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Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope. |
| Highlander
[1986,
UK, USA]
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| He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal. (2 more taglines...) |
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Connor Macleod was born in 1518 in the Highlands of Scotland. In 1536, after facing a mysterious, evil opponent, he survives a fatal stab wound and is banished from his village, for they believe his survival is the work of the Devil. Five years later, Macleod is met by Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez, a Spanish swordsman who teaches Macleod the awful truth; he is immortal, one of a race of many who can only die when the head is cut from the body. When one immortal takes the head of another, the loser's power is absorbed into the winner. Ramirez teaches Macleod the ways of the sword, until Ramirez is tragically killed by Connor's ultimate opponent, the evil Kurgan, a murderous immortal brute who lusts for the ultimate power of the immortals, "The Prize"; enough power to rule the earth forever. Connor fights his way through the centuries, until the time of the Gathering, when the few immortals who have survived the endless battles come together to fight until only one remains, and that winner will receive The Prize. The time: 1985. The place: New York City. The final fight is about to begin, and in the end, there can be only one. |
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During the civil war, injured Yankee soldier, John McBurney is rescued on the verge of death by a teenage girl from a southern boarding school. She manages to get him back to the school, and at first the all-female staff and pupils are scared. As he starts to recover, one by one he charms them and the atmosphere becomes filled with jealousy and deceit. |
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Val ('Kevin Bacon' (qv)) and Earl ('Fred Ward (I)' (qv)) plan to put behind their days as handymen in a small dust bowl town called Perfection. Before they can get to civilization though, they encounter numerous victims of monsters that burrow through the ground. Soon the whole town is camped out on their roofs as Val and Earl lead them to safety. |
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Stewart Kane (Gabriel Byrne), a happily married 40-something Irishman in the Australian town of Jindabyne, goes on a fishing trip with his pals, Carl (John Howard), Rocco (Stelios Yiakmis) and Billy (Simon Stone). While out on the river, they discover the naked body of a murdered aboriginal girl (Tatea Reilly). Instead of returning to the town immediately, the men decide to stay on at the river and spend two days fishing. When the buddies finally return home and notify their macabre discovery to the police, they face their families' sharp condemnation of their actions. Stewart's wife Claire (Laura Linney) is so disturbed by her husband's callousness that she begins to question their marriage. |
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Retired FBI agent Will Graham (William L. Petersen) returns to action to hunt down a serial killer by using his ability to get inside the psychopath's mind. However, it was this ability that drove him into retirement in the first place. The process of tracking and capturing the infamous Hannibal Lecter (Brian Cox) took a tremendous psychic toll on Graham, causing him to spent time in a mental hospital. With another madman on the loose, Graham has no choice but to return to duty, though he knows that it might cost him his family and his sanity.
To get the old mind-set back, Graham visits Hannibal Lecter in his high-security jail cell. However, the manipulative Lecter plays both sides and warns the new killer that Graham is on his trail, telling him to destroy Graham's family to protect himself. In order to save his own family, Graham must risk everything to once again enter into the mind of the criminally insane.
With MANHUNTER, Mann raises the bar for serial killer films, imbuing his killer with an almost sympathetic quality while keeping him extremely menacing and clearly dangerous. Based on the Thomas Harris novel RED DRAGON, which serves as the prequel to THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, MANHUNTER is a masterpiece of gripping storytelling and psychological horror. |
| Bobby
[2006,
USA]
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| He saw wrong and tried to right it. He saw suffering and tried to heal it. He saw war and tried to stop it. |
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The Ambassador Hotel, 1968: the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy will soon take place here but none of the hotel residents and employees knows about it yet. Everyone at the hotel is busy with his own affairs, and their paths never seem to cross, not even in this closed space. However, it only seems so and twenty two individuals who will become unwitting witnesses to the tragedy will make a lot of startling discoveries and have strange meetings.
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This touching comedy follows the story of a bashful, chain-smoking, successful playwright having a midlife crisis. Peter McGowan (Kenneth Branagh) runs out of inspiration; his new play is set to open, but he can't find a child to act the part of a 10-year-old character; his neighbors' dog barks all night; he is unnerved by his wife who insists on having a child. Fortunately, things take a turn for the better when a recently separated woman, Trina Walsh (Lucinda Jenney), and her 8-year-old cerebral palsy-afflicted daughter Amy (Suzi Hofrichter) move next door. Peter befriends the girl who helps him to see the world through other eyes... |
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Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations. |
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Young ambitious guy Tom Ripley (Matt Damon), a men's room attendant and sometimes pianist, knew that he would manage to climb the social ladder some day. And that day dawned when Tom happened to meet Mr. Greenleaf (James Rebhorn), a shipping tycoon, who mistook him for a Princeton student and a fellow of his son Dickie (Jude Law). Herbert Greenleaf paid Ripley $1,000 plus expenses so that he could travel to Italy to persuade his spoiled, shallow and wayward son living a carefree life with his father's money to return to America. Tom was undoubtedly talented: he was well-read and smart, was good at playing the piano, forging handwriting, and impersonating voices and manners of other people. On arrival in Italy, Tom, a real chameleon, ingratiated himself with Dickie and his fascinating girlfriend, Marge Sherwood (Gwyneth Paltrow), and was soon accepted into their inner circle. He was attracted to the impetuous handsome Dicki and charmed by the privileged lifestyle. But Ripley's deep-seated dissatisfaction with his own background, life of poverty and his being a real nobody began gnawing at him and his growing desire to maintain the new wealthy lifestyle was an overpoise to his judgement. So Ripley came up with a perfidious, cruel plan to kill Greenleaf and assume his identity.
