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1) Exact change
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Three lifelong friends, Vietnam vets, arrive at their New Jersey bar and grill to celebrate paying a loan shark the final money they owe him. However, they learn that one of the friends has lost all the money in the futures market. To get more money, they attempt the kidnapping of a dentist for ransom but it goes wrong when the victim escapes from them on the expressway. Now they are holed up in an abandoned South Bronx warehouse trying to figure...
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A heartfelt war drama starring Pierce Brosnan as Artie Crawford, an elderly World War II veteran haunted by the death of his friend on D-Day. Escaping his care home in Northern Ireland, Artie battles his way back to France, determined to reconcile with the ghosts of his past. With his health failing and time running out, this may be his last chance to honor his fallen comrades and confront the painful memories that have haunted him for decades. Now,...
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Recounts the problems faced by three returning veterans of WWII as they attempt to pick up the threads of their lives. Captain Derry is returning to a loveless marriage, Sergeant Stephenson is a stranger to a family that's grown up without him, and sailor Parrish is tormented by the loss of his hands.
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In 1918, Larry Darrell returns home from World War 1 disillusioned with his materialistic society. The quest for inner peace leads Larry to reject his rich fiancee, Isabel, and go searching for truth in the Himalayas. But, Larry learns that the path to enlightenment is as painful and narrow as treading the sharp edge of a razor.
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A World War II veteran returns home at the end of the war to find his parents have died, his younger brother is in prison and the family farm has been sold. Feeling lost in the world, Noah wanders the back roads of the South in search of a place to belong ... a place to call home.
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The Expendables are a tight-knit team of skilled combat vets turned mercenaries. Hired by a powerful covert operator, the team jets off to a small South American country to overthrow a ruthless dictator. Once there, they find themselves caught in a deadly web of deceit and betrayal. Using every weapon at their disposal, they set out to save the innocent and punish the guilty in this blistering action-packed thriller.
10) The undefeated
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At the end of the Civil War, Union Cavalry officer John Henry Thomas (John Wayne) and former Confederate Colonel James Langdon (Rock Hudson) lead their men into Mexico to begin a new life. Caught between Mexican rebels and the Emperor's forces, they find themselves fighting side by side and must forge an uneasy friendship in order to survive.
12) Irresistible
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A Democratic strategist assists a retired veteran run for mayor in a small, conservative Midwest town.
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Billy Jack is put on trial for two killings he committed in self-defense while protecting the Freedom School from small-town Arizona bigots. He is convicted and sent to prison, but the Freedom School thrives under Jean Roberts. When Billy Jack is paroled for good behavior, he returns home to explore his tribal spiritual heritage just as the school comes under fire from local officials.
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A pretty hospital night nurse says 'I do' to the Korean War vet under her care. Within moments she wonders what she's done. Ralph wed for money five years ago, but has grown to love his bride. Except she just walked out on him. Linger and look on as the pairs go through a Period of Adjustment.
15) Gran Torino
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Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Walt is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man, who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. He is a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor, Thao, a young Hmong teenager, becomes pressured by his gang member cousin to steal Walt's Gran...
16) The master
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In post-World War II America, a naval veteran arrives home unsettled and uncertain of his future, until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader.
17) Still the drums
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An American classic story about friendship heroism and patriotism; Watch a 50 year journey on the lives of four best friends as they reminisce after a funeral of one best friend.
18) Gunner
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A highly decorated ex-soldier, Lee Gunner, tries to save his sons Luke and Travis who were kidnapped by a dangerous drug gang in the Appalachian Mountains.
19) Frantz
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Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing flowers on Frantz's grave.
20) I was a soldier
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Homeless war veteran Dave Simms finds hope in an unlikely place while trying to save his only companion, Sally the Dog. At a burger van, Dave meets Malcky and comradery sees the pair fight a broken system & help Dave battle his PTSD.