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A former cop is drugged and kidnapped, he is to face his riskiest mission yet when he's forced to compete for his life in this modern variation of the classic survival tale "The Most Dangerous Game". He becomes one of six men who have been thrown into the jungle with the singular goal of surviving a brutal human hunt, to be contestants in the ultimate survival game when surroundings are as deadly as the men who track their every move. Each night they will be hunted until there is one remaining survivor who will win a $10,000,000 cash prize or die a lonely death in the jungle. Wealthy men and women, mostly generals, powerful drag-lords and gang bosses who are called "Players", had selected each contestant by themselves from the number of socio-pathic murderers and undercover agents. Resembling an older Vin Diesel, Michael Rooker plays Dakota Varley in this breathtaking action movie. |
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In 2010, the riskiest districts of Paris are walled off and turned into ghettos controlled by ruthless street gangs. After a weapon of mass destruction is stolen by Taha Bemamud's (Bibi Naceri) powerful gang and may take lives of millions of dwellers, Damien Tomaso, an elite police officer with expertise in martial arts and weaponry, is assigned to find and deactivate the bomb. He specializes in navigating the treacherous sections; however, he needs a guide to District B13. Thus Damien teams up with ex-thug Leito (David Belle) who is determined to rescue his kidnapped sister Lola, (Dany Verissimo), from the clutches of Taha's gang. |
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A young man struggles with the effects of suppressed childhood memories and while struggling, he discovers some method for traveling back in time to occupy his own body in the days of boyhood. From an early age, crucial moments of Evan Treborn's (Ashton Kutcher) life have sunk into oblivion, his childhood was darkened by a series of terrifying events he can't remember. He discovers that with every trip back in time, he gently changes the present, which leads him to travel back in time over and over again to undo the oppressive events of his past. |
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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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The story takes place in China in the 1940s and revolves around Sing (Stephen Chow), a young charming but clumsy hoodlum who aspires to join the legendary "Axe Gang." Meanwhile, the ruthless lord of the most feared gang, Brother Sum (Kwok-Kwan Chan), who wants to dominate everyone, starts terrorizing a slum small neighborhood called Pig Sty Alley. Nevertheless, an old but spry landlord (Wah Yuen), who rules the neighborhood, and his mean wife (Qiu Yuen) go on a warpath to defend their apartment complex and its residents from their villainous usurpers. |
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A ruthless contract killer Tom Cruise is soon to dispose off five people. He recruits cab driver Max (Jamie Foxx) to drive him through the darkness of nightly Los Angeles, to help him to execute these five in different locations during a ten-hour stretch. Max is to become the unwilling collateral of Tom Cruise's severe and sociopath assassin. Both of them hardly crave for survival as they became dependent on each other when L.A. police depts. try to intercept them on their way from one given destination to another. Cruise is leaving his sweet image for this breathtaking and straight-out movie, Jada Pinkett-Smith breaks the boundaries of the minor role, and L.A. city itself turns into a major character. |
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Brittany Havers (Susan Ward), a well-to-do school-girl, is soon to inherit the fortune as her stepfather Niles Dunlap (Anthony John Denison) had accidentally died in a crash of a light plane. Her classmate Maya (Leila Arcieri) suddenly claims that she is an illegitimate daughter of Brittany's stepfather being a child of an extramarital affair when her mother was charmed by Niles Dunlap. Terrence Bridge, an insurance investigator, considers both girls as criminals, thinking they are trying to steal Dunlap's money. A lot of unabashed sexual scenes and the spirit of a risky venture make this sequel worth watching along with the twisted subject of the movie. |
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Andrew Largeman shuffled through life in a lithium-induced coma until his mother's death inspired a vacation from the pills to see what might happen. A moderately successful TV actor living in Los Angeles, "Large" hasn't been home to the Garden State in nine years. But even with 3,000 miles between them, he's been unable to escape his domineering father Gideon and the silencing effect he's had on his son from afar. Stunned to find himself in his hometown after such a long absence, Large finds old acquaintances around every corner living quite unique lives as gravediggers, fast food knights and the panderers of pyramid schemes. Meanwhile, at home, he does his best to avoid a long-simmering but inevitable confrontation with his father. By a twist of fate, Large meets Sam, a girl who is everything he isn't. A blast of color, hope and quirks, Sam becomes a sidekick who refuses to ride in his sidecar. Her warmth and fearlessness give Large the courage to open his heart to the joy and pain of the infinite abyss that is life. |
| EuroTrip
[2004,
USA]
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| No actual Europeans were harmed in the making of this film. |
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Scott's (character played by Scott Mechlowicz) girlfriend is cheating on him thinking his European pen-pal-for-years Mike is trying to start a homosexual affair via e-mail. When he finds out Mieke is not a guy, but a buxom blonde girl (Jessica Böhrs), he travels to meet her with his pals Cooper (Jacob Pitts), Jenny (Michelle Trachtenberg), and Jamie (Travis Wester). The foursome's adventure across the continent proves to be something other than a straight line! |
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It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles, and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer's "The Iliad." |
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Drug dealing is troublesome business fraught with risks and early mortality. Having earned enough unrighteous money, a cocaine dealer nicknamed XXXX (Daniel Craig) decided not to tempt fate and get out of the game. However, his crime boss Jimmy Price (Kenneth Cranham) wanted him to do two last favors. The assignment of finding the missing drug-addicted daughter of Jimmy's old pal, Eddie Temple (Michael Gambon), appeared to be a piece of cake. But the second task proved to be rather tough: he must recover an ecstasy shipment worth Ј2 million stolen by small-time crook Duke (Jamie Foreman). If he had known that this task would take an unexpected and terrifying turn, he would have retired from this dirty business a month before!
