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A group of troubled teens are sent to a rehabilitation program housed in a remote camp on the island of Fiji. What their parents believe is a state-of-the-art deluxe institution in a beautiful natural environment turns out to be a prison-like boot camp where they are abused and brainwashed. |
| Reaping, The
[2007,
USA]
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| Thousands of years ago there was a series of bizarre occurrences that many believed to have been the Ten Biblical Plagues. No one thought they could happen again. Until now. (3 more taglines...) |
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Christian missionary Katherine Winter (Hilary Swank) lost her faith on God after her dearly loved husband and daughter were sacrificed by the Sudanese who blamed them for the long drought. Since then Katherine, a college professor, has become a famous expert in refuting superstitions, mysteries and miracles, finding a scientific explanation for a particular event. One day she arrives in a sleepy town of Haven, Louisiana, to examine a series of inexplicable incidents that appear to be the ten biblical plagues. In the course of her investigation Katherine comes to the conclusion that science can't explain all phenomena; and she ultimately regains her faith which grants her the power to withstand the dark forces.
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This tense, suspense-packed thriller centers on a man named Eddie (Luke Goss) who finds himself held at gunpoint and pursued by an unseen assailant on his way home through the desolate Texas desert in the broiling sun. The hunter is Jimmy (Lance Henriksen), a brutal man, armed to the teeth, who takes a sadistic delight in stalking his prey through the seemingly endless, barren desert and putting him to various tortures. At the final destination the hunter and the hunted will come face to face and engage in mortal combat... |
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This horror thriller focuses on young woman Christy (Nora Zehetner) who comes back to her small hometown several years after a dreadful car accident in which she was the driver. The most shocking thing was that her attractive older sister was horribly disfigured. Guilt-ridden and haunted by terrifying visions of the accident, she returns home only to find that her worst nightmares are about to come true. |
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Since the hit-and-run murder of his wife five years ago, Rennie Cray has crisscrossed America in his souped-up, stripped-down '68 Plymouth Barracuda, pursuing her killer. The man he seeks in a high-speed, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse is James Fargo, a merciless, wheelchair-bound pyschopath. Through a series of mechanical innovations, Fargo has turned his rampaging '72 Cadillac Eldorado into a monstrous extension of his own twisted body and mind. Now, their deadly battle of wits and wills is about to move into overdrive. And caught in their headlights is a tormented beauty who unwittingly holds the key to their ultimate showdown. |
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Paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) accepts the offer of well-to-do adventurer Paul Kirby (William H. Macy) and his wife Amanda (Téa Leoni) to make a sightseeing flight over infamous Isla Sorna. In fact the Kirbys want Alan Grant to find their missing son Eric (Trevor Morgan) who crashed on the island while paragliding. When they land on the island, they encounter fierce flesh-eating prehistoric creatures. As a result, Dr. Grant and his company have to start a terrible race for survival... Will the heroes be able to find the boy and survive? |
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A young man whose job is to watch over the Cube endeavours to rescue an innocent woman trapped in one of its rooms. |
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A New York police officer (Wahlberg) goes undercover in a dangerous crime scene to investigate abductions and drug-trafficking operations. He obtains backup with the help of another brave Hong Kong police officer (Yun-Fat) who works for the NYPD. They partner up together to stop the operation before the city goes down. The criminal orginization is called the "Fukanese Dragons" who are likely terrorists and illegal immigrants who are about to tear up Chinatown in New York City. |
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This psychological thriller relates the story of Frank Kavanaugh (Val Kilmer) who is found in the desert with a severe head wound and no memory. However, he claims to know that someone is planning to assassinate the President of the United States. He is also convinced that the woman claiming to be his fiancee, Chloe (Neve Campbell), is some sort of imposter. Having heard of the President and his campaign team coming to the small New Mexico town, Frank warns Sheriff Kolb (Sam Shepard) of the impending assault, but Kolb is engaged in an approaching election campaign. Struggling to retrace himself through his past life, Frank starts a race against time to convince the authorities of the verity of his claims, before it's too late. |
| Point of No Return
[1993,
USA]
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| The Government gave her a choice. Death. Or life as an assassin. Now, there's no turning back. |
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If you like Luc Besson's "Nikita", you will maybe found this movie at least noteworthy, if not - perhaps you will enjoy it anyway because it's just another look at the same story of the young girl played by Bridget Fonda who became an offender and was sentenced then (the story is almost the same except an ending, it differs from "Nikita"). She killed the police officer during the armed robbery in which she took a part. Then she was enlisted by government to execute some covert and dangerous missions which involve dynamic and brutal action and style. |
