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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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Two American students are on a walking tour of England and are attacked by a Werewolf. One is killed, the other is mauled. The Werewolf is killed, but reverts to it's human form, and the townspeople are able to deny it's existence. The surviving student begins to have nightmares of hunting on 4 feet at first, but then finds that his friend and other recent victims appear to him, demanding that he find a way to die to release them from their curse, being trapped between worlds because of their unnatural death.
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Comedy |
Horror |
Romance |
Thriller |
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David Naughton |
Jenny Agutter |
Griffin Dunne |
John Woodvine |
Lila Kaye |
Joe Belcher |
David Schofield |
Brian Glover |
Rik Mayall |
Sean Baker |
Paddy Ryan |
Anne-Marie Davies |
Frank Oz |
Don McKillop |
Paul Kember |
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John Landis |
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Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.
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Rudy Youngblood |
Dalia Hernández |
Jonathan Brewer |
Morris Birdyellowhead |
Carlos Emilio Báez |
Amilcar Ramírez |
Israel Contreras |
Israel Ríos |
María Isabel Díaz |
Espiridion Acosta Cache |
Mayra Serbulo |
Iazua Larios |
Lorena Hernández |
Itandehui Gutierrez |
Sayuri Gutierrez |
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Mel Gibson |
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When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent—who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne (Damon) and Marie (Potente) have been living under assumed names—the pair collapse their lives and head out. Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.
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Matt Damon |
Franka Potente |
Brian Cox |
Julia Stiles |
Karl Urban |
Gabriel Mann |
Joan Allen |
Marton Csokas |
Tom Gallop |
John Bedford Lloyd |
Ethan Sandler |
Michelle Monaghan |
Karel Roden |
Tomas Arana |
Oksana Akinshina |
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Paul Greengrass |
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In a modern-day Southern California neighborhood and high school, student Brendan Frye's piercing intelligence spares no one. He's not afraid to back up his words with actions, and knows all the angles; yet he prefers to stay an outsider, and does - until the day that his ex-girlfriend, Emily, reaches out to him unexpectedly and then vanishes. His feelings for her still run deep; so much so, that he becomes consumed with finding his troubled inamorata. To find her, he enlists the aid of his only true peer, the Brain, while keeping the assistant vice principal only occasionally informed of what quickly becomes a dangerous investigation. Brendan's single-minded unearthing of students' secrets thrusts him headlong into the colliding social orbits of rich-girl sophisticate Laura, intimidating Tugger, substance-abusing Dode, seductive Kara, jock Brad and - most ominously - non-student the Pin. Only by gaining acceptance into the Pin's closely guarded inner circle of crime and punishment that Brendan will be able to uncover hard truths about himself, Emily and the suspects that he is getting closer to.
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Crime |
Drama |
Mystery |
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt |
Nora Zehetner |
Lukas Haas |
Noah Fleiss |
Matt O'Leary |
Emilie de Ravin |
Noah Segan |
Richard Roundtree |
Meagan Good |
Brian J. White |
Jonathan Cauff |
Reedy Gibbs |
Lucas Babin |
Tracy Wilcoxen |
Ari Welkom |
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Rian Johnson |
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A man treated like a dog and raised as a fighting machine his entire life, ends up in a coma and is taken in the care of good people, but his sinister owner is looking to retrieve his most prized possession: a non stop human weapon triggered by the collar leashed on his neck.
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Crime |
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Thriller |
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Jet Li |
Morgan Freeman |
Bob Hoskins |
Kerry Condon |
Vincent Regan |
Dylan Brown |
Tamer Hassan |
Michael Jenn |
Phyllida Law |
Carole Ann Wilson |
Michael Ian Lambert |
Jaclyn Tze Wey |
Puthirith Chou |
Tony Theng |
Owen Lay |
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Louis Leterrier |
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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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Drama |
Sci-Fi |
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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Prequal to 'Ginger Snaps' has the orphaned sisters Ginger and Brigette, before becoming werewolves, in 1815 Canada where they stumble into a war between Native American "Wendigos" besieging a remote trading post populated by brutal settlers.
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Katharine Isabelle |
Emily Perkins |
Nathaniel Arcand |
JR Bourne |
Hugh Dillon |
Adrien Dorval |
Brendan Fletcher |
David La Haye |
Tom McCamus |
Matthew Walker |
Fabian Bird |
Kirk Jarrett |
David MacInnis |
Stevie Mitchell |
Edna Rain |
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Grant Harvey |
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Tom Stall, a humble family man and owner of a popular neighborhood restaurant, lives a quiet but fulfilling existence in the Midwest. One night Tom foils a crime at his place of business and, to his chagrin, is plastered all over the news for his heroics. Following this, mysterious people follow the Stalls' every move, concerning Tom more than anyone else. As this situation is confronted, more lurks out over where all these occurrences have stemmed from compromising his marriage, family relationship and the main characters' former relations in the process.
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Crime |
Drama |
Thriller |
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Viggo Mortensen |
Maria Bello |
Ed Harris |
William Hurt |
Ashton Holmes |
Peter MacNeill |
Stephen McHattie |
Greg Bryk |
Sumela Kay |
Kyle Schmid |
Deborah Drakeford |
Gerry Quigley |
Heidi Hayes |
Aidan Devine |
Bill MacDonald |
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David Cronenberg |
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Jerry, Bill, Mary, and Denise are two couples out on the road in hopes of writing a book on offbeat roadside attractions. When the four meet Captain Spaulding, they learn of the legend of Dr. Satan. When the four take off in search of finding the tree that Dr. Satan was hung from, they pick up hitchhiker Baby. When their car breaks down, Baby invites them into her house. This is where the two couples meet the Firefly family, a murderous clan of bizarre people. As the family attacks the unsuspecting couples, Jerry and his friends try to survive the house of 1000 corpses and it's dark secrets.
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Sid Haig |
Bill Moseley |
Sheri Moon Zombie |
Karen Black |
Chris Hardwick |
Erin Daniels |
Jennifer Jostyn |
Rainn Wilson |
Walton Goggins |
Tom Towles |
Matthew McGrory |
Robert Allen Mukes |
Dennis Fimple |
Harrison Young |
William Bassett |
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Rob Zombie |
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