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Straight Time (1978)No Beast So Fierce
After years behind bars, Max Dembo faces 'Straight Time'. He hopes it will mean a new life, a job, a place to call home, perhaps even a girl of his own. Instead, it's a one-way ticket to disaster. Dustin Hoffman plays Max, a freed con trapped by an indifferent criminal system and his selfdestructive bent. Before and during the film's shoot, Hoffman apprenticed himself to Edward Bunker, the ex-con whose book No Beast So Fierce inspired the movie. The resulting experience is intensely real and superbly acted by Hoffman and a terrific ensemble (Theresa Russell, Harry Dean Stanton, Gary Busey, M. Emmet Walsh and Kathy Bates). As Newsweek's David Ansen wrote, 'Straight Time' "has an edgy, lingering intensity". - Director:
- Ulu Grosbard
- Cast:
- Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey
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Pain is universal ... but so is hope. From acclaimed Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu comes the third film in his trilogy, Babel, a critically celebrated and emotionally gripping film about the barriers that separate humankind. A tragic accident in Morocco sets off a chain of events that will link four groups of people who, divided by cultural differences and vast distances, will discover a shared destiny that ultimately connects them. Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Gael Garcia Bernal lead an outstanding international ensemble cast in this breakthrough film. - Director:
- Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Cast:
- Brad Pitt, Linda Sans, Cate Blanchett
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In 2092, the oldest man in the world is 118 year old Nemo (Jared Leto). He is on his death bed reflecting on the three main loves of his life with a news reporter. There was his great but taboo love Anna (Diane Kruger); Elise (Sarah Polley), with whom a relationship developed through circumstance; and Jean (Linh-Dan Pham), whom he shared an impassionate life of luxury with. However, when these stories intersect and overlap, the reporter begins to question if any of these lives and stories are real or just a figment of his old imagination. - Director:
- Jaco van Dormael
- Cast:
- Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger
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In Africa two lions on a man-eating rampage have shut down the construction of a railway. The beasts hunt together, showing no tear of man or fire. What's more, they're killing for sport rather than for food - and they have an almost supernatural"! knack for knowing what traps await them. Big-game hunter Remington (Michael Douglas) and construction engineer Patterson (Val Kilmer) set out to stop these unstoppable monsters. Rut, in this astonishing tale of man against beast, the hunters become the hunted. - Director:
- Stephen Hopkins
- Cast:
- Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, Tom Wilkinson
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One False Move (1992)Hurricane
A small-town police chief (Bill Paxton) concealing an explosive secret. A pair of ruthless drug dealers (cowriter Billy Bob Thornton and Michael Beach) who leave a bloody trail in their wake as they make their way from Los Angeles to Arkansas. And an enigmatic woman (Cynda Williams) caught in the middle. The way these desperate lives converge becomes a masterclass in slow-bum tension thanks to the nuanced direction of Carl Franklin, whose haunting film travels a crooked road across America's most fraught divisions - urban and rural, Black and white - while imbuing noir conventions with a wrenching emotional depth. - Director:
- Carl Franklin
- Cast:
- Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Cynda Williams
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Anthony Edwards (TV's "ER") stars with Robert Carradine in this hilarious satire on college life about a group of outcasts who start their own fraternity after being rejected by every house on campus. It's a brains vs. brawn battle when the football team jocks try to crush their misfit counterparts, but the nerds have the perfect plan to gain the upper hand. - Director:
- Jeff Kanew
- Cast:
- Robert Carradine, Greg Berg, Anthony Edwards
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Thanksgiving (2023)Bloody Thanksgiving
After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorises Plymouth, Massachusetts - the birthplace of the holiday. Picking off residents one by one, what begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan. Will the town uncover the killer and survive the holidays...or become guests at his twisted holiday dinner table? - Director:
- Eli Roth
- Cast:
- Adam MacDonald, Patrick Dempsey, Ty Olsson
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When a crew of dirty cops is blackmailed by the Russian mob to execute a virtually impossible heist, they realise the only way to pull it off is to manufacture a '999' - police code for 'officer down'. The chaos that ensues is just the diversion they'll need to do the job, but whether they have the will to kill one of their own is an entirely different matter. Their plan is turned upside down when the unsuspecting rookie they set up to die foils the attack, triggering a full-throttle finale tangled with double-crosses, greed and revenge. - Director:
- John Hillcoat
- Cast:
- Casey Affleck, Christian Pineda, Chiwetel Ejiofor
