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The Legend of Ben Hall (2017)Ben Hall: Legenda
"The Legend of Ben Hall" tells the true story of one of Australia's most notorious criminals. After two ears on the road, bush-ranger Ben Hall considers surrending to the law when an old friend entices him back to a life of crime. Taking on a fresh recruit the gang ride again, before long becoming the most wanted men in the British Empire. When they are declared outlaws, the three decide to flee^he colony forever. But their trusted friend becomes a police informant setting a cunning trap for the outlaws, and on the cold morning of May 5th 1865, Ben Hall emerges alone from his camp...and becomes a legend. - Director:
- Matthew Holmes
- Cast:
- Jack Martin, Jamie Coffa, William Lee
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Convinced they'll score big money fast by kidnapping a young surrogate mother (Juliette Lewis) carrying the child of a wealthy Southwestern couple, two small-calibre crooks soon run into major problems. Realizing too late that they're in over their heads, the kidnappers fight to keep their plan from unraveling amid a rising tide of bloodshed, mind games and greed. - Director:
- Christopher McQuarrie
- Cast:
- Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro, Juliette Lewis
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Redemption: The Last Outlaw (2018)Gone Are the Days
Notorious outlaw Taylon Flynn (Lance Henriksen) is old, ill and unable to reconcile the man he was to the man he has become. But some men don't change. When Flynn's estranged daughter finds herself in trouble dusts off his guns, summons the inner demons he buried long ago and sets out to exact hell and damnation on those responsible. - Director:
- Mark Landre Gould
- Cast:
- Danny Trejo, Lance Henriksen, Tom Berenger
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Mr. King, the boss of the criminal underworld, dreams of going legit and attaining respectability. He kept his daughter Gráinne away from the street and groomed her for a career in show business. She was to be his ticket out of the ghetto until she went into meltdown and her career fell apart. Fionn runs Mr. King's drug smuggling operation. Fionn has a bodyguard Diarmuid, whom he saved from the street as a boy. Fionn takes care of everyone and everything. He is the people's true chief. Mr. King sees the threat, tries to have Fionn assassinated, but fails. To avoid a gang-war, Fionn agrees to marry the King's daughter. It looks as if peace will reign in the underworld, but Gráinne has other plans. - Director:
- Paul Mercier
- Cast:
- Ruth Bradley, Barry Ward, Brendan Gleeson
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Sid's (Sidney James)'s idyllic dream of long lie-ins and fraternal wine-making with his pal Trevor (Peter Butterworth) is shattered when Ronald Baines (Terry Scott) and his family move in next door. Things go from bad to worse due to some accidental property destruction on Sid's part - and daughter Sally's (Sally Geeson)'s over-enthusiastic attempt to put out a bonfire! - Director:
- Gerald Thomas
- Cast:
- Sidney James, Diana Coupland, Sally Geeson
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In the world of martial arts, there is one man above all: Bruce Lee. Young, hungry and looking for an opportunity to make a name for himself, Lee (Philip Ng) challenges legendary Shaolin monk and kung fu master, Wong Jack Man (Xia Yu), to a fight when he hears that he's crossing the Pacific to observe the state of kung fu in America. Their legendary fight would change the history of martial arts forever. - Director:
- George Nolfi
- Cast:
- Yu Xia, Wang Xi'An, Hai Yu
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Black Water (2018)Submerge
Legendary CIA agent Scott Wheeler (Jean-Claude Van Damme) wakes to find himself imprisoned aboard a high-security government black site repurposed from a navy submarine. Suspected of attempting to sell a CIA dongle that allows for the decoding of a drive containing information about CIA operatives around the world, Wheeler is interrogated before seizing his chance to escape his captors. Trapped on the ship and under fire, Wheeler must befriend rookie agent Cassie (Jasmine Waltz) and German special forces operative Marco (Dolph Lundgren) in order to get off the ship alive. - Director:
- Pasha Patriki
- Cast:
- Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Courtney B Turk
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Take Me High (1973)Hot Property
Cliff Richard, in his final film role, stars as Tim Matthews, an ambitious young financier who gets the shock of his life when he's assigned a new posting in Birmingham - a far cry from the New York job he was promised! Making the most of the things he lives on the canal in a converted barge, but he manages to put his foot right in it when he meets the pretty Sarah (Deborah Watling) and refuses her a loan! Featuring twelve classic songs including the Top 30-selling title track and filmed extensively on location in Birmingham, 'Take Me High' co-stars Debbie Watling, Hugh Griffith, George Cole and Anthony Andrews. - Director:
- David Askey
- Cast:
