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A powerful virus escapes from a British research facility. Transmitted in a drop of blood and devastating within seconds, the virus locks those infected into a permanent state of murderous rage. Within 28 days the country is overwhelmed and a handful of survivors begin their attempts to salvage a future, little realising that the deadly virus is not the only thing that threatens them.
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Alex Palmer |
Bindu De Stoppani |
Jukka Hiltunen |
David Schneider |
Cillian Murphy |
Toby Sedgwick |
Naomie Harris |
Noah Huntley |
Christopher Dunne |
Emma Hitching |
Alexander Delamere |
Kim McGarrity |
Brendan Gleeson |
Megan Burns |
Justin Hackney |
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Danny Boyle |
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Based on Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, this is a controversial addition to the multitude of Vietnam war movies in existence. Set in 1969 Vietnam, we follow U.S. Special Forces Captain Willard on his mission up a river into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.
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Robert Duvall |
Marlon Brando |
Martin Sheen |
Frederic Forrest |
Sam Bottoms |
Laurence Fishburne |
Dennis Hopper |
Albert Hall |
Harrison Ford |
G.D. Spradlin |
Jerry Ziesmer |
Scott Glenn |
Bo Byers |
James Keane |
Kerry Rossall |
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Francis Ford Coppola |
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In the not-so-far future the polar ice caps have melted and the resulting raise of the ocean waters has drowned all the coastal cities of the world. Withdrawn to the interior of the continents, the human race keeps advancing, reaching to the point of creating realistic robots (called mechas) to serve him. One of the mecha-producing companies builds David, an artificial kid which is the first to have real feelings, especially a never-ending love for his "mother", Monica. Monica is the woman who adopted him as a substitute for her real son, who remains in cryo-stasis, stricken by an incurable disease. David is living happily with Monica and her husband, but when their real son returns home after a cure is discovered, his life changes dramatically. A futuristic adaptation of the tale of Pinocchio, with David being the "fake" boy who desperately wants to become "real".
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Brendan Gleeson |
Haley Joel Osment |
Frances O'Connor |
Sam Robards |
Jake Thomas |
Jude Law |
William Hurt |
Ken Leung |
Clark Gregg |
Kevin Sussman |
Tom Gallop |
Eugene Osment |
April Grace |
Matt Winston |
Sabrina Grdevich |
Theo Greenly |
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Steven Spielberg |
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What If You Had A Universal Remote... That Controlled Your Universe?
[2006,
USA] from $1.99
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The architect Michael Newman has a typical middle-class family with his lovely and gorgeous wife Donna and their son Ben and daughter Samantha, and a constant visit of his parents. However, Michael is workaholic and under stress, trying to satisfy his boss with overwork and get a partnership in his company, giving priority to his work and neglecting the family issues. When the tired Michael goes to a department store to buy an universal remote control, he rests on a bed and he meets the weird salesman Morty that offers him a remote control capable of controlling his own universe. Michael uses too much and loses the control of the device, having his own life controlled by the remote control. Then Michael sees the worthwhile parts of his personal life he missed while working, and in the end of his life he lately concludes that the family comes first.
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Adam Sandler |
Kate Beckinsale |
Christopher Walken |
Katheryn Cain |
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Frank Coraci |
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The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.
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Richard Bohringer |
Michael Gambon |
Helen Mirren |
Alan Howard |
Tim Roth |
Ciarán Hinds |
Gary Olsen |
Ewan Stewart |
Roger Ashton-Griffiths |
Ron Cook |
Liz Smith |
Emer Gillespie |
Janet Henfrey |
Arnie Breeveld |
Tony Alleff |
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Peter Greenaway |
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A poetic guitarist Eric Draven is brought back to life by a crow a year after he and his fiancée are murdered. The crow guides him through the land of the living, and leads him to his killers: knife thrower Tin-tin, drugetic Funboy, car buff T-Bird, and the unsophisticated Skank. One by one, Eric gives these thugs a taste of their own medicine. However their leader Top-Dollar, a world-class crime lord who will dispatch his enemies with a Japanese sword and joke about it later, will soon learn the legend of the crow and the secret to the vigilante's invincibility.
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Crime |
Fantasy |
Thriller |
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Brandon Lee |
Rochelle Davis |
Ernie Hudson |
Michael Wincott |
Ling Bai |
Sofia Shinas |
Anna Levine |
David Patrick Kelly |
Angel David |
Laurence Mason |
Michael Massee |
Tony Todd |
Jon Polito |
Bill Raymond |
Marco Rodríguez |
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Alex Proyas |
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Six different people, each from a very different walk of life, awaken to find themselves inside a giant cube with thousands of possible rooms. Each has a skill that becomes clear when they must band together to get out: a cop, a math whiz, a building designer, a doctor, an escape master, and a disabled man. Each plays a part in their thrilling quest to find answers as to why they've been imprisoned.
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Horror |
Mystery |
Sci-Fi |
Thriller |
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Nicole de Boer |
Nicky Guadagni |
David Hewlett |
Andrew Miller |
Julian Richings |
Wayne Robson |
Maurice Dean Wint |
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Vincenzo Natali |
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The beautiful fugitive, Grace (Nicole Kidman), arrives in the isolated township of Dogville on the run from a team of gangsters. With some encouragement from Tom (Paul Bettany), the self-appointed town spokesman, the little community agrees to hide her and in return, Grace agrees to work for them. However, when a search sets in, the people of Dogville demand a better deal in exchange for the risk of harbouring poor Grace and she learns the hard way that in this town, goodness is relative. But Grace has a secret and it is a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever began to bare its teeth...
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Drama |
Mystery |
Thriller |
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Nicole Kidman |
Harriet Andersson |
Lauren Bacall |
Jean-Marc Barr |
Paul Bettany |
Blair Brown |
James Caan |
Patricia Clarkson |
Jeremy Davies |
Ben Gazzara |
Philip Baker Hall |
Thom Hoffman |
Siobhan Fallon |
John Hurt |
Zeljko Ivanek |
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Lars von Trier |
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Donnie Darko gets along badly with his family, with his teachers and with his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him; and he has a compassionate psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank, who is either a large purple bunny, or man in a large purple bunny costume. Either way, Donnie is the only one who can see him. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his room, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie's escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events. Donnie's mental illness, if such it is, may never allow him to find out for sure.
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Thriller |
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Drew Barrymore |
Jena Malone |
Jake Gyllenhaal |
Holmes Osborne |
Maggie Gyllenhaal |
Daveigh Chase |
Mary McDonnell |
James Duval |
Arthur Taxier |
Patrick Swayze |
Mark Hoffman |
David St. James |
Tom Tangen |
Jazzie Mahannah |
Jolene Purdy |
Stuart Stone |
Gary Lundy |
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Richard Kelly |
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"The Bride" was once part of a group of world class female assassins, until the group leader, "Bill" and the other assassins turn against her. Four years later "The Bride" awakens from the coma the assassins left her in and heads out to seek bloody revenge. Unlike conventional movies, Kill Bill is told in chapter format making the narrative flow more like a book than a film.
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Adventure |
Thriller |
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Uma Thurman |
Lucy Liu |
Vivica A. Fox |
Daryl Hannah |
David Carradine |
Michael Madsen |
Julie Dreyfus |
Chiaki Kuriyama |
Sonny Chiba |
Chia Hui Liu |
Michael Parks |
Michael Bowen |
Jun Kunimura |
Kenji Ohba |
Yuki Kazamatsuri |
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Quentin Tarantino |
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