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Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence. |
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In September 1971, a platoon of recruits arrives in Ft. Polk, LA, for infantry training before leaving for war. The final week takes place in Tigerland, a swamp similar to Vietnam. Jim Paxton has enlisted; he wants to experience everything and write books later. He befriends Roland Bozz, a cool Texan with a gift for getting into trouble and for helping misfits get discharges. At least one sociopath in the platoon hates Bozz, even as the sergeants grudgingly recognize his leadership abilities. As the platoon heads into its week in Tigerland, Paxton's body gives out, Bozz makes plans to go AWOL, and the sociopath gets hold of live ammo. Is the Louisiana swamp more dangerous than the DMZ? |
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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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A middle-aged crime boss (Malcolm McDowell) smugly reflects back from 1999, narrating the brutality which made him triumphant - and feared. As an unnamed young hood (played by Paul Bettany) in Swinging 60's London, he seemed to ape his mod boss Freddie Mays (David Thewlis), and do anything for him. But his narration exposes all-consuming envy: of Freddie's supremacy, and especially his tall bird (Saffron Burrows). The baby shark develops his viciousness and backstabbing, scheming to be Gangster No. 1. |
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Vic is a struggling auto mechanic with a safe-cracking past and a lot of debt. His girlfriend runs a bar and offers to loan him the money she's saved for remodeling, but Vic is reluctant to take it. When a long-lost cousin from Ireland shows up on his doorstep, the two team up for one last heist. |
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Nicholas Oseransky (Matthew Perry) is a nice, mild-mannered, a bit naive guy living in peaceful suburban Montreal and working as a dentist. Oz, as his buddies call him, is unhappily married to a nymphomaniac woman, Sophie (Rosanna Arquette), who is sick and tired of him. If he divorced his wife, he would be poor as a church mouse.
One day a famous hitman from Chicago, Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (Bruce Willis), moves in next door under the assumed name of "Jimmy Jones" to make a new start. But his "hope" doesn't come true. When Sophie learns of Jimmy's true identity, she forces Nicholas to go to Chicago and sell the hitman's whereabouts to the dangerous mobsters he ratted out. Moreover, the greedy Sophie decides to kill two birds with one stone: she presses Jimmy to finish her husband off so that she can get the life insurance money...
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It's a double grief when former schoolmates are assembled for a funeral at an old abandoned witches' prison. They don't suspect that it's just a foolish prank of their eccentric mate, Kristof St. Pierce (Patrick Flood). However, in an ironic twist of fate, the trick turns into a nightmare when, during a séance, the schoolmates revive three undead executioners. The Crypt Keepers start bloody strife against the intruders... |
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Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) has an uncanny ability to foresee when and where the Grim Reaper's axe will fall next. When Alex and schoolmates take a flight to Paris for a French class trip, he has a deadly premonition of the plane bursting into flames. Scared and anxious about their safety, he begs the passengers to get off the plane. As a result, there are seven students to follow Alex. Before they have time to regret skipping the flight to Paris, the plane explodes shortly after takeoff. The survivors try to understand how he has been able to foretell the crash. Some people are attracted by his grant, others are terrified. Alex is soon haunted by dreadful omens, and when his friends start dying one by one, he comes to a conclusion that you can't cheat the Death. |
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Two sex-obsessed teenage boys, Kevin (Harry Enfield) and his longtime buddy Perry (Kathy Burke), haven't yet lost their virginity. If they don't pick up girls soon, they will go crazy. As dance music fans, they find an outlet in creating great music mixes. But then they come up with the idea of taking a holiday trip to Ibiza inhabited by top DJs and hot babies. Armed with condoms and sunscreen, the guys go to the sunny island, hoping to succeed in bedding some babes and meeting their idol, superstar DJ Eyeball Paul (Rhys Ifans), in order to give him their demo tape. |
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While "Stab 3" is in production, somebody in a ghost mask starts to murder the new cast members. This lures Sidney out from hiding deep in the woods where she lives, and she comes to Hollywood to face the killer for the final act. |
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A young man has dropped out of Queens College but desperately wants to please his father, a federal judge who's harsh with his son. At his father's insistence, Seth Davis closes a casino he operates in his own house, mostly for college students. Thinking he'll please dad, he takes a job in a small brokerage house, an hour from Manhattan, where trainees make cold calls to lists of well-paid men, and then apply high-pressure tactics to sell initial public offerings exclusive to the firm. He's terrific at sales. Once training is over, the pay is phenomenal, and Seth wonders why. Curiosity leads him to ethical dilemmas, encounters with the Feds, and new territory with his father. |
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The eye-opening drama depicts a slice of the lives of four people entrapped by their addictions. Harry Goldfarb (Jared Leto), his girlfriend Marion Silver (Jennifer Connelly) and his best pal Tyrone C. Love (Marlon Wayans) are massively hooked on drugs. They enjoy blowing their minds but haven't yet gone to pieces so they live a relatively full life having dreams and making plans for the future. Knowing that heroin brings in a lot of cash, they become small-time drug dealers who have many things to take care of: where to obtain the goods, who to sell, how not to be caught red-handed. They successfully sell drugs in the streets of New York but one day their fragile world crashes down when they have to put an end to their business due to the showdown between local mobsters. The lost source of income doesn't sadden them much. What drives them to despair is having nowhere to get drugs for themselves. Harry and Tyrone arrive at a decision to go to Florida to buy heroine in bulk at cheaper prices. Along the way, Harry is tormented by gangrene of the hand that worsens and results in amputation. Tyron is put in prison. The cocaine-obsessed Marion begins to sell herself in order to get the drug.
