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Glass Chin

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Similar Movies:

Michael Collins

Au revoir les enfants

Viva Zapata!

Man on the Moon

World Trade Center

Malcolm X

Marie Antoinette

Memoirs of a Geisha

Mar adentro

Gandhi

Almost Famous

Persona

JFK

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

The Color Purple

Yankee Doodle Dandy

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish

The Quiet Man

Glass Chin