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"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary. |
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FBI agent Jake Malloy just can't nail a serial killer who's been targeting cops. The killer has already killed nine cops. Not only does the killer despise policemen, but he also has a grudge against Malloy for pursuing him during a string of prostitute murders four years ago. The killer finally decides to hit Malloy where it hurts, killing one of Malloy's friends on the force, and brutally killing Malloy's fiancé Mary. The grief sends Malloy off the deep end and causes him to become alcoholic, forcing Malloy's colleague, Detective Hendricks, to sign Malloy up at a remote detox clinic in a snow-covered part of Wyoming. The clinic specializes in rehabilitating alcoholic cops. But the killer murders another patient and assumes the patient's identity at the clinic. While Malloy participates in group therapy sessions, the killer starts killing the patients. Among the endangered patients are Jaworski, Slater, Noah, Conner, and a dozen others, one of whom must be the killer. One by one, the patients start falling prey to the killer and, starting with the facility's director, Doc, the killer starts targeting the staff as well. |
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One world... and two best secret agents who rival for the vengeance that should be wrecked upon their common lifelong enemy. John Ecks is the best operator who ever worked for FBI, and Sever is the most dangerous woman on the planet. In the constant battle of the world's special agencies they are bitter rivals, who play the perilous cat-and-mouse games. But suddenly they should join to struggle against the powerful enemy who wields some devastating weapon. Prodigious stunts and destructive action breaks out from the screen as the action goes on in this super-dynamic movie from the well-known clipmaker. |
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He is an aging photographic laboratory technician who has nothing pleasant in his lonely life, only the wearisome everyday work. Seymour "SY" Parrish is an incarnation of Robin Williams's dark side, which is rarely exposed to a public, his shady SY works on family photoes of Yorkins, who appear to be an embodiment of an American dream. The man who has no private life gets unhealthily interested in the existence of the others. He begins to spy on Nancy Yorkin (Connie Nielsen) and her relatives, finding imperfections which could tear this family, he is becoming an impending dark figure which looms over their happiness. |
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Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you "know wot I mean?" However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal. |
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Reapers, a new breed of vampire that feed off humans and vampires, emerge with plans for world domination and Blade must team with the Bloodpack, an elite team of vampire warriors specifically trained to hunt him, in order to defeat this new menace. |
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A group of British college students who are close friends embark on a night of intense partying including alcohol and drugs, and while under the influence, intent on a bit of fun, try to establish a link with the spirit world using a homemade Ouija board. However, fun is the last thing on their minds when the Ouija board spells out the words "All Die", and they give up on the board before closing the link to the spirit world and, unknown to them, unleash something evil into their world, and it isn't long before one of them is murdered by an unseen force. Soon they all find themselves terrified for their lives, as the spirit they have let out begins to kill them off, one by one. |
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In this criminal comedy Bendjamins are not a family as you might firstly think. It's the persons who are usually portrayed on the pieces of paper commonly known as a hundred bucks, and they appear rather frequently in this picture, starring Ice Cube and Mike Epps as they are lured by the magic Bendjis. Bucum Jason (Ice Cube), a bounty hunter, is to bring Reggie Wright (Mike Epps) to justice, but, eventually, gets involved into Reggie's shady dealings. An expression "Head hunter" takes on the special significance in view of the hundred bucks which are respectively crowned with Benjamin Franklin's head, and these heads are abound... |
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"Empire" is the high-performance heroine-based cocktail invented by successful drug businessman Victor Rosa (John Leguizamo). His flourishing firm gave him a good fortune, he considers himself as a man who simply use economic opportunities of the ghetto black market to suit his own ends. Victor's beautiful girlfriend Carmen (Delilah Cotto) arranges his meeting with the other successful businessman Jack Wimmer (Peter Sarsgaard) who is an acceptable investor to buy into the prosperous business. Victor soon figures out the deal goes with too high prices and quickly he get into debts. He borrows hearty cash from La Columbiana (Isabella Rossellini), an abrupt drug tycoon, but soon it becomes clear that the choice he made was the wrong one. The stakes get higher and higher. |
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Michael Reilly Burke's portrayal of the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy is exceptional. This account begins in 1974 with Bundy as a sympathetic counselor at an emergency hotline center in Seattle as well as a struggling law student. Bundy was handsome, intelligent, and well spoken, but something disturbing lurked just beneath the facade and his sociopathic behavior set forth a series of events that would shock the world. "Ted Bundy" moves from the 1974 Seattle killings to Utah, Colorado, and to his final killing spree in Tallahassee, Florida shortly after he escaped (for the second time) from incarceration and ends with his humiliating demise in the electric chair on January 24th, 1989. Theodore Robert Bundy confessed to killing 28 women, but the actual number Bundy carried with him to his grave. Some say, however, that he is responsible for as many as 33 to 100 murders of young women. |
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Jon Bon Jovi stars in this horror film. Vampires: Los Muertos centers on vampire hunter-for-hire Derek Bliss (Bon Jovi),When a new client hires him to hunt down a particularly powerful vampire queen in Mexico,soon he gathers a hunting crew and sets off across Mexico for some vampire hunting action. |
| Adaptation.
