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This sentimental and touching fantasy movie centers on 65-year-old William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins), a wealthy and powerful media mogul whose perfect existence is shattered by the arrival of Death who takes the form of a charming young man named Joe Black (Brad Pitt). Tired of his routine duties, Death proposes to conclude an extraordinary deal: Parrish will act as a guide to Joe to the world of living, and Joe will give him time to put his affairs in order. With the help of Parrish, the enigmatic and eccentric Joe starts a tour of human life. But the unexpected happens. The dead person's body which is occupied by Death turns out to have belonged to a man whom Parrish's beautiful daughter, Susan (Claire Forlani), has fallen in love with before the fatal accident. |
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In this spin on the traditional romantic comedy, Harris K. Tellemacher, a Shakespeare-quoting, Los Angeles TV weatherman is looking for something meaningful for his life. The Los Angeles Freeway sign informs him that the weather will change his life in two ways, and Harris begins to search for the meaning behind that message. |
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A group of social rejects enters a dodgeball tournament in Las Vegas against an all-star team led by Ben Stiller's character after their neighborhood "Average Joe's" gymnasium is threatened with a corporate takeover. White Goodman (Ben Stiller), a gleaming sports and fitness palace owner sends in attorney Kate Veach (Christine Taylor) to finalize the deal. An underachiever Peter La Fleur (Vince Vaughn) owns that run-down gymnasium which has a clientele to be ashamed of; if he won't pay $50,000 as a mortgage payment, it will be impossible to save the gym. Peter and his friends put themselves into trying to win a high-stakes dodgeball tournament. Meanwhile, unfortunately for the sports tycoon, Peter's charms win his attorney Kate over and she helps him try to beat the odds and save the gym. |
| Edge, The
[1997,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| They were fighting over a woman when the plane went down. Now, their only chance for survival is each other. |
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Billionaire Charles Morse accompanies his supermodel wife Mickey to photo shoot at Alaska. The shoot is to be made by fashion photographer Robert Green. To find specific Indian for the shoot, they fly to even more distant location, where their small plane crashes into a lake. To survive in the woods full of man-killing bears they need each other, but the smarter of the men - Charles is suspicious that Robert is having an affair with his wife. |
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Backdraft is a dangerous phenomenon which can appear during a fire. Two brothers had lost their father, who was a firefighter and was killed by the backdraft. Stephen (Kurt Russell) and Brian (William Baldwin) are two firemen, their every day's work is complicated with the longtime conflict between them. It turns out to be that the last fires were initiated by an unknown incendiary, and the younger brother leaves the command to help the police to catch the maniac. |
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In ancient Egypt, high priest Imhotep started a forbidden relationship with Anck Su Namun, Pharaoh Seti's Mistress. When Seti finds out about what's going on, Imhotep and his loved one stab him, but can't escape the trustworthy guards: Anck Su Namnun chooses to commit suicide while Imhotep is bestowed with the Hom-Dai, the most feared curse of all: He is mummified alive in Hamunaptra, the city of the Dead. More than thirty-six centuries later, in 1923, to be exact, adventurer Rick leads Egyptologist Evelyn and her brother Johnathan to mysterious Hamunaptra. While Johnathan is keen on finding the legendary Egyptian treasures, Evelyn wants to search for the Book of the Living, which would clarify a lot in historical knowledge about the ancient Egyptians. Unfortunately, they and a rivaling group of careless American adventurers free Imhotep's mummy from his eternal prison. Now, with the ancient and quite agile high priest on the loose, the adventurers and scientists face not only a dangerous enemy, but also a massive threat to today's world: Imhotep wants to bring Ankh-su-namun back to life by using Evelyn's body, but he also wants to rid the world of the disbelieving crowd of democracy-supporters to be able to enforce his tyrannic dictatorship. |
