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"Senna" is the true story of Brazilian motor-racing legend, Ayrton Senna, whom many believe was the greatest driver who ever lived. Spanning Senna's titanic Formula One career, the film charts his physical and spiritual journey, both on track and off; his quest for perfection and his ultimate transformation from a supremely gifted novice, who exploded into F1 in 1984, to myth after the tragic events of Imola in 1994. Made with the full co-operation of the Senna family and Formula One Management, feature is the first official documentary feature about his life, featuring astounding archive material, much of which is previously unseen. - Director:
- Asif Kapadia
- Cast:
- Damon Hill, Ayrton Senna, Michael Schumacher
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Neal Page is an advertising executive who just wants to fly home to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his family. But all Neal Page gets is misery. Misery named Del Griffith - a loud mouthed, but nevertheless lovable, salesman who leads Neal on a cross-country, wild goose chase that keeps Neal from tasting his turkey. Steve Martin (Neal) and John Candy (Del) are absolutely wonderful as two guys with a knack for making the worst of a bad situation. - Director:
- John Hughes
- Cast:
- Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins
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The Crazies (1973)The Mad People / Code Name: Trixie
When a plane carrying a secret biological weapon crash-lands in the vicinity of a small, rural town, the area descends into chaos. Infected with a virus that sends them into a homicidal frenzy, the locals turn on each other in an orgy of bloody violence. As the army cordons off the town and government agents clash with scientists over the appropriate course of action, a small band of survivors attempt to make their way to safety. - Director:
- George A. Romero
- Cast:
- Lane Carroll, Will MacMillan, Harold Wayne Jones
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After 10,000 years of imprisonment, the evil sorceress Rita Repulsa and her loyal minions are freed when astronauts on a routine mission in space accidentally open her dumpster prison on the Moon. Filled with rage, Rita decides to conquer the nearest planet: Earth. But her arch nemesis - the heroic sage Zordon - has been patiently waiting in preparation for this day. With the assistance of his wisecracking robotic sidekick Alpha 5, Zordon recruits a team of 'five teenagers with attitude' - Jason, Zack, Kimberly, Billy, and Trini - to receive superpowers beyond their wildest dreams and defend the Earth as the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Aided by giant robotic vehicles modeled after dinosaurs called Zords, the Power Rangers fight back the evil alien hordes of Rita Repulsa. - Director:
- Strathford Hamilton
- Cast:
- Barbara Goodson, Austin St. John, Amy Jo Johnson
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Welcome to Ogden Marsh, Iowa: the friendliest place on earth. A picture perfect town where your neighbours are your friends and your friends are your neighbours.... Until they want to kill you. A mysterious toxin in the water supply turns everyone exposed to it into mindless killers and the authorities leave the uninfected to their certain doom in this terrifying reinvention of the George A. Romero horror classic. Sheriff David Dutten (Timothy Olyphant) and his pregnant wife Judy (Radha Mitchell), find themselves trapped in the once-idyllic town they can no longer recognise. On the run from infected neighbours, loved ones and friends, targeted by the ruthless military and terrified of getting sick, they are forced to band together with other survivors in a desperate struggle for survival. - Director:
- Breck Eisner
- Cast:
- Radha Mitchell, Timothy Olyphant, Danielle Panabaker
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It's all about the Soy Sauce, a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a silent otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncoming horror in time to save humanity? No. No, they can't. - Director:
- Don Coscarelli
- Cast:
- Kevin Michael Richardson, Chase Williamson, Headmaster Ernesto
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She's a Beverly Hills beauty who'll do anything to keep her man. Even if it means going all the way... to law school! Reese Witherspoon stars with Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Matthew Davis and Victor Garber in a knock-out comedy with a heart of gold - and hair to match! Elle Woods is a California blonde with couture clothes, fabulous friends and the hottest boyfriend on campus. So when her boy friend suddenly dumps her and heads for Harvard Law School, Elle takes matter into her own perfectly manicured hands. She enrols too. Now getting her boyfriend back should be a snap, right? Wrong! Elle's about to begin the toughest fight of her life - for love, honor, justice and respect for blondes everywhere! - Director:
- Robert Luketic
- Cast:
- Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair
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Fertility research centre, The Jenner Clinic, has been destroyed in an explosion and the entire staff wiped out by someone or something of superhuman strength. Journalist Peter Carson (John Lynch) fears his girlfriend, Nurse Tracy Pickford, is one of the victims. As he begins to investigate the tragedy, he is drawn into a nightmare of secrecy, violence and hostility as the Government seeks to hide the truth about the clinic's work, determined that nothing will stand in the way of scientific progress. - Director:
- Lawrence Gordon Clark
- Cast:
- John Lynch, Christine Kavanagh, Kenneth Cranham
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The epic battle continues with an explosive, action-packed adventure that follows Kong's journey to find his family through an undiscovered layer of Hollow Earth - and what he uncovers inadvertently brings forth the most dangerous threat to mankind yet... one that can only be countered by the combined ever-evolving forces of Kong and Godzilla. - Director:
- Adam Wingard
- Cast:
- Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Dan Stevens
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)Beetlejuice 2 / Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 2024 A.D.
Beetlejuice is back! After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton), Lydia (Winona Ryder) finds her life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid (Jenna Ortega), discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened. - Director:
- Tim Burton
- Cast:
- Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara
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Horror master Fede Alvarez takes the phenomenally successful 'Alien' franchise back to its iconic roots. In this truly terrifying sci-fi horror-thriller, a group of young colonisers - scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station - come face-to-face with the most relentless and deadly life form in the universe. - Director:
- Fede Alvarez
- Cast:
- Cailee Spaeny, Annemarie Griggs, David Jonsson Fray
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Huckleberry Finn (Patrick Day), a rambunctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him are his friends Tom Sawyer (Eugene Oakes) and Jim (Samm-Art Williams), a slave running away from being sold. Together they strike a bond of friendship that takes them through harrowing events and thrilling adventures. - Director:
- Peter H. Hunt
- Cast:
- Patrick Day, Anne Shropshire, Sada Thompson
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Trap (2024)Good Grades
A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realise they're at the centre of a dark and sinister event.- Director:
- M. Night Shyamalan
- Cast:
- Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan
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A group of delightful and very human people meet up with some very bizarre and not-so-human beings, who are visitors from a distant galaxy. They have come to Earth on a rescue mission to retrieve a secret which has laid hidden on the ocean floor for thousands of years. They share a more wondrous adventure of love and friendship than they could ever have imagined. - Director:
- Ron Howard
- Cast:
- Don Ameche, Wilford Brimley, Hume Cronyn
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Along the way, he encounters Agamemnon (Sean Connery), Robin Hood (John Cleese), Napoleon (Ian Holm) and winds up as a passenger on the Titanic, although not necessarily in that order. But is this just random entertainment laid on for history fan Kevin's benefit, or part of a wider struggle between the forces of Good (Ralph Richardson) and Evil (David Warner)? - Director:
- Terry Gilliam
- Cast:
- Sean Connery, Chris Grant, Tony Jay
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