- Cliff Richard, Deborah Watling, Hugh Griffith
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Investigative documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney, best known for 2008's Oscar winning 'Taxi to the Dark Side, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room' and at least a dozen others, turns his sights on the 1994 Loughinisland massacre, a cold case that remains an open wound in the Irish peace process. The families of the victims, who were murdered while watching the World Cup in their local pub, were promised justice but 20 years later they still didn't know who killed their loved ones. Gibney uncovers a web of secrecy, lies and corruption that so often results when the powerful insist they are acting for the greater good. - Director:
- Alex Gibney
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Futuristic power company Alterplex intend to solve the world's energy crisis, with a revolutionary device intended to generate unlimited energy. All is going to plan until strange happenings, vehicles falling from the sky and people seemingly disappearing, are reported from all over the globe. As concern about the stability of the device grows, former NASA pilot and physicist Will Porter (Dan Stevens) is tasked with investigating the problem. After discovering that the device is destroying a parallel universe that has a similar energy crisis, Will is sent to the other side on a dangerous mission to try and restore the balance of power. But in delving deeper, he learns that in saving his own world he will completely annihilate the other... - Director:
- Tim Smit
- Cast:
- Dan Stevens, Bérénice Marlohe, Tygo Gernandt
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A U.S. Special Forces team, led by their new Captain, Mitch Nelson (Chris Hemsworth), is sent into Afghanistan for an extremely dangerous mission. There, in the rugged mountains, they must convince a Northern Alliance General to join forces with them to fight their common adversary: the Taliban and their Al Qaeda allies. In addition to overcoming mutual distrust and a vast cultural divide, the team - accustomed to state-of-the-art warfare - must adopt the rudimentary tactics of the Afghani horse soldiers, combining ancient strategies of cavalry warfare with twenty-first-century aerial bombardment technology to perform a seemingly impossible feat. - Director:
- Nicolai Fuglsig
- Cast:
- Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Peña
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"Molly's Game" is based on the incredible true story of Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), a former Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested by armed FBI agents. Her players included Hollywood royalty, sports stars, business titans and finally, unbeknownst to her, the Russian mob. Her only ally was her criminal defense lawyer Charlie Jaffey (Idris Elba), who learned that there was much more to Molly than the tabloids led us to believe. - Director:
- Aaron Sorkin
- Cast:
- Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner
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Retired crime boss and widowed father Paul (Jason Patric) is forced back into the life he left behind when his daughter Beth (Gia Mantegna) suddenly disappears. If he has any chance of finding her and keeping her safe he must confront his former rival, Omar (Bruce Willis), the most f powerful man in New Orleans, coming face to face with him in an explosive final standoff. - Director:
- Brian A. Miller
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- Jason Patric, Bruce Willis, John Cusack
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Written by Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda and Terry Southern, Fonda produced the low-budget production whilst Hopper took on Directing duties, receiving an award at Cannes for his first work. Since its release, Easy Rider has been regarded as a symbol of free-spirited reaction against society, and even for those too young to remember its original release, it maintains its status as a classic film which characterises the attitude of a decade. Now, after 30 years, Easy Rider has been remastered and is presented here in High Definition with both clearer picture and sound quality. - Director:
- Dennis Hopper
- Cast:
- Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson
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This holiday season Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) vows his clan will enjoy 'the most fun-filled family Christmas ever'. Before you can sing 'Fa-la-la-la-lah', he decks the halls with howls of folly in there perennial favourite National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Seeing is believing. There are 25,000 lights on the roof. An exploding turkey on the dining room table. A SWAT team taking siege outside. A festive supporting cast (including Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Juliette Lewis, William Hickey and more). And a John Hughes script full of wit, heart and sheer goofiness. Yule love it! - Director:
- Jeremiah S. Chechik
- Cast:
- Chevy Chase, Doug Llewelyn, Beverly D'Angelo
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