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Titles starting from letter "S"
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Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty. He tries to resume the life he left behind. Then, against Brandon's will, the Army orders him back to duty in Iraq, which upends his world. The conflict tests everything he believes in: the bond of family, the loyalty of friendship, the limits of love and the value of honor. |
| Storm Warning
[2007,
Australia]
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| A yuppie couple lost in a swamp seek refuge at an isolated farmhouse only to discover they've jumped out of the frying pan into the fire. Nail biting horror from the people who brought you WOLF CREEK and the director of URBAN LEGEND (1 more taglines...) |
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In this nail-biting horror movie, Rob (Robert Taylor) and Pia (Nadia Farès), a young couple, embark on a romantic boating excursion and get into a heavy storm. After their sailboat is wrecked, they become stranded in a desolate, creepy swamp surrounded by impenetrable forest. In an attempt to take shelter from raging rain and a ferocious wind, the husband and wife come across a seemingly abandoned farmhouse. After discovering a large amount of marijuana growing in the barn, they come to realize that it will turn out badly for them when the homeowners show up at the cabin... |
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Alex Rider (Alex Pettyfer), a typical 14-year-old school boy raised by his uncle, Ian Rider (Ewan McGregor), lives a normal life, until his guardian passes away under mysterious circumstances. Alex finally learns the truth: his uncle was not a nondescript bank manager, but a super spy for Britain's secret intelligence service MI6. Since then Alex's ordinary life has changed forever. Recruited by MI6, he carries on his uncle's dangerous mission to investigate criminal machinations of the biggest businessman, Darrius Sayle (Mickey Rourke), who has donated high-tech Stormbreaker computers to every school in Britain. When it becomes evident that the computers have some kind of virus in them, MI6 suspects Sayle of his nefarious scheme. Using his skills in mountaineering, scuba diving, and martial arts, and armed with the latest gadgets, Alex infiltrates Sayle's den by posing as the winner of a computer magazine contest and tries to discover what is going on. The teenage boy holds the fate of humanity in his hands.
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Writer Ben Jordan (Bruce Willis) and crossword-puzzle designer Katie Jordan (Michelle Pfeiffer) who have been happily married for almost 15 years find themselves on the verge of divorce. They still love each other (deep in their minds) and try to salvage their marriage but they constantly vent their accumulated annoyance and emotional weariness on each other. While their kids, Erin (Colleen Rennison) and Josh (Jake Sandvig), are away at a summer camp, they decide to attempt to live separately. Will the trial separation teach them that it’necessary to reach compromise and love a partner as he or she is?
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A strong-willed middle-aged businesswoman, Alice Comfort (Gillian Anderson), takes a 23-year-old man, Adam (Danny Dyer), who is hired to set up a security system in her house, to a housewarming party for her boss. On the way home after a hot night of passion, the couple are attacked by a group of four aggressive and violent men who beat Adam into submission, and then gang-rape Alice. The traumatized couple report to the police but they fail in finding their attackers. A month later, when Alice is discharged from the hospital, she receives a letter telling that her father has passed away. She goes to his country estate and encounters a group of men, one of which she recognizes as her rapist. She manages to determine his identity and address, and then Alice and Adam begin plotting their deadly revenge on the assailant. |
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With the ratings dropping for a wilderness-themed TV show, two animal fans go to the Andes in search of Bigfoot. |
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For twelve years, the methodic IRF agent Harold Crick has had a routine lonely life guided by his wristwatch. However, one day he hears the narration of his life in off, telling that he is going to die pretty soon. Meanwhile, he audits Ana Pascal, the owner of a bakery that is in debt with the IRF, and falls in love for her. Harold is advised by Professor Jules Hilbert to change his monotonous lifestyle while he tries to find Karen Eiffel, the author of the story of his life, who is researching means of killing the character, and convince her to change the ending of the story. |
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A prequel to the critically acclaimed series featuring Jerri Blank, a 46 year-old ex-junkie, ex-con who returns to high school in a bid to start her life over. |
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Tom Ludlow is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him. |
| Stripes
[1981,
USA]
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| The story of a man who wanted to keep the world safe for democracy...and meet girls |
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When New York City cab driver John Winger is fired from his job, his car is repossessed, he loses his apartment, and his girlfriend leaves him — all in the same day — John and his best friend Russell Ziskey decide to join the army. After enlisting, John and Russell are sent to Fort Arnold to undergo basic training under tough drill sergeant Hulka. Hulka is injured by a mortar bomb during basic training, and John has to lead the group in completing their training on their own. After graduation, General Barnicke Assigns Winger, Ziskey, and their platoon to Fort Milano, Italy, to man the EM-50 urban assault vehicle. By this time, sergeant Hulka has recovered from his injuries and has rejoined John, Russell, and the other men. When John and Russell decide to take the EM50 to Germany to pick up their girlfriends, MPs Stella Hansen and Louise Cooper, for a night on the town, the rest of the platoon searches for them because Captain Stillman wants the EM-50 to be put back where it was at. While searching for the EM-50, Stillman and the unit are captured by hostile Russian troops, who take them into Czechoslovakia. Now John, Russell, Stella, and Louise must venture into Czechoslovakia and rescue the guys. |
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Erin Grant loses care and custody of her daughter when she's divorced from her husband Darrell, a small-time thief. Struggling for money, she is a dancer at a nightclub, where one night Congressman Dilbeck (in disguise) attacks another member of the audience. A spectator, who recognizes Dilbeck and is fond of Erin, offers to get back her daughter by blackmailing Dilbeck. Things do not work out as planned, though. |
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When Eleanor (Geena Davis) and Fredrick Little (Hugh Laurie) were asked by their son George (Jonathan Lipnicki) to adopt a little brother as opposed to a big one, they took his request too literally. One fine day they adopted Stuart (voiced by Michael J. Fox), a charming little mouse that can talk, walk upright and wear clothes. And from then on he embarked on unpredictable, comic and sometimes risky adventures. The family cat, Snowbell (voiced by Nathan Lane), who took an instant dislike to Stuart, gave him a cool welcome: he made an attempt to eat him, and then he set all the cats in the neighborhood on the mouse. After all, Stuart was kidnapped by small-time bandits. In order to return home, the new member of the Little family had to show his remarkable pluck and wits.
