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Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) has become the man of the house, overnight! Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation, Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. But he's not decking the halls with tinsel and holly. Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in, and Kevin's rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome them! - Director:
- Chris Columbus
- Cast:
- Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern
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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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In Walk the Line, Academy Award nominee Joaquin Phoenix powerfully portrays Johnny Cash, a young, passionate artist who rebelled against convention, revolutionised music, and always walked his own path regardless of the consequences. His troubled past, along with his outlaw persona, unbridled talent and passion for the woman he was destined to be with, led him on a path of self-destruction. Reese Witherspoon gives a Academy Award winning performance as June Carter, the greatest love of his life. - Director:
- James Mangold
- Cast:
- Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin
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Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in this action-packed story of fighting men pitted against an unseen enemy, a force more powerful than their fiercest weapons. Recruited by the CIA to rescue hostages held by guerrilla fighters in a Central American country, Schwarzenegger and his men encounter an enemy unimaginably more deadly than any on Earth - because the Predator is not of the Earth. - Director:
- John McTiernan
- Cast:
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Peter Cullen, Carl Weathers
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A civilian oil-rig crew is recruited to conduct a search-and-rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver (Ed Harris) soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey over 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface, where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it. - Director:
- James Cameron
- Cast:
- Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn
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The Jedi Knights have been exterminated and the Empire rules the galaxy with an iron fist. A small group of Rebels have dared to fight back by stealing the secret plans to the Empire's mightiest weapon, the Death Star battle station. The Emperor's most trusted servant, Darth Vader (David Prowse), must find the plans, and locate the hidden Rebel base. Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), a captive Rebel leader, sends out a distress signal that is intercepted by a simple farm boy, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill). Seizing his destiny, Luke takes up the challenge to rescue the princess and help the Rebellion overthrow the Empire, along with such unforgettable allies as the wise Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness), the cocky Han Solo (Harrison Ford), the loyal Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew), and the droids R2-D2 (Kenny Baker) and C-3PO (Anthony Daniels). - Director:
- George Lucas
- Cast:
- Mark Hamill, James Earl Jones, Harrison Ford
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Cher is a unique global superstar. Her ability to constantly reinvent herself has secured her status as a pop-culture icon and kept her on top through changing tastes in music, film, and fashion.
Tracklisting
1. Believe I could turn back time
2. Save up all your tears3. Walking in Memphis
4. One by one
5. Main man
6. I found someone
7. Strong enough
8. Song for the lonely
9. Half – breed
10. We all sleep alone
11. Heart of stone
12. The shoop shoop song (It's in his kiss)
13. Dov'e l'amore
14. Love can build a bridge – with Chrissie Hynde, Neneh Cherry and Eric Clapton- Director:
- Marty Callner
- Cast:
- Rob Camilletti, Cher, Neneh Cherry
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Waterloo (1970)Waterloo: The Last Hundred Days of Napoleon / Battle of Waterloo
One June day in 1815, two titans of war, Napoleon (Rod Steiger) and Wellington (Christopher Plummer), faced each other in one of history's greatest clash of arms. Amid the roar of cannon, the thunder of horses and the rattle of muskets, 140,000 men fought over a bloody field in Belgium at a place called - Waterloo. - Director:
- Sergey Bondarchuk
- Cast:
- Rod Steiger, Robert Rietty, Christopher Plummer
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Greatest Hits collection from the star of 'Grease'.
Tracklisting:
1. Deeper Than the Night
2. Let Me Be There
3. Please Mister Please
4. If You Love Me Let Me Know
5. Jolene
6. Sam
7. Xanadu
8. Magie
9. Suddenly10. A Little More Love
11. Silvery Rain
12. Falling
13. Heart Attack
14. Make a Move On Me
15. Hopelessly Devoted To You
16. You're the One That I Want
17. Physical
18. I Honestly Love You- Director:
- Not Available
- Cast:
- Olivia Newton-John
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Tracklisting
1. What Made You Say That.
2. Dance With The One That Brought You.
3. You Lay A Whole Lot Of Love On Me.
4. Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?
