to rescue her young neighbor after he witnesses his parents murder. Now on the run from the local crime boss, who happens to be her longtime ex, she makes a desperate attempt to get the boy to safety.
5) Four hands
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Jessica and Sophie have remained in their family home even after they witnessed their parents' murder there as children. Twenty years later, learning that the killers will be paroled, Sophie begins to suffer blackouts during which she commits unspeakable acts. For his outstanding and unnerving second feature, director Oliver Kienle gleefully ratchets up the tension to a knockout climax.
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The FBI's Witness Protection Program is turned funnyside up when mob informant Vinnie Antonelli and agent Barney Coopersmith are on a caper. Vinnie's got smooth moves, a swank wardrobe and a mean dance step. His identity, home and lawn mower are new, but he's still the same: a guy with an eternal scam. That makes overseer Barney a guy with a huge headache.
8) Rear window
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A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
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To those that know her, Mary Shannon is a glorified meter maid, but her real job as a federal marshal is to oversee federal witnesses who have been relocated to Albuquerque through the program. She has to balance her job as a marshal and the secret identity she must use to hide her high-risk, high-impact job from her family.
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Meryl and Paul Morgan are a highly successful Manhattan couple. Their almost perfect lives have only one notable failure - their dissolving marriage. But they witness a murder and become the targets of a contract killer. The Feds, protecting their witnesses, whisk them from their beloved New York to a tiny town in Wyoming, and a relationship that was on the rocks threatens to end completely, unless with their new Blackberry-free lives, the Morgans...
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As the sole survivor of a massacre at the Boston restaurant where she was a chef, it's no wonder Reece Gilmore wants to escape her life. She hits the road with no destination in mind, desperately wanting to make a clean start. When her car gives out in a Wyoming town, Reece takes a job a the local diner, hoping to earn enough cash to keep moving. But when she meet a young writer named Brody, Reece considers putting the past behind her and settling...
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Mary Shannon is a U.S. Federal Marshal with the highly secretive Witness Protection Program. For Mary, living a double life and getting shot at on a regular basis are all in a day's work. So are teaming-up with her trusted partner, Marshall Mann, to protect Federal witnesses who are being relocated to Albuquerque. Mary does all this while juggling a complicated personal life.
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An evil dictator threatens to take over the kingdom and Princess Rosalinda gets put into the Princess Protection Program. She is whisked away to rural Wisconsin where she must learn the ins and outs of behaving like a normal American teenager. She is taken under the wing by Mason, an agent from the Program. Carter is Mason's daughter, who works after school at a a nearby bait shop. Rosalinda, now known as Rosie, helps Carter overcome her insecurities...
16) La bête humaine
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Train engineer Jacques lusts after the wife of his co-worker Roubaud. Roubaud kills his boss and Jacques witnesses the murder. In order to keep Jacques quiet, Roubaud allows Jacques to have an affair with his wife, creating a tragic love triangle.
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Pretend you don't see her: A real estate agent witnesses her client's brutal murder and becomes the main focus of the homicide investigation. She is now in a race to uncover the motives behind the killing before she becomes the next victim.
You belong to me: Dr. Susan Chandler is a willful psychologist who uses her call-in radio show to explore the issues of lonesome women who are victims of a seductive killer.
We'll meet again: Paroled after having...
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Big Momma's House: An FBI agent disguises himself as an old lady to protect a beautiful federal witness and her son.
Big Momma's House 2: On his latest assignment, FBI agent Malcolm Turner (Lawrence) goes undercover as Big Momma, and works as a nanny for an unhappy woman (Procter) who is under investigation for murder.
20) 16 blocks
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Jack Mosley is a burnt-out detective who is assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail, 16 blocks to the 100 Centre Street courthouse. However, as the two head off, Mosley learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley's colleagues, and the entire NYPD want the witness dead. Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness.