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Harry Angel is a private investigator. He is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer called Johnny Favorite. As he begins to investigate, all the people he contacts concerning Johnny are killed in mysterious ways. As he finds out more about himself and his client he discovers that he is fighting for his very existence and is forced to deal with the devil himself.
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Mickey Rourke |
Robert De Niro |
Lisa Bonet |
Charlotte Rampling |
Stocker Fontelieu |
Brownie McGhee |
John Michael Higgins |
Elizabeth Whitcraft |
Eliott Keener |
Charles Gordone |
Dann Florek |
Kathleen Wilhoite |
George Buck |
Judith Drake |
Gerald Orange |
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Alan Parker |
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Capitalizing on his fame as the star of "Hogan's Heroes," Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) dove into the freewheeling spirit of the 60s and 70s with relish, having affairs with numerous women. Eventually, Crane teamed up with video technician John Carpenter to document his exploits, an association that may very well have led to his murder in a Scottsdale, Arizona motel room in 1978, which remains officially unsolved to this day.
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Greg Kinnear |
Willem Dafoe |
Rita Wilson |
Maria Bello |
Ron Leibman |
Bruce Solomon |
Michael E. Rodgers |
Kurt Fuller |
Christopher Neiman |
Lyle Kanouse |
Donnamarie Recco |
Ed Begley Jr. |
Michael McKean |
Cheryl Lynn Bowers |
Don McManus |
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Paul Schrader |
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Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach ("Swifty") who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin — all of these begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of becoming a basketball star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother's mounting concern for her son. He can't go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim "picked up a game" now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity.
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Biography |
Crime |
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Leonardo DiCaprio |
Lorraine Bracco |
Marilyn Sokol |
James Madio |
Patrick McGaw |
Mark Wahlberg |
Roy Cooper |
Bruno Kirby |
Jimmy Papiris |
Nick Gaetani |
Alexander Chaplin |
Ben Jorgensen |
Josh Mostel |
Juliette Lewis |
Michael Imperioli |
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Scott Kalvert |
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11-year-old Eliza Naumann comes from an odd family; they all divert their emotional frustrations into secret channels. When Eliza unexpectedly begins winning spelling bees, what had been a stable dynamic within the family becomes disrupted; long held secrets emerge, and a latent spiritual yearning is awakened in her withdrawn father Saul and compulsive mother Miriam. As Eliza moves closer and closer to the national spelling bee, the Naumann family finds itself in a spiral of surprising discovery and jarring uncertainty...
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Richard Gere |
Juliette Binoche |
Flora Cross |
Max Minghella |
Kate Bosworth |
Corey Fischer |
Sam Zuckerman |
Joan Mankin |
Piers Mackenzie |
Lorri Holt |
Brian Leonard |
Kathy McGraw |
John Evans |
Alisha Mullally |
Olivia Charles |
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Scott McGehee |
David Siegel |
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During the Great Depression, a common-man hero, James J. Braddock—a.k.a. the Cinderella Man—was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. By the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-prizefighter was seemingly as broken-down, beaten-up and out-of-luck as much of the rest of the American populace who had hit rock bottom. His career appeared to be finished, he was unable to pay the bills, the only thing that mattered to him—his family—was in danger, and he was even forced to go on Public Relief. But deep inside, Jim Braddock never relinquished his determination. Driven by love, honor and an incredible dose of grit, he willed an impossible dream to come true. In a last-chance bid to help his family, Braddock returned to the ring. No one thought he had a shot. However Braddock, fueled by something beyond mere competition, kept winning. Suddenly, the ordinary working man became the mythic athlete. Carrying the hopes and dreams of the disenfranchised on his shoulders, Braddock rocketed through the ranks, until this underdog chose to do the unthinkable: take on the heavyweight champ of the world, the unstoppable Max Baer, renowned for having killed two men in the ring.
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Russell Crowe |
Renée Zellweger |
Paul Giamatti |
Craig Bierko |
Paddy Considine |
Bruce McGill |
David Huband |
Connor Price |
Ariel Waller |
Patrick Louis |
Rosemarie DeWitt |
Linda Kash |
Nicholas Campbell |
Gene Pyrz |
Chuck Shamata |
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Ron Howard |
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The story of irreverent supernatural detective John Constantine, who has literally been to Hell and back. When Constantine teams up with skeptical policewoman Angela Dodson to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists just beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. Caught in a catastrophic series of otherworldly events, the two become inextricably involved and seek to find their own peace at whatever cost.
