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Titles starting from letter "R"
| Revolver
[2005,
UK, France]
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| The greatest trick that he ever pulled was making you believe that he is you. |
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In this Guy Ritchie's highly stylized crime drama a recently released ex-convict hotshot gambler Jake (Jason Statham) sets into motion a complex revenge plot against the man who killed his sister-in-law and put him behind bars. Being rarely allowed to play in the casinos because he's a winner, he is invited to sit in on a private game when he beats an opponent in the person of his foe, a gangster Dorothy Macha (Ray Liotta), and humiliates him. Dorothy sends a hitman to kill Jake, but there are some people who help Jake to protect himself and who are out to take gone-too-far Dorothy down. |
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Ricky Gervais performs live in his stand-up show FAME, which became Britain's fastest-selling live tour at the time. Gervais discusses his fame and the resulting complications that occur. |
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Rookie Los Angeles cop Nick Styles is at a Los Angeles street fair, where hit man Earl Talbot Blake pulls a double cross on some drug dealers, killing four men. Minutes later, Nick shoots Blake in the knee, and Blake is grabbed by Nick's partner and best friend Larry Doyle. Nick becomes the focus of the media, thanks to an amateur cameraman's footage of Nick disarming Blake. Over the next few years, Nick's career takes off: he's offered a job in the district attorney's office, and his hip media style keeps him in the public eye. Nick marries a woman named Alice and they go on to have two daughters named Lisa and Monica. While Blake is in prison, he vows revenge on Nick. When Blake comes up for parole, he orchestrates a bloody escape — which includes faking his own death. Blake doesn't want Nick dead. He just wants Nick to suffer in spades. He wants to ruin Nick's life as completely as possible, and then have Nick sent to prison for murder so Nick will know how Blake feels. Blake begins his vendetta by killing city councilman U. B. Farris and planting evidence to make everyone think Nick and Farris are running an underage pornography ring. Blake then kidnaps Nick, forces him to take drugs and have sex with a prostitute, videotapes the whole thing, and then releases Nick. Nick tells everyone that it was Blake who kidnapped him, but everyone refuses to believe Nick because everyone thinks Blake is dead. That night, Blake breaks into Nick's house, and makes a threatening videotape with Lisa, Monica, and an ax in it, but Blake didn't actually do anything to Lisa and Monica. Nick is then suspended from the DA's office, with everyone thinking that Nick is mentally ill because he keeps saying that Blake is still alive. Blake then begins the final phase of his vendetta — he kills Larry and frames Nick for it. Blake also links Nick to misappropriation of public funds, specifically, the funds he's supposed to be raising for a children's center in a building at the base of the Watts tower. Nick is forced to turn to his childhood friend, gang leader Odessa, for help in clearing his name and stopping Blake once and for all. |
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A quartet of young rush-seeking master thieves, made up of Slim (Stephen Dorff), Otis (Clé Bennett), Frank (Steven McCarthy) and Alex (Karen Cliché), commit dozens of audacious bank robberies, using their skills in various extreme sports like rollerblading, scuba diving, parachuting, and rock climbing to make their getaway. Slim and his crew plan to pull off the ultimate heist before resting on their laurels and fabulous wealth. But this time, the police mobilize forces to bring them down. Things get even more complicated when the mafia throws obstacles in their way. |
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Young artist Alan Parker's (Jonathan Jackson) obsession with death adversely affects his life. After losing his sweetheart, Jessica (Erika Christensen), the distraught student is about to lay violent hands on himself. But his friends manage to stave off the tragedy. Alan recovers and soon discovers that he has inadvertently opened the door for the Grim Reaper to enter his life. When he receives the distressing news that his mother Jean (Barbara Hersey) has had a stroke and taken to hospital, Alan instantly decides to hitchhike home to visit his dying mom. On Halloween night, when it is dark and scary, he takes the road, only to come face to face with Death Incarnate (David Arquette) offering to drive him in his high-speeding car. Alan is impaled on the horns of a harrowing dilemma: whether to stop his nightmarish ride and thus heap up trouble for his only relative or continue riding the Bullet. |
