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Number 5, one of a group of experimental military robots, undergoes a sudden transformation after being struck by lightning. He develops self-awareness, consciousness, and a fear of the reprogramming that awaits him back at the factory. With the help of a young woman, Number 5 tries to evade capture and convince his creator that he has truly become alive. |
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A magical adventure which features elves, demons and other mythical creatures. Darkness, the personification of evil, plans to disperse eternal night in the land where this story takes place, by killing every unicorn in the world. Although he looks unbeatable, Jack and his friends are disposed to do everything to save the world and princess Lili (who Darkness intends to make his wife) from the hands of this evil monster. |
| Robin Hood: Men in Tights
[1993,
France, USA]
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| The legend had it coming... Find out where Robin Hood put his Little John, what made Will Scarlet, and what did Friar Tuck into his tights that Maid Marion all of a quiver? |
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Mel Brooks is the well-known master of parody, so the film of this famous director is desperately hilarious. Now his aim is to interpretate the legend of Robin Hood in the funniest way: jokes, pranks and different allusions to the various films and stories adjoin many foolishness and follies. Without regales and, sometimes, without trouses, "men in tights" try to win over the heart (and not the only heart) of the beautiful Maid Marion. |
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A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captaine Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization. |
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Four researchers are irradiated by the unknown cosmic rays during the space voyage and get the supernatural abilities. Their DNA is once and for all altered – and so is their future. Reed gains the ability to stretch and contort his body into any shape and, as the group leader, is given the name Mr. Fantastic; Sue now is able to create powerful force fields and to become invisible as Invisible Woman; Johnny becomes known as The Human Torch, as he can now shroud his body in flames and take flight at will; and Ben, whose freakish transmutation is the most shocking, becomes an orange-colored, rock-like, superhumanly strong creature, The Thing. |
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The thrilling drama follows Nancy Drew (Emma Roberts), a precocious teenaged girl with a penchant for solving various mysteries as she accompanies her dad Carson (Tate Donovan) to Los Angeles, California on an extended business trip. The ancient mansion they rent was formerly owned by Hollywood movie actress Dehlia Draycott (Laura Harring) who went missing under notably mysterious circumstances in the early 1980s. Though Nancy has promised her worried dad to give up her dangerous detective work, she can't resist the temptation to crack the unsolved case. But the deeper she digs into the case, the more obstacles she faces on the way towards the truth. |
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Having pulverized Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) basks in his glory and starts resting on his laurels. He only fights against easy contenders for the title of champion. Swollen with fame and wealth, Rocky devotes less time to training and eventually loses the speed and precision of his punching. Besides, old traumas tell on him greatly. So when a young powerful hurricane-like boxer named Clubber Lang (Mr. T) gets into the ring, Rocky fails to withstand several knockout blows and finally falls as though dead. After the shameful fight nobody wants to know him any more. Only Apollo Creed, once his opponent and now his companion in misfortune, is inclined to give him morale support. |
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When a magical artifact is lifted from his library, a meek librarian sets out to ensure its safe return. To do so, however, he enlists the service of a woman with exceptional martial arts skills - who becomes the enforcer in the relationship. |
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Two brothers, Ernie and Lars Smuntz (Nathan Lane, Lee Evans), inherit a string factory from the very old father, and an out-of-town, running-down mansion. The mansion was built by a very famous architector and many people want to buy it but the brothers have promised not to sell the building. When the auction is being held, it gets wrecked by a common... mouse! Later the mouse turns out to be not as common as it seems and brothers begin an all-out war against the advanced rodent. They invite the tough anti-pest specialist (Walken), but he gets ruined by the victorious mouse as well! Who will win this fight?
