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After escaping from the alien planet, the ship carrying Ellen Ripley crashes onto a remote and inhabited ore refinery. While living in the ore refinery until she is rescued by her employers, Ripley discovers the horrifying reason for her crash: An alien stowaway. As the alien matures and begins to kill off the inhabitants, Ripley is unaware that her true enemy is more than just the killer alien.
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Sigourney Weaver |
Charles S. Dutton |
Charles Dance |
Paul McGann |
Brian Glover |
Ralph Brown |
Danny Webb (V) |
Christopher John Fields |
Holt McCallany |
Lance Henriksen |
Christopher Fairbank |
Carl Chase |
Leon Herbert |
Vincenzo Nicoli |
Pete Postlethwaite |
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David Fincher |
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In the 50's, in Louisiana, the smart populist, manipulative and wolf hick Willie Stark is elected governor with the support of the lower social classes. He joins a team composed of his bodyguard and friend Sugar Boy; the journalist from an aristocratic family Jack Burden; the lobbyist Tiny Duffy; and his mistress Sadie Burke, to face the opposition of the upper classes. When the influent Judge Irwin supports a group of politicians in their request of impeachment, Stark assigns Jack to find some dirtiness along the life of Irwin, leading to a tragedy in the end.
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Sean Penn |
Jude Law |
Anthony Hopkins |
Kate Winslet |
Mark Ruffalo |
Patricia Clarkson |
James Gandolfini |
Jackie Earle Haley |
Kathy Baker |
Talia Balsam |
Travis Champagne |
Frederic Forrest |
Paul Desmond |
Kevin Dunn |
Kevin McCarthy |
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Steven Zaillian |
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Z is just another ant in a colony of millions, striving for individuality. He falls in love with Princess Bala, and convinces his Warrior ant friend Weaver to switch places with him for a day, so that he can see Princess Bala once again. The outcome of this throws Z into a bigger adventure than he ever dreamed possible...
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Woody Allen |
Dan Aykroyd |
Anne Bancroft |
Jane Curtin |
Danny Glover |
Gene Hackman |
Jennifer Lopez |
John Mahoney |
Paul Mazursky |
Grant Shaud |
Sylvester Stallone |
Sharon Stone |
Christopher Walken |
Jim Cummings |
April Winchell |
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Eric Darnell |
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Bobby
He saw wrong and tried to right it. He saw suffering and tried to heal it. He saw war and tried t...
[2006,
USA] from $1.99
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The Ambassador Hotel, 1968: the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy will soon take place here but none of the hotel residents and employees knows about it yet. Everyone at the hotel is busy with his own affairs, and their paths never seem to cross, not even in this closed space. However, it only seems so and twenty two individuals who will become unwitting witnesses to the tragedy will make a lot of startling discoveries and have strange meetings.
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Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill's lives are put in danger.
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Jonathan Pryce |
Robert De Niro |
Katherine Helmond |
Ian Holm |
Bob Hoskins |
Michael Palin |
Ian Richardson |
Peter Vaughan |
Kim Greist |
Jim Broadbent |
Barbara Hicks |
Charles McKeown |
Derrick O'Connor |
Kathryn Pogson |
Bryan Pringle |
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Terry Gilliam |
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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 |
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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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When a crusading chairperson of the military budget committee pressures the would be Navy secretary to begin full gender integration of the service, he offers the chance for a test case for a female trainee in the elite Navy SEALS commando force. Lt. Jordan O'Niel is given the assignment, but no one expects her to succeed in an inhumanly punishing regime that has a standard 60% dropout rate for men. However, O'Niel is determined to prove everyone wrong.
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Jason Beghe |
Lucinda Jenney |
Daniel von Bargen |
Demi Moore |
Anne Bancroft |
Boyd Kestner |
Angel David |
Morris Chestnun |
John Michael Higgins |
Scott Wilson |
Josh Hopkins |
David Vadim |
Gregg Bello |
Stephen Ramsey |
David Warshofsky |
Viggo Mortensen |
Kevin Gage |
Jim Caviezel |
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Ridley Scott |
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RoboCop
Part man. Part machine. All cop. The future of law enforcement.
[1987,
USA] from $1.99
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In a near future, the Motor City known as Detroit slowly becomes the spawn-ground for Crime as a gang of Cop Killers goes on the rise. Private organism, Omni Consomer Products (OCP) eventually seizes control of local law enforcement to ensure a secure an Urban pacification program. Just assigned to the Metro West Precint, Officer Alex Murphy is massacred to death by this gang, as his partner Anne Lewis is barely able to do nothing. At the same time, a young visionary executive, Bob Morton, seizes the chance when the ED-209 law enforcement Droid shows lack of perfection by killing a fellow executive to create the Perfect Cop. The near death Murphy is used as the subject. With his memories erased, he is resurrected as Robocop, the future of law enforcement. As he sweeps away with crime, case by case, he eventually becomes involved with the Cop Killing Gang, and Anne Lewis herself. All of this, triggering his dormant memories of his past life as he searches for who he really is, and uncover a conspiracy going deep in OCP with the Senior Vice President himself.
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Peter Weller |
Nancy Allen |
Dan O'Herlihy |
Ronny Cox |
Kurtwood Smith |
Miguel Ferrer |
Robert DoQui |
Ray Wise |
Felton Perry |
Paul McCrane |
Jesse D. Goins |
Del Zamora |
Calvin Jung |
Rick Lieberman |
Lee de Broux |
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Paul Verhoeven |
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When a prisoner transport plane carrying Deputy Sam Gerard as an escort crashes, one prisoner, Mark Sheridan helps him rescue some trapped prisoners and then escapes himself. Gerard and his crack team of U.S. Marshals start their pursuit, but the simple fugitive situation soon gets more complicated when Gerard learns that Sheridan is no mere criminal and the story behind his incrimination becomes more and more suspicious. At the same time, Mark Sheridan is out to find out the truth himself while keeping one step ahead of Gerard
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Tommy Lee Jones |
Wesley Snipes |
Robert Downey Jr. |
Joe Pantoliano |
Daniel Roebuck |
Tom Wood |
LaTanya Richardson |
Irene Jacob |
Kate Nelligan |
Patrick Malahide |
Rick Snyder |
Michael Paul Chan |
Johnny Lee Davenport |
Donald Li |
Marc Vann |
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Stuart Baird |
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The futuristic tale unfolds in a Great Britain that's a fascist state. A freedom fighter known as V (Weaving) uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. He rescues a young woman (Portman) from the secret police, and she becomes his unlikely ally.
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Natalie Portman |
Hugo Weaving |
Stephen Rea |
Stephen Fry |
John Hurt |
Tim Pigott-Smith |
Rupert Graves |
Roger Allam |
Ben Miles |
Sinéad Cusack |
Natasha Wightman |
John Standing |
Eddie Marsan |
Clive Ashborn |
Emma Field-Rayner |
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James McTeigue |
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