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Paris, 1786: a woman in court. The Crown murdered her father for his views about the poor, now Jeanne wants her home and good name back. She believes all can be set right if she can talk to the Queen, whose House Minister rebuffs her. With the help of a courtside gigolo, she learns to use what others desire to get what she wants. She needs a patron: with forged letters, she convinces Cardinal de Rohan she is the Queen's confidante and can help him regain royal favor. Jeanne conspires to have the Cardinal purchase a fabulous diamond necklace for the Queen. He delivers it to Jeanne for Marie Antoinette. If the scheme breaks down, what then? Might this affair spark revolution?
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Brian Cox |
Hilary Swank |
Jonathan Pryce |
Simon Baker |
Adrien Brody |
Joely Richardson |
Christopher Walken |
Hayden Panettiere |
Simon Kunz |
Paul Brooke |
Peter Eyre |
Frank McCusker |
Simon Shackleton |
Hermione Gulliford |
Geoffrey Hutchings |
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Charles Shyer |
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An FBI agent tracks down and catches a young con artist who successfully impersonated an airline pilot, doctor, assistant attorney general and history professor, cashing more than $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in 26 countries.
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Crime |
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Leonardo DiCaprio |
Tom Hanks |
Christopher Walken |
Martin Sheen |
Nathalie Baye |
Amy Adams |
James Brolin |
Brian Howe |
Frank John Hughes |
Steve Eastin |
Chris Ellis |
John Finn |
Jennifer Garner |
Nancy Lenehan |
Ellen Pompeo |
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Steven Spielberg |
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After years of no contact with his Uncle Henry, London banker and bond trader Max Skinner learns that Henry has died intestate, so Max inherits a château and vineyard in Provence. Max spent part of his childhood there, learning maxims and how to win and lose, and honing his killer instinct (at chess, which serves him well in finance). Max goes to France intent on selling the property. He spends a few days there, getting the property ready to show. Memories, a beautiful woman, and a young American who says she's Henry's illegitimate daughter interrupt his plans. Did Max the boy know things that Max the man has forgotten?
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Drama |
Romance |
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Freddie Highmore |
Albert Finney |
Russell Crowe |
Rafe Spall |
Archie Panjabi |
Richard Coyle |
Ben Righton |
Patrick Kennedy |
Ali Rhodes |
Daniel Mays |
Nila Aalia |
Stephen Hudson |
Giannina Facio |
Tom Hollander |
Lionel Briand |
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Ridley Scott |
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Based on a true story, "The Great Escape" deals with the largest Allied escape attempt from a German POW camp during the Second World War. The first part of the film focuses on the escape efforts within the camp and the process of secretly digging an escape tunnel. The second half of the film deals with the massive effort by the German Gestapo to track down the over 70 escaped prisoners who are at this point throughout the Third Reich attempting to make their way to England and various neutral countries.
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Adventure |
Drama |
Thriller |
War |
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| Actors: |
Steve McQueen |
James Garner |
Richard Attenborough |
James Donald |
Charles Bronson |
Donald Pleasence |
James Coburn |
Hannes Messemer |
David McCallum |
Gordon Jackson |
John Leyton |
Angus Lennie |
Nigel Stock |
Robert Graf |
Jud Taylor |
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John Sturges |
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In Sidney, Tracey Heart is a thirty-two years old manager of a video shop ex-addicted in heroin and clean for four years. She is trying to raise forty thousand dollars to buy a shop for computer games on the next door of the rental and become partner of her boss, but based on her negative records, the banks deny the loan. Tracey takes care of her junkie stepfather Lionel Dawson, unsuccessfully trying to make him quit his heroin habit. When her former boy-friend Jonny returns from Vancouver, Tracey's mother Janelle fears a fall of Tracey, while she blames Jonny for the car accident where her son Ray lost one leg. When Ray and Jonny associate to Moss, the assistant of the retired criminal boss Bradley 'The Jockey' Thompson, in drug dealing, Tracey is convinced by Jonny to join them and raise the necessary money for her business along the weekend.
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Thriller |
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Cate Blanchett |
Sam Neill |
Hugo Weaving |
Martin Henderson |
Noni Hazlehurst |
Joel Tobeck |
Lisa McCune |
Susie Porter |
Nina Liu |
Linda Cropper |
Daniella Farinacci |
Ferdinand Hoang |
Anh Do |
Jason Chong |
Anthony Wong |
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Rowan Woods |
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Benjamin Franklin Gates descends from a family of treasure-seekers who've all hunted for the same thing: a war chest hidden by the Founding Fathers after the Revolutionary War. Ben's close to discovering its whereabouts, as is his competition, but the FBI is also hip to the hunt.
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Nicolas Cage |
Diane Kruger |
Justin Bartha |
Sean Bean |
Jon Voight |
Harvey Keitel |
Christopher Plummer |
David Dayan Fisher |
Stewart Finlay-McLennan |
Oleg Taktarov |
Stephen A. Pope |
Annie Parisse |
Mark Pellegrino |
Armando Riesco |
Erik King |
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Jon Turteltaub |
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John Lee is a hitman who works for Chinese crime lord, Terence Wei. It seems that Joh is obligated to Mr. Wei and so far has done everything he was told to do. Now Mr. Wei wants John to get revenge on a police detective who killed his son. John was about to carry out the job but for some reason can't do it. When Mr. Wei hears of this, he sends for some replacements. John now has to return to China to help his mother and sister whom Mr. Wei will now target because of his disobedience, but first he needs a passport. He needs find someone who can give him a passport who is not beholden to Mr. Wei. He is told of Meg Coburn, a small time documents forger. John goes to see her and was in the process of making his passport when some Wei's people come in shooting. While John gets away, Meg is caught by the police but is released by the cop whom Mr. Wei has a beef with. John goes to her and still needing a passport, forces to go with him. Mr. Wei's people finds them and was about to take care of them but John managed to escape. So now the two of them are not only hunted by Mr. Wei but also the police.
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Crime |
Thriller |
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Yun-Fat Chow |
Mira Sorvino |
Michael Rooker |
Kenneth Tsang |
Jürgen Prochnow |
Til Schweiger |
Danny Trejo |
Clifton Collins Jr. |
Carlos Gómez |
Frank Medrano |
Leo Lee |
Patrick Kilpatrick |
Randall Duk Kim |
Andrew J. Marton |
Sydney Coberly |
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Antoine Fuqua |
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The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Italy, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie's cultured fiancée, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom's talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf's privileges his own.
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Crime |
Drama |
Thriller |
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Matt Damon |
Gwyneth Paltrow |
Jude Law |
Cate Blanchett |
Philip Seymour Hoffman |
Jack Davenport |
James Rebhorn |
Sergio Rubini |
Philip Baker Hall |
Celia Weston |
Fiorello |
Stefania Rocca |
Ivano Marescotti |
Anna Longhi |
Alessandro Fabrizi |
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Anthony Minghella |
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