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Uk movies
| Bugsy Malone
[1976,
UK]
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A gangster movie where all the gangsters are children. Instead of real bullets they use "splurge guns" that cover the victim in cream. The story tells of the rise of "Bugsy Malone" and the battle for power between "Fat Sam" and "Dandy Dan". |
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This tale of Beowulf, a medieval warrior who arrived in a time of need to assist King Hrothgar when his kingdom was attacked by the monster Grendel, is an adaptation from the Anglo-Saxon epic poem. As a soldier, Beowulf is not used to hesitating, he leads the troop of Norse warriors ahead to the village besieged by the monster. In search for the vicious and elusive Grendel, he crosses paths with Selma (Sarah Polley), a beautiful and voluptuous witch whose alliances are divided between Beowulf and his enemy. |
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A hit man has second thoughts about his career and seeks refuge from his boss by finding work as a baker in a rural Welsh village. |
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The mostly wordless, hopelessly gawky but good-natured and sweet Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) is about to leave the misty Albion for southern France to spend his vacation baking in the sun. As might be expected, Mr. Bean can only dream about a tranquil trip. He unwittingly gets plunged into a string of serious mishaps and lucky coincidences, from violent efforts to catch the train to an unplanned screening of his personal video footage at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their girlfriends Joan and Anthea. The boys suggest a camping holiday, secretly intending to take them to a nudist camp. Of course they end up in the wrong place, and meet up with the weirdest bunch of campers you can imagine! Coach loads of sex-starved schoolgirls and bands of hippies all add to the laughs. |
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The movie begins with the words from Sylvia Plath’s poem ‘Lady Lazarus’: ‘Dying is an art’. The movie relates the story of love and passion between two well-known poets of the XX century – Sylvia Plath (Gwyneth Paltrow) and Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig). Their first meeting developed into a stormy relationship. However, their marriage proved to be fragile, and they separated (mainly because of Hughes’ affair with Assia Wevill (Amira Casar). Down-and-out, depressed, with a broken heart, Sylvia Plath took her own life in 1963. |
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During Harry Houdini's tour of Britain in 1926, the master escapologist enters into a passionate affair with a Scottish psychic. The psychic and her daughter attempt to con Houdini during a highly publicized séance to contact his mother whose death has haunted him for many years. However all does not go to plan... |
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The comedy drama tells the story of Alfie Elkins (Jude Law), a charming British limousine driver living in New York and having an extraordinary genius for seducing any beautiful woman. One day he sleeps with a well-to-do widow who yearns for touching, hugging, snuggling, caressing, etc, the next day he goes to bed with an enchanting single-mother who dotes on the philanderer. His carefree existence is threatened to come to an end when one of his mistresses, Lonette (Nia Long), becomes pregnant. Will the inveterate womanizer and convinced bachelor be able to change his lifestyle and shift his focus from women to the paternity? |
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Danny "Mean Machine" Meehan (Vinnie Jones), a famous British football captain, goes to jail for drunk driving and assaulting police officers. Governor (David Hemmings), a devoted football supporter, pays a large sum of money for Danny to be sent just in his jail because he wants 'Mean Machine' to coach a team of prison guards. However, Danny realizes that if he agrees, he will never go at large. Therefore he offers to assemble a team of convicts, who can play practice games against the guards. Without much foresight, the warden accepts the offer... |
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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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The hilarious British comedy depicts an episode in the life of Albert Steptoe (Wilfred Brambell) and his son Harold (Harry H. Corbett), two carefree junk dealers living peacefully together in the junk yard. All goes well until Harold, who likes visiting hot spots, becomes enamoured of an alluring stripper named Zita (Carolyn Seymour). He loves her so much that he decides to marry her. But when Harold takes his wife home, Albert flies into a rage and schemes to turn his daughter-in-law out of doors by all means. |
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Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath, London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. What makes us tick? |
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When a U.S. space shuttle is stolen in a midair hijacking, only Bond can find the evil genius responsible. The clues point to billionaire Hugo Drax, who has devised a scheme to destroy all human life on earth! As Bond races against time to stop Drax's evil plot, he joins forces with Dr. Holly Goodhead, a NASA scientist who is as beautiful as she is brilliant. And 007 needs all the help he can get, for Drax's henchman is none other Bond's old nemesis Jaws, the indestructible steel-toothed giant. Their adventure leads all the way to a gigantic space station, where the stage is set for an epic battle for the fate of all mankind. |
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Alex (Geoff Bell, The Business) masterminds an ambitious plan to steal millions of untraceable cash that is stacked in the underground vaults of The London Exchange Bank, waiting for its last journey, Incineration. Lucky (Vas Blackwood, Lock Stock) Matty (Leo Gregory, Stoned) Terry (Johnny Harris, London to Brighton) Chubby (Paul Nicholls, The Trench) Norman (Justin Salinger, Hitler) and Jay (Robert Boulter, The Long Firm) make up his unlikely gang of robbers. Setting up their alibi, the gang check in for a flight and join in with thousands of England supporters that are part of a mass exodus to The World Cup Tournament in Germany. Instead of passing through to Departure Lounge, the gang head out to the car park, pile into a van and head for Central London where they spectacularly ram raid London Exchange Bank, blocking any exit for those caught up inside. But with an unexpected turn of events, their plan is hampered from the start and they are left with a whole lot more than just a bank robbery to deal with. They have twenty hostages inside and the Police have laid siege to The Bank. There are two and a half hours before their plane leaves, and seventy million pounds in hard cash to steal. A daunting task, even for the most seasoned Blagger! |
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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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Every family has its secrets and tries to hold them hidden within domestic walls. However, those of the family of Marcus Aylesbury are in order to become public because of the family's long date friend Trent, a journalist faithful to his ideals who, put under pressure by his editor, is looking for a "sexy-scoop"... |
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An aging but strong distinguished-looking man, Robert "Mac" MacDougal (Sean Connery), is known as the world's greatest art thief who has never been caught in flagrante. After the theft of an invaluable Rembrandt painting from a New York skyscraper, Mac meets another talented thief, Virginia "Gin" Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones). The charming woman is in fact an ingenious insurance investigator who hopes to win Robert's confidence and entrap him. They start collaborating and their first team task of stealing an ancient Chinese gold mask is done skillfully. Inspired by this success, they come up with a new, even more daring scheme for an eight billion dollar heist from the world's largest bank that is supposed to be done during the last ten minutes before the new millennium. As usual, a love affair takes place between a man and a woman, so Mac and Gin are fated to fall victim to Cupid's arrows. |
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Based on Mary Shelly's novel, the hair-raising movie tells the sad story of Victor Frankenstein (Kenneth Brannagh), a promising young scientist. The doctor was so devastated by his mother's death during childbirth that he became obsessed with the idea of bringing the deceased back to life, unaware of the consequences of his actions. The result of his experiment with the remains of the corpse and electricity was a simple, seemingly harmless creature (Robert De Niro) which, however, turned into a wrathful and vindictive monster after his ''father'' abandoned him. Dr. Frankenstein wished he had never created him! |
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Richie Donovan (Stephen Dorff), an American professional thief, is charged by his mobster boss to go to Russia to steal an invaluable antique cross. Once there, during the well-planned heist, he and his Russian confederates unexpectedly find themselves trapped by the police and forced to take hostages in the elevator on the unused 13th floor of a Moscow skyscraper. |
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