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Titles starting from letter "S"
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Based on the notorious Ray Bradbury's short novel, this unrolled narration depicts dinosaur hunters' adventures and the following consequences. A game hunter (Edward Burns) travels through time to go on a dinosaur-hunting safari in the prehistoric era. When a tyrannosaurus scares him off the marked path, he accidentally changes history forever as the past times affect the following. |
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California is at the epicenter of a political and environmental disaster that threatens to destroy the world in this ambitious fusion of comedy, drama, dystopia science fiction, and music. In the year 2005, a nuclear attack wipes out part of the state of Texas, and three years later America is a virtual police state, with the government taking control of nearly every part of people's lives, supposedly for their own good. A German firm has found a way to generate energy using seawater, but both public and private concerns are desperate to prevent the new technology from being introduced in the gasoline-starved United States. A Marxist underground based on the West Coast is determined to bring down the federal government through violent revolution. In this midst of this chaos, we follow a number of stories that continually return to three principle characters. Boxer Santaros is an actor famous for his role in action films; he's trying to secure financing for a new project, but reality keeps mirroring the events in his script and he struggles to hold on to his identity following a bout with amnesia. Krysta Now is a porn star who is reinventing herself as a television pundit offering her views on politics, contemporary culture, and teenage sex. And Roland Taverner is an L.A. police officer whose identity has mysteriously split in two and he struggles to track down his other half. |
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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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Swackhammer, owner of the amusement park planet Moron Mountain is desperate get new attractions and he decides that the Looney Tune characters would be perfect. He sends his diminutive underlings to get them to him, whether Bugs Bunny & Co. want to go or not. Well armed for their size, Bugs Bunny is forced to trick them into agreeing to a competition to determine their freedom. Taking advantage of their puny and stubby legged foes, the gang selects basketball for the surest chance of winning. However, the Nerdlucks turn the tables and steal the talents of leading professional basketball stars to become massive basketball bruisers known as the Monstars. In desperation, Bugs Bunny calls on the aid of Micheal Jordan, the Babe Ruth of Basketball, to help them have a chance at winning their freedom. |
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The planet Spaceball, home planet of the evil Spaceballs is running out of air and the planet's ruler President Skroob has devised a evil scheme, where he plans to steal the air from the atmosphere of the peaceful planet Druidia. But Druidia is surrounded by a defense shield to prevent the Spaceballs from stealing the air. When Druidia's ruler King Roland's beautiful daughter Princess Vespa and her loyal droid Dot Matrix flees from Druidia during her wedding to Prince Valium, The evil commander of the Spaceball fleet, Dark Helmet captures Princess Vespa so King Roland will be forced to give them the access code to the defense shield. But heroic space pilot Lone Starr and his sidekick, Barf (A Mog half man-half Dog) comes to Princess Vespa's rescue. With help from wise and powerful master of the magic ring "The Schwartz" Yogurt, Lone Starr, Barf, Dot and Princess Vespa set out to save Druida and foil Dark Helmet and President Scroob's scheme and prevent them from stealing the air from Druidia. |
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When Scott (Val Kilmer), a black operational secret agent involved to rescue Laura, the kidnapped daughter of a high ranking government official, he takes up his duties along with Curtis (Derek Luke), a novice agent. The media reported that the girl is dead, but Curtis believes the girl is in fact alive and is unwittingly drawn into some dangerous political conspiracy. When the team discovers a human trafficking operation that may lead to Laura's kidnappers, a clandestine white slavery gang, they are unexpectedly taken apart. Notwithstanding Scott had left the inquiry, Curtis goes on and pushes his colleague to continue their unofficial investigation which will put them as well as Laura at the center of a dangerous conspiracy that reaches the highest levels. |
| Specialist, The
[1994,
Peru, USA]
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| The government taught him to kill. Now he's using his skills to help a woman seek revenge against the Miami underworld. |
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Ray Quick is an ex-CIA bomb expert now living as an high-tech outsider somewhere in Miami, Florida. May Munro has heard of his skills and tries over and over to convince Ray to bomb the guys who killed her parents once. Ray begins to overshadow May. He is interested in May's case, but still is of the opinion to never use his skills again. The situation changes dramatically when a former CIA comrade of Ray appears on the scene. |
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A group of four specialists are given the task of tracking down Sil. "She" is part human, part alien, beautiful, strong, very dangerous and desperate to mate with a human. |
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After young and beautiful college professor Miranda Hollander (Helena Mattsson) inadvertently kills all hospital staff with her two-meter tongue, she makes a shocking discovery that she is in fact a clone from a hybrid (Sil and Eve) of human and alien DNA. Worse yet, she is doomed to an early death. Her uncle, Dr Holander (Ben Cross), immediately takes his niece to Mexico, hoping to restrain the killer instincts boiling up inside her body and prolong Miranda's life cycle with the help of the scientist who created her. Unfortunately, the treatment goes horribly awry... |
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Two political speechwriters fall in love before they find out they are working for candidates on opposite sides. |
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Annie Porter is thrilled when her boyfriend Alex Shaw presents her with two tickets for a cruise to the Bahamas on a Norwegian luxury liner. The trip is a peace offering presented because Annie has just learned that Alex is a police officer who's been lying to her about his choice of profession. Alex lied because Annie didn't want to date any more cops after what happened with the bus in Los Angeles. The cruise ship's passengers include members of a diamond dealers' association, who have filled the ship's vault with valuable diamonds. Little do they know that passenger John Geiger, the designer of the ship's computer system, has planned to take over the ship, steal the diamonds, and set the ship on a collision course with an oil tanker anchored at the island of St. Martin. Geiger was fired and cast aside by the computer company he worked for, and he wants revenge. Now it's up to Alex to stop him. |
