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Belle Williams (Queen Latifah) is beautiful, tough and sexy, not to mention renowned for weaving her taxi through New York's city streets at speeds upwards of 135 miles per hour! Detective Andy Washburn (Jimmy Fallon), young, handsome and eager, is one of New York's finest, but one of the Big Apple's worst drivers. Hot on the stiletto heels of four sexy Brazilian bank robbers, Washburn convinces Belle to team up with him to pursue the quartet of crooks. Together, the cool cabbie and the overconfident cop go on a death-defying game of cat and mouse with the beautiful bad girls. That is, if Belle and Washburn don't kill each other first! - Director:
- Tim Story
- Cast:
- Queen Latifah, Jimmy Fallon, Gisele Bündchen
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Former pizza delivery guy Daniel is speed crazy. Embarking on a new career as a taxi driver, his specially modified car is so fast even police radar can't spot him! When he unwittingly gives a high-speed ride to police officer Emilien, he is forced to accept a deal to keep his license: a stint as Emilien's personal driver. Now on the other side of the law, Daniel becomes the unlikely mastermind behind an investigation into a gang of German bank robbers. Aided by his girlfriend, Emilien's mother and a whole squad of pizza delivery boys, Daniel and Emilien join forces with hilarious consequences to foil the robbers on foot, on scooters and of course in taxis... - Director:
- Gérard Pirès
- Cast:
- Samy Naceri, Frédéric Diefenthal, Marion Cotillard
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As the tale opens, a manically insane, hyperactive Belgian criminal, "Le Beige," undergoes extradition to trial in Africa. En route, he temporarily lands in the Marseilles police department for a few hours where Emilien (Frederic Diefenthal) works, and bamboozles him into believing that he's actually a Belgian embassy employee railroaded by the real crook, who is now at large. Emilien foolishly buys the story and sets Le Beige free, prompting an outrageous and explosive series of complications... But luckily enough tor Emilien, his friend taxi-driver Daniel (Samy Naceri) who drove the criminal from the Police Station unaware of him being a criminal, comes to the rescue. When Emilien tells police commissioner Gilbert (Bernard Farcy) where he can retrieve the criminal he gets his old job back and the hunt for the criminal is on! - Director:
- Gérard Krawczyk
- Cast:
- Samy Naceri, Frédéric Diefenthal, Bernard Farcy
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Kolobos (1999)Haunted House
Six young people, each with their own agenda, set off to take part in a social study set up to ascertain the nature of human interaction and relationships. What begins as a fun weekend where the participants have the use of a luxury house and all facilities, becomes something more sinister when the organiser of the project is found dead in horrific circumstances. Suspicions become heightened as another member of the group is also found dead in a freak accident. Trapped in a house and unable to leave the experiment, the six participants begin to suspect one another. - Director:
- Daniel Liatowitsch
- Cast:
- Amy Weber, Donny Terranova, Nichole Pelerine
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After a mysterious group of individuals breaks into Laura's home and attempts to abduct her eight-year-old son, David (Luke David Blumm), the two of them flee town in search of safety. But soon after the failed kidnapping, David becomes extremely ill, suffering from increasingly sporadic psychosis and convulsions. Following her maternal instincts to save him, Laura (Andi Matichak) commits unspeakable acts to keep him alive, but soon she must decide how far she is willing to go to save her son. - Director:
- Ivan Kavanagh
- Cast:
- Andi Matichak, Emile Hirsch, Luke David Blumm
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Guard Post (2008)GP506
When a secret military border post falls silent, an army team is dispatched overnight to re-establish contact and safely retrieve the son of the Army Chief of Staff who is posted there. What they find is so shocking that HQ orders GP506 to be burnt to the ground at dawn - incinerating the evidence. The investigative team are left with just eight hours to explore the maze-like underground tunnels, find their target and uncover the truth. Time is running out, but the terror that has engulfed GP506 has only just begun... - Director:
- Su-chang Kong
- Cast:
- Ho-jin Chun, Hyun-jae Cho, Kyoo-Hwan Choi
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Saddle up for a cowboy Christ mas in this western adaption of Charles Dickens' well loved story "A Christmas Carol". The scene is transferred from London's East End to a Wild West town in the Rocky mountains during the Gold Rush. Ebenezer Scrooge (Jack Palance) is the miserable card-cheating miser, who owns the local saloon along with half the town. He is as tough as rawhide. On Christmas Eve he is mysteriously visited by three apparitions who try to teach him the true spirit of Christmas. Will the lessons be learnt? Will Ebenezer show the impoverished Bob Crachett any appreciation? - Director:
- Ken Jubenvill
- Cast:
- Jack Palance, Ricky Schroder, Amy Locane
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Hero (2002)Ying xiong
Master filmmaker Quentin Tarantino presents 'Hero' - starring martial arts legend Jet Li in a visually stunning martial arts epic where a fearless warrior rises up to defy an empire and unite a nation! With supernatural skill...and no fear... a nameless soldier (Jet Li) embarks on a mission of revenge against the fearsome army that massacred his people. Now, to achieve the justice he seeks, he must take on the empire's most ruthless assassins and reach the enemy he has sworn to defeat! - Director:
