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Action/war drama based on the best-selling book detailing a near-disastrous mission in Somalia on October 3, 1993 where nearly 100 U.S. Army Rangers, commanded by Capt. Mike Steele, were dropped by helicopter deep into the capital city of Mogadishu to capture two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord which lead to a large and drawn-out firefight between the Rangers and hundreds of Somali gunmen which led to the destruction of two U.S. Black Hawk helicopters in Mogadishu, and the heroic efforts by various Rangers to get to them, centering on Sgt. Eversmann, commanding one Ranger unit named Chalk Four, leading Rangers to the first black hawk crash site, to Warrant Officer Durant who was only survivor of the second black hawk crash site and whom was captured, to Col. McKnight who leads a rescue convoy for the Rangers only to get lost within the hostile city, to Sgt. Sanderson desperately trying to get to the first crash site, to Staff Sgt. Yurek who leads two fellow Rangers, Nelson and Twombly to meet with up their squad, Chalk Four, at the first crash site, to many others involved who where either killed or survived.
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Josh Hartnett |
Ewan McGregor |
Jason Isaacs |
Tom Sizemore |
Eric Bana |
Sam Shepard |
Ewen Bremner |
Tom Hardy |
Ron Eldard |
Charlie Hofheimer |
Hugh Dancy |
Tom Guiry |
Brian Van Holt |
Steven Ford |
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Ridley Scott |
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New York cop John McClane, who has been a cop for 11 years, has just arrived in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve. For the past six months, John's wife Holly and their two kids Lucy McClane and John McClane Jr have been living in Los Angeles without John. In New York, Holly had a good job that turned into a career, and Holly was promoted to a powerful position in the Nakatomi Corporation. The promotion called for Holly to move to Los Angeles to work in the Nakatomi Plaza, a 40 story building. John stayed in New York because he didn't think Holly would make it out in Los Angeles, and that she would come crawling back to him in New York, so John figured that there was no reason to pack his things for the move to Los Angeles. A limo driver named Argyle drives John to the Nakatomi Plaza, and John heads to the 30th floor, where a Christmas party is going on. John gets into an argument with Holly in the office of her drug-snorting co-worker Harry Ellis because Holly uses her maiden name Gennero instead of the name McClane on her nameplate in her office. Holly leaves the room to give a speech. While John is by himself in the office, John is wishing that the argument hadn't happened. A few minutes later, a group of German terrorists led by Hans Gruber and his right hand man Karl enter the building and take everyone hostage on the 30th floor. John is able to avoid being taken hostage because Hans and his men don't even know that John is in the building. John heads to the upper floors, which are still under construction. Hans takes Holly's boss Joseph Yashinobo Takagi to an office, where Hans demands that Takagi give him the computer code key that will allow Hans and his men to start opening the building's safe so they can steal the $640,000,000 in negotiable bearer bonds that are in the safe. Takagi refuses to cooperate with Hans, so Hans kills Takagi, and John witnesses it. Hans tells his technology expert Theo to start working on getting the safe opened, and Theo thinks it'll take a couple of hours to do it. John frantically tries to find a way to alert the LAPD, realizing that the main phone lines in the building have been cut. Once the police do arrive, they prove to be incompetent under the command of arrogant deputy chief Dwayne T. Robinson, so it's up to John to rescue the hostages.
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Crime |
Thriller |
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Bruce Willis |
Reginald Johnson |
Reginald VelJohnson |
Bonnie Bedelia |
Alexander Godunov |
Paul Gleason |
William Atherton |
De'voreaux White |
Alan Rickman |
Hart Bochner |
Dennis Hayden |
Clarence Gilyard Jr. |
Bruno Doyon |
Andreas Wisniewski |
James Shigeta |
Robert Davi |
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John McTiernan |
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A prototype enhanced human, on the run from Chinese-hired hit men, hooks up with a dread-locked bystander, and the two of them elude their pursuers narrowly each time.
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Adventure |
Comedy |
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Mark Dacascos |
Kadeem Hardison |
John Pyper-Ferguson |
Brittany Murphy |
Tracey Walter |
James Shigeta |
Masaya Kato |
Dom Magwili |
Ron Yuan |
Clive Rosengren |
Christopher Michael |
Ted Smith |
Tedd Szeto |
R.A. Mihailoff |
David Watts |
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Steve Wang |
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Retelling of the Robin Hood legend with animals for the characters. Robin Hood is an outlaw who starts to form a gang in Sherwood Forest to fight the injustices of the Sheriff of Nottingham, who levies unpayable taxes upon the people.
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Adventure |
Animation |
Comedy |
Drama |
Family |
Musical |
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Brian Bedford |
Peter Ustinov |
Phil Harris |
Terry-Thomas |
Monica Evans |
Carole Shelley |
Andy Devine |
Roger Miller |
Pat Buttram |
George Lindsey |
Ken Curtis |
Billy Whitaker |
Dana Laurita |
Dora Whitaker |
Richie Sanders |
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Wolfgang Reitherman |
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After being captured by Turks during the Crusades, Robin of Locksley and a Moor, Azeem, escape back to England where Azeem vows to remain until he repays Robin for saving his life. Meanwhile, Robin's father has been murdered by the Sheriff of Nottingham and when Robin returns home he vows to avenge his father's death. Even though Marian, his childhood friend, cannot help him, he escapes to the Forest of Sherwood where he joins a band of exiled villagers and becomes their leader. With their help he attempts to cleanse the land of the evil that the Sheriff has spread.
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Adventure |
Drama |
Romance |
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Kevin Costner |
Morgan Freeman |
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio |
Christian Slater |
Alan Rickman |
Michael McShane |
Brian Blessed |
Michael Wincott |
Nick Brimble |
Soo Drouet |
Daniel Newman |
Daniel Peacock |
Walter Sparrow |
Harold Innocent |
Jack Wild |
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Kevin Reynolds |
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The crew of the Serenity is getting desperate. They have lain lower and lower to protect their doctor, Simon Tam (Sean Maher), and his telepathic traumatized little sister, River (Summer Glau), from the alliance, whom he rescued her from a year earlier. This has made getting jobs harder and now they are desperate. When they take River on a robbery during which Reavers (humans who have gone crazy and turned into cannibals) attack, Simon decides that its time to leave the crew of the Serenity for his and River's safety. She then mutters "Miranda" and goes berserk and nearly shoots Capt. Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), until her brother says the safety word to put her to sleep. Reynolds decides to take them back on board for safety, only now an alliance operative (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is on their tracks and making Reynolds determined to find out what "Miranda" is and what the Alliance is hiding.
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Adventure |
Sci-Fi |
Thriller |
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Nathan Fillion |
Gina Torres |
Alan Tudyk |
Morena Baccarin |
Adam Baldwin |
Jewel Staite |
Sean Maher |
Summer Glau |
Ron Glass |
Chiwetel Ejiofor |
David Krumholtz |
Michael Hitchcock |
Sarah Paulson |
Yan Feldman |
Rafael Feldman |
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Joss Whedon |
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