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Tim Kearney is an incarcerated former Marine who is offered freedom by DEA agent Tad Gruzsa in exchange for impersonating recently-late drug lord Bobby Z. Things don't go as planned, however, and Kearney ends up on the run with Bobby Z's 12-year-old son. |
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Raccoon City became a deadly trap for the young and beautiful girl survived after the zombification virus outbreak from the "Hive" underground research station. "Resident Evil: Apocalypse" begins where the first film left off, we find Alice (Mila Jovovich) in the middle of the zombie-ravaged deadly city. With the help of a few survivors, Alice must escape the deadly location being hunted by the awesome biological weapon known as Nemesis and having some secret agenda. It will be difficult to escape before the Umbrella Corporation will erase the terrific consequences of its abortive experiment from the face of the Earth. |
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A Russian scientist in Australia, Dr. Nekhorvich (Rade Serbedzija), who has created a skin-corroding virus called "Chimera" and its antidote called "Bellerophon", goes to the CDC in Atlanta. When renegade IMF agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) learns about Dr. Nekhrovich's inventions, he is intent on getting them and infecting the whole world in order to acquire the wealth and power by selling the cure. What he expects is that the price of "Bellerophon" will bump up when the public gets to know about the shocking effect of "Chimera". Ambrose kills the scientist but what he gets is only the antidote. It turns out that the prudent Dr. Nechrovich has injected himself with the deadly virus. Ambrose stops at nothing to steal the virus from Biocyte Pharmaceuticals in Sydney otherwise no one will buy the cure. The Government sends IMF agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) on a mission to stop the bloodthirsty terrorist before he manages to execute his perfidious destructive plans. Ethan enlists help of his beloved, seductive adventuress Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Thandie Newton), computer expert Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames) and Australian helicopter pilot Billy Biard (John Polson). Can Hunt destroy the virus and retrieve the cure to save the world from a horrible and hasty death? |
| Assassins
[1995,
USA, France]
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| In the shadows of life, In the business of death, One man found a reason to live... |
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Silvester Stallone incarnates a skillful hitman named Robert Rath in this movie, where he is to assassinate Julianna Moore's character who is a computer hacker stealing technical information from the most successful corporations. Antonio Banderas plays another ambitious killer, who considers Rath an old an useless bounty hunter. Banderas's hero is Miguel Bain, and he wants to outrun Robert and slay Electra (Moore). Rath realizes that he'd better conjoined with Electra to fight against as well his own principals who want to have Moore's hacker dead as his nimble counterpart.
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It's 5 years after the battle against Gozer. A restraining order has forbidden Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Winston Zeddemore, and Egon Spengler from working as Ghostbusters, and as a result, they've had to find other jobs. Ray owns a book store called "Ray's Occult" and performs at children's birthday parties with Winston, Egon conducts experiments at the institute for advanced theoretical research, Dana Barrett broke up with Peter some time ago before marrying another guy, and Peter now hosts a local TV show called "The World of the Psychic". Dana, who is now the divorced mother of an 8-month-old baby named Oscar, works in the restoration department at the Manhattan Museum of Art. Strange things start happening when Oscar's baby carriage takes off by itself with Oscar in it, and it stops in the middle of 1st Avenue. While Dana's boss, Janosz Poha, is restoring a painting of a 16th-century tyrant named Vigo Von Homburg Deutschendorf, the painting comes to life. Vigo wants to live again by taking over Oscar's body. Vigo takes complete control of Janosz and orders Janosz to get Dana to cooperate. Janosz also has his own agenda. He wants Dana because he's in love with her. When Peter, Ray, and Egon try to help Dana, they are arrested and put on trial for violating the restraining order. When the ghosts of the killer Scoleri Brothers show up at the court room, the judge is forced to remove the restraining order against the guys so they can put the Scoleri Brothers in a ghost trap. After this, Peter, Ray, Egon, and Winston re-open Ghostbusters, and mayor's assistant Jack Hardemeyer tries to slow them down any way he can, because he believes the Ghostbusters are frauds who will hurt the mayor's chances of becoming the governor of New York. The Ghostbusters and their lawyer, Louis Tully, refuse to be stopped by Jack. When Jack has the Ghostbusters put in the Parkview mental hospital, there is an eclipse and Janosz kidnaps Oscar for Vigo. The mayor wants the Ghostbusters on the job, and when the mayor hears that Jack had the Ghostbusters put in the Parkview mental hospital, he fires Jack and has the Ghostbusters released to try to rescue Oscar from Vigo, and Vigo intends to make it as hard as possible for the Ghostbusters. |
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As a young orphan, a boy refuses to accept the name given him by priests and instead chooses to take on the name of Simon Templar after the Saint of magic. Speed ahead and the young boy is now a master thief in bidding wars with countries for his services. Using his skills of master disguise, he eludes all pursuers as he assumes names associated with the various Saints. In this role after stealing from a Russian industrialist, the industrialist hires The Saint to steal a formula for cold fusion being developed by a young female scientist. Cold fusion is said to permit a nation to heat its citizens with only a few gallons of water. However, on this case The Saint falls in love with the scientist placing him in a quandary of fulfilling his professional obligations or staying with the innocent young scientist. When she becomes threatened by the Russian Mafia, he has no choice but to go ahead with his job. However, she follows him to Moscow, setting off a chase across the City and through their sewers. |
