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Elf: A Christmas Elf goes to New York City.

Django Unchained : After being rescued by a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

Cypher: When a mild-mannered company man gets embroiled in futuristic mega-corporations’ cyber-espionage wars, he must decide whether to trust his instincts about the only woman who might be able to save him.

Complicit: When an MI5 agent who is obsessed with stopping a terror plot that he can’t convince his superiors is real flies to Egypt to interrogate the British man he believes to be organizing it, he must decide how far he will go to prevent the attack.

With her life in danger and both the CIA and her husband’s double-crossed accomplices on her tail, she has to find the money and decide whether she can trust the mysterious man who’s helping her.

Charade: When a woman’s husband is murdered, she discovers that he was a rogue agent who stole a fortune from the CIA.

Casablanca: Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Bridges of Madison County : An Iowa housewife, stuck in her routine, must choose between true romance and the needs of her family.

An American lawyer has to use all his negotiating skills to navigate between the bitter enemies and broker a spy-swap deal.

Bridge of Spies : At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spy and an American spy plane pilot are captured.

Big Night : Two very different brothers promote their struggling 1950s New Jersey Italian restaurant by inviting Louis Prima and his band to take part in a sumptuous dinner there.

Back to the Future: A young man is transported to the past, where he must reunite his parents before he and his future cease to exist.

Betrayed by a mole in MI6, the agent must outmaneuver the rival intelligence services competing for the watch to save the defector and discover who the traitor is.

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Atomic Blonde : MI6 send their best troubleshooter to Berlin to retrieve a watch full of vital information, and the defector who produced it.

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The Artist: Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.Argo: During the 1979 Iranian revolution, a CIA officer plans to help six American diplomats escape the country disguised as a Canadian film crew, but with the Revolutionary Guards closing in and no support from his superiors, he must move fast to avoid being caught and executed.Apocalypse Now: During the U.S.-Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.He has to play the CIA, drug cartels, law enforcement, and even the White House off against each other to keep his operation running. American Made : When the CIA ask a pilot to fly clandestine missions in South America for them, he soon realizes it’s an ideal cover for smuggling drugs into the U.S.American Beauty: Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after becoming infatuated with his daughter’s attractive friend.

His first mission is to prevent one of his predecessors from building a nuclear weapon. American Assassin : A young American joins a deniable group of government assassins in the hope of revenge against the terrorists who murdered his fiancé.Amarcord : A young man, a stand-in for the director Federico Fellini, romantically views life in the 1930s Italian village of the director’s youth.