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The film follows the fortunes of Charles and his friends as they wonder if they will every find true love and marry. Charles thinks he's found "Miss Right" in Carrie, an American. This British subtle comedy revolves around Charlie, his friends and the four weddings and one funeral which they attend. |
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Terry (Joan Allen), a sharp-witted woman and a mother of four, had lost her husband and trying to drown her sorrows in alcohol. Once she gets acquainted with Denny (Kevin Costner), an ex-basketball player living in her neighborhood who now works at a radio-station as a DJ. With both Terry and Denny feeling down in the dumps about recent events in their lives, the two find themselves drawn to one another. Soon Denny becomes a good drinking buddy for Terry and slowly evolves into her source of strength, and, in fact, becomes like father to her daughters. But things get complicated as Danny, Terry and her daughters attempting to juggle their romantic dilemmas. |
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The moving story of a Hungarian mapmaker and his dying memories of the romance that tragically alters his life. Burned horribly in a fiery plane crash while crossing the Sahara Desert during WWII, he is tended to by a Canadian nurse with ghosts of her own and haunted by a thief seeking answers for a crime from his past. |
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This is the final chapter of Gore Verbinski's swashbuckling action-adventure trilogy. In the second part the bold Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) was killed during the battle against the formidable Kracken. This time he is hopelessly stuck in the purgatory of Davy Jones' (Bill Nighy) Locker, the evil spirits of the deep. Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swan (Keira Knightley) form an unlikely alliance with the evil Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) and set sail on a perilous journey to the end of the world, namely to Singapore, where they will have to fight with the insidious Captain Sao Feng (Chow Yun-Fat), enlist support of the mighty Brethren Court, get the Black Pearl from the depths of the ocean and rescue Jack Sparrow from the land of the dead. |
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In the contemporary world you don't need to be a wizard to change someone's destiny. It takes you only to sit down at the computer. When attorney Robert Clayton Dean (Will Smith) becomes the target of corrupt National Security Agency official Thomas Brian Reynolds (Jon Voight), his brilliant career and happy marriage is utterly ruined. Reynolds, who uses the latest high-tech surveillance gadgets and other vast resources of his department, turns him from a law-abiding citizen into a 'serious offender' within a few days. Accused of murder he hasn't committed, Dean finds himself deprived of his prestigious well-paid job, with his family spied on, and his personal information deleted from all electronic databases. It is clear that he is framed. But how can he prove his innocence if he has such a formidable foe? He gets the only chance to clear his name and reclaim his life when he comes into contact with a former intelligence operative and surveillance expert, Brill (Gene Hackman), and learns to turn Reynolds' batteries against himself. |
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After an explosion on a ferry kills over 500 people including a large group of party-going sailors, an ATF agent investigates the crime. AN FBI agent also joins the investigation. Impressed with the ATF agent's skills, the FBI agent invites him to join a new team that has a new program that uses satellite technology to look backwards in time for 4-1/2 days to try to capture the terrorist. Meanwhile a young woman who was burned washes up on shore. Meant to look like part of of the explosion, the body arrives at its location too soon, which leads the agents to believe her death is related to the explosion. As they use the new technology to study the woman, the ATF agent determines that this is not satellite imagery but somehow is using a time warp. From this point in the film, the movie moves from a crime film to a sci-fi time paradox film. Nonetheless, the action is non-stop and always captivating. The end of the film may be confusing to some people, but it is all laid out if one cares to look carefully. Contains some extreme violence that some may find disturbing, particularly during the explosion when many people are shown jumping off the boat in flames. |
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According to this thrilling drama, the three most powerful men in the world are the President of the United States, the President of Russia and the captain of a nuclear missile submarine. But it happens in a war that the fate of mankind depends on the fulfillment of an order and then the lives of millions of people are in the hands of the captain. It only depends on his self-control and brains whether or not the tide will be crimsoned with blood in the morning. |
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1989, South London. Jack, an ebullient butcher, has died, and his last orders are to cast his ashes off the Margate Pier. His wife of 50 years, Amy, stays home, with the excuse of a visit to their mentally-disabled daughter. Jack's three closest friends, Ray, Vic, and Lenny - along with Jack's son Vince - head for Margate. Each has memories of Jack and of friendships, family, and conflicts. It's Vince's relationship with his dad that's the most complex, and Ray's long friendship with both Jack and Amy that holds things together. The last orders - to go to Margate and strew the ashes - become an invitation to recall what's done, what's left, and what's important. |
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This historical drama presents us one of the greatest romantic stories of doomed love. After the fall of the Roman Empire, King of Ireland (David O'Hara) has in fact taken control over England. While Tristan dreams of banishing Ireland's presence in England, he harbours a secret he's been hiding from his patron Marke - after suffering serious wounds, he was rescued and nursed back to health by Isolde (Sophia Myles), King Donnchadh's daughter, and the two fell deeply in love. Still seeking to throw the English tribes back into chaos, King Donnchadh gives away his daughter as the prize in a tournament between all the champions of England. Tristan wins the princess' hand for Lord Marke, whose vision of a united England may finally be realized. Tristan is horrified to see that the woman he has won for his Lord, the woman whom Marke will marry, is his Irish savior Isolde. |
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They finally meet - the tough cop John Mc Clein played by Bruce Willis and the dangerous terrorist, who is an ace of explosion technique. Simon (Jeremy Irons), the terrorist, wants to wreak vengeance on John involving him into the dangerous game when body count rapidly increases and McClein should save New York: Simon's cat-and-mouse game compels the cop to make difficult decisions, but nevertheless he should act really fast. Police is searching for terrorists when the genuine aim of the gang emerges... It will be a very, very hard day for our hero, because John McTiernan is the director known well by the tough action movies and their high budget.
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