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When the grandmother of the publicist Karin (Gina Phillips) dies, she inherits her property in the fields. She travels with her boyfriend Jeff (Randall Batinkoff) for the weekend, but she decides to stay along the week cleaning up the place and packing the stuffs. Karin has horrible nightmares and visions of ghosts of her past, while she stays in the house with the creepy housekeeper Pierce (Tom Sizemore) and her younger sister Wendy (Jenny Mollen). |
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"The Ring Two" foregoes the ominous phone calls warning of impending death. Instead, Samara's aim in this film is to possess little Aidan and claim Rachel (Naomi Watts) as her mother. This new angle leads to less suspense – and less pure frightening moments – than in the first movie. When Rachel learns of an unexplained murder, which occurred after a teenager watched a strange videotape with his girlfriend, she suspects her past is following her and she begins looking into the case. Rachel believes that the otherworldly Samara has come back. Rachel realizes that the vengeful Samara is back and more determined than ever to continue her relentless cycle of terror and death. |
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This is a remake of the Japan version of "The Ring", which still is a cornerstone of the contemporary horror. A journalist woman named Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) gets to know that her niece and the friends of the girl have died instantly and inexplicably when they checked a room in a distant motel, during their vacation. Rachel has a son Aidan (David Dorfman), she figures out that a mysterious video tape is involved in this story; these who are dead now, have watched it. Among other things, she resembles some ominous strangeness browsing photos of her dead niece's friends: their faces are uncommonly changed. And having seen the tape which initially seemed an amateurish film peculiar with an unskillful cutting, she realizes that something evil and nightmarishly unavoidable has begun looming over her and her son. Soon after watching the tape containing these various, inexplicably sinister frames she hears her phone ringing, and picks up a receiver only to hear how many days remained for her to live. Now her life is a race against the time, she is to know something about the tape and the horrifying story that lays hidden behind the dust of the past decades, spotting some things around her, the things she have seen watching the cursed cutting. A masterpiece of Gore Verbinski as a director and Naomi Watts as an actress is a prominent remake between the ones of the same genre. |
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Steve Barker (Johnny Knoxville), an office drone, must raise a large sum of money to pay for his gardener’s surgery, while his hapless uncle Gary (Brian Cox) owes $40,000 in gambling debts. Desperate to find the cash, they come up with a nefarious yet effective scheme. Steve and Gary decide to rig the Special Olympics Championship by having the former posing as a mentally challenged athlete so that the latter can bet on him to defeat the six-time medalist Jimmy Washington (Leonard Flowers). Thus they hope to earn enough money to solve both of their financial problems.
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Molly Keller, a direct descendant of Jack the Ripper is sentenced to an insane asylum after a series of brutal murders. She is drawn into an unconventional experiment in Prague, in the Weisser Institute, where she is to enter a virtual world where the line between what's real and what's not is almost impossible to distinguish. Other patients are involved in experiment too, and soon it turns out to be too dangerous when some of them begin to die. Molly knows that the Ripper's consciousness might be still alive and she thinks that death can be the only way to stop the murders. |
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Supernatural thriller in which a female reporter wakes up in a morgue to find herself a member of the undead. She vows revenge against the sect that put her there and hunts them down. |
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Nothing much happens in the small town of Dudley, Ohio. But that all changes when Lara Childs (Erin Wilk) becomes the target of the undead. |
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Rise of the Footsoldier follows the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late eighties and early nineties. It is three decades of his life following him from football hooliganism, through to his burgeoning career as a bouncer, his involvement in the criminal aspects of the early 'rave' scene and subsequently to his rise to power as one of the most feared and respected criminals in the country. The story concludes with three members of his firm being brutally murdered in the infamous shot-gun slaying at Rettenden. |
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This madcap laugh-filled feature film revolves around Rupert Rigsby (Leonard Rossiter), the greedy, lecherous landlord of a tumbledown boarding house and a motley bunch of tenants. The permanent residents include Ruth Jones (Frances de la Tour), an eccentric, sex-obsessed spinster; John (Christopher Strauli), a naive art student; Seymour (Denholm Elliott), a smooth-tongued con man, and Philip (Don Warrington), a black medical student who claims to be an African prince. |
