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The Swordsman II (1991)Xiao ao jiang hu zhi: Dong Fang Bu Bai
Jet Li is Ling, a talented martial arts student who, with his fellow students, withdraws from the world of the swordsman to a remote mountain area. Arriving to meet some friends of the Highlander Clan, Ling is surprised to find that the chief of the clan has been imprisoned by a scheming subordinate, Fong . In his quest for power, Fong studies the Sacred Scroll and undergoes a sex change in order to accomplish the most refined forms of martial arts. Although Ling has vowed to retire from a violent life, he is the only fighter with the swordsmanship to stop Fong, setting the scene for a mystical and deadly duel between the two masters. - Director:
- Siu-Tung Ching
- Cast:
- Jet Li, John DeMita, Brigitte Lin
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The Music of Silence (2017)La musica del silenzio
Before he was Andrea Bocelli, he was Amos Bardi. Based on a true story, Amos is born with the gift of superb quality of voice, yet he is also nearly blind. Eventually, he is separated from his family to enter an institute for the visually impaired but while there he suffers a terrible accident, resulting in total blindness. Driven by great ambition, Amos does not give up despite repeated challenges until he manages to achieve his first great success on stage. From there, he begins a life studded with victories and becomes one of the most world renowned opera singers. - Director:
- Michael Radford
- Cast:
- Antonio Banderas, Jordi Mollà, Toby Sebastian
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The Swordsman (1990)Xiao ao jiang hu
An epic 'fantasy swordplay-adventure' in the vein of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' from Palm D'Or nominee King Hu and Chitig Siu-tung, the acclaimed director of the 'Chinese Ghost Story Trilogy', 'The Swordsman' combines resplendent imagery, award-winning hyperkinetic fight action and emotive drama to re-create a classic story of love, honour and betrayal, as a fabled warrior battles the forces of evil to protect the secrets of an ancient scroll and ultimately discover his destiny. - Director:
- Siu-Tung Ching
- Cast:
- Samuel Hui, Cecilia Yip, Jacky Cheung
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A Touch of Zen (1971)Xia Nu
An unambitious painter named Gu (Shihjun) lives with his mother in the vicinity of an abandoned mansion rumoured to be haunted. In actuality, the mansion has become a hiding place for the warrior Yang (Hsu Feng) and her own mother, both taking refuge following the assassination of their loyal minister father by the wicked eunuch Wei of East Chamber. After the eunuch sends an army to pursue the escapees, the group fortify the mansion with traps and false intimations of the terrifying ghosts within. But even after, things take yet more unsettling turns... -
Dragon Inn (1967)Long Men Kezhan
It's the middle of the Ming Dynasty. The powerful eunuch Cao (Pai Ying) has killed the Loyal Minister Yu, and Yu's children are exiled to the border, whereupon Cao undertakes efforts to massacre the remants of the family. As Yu's children take refuge in the Dragon Gate Inn, Xiao the righteous swordsman (Shihjun) and the surviving loyalists of Minister Yu engage in a series of battles to the death against the forces of the bloodthirsty eunuch. - Director:
- King Hu
- Cast:
- Lingfeng Shangguan, Chun Shih, Ying Bai
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Something evil is stirring in the small mining town of Gold Lick, and it's not happy. Guan-di, the Chinese protector of the dead, has been awakened by reckless teenagers, and now his bloody crusade to wipe out the town's entire population can only be stopped by one man - Bruce Campbell, B-movie star and deadbeat ex-husband extraordinaire, who's recruited to be their unwitting savior. When our hero faces off against a dark force more fearsome than a Hollywood agent, the laughs and screams start flying! - Director:
- Bruce Campbell
- Cast:
- Bruce Campbell, Grace Thorsen, Taylor Sharpe
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Somewhere in Bulgaria, sleazy American industrialist William Cole (Bruce Campbell) is finalizing a tax scam that will earn him millions. Meanwhile, mad scientist Dr. Ivan Ivanov (Stacy Keach) and his demented henchman Pavel (Ted Raimi) have created a drug that can connect human brains like Lincoln Logs. But when an illicit tryst with a sultry hotel maid leads to Cole's murder, Dr. Ivanov reanimates him by transplanting the half-brain of a former KGB operative into Cole's skull. Now, the capitalist and the communist must reconcile their difference to hunt down the beautiful gypsy freak who killed them both. - Director:
- Bruce Campbell
- Cast:
- Bruce Campbell, Tamara Gorski, Ted Raimi
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The Villainess (2017)Ak-Nyeo
Exploding onto the screen in a kinetic flurry of hyper-stylised action, The Villainess is a stunning vengeance film that draws its inspiration from western classics including Nikita and Kill Bill. Sook-hee (Kim Ok-vin, Thirst) is a trained assassin who takes revenge on the men who murdered her father in a breath-taking opening sequence. After losing consciousness she awakes at the National Intelligence Service who recruit her as an agent to undertake confidential missions. Initially refusing, Sook-hee soon realises it is her only method of escape, until she is assigned a new assignment that changes everything... - Director:
- Byung-gil Jung
- Cast:
- Ok-bin Kim, Ha-kyun Shin, Sung-Jun
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Jaguar Lives (1979)Jaguar Lives!
