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It is spring 480 BC, Persian King Xerxes, continuing his father Darius' master plan to conquer the Hellenic city-states, arrives in Hellas. The previous Persian invasion and diplomatic attempts have already turned most northern Hellas tribes and states to the Persian side. But the people of Athens and Sparta, the largest Hellenic powers at the time, feel quite insulted by the Persian emissaries' request to surrender to Xerxes, and so slay them. In Sparta, King Leonidas consults the local oracle, who gives two options: Either a spartan king will have to be sacrificed, or Sparta will be burned to the ground. A year earlier (481, BC) a Panhellenic consortium of all southern city-states had already recognized the superiority of the Spartan army (the best organized and trained army at the time) and had declared King Leonidas as supreme commander of the combined Hellenic army. It is then decided that a small force should block Xerxes' way to southern Hellas in the Thermopylae passage. This passage was, at that time, 12 meters wide. The great historian Herodotus, possibly exaggerating, states that there were 1,700,000 Persians (their true number could have been anywhere from 100,000 to 1,000,000) against 7,000 Hellenic hoplites and slaves, including the 300 men of the Spartan King elite guard. King Xerxes waited four days for the Hellenes to be frightened and eventually surrender and was quite astonished by his opponents' complete apathy. Xerxes tried to convince Leonidas to drop weapons, give up his position, kneel before him and live on as a local governor under Xerxes. King Leonidas replied "molon lave," which means "Come and get them." The three-day battle began, with the 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians (the other Hellenes where sent by Leonidas to protect passages to their flanks) slaying thousands of Persians with minimal losses. The whole Persian campaign would have failed if it hadn't been for Efialtes, who showed Xerxes a secret passage to the Hellenic flanks. After a final battle led by King Xerxes himself, the Hellenic force was slain and their heroism and glory was written forever in history. From the beginning of the battle, the Hellenes buried their dead in the spot where they fell. Then battle signs where made for the dead of each Hellenic faction. For the Pelloponisians, (including the 300 Spartans) the sign generally read (free translation) "In this place 4,000 Pelloponisians fought 30 millions)." For the 300 Spartans (Lakaedaemonians), the sign reads (free translation) "Oh foreigner, tell the Lakaedaemonians that we are buried here obeying their laws," meaning that they never hesitated and never retreated from the enemy. The impact of the battle was enormous for both sides. The Persians' morale dropped to zero, and the Hellenes lost their fear for the Persian conqueror and organized their defense. After several successful battles, the Hellenes ultimately defeated the Persian army and repelled their invasion in the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC.
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Gerard Butler |
Lena Headey |
Dominic West |
David Wenham |
Vincent Regan |
Michael Fassbender |
Tom Wisdom |
Andrew Pleavin |
Andrew Tiernan |
Rodrigo Santoro |
Giovani Cimmino |
Stephen McHattie |
Greg Kramer |
Alex Ivanovici |
Craig Kelly |
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Zack Snyder |
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A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.
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Peter Sellers |
Shirley MacLaine |
Melvyn Douglas |
Jack Warden |
Richard Dysart |
Richard Basehart |
Ruth Attaway |
David Clennon |
Fran Brill |
Denise DuBarry |
Oteil Burbridge |
Ravenell Keller III |
Brian Corrigan |
Alfredine P. Brown |
Donald Jacob |
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Hal Ashby |
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A flying saucer orbits the 1950s Earth. It lands in Washington, DC, on the Mall. The lone occupant steps out and is shot by a jumpy soldier. Gort, a large and very powerful robot appears to save him and is able to melt tanks with the slightest bit of his power. The wounded alien orders Gort to stop his rampage and is taken to a hospital from which he escapes in order to learn more about this planet, even moving in as a boarder with an Earth family. When they begin to suspect him, he reveals himself, along with the news that Gort is a member of a race of super-robot enforcers invented to keep the peace of the galaxy that will destroy the Earth if provoked.
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Drama |
Family |
Sci-Fi |
Thriller |
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Michael Rennie |
Patricia Neal |
Hugh Marlowe |
Sam Jaffe |
Billy Gray |
Frances Bavier |
Lock Martin |
Elmer Davis |
H.V. Kaltenborn |
Drew Pearson |
Gabriel Heatter |
Holly Bane |
Marshall Bradford |
John Brown |
John Burton |
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Robert Wise |
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International con artist/thief Laure Ash helps pull off a diamond robbery in Cannes during the annual film festival. She double-crosses her partners-in-crime and makes off with the diamonds to Paris where she accidently assumes the identy of a distraught woman who commits suicide and then leaves the country. Seven years later, Laure (now called Lily Watts) re-surfaces as the wife of the new American ambassador to France where a certain Nicolas Barto, a Spanish photographer, takes her picture which sets the stage for a motion of events as the evil Laure resorts to low, underhanded means to protect her former identity by emotionally and financially destroying Nicolas while evading her former partners-in-crime still looking for her to reclaim the stolen diamonds.
