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Richard and Susan are a couple from San Diego, California who are vacationing in Morocco while their two children are at home with their Mexican housekeeper, Amelia. A rifle finds its way into the hands of a local herdsman's young sons, who recklessly take a shot at a tour bus and hit Susan in the shoulder, causing her severe injury. The distraught Richard calls home to tell Amelia of the situation, who shortly departs for Mexico to attend her son's wedding, with Richard and Susan's children in tow. Disaster thus multiplies, with the situation in Morocco ascribed to terrorists in the media, while Amelia meets with trouble at the Mexican border when she attempts to return to San Diego with Richard and Susan's children. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, a widower tied to the rifle in question, a complex shift of ownership to which the audience is privy, attempts to deal with the memories of his recently deceased wife and his strained relationship with his deaf teenage daughter.
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Brad Pitt |
Cate Blanchett |
Mohamed Akhzam |
Peter Wight |
Harriet Walter |
Trevor Martin |
Matyelok Gibbs |
Georges Bousquet |
Claudine Acs |
André Oumansky |
Michael Maloney |
Dermot Crowley |
Wendy Nottingham |
Henry Maratray |
Linda Broughton |
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Alejandro González Iñárritu |
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A man returns to his home town after being away and discovers a severed human ear in a field. Not satisfied with the police's pace, he and the police detective's daughter carry out their own investigation. The object of his investigation turns out to be a beautiful and mysterious woman involved with a violent and perversely evil man.
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Drama |
Mystery |
Thriller |
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Isabella Rossellini |
Kyle MacLachlan |
Dennis Hopper |
Laura Dern |
Hope Lange |
Dean Stockwell |
George Dickerson |
Priscilla Pointer |
Jack Harvey |
Frances Bay |
Ken Stovitz |
Brad Dourif |
Jack Nance |
J. Michael Hunter |
Dick Green |
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David Lynch |
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Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything's going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.
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Drama |
Romance |
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Ethan Suplee |
Ben Affleck |
Scott Mosier |
Jason Lee |
Jason Mewes |
Casey Affleck |
Kevin Smith |
Dwight Ewell |
Joey Lauren Adams |
Guinevere Turner |
Carmen Lee |
Brian O'Halloran |
Matt Damon |
Alexander Goebbel |
Tony Torn |
Rebecca Waxman |
Paris Petrick |
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Kevin Smith |
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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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Drama |
Mystery |
Sci-Fi |
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 life of Edward D. Wood,Jr, hailed as the worst director (of 'Plan 9 From Outer Space', 'Glen or Glenda?' and 'Bride of the Monster') of all time.
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Biography |
Comedy |
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Johnny Depp |
Martin Landau |
Sarah Jessica Parker |
Patricia Arquette |
Jeffrey Jones |
G.D. Spradlin |
Vincent D'Onofrio |
Bill Murray |
Mike Starr |
Max Casella |
Brent Hinkley |
Lisa Marie |
George 'The Animal' Steele |
Juliet Landau |
Clive Rosengren |
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Tim Burton |
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Fargo is based on true events that occurred in Minnesota in 1987 with the names changed to protect the victims. Jerry works in his father-in-law's car dealership and has gotten himself in financial problems. He tries various schemes to come up with money needed for a reason that is never really explained. It has to be assumed that his huge embezzlement of money from the dealership is about to be discovered by father-in-law. When all else falls through, plans he set in motion earlier for two men to kidnap his wife for ransom to be paid by her wealthy father (who doesn't seem to have the time of day for son-in-law). From the moment of the kidnapping, things go wrong and what was supposed to be a non-violent affair turns bloody with more blood added by the minute. Jerry is upset at the blood shed, which turns loose a pregnant sheriff from MN who is tenacious in attempting to solve the three murders in her jurisdiction.
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Drama |
Thriller |
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William H. Macy |
Steve Buscemi |
Peter Stormare |
Kristin Rudrüd |
Harve Presnell |
Tony Denman |
Gary Houston |
Sally Wingert |
Kurt Schweickhardt |
Larissa Kokernot |
Melissa Peterman |
Steve Reevis |
Warren Keith |
Steve Edelman |
Sharon Anderson |
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Ethan Coen |
Joel Coen |
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Frank Horrigan is a secret service agent who keeps thinking back to November 22, 1963, when, as a hand-picked agent by President Kennedy, he became one of the few agents to have lost a President to an assassin when Kennedy died. Now, former CIA assassin Mitch Leary is stalking the current President, who is running for re-election. Mitch has spent long hours studying Horrigan, and he taunts Horrigan, telling him of his plans to kill the President. Leary plans to kill the president because Leary feels betrayed by the government — Leary was removed from the CIA, and the CIA is now trying to have him killed. After talking to Leary, Horrigan makes sure he is assigned to presidential protection duty, working with fellow secret service agent Lilly Raines. Horrigan has no intention of failing his President this time around, and he's more than willing to take a bullet. White House Chief of Staff Harry Sargent refuses to alter the President's itinerary, while Horrigan's boss, Secret Service Director Sam Campagna, is supportive of Horrigan. As the election gets closer, Horrigan begins to doubt his own abilities, especially when Horrigan's colleague Al D'Andrea is killed by Leary. But Horrigan may be the only one who can stop Leary.
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Clint Eastwood |
John Malkovich |
Rene Russo |
Dylan McDermott |
Gary Cole |
Fred Dalton Thompson |
John Mahoney |
Gregory Alan Williams |
Jim Curley |
Sally Hughes |
Clyde Kusatsu |
Steve Hytner |
Tobin Bell |
Bob Schott |
Juan A. Riojas |
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Wolfgang Petersen |
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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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Action |
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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The Bride woke up after a long coma. The baby that she carried before the coma was gone. The only thing on her mind was to get revenge on the assassination team that betrayed her - a team she was once part of. With two of the people on her Death List taken care of, she must pursue Budd, Elle Driver and of course Bill himself. But she is in for a surprise...
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Drama |
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| Actors: |
Uma Thurman |
David Carradine |
Lucy Liu |
Vivica A. Fox |
Michael Madsen |
Chia Hui Liu |
Daryl Hannah |
Michael Parks |
Bo Svenson |
Jeannie Epper |
Stephanie Moore |
Shana Stein |
Caitlin Keats |
Christopher Allen Nelson |
Samuel L. Jackson |
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Quentin Tarantino |
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A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for a series of ever more panicked home treatments, mistakenly protecting her from the arrival of Nurse Mary and any outside help.
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