David Baldacci's Favourite Movies (10 titles)

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The Godfather

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• The Godfather on DVD (1972)
  Starring: Marlon Brando,  Richard Conte,  James Caan
  Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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  Chilling portrait of a Sicilian family's rise and near fall from power in America and the passage of rites from father to son. Based on a novel by Mario Puzo.
  
  Rate this: 81% from 61,575 members

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Schindler's List

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• Schindler's List on DVD (1993)
  Starring: Liam Neeson,  Ralph Fiennes,  Caroline Goodall
  Director: Steven Spielberg
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  Based on a true story, SCHINDLER'S LIST is Steven Spielberg's epic drama of World War II Holocaust survivors and the man who unexpectedly came to be their saviour. Unrepentant womaniser and war profiteer Oskar Schindler uses Polish Jews as cheap labour to produce cookware for the Third Reich. But ..read more »
  
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Rear Window

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• Rear Window on DVD (1954)
  Starring: Grace Kelly,  Wendell Corey,  Thelma Ritter
  Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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  The weather is getting hotter, and photographer L.B. Jefferies (James Stewart) is stuck in his apartment with a broken leg and nothing to do--that is, nothing to do but spy on his neighbours through their open windows across the way in the apartment complex. There's an attractive and scantily clad ..read more »
  
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Some Like It Hot

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• Some Like It Hot on DVD (1959)
  Starring: Marilyn Monroe,  Jack Lemmon,  Tony Curtis
  Director: Billy Wilder
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  When Chicago musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) accidentally witness a gangland shooting they quickly board a southband train to Florida, disguised as Josephine and Daphne, the two newest homeliest members of an all-girl jazz band. Their cover is perfect...until a lovelorn singer (..read more »
  
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Chinatown

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• Chinatown on DVD (1974)
  Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Faye Dunaway,  John Huston
  Director: Roman Polanski
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  Director Roman Polanski's neo-noir detective story is set during a heat wave in 1930s Los Angeles, whose residents are suffering from a water shortage as a result of an ongoing drought. Private investigator Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) runs a detective agency specializing in matrimonial strife and ..read more »
  
  Rate this: 73% from 23,136 members

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To Kill A Mockingbird

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• To Kill A Mockingbird on DVD (1962)
  Starring: Gregory Peck,  Mary Badham,  Philip Alford
  Director: Robert Mulligan
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  Robert Mulligan's classic adaptation of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set in the racially charged atmosphere of Macon County, Alabama in the 1930s, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is a poignant coming-of-age story. Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Screenplay (written by Horton Foote),..read more »
  
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Unforgiven

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• Unforgiven on DVD (1992)
  Starring: Clint Eastwood,  Gene Hackman,  Morgan Freeman
  Director: Clint Eastwood
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  In Clint Eastwood's acclaimed Western, Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman), a sadistic, dictatorial sheriff, enforces gun control on a tiny frontier town, doling out his own brand of due process as he sees fit. When he denies justice to the prostitutes of the town brothel, one of whom has been ..read more »
  
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The Maltese Falcon

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• The Maltese Falcon on DVD (1941)
  Starring: Humphrey Bogart,  Mary Astor,  Sidney Greenstreet
  Director: John Huston
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  Hard-drinking private eye Sam Spade sleuths the backyard of San Francisco in search of an elusive black bird statuette while evading the setups of three disparate miscreants: the duplicitous Brigid, the perfumed Mr. Cairo, and the scheming Fat Man. Huston's brilliant directorial debut is aided by ..read more »
  
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Lord Of The Rings, The: The Fellowship Of The Ring

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• Lord Of The Rings, The: The Fellowship O... on DVD (2001)
  Starring: Sean Astin,  Sean Bean,  Cate Blanchett
  Director: Peter Jackson
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  Set in Middle-Earth many many years ago, this is the story of a young Hobbit named Frodo, who has in his possession a ring... This ring is needed by the evil Lord Sauron to destroy civilisation and plunge the world into complete darkness. In order to prevent this, Frodo must find a way to the Mount ..read more »
  
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Doctor Strangelove

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• Doctor Strangelove on DVD (1963)
  Starring: George C. Scott,  Peter Sellers,  Sterling Hayden
  Director: Stanley Kubrick
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  DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB is the cold war masterpiece by Stanley Kubrick. Based on the novel RED ALERT by Peter George, the film is set at the height of the tensions between Russia and the United States, when all it would take to destroy the world was one ..read more »
  
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