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Angel
A dreary city tenement provides backdrop to this tale of exclusion and the magic it takes to beco...
[2007,
UK, Belgium, France] from $1.99
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Based on the book by Elizabeth Taylor, "Angel", this is the story of a young woman with incredible imagination who refuses to accept the world around her, and creates her own realities.
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Romola Garai |
Charlotte Rampling |
Lucy Russell |
Michael Fassbender |
Sam Neill |
Jacqueline Tong |
Janine Duvitski |
Christopher Benjamin |
Jemma Powell |
Simon Woods |
Alison Pargeter |
Seymour Matthews |
Tom Georgeson |
Una Stubbs |
Rosanna Lavelle |
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François Ozon |
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Butch and Sundance are the two leaders of the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang. Butch is all ideas, Sundance is all action and skill. The west is becoming civilized and when Butch and Sundance rob a train once too often, a special posse begins trailing them no matter where they run. Over rock, through towns, across rivers, the group is always just behind them. When they finally escape through sheer luck, Butch has another idea, "Let's go to Bolivia". Based on the exploits of the historical characters.
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Adventure |
Biography |
Crime |
Western |
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Paul Newman |
Robert Redford |
Katharine Ross |
Strother Martin |
Henry Jones |
Jeff Corey |
George Furth |
Cloris Leachman |
Ted Cassidy |
Kenneth Mars |
Donnelly Rhodes |
Jody Gilbert |
Timothy Scott |
Don Keefer |
Charles Dierkop |
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George Roy Hill |
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The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
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Drama |
Thriller |
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Al Pacino |
Robert Duvall |
Diane Keaton |
Robert De Niro |
John Cazale |
Talia Shire |
Lee Strasberg |
Michael V. Gazzo |
G.D. Spradlin |
Richard Bright |
Gastone Moschin |
Tom Rosqui |
Bruno Kirby |
Frank Sivero |
Francesca De Sapio |
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Francis Ford Coppola |
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Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention. The Blake Edwards style of slapstick and song originated with this movie. A dedication to Laurel and Hardy appears at the beginning of the film. Edwards' tribute to Stan and Ollie can be seen most clearly in the interaction between Professor Fate and his cohort Max, as well as in the operatic Pottsdorf pie fight.
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Adventure |
Comedy |
Family |
Musical |
Sport |
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Jack Lemmon |
Tony Curtis |
Natalie Wood |
Peter Falk |
Keenan Wynn |
Arthur O'Connell |
Vivian Vance |
Dorothy Provine |
Larry Storch |
Ross Martin |
George Macready |
Marvin Kaplan |
Hal Smith |
Denver Pyle |
William Bryant |
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Blake Edwards |
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A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.
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Biography |
Drama |
History |
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John Lone |
Joan Chen |
Peter O'Toole |
Ruocheng Ying |
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Dennis Dun |
Ryuichi Sakamoto |
Maggie Han |
Ric Young |
Vivian Wu |
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa |
Jade Go |
Fumihiko Ikeda |
Richard Vuu |
Tsou Tijger |
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Bernardo Bertolucci |
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In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader. Ariza is persistent, writing her constantly, serenading, speaking poetically of love. Her father tries to keep them apart, and then, one day, she sees this love as an illusion. She's soon married to Urbino, a cultured physician, and for years, Ariza carries a torch, finding solace in the arms of women, loving none. After Urbino's fall, are Ariza's hopes delusional?
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Romance |
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Benjamin Bratt |
Gina Bernard Forbes |
Giovanna Mezzogiorno |
Javier Bardem |
Marcela Mar |
Juan Ángel |
Liliana Gonzalez |
Catalina Botero |
Miguel Angel Pazos Galindo |
Maria Cecilia Herrera |
Luis Fernando Hoyos |
Carlos Duplat |
Francisco Raul Linero |
Unax Ugalde |
Liev Schreiber |
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| Directors: |
Mike Newell |
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Miss Potter
The life of Beatrix Potter is the most enchanting tale of all.
[2006,
UK, USA] from $1.99
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Thirty years old and single, Beatrix Potter lives in London with her social-climbing parents, who are exasperated that she has turned down any number of eligible young men. Her only real friends are the animals which since childhood she has lovingly drawn and made up stories about. She finally succeeds in selling a book of the stories, and it becomes Norman Warne's first project. He quickly falls in love with both the book and Beatrix and together they carefully arrange publication. This proves the first of many successes, offering her the possibility of escaping from both her parents' way of life and London.
