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Canada movies
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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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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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Imagine that you have arrived in Las Vegas. Your programme contains a casino visit. It is a pure accident that you win a special token in the slot machine and are invited to a secret dinner party. There, an eccentric casino mogul, Donald P. Sinclair (John Cleese), for example, makes you and your contestants a tempting offer to take participation in a race. The first to reach Silver City, New Mexico, will receive the $2 million cash prize hidden away in a locker. Can you refuse the offer? Can you miss the chance to hit the jackpot? |
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It's a quiet little town where nothing happens - until the day the bank is hit for half a million dollars of Indian casino money by a thief wearing a clowns mask. From here the story follows a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse between bank robber and former cop Parker (James Spader) and small-town police officer Ray DeCarlo (David Keith) determined to catch him. Parker doesn't help himself by holing up with a nurse who happens to be DeCarlo's former wife. Throw in a rookie FBI agent, Indians who want their money back, some former friends of Parker who are not so friendly anymore and his fate seems sealed. |
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After the death of his eccentric Uncle Cyrus (Murray Abraham), Arthur Kriticos (Tony Shalhoub) inherits his strange mansion. The bizarre glass house is filled with different mysterious artifacts as well as Latin inscriptions carved on the walls and floors. The doors in the house open and close strangely by themselves. Little does Arthur know that when he enters this creepy mansion, he will reluctantly fulfil Cyrus's evil will and unleash twelve vengeful ghosts that are imprisoned in the basement. Then the energy of the gruesome ghosts will fuel an evil giant machine to open a portal to the Eye of Hell. But it requires a thirteen spirit to join the Black Zodiac... |
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Based on the novel by Robin Hunter, the thriller tells of Jack Elgin (Jeremy Irons), a British magazine editor living with his wife Maria (Briony Glassco) and three kids named Joanne (Anna Maguire), Julia (Holly Boyd), and Andrew (Joel Pitts). One day, determined to make a surprise for his family, Elgin buys tickets for the trip to India. Things, however, don’t go as planned: their plane is hijacked by terrorists. Then Elgin’s wife and both daughters are brutally gunned down in a terrorist attack. Back in London, Jack gets to know that the hijackers are arrested but soon released from incarceration. Jack tries to use all his journalist and political contacts but he is powerless to attain justice for his family. Desperate, Jack launches his own investigation to bring the killers to justice. FBI agent Jules Bernard (Forest Whitaker) who is cooperating with the International Police, suspects that Jack has a thirst for bloody revenge. When he puts all the pieces together, Bernard realizes that the terrorists must pay the full penalty for the deaths of people and he is intent on helping Elgin. |
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Quoyle (Kevin Spacey) is a born loser. However, he makes no efforts to have success in his life. He is an unhappy, emotionally-beaten printer who drags out a miserable existence. When he falls in love with a beautiful girl, Petal (Cate Blanchett), he is unlucky again. Soon after Petal gives birth to a baby girl, she plunges into dissipation. Then she sells the daughter to an illegal adoption agency and dies suddenly in a car crash. At the same time Quoyle's father, a stern, sometimes brutal man, passes away. To turn over a new leaf, Quoyle leaves New York for his ancestral home on the coast of Newfoundland. There, he gets a job as a reporter for the local newspaper. The paper owner, Jack Buggit (Scott Glenn), assigns him to write shipping news. In the course of time, Quoyle's life changes for the better, in particular, when he wins favour of Wavey Prowse (Julianne Moore). |
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For the third time, the evil Wishmaster returns with more evil and grotesquery to wreck the life of more innocents. This time, his victim is a beautiful, innocent and studious teenage girl named Diana Collins who accidentally opened up the Djinn's tomb and released him. After gaining his freedom, the Djinn goes into a murderous frenzy though her college campus while trying to find Diana to fulfill her three wishes. While Diana is on the run, she must endeavor to prevent the Djinn from subjecting the entire world to Hell's wrath. |
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Attractive but lonely Cat Storm (Dominique Swain) is a private school student in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. She tries to make friends among her wealthy classmates and is in love with handsome and bumptious William Sellers (Brad Renfro), who is in the school's elite social group. However, Cat is surprised to discover that William reciprocates her feelings. Blinded by the romance with the boy of her dreams and her new popular status, Cat takes a while to realize that she is drawn into a web of nightclubs, drugs, sex and deception. |
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Drug chemist Elmo McElroy (Samuel L. Jackson) has invented a new powerful drug that takes you to ‘the 51st state’. Hoping to score big, McElroy leaves for Liverpool. However, Elmo’s former employer, The Lizard (Meat Loaf), assigns his assistant Dakota Parker (Emily Mortimer) to kill McElroy for his drug formula. Dakota knows Liverpool well because it is a hometown of her ex-boyfriend Felix De Souza (Robert Carlyle), McElroy’s reluctant partner. To make matters worse, a nightclub owner and mobster named Iki (Rhys Ifans), Detective Virgil Kane (Sean Pertwee), small-time gangsters and skinheads want to line their pockets with Elmo’s money. Meanwhile, McElroy and De Souza try hard to find a buyer willing to pay $ 20 million. But there is only one question: will Felix remain true to Elmo or betray him? |
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It's good for you, if you know who your enemy is. But sometimes you'd better know who your friend is...
