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Railroad Tigers (2016)Tie dao fei hu
In this action-comedy caper harkening back to Jackie Chan's classic Hong Kong films, a railroad worker (Chan) and his ragtag group of freedom fighters find themselves on the wrong side of the tracks when they decide to ambush a heavily armed military train filled with desperately needed provisions. Unarmed and outnumbered, they must fight back against an entire army using only their wits, in a series of dazzling set pieces and action scenes rivalling anything seen on the big screen. - Director:
- Ding Sheng
- Cast:
- Jackie Chan, Jaycee Chan, Zitao Huang
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Tough, sexy news reporter Nicha (HRH Princess Ubolratana of Thailand) has uncovered a deadly secret. A giant pharmaceutical company is using Thai citizens as lab rats and now the planet's most dangerous virus has escaped. As she searches for the victims, each one a ticking time-bomb, the evil corporate dispatches contract killer Shawn (Shawn Yue) to eliminate her and hide the truth. Meanwhile the National Security Special Department is on a mission to terminate all the test subjects. With Nicha in deadly danger, her father recruits "Thud" (Shahkrit Yamnarm), a professional gun-fighter, to protect his daughter at all cost. With bodyguard on board, and confrontation inevitable, can Nicha stop the countdown to extinction as the deadly virus threatens to take the life of every human being on the planet? - Director:
- Sirippakorn Wongchariyawat
- Cast:
- Peter Rnic
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George Bailey (James Stewart) has spent his entire life in the small town of Bedford Falls. Despite his yearning to see the world, George has always sacrificed his personal ambitions for the sake of his family and the local community, settling down to marry his childhood sweetheart, Mary (Donna Reed), and raise a family. However, when a huge amount of money goes missing from the savings and loans company he panics and finds himself preparing to commit suicide. However, he is shown the error of this idea by Clarence (Henry Travers), an angel who has been sent to Earth in order to earn his wings. To this end, Clarence shows George just how badly Bedford Falls and its residents would have turned out had he never been born. - Director:
- Frank Capra
- Cast:
- James Stewart, Joseph Granby, Donna Reed
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Yamada: Way of the Samurai (2010)Samurai Ayothaya
Set in the ancient Kingdom of Ayothaya, this incredible true story brings to life the adventures of Yamada Nagamasa, a young Japanese Samurai warrior, who gave up his homeland to protect the sovereignty of the Thai people. Betrayed and left for dead by treacherous Japanese forces, he finds a new family in a remote village and masters the devastating fighting art of Muay Boran (Thai boxing). Fearless, he ascends to the royal bodyguard of King Naresuan The Great, but will soon face his greatest ever battle against the elite Japanese warriors he once regarded as brothers... - Director:
- Nopporn Watin
- Cast:
- Seigi Ozeki, Kanokkorn Jaicheun, Sorapong Chatree
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Sid loves being a DJ and he has a girlfriend Trisha. When Trisha proposes marriage! Sid panics. Marriage is terrifying; it's for somebody else. Not him, and the only way that Sid can keep Trisha in his life is by committing to her. As confused Sid marches over to Trisha's office to make sense of the mess in his head he ends up instead, asking her to marry him, only to stop her from crying! Now begins his nightmare as Sid wades through an engagement, he meets Trisha's family and what you have is the craziest and funniest romantic comedy of the season 'Pyaar Ke Side/Effects' featuring the most impossible on screen couple Rahul Bose and Mallika Sherawat. - Director:
- Saket Chaudhary
- Cast:
- Rahul Bose, Mallika Sherawat, Ranvir Shorey
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After failing to unlock a prisoner in time to save the lives of dozens of innocent people from a terrorist attack in Paris, CIA interrogator Alice Racine's (Noomi Rapace) career was sidelined. Now leading a quiet life in London, Alice is unexpectedly called back into action when the CIA apprehends a suspect believed to have direct knowledge of another imminent attack. Turning to the few people she can trust, she seeks out those responsible as she races against the clock to prevent a deadly biological attack on the citizens of London. - Director:
- Michael Apted
- Cast:
- Orlando Bloom, Noomi Rapace, Toni Collette
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Red Cliff (2008)Chi Bi
It is the Autumn of 208 AD and 100,000 peasants flee with their beloved leader Liu Bei from Cao Cao's million man army. With the aid of heroes, Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei, they escape across the Great River to take refuge with Sun Quan, the leader of the south. As Cao Cao prepares his huge navy to invade Southern China and destroy them all, geniuses, Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu devise a grand strategy to destroy Cao Cao's thousands of ships with fire upon the river. However, they must first trick Cao Cao into chaining his ships together, and then change the direction of China's famous and freezing North Wind. More than this, they must hatch their legendary schemes before Cao Cao is ready to attack. - Director:
- John Woo
- Cast:
- Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Nicole Dionne, Philip Hersh
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'Half of a Yellow Sun' is an epic love story weaving together the lives of tour people swept up in the turbulence of war. Olanna (Newton) and Kainene (Anika Noni Rose) are glamorous twins from a wealthy family who return to the privileged city life of newly independent 1960s Nigeria after their expensive English education. Olanna shocks her family by going to live with her "revolutionary professor" lover (Ejiofor) and his new houseboy Ugwu (John Boyega), while her sister becomes a successful businesswoman and falls in love with an English writer (Joseph Mawle, Birdsong). As civil war engulfs them, they are thrown together and pulled apart in ways they had never imagined. - Director:
