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Five unshaven men come to their senses in a dusty warehouse. One (Joe Pantoliano) is bound to a chair, while another (Greg Kinnear) is lying on the floor with a broken nose. The third (Jeremy Sisto) is handcuffed to a pipe and dying from a gunshot injury. A man in a jean jacket (Jim Caviezel) and a man in a rancher shirt (Barry Pepper) are roughed up but alive. A broken cellular phone, a spade and a gun are kicking about on the floor. No one remembers who they are and what they are doing there. But soon the five unknown men deductively derive a conclusion that they are all part of a kidnapping. The problem is that they can’t tell the hostages from the kidnappers. |
| Man Without a Face, The
[1993,
USA]
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| A fatherless boy had almost given up all his dreams... until one man believed in him enough to make them come true. |
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People consider him a monster in this small town where he stayed to teach after his face was disfigured awfully in the car crash when he was hardly burnt. He (Mel Gibson, also the director of this picture) teaches in a local university, where hi finds an apprentice and even the best friend in the person of a young boy. The parents of the young kid (Nick Stall) know nothing about it, his father is a deranged alcoholic, and this fact seems to be a problem along with the conservative provincial society which tries to separate them from each other - the teacher and the pupil. |
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Peter (Bettany) is a typical loser and his private life is slack as well as his tennis career. By some unknown chance, this wannabe staying at the very end of the world tennis rating becomes a participant of the prestige Wimbledon tournament. That's where he meet Lizzy Bradbury (Dunst) who is a star of american tennis, and soon he falls for her. Inbspired by the new-found love and new-found mastership on the grass of the prestigious tennis court, Peter's position at the tournament score goes higher and higher. A little bit more luck and he will... win the Champion goblet! Will his dream incarnate into reality? |
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Aspiring artist Jerome Platz (Max Minghella) arrives at the Strathmore Institute, a prestigious art school in New York City, hoping to hone his skills and dazzle the world with his talent. But he soon discovers the sad truth that it takes more than just a flair and great zeal to be recognized. Therefore he concocts a scheme which is supposed to help him become the world's greatest artist and win the heart of the most beautiful girl in school, Audrey (Sophia Myles).
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Mel Gibson is a New York taxi driver, who has a strange habit. He makes complicated scenarios of conspiracies and publishes them in a newsletter sent out to five recipients. He keeps doing that, until something unbelievable happens: One of his "conspiracy theories" turns out to be real, and so he finds himself chased by the man hiding behind the whole thing. |
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In 1958, four top Air Force pilots from Team Daedalus, Frank Corvin (Clint Eastwood), William Hawkins (Tommy Lee Jones), Jerry O'Neill (Donald Sutherland) and Reverend Sullivan (James Garner), were ready to be the first Americans in space. But due to intrigues they were grounded and fell into total oblivion but a chimpanzee named Mary Ann was given the honour of flying into space. Now, 40 years later, a malfunctioning Russian communications satellite is about to fall out of orbit at any point. There are only three weeks to avert a calamity and the only man who can fix its operating system is Frank Corvin, the satellite constructor. NASA wants to recruit Frank for a special mission but he agrees to place the satellite in orbit on condition that he can take his old team. |
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The sequel to 2006's GOAL! THE DREAM BEGINS tells the story of a successful talented young football player, Santiago Munez (Kuno Becker). The circumstances take even a more favourable turn than expected. After playing for the football club Newcastle United and gaining great experience, Santiago gets excellent promotion prospects when he is transferred to one of the world's most famous football clubs, Real Madrid. However, fame and material well-being don't give the high-flying Mexican a feeling of emotional and spiritual satisfaction, as he has the unenviable task of warming the bench. Moreover, his relationship with his fianc?e Roz (Anna Friel) eventually gets complicated and his more experienced teammates such as legendary David Beckham, Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane seem to regard him as their potential rival. The moral conflict becomes aggravated when Santiago meets his younger brother... |
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Brandon Fraser is Adam Weber, the child of an eccentric inventor and his wife. Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers in their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam Weber must venture out into Los Angeles and obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself. He meets Eve (Alicia Silverstone), who reluctantly agrees to help him out. |
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In a near-empty Northfork orphanage, Father Harlan gently tends to Irwin, a eight-year-old who lies between a dreamstate and death. As orphanage caretaker Harlan reads aloud about Northfork's years-ago forced evacuation to make way for a hydro-electric dam, Irwin's imagination takes flight. While a team of six men evacuate the last remaining citizens of the town, Irwin, too, invents a cast of characters to prepare himself for his own evacuation. |