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At the end of World War 2 Hitler tried to find an ideal weapon and turned to the powers of darkness. Ritual, started by the occult monk and the Nazi scientists, was interrupted by American agents, who had found a horned demonic child at the place where the ritual was held. Later, the benevolent Professor Bruttenholm raised the demonic child called Hellboy (Ron Perlman) to be a hero, who helps to investigate the supernatural in Dr. Bruttenholm's secret Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.). Along with the amphibious psychic Abe Sapien (Doug Jones, voiced by David Hyde Pierce) and the fire-throwing Liz Sherman (Selma Blair), Hellboy is joined by new recruit John Myers (Rupert Evans), a naive and idealistic FBI agent. Evil monk rises again, putting mankind on a brink of destruction as he has drawn a new demonic being called Samael into our world. Meanwhile, a love triangle emerges in the story as Myers, the FBI agent becomes Hellboy's rival for Liz's affections. Guillermo del Toro's wisecracking and eccentric film is based on the comic book series by Mike Mignola. |
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Fielding Pierce lives the life of an aspiring politician - in 1972 he's serving in the Coast Guard (trying to avoid Vietnam in the most honorable way), and by 1973 he has entered law school. Along the way he falls in love with Sarah, a fiercely idealistic woman who devotes her life to helping others - unfortunately she's killed in an explosion while assisting members of the Chilean resistance. Nine years later, in the middle of a congressional election, Fielding is suddenly flooded with thoughts and visions of his lost love. |
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Thorny (Jay Chandrasekhar), Rabbit (Erik Stolhanske), Mac (Steve Lemme), Farva (Kevin Heffernan) and Foster (Paul Soter) are wild and lazy Vermont state troopers who enjoy playing pranks at stoned speeders to kill time. However, when serious budget cuts threaten their livelihood, the guys are determined to become admirably industrious and hyperactive. To impress their superior officers and save their jobs, the troopers make an attempt to solve a murder or uncover a drug smuggling ring. |
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Eminem, the white star of American rap, acts in this movie incarnating some events of his own life on-screen. We can see a talented, emotional young rapper Jimmy Smith-Jr. aka Rabbit who has hard times living on the 8 mile street in Detroit. After the break-up with his girlfriend Jimmy lives with his mother who is constantly quarrelling with her admirer. To rent a flat and to save up money he lands a job at the metallurgical plant where he meets Alex, a girl who believes in his rap talents. His Afro-American buddy allows Jimmy to make a demo-record at the studio but their friendship crushes when Jimmy and Alex get caught red-handed at the scene of kissing. Meantime, Jimmy takes part in rap contests despite the fact he isn't met with open hands in the Afro-American community. |
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A love triangle between three friends. Rabbi Jake Schram and Father Brian Finn, two friends, are out to update their religions and draw in more worshipers. With the arrival of Anna Reilly, an old childhood friend of the two, the men's lives are thrown a curve ball. Anna has become a stunning beauty with a lot of spunk and ambition, and both of them want her. A major road block to Anna for both men is their religion. Jake is up for a head position at his synagogue and taking on a non-Jewish partner is frowned upon, besides the fact that his mother disowned his brother for marrying a non-Jewish woman. Brian has given a vow of celibacy to become a priest. |
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The audacious theft of a Claude Monet painting from New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art is brilliantly executed in broad daylight. The priceless artwork is stolen by Thomas Crown (Pierce Brosnan), an adventurous self-made billionaire who can easily afford to buy anything he desires but there is nothing he enjoys better than walking on the razor's edge and winning. Thomas is a respected businessman therefore he is the last person the police suspect. But there is one person, namely Catherine Banning (Rene Russo), a smart insurance investigator who feels in her bones that Crown is involved in the theft. Hired to assist the police in retrieving the masterpiece, Catherine resorts to various means, from intelligence and cunning to personal charm, to accomplish her mission. |
| Pretty Woman
[1990,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| She walked off the street, into his life and stole his heart. |
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Vivian Ward has found a way of living by working as a prostitute on Hollywood Boulevard. When she runs into the prince of her dreams, who comes along on his wild horse, she first does not recognize him as her saviour. The prince, a ruthless and wealthy businessman by the name of Edward Lewis, does not know that she could be more than just a girl from the sidewalk, but he changes his decision after the first night with the beautiful stranger. Her being the first person in a long time who could surprise him, Edward can slowly feel the light at the end of the tunnel. He is on his way to become a better person, whereas Vivian has got a new chance to start over again. |
