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This computer-animated adventure comedy focuses on Valiant (Ewan McGregor, voice), a wood pigeon who has volunteered to do his part for England during the World War II. He is a brave, but fairly undersized bird whose ambitions are enormous and endures rigorous training in preparation for a dangerous mission to deliver vital messages to troops behind enemy lines despite the brutal attacks by the Falcon Brigade of enemy. |
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Based on the classic novel by Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days (2003) stars Jackie Chan as Passepartout. As an adventurer, Passepartout ends up accompanying time-obsessed English gentleman, Phileas Fogg (played by Steve Coogan) on a daring mission to journey around the world. Fogg has wagered with members of his London club that he can traverse the world in 80 days. Along the way, they encounter many interesting 19th Century figures and have many exciting and suspenseful situations in their voyage around the world. |
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The movie tells an intriguing story about dark and dangerous streets of Essex, where drug, guns, and murder are quite natural for many people. Jason Locke (Sean Bean) is a crime boss who gets out of jail and comes back to Essex so as to regain his power over the town's criminal underworld. Locke is a half-psychotic, hot-tempered man who can kill anybody in his way without a moment's thought, and besides, he is so suspicious that doesn't trust even his wife, Lisa (Alex Kingstone). However, to claw back his old influence is no easy matter as it seems to be... |
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Around the World in 80 Days is based on the classic novel by Jules Verne and stars Jackie Chan as Passepartout. He was a thief in 1872 who became the traveling companion and martial arts bodyguard of a man betting that he can circumnavigate the world in a set time. British inventor Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan), a daring man of science, stated his belief that it's possible for him to travel around the globe in a mere 80 days, as he asserted in a lively discussion with Lord Kelvin (Jim Broadbent), the head of the Royal Academy of Science. During their adventurous trip the pair has various points to stop at, situated in France (Paris, of course!), Turkey, India, China and the United States. Femme fatale Monique and a suspecting detective are also involved in the story. Soon after the pair left London, a major bank was robbed and Phileas and Passportout are considered as the main suspects trying to escape. |
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Little Gordon and his sister Nellie spend their holidays at Faeryoak Farm. Not far away from the farm there is a forest where the kids enjoy walking and playing games. One fine day they make the acquaintance of an enigmatic raven and later find themselves being miraculously transported to Faeryland where they make friends with The Faery Prince (Dougray Scott). To return home, they must help him to defeat the cunning and perfidious Shapeshifter (Jeremy Irons), the Prince's exiled brother who is anxious to take power over the world of faeries. |
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Heavy Rainfall causes a Indiana river to swell and flood the town. All inhabitants are forced by public services to leave instantly. Tom and his uncle Charlie work for a money transport firm and their assignment is to evacuate all cash from the banks along the flooding river. So, their truck is loaded with about three million Dollars. Hank tries to prevent further flooding, as he's the guy responsible for the dam up the river, but he has to open one gate in order to save the old dam from breaking. Only the police under the Sheriff's leadership stay in town to prevent looting. As the water level rises, Tom and Charlie's Truck gets stuck in the flooded road. This is the moment, Jim, an elderly thief, and his gang have been waiting for. In an attempt to get the money from the truck, Charlie gets shot and Tom swims off to save the cash bags. While trying to hide, he meets Karen, who resisted to leave the old church she has been restoring for eight months. She thinks he is a looter, and calls the cops to bring him in. But as the Sheriff finds out about that much cash in a situation like this, he radios his old pal Hank, up at the dam... |
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The thrilling movie tells the story of American journalist Lauren Adrian (Jennifer Lopez) assigned to travel to Juбrez, a Mexican bordertown, so as to investigate 400 unsolved cases of raped and murdered women. In Juбrez, she meets up with her former colleague and boyfriend, Alfonso Diaz (Antonio Banderas), who is now the editor of the local newspaper. The two join efforts to uncover the shocking truth and soon find the sole survivor of the atrocious attack, Eva Jimenez (Maya Zapata), who shudders at the mere thought of it. After a great deal of reluctance Eva finally breaks the silence and tells what has happened to her. While tracking down the serial killers, Adrian and Diaz are unaware that their investigation may be fraught with serious consequences...
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Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can't contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, but finds that he must choose between his family and freedom. |
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The inventive and creepy thriller is about nine complete strangers who are kidnapped in broad daylight and locked in a mansion fitted with seventy-five cameras. Now they are all pawns in a deadly game of survival. The rule is simple: the sole survivor will be awarded his or her freedom and $ 5,000,000 to keep mum. Despair and dread swiftly changes into cupidity and hatred. Who will be the first to bleed his fellow victim? Who will be the last to become a brute-like man? Who is this mysterious sadist? Will the bloody winner find the answer to these questions? |
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Based on the popular diary of the anonymous sex worker known only as Belle de Jour. |
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A young boy is found wandering without any memory of who he is. A family takes him in and begin to look for clues to help him find his way home. In the meantime, they notice that the boy seems to have certain special abilities, not usually found in kids his age, or even fully-grown adults. |
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The enchanting children’s tale follows the adventures of five siblings who are sent to stay with their uncle Albert (Kenneth Branagh) in his tumbledown mansion by the seaside during World War I. While exploring the ramshackle house, Robert (Freddie Highmore), Anthea (Jessica Claridge), Cyril (Jonathan Bailey), Jane (Poppy Rogers), and Martha (Zoл Wanamaker) discover a grouchy 8,000-year-old sand fairy, Psammead (voiced by Eddie Izzard), who promises to grant them one wish per day, each one lasting until sundown. All the wishes, however, backfire in amusing ways.