When a brother and sister, Kate (Rachel Hayward) and Mike O'Connor (Tygh Runyan), arrive in a hick town in Oregon, they meet with stranger Adam Turrell (Tom Berenger), who is charismatic as Lucifer and has a deep hypnotic look. However, the trustful Kate and Mike don't know what his dangerous friendship will turn out like.
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The world's first fully automated jetliner - the most reliable and safest one - is prepared for its maiden voyage. However, its inventors haven’t taken into account the human element: chief engineer Gabriel Wingfield (John Pyper-Ferguson) intends taking revenge on the airline owners who have dismissed him. Wingfield hacks into the flight's computer system and seizes control of the demonstration flight. He forces the airplane to circle over Seattle and terrorizes the passengers using the intercom connected to his concealment. The pilot, Reece Robbins (Rachel Hayward), desperately tries to find a way to release from ‘the electronic loop’. But the terrorist seems to foreknow all her possible moves. If Reece’s ex-boyfriend, Pete "Birddog" Dumont (Craig Sheffer) isn’t able to find and neutralize the terrorist, the plane will run out of fuel and inevitably crash into the city... |
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David Mamet takes this story of thieves along many twists and turns, some of which work and some of which don't. Gene Hackman plays the brilliant leader of a gang (Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay & Rebecca Pigeon as Hackman's youngish wife), which pulls off complex heists for a despicable fence (Danny DeVito). After stiffing the gang on a jewelry robbery, DeVito forces the gang to go after a Swiss gold shipment and to use his nephew (Sam Rockwell) in the crime. No one trusts anyone and every step is shaded with the unexpected. |
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On March 5th 1873, two Scandinavian women living on the Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire, were brutally murdered. The first woman was hacked by an ax, the second one was beaten and strangled. The third woman, Maren Hontvedt (Sarah Polley), managed to survive by hiding in a sea cave. Later she identified the murderer to the police. It was Louis Wagner (Ciarán Hinds) who was condemned to be hanged for his crimes. A century later, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Thomas Janes (Sean Penn), his wife, Jean (Catherine McCormack), a photojournalist, his stepbrother, Rich Janes (Josh Lucas), and Rich's girlfriend, Adaline Gunne (Elizabeth Hurley), travel to the same Isles on a yacht. Jean doesn't spend time only enjoying the sea and the sun but investigating the mysterious double homicide. The storyline shifts between the present and the past as the two different narratives of Maren's life, the eyewitness of the murder, and Jean's seemingly perfect life, interweave in the suspenseful movie. |
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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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Shaw is an operative for the United Nations' covert dirty-tricks squad, using espionage and quasi-ethical tactics to secure peace and cooperation. When a shipping container full of dead Vietnamese refugees turns up on the docks and China's ambassador is gunned down at a dinner celebrating a new trade agreement with China and the US, Shaw is framed for the murder and must evade the FBI and Triad gangsters to find out what is really going on. |
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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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Il film narra di Adam Gibson, common-man con moglie e figlia, pilota di aerei a noleggio con l'amico Hank. Un bel giorno si trova coinvolto, senza volerlo e senza saperlo, in una esperienza agghiacciante creata da una megaindustria illegale di cloni umani di proprietà del perfido Michael Drucker (alla sua terza morte!), usando le ricerche del dottor Griffin Weir. Ma come è possibile? Adam è stato clonato per sbaglio. Da questo momento comincia l'inferno per il pover'uomo. Killer senza scrupoli (peraltro clonati e clonabili all'infinito) lo cercano: la clonazione umana è illegale e uno dei due Adam deve essere eliminato. Ma, questa volta, Drucker ha clonato l'uomo sbagliato! |
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An American police detective, Tom Canboro (Gary Busey), used to live a perfectly-ordered yet unremarkable life, until one day something inexplicable began to happen. After two people had thrown themselves out the window, Tom launched an investigation into the incident and uncovered that the suicides had been connected with some supernatural powers. Having had a car crash and awakened from a 7-year coma, Tom found himself in a bizarre new world ruled by Franco Macalousso (Nick Mancuso) who proclaimed himself Messiah. Millions had gone down the drain, none of those remaining people could remember who and what they had been before. Almost everyone had the Mark of the Beast on their right hand; all those who had refused to give allegiance to the evil leader were hunted down and brutally killed. Tom was also pursued by the same dark forces he had faced before his accident to brand him with the number 666. Having joined an underground resistance group led by Helen Hannah (Leigh Lewis), Tom began struggling for his life, mind and soul freedom. |
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Two stories, 14 years apart, converge in a suburb of New York. Manuel Esquema, an international financier, whose face is badly scarred, is flying from Miami to help a New York politician negotiate a plea bargain with the Justice Department. Years before, this financier was a fresh-faced cabaña boy at a Miami Beach resort who fell in love with a young woman on holiday with her husband. The husband is now the pol, and he thinks he dispatched the cabaña boy long ago. What are Esquema's plans: revenge, mercy, or a complicated plan to seek again the woman's love? |
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