| Spencer's Mountain
[1963,
USA]
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| Clayboy's schoolteacher impresses upon Clayboy the following phrase, "The world steps aside to let a man pass, if he knows where he is going" |
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Set in the Grand Tetons in the 1950's, this gripping rustic drama revolves around Clay Spencer (Henry Fonda), a fiercely independent, industrious farmer who loves his wife Olivia (Maureen O'Hara) and his nine kids so much that he is ready to sacrifice anything for the sake of his large family. By working hard, he scraped together enough money to build his constantly growing family a new beautiful house on the plot of land he had inherited on Spencer's Mountain. However, he is forced to put his plan on hold in order to allow his eldest son, Clayboy (James MacArthur), to go to college. |
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Dennis Clegg is in his thirties and lives in a halfway house for the mentally ill in London. Dennis, nicknamed "Spider" by his mother has been institutionalized with acute schizophrenia for some 20 years. He has never truly recovered, however, and as the story progresses we vicariously experience his increasingly fragile grip on reality. |
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Based on several stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this riveting murder mystery finds master sleuth Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and his faithful assistant Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) trying to solve the case of the "Pajama Suicides." London is rocked by a rash of baffling suicides of wealthy gamblers, but Holmes in inclined to believe that they are premeditated murders. He feigns his own death and assumes the identity of Rajni Singh, a retired Indian officer with a paralyzed arm, so that he can move undetected all around the city. He stalks the city's gaming clubs and eventually meets a mysterious, perfidious woman named Adria Spedding (Gale Sondergaard). To his dismay, Holmes soon falls into Spedding's clutches from which he may never escape... |
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Well-known and deeply respected for his great deeds, the red-and-blue-suited Spider-Man is an idol and hero in New York City. Meanwhile, the modest Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) leads a regular, almost ascetic lifestyle, trying to win his spurs as a photographer, and Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) is the star of a great Broadway show. She is one of few people who know about Peter’s crime-fighting alter-ego. Harry Osborn (James Franco), once Peter’s friend, who is also aware of his secret identity, has become the New Goblin, bent on taking revenge the death of his father, the Green Goblin, by killing Spider-Man. Moreover, he is attracted by the charming Mary Jane and willing to take her away from Peter. To make matters more complicated, Peter is taken over by mysterious black alien substance Venom which amplifies his powers and changes his personality for the worst. And now he must battle not only with his remorseless foes, Harry and Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church), a crime fugitive incidentally transformed into Sandman, but also with...himself.
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Peter Parker's double life annoys him. Being Spiderman has brought nothing but problems with his personal life. He walked away from his longtime love Mary Jane Watson and balancing his dual identities as the mysterious superhero Spider-Man being and a college student's life. He even wants to cease his Spiderman practice, until a scientific accident transforms Dr. Otto Octavius into Dr. Octopus, a super-villain with four metal tentacles. Peter, at times noticing he's losing some of his powers, learns to accept his fate and realizes he must decide between being who he once was or retaining his secret identity to stop diabolical Dr. Octopus and save New York City. |
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Well-known and deeply respected for his great deeds, the red-and-blue-suited Spider-Man is an idol and hero in New York City. Meanwhile, the modest Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) leads a regular, almost ascetic lifestyle, trying to win his spurs as a photographer, and Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) is the star of a great Broadway show. She is one of few people who know about Peter’s crime-fighting alter-ego. Harry Osborn (James Franco), once Peter’s friend, who is also aware of his secret identity, has become the New Goblin, bent on taking revenge the death of his father, the Green Goblin, by killing Spider-Man. Moreover, he is attracted by the charming Mary Jane and willing to take her away from Peter. To make matters more complicated, Peter is taken over by mysterious black alien substance Venom which amplifies his powers and changes his personality for the worst. And now he must battle not only with his remorseless foes, Harry and Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church), a crime fugitive incidentally transformed into Sandman, but also with...himself.
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Once upon a time, upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures. Unable to explain the strange disappearances and accidents that seem to be happening on a daily basis, the family blames it all on Jared. When he, Simon and Mallory investigate what's really going on, they uncover the fantastic truth of the Spiderwick estate and of the creatures that inhabit it. |
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Two totally incompetent applicants, Emmett Fitzhume and Austin Millbarge, are chosen from a CIA recruitment program. They are parachuted into Pakistan and eventually end up in Afghanistan, chased by the Russians, where they learn they are being used as decoys to draw out the Sovet defenses. Two real spies are sent in. Their mission is to Hijack a soviet Missile launcher, launch the Soviet missile and test the new US orbital defence laser. The missile is fired and while heading for an American City, the laser system misses it's target. The contingency plan for this scenario, as set out by the Pentagon Nuts who planned it from deep within a secret underground bunker, is to let the 3rd World War happen anyway. |
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This dark comedy-drama follows a meth addict's three-day journey when he became the personal driver of a methedrine cook. Bizzare situations, meth rush, striptease girls... Ross, an unemployed student, gets acquainted with a meth producer named Cook and his saucy girlfriend teaser Nikki (Brittany Murphy), when he visits his dealer's Mike (John Leguizamo) home. Then the journey begins, the high-styled journey created by Jonas Eckerlund from MTV, who created clips for Madonna, Prodigy (Smack My Bitch Up), and other. |
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