William Holden
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Together forever, no matter what life throws at us. It's a phrase used from the moment two people realize it's true love, and it was no different for Steve and Hank. That instant spark when they first touch. The lingering tingle of their first kiss. Their family and friends told them the odds were against them, but they never questioned their love. They built their life from that love. Stacking memories up brick by brick to house and protect what...
2) Freelance
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When Jeremy, a high-profile photographer, agrees to take on Alan, the most popular male underwear model in the business, things are bound to develop. After their first freelance gig in Morocco, they spend a drunken night together. Was it more than a one-nighter for one of them? Six months later they find themselves in Provincetown. While there, Alan meets Dylan, an adoring young fan who ends up getting the night of his life in Alan's bedroom. Unable...
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Victor Kane isn't an ordinary funeral director. He's a vampire, and not an ordinary one, either. He doesn't drink fresh blood, but rather the lifeless blood from corpses that come into his family-run business. Despite the benefits of dead blood, there's one side effect he hasn't come to terms with -- dead blood caused erectile dysfunction. Cliff a handsome young man who loses his husband unexpectedly in the heat of passion and calls After Care Funeral...
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Due to an unexpected snowstorm, Joe finds himself stranded in New York City on Christmas Eve. After a lonely day, he returns to his hotel room to find a box of truffles and a note from Alan, a sexy and flirtatious barista. The note sends Joe on a once in a lifetime scavenger hunt touring some of the best pastry shops and chocolatiers in the city. The hunt ends in Alan's apartment, and when the two finally find themselves alone, things heat up. They...
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A chance encounter on the streets of San Francisco changes the lives of Matt, a successful businessman from Boston, and T. J., a young homeless man forced to live on the street. Though from two very different backgrounds, both men seek the same thing: love, companionship, and a sense of belonging. Matt is already in a relationship but it hasn't been going anywhere for years, and T. J. has his own relationship demons, too. Will their differences prove...
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Adam, an assassin for the Dutch Army, has specific instructions to infiltrate the pirate ship The Libertine at any cost and ensure the pirates will be defenseless when the army attacks. Using his body and his seductive charm, Adam captures the attention of Captain Blair. With the battle of Willemstad days away, and The Libertine's weapon expert suddenly murdered, Adam is placed aboard the ship to assure their arsenal can outlast the Dutch Army. As...
8) Our Town
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Based on a three part Pulitzer-Prize winning play by Thornton Wilder, this story is set in New Hampshire. It is a depiction of the everyday lives of the citizens of Grover's Corners.
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There's no way out for American-raised Swede Eric Erickson. Either he becomes an Allied spy, or he faces a trumped-up charge of Nazi collaboration. "How does one get to be so cold-blooded?" Erickson snaps at the English agent blackmailing him. "Watching German planes bomb London helps enormously," is the reply. William Holden portrays Erickson in this taut thriller that progresses from subterfuge to discovery and finally to breathless escape. The...
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Richard Quine directs George Axelrod's acerbic script (adapted from Julien Duvivier's La Fête à Henriette) in this romantic comedy that reunites William Holden and Audrey Hepburn for the first time since 1954's Sabrina. Holden plays Richard Benson, a Hollywood screenwriter being pressured by movie producer Alexander Meyerheimer (Noël Coward) to finish his script entitled "The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower." Meyerheimer gives Richard a two-day...
11) Sunset Boulevard
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Gloria Swanson, as Norma Desmond, an aging silent-film queen, and William Holden, as the struggling young screenwriter who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen's most memorable characters in "Sunset Boulevard." Winner of three Academy Awards®, director Billy Wilder's powerful orchestration of the bizarre tale is a true cinematic classic. From the unforgettable opening sequence -- a body found floating in a decayed mansion's...
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Not every pilot can guide his aircraft from a wave-tossed deck, seek out targets over unfamiliar Korean terrain, then return to what looks like a speck in the sea. Naval Reservist Harry Brubaker (William Holden) can. This masterful story of a war-weary World War II veteran who must leave his family to fight again combines moving drama with surefire, bombs-away aerial action. Also starring Grace Kelly as his loving, luminescent wife.
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A Ranching Saga tells the story of father and son pioneer ranchers in the Southwest. Around the turn of the century, William Electious Halsell and Ewing Halsell were integral to the growing ranching industry in Texas and Oklahoma. Through newspaper accounts, legal documents, personal correspondence, and interviews with family members, friends, and acquaintances, A Ranching Saga recounts the lives of these two keen businessmen, proud civic leaders,...
14) The wild bunch
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Warner Home Video
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c1997
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English
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The violence of the West in the time just before World War I is shown in this story of men who lived during the Mexican Revolution and were now trying to survive in a changing world.
15) Stalag 17
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ECHELONSTUDIOS
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1953.
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English
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When two escaping American World War II prisoners are killed, the German P.O.W. camp barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
16) Sunset Boulevard
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Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
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English
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Swanson stars as fading film star Norma Desmond and Holden plays the struggling writer who is held in thrall by her madness. Von Stroheim plays Desmond's discoverer, ex-husband, and butler.
17) Sabrina
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Paramount
Pub. Date
c2001
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English
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Modern-day Cinderella story in which the daughter of a wealthy family's chauffeur is transformed into a graceful woman, capturing the attention of the sons of the family.
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Enough stars to light five marquees. Enough subplots of passion, power and greed to fill 10 movies. Plus fiery special effects galore. From The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno producer Irwin Allen, and continuing that spectacular and devastating moviemaking tradition, comes When Time Ran Out... A South Pacific island's dormant volcano unexpectedly erupts in fury. Among those imperiled by the Carl Foreman/Stirling Silliphant script are...
19) The Country Girl
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Grace Kelly received an Oscar® for her brilliant portrayal of the wife, and Bing Crosby gave one of the most outstanding performances of his varied career as an alcoholic, guilt-ridden and has-been actor. When he is given an opportunity to star in a new musical show, his wife (Grace Kelly) and the show's director (William Holden) attempt to bolster his ego and help him make a comeback. This superb and timeless drama, based on Clifford Odets' play,...
20) Sabrina
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Bogie and Holden are the mega-rich Larrabee brothers of Long Island. Bogie's all work, Holden's all playboy. But when Sabrina (Hepburn), daughter of the family's chauffeur, returns from Paris, the stage is set for some family fireworks.