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Though you may not expect it, Baltimore is a movie town. The Charles Theater, The Senator, Creative Alliance, the Maryland Film Festival, The Johns Hopkins Film Fest, The Orpheum, Little Italy's Open-Air Summer Film Fest…the list goes on and on. As a matter of fact, Baltimore was even recently voted one of the top ten places in the country for independent filmmakers to live and work by MovieMaker Magazine, a film industry publication. Charm City has a lot to offer movie lovers, so we have some selections to get you started.
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Absolute Power
Director: Clint Eastwood
DVD/2005
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Ladder 49
Director: Jay Russell
DVD/2005
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Director Clint Eastwood's 1997 box-office hit stars himself as Luther Whitney, a highly skilled thief who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, witnessing the murder of a woman involved in a secret tryst with the U.S. president (played by Gene Hackman).
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This movieis a tribute to the brave Baltimore City firemen that risk their lives for us everyday.
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The Wire - The Complete First Season
Director: Clark Johnson
DVD/2003 |
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Enemy of the State
Director: Tony Scott
DVD/2000
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After one episode of The Wire you'll be hooked. After three, you'll be astonished by the precision of its storytelling. After viewing all 13 episodes of the HBO series' remarkable first season, you'll be cheering a bona-fide American masterpiece.
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Robert Clayton Dean (Will Smith) is a lawyer with a wife and family whose happily normal life is turned upside down after, unbeknownst to him, he's just been burdened with a videotape of a congressman's assassination.
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Avalon
Director: Barry Levinson
DVD/2003 |
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Homicide - The Movie
Director: LieJean de Segonzac
DVD/2001 |
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Writer-director Barry Levinson is at his best when exploring his native Baltimore during his formative years: the 1950s and 1960s.
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A powerful coda to what many considered the best show on TV, this film recalls Homicide at its best: prickly character tensions, sour office politics, raging emotions, and the camaraderie of the squad room.
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NFL Team Highlights 2003-04 - Baltimore Ravens
Director: NFL
DVD/2004
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The Meteor Man
Director: Robert Townsend
DVD /2003
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Highlights from the Baltimore Ravens 2003-2004 season.
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Townsend plays a schoolteacher in a bad Washington D.C. neighborhood that is controlled by a vicious drug gang. Then he is hit by a meteor, and suddenly finds that he has super strength and can fly.
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Red Dragon - Collector's Edition
Director: Brett Ratner
DVD/2003
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Hairspray
Director: John Waters
DVD/2000 |
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Based on the novel by Thomas Harris, Red Dragon stars Edward Norton as Will Graham, the intuitive FBI agent who captured the notorious Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter (Anthony Hopkins).
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The movie that started it all...John Waters' enjoyably trashy comedy about the racial integration of a teen dance show on Baltimore television in the early 1960's.
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