Meanwhile, Harry's widowed mother, Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn), who is addicted to television is selected to appear on her favourite game show. Wanting to fit into her best red dress, she visits a doctor who prescribes amphetamines which depress appetite. Sara soon becomes dependent on the diet pills and ends up in mental hospital. The moral of the story is that all addictions have dire consequences.
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| Shadow Hours
[2000,
USA]
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| Just when you think you've seen it all you realize you haven't seen a thing |
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Michael Holloway (Balthazar Getty) leads a cut-and-dried life working as a nightshift attendant in a gas station and trying hard to make a clean break with his past filled with alcohol and drugs. His pregnant wife, Cloe (Rebecca Gayheart), supports him but his boring job and effort to give up his addictions drive him bonkers. But a mysterious stranger who once stops at the station unexpectedly enters Michael's life. Under the pretence of Los Angeles nightlife research for his new novel, the charismatic Stuart Chappell (Peter Weller) seduces the gullible and susceptible Holloway to plunge into sinful pleasures of nightbars, stripclubs, fight clubs and S&M dungeons... However, Michael soon begins to suspect his new buddy to be a psychopath and even a serial killer. |
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In ancient times, the Roman Empire had no commander more powerful than general Maximus (Russell Crowe). The invincible Legions of the Empire led by the noble warrior worshiped him reverently and could follow him even to the hell. But it happened that the courageous Maximus, determined to have a fair fight with enemy troops, turned out powerless against treacherous court intrigues. The general was betrayed and condemned to death. Having escaped an execution and been sold into slavery, Maximus was forced to train as a gladiator in the arena, where his fame grew. Once in the Coliseum, he was locked in mortal combat with his sworn enemy, Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix)... |
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Spain. Gal has retired from the gangster life, and is sunning himself placidly beside the pool at his villa when a boulder comes crashing by, barely missing him. Soon, he and his pal Aitch, together with their wives Deedee and Jackie, are being threatened by a human boulder, Don Logan. Logan wants Gal for a high stakes vault break-in in London (masterminded by the cool and suave Teddy Bass), and he will not take no for an answer. Nevertheless, that's exactly the answer Gal keeps giving him, even as Don gets more and more threatening. Meanwhile, Gal is plagued by dreams of a menacing, hairy beast. Just how far will Don (and Gal) go in this battle of wills? And what of Enrique, the pool boy? |
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After having served a 6-year sentence for car theft, Rudy Duncan (Ben Affleck) is about to go at large. His cellmate and best buddy Nick Cassidy (James Frain) is to be released from prison the same day but he is suddenly killed during a prison mutiny with only three days left to serve. Rudy makes up his mind to assume his dead cellmate's identity to start a relationship with his gorgeous pen pal, Ashley Mercer (Charlize Theron). Rudy, however, is unaware that Ashley's brother Gabriel (Gary Sinise) and his gang of thugs plot to rob a gambling casino in Michigan where Nick used to work, thus, Ashley is just tempting bait for Nick to be trapped into an armed heist on Christmas Eve. And now this seemingly funny idea of pretending to be Nick can cost Rudy his life. |
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The true-life military drama focuses upon two "men of honor", Carl Brashear (Cuba Gooding Jr.), the first African-American deep-sea diver, and Leslie W. Sunday (Robert De Niro), the training officer. In the 1940s, Brashear managed to overcome racism and become a Navy student. But he was the main enemy of other students and Leslie William "Billy" Sunday, the Leading Chief Petty Officer and head instructor. However, he had enough grit to hold out in the face of mental and physical challenges. He successfully graduated from the diving school and began to serve in the Navy. Years later, after having lost half his left leg in the atomic bomb incident, he continued to dive and his old enemy Billy Sunday unexpectedly became his guardian angel... |
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Six friends - Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris), Bobby Prinze (Jon Abrahams), Buffy Gilmore (Shannon Elizabeth), Greg Phillipe (Lochlyn Munro), Ray Wilkins (Shawn Wayans), and Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall) - are being stalked by a serial killer. A serial killer that is after them because of an accident that they caused last Halloween. A serial killer that seems to have come out of every other scary movie. The body count's already started with Drew Decker (Carmen Electra), the local town slut, and it's starting to build up. The friends are going to have to escape from both the killer's clutches and annoying news reporter Gail Hailstorm (Cheri Oteri) if they plan on living to the sequel... |
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Intertwining vignettes frame this tale of America's escalating War on Drugs. Ohio Supreme Court judge Robert Wakefield has been appointed the nation's Drug Czar, his new position made more daunting by the discovery that his teenage daughter Caroline is a cocaine addict. Meanwhile, DEA agents Montel Gordon and Ray Castro are pursuing Helena Ayala, wife of jailed kingpin Carlos Ayala, as she seeks to the control the business that her husband had kept hidden from her. South of the Border, duplicious local constable Javier Rodriguez is fighting the battle with his own jaded, questionable ethical code. |
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Raj Lukla (Chaim Girafi) flies from India to America in order to visit his nephew Andy (Ajay Naidu). Malevolent fate brings him and Las Vegas mobster Victoria Galletti (Mercedes Ruehl) together on board the plane. Being chased by police, Vic stashes one million dollars cash in Raj's luggage and then sends her henchmen to retrieve the booty. However, things don't go the way she wants it to. Andy's dog named Socrates (Sarge) discovers the money first and hides it somewhere. But Socrates keeps silent... |
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