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Former military commander Dale Murphy (Henry Rollins) produces and hosts his own reality television show which is called "The Ultimate Survivalist: The Apocalypse" and is located in the notorious West Virginia wilderness. The participants are challenged to experience the way of life of primitive tribes for a period of six days without having modern telecommunications. Little do they know that they must fight for their survival against a family of grisly backwoods cannibals. |
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Jake Lo (Brandon Lee) is a student and a biker, who accidentally becomes a witness of the brutal murder. The murder is mafia's doing, and the head of Brandon Lee's character instantly grows in price. False FBI agents and the hordes of scumbags try to do off the steadfast biker in this stunning action movie which is the star debut of Brandon Lee. The only one person who Jake can trust, is Powers Boothe's hero named Ryan Mace who addicted his life to drug mafia eliminating. |
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A retired special operations instructor, L.T. Bonham (Tommy Lee Jones), gets recruited to join the FBI agents tracking down a brutal assassin who slaughters poachers in the green woods of Oregon. An elusive killer skilled in hand-to-hand combat proves to be Aaron Hallam (Benicio Del Toro), one of Bonham's best students, who has become unhinged after four years of his successful assassination in Kosovo. He needs no house in the woods because he feels invulnerable. He wants no money as he can get everything necessary for life himself. He needs no weapon because a stick or a stone in his hand is more dangerous than a machinegun. He is a perfect soldier, and Bonham who taught the cool-headed tough guy how to stalk, hunt and kill prey is the only man able to stop the man hunter. |
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Melvin Smiley (Mark Wahlberg) leads a double life working as a hitman for his crime boss Paris (Avery Brooks) and maintaining two relationships, one with his unsuspecting Jewish fiancee Pam Shulman (Christina Applegate), and another with a gold-digging, hypocritical mistress Chantel (Lela Rochon). Unbeknownst to their boss, Mel and his teammates, Cisco (Lou Diamond Phillips), Crunch (Bokeem Woodbine), Vince (Antonio Sabato Jr.), and Gump (Robin Dunne), decide to take an independent job for extra money and kidnap Keiko Nishi (China Chow), the daughter of a Japanese tycoon. In an ironic twist of fate, Jiro Nishi (Sab Shimono), whose business has recently gone burst, can’t pay a ransom of $1,000,000 for the release of his teenage daughter. Furthermore, Keiko proves to be the godkid of their powerful boss Paris, who orders his huge cohort to discover and send the captors to kingdom come. On top of it all, Mel falls for his kidnaping victim.
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The thriller revolves around two buddies, Lou (Kenny Johnson) and Ryan (Ryan Fox), who are driving to Las Vegas on the legendary desolate highway Zzyzx. Lou unexpectedly wonders if he could get off scot-free with murdering someone in the middle of nowhere. Guided by the irresistible impulse, he runs over a stranger crossing the desert road. Unfortunately, Lou gets more than he bargained for when the dead man's bride, Candice (Robyn Cohen), appears out of nowhere... |
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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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Mac Mckussic is an unlikely drug dealer who wants to go straight. His old and best friend Nick Frescia is now a cop who is assigned to investigate and bring him to justice. Mac is very attracted to Jo Ann, the owner of a stylish restaurant. Nick gets close to Jo Ann attempting to know more about Mac's drug dealing plans and his connections with the Mexican dealer Carlos, who the police believe is coming to town to meet with him. Nick also falls for Jo Ann's charms and his friendship with Mac is in danger. |
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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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Henry Durand is a young federal agent who is given a difficult assignment: spy on his mother and her boyfriend who is suspected of leading a gang of art thieves. |
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By day, Matt Murdock (Ben Affleck) represents as a Hell's Kitchen defense attorney. By night Matt becomes Daredevil, a man with no fear, fighting for justice in the dark streets of the city. Wearing a red leather suit and mask, Daredevil skips from high skyscrapers to pursue his enemies with his radar-like vision. The radioactive chemical accident left Matt blind but also granted him a "radar sense" which, combined with his superhuman senses of hearing, smell, taste and touch, allows him to perceive his environment far better than a sighted person. He is able to distinguish individuals by their natural odors, to sense a human body at a long distance, his heartbeat, blood circulation, to react to physical movements, etc. Daredevil’s enemies include Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, the biggest crime lord in New York, involved in extensive illegal activities such as drug running, smuggling, murder and dozens of other crimes. "Kingpin" is determined to hold the post of Mayor of New York but there is just one hitch. It is Daredevil who attempts to hamper him. Wanting to kill Daredevil standing in his way, Kingpin recruits psychotic killer Bullseye (Colin Farrell) who is famous for his targeting skills. Daredevil fights their powerful forces alone, until he meets Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner), a skilled martial artist and sexy superheroine who believes Daredevil to be responsible for her father's death and wants to take revenge on him. Sparks fly between the two heroes in this action-packed adventure fantasy. |
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