[2002,
USA]
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| Charlie Kaufman writes the way he lives... With Great Difficulty. His Twin Brother Donald Lives the way he writes... with foolish abandon. Susan writes about life... But can't live it. John's life is a book... Waiting to be adapted. One story... Four Lives... A million ways it can end. |
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Kaufman is struggling with the arduous task of adapting The Orchid Thief, by Susan Orlean, which doesn't have an obvious dramatic line (it is essentially a book about orchids). At the same time he faces a mid-life crisis, which is worsened by the presence of his twin brother Donald, a less talented but more joyous person than Charlie, who dreams of making a lot of money with screenplays. The movie also shows Susan Orlean as she does her research for the book, and John Laroche, a colorful orchid hunter whom Susan interviews and, later, falls in love with. These stories eventually intertwine, with unpredictable results. |
| Sonny
[2002,
USA]
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| His life was the morning after, until he decided to change the night before. |
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Nicholas Cage's directorial debut stars James Franco as a young man who was raised by his whorehouse-holding mother Jewel (Brenda Blethyn) as a male prostitute who provides sexual service for wealthy women. But when he is back from Army service, he changes his mind and wants to make some essential changes in his career. Along with his pretty colleague Carol (Mena Suvari) he tries to break free from his imperious mother. But he is in requisition as the most favorite gigolo of the whorehouse thus to make a reality of his decision won't be so easy. |
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Neal Oliver (James Marsden) is about to leave his intentions to earn a law degree for an art career; he meets an immortal supernatural being named One Wish Grant (Gary Oldman) who looks like an inveterate trickster and directs clarity-seeking Oliver right to the immense spaces of the non-existing Interstate 60. Oldman's eccentric character grants wishes to the people who deserved such benefit, and Neal takes a chance to find the girl whom he has seen in his dreams; she smiles from every billboard of the Interstate 60 roadside, the road where everything is possible as every wish could be easily fulfilled. Should one be afraid of his desires or this is the road to hell? |
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A group of radical animal rights activists break into a British laboratory where scientists conduct secret experiments on monkeys and chimpanzees. They release some chimps that turn out to be infected by the virus of murderous rage. Thus the activists inadvertently unleash the contagious virus that twenty eight days later rages throughout the country, turning the population into bloodthirsty, zombie-like creatures. A handful of survivors struggle to take shelter in the fortified part of the British Isles. But they are unaware that their troubles are just beginning. |
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Eminem, the white star of American rap, acts in this movie incarnating some events of his own life on-screen. We can see a talented, emotional young rapper Jimmy Smith-Jr. aka Rabbit who has hard times living on the 8 mile street in Detroit. After the break-up with his girlfriend Jimmy lives with his mother who is constantly quarrelling with her admirer. To rent a flat and to save up money he lands a job at the metallurgical plant where he meets Alex, a girl who believes in his rap talents. His Afro-American buddy allows Jimmy to make a demo-record at the studio but their friendship crushes when Jimmy and Alex get caught red-handed at the scene of kissing. Meantime, Jimmy takes part in rap contests despite the fact he isn't met with open hands in the Afro-American community. |
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An anti-utopia/action by Kurt Wimmer presents the "perfect" world where any free-thinking as well as all the arts, books, emotions and everything related is forbidden being considered as a capital crime. This world is built as a conflict-free society after the devastating Third World War, the monocratic Father and the Tetragrammaton have established the dictatorship over the Libria, a futuristic city-state. Human emotions are suppressed by voluntary injections of the "prosium", a preparation which helps the System to control its citizens. John Preston (Christian Bale), a government special agent is also under the influence of this drug, but when he forget to take a doze, he accidentally hear the fragment of the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony seeing the sunrise and discover himself unable to be a pawn of the System anymore as his emotions awake. |
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Set in New England in the mid-1980s, the intriguing drama follows the lives of Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek), Paul Denton (Ian Somerhalder) and Lauren Hynde (Shannyn Sossamon), three disturbed students at an exclusive Camden College who unwillingly become involved in a sexual triangle. Sean is a drug dealer as well as a real womanizer who has bedded with nearly all the female students. However, he unexpectedly falls for the pure Lauren, Paul's ex-girlfriend, and grows obsessed with her. Laura yearns to lose her virginity to Victor Johnson (Kip Pardue), a shallow college student who is travelling across Europe, but she then decides to find a replacement and has her eyes on Sean. Meanwhile, Paul is also attracted to Sean and tries to get him in bed.
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The erotic thriller revolves around a tempting beautiful woman, Laure Ash (Rebecca Romijn). She is hired to seduce Veronica (Rie Rasmussen), one of the models at the Cannes Film Festival, and replace her diamond jewelries with fake duplicates. A real femme fatal, she brilliantly copes with the task, then betrays her bloodthirsty accomplices, Black Tie (Eriq Ebouaney) and Racine (Edouard Montoute), and makes off with the loot to America under the stolen identity, hoping to make a clean break from a life of crime. Seven years after a daring heist, Laure (now called Lily Watts) returns to France as the wife of the new American ambassador (Peter Coyote) and soon captures the attention of Spanish ex-photographer Nicolas Barto (Antonio Banderas) who takes a snapshot of the enigmatic woman and thus imperils her life... |
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Three Toronto women - a housewife/painter at leisure, a photojournalist and a famous cellist find themselves crisis-ridden. Olivia (Sophia Loren) decides that it is time to reveal her secret sketching, Natalia (Mira Sorvino) a well-known photographer, wants to know something about the destiny of an Angolan child who was a subject of her photography. Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger), as skillful cello player, leaves home to find her father who is responsible for interrupting her mother's life. She seeks revenge notwithstanding her father had mentally changed through the years. Three women are perfect strangers, but their destinies are intertwined by common visions, thoughts and their inward life. Gérard Depardieu, Klaus-Maria Brandauer and Malcolm McDowell are also starring in this movie directed by Edoardo Ponti, who happens to be Loren's son. |
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