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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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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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Sally Bowles, an American singer in 1930s Berlin, fall in love with bi-sexual Brian. They are both then seduced by Max, a rich playboy. Sally becomes pregnant, and Brian offers to marry her... All the characters are linked by the Kit-Kat club, a nightspot where Sally sings.
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Liza Minnelli |
Michael York |
Helmut Griem |
Joel Grey |
Fritz Wepper |
Marisa Berenson |
Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel |
Helen Vita |
Sigrid von Richthofen |
Gerd Vespermann |
Ralf Wolter |
Georg Hartmann |
Ricky Renée |
Estrongo Nachama |
Kathryn Doby |
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Bob Fosse |
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The rise and fall of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula, showing the violent methods that he employs to gain the throne, and the subsequent insanity of his reign - he gives his horse political office and humiliates and executes anyone who even slightly displeases him. He also sleeps with his sister, organises elaborate orgies and embarks on a fruitless invasion of England before meeting an appropriate end. There are various versions of the film, ranging from the heavily- truncated 90-minute version to the legendary 160-minute hardcore version which leaves nothing to the imagination (though the hardcore scenes were inserted later and do not involve the main cast members).
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Malcolm McDowell |
Teresa Ann Savoy |
Helen Mirren |
Peter O'Toole |
John Steiner |
Guido Mannari |
Paolo Bonacelli |
Leopoldo Trieste |
Giancarlo Badessi |
Mirella D'Angelo |
Anneka Di Lorenzo |
Lori Wagner |
Adriana Asti |
John Gielgud |
Bruno Brive |
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Tinto Brass |
Bob Guccione |
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Kathryn makes a bet that her step-brother, Sebastian, won't be able to bed Annette (a virgin, who wants to wait until marriage) before the start of the school year. If he loses, Kathryn gets his Roadster, if he wins, he gets Kathryn
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Drama |
Romance |
Thriller |
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Drew Snyder |
Sarah Michelle Gellar |
Ryan Phillippe |
Reese Witherspoon |
Selma Blair |
Louise Fletcher |
Joshua Jackson |
Eric Mabius |
Sean Patrick Thomas |
Swoosie Kurtz |
Christine Baranski |
Alaina Reed Hall |
Deborah Offner |
Tara Reid |
Herta Ware |
Hiep Thi Le |
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Roger Kumble |
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You're young. You have an easy, well-paid deskjob. You have a condo, Swedish furniture, artistic coffee tables and a fridge full of condiments. Yet you feel emotionally and spiritually empty. You eventually find comfort in going to support groups for lukemia and cancer victims when there's nothing wrong with you until they're hijacked from you by another faker. Then you meet Tyler Durden, a man that shows you that not only can you live without material needs but that self-destruction, the collapse of society and making dynamite from soap might not be such a bad idea either.
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Crime |
Drama |
Thriller |
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Edward Norton |
Brad Pitt |
Helena Bonham Carter |
Meat Loaf |
Zach Grenier |
Richmond Arquette |
David Andrews |
George Maguire |
Eugenie Bondurant |
Christina Cabot |
Sydney 'Big Dawg' Colston |
Rachel Singer |
Christie Cronenweth |
Tim De Zarn |
Ezra Buzzington |
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David Fincher |
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The Cardiff club scene in the 90's: five best friends deal with their relationships and their personal demons during a weekend. Jip calls himself a sexual paranoid, afraid he's impotent. Lulu, Jip's mate, doesn't find much to fancy in men. Nina hates her job at a fast food joint, and her man, Koop, who dreams of being a great hip-hop d.j., is prone to fits of un-provoked jealousy. The fifth is Moff, whose family is down on his behavior. Starting Friday afternoon, with preparations for clubbing, we follow the five from Ecstacy-induced fun through a booze-laden come-down early Saturday morning followed by the weekend's aftermath. It's breakthrough time for at least three of them.
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John Simm |
Lorraine Pilkington |
Shaun Parkes |
Danny Dyer |
Nicola Reynolds |
Dean Davies |
Peter Albert |
Jan Anderson |
Terence Beesley |
Sarah Blackburn |
Anne Bowen |
Neil Bowens |
Peter Bramhill |
Jo Brand |
Stephanie Brooks |
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Justin Kerrigan |
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A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.
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Drama |
History |
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John Lone |
Joan Chen |
Peter O'Toole |
Ruocheng Ying |
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Dennis Dun |
Ryuichi Sakamoto |
Maggie Han |
Ric Young |
Vivian Wu |
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa |
Jade Go |
Fumihiko Ikeda |
Richard Vuu |
Tsou Tijger |
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Bernardo Bertolucci |
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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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Epic tale of a group of Jewish gangsters in New York, from childhood, through their glory years during prohibition, and their meeting again 35 years later.
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Crime |
Drama |
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Robert De Niro |
James Woods |
Elizabeth McGovern |
Treat Williams |
Tuesday Weld |
James Hayden |
Joe Pesci |
Larry Rapp |
Danny Aiello |
William Forsythe |
Burt Young |
Darlanne Fluegel |
Dutch Miller |
Robert Harper |
Richard Bright |
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Sergio Leone |
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When Castro opened the port at Mariel Harbor, thousands of Cubans fled to the United States. One is a young tough named Antonio (Tony) Montana, who, with his friend Manny Ray, starts in with Miami's cocaine trade. He survives attack by chainsaw after a deal goes bad, and several other attempts by other dealers to eliminate him. Eventually the grandiose Montana becomes head of a cocaine cartel. But his enemies start coming after him, and his paranoia threatens to drive Montana's empire into the ground...
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Crime |
Drama |
Thriller |
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| Actors: |
Al Pacino |
Steven Bauer |
Michelle Pfeiffer |
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio |
Robert Loggia |
Miriam Colon |
F. Murray Abraham |
Paul Shenar |
Harris Yulin |
Ángel Salazar |
Arnaldo Santana |
Pepe Serna |
Michael P. Moran |
Al Israel |
Dennis Holahan |
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Brian De Palma |
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