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Bryn Cartwright (William Thoma), a wealthy roofing contractor, Rugby Club Chairman and local kingpin rules the roost until Fatty Lewis (Huw Ceredig), a local handyman, falls off a ladder on a Cartwright job. Bryn refuses to pay compensation. The twins, Fatty's wayward sons, devise a wickedly comic way of getting even and Bryn ends up paying dearly. Representing the thin blue line of the Law are Terry (Dougray Scott) and Greyo (Dorien Thomas), two local policemen who employ their own dubious peacekeeping methods as events spiral out of control. - Director:
- Kevin Allen
- Cast:
- Llyr Ifans, Rhys Ifans, Dorien Thomas
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Nine Queens (2000)Nueve Reinas
Set in Buenos Aires over the course of 24 hours, Nine Queens is a taut, highly seductive heist thriller in which nothing is what it seems and where no one can be trusted. A naive young con artist (Gaston Pauls) teams up with an enigmatic, experienced master criminal (Ricardo Darin) for what could be the crime to end all crimes. But in a relationship propelled by brinkmanship and double-cross, corruption rarely has a happy ending. - Director:
- Fabián Bielinsky
- Cast:
- Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Leticia Brédice
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Johnny (Jonny Lee Miller) dreams of leaving his dead-end job as a courier. Through his best friend (Jude Law), nephew of the notorious crime lord Ray Kreed (Ray Winstone), he charms his way into the toughest gang in North London. Hungry for some real gangster action, Johnny sparks a feud between Ray's gang and another firm in South London. - Director:
- Dominic Anciano
- Cast:
- Sadie Frost, Jonny Lee Miller, Jude Law
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John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) awakens alone in a strange hotel to find he is wanted for a series of brutal murders. His memories have vanished and even his beautiful wife, Emma (Jennifer Connelly) has become estranged from him. So begins a quest to unravel the mysteries of his pact; a quest that will take him into a fiendish underworld where he is relentlessly pursued by the police and a gang of shadow-like beings known as the Strangers and where only the sinister Doctor Schreber (Keifer Sutherland) is able to help him. - Director:
- Alex Proyas
- Cast:
- Rufus Sewell, Anita Kelsey, Kiefer Sutherland
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July 1969. Apollo 11's astronauts will walk on the moon - and a huge satellite dish outside a sheep-farming Australian town has been chosen to beam the live footage globally. The whole world is depending on scientist Cliff Buxton (Sam Neill), who must steer the eccentric crew who man the telescope through a sea of mishaps and disasters that threatens to spoil the small town's finest hour. Watching over them is a by-the-book NASA representative who can't quite understand their quirky working methods. A comical culture clash erupts in this effortlessly funny tale of how history's biggest televised event was almost cancelled. - Director:
- Rob Sitch
- Cast:
- Sam Neill, Beverley Dunn, Billy Mitchell
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Would-be boxer Bobby (Jon Favreau) dreams of settling down in domestic bliss with his stripper girlfriend (Famke Janssen) and her little girl. His life long friend Ricky (Vince Vaughn) dreams of being a gun-toting, babe-attracting mafia hotshot. 5o when the two pals are offered a quick job as 'out-of-town muscle' for Los Rngeles mob chieftain Max (Peter Falk), Bobby reluctantly agrees and Ricky jumps at the chance. - Director:
- Jon Favreau
- Cast:
- Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Joe Goossen
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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. - Director:
- Christopher Nolan
- Cast:
- Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
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Mediterraneo tells the story of a group of inept Italian soldiers who are sent to occupy a tiny, isolated Greek Island during WWII. Initially the island appears uninhabited but when it becomes apparent that there is a small Greek population, and moreover that all the young men have gone to war, the Italians begin to view their assignment with more enthusiasm. Each in their own far-flung corner of the gentle paradise, the soldiers embark on magical and sometimes unusual love affairs, whose endurance is threatened only by the encroachment of the war raging in the seemingly distant outside world. - Director:
- Gabriele Salvatores
- Cast:
- Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bigagli, Giuseppe Cederna
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When a vivacious half-breed Indian girl named Pearl (Jennifer Jones) is sent to live with the Texas land baron Senator McCanles (Lionel Barrymore), conflict abruptly arises. Hot-blooded Pearl captures the attention of the Senator's sons: Jesse (Joseph Cotten) and fiery Lewt (Gregory Peck). Soon both of the brothers are vying for her affections, leading to betrayal, wild desert shoot-outs and a lustful but destructive love-hate relationship between Pearl and Lewt. - Director:
- King Vidor
- Cast:
- Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck
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The Dinner Game (1998)Le Diner De Cons
For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is the day for idiots. The principle is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who brings the most spectacular idiot wins the prize. Tonight, Brochant is ecstatic. He has found a gem. The ultimate idiot. "A world champion idiot!" Francois Pignon, a lowly accountant at the finance ministry, a man who is devoted to his construction of models made of matchsticks. What Brochant doesn't know is that Pignon is a real jinx, a past master in the art of causing chaos... - Director:
- Francis Veber
- Cast:
- Thierry Lhermitte, Daniel Russo, Jacques Villeret
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Screen favourite Colin Farrell leads a star-packed cast in this hilarious and exciting urban love story of ordinary people unwittingly tangled in a convoluted search for love. A misguided breakup of two young lovers initiates a series of events that affects everyone around them with cataclysmic force. From the hell-raising petty thief to the maverick detective to the sex-starved single guy and beyond, all are blissfully unaware of how the accidental nature of life is binding them together. . - Director:
- John Crowley
- Cast:
- Cillian Murphy, Kelly MacDonald, Colin Farrell
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With 'The Searchers', John Wayne and director John Ford forged an indelible saga of the frontier and the men and women who challenged it. Wayne plays Ethan Edwards, an ex-Confederate who sets out to find his niece, captured by Comanches who massacred his family. He won't surrender to hunger, thirst, the elements or loneliness. And in his obsessive quest, Ethan finds something unexpected: his own humanity. One of the most influential movies ever made. - Director:
- John Ford
- Cast:
- John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles
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The Taste of Others (2000)Le Gout Des Autres
Castella is a rich but lonely man. He has built up a successful business but has lost sight of himself, his wife and his family in the process. Clara is a middle-aged actress who lives for the theatre but craves for a family and some security in her life. Clara teaches English in her spare time and this is how she meets Castella. There is no obvious attraction at first but when he just happens to see her perform in the theatre she triggers something inside him. Castella begins to pursue her aggressively, attempting to break into her social circle and even shaving off his moustache. But it into her social circle and even shaving c is only when he leaves his wife and becomes more considerate and sensitive to the people around him that Clara begins to have feelings for him. - Director:
- Agnès Jaoui
- Cast:
- Anne Alvaro, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Alain Chabat
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Minimal Stories (2002)Historias minimas
A charming and affecting tale charting the fortunes of three small town heroes pursuing their dreams, Carlos Sorin's Historias Minimas offers further evidence of the current riches to be found in Argentine cinema. Awarded a special jury prize at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, it's a deceptively simple, yet delightful road movie concerned with three disparate characters heading for the Argentine city of San Julian amid the beautiful landscapes of Patagonia. Roberto is a travelling salesman hoping to impress a young widow by surprising her child with a birthday cake.Don Justo is an old man with poor vision who sits in front of his son's grocery store and entertains passing children by wiggling his ears. Maria is a shy mother who has won an apperance on TV gameshow 'Multicoloured Casino'. - Director:
- Carlos Sorin
- Cast:
- Javier Lombardo, Antonio Benedicti, Javiera Bravo
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