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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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Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.
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Rudy Youngblood |
Dalia Hernández |
Jonathan Brewer |
Morris Birdyellowhead |
Carlos Emilio Báez |
Amilcar Ramírez |
Israel Contreras |
Israel Ríos |
María Isabel Díaz |
Espiridion Acosta Cache |
Mayra Serbulo |
Iazua Larios |
Lorena Hernández |
Itandehui Gutierrez |
Sayuri Gutierrez |
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Mel Gibson |
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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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Adventure |
Crime |
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Thriller |
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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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Christopher Nolan |
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When "The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help of his bowling buddy, Walter, a gun-toting Jewish-convert with anger issues. Deception leads to more trouble, and it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude.
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Crime |
Mystery |
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Jeff Bridges |
John Goodman |
Julianne Moore |
Steve Buscemi |
David Huddleston |
Philip Seymour Hoffman |
Tara Reid |
Philip Moon |
Mark Pellegrino |
Peter Stormare |
Flea |
Torsten Voges |
Jimmie Dale Gilmore |
Jack Kehler |
John Turturro |
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Joel Coen |
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Devastated Peter takes a Hawaii vacation in order to deal with recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know Sarah's traveling to the same resort as her ex ... and she's bringing along her new boyfriend.
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Jason Segel |
Russell Brand |
Bill Hader |
Jack McBrayer |
Taylor Wily |
Davon McDonald |
Steve Landesberg |
Jonah Hill |
Paul Rudd |
Kala Alexander |
Kalani Robb |
Branscombe Richmond |
Billy Green Bush |
William Baldwin |
Jason Bateman |
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One day, Horton the elephant hears a cry from help coming from a speck of dust. Even though he can't see anyone on the speck, he decides to help it. As it turns out, the speck of dust is home to the Whos, who live in their city of Whoville. Horton agrees to help protect the Whos and their home, but this gives him nothing but torment from his neighbors, who refuse to believe that anything could survive on the speck. Still, Horton stands by the motto that, "After all, a person is a person, no matter how small."
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Adventure |
Animation |
Comedy |
Family |
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Jim Carrey |
Steve Carell |
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje |
Will Arnett |
Dane Cook |
Josh Flitter |
Dan Fogler |
Jonah Hill |
Seth Rogen |
Shelby Adamowsky |
Carol Burnett |
Samantha Droke |
Isla Fisher |
Selena Gomez |
Joey King |
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Jimmy Hayward |
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Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow from the world of vaudeville who finds herself lost in depression-era New York and her luck changes when she meets an over-ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. The beauty and the beast finally meet their fate back in the city of New York where the filmmaker takes and displays the ape in quest of his fame by commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe for everyone including a playwright Jack Driscoll who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny.
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Fantasy |
Thriller |
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Naomi Watts |
Jack Black |
Adrien Brody |
Thomas Kretschmann |
Colin Hanks |
Andy Serkis |
Evan Parke |
Jamie Bell |
Lobo Chan |
John Sumner |
Craig Hall |
Kyle Chandler |
Mark Hadlow |
Geraldine Brophy |
David Denis |
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Peter Jackson |
Bryan Singer |
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Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire are three intelligent young children who receive terrible news that their parents have died in a fire and have left them an enormous fortune not to be used until the eldest child is of age. When they are sent to live with Count Olaf, a greedy distant relative, they soon learn he is trying to steal their fortune for himself.
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Adventure |
Comedy |
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Jim Carrey |
Liam Aiken |
Emily Browning |
Kara Hoffman |
Shelby Hoffman |
Jude Law |
Timothy Spall |
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Billy Connolly |
Meryl Streep |
Luis Guzmán |
Jamie Harris |
Craig Ferguson |
Jennifer Coolidge |
Jane Adams |
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Brad Silberling |
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While Frodo & Sam continue to approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring, unaware of the path Gollum is leading them, the former Fellowship aid Rohan & Gondor in a great battle in the Pelennor Fields, Minas Tirith and the Black Gates as Sauron wages his last war against Middle-Earth.
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| Actors: |
Viggo Mortensen |
Ian McKellen |
Elijah Wood |
Noel Appleby |
Alexandra Astin |
Sean Astin |
David Aston |
John Bach |
Sean Bean |
Cate Blanchett |
Orlando Bloom |
Billy Boyd |
Sadwyn Brophy |
Alistair Browning |
Marton Csokas |
Richard Edge |
Jason Fitch |
Bernard Hill |
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Peter Jackson |
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Financial troubles force a recent divorcee and her teenage sons Mike and Sam to settle down with her father in the California town of Santa Carla. At first, Sam laughs off rumours he hears about vampires who inhabit the small town. But after Mike meets a beautiful girl at the local amusement park, he begins to exhibit the classic signs of vampirism. Fearing for his own safety, Sam recruits two young vampire hunters to save his brother by finding and destroying the head vampire.
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Comedy |
Horror |
Thriller |
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Jason Patric |
Corey Haim |
Dianne Wiest |
Barnard Hughes |
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