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Ralph Fiennes and John Turturro play contestants battling for huge cash prizes and instant fame on a top-rated quiz show. But when charges surface that the hit programme is fixed and that players are being given the answers, it becomes far more than a game. Now contestants, producers and the network itself get caught in the centre of an escalating scandal. Based on a true story, Quiz Show is entertainment at its most compelling. - Director:
- Robert Redford
- Cast:
- Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro, Rob Morrow
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"The summer I was 8 years old, five hours disappeared from my life. Five hours... lost... gone without a trace" Ten years later, Brian Lackey is still tormented by the black hole in his life - the five missing hours that have left him convinced he was abducted by aliens. In the same small Kansas town, another teen has no such worries. A hustler wise beyond his years, he has only one thing on his mind; sex and the path his urges are going to take. Searching for answers, both boys separately head for New York City, where a twist of fate brings them together to realize that their future happiness lies in exorcising the collective demons of their past. - Director:
- Gregg Araki
- Cast:
- Brady Corbet, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elisabeth Shue
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Based on the acclaimed novel by George V. Higgins, "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" follows an aging gunrunner's troubles at the peripheries of the local mob once he finds his options split disastrously between the threat of a fresh prison sentence or police cooperation. One of the best, most unexpected gangster films of the 1970s, 'The Friends of Eddie Coyle' is a gripping tale of low-lives and loyalties, presented with the director's trademark authenticity and naturalism, and an extraordinary array of performances, led by a never-better Mitchum. - Director:
- Peter Yates
- Cast:
- Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan
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Is there someone who lingers in your memory - someone who makes you wonder what might have been? Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy make magic again, reprising their 'Before Sunrise' roles of Jesse and Celine and reuniting with director Richard Linklater (School of Rock) in this engaging tale of love and renewal. When Jesse and Celine first met in the mid 90's, their few hours together in Vienna were spontaneous and life-altering. Nine years later, lightning strikes twice. They unexpectedly meet in Paris...and have only one fading afternoon to decide if they should share their tomorrows. Smart, witty, real and unfolding largely in real time to heighten its immediacy, 'Before Sunset' glows with the moments that are every heart's greatest adventure. - Director:
- Richard Linklater
- Cast:
- Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff
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Unknown Soldier (2017)Tuntematon Sotilas
It's June 1941. In Finland, a machine gun company is deployed from its barracks to prepare for the invasion of the Soviet Union. Crossing the old border lost during the Winter War, the band of men engage in increasingly guerilla tactics as their advance on Soviet positions spills more and more into local cities, and the distinction between enemy and civilian starts to blur. Embedding themselves within hostile territories, the threat of ambush on all fronts tests the limits of their courage, discipline and moral code. As the company's ranks deplete, the tension between them augments. While dealing with constant artillery barrage, sniper attacks and trench warfare around them, it is also the conflicts within each man that threatens to engulf them. Ultimately their dependence on one another is what becomes both their weakness, and their biggest strength. Finland's highest-grossing film of the year, 'Unknown Soldier' is a testament to their sacrifice in World War II and to the human suffering of a universal soldier. It is a part of history that is rarely spoken about, and a part of history that should never be forgotten. - Director:
- Aku Louhimies
- Cast:
- Eero Aho, Johannes Holopainen, Jussi Vatanen
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Bargain hunter at Forest Ridge Mall get more than they bargained for: a chubby flasher in a ratty bathrobe. They’re repulsed. Security guard Ronnie Barnhardt isn’t: "This disgusting pervert is the best thing that ever happened to me!" Catching the flasher may be his ticket to a real police job and to romance with a hot cosmetics-counter princess. Only one thing stands between Ronnie and destiny: a tall, handsome cop who actually knows what he’s doing. - Director:
- Jody Hill
- Cast:
- Seth Rogen, Anna Faris, Ray Liotta
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Eight-year-old Peter (Woody Norman) is plagued by a mysterious, constant tap, tap from inside his bedroom wall - a tapping that his parents insist is all in his imagination. As Peter's fear intensifies, he believes that his parents (Lizzy Caplan and Antony Starr) could be hiding a terrible, dangerous secret and questions their trust. And for a child, what could be more frightening than that? - Director:
- Samuel Bodin
- Cast:
- Lizzy Caplan, Olivia Sussman, Antony Starr
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