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Rookie Los Angeles cop Nick Styles is at a Los Angeles street fair, where hit man Earl Talbot Blake pulls a double cross on some drug dealers, killing four men. Minutes later, Nick shoots Blake in the knee, and Blake is grabbed by Nick's partner and best friend Larry Doyle. Nick becomes the focus of the media, thanks to an amateur cameraman's footage of Nick disarming Blake. Over the next few years, Nick's career takes off: he's offered a job in the district attorney's office, and his hip media style keeps him in the public eye. Nick marries a woman named Alice and they go on to have two daughters named Lisa and Monica. While Blake is in prison, he vows revenge on Nick. When Blake comes up for parole, he orchestrates a bloody escape — which includes faking his own death. Blake doesn't want Nick dead. He just wants Nick to suffer in spades. He wants to ruin Nick's life as completely as possible, and then have Nick sent to prison for murder so Nick will know how Blake feels. Blake begins his vendetta by killing city councilman U. B. Farris and planting evidence to make everyone think Nick and Farris are running an underage pornography ring. Blake then kidnaps Nick, forces him to take drugs and have sex with a prostitute, videotapes the whole thing, and then releases Nick. Nick tells everyone that it was Blake who kidnapped him, but everyone refuses to believe Nick because everyone thinks Blake is dead. That night, Blake breaks into Nick's house, and makes a threatening videotape with Lisa, Monica, and an ax in it, but Blake didn't actually do anything to Lisa and Monica. Nick is then suspended from the DA's office, with everyone thinking that Nick is mentally ill because he keeps saying that Blake is still alive. Blake then begins the final phase of his vendetta — he kills Larry and frames Nick for it. Blake also links Nick to misappropriation of public funds, specifically, the funds he's supposed to be raising for a children's center in a building at the base of the Watts tower. Nick is forced to turn to his childhood friend, gang leader Odessa, for help in clearing his name and stopping Blake once and for all. |
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This modern version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet tells about two rival crime families. These are African-American and Chinese gangs struggling for power over Oakland. When Chinese crime lord's son Po Sing (Jon Kit Lee) is murdered, bad news reaches his older brother Han Sing (Jet Li), an ex-cop who without a second thought breaks out of a Hong Kong prison to track down Po's killers and avenge his death. In the United States while investigating the murder, Han meets Trish O'Day (Aaliyah), the rival ganglord's daughter who wants nothing to do with her father (Delroy Lindo) or his shady business. Han and Trish fall in love with each other and team up to continue the search for justice. |
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Frankie Lane is an action movie star, he has the bodyguard named Kit Lee. Nobody knows that Kit performs all the stunts in Frankie's films instead of his chicken protegee. But the moment of truth is drawing near: when they unintentionally crash the plans of mobsters headed by the notorious Doctor, Kit has to show all his Kung-Fu professionalism, and to take vengeance on Doctor, his longtime foe...
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Loosely based on the legend of Saint George and the Dragon, the fantasy movie revolves around George (James Purefoy), a valorous English knight who returns home from the Crusades, wishing to retire from soldering and settle down to a peaceful life to enjoy marital bliss. But when he arrives at King Edgar's (Simon Callow) palace, he finds him in a state of deep grief as his adorable daughter Princess Lunna (Piper Perabo) has recently been kidnapped by a dragon. The king offers George a glut of wealth if he finds the missing girl. The knight, who wants nothing more than a small acre of land and two cows, agrees to embark on a quest to save the princess. Little does he know that an unlimited number of incredible adventures await him. |
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Champion City is put in jeopardy when its chief protector, Captain Amazing (Greg Kinnear), is captured by supervillain Casanova Frankenstein (Geoffrey Rush) who has been released from prison and is intent on subjugating the city to his evil will. The first thing he is determined to do is to blow up a mental hospital. The city's fate is in the hands of the Mystery Men, a group of wannabe heroes. Mr. Furious (Ben Stiller), Shoveler (William H. Macy), Blue Raja (Hank Azaria), Invisible Boy (Kel Mitchell), Bowler (Janeane Garofalo), and the Spleen (Paul Reubens) are the only guys who have the courage to cross Frankenstein's path, foil his nefarious scheme and rescue Captain Amazing. |
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An orphan named Bei (Jackie Chan) is an exercise equipment salesman who has studied martial arts and dreamt of real adventures since childhood. One day he becomes an eyewitness to a jewelry store robbery and helps the police to catch bandits. Due to his publicity, Bei meets a private investigator, Many Liu (Eric Tsang), who thinks that Bei may be the long-lost son of a Korean millionaire. The detective persuades him to travel to Korea to meet his ‘father’ and then to Turkey. Bei is unaware that his father is actually a North Korean spy. Thus the orphan gets involved in a complicated game around lung cancer virus. He will have to use all his martial arts skills and show bravery in order to prevent the virus from falling into the wrong hands. |
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Jack Giamoro (Ben Affleck), a top Hollywood agent, has everything he has longed for: a beautiful wife, money, a successful career, and to top it all, he is a man with a big name. But things seem to be crumbling and disintegrating when Jack discovers the bitter truth: his wife Nina (Rebecca Romijn) is cheating on him with one of his most high-profile clients! Unfortunately, there’s no end of troubles. Unscrupulous and anxious for a scoop, reporter Barbi Ling (Bai Ling) somehow steals Jack’s diary containing both his personal and professional secrets. And now with his reputation hanging in the balance and his marriage falling apart, Jack must fight to restore his lost family happiness.