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Charlotte Cory (Connie Nielsen) is a young woman convict on Death Row who has built up a friendship with Frank Nitzche (Aidan Quinn) through mail correspondence, whilst her attorney (Kelly Preston) desperately tries to appeal the verdict before Charlotte's time runs out. With only days to spare Frank realizes that he has fallen in love with Charlotte and discovers that there is much more to the tragic circumstances of her imprisonment than he first thought - her life is now in his hands. Frank races to solve the puzzle that will reveal the truth, and tell the secrets that both he and Charlotte have been concealing, before it's too late. |
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Set in Central Africa in 1870, the drama revolves around Dr. Jamie Dodd (Joseph Fiennes), an anthropologist who combs the tropical jungle for a rare species, hoping to find the link between man and ape. He is lucky to meet the indigenous population of pygmies who he thinks are the clue to the puzzle. Dodd captures two of them, Toko (Lomama Boseki) and Likola (Cécile Bayiha), and transports them to Scotland with the help of Elena Van den Ende (Kristin Scott Thomas), an agent selling wild animals to the zoos of Europe. After the thorough examination of the captive pygmies, Dodd comes to the conclusion that they are absolute equals with human beings, and attempts to do all in his power to free the couple despite the fact his actions can cost him his life. |
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A dramatization of Mark Champman's plan to murder John Lennon. |
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When drug lord Franz Sanchez (Robert Davi) exacts his brutal vengeance on Bond's friend Felix Leiter (David Hedison), 007 resigns from the British Secret Service and begins a fierce vendetta against the master criminal. Bond won't be satisfied until Sanchez is defeated, and to accomplish this aim he allies himself with a beautiful pilot (Carey Lowell) and Sanchez's sexy girldfriend (Talisa Soto). But Bond, relegated to outlaw status, must battle agents on both sides of the law as he discovers the horrifying extent of his prey's resources. In order to bring Sanchez down, Bond must survive a ferocious boat chase, a midair brawl over the controls of an out-of-control airplane, and an action-packed confrontation in the Mexico desert. |
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Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game the Japanese way. |
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Peggy (Molly Shannon), a timid, lonely forty-something woman, lives with her faithful dog, Pencil, who warms her heart and brightens up her world. One day her peaceful existence seems to be totally shattered by Pencil's sudden death from toxic poisoning. Who could have imagined that the loss of the adorable pet would have forced Peggy to come out of her shell? The grief-struck woman gets her act together and starts living an active life full of positive metamorphoses. |
| Bat*21
[1988,
USA]
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| Trapped behind enemy lines. A whole army after him... And only one man can save him. |
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During the Vietnam war, a U.S. observation plane is hit by a missile. The only survivor of the crew is the Lieutenant Colonel Iceal Hambleton, an expert in missile weaponry. Because of his knowledge, it is crucial to rescue him before the Vietcong get their hands on him. It's a very difficult task because the enemy is listening to Hambleton's radio transmissions. And he knows it... |
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Some years after U.S. President George W. Bush has been assassinated following an economic speech and massive demonstration of antiwar protesters in Chicago, an investigative documentary recounts the events of the fateful day, presenting interviews with all the people somehow involved in the case. They include various government officials, journalists, witnesses and suspects who comment on their association with the tragic event and the disturbing implications of what occurred. |
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Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins), a classics professor at a small New England college town, is fired after accusations of racism. His wife Iris (Phyllis Newman) takes it to heart and passes away. Coleman, broken-hearted and depressed, tries to redeem his honour but he soon finds consolation in a love affair with a local janitor, Faunia Farely (Nicole Kidman), a tempting woman half his age. The relations get strained when it turns out that both Coleman and Faunia have the dark secrets they have kept for many years. It’s high time they revealed all the secrets. |
| Jacknife
[1989,
USA]
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| Three buddies in Vietnam. Two survived. Only one is really alive. |
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A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle they both survived. |
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Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) is writing a paper on urban legends when she hears about the Candyman (Tony Todd), who was once an ex-slave-turned-artist name Daniel Robitaille, who had an affair his client's daughter. Robitaille's right hand was sawn off, he was covered in honey, and stung to death by bees. If anyone says the word "Candyman" five times in a mirror, he'll appear behind that person, a bloody hook as a replacement for his hand, and kill him. A series of unsolved murders is happening in the Cabrini Green projects and Helen is using this to help with her paper. The residents say the Candyman is to blame, but Helen doesn't believe it. Until she meets the man with a hook for a hand. Now, he's begun to murder her friends and no one believes her. Can Helen clear her name and stop the Canydman from killing anyone else? |
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