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Last times of Amedeo Modigliani's life are depicted in this biographic movie set in 1919 in Paris. This exciting and breathtaking story includes a unique spirit of an epoch when nightly Paris drowned in the fire of passions and dangerous pleasures watching the rivalry of two geniuses: Modigliani (Andy Garcia) and Picasso (Omid Djalili). These great painters had initially ignored the yearly art competitions, until the one in which the prize was the hearty money and a guaranteed career. In the same time, Paris high society was shaken by the Amedeo's ardent relations with Jeanne Hebuterne (Elsa Zylberstein). Modigliani's tragedy was in being unappreciated and addicted to alcohol and opium, which made his often unpredictable and sometimes violent behavior all the more volatile. |
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Eighteen-year-old Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch), an aspiring high school student with big dreams of being a politician, is still inexperienced in matters of love and sex. But everything changes when a fascinating, seemingly innocent 19-year-old girl, Danielle (Elisha Cuthbert), moves in next door. They fall wildly in love with each other and begin dating. Besotted, Matthew considers her to be the girl of his dreams and gets stunned to find out that Danielle is a former porn star. From that point on, he finds his life turned upside down. Matthew decides to help her cut the strings of her past but he faces a variety of obstacles he is not prepared for. All in all, it is Danielle who helps him deal with the problems and teaches him that he should be willing to risk everything for the sake of love. |
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In the 1990s, an American student, Jesse (Ethan Hawke), and a young beautiful Frenchwoman, Celine (Julie Delpy), met on a train in Europe and spent several hours strolling through Vienna and revealing secrets from their pasts and dreams for their futures. Much water has flowed under the bridge since then. Jesse has become a writer; he is married with a kid. Celine is an advocate for the environment, has a boyfriend. While promoting his latest work in Paris, Jesse unexpectedly meets his fellow passenger again. They reunite and walk around the astounding and romantic city, talking about what tomorrow may bring forth. |
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In this pulse-pounding thriller, photographer Adam (Leigh Whannell) and Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) find themselves in a deadly predicament when they wake up in a large industrial bathroom, chained by their ankles to rusty pipes at opposite corners. Between them is a dead man lying in a pool of blood with a gun in his hand. Neither man knows how they got there and how to get out of the dank chamber alive. Recalling a recent murder investigation by Detectives David Tapp (Danny Glover) and Steve Sing (Ken Leung), Dr. Gordon realizes that their captor is a serial killer known as "Jigsaw" (Tobin Bell) due to his bizarre calling card. The torturer leaves his victims impaled on the horns of a dilemma: to die or to kill another person. This time, the doctor must kill Adam within 8 hours. Else the psychopathic genius will kill both him and Adam; Lawrence's wife Alison (Monica Potter) and his daughter Diana (Makenzie Vega) will also be killed... |
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Two childhood friends face their past relationships, including their own, alongside a new friend in the 1980's in New York City. Their friendship becomes a love triangle as they struggle with a father's death and an unexpected pregnancy. Together, the shall face each other as they realize that everything they have may not be what they expected. |
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Sam, a shy schoolboy, suffers from a bully school troublemaker George in a small Oregon town. Sam tells his protective elder brother about the pummeling he suffers from that guy. Two brothers think out the revenge plan together and invite George to the river boat trip to put a stop to humiliation. During the trip Sam unexpectedly finds out that George is simply a child who can not find friends. But the boat is already on its way… |
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The Passion of the Christ concerns the last 12 hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth (Jim Caviezel). The dialogue is spoken in the ancient Aramaic language, along with Latin and Hebrew. His prayers in the Garden of Gethsemane, Judas's betrayal, Pontius Pilate's interrogation, the death on the cross of Golgotha and subsequent resurrection are depicted in this, sometimes brutal, Mel Gibson's screen version of Biblical legend. The faint-hearted should be prepared for the brutal, barbaric beatings that Christ endures. Monica Bellucci, Maia Morgenstern, and Hristo Jivkov are engaged as Magdalene, Maria, and John respectively, who are distressed by Jesus' fate yet aware that they can do nothing to change it. |
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In this horror movie a young couple's dreams are answered when they get the means to pay for an expensive fertility treatment. Heather Graham's character has been diagnosed as infertile and now she is given by an opportunity to conceive in some mysterious fertility clinic. The blessing turns into a nightmare when the mother senses that there could be something horribly wrong with their unborn twins. She suspects the forces of darkness might be involved as she became the unwilling victim of the creeping evil craving to penetrate into our world. |
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Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Beckett (Tom Berenger) returns to the screen in the action-packed thriller Sniper 3 to become National Security Agency's secret weapon. Beckett is hired to terminate a suspected terrorist and soon discovers the criminal's personality. His former best friend Paul Finnegan, believed to have been killed in action, became a dangerous spy who constantly tries to manipulate the US and whole the world. Meanwhile, Thomas realizes that his employers' motives are not apparently claimed. |
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