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Set during the 1860s, a time of the land war between the European settlers and the Maori tribes, the movie depicts the intimate story of Sarah O'Brien (Samantha Morton), an Irish immigrant to New Zealand, whose little son Boy (Rawiri Pene) is kidnapped by his Maori grandfather. The distraught woman decides to travel deep into Maori territory to win back her missing son. When she falls in love with Boy's uncle, Wiremu (Cliff Curtis), she becomes caught between two sides in the middle of racial conflict. |
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Gail (Meryl Streep) is a professional at water rafting. She twigs every day, and she is in a very good shape. She takes her family, one day, to a rafting trip down the river, but she has no idea that the planed trip is about to become a nightmare. Two escaping robbers with a handgun, meet the family in the way, and join them to the trip. Only later the Gail realize that their new friends are dangerous criminals, but it's too late. The two men force them to stay together, and to keep cruising down the river. The family's life are risked not only by the 2 men, but also by the river which becomes more stormy and wilder. |
| Road House
[1989,
USA]
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| Dalton's the best bouncer in the business. His nights are filled with fast action, hot music and beautiful women. It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it. |
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Dalton is an expert "cooler" -- a barroom bouncer who can break up fights without getting himself killed in the process. Frank Tilghman, the owner of the Double Deuce in Jasper, Missouri, has hired Dalton away from a bar in Memphis, because Tilghman needs someone who can handle the nightly outbreaks of violence at the Double Deuce, and teach the rest of the Double Deuce's bouncers how to handle it. There's even a cage protecting the bar's band from the customers. The band is led by Dalton's old friend Cody, who is blind. Dalton is injured on his first night on the job and is treated by Elizabeth "Doc" Clay, the local doctor. Dalton and Doc soon fall in love with each other, and this angers Brad Wesley, a crime boss that Doc was once involved with -- and may still be involved with. Wesley is also responsible for a lot of the violence at the Double Deuce, and for some time, Wesley has had the sheriff in his pocket, giving him complete control of the town of Jasper. Wesley is out to get rid of Dalton, who has already made some friends in Jasper -- Dalton has rented a room from a man named Emmet, and has befriended local auto parts store owner Red Webster, and has also befriended Pete Stroudenmire, the owner of Stroudenmire Ford, a local car dealership. Wesley, who wants money from these people, has his henchmen burn down Red's store, run a big foot truck through the showroom of Pete's dealership, and set Emmet's home on fire. Dalton is pleasantly surprised when his mentor and old friend, legendary cooler Wade Garrett, arrives in town and helps him beat up the guys who are vandalizing Tilghman's liquor shipment because Wesley wants to be the one to supply Tilghman's liquor, and take money from Tilghman. A couple of days after Wade's arrival, Wesley has Wade murdered in order to get a point across to Dalton. In retaliation, Dalton storms Wesley's mansion, with every intention of freeing the town from Wesley. |
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Romantic, humour-packed comedy revolves around George Cochran (Bing Crosby) and Harold Gridley (Bob Hope), two longtime buddies who are forced to turn their back and leave Melbourne in order to avoid dual shotgun wedding. Fate brings them to the idyllic island of Bali where they take a job as deep-sea divers and become enamoured of Princess Lala (Dorothy Lamour). To win the princess' heart, the guys start competing with each other. During the dangerous dive George and Harold get a chest of treasures from the bottom of the sea. This captures the attention of the less romantic, greedy and sinister locals.... |
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This engrossing docudrama follows three young British Muslims Shafiq Rasul (Riz Ahmed), Rhuhel Ahmed (Farhad Harun) and Asif Iqbal (Afran Usman) who travel to Pakistan for a relative's wedding. By a strange quirk of fate they find themselves mistaken for Taliban and Al-Qaeda operatives and captured by U.S. forces, while crossing the Afghanistan border. As a result, they are transported and held for three years in the prison camp at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba. |
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A Hollywood film company wants to make a movie about country music and sends Doodles Weaver to round up talent to appear. A host of then-current country stars perform their hits. |
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