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Stuart's mother is being over-protective of him, especially when he narrowly escapes injury in a soccer game. His big brother George has also made a new friend, Will, so Stuart is feeing lonely. Stuart rescues a canary, Margalo, from a falcon; she moves in with the Littles. One day, Margalo is nowhere to be found, so Stuart and Snowbell set out across the city to find her while George covers for Stuart (the first time he's had to lie). |
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Conjoined twins Bob (Matt Damon) and Walt Tenor (Greg Kinnear) are living legends in their small hometown. They take full advantage of their four hands to fling off their baseball and boxing competitors, to play hockey as goalkeepers, to quickly cook hamburgers at their own fast-food restaurant. Despite a seeming inconvenience, Walt has no problems with women, while his shy, hesitant brother is only experienced in communicating with girls on the Internet. Walt is determined to bring Bob and his longtime cyber-pal together as well as to achieve his dream of becoming a star of the silver screen, and persuades his brother to move to Los Angeles. Having weighed the pros and cons, the colourful brothers leave their hometown for Hollywood, without knowing what they will have to start their star career from. |
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Remember that medical care may be hazardous to your health. George Grieves (Thomas Cavanagh) felt it on his own back when he went to Mt Abaddon hospital for colonoscopy. The day before the procedure his friends had thrown a scare into him by telling some stories about medical errors. Alas, poor George! His fears were just. Dr. Sharazi (Cas Anvar) was negligent in mixing up medical cards and performing thoracoscopic sympathectomy on him. After the surgery, the hapless patient ended up suffering festering wounds infected with flesh-eating germs. While in hospital, George suddenly discovered that the only form of treatment for patients in the East Ward was ... death. |
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This romantic coming-of-age comedy follows Brett Eisenberg (Sarah Michelle Gellar), an ambitious young woman from the suburbs who works as an associate editor at a small New York publishing house and is determined to climb the ladder. One day she attends a book signing where she captures the attention of a womanizing 50-year-old literary lion, Archie Knox (Alec Baldwin). Brett soon develops a flamboyant love affair with the charismatic man who introduces her to a glamorous world. In the beginning of the romance everything seems to be rosy and sweet, but then their relations become strained due to the age difference and Archie's alcohol addiction. Brett must make the most important decision of her life. |
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During the seventh game of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals, a group of terrorists led by a former government employee, Joshua Foss (Powers Boothe), take the Vice President of the United States Daniel Binder (Raymond J. Barry) hostage and demand to transfer $1 billion to their account electronically by the end of the game, threatening to blow up a gigantic stadium packed with fans. Among spectators is a former firefighter named Darren McCord (Jean-Claude Van Damme) attending the hockey game with his daughter Emily (Whittni Wright) and his son Tyler (Ross Malinger). When the girl is suddenly kidnapped, the infuriated father sets out to foil Foss's nefarious plan and save the hostages. |
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After destroying a case involving a crime lord, Harry Callahan is sent down to San Paulo to investigate the killing of a man found dead in a car. Jennifer (the killer of the man in the car) is murdering all the rapists who brutally raped both her and her sister 10 years ago, and she has returned to San Paulo to exact her revenge. Harry becomes inadvertently involved in Jennifer's own troubles during his investigations, all the while not suspecting she is the killer. |
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The tranquility of a small town is marred only by sheriff Tod Shaw's unsuccessful courtship of widow Ellen Benson, a pacifist who can't abide guns and those who use them. But violence descends on Ellen's household willy-nilly when the U.S. President passes through town... and slightly psycho hired assassin John Baron finds the Benson home ideal for an ambush. |
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When faced with the loss of her infant son, Lou-Jean Poplin makes her husband, Clovis, escape from a minimum security prison. Threatened with capture, the couple take rookie Texas State trooper Maxwell Slide hostage, and head across the state in his patrol car. Pursued by dozens of police cars, the trio contend with their sudden elevation to folk heroes, and vigilantes out to stop them. Their only real friend may be trooper Captain Tanner, who struggles to find a peaceful end to the situation. |
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