- Biyi Bandele
- Cast:
- Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Anika Noni Rose
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La Vie En Rose (2007)La môme
From the slums of Paris to the Limelight of New York, Edith Piaf's (Marion Cotillard) life was a battle to sing and survive, live and love. Raised in poverty, Edith's magical voice and her passionate romances and friendships with the greatest names of the period - Yves Montand, Jean Cocteau, Charles Aznavour, Marlene Dietrich, Marcel Cerdan and others - made her a star all around the world. But in her audacious attempt to tame her tragic destiny, the Little Sparrow - her nickname - flew so high she could not fail to burn her wings. - Director:
- Olivier Dahan
- Cast:
- Marion Cotillard, Jean-Luc Julien, Anika Julien
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Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia
From the Director of Her and House of Flying Daggers, comes a stunning epic about the folly of war and the disintegration of one family under the weight of unrequited love, unforgivable betrayals, and a never-ending thirst for power. On the eve of the Chong Yong Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace and when the Emperor (Chow Yun Fat) unexpectedly returns to his Empress (Gong Li) and two sons, the tension is clear in his lavish kingdom. His absence has given rise to illicit love affairs, dangerous alliances, and malicious conspiracies; all of which threaten to overthrow his power. However, it may well be the Emperor's own dark secret that threatens him most of all. As the secrets of the Imperial family unravel against this backdrop of breathtaking opulence and grandeur, an attack on the Palace by myriad armoured warriors results in a spectacular climax wrought and thrilling action and epic tragedy. - Director:
- Yimou Zhang
- Cast:
- Yun-Fat Chow, Li Gong, Jay Chou
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Admiral (2015)Michiel de Ruyter
Charles Dance and Rutger Hauer star in this epic adventure about a 17th century Dutch admiral, who must lead his fleet to defend his homeland from the terrorising forces of England. Get swept away with this swashbuckling story of legendary naval battles, civil war, and one of the most fearless admirals of all time! - Director:
- Roel Reiné
- Cast:
- Charles Dance, Rutger Hauer, Barry Atsma
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After thousands of years, Apocalypse, the world's first and most powerful mutant, has awakened to find a world led by humans. Intent on cleansing the Earth of mankind, he recruits a group of mutants to create a new world order. In a desperate race to save humanity, Professor X (James McAvoy) leads the young X-Men in an epic showdown - against an unstoppable enemy - that will determine the fate of the world. - Director:
- Bryan Singer
- Cast:
- James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence
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Ruthlessly efficient killer, Jamie (Danny Dyer) breaks the rules of his profession when he falls for beautiful stripper, Chloe (Holly Weston) after discovering that notorious gangland brothers, Lee (Martin Kemp) and John (Gary Kemp) have hired him to kill her father. As violent chaos breaks out when he turns against his criminal employers to protect the woman he loves, he ultimately finds redemption. - Director:
- J.K. Amalou
- Cast:
- Danny Dyer, Martin Kemp, Gary Kemp
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Battleship Potemkin (1925)Bronenosets Potyomkin
Planned by the Soviet Central Committee to coincide with the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the unsuccessful 1905 Russian Revolution, this film was developed by the 27 year-old Sergei Eisenstein from less than one page of script from a planned eight-part epic that was intended to chronicle a large number of revolutionary actions. Starting with the Potemkin's crew's refusal to eat maggot-infested meat, the mutiny develops and their leader Vakulinchuk is shot by a senior officer. The officers are overthrown and when the Potemkin docks at Odessa, crowds appear from all directions to take up the cause of the dead sailor and open rebellion ensues. What became the most celebrated sequence in world cinema history follows as the Czarist soldiers fire on the crowds thronging down the Odessa steps; the broad newsreel-like sequences being inter-cut with close-ups of harrowing details. Returning to sea, the Potemkin's crew prepares the guns for action as the ship, flying the flag of freedom, steams to confront the squadron. When they finally meet their worst fears are allayed as, with relief coupled with joy, they are universally acclaimed. This film, which was destined to become such an influential landmark in cinematographic history, opened in Moscow in January 1926. It ran for only four weeks. - Director:
- Sergei M. Eisenstein
- Cast:
- Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov
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The Godfather (1972)Mario Puzo's The Godfather
In late 1940's New York, Mafia 'Godfather' Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) gathers his three sons around him for daughter Connie (Talia Shire)'s wedding; the hot-headed Sonny (James Caan), ineffectual Fredo (John Cazale) and war hero Michael (Al Pacino), who chooses to distance himself from the family 'business'. When Vito is shot and wounded for refusing to sanction a rival family's heroin sales on his territory, Sonny temporarily takes over and embarks on bloody gang warfare. This results in him being killed in an ambush, and Michael finds himself nominated to succeed the ailing Vito. - Director:
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Cast:
- Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
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