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Many years ago an experiment was conducted to produce a perfect human being. Unfortunately there was a problem. The zygote split unevenly leaving two children - one with strength, brains, personality and love and the other one with what else was left! Both children were raised seperately at different locations until one day the two unite and help one another find their long lost mother. |
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TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the three have joined the team of stormchasers as they attempt to insert a revolutionary measuring device into the very heart of several extremely violent tornados. |
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Yesterday it was rural Kingston Falls. Today it's the Big Apple — and lots of wild, anarchic comedy — because a new batch of mischievous green meanies is on the loose. We told you. Remember the rules. You didn't listen. Now you'll have to face up to the hilarious consequences. |
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A faithful adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of Mowgoli the jungle boy who is raised by wolves after being lost when a tiger attacked an encampment and killed his father. Years later he finds himself re-united with his childhood love Kitty and back in the "civilization" of Colonial India which he finds far less civilized then his jungle haunts. The search for a lost treasure shows who the truly civilized members of society are. |
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The once-beautiful planet Krull falls a victim to the all-powerful, formidable monster, The Beast (voiced by Trevor Martin), and his vile cohorts, the Slayers. Prince Colwyn (Ken Marshall), the son of King Turlord (Tony Church), and Princess Lyssa (Lysette Anthony), the daughter of King Eirig (Bernard Archard), make up their mind to marry and thus unite their rival kingdoms into a cohesive whole against the villainous invaders. But during the wedding ceremony, the Beast and his army of darkness attack the palace, kidnap the gorgeous princess and hide her in the Black Fortress. Both kings and their numerous armies are murdered and the castle lies devastated. The courageous Prince and his companions, Ergo the Magician (David Battley), Emerald the Seer (John Welsh), Titch (Graham McGrath), Rell the Cyclops (Bernard Bresslaw), and Torquil (Alun Armstrong), the leader of a band of ten escaped convicts, set off in search of the fortress to rescue his bride from the jaws of the gruesome monster. |
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Montgomery "Monty" Brewster is a baseball player who has going back and forth from the minors to the majors for nearly 15 years. After getting into a brawl in a bar, he and his friend end up in jail, his team has not only decided not bail him out but to cut him. At his hearing Monty doesn't know what to do but a man who has been following him for sometime appears in court and offers to pay his bail. Monty assumes that it's a baseball scout but when they arrive at where they were going, Monty is taken to a law office and informed that he is the sole heir of a man who is one of the richest men in the country, who is also his long lost uncle. His uncle's last will and testament is that Monty must spend 30 millions dollars in 30 days, if which he accomplishes, he will get 300 million. But at the end of 30 days he must not own anything. He also must not give the money away and must not destroy anything valuable and he also cannot tell anyone why he is spending all this money. He thinks that he's on his way to doing that but Spike unwittingly invests some of the money and recoups everything that Monty has spent. And he also doesn't exactly have the support of the lawyers, cause is he fails they take control of the estate and give themselves a healthy fee for ahndling it. And also a lot of people especially the woman he is attracted to, thinks he is jerk. |
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Set in the world of high-stakes professional poker, the plot centers around Huck Cheever (Eric Bana), a hotshot player who goes all out to win games without fear of taking risks. When he comes to Las Vegas to win the World Series of Poker – and the heart of Billie Offer (Drew Barrymore), a young charming aspiring singer from Bakersfield – he runs into his estranged father, L.C. Cheever (Robert Duvall), a legendary poker player. As a result, the father and the son become rivals both in life and at the poker table. Huck feels geared up for fighting tooth and nail to be triumphant.
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Alan, son of a toy store owner, tries out some new action figures: The Commando Elite vs. The Gorgonites. What he does not know, is that both sets of toys were designed to move, talk and play back. The Commando Elite's purpose is to destroy the Gorgonites. Unfortunately, the toy designer who was responsible for the programming, bought highly intelligent military computer chips that are usually used for steering missiles - and are able to learn. Now, the Commando Elite, led by Major Chip Hazard, is up to destroying the Gorgonites, led by peaceful Archer, who hide in Alan's parents' house. Now, a battle, in which the destructive ability of creative computer chips against creative computer chips with a different attitude comes to light, is about to begin. |
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The Bakers, a family of 12, move from small-town Illinois to the big city after Tom Baker (Martin) gets his dream job to coach his alma mater's football team. Meanwhile, his wife (Hunt) also gets her dream of getting her book published. While she's away promoting the book, Tom has a hard time keeping the house in order while at the same time coaching his football team, as the once happy family starts falling apart. |
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According to the one of medieval legends, if a maiden lights a candle in the house of Winifred, who was a witch and were executed long time ago, the sorceress will return again. On Halloween night one lad, Max, decides to scare his sister and her girlfriend and leaves a burning candle in the house. In a next moment, coincidence makes the legend real, giving life back to Sanders sisters (Winifred, Mary and Sarah), witches who begin to have fun in the modern Salem, bringing destruction and sepulchral merriments to the town. One should use a vacuum cleaner instead of the magic broom to fly - even a witch uses the fruits of progress in this sparkling comedy. |
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Dr. Ira Kane (David Duchovny), a biology teacher, and Prof. Harry Phineas Block (Orlando Jones), a geology teacher from Glen Canyon Community College, examine the samples of the meteorite crashed in the Arizona desert and discover an infinite number of one-celled life-forms. The microorganisms are evolving in leaps and bounds but scientists can’t explain the phenomenon. The aliens eventually adapt to local conditions and start spreading out to take over Earth. Aided by government scientist Allison Reed (Julianne Moore) and pool manager Wayne Green (Seann William Scott), the two professors take pains to save mankind from the menacing alien population and the resulting extinction. |
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