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This high-octane fuelled East-End gangster comedy thriller is a journey into London's seedy underworld with brilliant street-wise dialogue and razor sharp black comedy.- Director:
- Guy Ritchie
- Cast:
- Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran
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They may have lost a step or two, but Detective Dooley (James Belushi) and his four-legged partner Jerry Lee are still fighting crime with their band of heroics and hilarity. Now reluctantly partnered with a younger K-9 team: the beautiful, no-nonsense detective named Welles (Christine Tucci) and her highly-disciplined Doberman, Zeus. Dooley figures he needs Welles and Zeus like a hole in the head - and he nearly gets one when a mysterious attacker tries to gun him down. Reluctantly, Dooley and Jerry Lee make a plan with their new partners - to trap the madman and then spring into action as fast as their legs will carry them! - Director:
- Charles T. Kanganis
- Cast:
- Jim Belushi, Christine Tucci, James Handy
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Bruce Willis hits the mark as Jack Mosley, a broken-down New York City police detective assigned to escort a petty criminal from the precinct to the courthouse. The seemingly simple 16-Block journey becomes a test of character for them when Jack's ex-partners attempt to stop them. It's the gripping story of how two men change each other during a tense 118 minute struggle between life and death. - Director:
- Richard Donner
- Cast:
- Bruce Willis, Yasiin Bey, David Morse
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A new, technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius (Sean Connery). The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst (Alec Baldwin) has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it - because the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find him too. The hunt is on! - Director:
- John McTiernan
- Cast:
- Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn
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District 13 (2004)Banlieu 13
In the year 2010 a wall is built around a Paris suburb that contains the city's most criminal elements. Kingpin Taha rules all that is inside, but makes the mistake of kidnapping the sister of a local imprisoned hero, Leito. With nothing to lose, Leito teams up with an undercover cop to take Taha down. - Director:
- Pierre Morel
- Cast:
- Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle, Tony D'Amario
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Scientist Bruce Banner (Eric Bana) has anger management issues. His quiet life as a brilliant research scientist working with ex-girlfriend Betty Ross (Jennifer Connelly) conceals a painful past. A freak lab accident reveals Bruce's heroic impulses but also unleashes his inner demons. And he becomes the most powerful being on the face of the earth. A super-hero and a monster. - Director:
- Ang Lee
- Cast:
- Eric Bana, Jennifer Connelly, Sam Elliott
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Eddie Kasalivich (Keanu Reeves) and Lily Sinclair (Rachel Weisz) are part of a team of scientists who have developed a revolutionary new source of energy. But no sooner have they finished celebrating their triumph, than their lab is destroyed and the head of their team killed. Named as the main suspects, Eddie and Lily quickly realise their only hope lies with a powerful and mysterious bureaucrat (Morgan Freeman) who may or may not be on their side. - Director:
- Andrew Davis
- Cast:
- Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz
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Flying at 37,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft, Kyle Pratt's (Jodie Foster) six-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone and fighting for her sanity, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter. - Director:
- Robert Schwentke
- Cast:
- Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean
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Ruthlessly efficient killer, Jamie (Danny Dyer) breaks the rules of his profession when he falls for beautiful stripper, Chloe (Holly Weston) after discovering that notorious gangland brothers, Lee (Martin Kemp) and John (Gary Kemp) have hired him to kill her father. As violent chaos breaks out when he turns against his criminal employers to protect the woman he loves, he ultimately finds redemption. - Director:
- J.K. Amalou
- Cast:
- Danny Dyer, Martin Kemp, Gary Kemp
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Charismatic and ruthless businessman, Rick Carver (Michael Shannon), is making a killing by repossessing homes - gaming the real estate market, Wall Street banks and the US government. When he evicts Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield), a single father trying to care for his mother (Laura Dern) and young son, Nash becomes so desperate to provide for his family that he goes to work for Carver - the very man who evicted him in the first place... - Director:
- Ramin Bahrani
- Cast:
- Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon, Laura Dern
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When Michael (Robert De Niro), Steven (John Savage) and Nick (Christopher Walken) are captured by the Vietcong, they are forced to play Russian Roulette by their brutal captors, who make bets on their survival. The experience of capture leaves them with terrible physical and spiritual wounds, and when Michael returns to Saigon to fulfill an old promise to one of his friends, he makes an unexpected, horrific discovery. Also featuring astonishing performances from Meryl Streep as the woman both Michael and Nick fall in love with, and John Cazale as their unhinged and insecure friend Stan, 'The Deer Hunter' is widely acknowledged as one of cinema's great masterpieces and contains some of the most memorable scenes in film history. - Director:
- Michael Cimino
- Cast:
- Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale
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Nicolas Cage delivers a blistering, unforgettable performance as Evan Lake, a desk-bound Langley CIA agent forced into retirement by signs of early onset dementia. At the same time he discovers that his former tormentor, Jihadist Muhhamed Banir (Alexander Karim), is not dead as assumed for two decades but is alive and receiving experimental medical treatment. Banir's exact location is unknown but with the help of a disgraced young agent (Anton Yelchin), Evan sets out to track down and confront him before it is too late for both of them. - Director:
- Paul Schrader
- Cast:
- Nicolas Cage, Anton Yelchin, Alexander Karim
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Anyone who lived through the '80's experienced the magic of 'Gremlins'. For everyone else, now is the time to see one of the decade's defining movies, a wildly original blend of comedy and horror. When Billy (Zach Galligan) receives an adorable, mysterious pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he's given three rules for its care. Inadvertently, he breaks the rules, and a resulting army of duplicate furballs wreaks havoc throughout the town... - Director:
- Joe Dante
- Cast:
- Don Steele, Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates
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In 2032 arch-criminal Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) awakens from a 35-year deep freeze in CryoPrison to find a serene, non-violent Los Angeles ready for the taking. Unable to deal with Phoenix's brutal 1990s style, officials seek an old-fashioned cop to fight old-fashion crime. They revive Sgt. John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone), unjustly serving a CryoPrison sentence because of his last encounter with Phoenix. - Director:
- Marco Brambilla
- Cast:
- Sylvester Stallone, Adrienne Barbeau, Wesley Snipes
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Fantastic 4 (2005)Fantastic Four
Jessica Alba, Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis head a sexy, star-powered cast in this explosive adventure about a quartet of flawed, ordinary human beings who suddenly find themselves with extraordinary abilities. After exposure to cosmic radiation, four astronauts become the most remarkable, if dysfunctional, superheroes of all time. Unfortunately, the mission's sponsor has also been transformed - into the world's most lethal supervillain - setting the stage for a confrontation of epic proportions. Packed with nonstop action, big laughs and show-stopping special effects. - Director:
- Tim Story
- Cast:
- Ioan Gruffudd, Lynnanne Zager, Michael Chiklis
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