- Yimou Zhang
- Cast:
- James Hong, Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai
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Eddie Munster (Bug Hall) misses Transylvania and clearly doesn't think it's the most wonderful time of the year, so the rest of the Munsters - Herman (Sam McMurray), Lily (Ann Magnuson), Grandpa (Sandy Baron) and Marilyn (Elaine Hendrix) - rally to make him enjoy the holly, jolly magic that Santa brings. 'The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas' is timeless and unique entertainment the whole family will enjoy again and again. It's a Munsterpiece! - Director:
- Ian Emes
- Cast:
- Sam McMurray, Ann Magnuson, Bug Hall
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Project 'A' (1983)Jackie Chan: Project A / 'A' gai wak
When Jackie Chan wrote, directed and starred in this period action-comedy along with his childhood friend Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao, he broke box-office records. This fast-paced classic tells the story of a coastguard, police officer and a petty criminal, who team up to fight a band of ruthless pirates, intent on spreading mayhem across the South China Sea. - Director:
- Jackie Chan
- Cast:
- Jackie Chan, David Thomas, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
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Project A: Part 2 (1987)'A' gai wak juk jap / Project A 2
Jackie Chan is back, as famed pirate-buster Dragon Ma. Having rid the seas of the dreaded Pirate Lo, he is back on land with a brand new assignment: to clean up crime and corruption in the roughest part of town. Finding himself caught up in a web of deceit, instigated by the local police chief, he and his loyal band of 'brothers' battle treacherous, free-wheeling police officers, smugglers, pirates and lethal agents of the Manchu government in a relentless breath¬taking adventure which culminates in one of the most spectacular stunt-filled finales of all time! - Director:
- Jackie Chan
- Cast:
- Jackie Chan, Keith Ferguson, Maggie Cheung
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La Belle Et La Bete (1946)Beauty and the Beast
"Beauty and the Beast " is a landmark feat of cinematic fantasy in which master filmmaker Jean Cocteau conjures spectacular visions of enchantment, desire and death that have never been equalled. Josette Day is luminous yet feisty as Beauty, and Jean Marais gives one of his best performances as the Beast, at once brutal and gentle, rapacious and vulnerable, shamed and repelled by his own bloodlust. Henri Alekan's subtle black and white cinematography combine with Christian Berard's masterly costumes and set designs to create a magical piece of cinema, a children's fairytale refashioned into a stylised and highly sophisticated dream. - Director:
- Jean Cocteau
- Cast:
- Jean Marais, Jean Cocteau, Josette Day
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Welcome to the not-too-distant future, where implanted microchips record every single moment of a person's life. Upon death, it becomes the job of a "cutter" like Alan Hakman (Robin Williams) to edit down the deceased's entire lifetime into a fitting memorial film. For years, he has used his god-like power of final cut to absolve the dead of a multitude of sins. But when, on his latest assignment, he views a terrible secret that can't be erased, Hakman finds his own life in jeopardy in this riveting science fiction thriller. - Director:
- Omar Naim
- Cast:
- Robin Williams, Darren Hird, Jim Caviezel
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Adopted as a baby and taken to England, Daniel Meeks (Danny) returns to the town of his birth in search of his real family. He finds himself embroiled in a fight for the ownership of the town and to free the soul of the late Lucius Meeks, Danny's great great grandfather. Lucius is regarded by the town as an evil gun-slinger who had an affair with the fiancee of the town's owner, Joshua Carter, and who shot them both dead in the street, in an argument over land rights. Danny adapts quickly to 'life out West' and goes on to discover the truth about his discrediting gun-slinging relative (who died more than a century earlier) picking up clues along the way, which help him track down his real mother too. This action-packed story ends in a thrilling finale, with Danny forced to choose between family loyalty, (to clear the name of Lucius and allow him to rest in peace) and his love for Kate Carter, descendant of the man Lucius killed all those years ago... - Director:
- David Lister
- Cast:
- Judge Reinhold, Tanja Reichert, Todd Jensen
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Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983)Shu Shan - Xin Shu shan jian ke / Zu Time Warrior
Featuring an all-star cast led by acrobatic genius Yuen Biao, 'Zu Warriors' depicts the adventures of a young soldier (Dik Mingkei) caught in a war between two rival carmies. To escape certain death he takes sanctuary in a cave within the ominous Zu Mountain, where he becomes entangled in a battle with all-powerful supernatural forces threatening to destroy the World. Guided by a mysterious swordsman (Adam Cheng), Dik Mingkei must harness the power of two mystical swords; the only weapons on Earth capable of defeating his omnipotent enemy. - Director:
- Hark Tsui
- Cast:
- Biao Yuen, Hoi Mang, Adam Cheng
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