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The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress

The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress

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Film Age rating: 5 Year: 1944 IMDB Rating: 7.3

This WW2 documentary centers on the crew of the American B-17 Flying Fortress Memphis Belle as it prepares to execute a strategic bombing raid on Nazi submarine pens in Wilhelmshaven, Germany.

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Detour

Detour

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1945 IMDB Rating: 7.3

The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.

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Suspicion

Suspicion

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Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1941 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Johnnie Aysgarth. Though warned that Johnnie is little more than a fortune hunter, Lina marries him anyway and remains...

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Call of the Rockies

Call of the Rockies

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1944 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Cowboy Sunset Carson teams up with Frog Millhouse on a routine supply trip to Placer City. Before long, the duo find themselves ambushed by a team of dastardly highwaymen embroiled in an extortion rin...

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Too Late for Tears

Too Late for Tears

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1949 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.

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My Favorite Wife

My Favorite Wife

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Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1940 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Seven years after a shipwreck in which she was presumed dead, Ellen Arden arrives home to find that her husband Nick has just remarried. The overjoyed Nick struggles to break the news to his new bride...

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Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1942 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after fickle Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn,...

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Stormy Weather

Stormy Weather

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1943 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Dancing great Bill Williamson sees his face on the cover of Theatre World magazine and reminisces: Just back from World War I, he meets lovely singer Selina Rogers at a soldiers' ball and promises to...

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National Velvet

National Velvet

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1945 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Mi Taylor is a young wanderer and opportunist who finds himself in the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet, has a passion for horses and when she wins the...

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Command Decision

Command Decision

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Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1948 IMDB Rating: 7.3

High-ranking officers struggle with the decision to prioritize bombing German factories producing new jet fighters over the extremely high casualties the mission will cost.

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