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Deep Impact (1998)Impact
When a couple of young astronomers discover an enormous comet on course to collide with Earth, the countdown to Doomsday begins and the Human Race embarks on the fight for survival... Mimi Leder directs an all-star cast including Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell and Morgan Freeman, guiding them through a powerful fusion of heart-stopping excitement, stunning special effects and touching storylines. Now including brand new exclusive features, Deep Impact, the smash hit which captivated audiences world-wide and amassed a huge box office, makes its impact felt in a truly unforgettable way. - Director:
- Mimi Leder
- Cast:
- Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood
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Award-winning stars Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet and Dustin Hoffman bring to life the story of a man who awakened the world's imagination, and the people who inspired him. Finding Neverland is a tale about James M. Barrie's extraordinary journey to create the classic, Peter Pan... from his first inspiration to the night of the play's premiere. - Director:
- Marc Forster
- Cast:
- Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie
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Suffering from amnesia, Bourne (Matt Damon) has left his violent past behind and is living a normal life with girlfriend Marie (Franka Potente). But his plans for a peaceful life are crushed when he narrowly escapes an assassination attempt. Now hunted by an unknown enemy, Bourne proves to be neither an easy target nor a person whose skill, determination and resilience can be underestimated. - Director:
- Paul Greengrass
- Cast:
- Matt Damon, Victor Alfieri, Franka Potente
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Claire Foy stars in a new Dragon Tattoo story as Lisbeth Salander, the highly-skilled vigilante from the acclaimed Millennium book series. Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cyber-criminals and corrupt government officials, as they race to rescue a dangerous program capable of global destruction held by shadowy figures linked to Lisbeth's past. - Director:
- Fede Alvarez
- Cast:
- Claire Foy, Beau Gadsdon, Sverrir Gudnason
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Rosemary (Mia Farrow) and Guy Woodhouse (John Cassavetes) are newlyweds, but Rosemary has no idea that her wedded bliss is about to come to a horrific end. Her husband's ambition as a struggling actor is about to plunge her into an abyss of terror like she has never known. In exchange for a taste of fame, Guy makes a deal with the devil that puts his wife and soul in jeopardy. When Rosemary becomes pregnant, her husband becomes odd, her neighbours (Sidney Blackmer and Ruth Gordon) border on obsessive, and her normal life turns into a surreal nightmare. Slowly, she begins to realise that a seed of evil has been planted... and she is its host. - Director:
- Roman Polanski
- Cast:
- Mia Farrow, Gail Bonney, Tony Curtis
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C.C. "Bud" Baxter (Jack Lemmon) knows the way to success in business...it's through the door of his apartment! By providing a perfect hideaway for philandering bosses, the ambitious young employee reaps a series of underserved promotions. But when Bud lends the key to big boss J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray), he not only advances his career, but his own love life as well. For Sheldrake's mistress is the lovely Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), elevator girl and angel of Bud's dreams. Convinced that he is the only man for Fran, Bud must make the most important executive decision of his career: lose the girl... or his job. - Director:
- Billy Wilder
- Cast:
- Jack Lemmon, Edith Simmons, Shirley MacLaine
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Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine. Feature is a tragic tale of a writer's love for a Holocaust survivor, adapted from William Styron's best-selling novel. Sophie (Meryl Streep) is a Polish Catholic haunted by the 'choice' she had to make in a Nazi concentration camp. Now in the United States, she has found a reason to live in Nathan (Kevin Kline), a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo (Peter MacNicol) a young writer just arrived in New York City who bears witness as the happiness of Sophie and Nathan becomes endangered by her ghosts and his obsessions. - Director:
- Alan J. Pakula
- Cast:
- Meryl Streep, Josef Sommer, Kevin Kline
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Darren Aronofsky follows up his acclaimed debut 'Pi' with this gritty, emotionally charged film set amidst the abandoned beaches and faded glory of Coney Island, Brooklyn. Based upon the novel by celebrated author Hubert Selby Jr. , the story intricately links the lives of a lonely widowed mother (Ellen Burstyn), her son Harry (Jared Leto), his beautiful girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly), and his best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans). Requiem for a Dream is a hypnotic tale of four human beings each pursuing their vision of happiness. Even as everything begins to fall apart, they refuse to let go, plummeting with their dreams into a nightmarish, gut-wrenching freefall. - Director:
- Darren Aronofsky
- Cast:
- Ellen Burstyn, Scott Franklin, Jared Leto
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Nikita (1990)La Femme Nikita
After being convicted of killing a cop, street-tough Nikita (Anne Parillaud) must choose between her own execution or training with a top-secret government agency to become an assassin. Given a new identity, new skills, and a new life by her mentor Bob (Tcheky Karyo), Nikita becomes "Josephine", a seductive, sophisticated knockout who's also a brutally efficient killing machine. - Director:
- Luc Besson
- Cast:
- Anne Parillaud, Marc Duret, Patrick Fontana
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It's Die Hard in a football stadium when an ex-soldier (Dave Bautista) has to use all his lethal fighting skills to save 35,000 fans and prevent mass destruction when deadly Russian terrorists take Upton Park under siege. Believing his traitorous brother Dimitri (Pierce Brosnan) is somewhere in the stadium, Arkady (Ray Stevenson), the former leader of a revolution in the Russian state of Sukovia, locks down the Boleyn Ground during the European semi-final between West Ham United and Dynamo FCC. In the crowd with his niece, Danni (Lara Peake), is US- veteran Mike Knox (Dave Bautista), who stumbles upon the plot and goes about taking out Arkady s heavily armed team. Can he get to Arkady before Arkady gets to Dimitri? The fate of 35,000 people inside the stadium and many more in Russia - depends on it. - Director:
- Scott Mann
- Cast:
- Pierce Brosnan, Ray Stevenson, Dave Bautista
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"In Dubious Battle" tells the inspirational story of a group of workers who rise up against the rich landowners and their private militias to protest unfair working conditions. Soon, the labour strike turns into all out warfare, as the desperate workers with nothing left to lose, confront their bosses who have no qualms about resorting to deceit and violence. - Director:
- James Franco
- Cast:
- Nat Wolff, James Franco, Vincent D'Onofrio
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The Exception (2016)The Kaiser's Last Kiss
Captain Stefan Brandt (Jai Courtney) is sent on a mission to investigate a threat to the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II (Christopher Plummer). Arriving at the Kaiser's secluded mansion, Brandt learns that local resistance and British Intelligence are moving in on the deposed German monarch. As he begins to infiltrate the Kaiser's life in search of clues, Brandt finds himself drawn into an unexpected and passionate romance with Mieke (Lily James), one of the Kaiser's maids. - Director:
- David Leveaux
- Cast:
- Lily James, Dean Constantin, Alain Van Goethem
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Death Squad (2014)2047 - Sights of Death
The year is 2047. Our planet is ruled by the repressive Confederate Central Government (CCG). Ryan (Stephen Baldwin), is a Green War rebel agent sent on a mission by Sponge (Danny Glover) to collect evidence against the CCG for its heinous crimes. Ryan soon faces the sinister Colonel Asimov (Rutger Hauer), Major Anderson (Daryl Hannah) and a group of mercenaries lead by Lobo (Michael Madsen). Ryan's mission quickly turns chaotic when he meets Tuag (Neva Leoni), a mutant survivor of the CCG rebellion who swears to help Ryan save what is left of their world... or does she? - Director:
- Alessandro Capone
- Cast:
- Danny Glover, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen
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RPG (2013)Real Playing Game
Stricken and suffering with a terminal disease, multimillionaire Steve Battier (Rutger Hauer) is desperate to be young again. Prepared to risk all, Battier approaches RPG: a biotechnological company with the ability to displace age, pain and reality. Submerging the rich in an extreme, revitalizing experience, a ten-hour game ensues. The players awake in unfamiliar territory and transformed physiques. Faced with the reminder of their old-age holograms, the deadliness of the rules are quickly established and play begins. In the body of a 23-year-old, Battier soon realizes that to be the sole survivor means a guarantee of eternal youth and as the clock ticks and the game darkens, the players must find out the price they are truly willing to pay... - Director:
- Tino Navarro
- Cast:
- Cian Barry, Alix Wilton Regan, Nik Xhelilaj
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With an impoverished world plunged into a Cold War with a new enemy, Britain's Ministry of Defence is on the brink of developing a game-changing weapon. Lead scientist Vincent McCarthy (Toby Stephens) provides the answer with his creation, 'The Machine' - an android with unrivalled physical and processing skills. When a programming glitch causes an early prototype to destroy his lab, McCarthy enlists artificial intelligence expert Ava (Caity Lotz) to help him harness the full potential of a truly conscious fighting machine. - Director:
- Caradog W. James
- Cast:
- Caity Lotz, Simon Winkler, Toby Stephens
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