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This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.
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Josh Hartnett |
Danny Huston |
Melissa George |
Ben Foster |
Mark Boone Junior |
Mark Rendall |
Amber Sainsbury |
Manu Bennett |
Megan Franich |
Joel Tobeck |
Elizabeth Hawthorne |
Nathaniel Lees |
Craig Hall |
Chic Littlewood |
Peter Feeney |
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David Slade |
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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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With Von Doom back in his homeland of Latveria the fantastic four have new troubles when Galactus has decided that Earth is his next target. When his henchman, The Silver Surfer, is sent to Earth he discovers that he's getting more than he bargained for when he encounters the Fantastic Four. But that's not all when Dr. Doom decides that after two years in the homeland he is ready to return.
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Adventure |
Fantasy |
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Ioan Gruffudd |
Jessica Alba |
Chris Evans |
Michael Chiklis |
Doug Jones |
Julian McMahon |
Kerry Washington |
Beau Garrett |
Peter Benson |
Andre Braugher |
Graeme Duffy |
Laurence Fishburne |
Fabrice Grover |
Gonzalo Menendez |
Heather Cant |
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Tim Story |
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Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs, and he regularly scours Cleveland's thrift stores and garage sales for more, savoring the rare joy of a 25-cent find. It is at one of these junk sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb, a greeting card artist and music enthusiast. When, years later, Crumb finds international success for his underground comics, the idea that comic books can be a valid art form for adults inspires Harvey to write his own brand of comic book. An admirer of naturalist writers like Theodore Dreiser, Harvey makes his American Splendor a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self portrait. First published in 1976, the comic earns Harvey cult fame throughout the 1980s and eventually leads him to the sardonic Joyce Barber, a partner in a Delaware comic book store who end ups being Harvey's true soul mate as they experience the bizarre byproducts of Harvey's cult celebrity stature.
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Biography |
Comedy |
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Chris Ambrose |
Joey Krajcar |
Josh Hutcherson |
Cameron Carter |
Daniel Tay |
Mary Faktor |
Paul Giamatti |
Harvey Pekar |
Larry John Meyers |
Vivienne Benesch |
Barbara Brown |
Earl Billings |
Danny Hoch |
James Urbaniak |
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Shari Springer Berman |
Robert Pulcini |
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In a utopian society created at the end of the third world war, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?
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Action |
Animation |
Sci-Fi |
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Ai Kobayashi |
Jûrôta Kosugi |
Yuki Matsuoka |
Asumi Miwa |
Akimoto Tsubasa |
Jack Aubree |
William Bassett |
Michael Forest |
Yuzuru Fujimoto |
William Knight |
Takehito Koyasu |
Steve Kramer |
Michael McConnohie |
Toshiyuki Morikawa |
Ryûji Nakagi |
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Shinji Aramaki |
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Convinced that art school will put him on the path to fame, Jerome (Minghella) must come to terms with his anemic talent, as he watches the girl of his dreams fall in love with another student. Then, strangely, he's arrested as a suspected murderer — only to discover that crime might actually pay.
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Drama |
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Max Minghella |
Sophia Myles |
John Malkovich |
Jim Broadbent |
Joel Moore |
Scoot McNairy |
Ezra Buzzington |
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Terry Zwigoff |
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Obelix falls for a new arrival in his home village in Gaul, but is heartbroken when her true love arrives to visit her. However, the lovers are kidnapped by Romans; Asterix and Obelix set out to rescue them on a dangerous journey that will involve gladiators, slavers and beauracracy - and a personal encounter with the Emperor himself, Julius Caesar...
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Adventure |
Animation |
Comedy |
Family |
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Roger Carel |
Pierre Tornade |
Pierre Mondy |
Serge Sauvion |
Henri Labussière |
Roger Lumont |
José Luccioni |
Michel Barbey |
Paul Mercey |
Yves Barsacq |
Pierre Mirat |
Edmond Bernard |
Séverine Morisot |
Paul Bisciglia |
Henri Poirier |
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Gaëtan Brizzi |
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When a private satellite encounters an unidentified source of heat in Antarctica and it is found to be a pyramid buried deep underground , a search team comprising of top-of-the-line archaeologists and engineers is sent to Antarctica to find out more . Once there , the team comes across signs which indicate that the place is inhabited by an unknown alien species . It is not long before the aliens begin to hunt the team members . At the same time , a trio of coming-of-age Predators have arrived to collect the skulls of the aliens as trophies , and the humans are caught between a deadly battle between the two warring species .
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Action |
Horror |
Sci-Fi |
Thriller |
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Sanaa Lathan |
Lance Henriksen |
Ewen Bremner |
Colin Salmon |
Raoul Bova |
Agathe De La Boulaye |
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Paul W.S. Anderson |
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Batman & Robin
Strength. Courage. Honor. And loyalty. On June 20, it ALL comes together...
[1997,
USA, UK] from $1.99
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Mr. Freeze plans on taking Gotham City hostage by freezing the town into a permanent winter. In the meantime, a new seductive villainous, Poison Ivy, has appeared to cause a rift in the partnership of Batman & Robin. While all this is happening, faithful butler Alfred is dying. Mr. Freeze holds the key to save his life. Enter Batgirl to help save the day.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger |
George Clooney |
Chris O'Donnell |
Uma Thurman |
Alicia Silverstone |
Michael Gough |
Pat Hingle |
John Glover |
Elle Macpherson |
Vivica A. Fox |
Vendela Kirsebom Thomessen |
Elizabeth Sanders |
Jeep Swenson |
John Fink |
Michael Reid MacKay |
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Joel Schumacher |
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In tone with the early "Batman: Year One" style comics. As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes, a trauma which led him to become obsessed with revenge but his chance is cruelly taken away from him by fate. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra's Al-Ghul, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system whilst the company he inherited is slowly being pulled out from under him. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armored suit leads him to take on a new persona, one which will strike fear into the hearts of men who do wrong - he becomes, Batman. In the new guise, and with the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various nefarious schemes in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan 'The Scarecrow' Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right.
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Action |
Adventure |
Crime |
Fantasy |
Thriller |
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| Actors: |
Christian Bale |
Michael Caine |
Liam Neeson |
Katie Holmes |
Gary Oldman |
Cillian Murphy |
Tom Wilkinson |
Rutger Hauer |
Ken Watanabe |
Mark Boone Junior |
Linus Roache |
Morgan Freeman |
Larry Holden |
Gerard Murphy |
Colin McFarlane |
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| Directors: |
Christopher Nolan |
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Plot Summary:
Having defeated the Joker, Batman now | | |
