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Set in Wichita, Kansas, the black comedy centers on mob lawyer Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) and his associate Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) who decide to give themselves a Christmas present and embezzle $2 million in cash from Charlie's crime boss, Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid). The lawyer is impatient to slip out of town with the alluring strip club owner Renata (Connie Nielsen). But you never know what surprises are in store for you. For Charlie, Christmas Eve proves to be a great surprise... |
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An historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan, where a young man is destined to unite the country's three warring tribes. |
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Dr Van Helsing is granted immortality and has to hunt down the immortal vampire prince in this low-budget movie. For centuries he tries to kill the elusive bloodthirsty creature, and the final showdown will take place in present-day LA. |
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Cooper and Ed are brothers: Coop acts, in ads and soaps, spending his real energy chasing women for one-night stands. His younger brother Ed, an earnest young man, works in an ad agency. For the past year, since finding his girlfriend in bed with another man with a video camera running, Ed has been in a funk: he's carried a torch, his social life has tanked, and his work has suffered. Ed will be fired on Monday unless he can save a major account. It's his birthday weekend: he wants to work, but Cooper wants Ed to rediscover his sex life. Cooper works hard to help Ed score, but disaster piles on disaster. Can a decent guy save his job and get a life? |
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Thirty-something Tracey Heart (Cate Blanchett) is a former drug-addict trying to redeem herself in the eyes of her mother and to recover from the vicious habit. Tracy makes a vow to set up her own business and turn back to normal life before it's too late and life has passed her by. Tracy's plan turns out to be more difficult, when three men from her past reappear: her criminal-minded brother Ray (Martin Henderson) seems having an idée fixe on making for himself a name in the underworld, her ex-boyfriend Jonny (Dustin Nguyen), and the emotional interests of an ex-football star and also a troubled family friend Lionel Dawson (Hugo Weaving). Shaken and confused, emotionally vulnerable Tracy finds herself became tangled with the criminal boss Bradley "The Jockey" Thompson (Sam Neill). How she can learn to love again when the pain of the past ain't letting her go? |
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In eighteenth-century Romania, dhampir Rayne (Kristanna Loken) is a perfect creature with vampire powers and human soul. She vows to avenge the rape and death of her mother and joins the Brimstone Society whose members hunt down supernatural threats. Their mission is to rid the earth of vampires and thus save people from extermination. Rayne battles furiously with bloodsuckers and will not be satisfied till she kills the king of vampires, Kagan (Ben Kingsley), her father...
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Tony Scott's witty action-drama is based upon the true story. Inimitable Keira Knightley appears as a renegade Domino Harvey, who leaves her high-society life for the bounty-hunter being to track down drug dealers and murderers for a bail bonds company in South Central L.A. She met Ed Mosbey (Mickey Rourke), an ex-con who had gone on to a successful career as a "bail recovery agent" - in short, a bounty hunter. To mother's horror, Domino not only fell in love with the job but also with her fellow adventurers, who over the years would become her family. |
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The stock supervisor of Smart Tech store Andy is a nice guy and good colleague. One night, his colleagues David, Jay and Cal invite him for a poker game, and in the end of the night, they find that Andy is a 40 years old virgin and they decide to help him to score. When he meets the divorced Trish, the owner of "We Sell Your Stuff on eBay" store, they agree to have no sex before their 20th date. Andy gets into many troubles due to these situations. |
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In this obscure and Gothic tale, adapted from David Lloyd's graphic novel, one attractive girl, Evey gets involved accidentally in a terrorist attack, perpetrated by a masked and megalomaniac character, V. V is following the same steps of Guy Fawkes, a sort of terrorist of the XVII century, who wanted to blow up the English Parlament in London. However, in the present time, the Orwellian London lives under the fascist government of chancellor Adam, and V will fight against his regime, using the power of powder, blowing up important buildings. Evey will be chased by the secret police, thinking that she's the accomplice of V, who will accomplish Fawkes' mission of destroying the Parlament on the 5th of November, in this mixture of The Phantom of the Opera, George Orwell's 1984 and Batman. |
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[2005,
USA]
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| You Don't Have A Ghost Of A Chance |
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The friends Emmett, Freddy, Marie, Kevin and his reluctant girlfriend Jessie decide to spend the Halloween night in an abandoned hospital. Meanwhile, the younger Allan meets the old friend of his father Arlo Ray Baines and asks him to help to find his vanished sister Meg in the same spot. The two groups meet each other in the mental institution section on the haunted third floor and they find that they are trapped in the place. Jessie has visions from the past and discovers that the ghost of Jacob, a former patient that raped a little girl and burned the hospital, is trying to escape possessing their bodies that melt down with his evil spirit. |
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Devastated by the abuse from her husband, Josey Aimes (Charlize Theron) gets a divorce and returns to her hometown in North Minnesota. With two kids to take care of, Josey takes a back-breaking job at the iron mine where she becomes one of only a handful of female employees and faces harsh reality. Along with the other women, she endures humiliation and sexual harassment from the male miners who brook no competition from womanhood. Despite the risk of losing her good-paying job, Josey finds the courage to take legal action against the company in order to stand up for herself and her fellow female coworkers. As a result, the case becomes the first sexual harassment lawsuit in the history of the United States to be won. |
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The gripping thriller discloses to viewers the truthful story about one of the most intriguing unsolved crimes of the last century. Ace police detectives and reporters struggled to discover the identity of a sophisticated remorseless Zodiac killer who walked around San Francisco unhindered, keeping its citizens in a constant state of abject terror. Moreover, the elusive criminal dared scoff at law enforcement officers by leaving perplexing ciphers at the crime scenes and sent a barrage of threatening messages to several newspapers.