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Drama |
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Thriller |
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Keanu Reeves |
Rachel Weisz |
Shia LaBeouf |
Djimon Hounsou |
Max Baker |
Pruitt Taylor Vince |
Gavin Rossdale |
Tilda Swinton |
Peter Stormare |
Jesse Ramirez |
José Zúñiga |
Francis Guinan |
Larry Cedar |
April Grace |
Suzanne Whang |
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Francis Lawrence |
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Professor Robert Langdon is in Paris on business when he's summoned to The Louvre. A dead body has been found, setting Langdon off on an adventure as he attempts to unravel an ancient code and uncover the greatest mystery of all time.
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Drama |
Mystery |
Thriller |
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Tom Hanks |
Audrey Tautou |
Ian McKellen |
Paul Bettany |
Jean Reno |
Etienne Chicot |
Alfred Molina |
Clive Carter |
Seth Gabel |
Daisy Doidge-Hill |
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Ron Howard |
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Fate deals young orphan Matt Murdock a strange hand when he is doused with hazardous waste. The accident leaves Matt blind but also gives him a heightened "radar sense" that allows him to "see" far better than any man. Years later Murdock has grown into a man and becomes a respected criminal attorney. But after he's done his "day job" Matt takes on a secret identity as "The Man Without Fear," Daredevil, the masked avenger that patrols the neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen and New York City to combat the injustice that he cannot tackle in the courtroom.
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Ben Affleck |
Jennifer Garner |
Colin Farrell |
Michael Clarke Duncan |
Jon Favreau |
Scott Terra |
Ellen Pompeo |
Joe Pantoliano |
Leland Orser |
Lennie Loftin |
Erick Avari |
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Mark Steven Johnson |
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Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages. Although a sympathetic judge assures Desmond that when his financial situation reverses, he will be able to get his children back; money is hard to come by. During that time, Evelyn and her brothers suffer the abuses of living in orphanages while Desmond struggles to secure finances. Now he must battle the courts to get his children back.
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Sophie Vavasseur |
Niall Beagan |
Hugh McDonagh |
Pierce Brosnan |
Mairead Devlin |
Frank Kelly |
Claire Mullan |
Alvaro Lucchesi |
Garrett Keogh |
Daithi O'Suilleabhain |
Andrea Irvine |
Marian Quinn |
Karen Ardiff |
Julianna Margulies |
Bosco Hogan |
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Bruce Beresford |
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Father Lankester Merrin thinks that he has glimpsed the face of Evil. In the years following World War II, Merrin is relentlessly haunted by memories of the unspeakable brutality perpetrated against the innocent people of his parish during the War. In the wake of all the horror he has seen, both his faith in his fellow man and his faith in the Almighty have deserted him, and he can no longer honestly call himself a man of God. Merrin has traveled far from his native Holland in a desperate attempt to try to forget and escape all the evil that he had witnessed there. While currently in Cairo, Egypt, he is approached by a collector of rare antiquities and asked to participate in a British archeological excavation in the remote Turkana region of Kenya. They have unearthed something extraordinary and unusual...a Christian Byzantine church dating from the 5th century, long before Christianity arrived in East Africa, and in inexplicably perfect condition--like it had been buried immediately after it was completed. The collector wants Merrin, an Oxford-educated archeologist, to find an ancient relic hidden within the church before the British do. Interested, Merrin agrees to take the job. But beneath the church, something much older and malevolent sleeps, waiting to be awoken. When the archeologists start excavating, strange things begin occuring, and the local Turkana tribesmen who were hired to work refuse to enter the site. Things only get worse and worse, ultimately resulting in madness and death. Merrin watches helplessly as the atrocities of war are repeated against another innocent village--atrocities he had hoped and prayed never to see again. The blood of innocents flows freely on the East African plain, but the horror has only just begun. In the place where Evil was born, Merrin will finally see its true face.
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Horror |
Thriller |
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Stellan Skarsgård |
Izabella Scorupco |
James D'Arcy |
Remy Sweeney |
Julian Wadham |
Andrew French |
Ralph Brown |
Ben Cross |
David Bradley |
Alan Ford |
Antonie Kamerling |
Eddie Osei |
Israel Aduramo |
Patrick O'Kane |
James Bellamy |
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Renny Harlin |
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