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On a suburban street, two masked men seize a young woman. They bind and gag her and take her to an abandoned, soundproofed apartment. She is Alice Creed, daughter of a millionaire. Her kidnappers, the coldly efficient Vic and his younger accomplice Danny, have worked out a meticulous plan.

But Alice is not going to play the perfect victim - she's not giving in without a fight. In a tense power-play of greed, duplicity and survival we discover that sometimes disappearances can be deceptive.

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This holiday season Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) vows his clan will enjoy 'the most fun-filled family Christmas ever'. Before you can sing 'Fa-la-la-la-lah', he decks the halls with howls of folly in there perennial favourite National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Seeing is believing.

There are 25,000 lights on the roof. An exploding turkey on the dining room table. A SWAT team taking siege outside. A festive supporting cast (including Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Juliette Lewis, William Hickey and more). And a John Hughes script full of wit, heart and sheer goofiness. Yule love it!

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Aboard the presidential plane - the most heavily guarded aircraft in the world - President Marshall (Harrison Ford) is returning home with his wife (Wendy Crewson), daughter (Liesel Matthews) and a planeload of top governmental officials.

But no sooner have they taken off when the plane is hijacked by Communist radicals, led by the ruthless terrorist Korshunov (Gary Oldman). Unless his country's imprisoned dictator is freed, Korshunov will begin killing the passengers. Now, the most protected man in the world must take responsibility for the safety of those onboard and the future of the free world...

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From director Christopher Nolan, a unique and intriguing thriller that begins with the ultimate act of revenge and backtracks through time to reveal the shocking and provocative reasons behind it.

Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) remembers everything up to the night his wife was brutally raped and murdered. But since that tragedy, he has suffered from short-term memory loss and cannot recall any event, the places he has just visited or anyone he has met just minutes before. Determined to find out why his wife was killed, the only way he can store evidence is on scraps of paper, by taking Polaroid photos and tattooing vital clues on his body. Throughout his investigation, he appears to have the help of both bartender Natalie (Carrie-Anne Moss), who may have her own secret agenda and police officer Teddy (Joe Pantoliano) whose friendship is always suspect. As Shelby's fractured memory tries to piece together a chilling jigsaw of deceit and betrayal in reverse, breathtaking twists and surprising turns rapidly occur in the most challenging, original and critically acclaimed thriller in years.

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The CIA's hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris (Leonardo DiCaprio) is the agencys man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky, a satellite link watches Ferris.

At the other end of that real-time link is the CIAs Ed Hoffman (Russell Crowe), strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.

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Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody and Jack Black star in this spectacular film filled with heart-pounding action, terrifying creatures and groundbreaking special effects unlike anything you've seen before! Get ready for breathtaking action in this thrilling epic adventure about a legendary gorilla captured

on a treacherous island and brought to civilisation, where he faces the ultimate fight for survival.

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Two brothers return to the hometown they left eight years earlier, to find it still run by the same game of small-time drug dealers and petty thugs.

Their purpose, it soon becomes clear, is not reunion, but revenge - a quest of particular significance for Richard (Paddy Considine), the leader of the two, whose obsessive desire to even the score will lead them into dangerous territory.

Siblings Addison (Eric Bana) and Liza (Olivia Wilde) are on the run from a casino heist gone wrong. When a car accident leaves their driver dead, they split up and make a run for the Canadian border in the worst of circumstances - a near whiteout blizzard.

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Prepare for a mind blowing assault on the senses as the terror and devastation unleashed in 28 Days Later picks up six months after the Rage virus has decimated the city of London.

The US Army has restored order and is repopulating the quarantined city, when a carrier of the Rage virus enters London and unknowingly re-ignites the spread of the deadly infection once again...

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Unspeakable things happened at the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane - experiments that brought human torture to new depths of depravity. Secrets that died with their victims and the practitioners of the demonic acts that masqueraded as medicine.

Now there are no living witnesses, nothing remains apart from the building in which they occurred. Decades after the Institute was shuttered, five strangers are invited to spend a night there. Their reward is a million dollars each. All they have to do is stay alive. It's going to be a long night. A spine-tingling remake of William Castle's 1958 classic horror tale, combines white-knuckle terror with dark humour and cutting-edge-special effects.

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Three friends push the boundaries of trust in this hermetically sealed shocker from the creators of Trainspotting.

Starring Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston and Ewan McGregor, Shallow Grave is a masterpiece of terror riddled with hairpin turns that take you on a fantastic ride to the lowest depths of human nature. Juliet (Fox), David (Eccleston) and Alex (McGregor) find that their new reclusive roommate has not left his bedroom for days. After kicking in the door they discover his drug over-dosed corpse...and a suitcase full of money! Fatefully choosing to keep the money they have to get rid of the remains. But the body wont stay buried and a careless trail from the shallow grave leads the police - and two money hungry thugs- back to the trio. And as the stakes get higher, so does the body count, not to mention their paranoia which is quickly putting their friendship in jeopardy...forever!

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Back in the late '80s, Randy "The Ram" Robinson (Mickey Rourke) was a headlining professional wrestler. Now, twenty years later, he ekes out a living performing for handfuls of diehard wrestling fans in high school gyms and community centers around New Jersey.

Estranged from his daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) and unable to sustain any real relationships, Randy lives for the thrill of the show and the adoration of his fans. However, a heart attack forces him into retirement. As his sense of identity starts to slip away, he begins to evaluate the state of his life - trying to reconnect with his daughter, and striking up a romance with an aging stripper (Marisa Tomei). Yet all this cannot compare to the allure of the ring and passion for his art, which threatens to pull Randy "The Ram" back in.

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Zoinks! Two years after a clash of egos forced Mystery Inc. to close its doors, Scooby-Doo and his clever crime-solving cohorts Fred (Freddie Prinze Jr.

), Daphne (Sarah Michelle Gellar), Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) and Velma (Linda Cardellini) are individually summoned to Spooky Island to investigate a series of paranormal incidents at the ultra-hip Spring Break hot spot. Concerned that his way cool theme park might truly be haunted, Spooky Island owner Emile Mondavarious (Rowan Atkinson) tries to reunite those notoriously meddling detectives to solve the mystery before his supernatural secret scares away the college crowds. Scooby and the gang will have to overcome their personal differences and forget everything they think they know about fake ghouls and phony creatures to crack the case, save themselves and possibly... the world. Ruh-Roh!

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Michael Faraday (Jeff Bridges) and his 10 year old son, Grant (Spencer Treat Clark) are both trying to come to terms with the loss two years earlier of Michael's wife, Grant's mother. When they befriend a family from across the road, things seem to get a little better for them.

However, as the families become closer, Michael starts having misgivings about Oliver and Cheryl Lang (Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack), and begins investigating them. He soon realises that the Langs are definitely not who they claim to be. The film is a tense political psychological thriller with Michael uncovering more and more about the seemingly innocent family living opposite him on Arlington Road.

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Welcome to Alcatraz. "The Rock" has just re-opened for business, but the first criminal slated for the electric chair is also sitting on a secret worth $200 million. And an invading group of commandos isn’t going to let his fortune go up in smoke.

Already undercover in Alcatraz, FBI Agent Petrosivitch has to neutralise the situation and rescue a Supreme Court Justice held hostage. Worse, he has to convince his convict "partner" and the other inmates to fight on the right side of the law.