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Will, a rich, child-free and irresponsible Londoner in his thirties who, in search of available women, invents an imaginary son to attend single parent meetings. As a result of one of his liaisons, he meets Marcus, an odd 12-year-old boy with problems at school. Gradually, Will and Marcus become friends, and as Will teaches Marcus how to be a cool kid, Marcus helps Will to finally grow up. - Director:
- Chris Weitz
- Cast:
- Hugh Grant, Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette
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When Miles Langford (Malcolm Mcdowell), the head of Kennedy High School, decides to take his school back from the gangs, robotics specialist Dr. Robert Forrest (Stacy Keach) provides "tactical education units". These are amazingly human-like androids that have been programmed to teach and are supplied with devastatingly effective solutions to discipline problems. So when the violent, out-of-control students of Kennedy High report for class tomorrow, they're going to get a real education...in staying alive! - Director:
- Mark L. Lester
- Cast:
- Bradley Gregg, Traci Lind, Malcolm McDowell
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From the makers of Notting Hill and Bridget Jones's Diary comes the ultimate romantic comedy. This blockbuster film includes a fantastic all-star cast and an outstanding soundtrack. The hilarious Love Actually explores the ups and downs of relationships in the weeks building up to Christmas. Boyfriends and girlfriends, husbands and wives, fathers and sons and rock stars and managers all combine to make Love Actually not just one story but ten very different ones. Because if you look hard enough you will find love actually is all around. - Director:
- Richard Curtis
- Cast:
- Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson
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The time is the present. The Driver (Ryan O'Neal) is the best "Wheel Man" for hire. His work in driving getaway cars are exhibitions in excellence, works of art. The Detective (Bruce Dern) is the top cop of the force. Nobody he tracks down ever eludes him. Except the Driver. As the Driver pulls off another job, the Detective lays in wait for him. But the Driver has already planted his alibi, and is one step ahead of him. Through his operative, the Connection (Ronee Blakely), he hires the mysterious young woman, the Player (Isabelle Adjani), to lead the Detective astray... - Director:
- Walter Hill
- Cast:
- Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani
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Saw III (2006)Saw 3
In this Extreme Edition of 'Saw III', prepare for a truly terrifying experience from the master of cruelty. With extended scenes which have been seen before, 'Saw III' - Extreme Edition features more gore, more shocks, more Saw. Suffering? You definitely haven't seen anything yet.... Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda (Shawnee Smith), the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlan (Bahar Soomekh) and Jeff Reinhart (Angus Macfadyen) are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on his vicious chessboard. - Director:
- Darren Lynn Bousman
- Cast:
- Tobin Bell, Sandy Kellerman, Shauna Black
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Part One
After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn's full-time, friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must redefine what it means to be a hero so he can save the people he loves most. - Director:
- Joaquim Dos Santos
- Cast:
- Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Oscar Isaac
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Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)Shazam 2
Billy Batson - aka Shazam! - and his fellow foster kids are still learning how to juggle teenage life with having adult Super Hero alter egos, but a vengeful trio of ancient gods has arrived on Earth in search of the magic stolen from them long ago. Now, Billy and his family are thrust into a battle for their superpowers, their lives and the fate of their world. - Director:
- David F. Sandberg
- Cast:
- Grace Fulton, Zachary Levi, Helen Mirren
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Eva (Swinton) puts her ambitions and career aside to give birth to Kevin, but the relationship between mother and son is difficult from the very first years. When Kevin is 15, he does something irrational and unforgivable in the eyes of the community, leaving Eva grappling with her own feelings of grief and responsibility. Did she ever love her son? And how much of what Kevin did was her fault? - Director:
- Lynne Ramsay
- Cast:
- Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller
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Deep in the suburbs of Pasadena, a bored, confused and alienated twenty-one year old graduate named Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) awkwardly drifts from moment to moment, in constant turmoil over his lack of direction and the uncertain, impending future. Driven by a desire for experience and desperate to avoid the corporate, deluded and mediocre world of his affluent parents, Benjamin succumbs to the advances of an older woman and begins an affair with the persuasive and enigmatic Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft) the wife of one of his father's business partners. But what starts as a farcical fling becomes painfully complicated when Ben finds himself falling in love with her daughter. - Director:
- Mike Nichols
- Cast:
- Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
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Blair Witch (2016)The Woods
Helmed by director Adam Wingard, 'Blair Witch' goes back to its found footage roots 20 years after James's sister and her two friends vanished into the Black Hills Forest in Maryland, while researching the legend of the Blair Witch, leaving a trail of theories and suspicions in their wake. The film documents James (James Allen McCune) and his friends Peter (Brandon Scott), Ashley (Corbin Reid) and film student Lisa (Callie Hernandez) venturing into the same woods, each with a camera, to uncover the mysteries surrounding the 1994 disappearances. At first the group is hopeful, especially when a pair of locals Lane (Wes Robinson) and Talia (Valorie Curry) offer to act as guides through the dark and winding woods. But as the endless night wears on, the group is visited by a menacing presence. Slowly, they begin to realise the terrifying legend is all too real and more sinister than they could have imagined. - Director:
- Adam Wingard
- Cast:
- Callie Hernandez, James Allen McCune, Brandon Scott
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The night that medical student Dan Cain discovered his pet cat, Rufus, dead in his roommates fridge was just the beginning. Before long Dan, and his beloved girlfriend, Megan, become involved in the macabre experiments of his roommate, the sinister Dr. Herbert West, who has created a serum that can bring both brain and body back from the dead. The immoral scientific methods of Dr. West provide the Dean of the medical school with reason to expel West and force Cain out of the hospital. Undeterred, West and Cain continue with their experiments in the hospital's morgue - restoring life to an unlimited supply of fresh corpses. However, a chilling side effect to West's discovery leads to a seemingly endless night of mind-bending terror and unthinkable madness. - Director:
- Stuart Gordon
- Cast:
- Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton
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Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)Black Lagoon / The Sea Monster
Scientists drug and capture the creature, who becomes enamored with the head scientist's female assistant (Julia Adams). The lonely creature, "a living amphibious missing link", escapes and kidnaps the object of his affection. Chief scientist (Richard Carlson) then launches a crusade to rescue his assistant and cast the ominous creature back to the depths from where he came. - Director:
- Jack Arnold
- Cast:
- Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning
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Has Evil finally met its match? Legendary Monster Hunter Van Helsing is sent by the Vatican to distant Transylvania, a land terrorised by the powerful Count Dracula. Joining forces with a valiant Gypsy Princess who is determined to end an ancient curse on her family by defeating the infamous vampire, Van Helsing continues his quest to rid the world of evil. - Director:
- Stephen Sommers
- Cast:
- Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh
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Homicide detective John Hobbes (Denzel Washington) pursues a killer down a bustling sidewalk. There she is: a small, middle-aged woman. No, wait: the killer is the timid man beside her. Now it's someone else. It's all and none of them. Because the murderer Hobbes seeks is a demon passing from one human host to another with a brush of an overcoat or touch of a hand. Hobbes stalks a seemingly immortal foe...An ages-old evil faces a shattering showdown with one, clever tenacious man. - Director:
- Gregory Hoblit
- Cast:
- Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland
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Nosferatu: The Vampyre (1979)Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht
It is 1850 in the beautiful, perfectly kept town of Wismar. Jonathan Harker (Bruno Ganz) is about to leave on a long journey over the Carpathian Mountains to finalise real estate arrangements with a wealthy nobleman. His wife Lucy (Isabel Adjani) begs him not to go and is troubled by a strong premonition of danger. Despite her warnings, Jonathan arrives four weeks later at a large, gloomy castle. Out of the mist appears a pale wraith-like figure with a shaven head and deep sunken eyes who identifies himself as Count Dracula (Klaus Kinski) The events that transpire slowly convince Harker that he is in the midst of a vampire. What he doesn't know, however, is the magnitude of danger he, his wife and his town are about to experience as victims of the Nosferatu. - Director:
- Werner Herzog
- Cast:
- Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz
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