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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 against the backdrop of civil war and chaos in 1990's Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) - an ex Mercenary from Zimbabwe - and Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) - a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories as different as any can be, until their fates become joined in a common quest to recover a rare pink diamond that can transform their lives. While in prison for smuggling, Archer learns that Solomon - who was taken from his family and forced to work in the diamond fields - has found and hidden the extraordinary rough stone. With the help of Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly), an American journalist whose idealism is tempered by a deepening connection with Archer, the two men embark on a trek through rebel territory, a journey that could save Solomon's family and give Archer the second chance he thought he would never have.
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Leonardo DiCaprio |
Djimon Hounsou |
Jennifer Connelly |
Kagiso Kuypers |
Arnold Vosloo |
Antony Coleman |
Benu Mabhena |
Anointing Lukola |
David Harewood |
Basil Wallace |
Jimi Mistry |
Michael Sheen |
Marius Weyers |
Stephen Collins |
Ntare Mwine |
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Edward Zwick |
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After receiving license to kill from the MI-6, the secret agent James Bond follows his leads and avoids the destruction of the greatest airplane in the world in Miami plotted by the evil banker Le Chiffre to crash the bonds in the stock market and break the air flight company. The banker loses the funds of international terrorist organizations and organizes a poker game in Casino Royale, in Montenegro, to raise the money of the investors. James Bond travels with the British accountant Vesper Lynd to bet and defeat La Chiffre and force him to look for protection with the MI-6, disclosing the names of the terrorists. James wins, but is double-crossed, in a game of betrayals and murders.
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Daniel Craig |
Eva Green |
Mads Mikkelsen |
Judi Dench |
Jeffrey Wright |
Giancarlo Giannini |
Caterina Murino |
Simon Abkarian |
Isaach De Bankolé |
Jesper Christensen |
Ivana Milicevic |
Tobias Menzies |
Claudio Santamaria |
Sebastien Foucan |
Malcolm Sinclair |
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Martin Campbell |
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Great Britain, 2007. A deadly plague, known as the "Reaper Virus," has broken out, killing hundreds of thousands in its wake. In desperation, the British Government evacuates as many survivors as it can out of the infected area, and then builds a wall, preventing the remainder from escaping. Thirty years later, with the wall still up and the victims all but forgotten, the virus breaks out again. The Government decides to send a crack team of operatives, led by Major Eden Sinclair, into the hot zone to investigate the possibility of a cure.
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Thriller |
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Vernon Willemse |
Paul Hyett |
Daniel Read |
Karl Thaning |
Stephen Hughes |
Jason Cope |
Ryan Kruger |
Nathan Wheatley |
Cecil Carter |
Jeremy Crutchley |
Tom Fairfoot |
Az Abrahams |
Bob Hoskins |
Alexander Siddig |
David O'Hara |
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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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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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A drug lord who pretends to overthrow the Mexican government. A corrupt CIA agent (Johnny Depp) who at that time, demands retribution from his worst enemy to carry out the drug lord's uprising against the government.
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Crime |
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Thriller |
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Antonio Banderas |
Salma Hayek |
Johnny Depp |
Mickey Rourke |
Eva Mendes |
Danny Trejo |
Enrique Iglesias |
Marco Leonardi |
Cheech Marin |
Rubén Blades |
Willem Dafoe |
Gerardo Vigil |
Pedro Armendáriz Jr. |
Julio Oscar Mechoso |
Tito Larriva |
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Robert Rodriguez |
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Continuing the story of the original film, Sara (Izabella Miko) follows her dream and becomes a student at Juilliard. As she is excels and becomes a star pupil, Sara becomes torn between her love for traditional ballet and her passion for the urban street rhythms of hip-hop, complicated further by her new love, hip-hop musician Miles (Columbus Short). When pushed to make a choice, will she follow the path of the tried and true or will she take a risk and dance into uncharted territory?
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Music |
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Izabella Miko |
Columbus Short |
Jacqueline Bisset |
Aubrey Dollar |
Ian Brennan |
Maria Brooks |
Matthew Watling |
Roshan Amendra |
Ray J |
Ne-Yo |
Ashley Evelyn Bell |
Ashleigh Rains |
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David Petrarca |
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13 year old Walter has had a hard life, with his no good floozy of a mother getting together with many equally despicable men. Before going on yet another husband-hunting trip, she drops him off at the house of his great-uncles Hub and Garth. They disappeared for quite a while in their youth, and are rumored to have acquired a great fortune, which Walter's mother hopes to get her hands on if he can ingratiate himself enough to the two cantankerous men. Though reluctant to put up with him at first, Hub and Garth grow to accept Walter, and even tell him fantastic stories of what they were up to while they went missing. When his mother returns, Walter must take charge of his own life, and decide what he's going to do with it.
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Comedy |
Drama |
Family |
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Michael Caine |
Robert Duvall |
Haley Joel Osment |
Kyra Sedgwick |
Nicky Katt |
Josh Lucas |
Michael O'Neill |
Deirdre O'Connell |
Eric Balfour |
Christian Kane |
Kevin Haberer |
Emmanuelle Vaugier |
Adam Ozturk |
Jennifer Stone |
Mitchel Musso |
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Tim McCanlies |
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Set in New York City circa 1939, the film centers on a reporter who notices that the world's scientists are disappearing. Teamed with a skilled pilot and an adventurous colleague, it's up to her to thwart the plans of a mad scientist bent on world domination.
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Adventure |
Mystery |
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Thriller |
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Gwyneth Paltrow |
Jude Law |
Giovanni Ribisi |
Michael Gambon |
Ling Bai |
Omid Djalili |
Laurence Olivier |
Angelina Jolie |
Trevor Baxter |
Julian Curry |
Peter Law |
Jon Rumney |
Khan Bonfils |
Samta Gyatso |
Louis Hilyer |
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Kerry Conran |
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An FBI agent (Reynolds) hunts for a Las Vegas stand up comedian (Piven) who has decided to squeal on the mob but, before he heads off for protective custody, decides to go to the casinos at Lake Tahoe for one last good time, drawing a crowd of assassins (including Affleck and Keys).
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Thriller |
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Ben Affleck |
Zach Cumer |
Jason Bateman |
Common |
Joseph Ruskin |
Andy Garcia |
Alex Rocco |
Wayne Newton |
Alicia Keys |
Ray Liotta |
Jeremy Piven |
Peter Berg |
Ryan Reynolds |
Martin Henderson |
Christopher Michael Holley |
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Joe Carnahan |
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