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A 2002 American supernatural horror film directed by David Twohy about a US Navy submarine in 1943 that picks up British survivors of a hospital ship and is haunted by mysterious events.
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List of Movies That Contain W
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Beowulf
A 2007 American computer-animated fantasy film directed by Robert Zemeckis adapting the Old English epic poem about the warrior Beowulf and his fights with Grendel and a dragon.
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Edge of Tomorrow
A 2014 American science fiction action film directed by Doug Liman about a public relations officer caught in a time loop during an alien invasion of Europe.
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Gone with the Wind
A 1939 American historical romance about a Southern plantation heiress whose life is upended by the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Hawaii
A 1966 American epic drama directed by George Roy Hill adapting James A. Michener's 1959 novel about Calvinist missionaries arriving in the Hawaiian Islands in 1820.
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It's a Wonderful Life
A 1946 American Christmas fantasy about a despairing small-town banker shown by a guardian angel what the world would have been without him.
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Jaws
A 1975 American thriller about a beach-town police chief, a marine scientist, and a fisherman hunting a great white shark off the New England coast.
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Lawrence of Arabia
A 1962 British epic drama about T. E. Lawrence, a British army officer whose role in the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans transformed his identity and reputation.
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Network
A 1976 American satirical drama directed by Sidney Lumet about a fading television news anchor who becomes a ranting prophet and is exploited for ratings by his network.
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North by Northwest
A 1959 American spy thriller about a Madison Avenue advertising executive mistaken for a government agent and pursued across the country.
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On the Waterfront
A 1954 American crime drama about a former boxer turned dockworker who must decide whether to testify against the mob-tied union running his New Jersey waterfront.
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Quiz Show
A 1994 American historical drama directed by Robert Redford about the 1950s television quiz show scandals, focusing on the rigged NBC program Twenty-One.
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Rear Window
A 1954 American thriller about a photographer immobilized by a broken leg who becomes convinced his neighbor across the courtyard has committed murder.
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Rebel Without a Cause
A 1955 American drama about a troubled high-school transfer student navigating one volatile night with two equally unmoored classmates in suburban Los Angeles.
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Sleepy Hollow
A 1999 American gothic horror film directed by Tim Burton, very loosely adapting Washington Irving's 1820 short story about a New York town haunted by a headless horseman.
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Star Wars
A 1977 American space-opera adventure about a farm boy, a smuggler, and a princess fighting to deliver stolen battle-station plans to a galactic rebellion.
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The Crow
A 1994 American supernatural action film directed by Alex Proyas about a musician resurrected from the dead to avenge the murder of his fiancee on Devil's Night in Detroit.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
A 2001 New Zealand-American fantasy epic about a hobbit who inherits a dangerous magical ring and joins a quest to destroy it in the fires of its making.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
A 2002 New Zealand-American fantasy epic following the splintered fellowship as armies of Saruman threaten the kingdom of Rohan and the journey east continues.
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The Shawshank Redemption
A 1994 American prison drama about a wrongfully convicted banker who endures two decades inside a Maine penitentiary while quietly engineering an escape.
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The Witch
A 2015 American historical horror film written and directed by Robert Eggers about a Puritan family exiled from a New England colony in 1630 and tormented by supernatural forces.
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The Wiz
A 1978 American musical fantasy film directed by Sidney Lumet, an African-American retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with the action transposed to New York City.
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The Wizard of Oz
A 1939 American musical fantasy about a Kansas farm girl transported to a magical land where she must find the way home.
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Underworld
A 2003 action horror film directed by Len Wiseman about a centuries-old war between vampires and werewolves, told through the perspective of a vampire warrior named Selene.
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WALL-E
A 2008 American computer-animated science fiction film from Pixar about a small waste-collecting robot left on an abandoned Earth who falls in love with a sleek scout robot named EVE.
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West Side Story
A 1961 American musical updating Romeo and Juliet to 1950s Manhattan, where rival white and Puerto Rican street gangs collide around a love affair.
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Whiplash
A 2014 American drama written and directed by Damien Chazelle about an ambitious jazz drummer at an elite New York conservatory and his abusive bandleader.
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Wolf
A 1994 American horror romance film directed by Mike Nichols about a New York book editor who is bitten by a wolf and gradually transforms.
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You Only Live Twice
A 1967 British spy film directed by Lewis Gilbert, the fifth in the James Bond series, in which Bond investigates the hijacking of American and Soviet spacecraft from a Japanese island.
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