5. Any Man Of Mine.
6. The Woman In Me (Needs The Man In You).7. (If You're Not In It For Love) I'm Outta Here!
8. You Win My Love.
9. No One Needs To Know.
10. Home Ain't Where His Heart Is (Anymore).
11. God Bless The Child.
12. Love Gets Me Every Time.
13. Don't Be Stupid (You Know I Love You).
14. You're Still The One.
15. Honey, I'm Home.
16. From This Moment On.
17. That Don't Impress Me Much.
18. Man! I Feel Like A Woman!
19. You've Got A Way.
20. Come On Over.
21. Rock This Country!- Director:
- Not Available
- Cast:
- Shania Twain
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1997 was an amazing year for the Bee Gees, with inductions into 'The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame' and 'Songwriters Hall of Fame', plus Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Brit, American and World Music Awards, the Australian Record Industry, and the German Bambi Awards topped off by a 'One-Night-Only' concert at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, their only live concert in 1997 and the first US concert in nearly 10 years. The brothers Gibb perform their greatest hits from the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's, including many songs written for and made hits by other artists but never recorded by the Bee Gees themselves, including Islands In The Stream, Guilty, Heartbreaker, Our Love (Don't Throw It Away) (a special duet with their late brother Andy Gibb) and Immortality featuring a guest appearance by multiple Grammy - award winner Celine Dion.
Tracklisting:
- You Should Be Dancing
- Alone
- Massachusetts
- To Love Somebody
- I've Gotta Get a Message to You
- Words
- Closer Than Close
- Islands in the Stream
- One
- Our Love (Don't Throw It All Away)
- Night Fever
- More Than a Woman
- Still Waters
- Lonely Days
- Morning of My Life
- New York Mining Disaster 1941
- Too Much Heaven
- I Can't See Nobody
- Run to Me
- And the Sun Will Shine
- Nights On Broadway
- How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
- Heartbreaker
- Guilty
- Immortality
- Tragedy
- I Started a Joke
- Grease
- Jive Talkin'
- How Deep is Your Love
- Stayin' Alive
- You Should Be Dancing- Director:
- Not Available
- Cast:
- Andy Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb
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Roy Orbison: Black and White Night (1987)Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
In 1987, Roy Orbison crowned his critical rehabilitation with this concert in Los Angeles, where he runs through his greatest hits with the help of some famous friends.
Tracklisting:
1. Only the Lonely
2. Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)
3. Blue Bayou4.The Comedians
5. Ooby Dooby
6. Leah
7. Running Scared
8. Up Town
9. In Dreams
10. Crying
11. Candy Man
12. Go, Go, Go (Down the Line)
13. Mean Woman Blues
14. (All I Can Do Is) Dream You
15. Claudette
16. It's Over
17. Oh, Pretty Woman- Director:
- Tony Mitchell
- Cast:
- Roy Orbison, Jackson Browne, T-Bone Burnett
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It's the summer of 1963, and 17 year old Frances "Baby" Houseman (Jennifer Grey) is about to learn some major lessons in life as well as a thing or two about dancing. On holiday in America's Catskill Mountains with her older sister and parents, "baby" shows little interest in the resort activities, and instead discovers her own entertainment when she stumbles upon the staff's quearters where an all-night dance party is in full swing. Mesmerised by the raunchy dance moves and the pounding rhythms, "baby" can't wait to be part of the scene, especially when she catches sight of sexy, heart-throb Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze) the resort dance instructor. "baby's" life is about to changhe forever as she is thrown in at the deep end as Johnny's leading lady both on-stage and off with breath-taking consequences. - Director:
- Emile Ardolino
- Cast:
- Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach
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Bette Midler portrays a rock star whose success is laced with so much booze, drugs and hard-living; it eventually causes her downfall. Trapped in a self-created hell, Rose begs her manager (Alan Bates) for time off from her concert tour. When he refuses, she seeks comfort and love in the arms of a handsome drifter (Frederic Forrest), but even he cannot handle her life of excess. - Director:
- Mark Rydell
- Cast:
- Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest
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Ted "Theodore" Logan (Keanu Reeves) and Bill S. Preston Esquire (Alex Winter) won't graduate if they don't do well in their history presentation. This would be both bogus and uncool! A dude called Rufus from the future appears in the nick of time, providing a time-travelling phone booth, as their lives are important to the future of mankind! The two jump in and out of different eras, collecting historical figures (from Socrates to Billy the Kid), confronting them with West Coast culture and generally being excellent! - Director:
- Stephen Herek
- Cast:
- Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin
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