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A pre-fame Beatles head for the seedy clubs of Hamburg in search of success. The band meet up with a group of trendy German beatniks, one of whom (Astrid Kircherr) bass guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe falls in love with. Whilst best friend John Lennon can only watch, Sutcliffe has to choose between rock 'n roll and a new life in Germany... |
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Roy Munson (Woody Harrelson) was raised to be the best bowler in the world (trained early on by his father). But a fellow bowler, Ernie McCracken (Bill Murray) and a misunderstanding with some rough punks, leaves poor Roy with the loss of his bowling hand! Not to let this get him down, he gets a prosthetic hand and becomes a traveling sales man. But it's really all down hill for him from that night on until ... One day he meets Ishmael (Randy Quaid) who's a Quaker that sneaks away from the farm to bowl (his fellow Quakers would disown him if they knew)! Roy convinces Ishmael to let him be his trainer and he'll make him the best bowler the world has ever seen. Reluctantly Ismael agrees to go on the road and shortly afterwards actually finds that life outside the farm is quite fun. Soon their paths cross that of Ernie McCracken who is still top ranking bowler. While Roy's career and life have landed in the toilet bowl, Ernie is still drawing huge crowds and all the babes! They both square off for the untimate bowling championship ... to see which one truly IS the champion. To find that out you'll have to see this funny and original movie. Bill Murray is at his best, since Caddyshack. Randy Quaid makes some daring choices that really work and Woody Harrelson brings us the comdey style from "Cheers" that made him a household name! |
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New York, 1959. Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now all his shows close on opening night. Things turn around when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than you need, then make sure the show is despised. No one will be interested in it, so you can pocket the surplus. To this end, they produce a musical called Springtime for Hitler written by escaped Nazi Franz Liebken. Then they get the insanely flamboyant Roger De Bris to direct. Finally, they hire as a lead actress the loopy Swedish bombshell Ulla (whose last name has over 15 syllables). As opening night draws near, what can go wrong? Well, there's no accounting for taste... |
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Meet Joseph 'Joe' Blake (Bruce Willis) and Terry Lee Collins (Billy Bob Thornton), the most successful bank burglars in the USA. Without firing a shot, with the help of their great charisma and insolence, the irresistible macho Joe and the hypochondriac Terry, always complaining of his imaginary illnesses, have robbed more banks than anybody else. It seemed that these suave, witty bandits would always lucky. But as the fates decree, the two fall in love with hot housewife Kate Wheeler (Cate Blanchett), who craves adventures and gets involved in their heists. As a result, everything in their lives goes topsy-turvy! |
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An American cardio surgeon, Dr. Richard Walker (Harrison Ford), has come to Paris, the City of Lights, with his wife Sondra (Betty Buckley) for a medical conference. "I love Paris," he is singing while taking a shower. But when his wife unexpectedly disappears from their hotel room and doesn't return after several hours, Walker begins to fear the city. He embarks on a frantic, extremely dangerous quest for his adorable wife and finds himself plagued by misunderstandings, laissez-faire police officers and painstaking bureaucrats who offer him little help. The only person who may hold clues to finding the anxious Walker's wife is Michelle (Emmanuelle Seigner), a streetwise sexy gamine. |
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Conan was still a child when he saw his parents murdered and his village burned by a horde of savages, lead by the semi-god Thulsa Doom. They took him to the north, where he grew up working like an animal, and was later sold as a slave. His master trained him to be a warrior, and made a fortune by using him in fights. But there comes one day, when he gives Conan his freedom, and the chance to take his revenge after so many years. |
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Heinrich Harrer is an Austrian mountaineer who is forced to be a hero for the Nazi propaganda. He leaves Austria in 1939 to climb a mountain in the Himalayas. Through a series of circumstances (including POW camp), he and fellow climber Peter Aufschnaiter become the only two foreigners in the Tibetan Holy City of Lhasa. There, Heinrich's life changes forever as he becomes a close confidant to the Dalai Lama. |
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