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Young energetic woman Caroline Ellis (Kate Hudson) takes a job as a live-in caretaker for Ben Devereaux (John Hurt), an elderly stroke victim who is speechless and wheelchair bound. To make maneuvering throughout the mansion an easier task, Ben’s wife Violet (Gena Rowlands) gives the nurse a skeleton key that unlocks every door in the house. One day, while exploring the rambling old house, Caroline discovers a secret room at the back of the attic. Curiosity prevails and she opens the room containing an intriguing mix of mystical items, hair, bones, blood, and spells, to name a few. Caroline soon realizes that odd, and sometimes inexplicable, things start occurring around her. The more time she spends in the hidden room, the more convinced she is that something ominous may be lurking in the mansion...
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There are no slightly corrupt cops as well as no slightly dead. The only question is, whether they remain policemen or become criminals. One day two narcotics officers, Armando Sancho (Clifton Collins Jr.) and Salim Adel (Cuba Gooding Jr.), catch the attention of the Internal Affairs Department which suspects they have their hands in the cookie jar. Though they are actually not without sin, they have never gone too far. Nevertheless, IA agents begin pressing them strongly. Caught between the hammer of the investigation and the anvil of drug trafficking, Sancho and Adel realize that it must be a frame and they have no chance to remain unsullied. But they have the opportunity to decide whether these will be spots of dirt and shame or blood spots of real gangsters and rogue cops.
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Sex sells in America and these guys know it. The Amateurs follows a small town band of loveable losers who hit upon an idea that can make their dreams and fantasies come true. Thinking they've found the road to riches and fame they decide to make the world's most innocent adult film. Everyman's fantasy turns into a hilarious misadventure when they find they're in way over their heads. |
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For three weeks, 14-year-old Hayley Stark has been chatting on-line with 'Lensmaster319', a 32-year old fashion photographer, named Jeff. The two agree to meet at a coffee shop called Nighthawks. They hit it off, despite the massive age difference. Hayley appears to flirt with Jeff, and Jeff generally restrains himself, even admitting that he must wait 4-years until he can be with her. But his reservations are apparently not enough to decline when Hayley all but invites herself over to his house. Once at the house, manipulation becomes the name of the game, and the pedophile seems to be on the non-traditional side of it. |
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Once again Jigsaw is back for another round of horrifying life-or-death games. Jigsaw is eager to be put behind bars in order to throw the authorities off his trail as he once again punishes people who in his eyes have transgressed the boundaries of acceptable moral behavior. Eight people have been locked away by Jigsaw, and they must torture their bodies and minds to achieve the terrible justice Jigsaw seeks. |
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Rachel and Heck, long time friends and lovers, finally tie the knot, and during the celebration, Rachel starts a friendship with their florist, Luce. And while Rachel originally intended to match her new friend, Luce, up with her husband's friend, Cooper, she soon finds out that Luce is a lesbian. During the course of their friendship, Rachel starts to question her own sexuality. And though she comes to realize she may have feelings for her new friend, Rachel must decide who she will ultimately find the most happiness with: Heck, her new husband who is also adored by her family, or Luce, who has turned her life and everything she thought she new about love upside down. |
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A local criminal authority, cop-killing mobster Marion Bishop is being transferred to soon-to-be-closed Precinct 13 at the New Year's Eve. Few cops and several cons are closed there by a snowstorm, which has stopped the prison bus on its way to a more secure destination. Despite everything, cops are going to celebrate the holiday, but their plans will fail not even due to Bishop's colleagues intending his release. Sudden assault of the men in white upsets his hopes to set himself free and even to survive. |
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Set in 1950s, Asylum follows a psychiatrist family living in a house by the psychiatric asylum. In this drama based on the novel by Patrick McGrath, a forensic psychiatrist Max (Hugh Bonneville) serves at a remote psychiatric hospital where his wife slowly begins to fall for a dangerously handsome inmate named Edgar (Marton Csokas). Stella (Natasha Richardson) soon finds herself caught in the web of intrigue and the forbidden passion. A little pergola on the grounds of the Asylum becomes a shelter for the insane love, until the moment when Edgar escapes and hides somewhere in London. From this turning point the really deadly game begins as Stella's child is under the threat. |
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