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Dr. George Sebastien, a smooth and sinister physician who woos, weds, and murders several of his wealthy women patients for their fortunes. Aided by his demented manservant, he sets up a Park Avenue psychiatry practice and effects a miraculous cure for troubled heiress Linda Boothe, whom he makes his fourth wife. Can the suspicious Dr. Downer and Linda's ex-fiance Gil foil Sebastien's schemes and save Linda before it's too late? Rathbone is splendid...
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A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground. Her family, however, refuses to believe her story and sees the incident as an opportunity to prove the woman's mind has snapped so they can take control of her money.
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A would-be writer Nick Carraway leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz, bootleg kings, and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich, their illusions, loves and deceits.
10) Self/less
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In this provocative psychological science fiction thriller, an extremely wealthy man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man. But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origin and the secret organization that will kill to protect its cause.
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A native New Yorker Rachel Chu accompanies her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young, to his best friend's wedding in Singapore. Excited about visiting Asia for the first time but nervous about meeting Nick's family, Rachel is unprepared to learn that Nick has neglected to mention a few key details about his life. It turns out that he is not only the scion of one of the country's wealthiest families but also one of its most sought-after bachelors.
12) Boom!
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In what Tennessee Williams describes as the best film adaptation of his work he ever saw, Sissy Goforth, the world's richest woman, has retired to her lavish island estate to dictate her autobiography when poet Chris Flanders washes up on her beach. Flanders has the unfortunate reputation of calling on a woman one-step before the undertaker and is known as the angel of death. Undaunted by this, Goforth undertakes to make Flanders her last lover.
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John P. Merrick, the world's richest man, gets word that someone is trying to unionize a department store he owns. To thwart this blatant act of democracy, Merrick changes his name and takes a menial job at the store to catch the union activists without detention. Once he himself is subjected to the humiliating treatment by the department supervisor, Hooper, Merrick starts to wise up-and soften up.
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Friendship and Greed!-- Timon is a wealthy and generous man. Over the length of the play we watch as he slowly gives away his entire fortune. Then we witness the tragedy of a man who comes to realize that he has no friends now that he has no money. "Here lies a wretched corse, Of wretched soul bereft: Seek not my name: a Plague consume you wicked Caitiffs left! Here lie I, Timon; who, alive, all living men did hate: Pass by and curse thy fill, but...
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Criterion collection volume 1032
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Erica Benton's perfect life is shattered when her husband leaves her for a younger woman.
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Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found and her beloved uncle is convinced she was murdered and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced investigative journalist Mickael Blomkvist and the tattooed and troubled yet resourceful computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate.
19) The feast
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An affluent family gathers at their lavish home in the Welsh mountains for a dinner party, hosting a local businessman and neighboring farmer to broker a business deal to mine the surrounding countryside. When a mysterious young woman arrives to be the family's waitress for the evening, they find their beliefs and values challenged, as her quiet yet disturbing presence begins to unravel their lives - slowly, deliberately, and with the most terrifying...
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On the run through Europe from her wealthy, cruelly possessive husband, an American is thrown together by fate with a suave stranger, and soon the two are bound in a consuming, seemingly impossible affair that stretches across continents and brings them to the very edge of catastrophe.
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