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1. A young boy, Cedric, living in New York with his widowed mother, is summoned to England to claim a title from his estranged grandfather, but is not happy that his mother is not welcomed. Still upset that his son had married an American, the grandfather is soon won over by Cedric's charm, and is saddened when another claim is made on the title. Thanks to Cedric's friends, the claim is soon proven false and they all live happily ever after.
2. A tribe in the Brazilian rain forest, which includes an American pilot (Tom Berenger), is tragically affected by the arrival of a diverse group of missionaries, some of whom simply want to exchange cultural knowledge and some who want nothing less than to convert all of the natives to Christianity.
3. This 1966 black comedy is about a nerdy high schooler (Roddy McDowall) who is willing to do anything to make his dream girl happy, even though nothing she dreams up really makes her as happy as she thinks it will.
4. A sailor (Peter O'Toole), haunted by an act of cowardice, seeks to redeem himself by becoming a hero to a group of oppressed people in the Malay jungle.
5. This 1974 film involves four 1950s Brooklyn youths who begin a gang (with the Fonz and Rocky among them), have girlfriend problems and try to enjoy the rest of the time they have left before the responsibilities of adulthood take over.
6. A 1960's military-school student (David Keith) in his last year, is forced to help out the school's first black student, after he is targeted by a racist group of elite students who want him out.
7. This is an all-encompassing title for the trilogy of movies created by Peter Jackson, which tells the tale of a group of people travelling with a hobbit who has to destroy an object which could have dire consequences for all of them if it fell into the wrong hands. "The Lord of the ______"
8. A knight (Charlton Heston), sent with his entourage to protect the property of his lord, falls in love with Bronwyn, a local girl in the village.
9. After surviving a plane crash, military students on an island without adult supervision split into two factions, one passive and rational and the other savage and brutal, in this 1990 thriller.
10. An explorer (Ian Holm) who finds a man living as an ape in the jungle, figures out who he is and takes him to England to meet his family.
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