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While inspecting the sewage system of London, two workers are attacked by a weird creature. Later, Kate decides to leave a party trying to meet the actor 'George Clooney' (qv) who is in London. She waits for the last underground train, but after drinking many alcoholic beverages, she falls asleep accidentally on the platform bench, missing the last train and being trapped in the closed underground station. Later, a train going to the depot stops at the platform. She boards the train and she meets her acquaintance Guy, who tries to sexually assault her in the underground car. Guy is attacked by the creature, dragged off, and Kate leaves the train through the tunnel. This is the beginning of her claustrophobic, scary and gore night running through the Underground of London. |
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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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Roman slave Lurkio inadvertently becomes the possessor of a scroll naming the proposed assassins of the Emperor Nero. Administering to the participants of his master's orgy guests seems small compared to the trouble the scroll brings - but all are in for a nasty shock when Mount Vesuvius decides to erupt. |
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Set in England during the Victorian age, the tale brings together well-known figures from classic literature. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a team of superheroes led by intrepid adventurer Allan Quatermain (Sean Connery) and comprised of invisible man Rodney Skinner (Tony Curran), Captain Nemo (Naseeruddin Shah), Dracula vampiress Mina Harker (Peta Wilson), Dorian Gray (Stuart Townsend), American secret service agent Tom Sawyer (Shane West), and Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde (Jason Flemyng). The League members have an urgent assignment to scotch the mysterious Phantom who is intent on turning the nations of the world against one another so as to rule the world. Using Captain Nemo’s submarine, the Nautilus, the superheroes go to Venice, Italy where the villain is up to sabotage a conference of world leaders by blowing up the city to sink. Needless to say, this will have catastrophic consequences for all life on Earth. The Extraordinary Gentlemen have only 96 hours to prevent him from reaching his menacing aim. |
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After Dougal the puppy (Robbie Williams) destroys the magic roundabout and inadvertently releases the evil ice wizard Zeebad Carpenter (Tom Baker) from his prison, the fate of the Enchanted Land hangs in the balance: Zeebad is itching to incase it in ice. Dougal and his brave pals, Brian the snail (Jim Broadbent), Ermintrude the opera-singing cow (Joanna Lumley), and Dylan the hippie rabbit (Bill Nighy), take great pains to find three magic diamonds so that they can reverse the beginning of winter and confine Zeebad in the dungeon.
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Set in the UK, the gangster drama revolves around Too Fine (Simon Webbe) and his close pals Finny (Vas Blackwood) and Rage (Roffem Morgan), who decide to break with their criminal past and devote their lives to hip-hop music. Expecting to obtain fame and wealth, they release the first CD of their band "Time Served". Unfortunately, their hopes go down the drain when Too Fine is murdered by a drug dealer, Temper (Patrick Regis), due to a large debt. Things get even more complicated when Too Fine's sister Hope (Naomi Taylor) is brutally raped by Temper and given an ultimatum to pay the debt within two days, otherwise her family will be slain. Hope feels so desperate that decides to wreak vengeance upon the merciless nemesis. She pays him a surprise visit and kills him with a sawn-off shotgun. One misdeed begets another. Hope, Finny, Rage and their friend Pushy (Robbie Gee) are forced to return to the vicious world of guns, drugs and street violence. |
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After his last botched job retired CIA hitman James Dial (Wesley Snipes) leads a reclusive life on his ranch in Montana. One day he is unexpectedly approached by his former employer, Jeremy Collins (Ralph Brown), to kill the leader of the world's most notorious terrorist group, Ali Mahmoud Jahar (Nikolai Sotirov), who has been ultimately caught and is under heavy protection of the British government. Dial agrees to finish the job in order to redeem himself. Little does he know that his quiet life will soon turn into a real nightmare... |
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A man who had conquered 90% of the known world by the age of twenty-five, Alexander the Great (Colin Farrell) was one of history's most luminous and influential leaders who forged an empire stretching from Greece to India in the fourth century B.C. His conquests facilitated the promotion of Greek culture, and, centuries later, the spread of Christianity, and the expansion of the great Roman Empire. Young King of Macedonia had conquered almost the entire known world of his era, before dying at the age of 32. This epic movie follows him, his family, his allies, foes, ventures and achievements. |
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