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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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Ted Striker just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess at Trans American Airlines. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard the plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to contact her again and again, but as the crew and many passengers get seriously ill due to a bad fish meal, he has no chance to get to her. In fact, Ted Striker seems to be the only healthy person aboard that has piloting experience. Now, it is up to him to get the bird down in Chicago safely, before the poisoning starts causing casualties. But Ted Striker's aversion really is a serious psychosis, which breaks open and needs to be cured - right now.
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Comedy |
Romance |
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
Lloyd Bridges |
Peter Graves |
Julie Hagerty |
Robert Hays |
Leslie Nielsen |
Lorna Patterson |
Robert Stack |
Stephen Stucker |
Otto |
Jim Abrahams |
Frank Ashmore |
Jonathan Banks |
Craig Berenson |
Barbara Billingsley |
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Jim Abrahams |
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Alexander (Farrell), the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians he leads his Army across the then known world venturing further than any Westerner had ever gone all the way to India.
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Anthony Hopkins |
Jared Leto |
Colin Farrell |
David Bedella |
Jessie Kamm |
Angelina Jolie |
Val Kilmer |
Fiona O'Shaughnessy |
Connor Paolo |
Patrick Carroll |
Brian Blessed |
Peter Williamson |
Morgan Christopher Ferris |
Robert Earley |
Aleczander Gordon |
Christopher Plummer |
Gary Stretch |
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Oliver Stone |
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In 1999, in Claremont, California, the violent Jake Mazursky owes US$ 1,200.00 to the coward drug dealer Johnny Truelove, who is son of the powerful criminal Sonny Truelove. They fight and start a personal war, with Jake breaking into the house of Johnny with his friends, stealing the TV and leaving excrement in the living room. Johnny kidnaps Jake's fifteen year old brother Zach Mazurka, who has just had an argument with his parents, and brings him to the upper class house of his friend Frankie Ballenbacher. Along a couple of days, Zach meets the friends of Frankie, goes to parties, drinks boozes, smokes pot and has sex with other teenagers. When Johnny realizes that kidnapping means life sentence, he asks the servile scum Elvis Schmidt to kill the boy.
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Crime |
Drama |
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Bruce Willis |
Matthew Barry |
Emile Hirsch |
Fernando Vargas |
Vincent Kartheiser |
Justin Timberlake |
Shawn Hatosy |
Heather Wahlquist |
Alex Solowitz |
Alec Vigil |
Harry Dean Stanton |
Frank Cassavetes |
Nicole Dubos |
Regina Rice |
Laura Nativo |
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Nick Cassavetes |
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Lester and Carolyn Burnham are on the outside, a perfect husband and wife, in a perfect house, in a perfect neighborhood. But inside, Lester is slipping deeper and deeper into a hopeless depression. He finally snaps when he becomes infatuated with one of his daughters friends. Meanwhile, his daughter Jane is developing a happy friendship with a shy boy-next-door named Ricky who lives with a homophobic father.
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Kevin Spacey |
Annette Bening |
Thora Birch |
Wes Bentley |
Mena Suvari |
Chris Cooper |
Peter Gallagher |
Allison Janney |
Scott Bakula |
Sam Robards |
Barry Del Sherman |
Ara Celi |
John Cho |
Fort Atkinson |
Sue Casey |
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Sam Mendes |
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Ron Burgundy (Ferrell) is the top-rated anchorman in San Diego in the '70s. When feminism marches into the newsroom in the form of ambitious newswoman Veronica Corningstone (Applegate), Ron is willing to play along at first-as long as Veronica stays in her place, covering cat fashion shows, cooking, and other "female" interests. But when Veronica refuses to settle for being eye candy and steps behind the news desk, it's more than a battle between two perfectly coiffed anchor-persons... it's war.
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Will Ferrell |
Christina Applegate |
Paul Rudd |
Steve Carell |
David Koechner |
Fred Willard |
Chris Parnell |
Kathryn Hahn |
Fred Armisen |
Seth Rogen |
Paul F. Tompkins |
Danny Trejo |
Scot Robinson |
Ian Roberts |
Darcy Donavan |
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Adam McKay |
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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 |
Fantasy |
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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A biopic of the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash Jr., a math prodigy able to solve problems that baffled the greatest of minds. And how he overcame years of suffering through schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.
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Biography |
Drama |
Mystery |
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Russell Crowe |
Ed Harris |
Jennifer Connelly |
Christopher Plummer |
Paul Bettany |
Adam Goldberg |
Josh Lucas |
Anthony Rapp |
Jason Gray-Stanford |
Judd Hirsch |
Austin Pendleton |
Vivien Cardone |
Jill M. Simon |
Victor Steinbach |
Tanya Clarke |
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Ron Howard |
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MTV junkies Beavis and Butt-head awaken one day to find their beloved TV stolen. On their adventure to do a murderous smuggler's wife (Demi Moore), they encounter an FBI agent (Robert Stack) with a predilection for cavity searches, two rather familiar looking ex-Motley Crue roadies, Mr. Van Driessen singing "Lesbian Seagull", a little old lady, and, of course, Mr. Anderson and his trailer. Can the Great Cornholio save the day? Let's hope so!
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Adventure |
Animation |
Comedy |
Crime |
Music |
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Mike Judge |
Bruce Willis |
Robert Stack |
Eric Bogosian |
Kristofor Brown |
Tony Darling |
John Doman |
Francis Dumaurier |
Jim Flaherty |
Tim Guinee |
David Letterman |
Toby Huss |
Sam Johnson |
Richard Linklater |
Harsh Nayyar |
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Guaranteed to make you want to stop bird-watching and put the old bird feeder to the ax—at least for a while. The whole thing starts when Melanie Daniels is crossing a lake and is nipped by a gull. Gradually, incidence of bird damage to humans by pecking increases. Glass windows splinter before diving birds, children are sent home from school to safety, townspeople take refuge in a lunchroom, Miss Daniels in a phone booth, and finally everyone hides in homes tightly boarded up against repeated attacks by the birds. It's enough to make you kick the next pigeon you come across.
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Drama |
Fantasy |
Horror |
Thriller |
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Rod Taylor |
Jessica Tandy |
Suzanne Pleshette |
Tippi Hedren |
Veronica Cartwright |
Ethel Griffies |
Charles McGraw |
Ruth McDevitt |
Lonny Chapman |
Joe Mantell |
Doodles Weaver |
Malcolm Atterbury |
John McGovern |
Karl Swenson |
Richard Deacon |
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| Directors: |
Alfred Hitchcock |
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