1979 World Karate Champion Joe Lewis is the Jaguar; a man betrayed who is drawn back into the shady world of international crime fighting when a Heroin cartel sweeps to power across the Middle East and threatens to unbalance world peace. Only one man can infiltrate the border-less gang of criminal masterminds and that man is...The Jaguar. He will stop at nothing and he s ready to kill to bring down the pushers and keep the streets clean. - Director:
- Ernest Pintoff
- Cast:
- Joe Lewis, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence
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Duel to the Death (1983)Xian si jue
Every ten years, a duel is held between the finest Japanese and Chinese martial artists to determine whose Swordmanship is superior. During the Ming Dynasty, as the next duel approaches, the chosen candidates are caught in the middle of a battle between Ninjas and Shaolin monks. Only a 'Duel to the Death' will settle the countries' conflicts and stop the bloodshed. - Director:
- Siu-Tung Ching
- Cast:
- Norman Chu, Damian Lau, Flora Cheung
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Inspired by true events, this is the remarkable, action-packed story about the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen. Follow the epic and intense journey of General Nanisca (Viola Davis) as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life. - Director:
- Gina Prince-Bythewood
- Cast:
- Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch
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Fallen Women? Does it mean they've hurt their knees? After a decade of soul saving in Africa, Charles Fortescue is asked to minister to the ladies of the night in 1906 London. So Fortescue feeds them, shelters them and not infrequently provides them a bed - his! A naive man of the cloth becomes a man of the sheets in this playfully naughty yet always tasteful comedy that stars Monty Python's Michael Palin as Fortescue and features a colourful array of cockeyed characters: a blissful airhead (Phoebe Nicholls), a lusty mission sponsor (Maggie Smith), a bewildered butler (Michael Hordern), an earthy bishop (Denholm Elliott), a cantankerous John Bull (Trevor Howard) and more. - Director:
- Richard Loncraine
- Cast:
- Michael Palin, John Fortune, Maggie Smith
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Here's the bold and sweeping epic adventure that's guaranteed to thrill action seekers of all ages. Jason Scott Lee stars as Mowgli, a boy raised by wild animals in the jungles of India. Longing to enter mans world, Mowgli is aided by Kitty, the beautiful daughter of British official Major Brydon (Sam Neill). Mowgli soon faces a ruthless soldier who wants both Kitty's hand in marriage and a hand on mythical treasures that only Mowgli can find. - Director:
- Stephen Sommers
- Cast:
- Jason Scott Lee, Cary Elwes, Lena Headey
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The Maggie (1954)High and Dry
Directed by Alexander Mackendrick "The Maggie" is a heartwarming comedy set in Scotland, about a skipper who tricks a wealthy American into entrusting him to ship valuable cargo on a dilapidated old puffer boat called 'The Maggie'. The American tycoon realises his mistake and goes up against the scheming crew of the Maggie who are determined to outwit the American and keep the contract. - Director:
- Alexander MacKendrick
- Cast:
- Paul Douglas, Alex MacKenzie, James Copeland
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Once Upon a Crime (1992)Criminals / Returning Napoleon
Phoebe (Sean Young) and Julian (Richard Lewis), two American's in Rome, discover a lost dog named Napoleon while on a train and, being good Samaritans, decide to take him back to his owners in Monte Carlo. When they arrive at Napoleon's wealthy owner's property however, they discover them dead. Panic-ridden they flee the scene of the crime and unknowingly make themselves prime suspects in this increasingly bizarre, yet hilarious, murder mystery. - Director:
- Eugene Levy
- Cast:
- John Candy, Jim Belushi, Cybill Shepherd
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