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Ben Affleck is utterly charming in this standout holiday comedy. He plays a lonely advertising executive who offers to pay the sullen owners of his childhood home to let him spend the holidays there. James Gandolfini, Catherine O'Hara, Christina Applegate, Josh Zuckerman, Bill Macy, Jennifer Morrison. (Repeat).

This period film is set during the German occupation of Poland in the 1940s. Based on true accounts, the drama follows Irene Gut Opdyke, a nineteen-year-old hotel kitchen worker hired by Rugmer, a Nazi official. She was later promoted as a housekeeper to serve in Rugmer's home, where, unbeknownst to him, she also managed to shelter twelve Jews in the cellar. (Repeat).

This drama is based on the true story of Sir Nicholas Winton and his heroic deeds during World War II. As a young British broker, he traveled to Prague in 1938, three months after the war broke out. He found destitute Jews who fled Nazi persecution in Austria and Germany. Families were willing to send their children away before the borders closed. Nicholas helps them ship the children out. But in

In this intense spy thriller, a CIA agent on the verge of retirement goes rogue in order to hunt down a dangerous terrorist. (Repeat).

The minds of two cinematic geniuses meld in this visionary sci-fi epic directed by Steven Spielberg and based on a treatment by Stanley Kubrick. Haley Joel Osment is extraordinary as a robot programmed to have human emotions. After he is abandoned by his adoptive parents, he sets out to become a real boy. (Repeat).

An ex-special forces operative wages a one-man war through Amsterdam to rescue his dead friend's daughter from the local crime syndicate leader. Rico Verhoeven, Frank Grillo. (Repeat).

This period film is set during the German occupation of Poland in the 1940s. Based on true accounts, the drama follows Irene Gut Opdyke, a nineteen-year-old hotel kitchen worker hired by Rugmer, a Nazi official. She was later promoted as a housekeeper to serve in Rugmer's home, where, unbeknownst to him, she also managed to shelter twelve Jews in the cellar. (Repeat).

This drama is based on the true story of Sir Nicholas Winton and his heroic deeds during World War II. As a young British broker, he traveled to Prague in 1938, three months after the war broke out. He found destitute Jews who fled Nazi persecution in Austria and Germany. Families were willing to send their children away before the borders closed. Nicholas helps them ship the children out. But in

The minds of two cinematic geniuses meld in this visionary sci-fi epic directed by Steven Spielberg and based on a treatment by Stanley Kubrick. Haley Joel Osment is extraordinary as a robot programmed to have human emotions. After he is abandoned by his adoptive parents, he sets out to become a real boy. (Repeat).

Anthony Hopkins, Morgan Freeman and Djimon Hounsou star in Steven Spielberg's sweeping, vividly portrayed historical drama. Set in 1839, the tale follows African slaves who rebel against their captors before their ship reaches U.S. shores. The film also chronicles their recapture in America and the trial that followed. Matthew McConaughey, Nigel Hawthorne, David Paymer, Pete Postlethwaite, Stellan

A recently resurrected soldier named Henry must rescue his wife from a ruthless criminal gang that want to get their hands on the technology embedded in his body. This innovative action movie takes place entirely from a first-person perspective. (Repeat).

Forty years after the release of Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' the best-selling album of all-time, director Nelson George takes fans back in time to the making of a pop masterpiece, featuring never-before-seen footage and candid interviews. (Repeat).

Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton give superb performances in this gripping thriller. The plot revolves around three men who discover a crashed plane containing $4.4 million, and chronicles how their lives unravel after they scheme to steal the loot. Bridget Fonda, Gary Cole, Brent Briscoe, Jack Walsh, Sam Raimi. (Repeat).

Powerhouse performances and a literate, emotionally rich script mark this Best Picture nominee. It's an Oscar-nominated adaptation of Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about three troubled women who are deeply dissatisfied with their lives: Virginia Woolf (Best Actress Nicole Kidman), a '50s housewife (Julianne Moore) and a modern-day book editor (Meryl Streep). Ed Harris, Miranda

In this audacious ensemble drama about the intersecting lives of troubled Californians, a dying mogul tries to reunite with his motivational-speaker son, a young quiz-show winner deals with his father's abuse and a drug addict falls for a lonely cop. (Repeat).

In the late nineteenth century, the Russian schooner Demeter embarks on an unusual quest, carrying twenty-four unmarked crates from Carpathia to London. Their voyage seems doomed from the start, given their suspicious orders, as a malevolent presence preys upon each member of the crew. When the ship arrives, at last, in Whitby Harbour, the crew is nowhere to be found. The story is based on a chapt

A social-climbing psychopath insinuates himself into a wealthy man's life. Chilling. (Repeat).

Remake of Billy Wilder's 1954 gem about the transformation of a woman and the two brothers vying for her attention. (Repeat).

A Philly cop investigates a murder witnessed by a young Amish boy. He flees with the boy to Amish country to protect him, and falls for the boy's widowed mother. (Repeat).

An NYPD detective's probe into the murder of four cops points to corruption and his own brother and brother-in-law---both of whom are cops. Edward Norton, Colin Farrell and Jon Voight star in this gritty and well-acted tale of duty, honor and loyalty. Noah Emmerich, Jennifer Ehle. Directed by Gavin O'Connor. (Repeat).

An unemployed, panhandling college dropout applies for a janitor position at the local hospital, but life gets flipped upside down when he's mistakenly hired as an emergency room trauma surgeon after his buddy hacks the hospital computer. (Repeat).

A group of friends attempts to flee from a dystopian near-future America, which imposes a system of surveillance, oppression, and violence on anyone who is not Christian, white, and heteronormative. They have to evade the dangerous civilian militia (who call themselves "Volunteers") in their attempt to escape to Canada. (Repeat).

In 1973, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir struggled to fight for her people and restore peace to her nation, facing difficult decisions and overwhelming responsibilities during the Yom Kippur War that plunged Israel into turmoil as the armed conflict escalated tensions between Israel and a coalition led by Egypt and Syria. (Repeat).

Aid workers attempt to save a community's water supply in this moving drama set in the war-torn Balkans of 1995. However, their mission is complicated by bureaucratic indifference and the possibility that any situation could erupt in sudden violence. (Repeat).

Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton are delightfully wacky in this comedy about three reunited college friends who join forces to plan the perfect revenge scheme against their philandering husbands. Dan Hedaya, Stockard Channing, Victor Garber, Maggie Smith, Bronson Pinchot, Sarah Jessica Parker. (Repeat).

Follows six best friends from college, now in their 40s, who reconnect for their 25 year reunion weekend. As secrets are revealed, one will force them all to reevaluate their lives. (Repeat).

A Seattle rock journalist searches for her ex-boyfriend, a onetime music superstar who went missing and possibly committed suicide. With the help of a wannabe documentary filmmaker, she sets out to uncover the truth in this offbeat comedy-drama. (Repeat).

A neurotic single father hires a woman to be the surrogate for his future baby. Cue a unique bond that will both bring them together and pull them apart as he begins to pry a little too deeply into the personal life of his surrogate in this comedy film. (Repeat).

A curmudgeonly gay dwarf and his unstable, alien-obsessed neighbor are thrown together on an impossible road trip that will alter their strange friendship (and their sense of reality) forever. (Repeat).