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Crime |
Fantasy |
Thriller |
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Rebecca Romijn |
Antonio Banderas |
Peter Coyote |
Eriq Ebouaney |
Edouard Montoute |
Rie Rasmussen |
Thierry Frémont |
Gregg Henry |
Fiona Curzon |
Daniel Milgram |
Jean-Marc Minéo |
Jean Chatel |
Stéphane Petit |
Olivier Follet |
Eva Darlan |
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Brian De Palma |
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It is a normal day for everyone, until the President of the United States (Nicholson). They are able to get in contact with the Martians, and arrange for a meeting behind them and us humans. But not everything goes to plan, and the Martians have other plans for Earth. Are they just misunderstood beings? or do they really want to destroy all of humanity.
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Comedy |
Fantasy |
Sci-Fi |
Thriller |
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Jack Nicholson |
Glenn Close |
Annette Bening |
Pierce Brosnan |
Danny DeVito |
Martin Short |
Sarah Jessica Parker |
Michael J. Fox |
Rod Steiger |
Tom Jones |
Jim Brown |
Lukas Haas |
Natalie Portman |
Pam Grier |
Lisa Marie |
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Tim Burton |
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When the Vatican observatory priest sees the appearance of a comet, the Church is sure that it confirms the eve of the Armageddon. Meanwhile, the USA President's godson Robert Thorn is informed in the maternity in Rome by Father Spiletto that his wife Katherine has just lost her baby and she had troubles with her uterus and would not have another pregnancy. Spiletto suggests Robert that another just born child that lost her mother could be the substituted for his son, and Robert accepts the child and gives the name of Damien. Robert is promoted to ambassador in London after a tragic accident. When Damien's nanny commits suicide in his birthday party, a substitute, Mrs. Baylock, comes to work and live with the family. Along the years, Katherine realizes that Damien is evil, while Robert is contacted by Father Brennan, who tells him that Damien is the son of devil. When the priest dies in a bizarre accident, the photographer Keith Jennings shows evidences to Robert that the boy is the Antichrist. They travel to the town of Megiddo to learn how the boy can be stopped.
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Horror |
Thriller |
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Predrag Bjelac |
Carlo Sabatini |
Bohumil Svarc |
Liev Schreiber |
Giovanni Lombardo Radice |
Baby Zikova |
Baby Morvas |
Baby Muller |
Baby Litera |
Julia Stiles |
Tomas Wooler |
Rafael Sallas |
Marshall Cupp |
Martin Hindy |
Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick |
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John Moore |
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Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. He is the US Ambassador to Italy and they want for nothing in their lives, except one thing: they do not have children. When Katharine has a stillborn child, Robert is approached by a priest at the hospital who suggest that he take a healthy newborn whose mother has just died in childbirth. Without telling his wife he agrees to to so but after relocating to London, strange events - and the ominous warnings of a priest - lead him to believe that the child he took from that Italian hospital is evil incarnate.
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Horror |
Mystery |
Thriller |
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Leo McKern |
Gregory Peck |
Lee Remick |
David Warner |
Billy Whitelaw |
Harvey Stevens |
Patrick Troughton |
Martin Benson |
Robert Rietty |
Tommy Duggan |
John Stride |
Anthony Nicholls |
Holly Palance |
Roy Boyd |
Freda Dowie |
Sheila Raynor |
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Richard Donner |
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John LeCarre's spy thriller is brought to the big screen. A British spy (Pierce Brosnan) is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor (Geoffrey Rush) with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife (Jamie Lee Curtis), who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Panama Canal. But what the two do is concoct a tremendous fictional tale about former mercenaries who are ready to topple the current government and are willing to work with Britain and the US to do so.
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Drama |
Thriller |
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Pierce Brosnan |
Geoffrey Rush |
Brendan Gleeson |
Harold Pinter |
Daniel Radcliffe |
David Hayman |
Mark Margolis |
Martin Ferrero |
John Fortune |
Martin Savage |
Edgardo Molino |
Jon Polito |
Jonathan Hyde |
Dylan Baker |
Paul Birchard |
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