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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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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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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. |
| 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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Ricky (Ashley Walters) has been released from a young offender institution where he served time for the illegal possession of a firearm. Determined to go straight, he heads home where his mother and his 12-year-old brother Curtis (Luke Fraser) are waiting for him. However, while on his way home, he and his best buddy Wisdom (Leon Black) get involved in a minor street confrontation which threatens to escalate into a violent neighborhood war. Then Ricky takes home a loaded revolver and hides it in his room which Curtis finds... |
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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. |
| Edge, The
[1997,
USA]
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| 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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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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The coroner and scientist Dr. Warren Chapin (Vincent Price) is researching the shivering effect of fear with his assistant David Morris (Darryl Hickman). Dr. Warren is introduced to Ollie Higgins (Philip Coolidge), the relative of a criminal sentenced to the electric chair, while making the autopsy of the corpse, and he makes a comment about the tingler-effect to him. Ollie asks for a lift to Dr. Warner, and introduces his deaf-mute wife Martha Higgins (Judith Evelyn), who manages a theater of their own. Dr. Warner returns home, where he lives with his unfaithful and evil wife Isabel Stevens Chapin (Patricia Cutts) and her sweet sister Lucy Stevens (Pamela Lincoln). Dr. Warner, upset with the situation with his wife, threatens and uses her as a subject of his experiment. When Martha dies of fear, Dr. Warner makes her autopsy and finds a creature that lives inside every human being, feeds with fear and is controlled by the scream. Once Martha was not able to scream, the tingler was not rendered harmless and became enormous. When the living being escapes, Dr. Warner and Ollie chase it in a crowded movie theater. |
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Set in the Los Angeles Police Department in April 1992, Dark Blue is a dramatic thriller that takes place just days before the acquittal of four white officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King and the subsequent L.A. riots. In this racially-charged climate,the LAPD's elite Special Investigations Squad (SIS) is assigned a high-profile quadruple homicide. As they work the case, veteran detective Eldon Perry, known for his tough street tactics and fiery temper, tutors SIS rookie Bobby Keough in the grim realities of police intimidation and corruption. Meanwhile, Assistant Chief Holland, the only man in the department willing to stand up to the SIS, threatens to end Perry's brand of singlehanded "justice" on the Los Angeles streets. While navigating through the tumultuous neighborhoods of South Central L.A., Perry and Keough must track down cold-blooded killers and face their own demons, which prove to be more ruthless than the criminals they pursue. |
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Stepsiblings Kathryn Merteuil (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Sebastian Valmont (Ryan Phillippe) are wealthy prep school students and unscrupulous, manipulative socialites who have only a few things on their minds: how to satisfy their vicious desires, who to take revenge on and who else to choose as a sexual and emotional toy. When the lady-killing self-confident Sebastian and the cynical seductive Kathryn playing fast and loose with their peers' affections get bored with stale intrigue plots and banal declarations of love, they devise an ingenious heinous plan. Sebastian's challenge is to seduce the new headmaster's daughter, the virginal Annette Hargrove (Reese Witherspoon). The calculating Kathryn makes a wager. The stakes are high: if "Casanova" fails, she will get his vintage Jaguar car; if he succeeds, he will get one night of unbridled passion with Kathryne he lasts for since their parents married. |
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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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In 1896, a construction engineer from the British Army, J.H. Patterson (Kilmer) is sent to build a railway bridge across Uganda's Tsavo River for the British East African Railway. Soon after he arrives, workmen begin to disappear at night from their tents - never to be seen alive again. The engineer soon discovers that a pair of man-eating lions are stalking around the bridge and campsites, killing the workmen for food. He tries a number of different methods to get rid of them, but the beasts always seem to know what Patterson is doing and avoid being shot. After 30 men have been killed Patterson's boss recruits a hunter, Charles Remington (Douglas) to hunt down and destroy the lions. But the lions continue killing the workmen until they flee the camps, jumping onto the train as it rolls through Tsavo. Now Remington, Patterson & his aide (John Kani) must face these brilliant yet frightening monsters alone. |
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Connie Sumner has a loving husband, a beautiful home, and a wonderful son, but she wants more. When she's approached one day by a handsome stranger while trying to hail a taxi, she becomes obsessed with him and eventually starts an affair. But her selfish actions soon catch up with her... |
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Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck), a successful young attorney, is in a hurry to get to the courthouse. He needs to deliver legal papers that will transfer control of a deceased eccentric rich man's multi-million dollar estate over to his law firm. Doyle Gipson (Samuel L. Jackson), a down-on-his-luck insurance salesman, is also in a rush to a custody hearing to announce that he has got a house loan from the bank so that his ex-wife Valerie (Kim Staunton) and his sons won't move to another country. The two men's cars collide on the expressway at the most inopportune moment. Due to the process of the post-crash discussion Gipson misses his hearing, while Banek arrives at the court in time but discovers a crucial legal file inadvertently dropped at the scene of the accident. As Gipson loses custody of his kids, he decides to ruin the well-groomed attorney's life by refusing to give him back his paper. Thus a fierce and treacherous battle starts between the two desperate men. |
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Son of a successful businessman was kidnapped and forcedly held for ransom. The father (Mel Gibson) unexpectedly spoils the game of kidnappers by appearing on TV-screen and offering money for the head of their leader (Gary Sinise). This turn changes the whole story radically, forcing bandits to change their plans.
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This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling. |
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Constantine, a supernatural detective, teams up with Angela, a skeptical policewoman to disclose the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, during her investigation Angela figures out that contemporary Los Angeles is inhabited by the world of angels and demons. Constantine was born with an ability to recognize the half-breed angels and demons in human appearance, and tried to get rid of this gift committing suicide. Back from the hell against his will, sending the devil's warriors back to the depths, he hopes to earn his way to salvation. |
| Analyze This
[1999,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| New York's most powerful gangster is about to get in touch with his feelings. YOU try telling him his 50 minutes are up. |
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For New York's most powerful and toughest gangster Paul Vitti (Robert De Niro) killing a man is like having a cup of tea. But the relentless mobster has been having panic attacks recently. He can't sleep at night, feels nervous fairly often and even sheds a tear; every kid evokes tender emotions in him; and killing people is out of the question. He obviously has stress symptoms.
It's so fortunate for him that one day Dr. Ben Sobel's car collides with his car. Realizing he needs professional help, Paul wants the psychiatrist (Billy Crystal) to restore his psychological balance and his lost vitality within two weeks, before a major mobster meeting. Ben surely isn't very enthusiastic about helping him as he himself turns to be a spineless and uncertain man. Who would like to have a mob boss patient who is used to solving problems with a gun and has been tailed by all FBI agents for years? |
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In the Arctic region of Northern Alaska, an oil company's advance team struggles to establish a drilling base that will forever alter the pristine land. After one team member is found dead, a disorientation slowly claims the sanity of the others as each of them succumbs to a mysterious fear. |
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