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House of Flying Daggers (2004)Shi mian mai fu / Attack from Ten Directions
Hoping she will lead them to her fellow assassins, two captains Jin and Leo (Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau) hatch a plan to capture and trick Mei (Ziyi Zhang) a beautiful dancer suspected of having ties to the House of the flying daggers, a powerful revolutionary faction. From there begins a long trail of dangerous encounters, impossible love triangles and plot twists, in which people are rarely as they seem… - Director:
- Yimou Zhang
- Cast:
- Ziyi Zhang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau
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Chicago, 2055. Time Safari, Inc. led by its slick CEO (Ben Kingsley), offers the hottest ticket around: an expedition into the past to hunt dinosaurs. Just don't bring anything back. Someone does. And 65 million years of evolution jump the tracks. Vegetation engulfs buildings. Carnivorous insects attack. Highly evolved dinosaur descendants turn humanity from predator to prey. It used to be our world. Now it's theirs...unless two scientists (Edward Burns and Catherine McCormack) can somehow turn back the clock. - Director:
- Peter Hyams
- Cast:
- Edward Burns, Ben Kingsley, Catherine McCormack
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Ginger faced, caravanning enthusiast Chris (Steve Oram) wants to show his new girlfriend Tina (Alice Lowe) his world and he wants to do it his way - on a journey through the British Isles in his beloved caravan. Up until now Tina has led a sheltered life with her over protective mother, but there are things that Chris wants her to see - the Crich Tramway Museum, the Ribblehead Viaduct, the Keswick Pencil Museum and the rolling countryside that accompanies these wonders in his life. But it doesn't take long for the dream to fade. Litterbugs, noisy teenagers and pre-booked caravan sites, not to mention Tina's meddling mother, soon conspire to shatter Chris's dreams and send him, and anyone who rubs him up the wrong way, over a very jagged edge... - Director:
- Ben Wheatley
- Cast:
- Alice Lowe, Sara Dee, Kenneth Hadley
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The sequel to the worldwide smash hit 'Olympus Has Fallen' begins in London, where the British Prime Minister has passed away under mysterious circumstances. His funeral is a must-attend event for leaders of the Western world. But what starts out as the most protected event on Earth, turns into a deadly plot to kill the world's most powerful leaders, devastate every known landmark in the British capital, and unleash a terrifying vision of the future. Only three people have any hope of stopping it: the President of the United States (Aaron Eckhart), his formidable secret service head (Gerard Butler), and an English MI-6 agent who rightly trusts no one. - Director:
- Babak Najafi
- Cast:
- Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman
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As a former war hero of the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) is determined to renounce his notoriously violent past in order to raise his family in peace. The last thing he wants to do is return to battle against the savage British redcoats in the midst of the American Revolution. But when one of his sons is killed in a revolutionary skirmish and his patriotic eldest son Gabriel (Heath Ledger) joins the fight, Martin has no choice but to take up arms once again in order to protect the people he treasures most in his life. The only way to protect his family is to face the bloody reality of war and fight for a young nation's freedom. - Director:
- Roland Emmerich
- Cast:
- Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson
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Hometown best friends Jack (Charles "Buddy" Rogers) and David (Richard Arlen) compete for the affection of a gorgeous dame (Jobyna Ralston), though Jack doesn't realise that girl next door Mary Preston (Clara Bow) has eyes for him as well. But World War I is soon upon them, so the boys are off to France to fight against the Germans. Meanwhile, Mary follows Jack into enemy lines as a nurse. - Director:
- William A. Wellman
- Cast:
- Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen
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Seven Samurai (1954)Shichinin no Samurai
In 16th century Japan a poor village is raided every year by a group of bandits until, driven to the brink of starvation, the villagers decide to hire professional warriors to protect them. With only three meager meals a day to offer as payment, their request seems an impossible one. A simple plot, flawlessly executed - 'Seven Samurai' combines comedy, pathos, memorable characters, gripping tension and some of the finest action scenes ever filmed. - Director:
- Akira Kurosawa
- Cast:
- Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima
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The epic graphic novel by Frank Miller. (Sin City) assaults the screen with blood, thunder and awe of its ferocious visual style faithfully recreated in an intense blend of live-action and CGI animation. Retelling the ancient Battle of Thermopylae, it depicts the titanic clash in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) and his massive Persian army. Experience history at swordplay, and moviemaking with a cutting edge. - Director:
- Zack Snyder
- Cast:
- Gerard Butler, Gary A. Hecker, Lena Headey
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At NASA's Mission Control the first manned space flight manned space flight to Mars is about to blast off. Bit as its three astronauts (James Brolin, O.J Simpson and Sam Waterston) await their historic journey a mysterious man enters the craft and insists they leave. He explains that the spacecraft is dangerously flawed. The mission, however, must be seen to go ahead, otherwise the Government will stop funding the space programme. In a television studio the astronauts are coerced, through threats and bribery, to make broadcasts as if they were on the Red Planet. Robert Caulfield (Elliott Gould), a journalist becomes interested in the Mars mission when a technician friend becomes suspicious and sets out to investigate. - Director:
- Peter Hyams
- Cast:
- Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro
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Take a hilarious ride with the Hoovers, one of the most endearingly fractured families in comedy history. Father Richard (Greg Kinnear) is desperately trying to sell his motivational success programme... with no success. Meanwhile, "pro-honesty" mom Sheryl (Toni Collette) lends support to her eccentric family, including her depressed brother (Steve Carell), fresh out of the hospital after being jilted by his lover. Then there are the younger Hoovers - the seven-year-old, would-be beauty queen Olive (Abigail Breslin) and Dwayne (Paul Dano), a Nietzsche-reading teen who has taken a vow of silence. Topping off the family is the foul-mouthed grandfather (Alan Arkin), whose outrageous behaviour recently got him evicted from his retirement home. When Olive is invited to compete in the "Little Miss Sunshine" pageant in fat-off California, the family piles into their rusted-out VW bus to rally behind her - with riotously funny results. - Director:
- Jonathan Dayton
- Cast:
- Steve Carell, Regis Philbin, Toni Collette
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Twisters (2024)Twister
When her friend Javi lures her back into the field for the first time since a devastating tornado encounter, storm chaser Kate crosses paths with Tyler, a charming daredevil with a thirst for tornado-tracking adventures. Kate's caution clashes with Tyler's risk-taking, but as storm season intensifies, they'll need to team up to tame, and survive, an unprecedented outbreak of destructive tornadoes. - Director:
- Lee Isaac Chung
- Cast:
- Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos
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Prey (2022)Skull / Predator 5
The epic 'Predator' legacy continues with this action-thriller set in the Comanche Nation. When Naru (Amber Midthunder), a fierce and highly skilled young warrior, sets out to protect her people, the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator - leading to a vicious and terrifying showdown. - Director:
- Dan Trachtenberg
- Cast:
- Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegro
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Oliver! (1968)Lionel Bart's Oliver!
Young Oliver Twist (Mark Lester) is an orphan who escapes the cheerless life of the workhouse and takes to the streets of 19th-Century London. He's immediately taken in by a band of street urchins, headed by the lovable villain Fagin (Ron Moody), his fiendish henchman Bill Sikes (Oliver Reed) and his loyal apprentice The Artful Dodger (Jack Wild). Through his education in the fine points of pick-pocketing, Oliver makes away with an unexpected treasure...a home and a family of his own. - Director:
- Carol Reed
- Cast:
- Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis
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Joker Jackson (Tony Curtis) and Noah Cullen (Sidney Poitier) are two convicts on the run. Escaping from a Southern work gang, the two men are bound together by an unbreakable iron chain and separated by an unbridled hatred towards each other. Relentlessly pursued by a posse and bloodhounds, they put aside their differences to survive. But when a lonely woman (Cara Williams) breaks their chain and deliberately sends Cullen to certain death, Jackson must decide what's more important: saving Cullen...or saving himself. - Director:
- Stanley Kramer
- Cast:
- Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel
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Rolfe the Viking warrior (Richard Widmark) steals his king s funeral ship and sets sail in search of the greatest treasure in the known world - the fabled Golden Bell of Byzantium! Forged from plundered Islamic gold at the time of the Crusades, it is reputed to contain half of the world's gold... However, Aly Mansuh (Sidney Poitier), the ferocious Moorish warlord, is also searching for the treasure, setting the stage for an epic confrontation between two great warrior civilisations... - Director:
- Jack Cardiff
- Cast:
- Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn
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