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Biography |
Drama |
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Renée Zellweger |
Ewan McGregor |
Emily Watson |
Barbara Flynn |
Bill Paterson |
Matyelok Gibbs |
Lloyd Owen |
Anton Lesser |
David Bamber |
Patricia Kerrigan |
Judith Barker |
Chris Middleton |
Lucy Boynton |
Oliver Jenkins |
Richard Mulholland |
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Chris Noonan |
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Christian, a young wannabe Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastical underworld of Paris' now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered electricity, the poet-innocent finds himself plunged into a passionate but ultimately tragic love affair with Satine, the club's highest paid star and the city's most famous courtesan. Their romance is played out against the infamous club - a meeting place of high life and low, where slumming aristocrats and the fashionably rich mingled with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and courtesans.
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Musical |
Romance |
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Nicole Kidman |
Ewan McGregor |
John Leguizamo |
Jim Broadbent |
Richard Roxburgh |
Garry McDonald |
Jacek Koman |
Matthew Whittet |
Kerry Walker |
Caroline O'Connor |
Christine Anu |
Natalie Jackson Mendoza |
Lara Mulcahy |
David Wenham |
Kylie Minogue |
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Baz Luhrmann |
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Sam (John Wayne) and George (Stewart Granger) strike gold in Alaska. George sends Sam to Seattle to bring George's fiance back to Alaska. Sam finds she is already married, and returns instead with Angel (Capucine). Sam, after trying to get George and Angel together, finally romances Angel, who, in the meantime, is busy fighting off the advances of George's younger brother, Billy (Fabian). Frankie (Ernie Kovacs) is a con man trying to steal the partner's gold claim.
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Comedy |
Western |
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John Wayne |
Stewart Granger |
Ernie Kovacs |
Fabian |
Mickey Shaughnessy |
Karl Swenson |
Joe Sawyer |
John Qualen |
Stanley Adams |
Mark Bailey |
Rayford Barnes |
Oscar Beregi Jr. |
Peter Bourne |
Alan Carney |
Richard Collier |
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The film opens in a happy, comfortable upper middle-class home in Victorian London. One night the three children see their father usher two strangers into his study. After an argument he leaves with them and does not return. They and their mother fall on hard times and eventually move to a cottage in the country. Yet they keep their spirits up and find ways to help others. Fascinated by the nearby railroad, they wave to the passengers faithfully every day, and their vigilance and courage prevent an accident. Their kindness makes friends of some important people who can help solve the mystery of their missing father.
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Jack Blumenau |
Clare Thomas |
Jemima Rooper |
Jenny Agutter |
Michael Kitchen |
Valerie Minifie |
Melanie Clark Pullen |
Georgie Glen |
Gregor Fisher |
Amanda Walker |
Clive Russell |
Richard Attenborough |
David Bamber |
Jane Wood |
Ian Gain |
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Catherine Morshead |
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In Welville, at Battle Creek, eccentric rich Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (a historical figure) runs a stylish health farm for the wealthy, an idea ahead of his time, based on extreme vegetarianism, neither sex, masturbation or even sensual stimulation, but laughing therapy and purging the 'polluted' body, mainly by exercises, often in open air, vicious diet, his invention corn flakes, laxatives, anal yogurt cure, enemas and brutal mechanical cleansing. Eleanor Lightbody drags her sickly, incredulous husband Will along to the therapy; the couple is almost immediately separated and getting horny for more available members of the opposite sex. Kellogs stubbornly willful adopted son (among over 30 kids) George is a filthy embarrassment, paid off just to stay away. Charles Ossining panics when arriving in Battle Creek he finds his aunt's fortune made him partner in the empty shell- health food company Per-fo, not the planned corn-flakes factory; however with a former Welville-employee and George's name they hope to get rich from their own cornflakes brand. When an electric therapy goes fatally wrong and several other patients die, Will's incredulous reluctance turns to panic...
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Anthony Hopkins |
Bridget Fonda |
Matthew Broderick |
John Cusack |
Dana Carvey |
Michael Lerner |
Colm Meaney |
John Neville |
Lara Flynn Boyle |
Traci Lind |
Camryn Manheim |
Roy Brocksmith |
Norbert Weisser |
Monica Parker |
Jacob Reynolds |
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Alan Parker |
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