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There's a serial bomber loose in Boston, and he has killed Blanket, a member of Boston's bomb squad and the best friend of explosives expert Jimmy Dove. Dove has just retired from the bomb squad to marry a violinist named Kate, who has an 11-year-old daughter named Elizabeth. Haunted by grisly flashbacks, Dove soon figures out the identity of the bomber -- Irish explosives expert Ryan Gaerity, a man who is so radical in his views that even the IRA wants nothing to do with him. Gaerity has escaped from the maximum security Castle Gleigh prison in Ireland, using a bomb made from ingredients that include blood, wool, and a porcelain toilet. Gaerity has fled to Boston, where he saw Dove, who had just disarmed a bomb planted in the Harvard computer lab, painted as a reluctant hero on TV. Gaerity was furious: it's because of Dove that he's spent years in prison. Dove was born Liam McGivney, and he used to be a naive Irish patriot. Gaerity recruited him and taught him to build bombs, and Gaerity conceived a terrorist plan that went terribly wrong. Liam helped Gaerity build a bomb, then he realized that Gaerity intended to detonate it on a crowded street. Liam tried to stop Gaerity from detonating the bomb, but bomb device went off, killing a lot of people, including Gaerity's sister. Liam escaped from Ireland and made his way to America, where he changed his name to Jimmy Dove. Gaerity was arrested, tried, and imprisoned until his escape. Gaerity, who has now taken up residence in an abandoned gambling ship called the Dolphin, has decided to get revenge on Dove, and Gaerity started terrorizing the bomb squad by killing Blanket. Now, Dove is the only one who can stop Gaerity. |
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All Tess Trueheart wants is to settle down to a quiet life with her boyfriend, detective Dick Tracy. But there's something pretty rotten going on in town, with someone pretty rotten behind it, and Tracy has his hands full with the likes of villain Big Boy Caprice and with the almost irresistable Breathless Mahoney. |
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In the sequel to 1998's "The Mask of Zorro" Elena Montero (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Don Alejandro de la Vega (Antonio Banderas) find themselves married with their 10-year-old son Joaquin (Adrian Alonso). Their happy marriage begins collapsing as Alejandro spends too much time and energy fighting various villains. When Alejandro once again breaks his promise to give up his secret identity of Zorro, the frustrated Elena separates from her adventure-seeking husband and soon begins dating her former classmate Armand (Rufus Sewell), an odious French Count. Armand allegedly runs a wine-producing business but he actually plots to prevent California from becoming the 31st state by committing electoral fraud. It's up to Zorro to protect the future of California and its citizens as well as to win back his wife and son.
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Since his parents had been killed by vampires in front of his eyes, Jack Crow lives for revenge. As a grown-up, he is a fanatic vampire-hunter who works with a good team in a professional manner. One night, after the successful deletion of a nest, the master vampire Valek successfully deletes his team and the party hookers. As Valek knew Jack's name, Jack knows that the vampires are up to something big. Together with his only living colleague Tony Montoya, Katrina, a hooker who will turn into a vampire soon, and newly assigned unexperienced greenhorn priest Father Adam Guiteau he sets out to find the black cross first. If they fail, vampires can walk in the sun from then on. |
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An Apache warrior who defies U.S. attempts to bring the Indians under control grapples with an array of U.S. soldiers sent to subdue his revolt. Sympathetic scouts seek to bring Geronimo back to the reservation before he is hunted down. |
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Young Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien) gets to the other side of the silver screen and he meets his idol - Arnold Schwarzenegger who appears in the film as an action superhero Jack Slater. Danny becomes a participant of an action, and what is more, becomes the workmate of the movie superstar. The most difficult trial awaits our heroes when Slater gets into the real world facing the real, not the onscreen, offenders. Here, in the real world, he can die as every other man. This movie contains many allusions to the several famous Schwarzenegger's films - "Terminator -1, -2, Predator, True Lies" and other. |
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A New York police officer (Wahlberg) goes undercover in a dangerous crime scene to investigate abductions and drug-trafficking operations. He obtains backup with the help of another brave Hong Kong police officer (Yun-Fat) who works for the NYPD. They partner up together to stop the operation before the city goes down. The criminal orginization is called the "Fukanese Dragons" who are likely terrorists and illegal immigrants who are about to tear up Chinatown in New York City. |
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