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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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The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor. Hedley convinces him to send the town the first Black sheriff in the west. Bart is a sophisticated urbanite who will have some difficulty winning over the townspeople.
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Cleavon Little |
Gene Wilder |
Slim Pickens |
David Huddleston |
Liam Dunn |
Mel Brooks |
Alex Karras |
John Hillerman |
George Furth |
Jack Starrett |
Harvey Korman |
Madeline Kahn |
Carol Arthur |
Richard Collier |
Charles McGregor |
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Mel Brooks |
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Glen Canyon, Arizona, the present day. Wayne, practising at night in the desert for his upcoming fireman's exam, witnesses the impact of a meteorite. The next day, biology teacher Dr. Ira Kane and geology teacher Harry Block from Glen Canyon Community College manage to get to the meteorite, which is stuck in the ground at the bottom of a cave. By taking a sample, they discover a slimy blue fluid coming out of the meteorite. A little later, Ira Kane finds out that myriads of single-celled life-forms dwell in the fluid, evolve at an incredible rate, even while he's watching. What first seems like a sure ticket to Sweden for the Nobel Prize soon develops into a nightmare: By evolving and adapting at that unbelievably fast rate, the Aliens start spreading out, and the Military comes in. Now it all comes down to what Darwin so rightfully stated: Survival of the fittest. And no good idea in sight...
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David Duchovny |
Julianne Moore |
Orlando Jones |
Seann William Scott |
Ted Levine |
Ethan Suplee |
Michael Bower |
Pat Kilbane |
Ty Burrell |
Dan Aykroyd |
Katharine Towne |
Gregory Itzin |
Ashley Clark |
Michelle Wolff |
Sarah Silverman |
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Ivan Reitman |
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Glory
Their innocence. Their heritage. Their lives. Nothing would be spared in the fight for their free...
[1989,
USA] from $1.99
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Based on the letters of Colonel Robert G. Shaw. Shaw was an officer in the Federal Army during the American Civil War who volunteered to lead the first company of black soldiers. Shaw was forced to deal with the prejudices of both the enemy (who had orders to kill commanding officers of blacks), and of his own fellow officers.
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Drama |
History |
War |
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Matthew Broderick |
Denzel Washington |
Cary Elwes |
Morgan Freeman |
Jihmi Kennedy |
Andre Braugher |
John Finn |
Donovan Leitch |
JD Cullum |
Alan North |
Bob Gunton |
Cliff De Young |
Christian Baskous |
RonReaco Lee |
Jay O. Sanders |
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Edward Zwick |
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'Moisés Kaufman' (qv) and members of New York's Tectonic Theater Project went to Laramie, Wyoming after the murder of 'Matthew Shepard (I)' (qv). This is a film version of the play they wrote based on more than 200 interviews they conducted in Laramie. It follows and in some cases re-enacts the chronology of Shepherd's visit to a local bar, his kidnap and beating, the discovery of him tied to a fence, the vigil at the hospital, his death and funeral, and the trial of his killers. It mixes real news reports with actors portraying friends, family, cops, killers, and other Laramie residents in their own words. It concludes with a Laramie staging of "Angels in America" a year after Shephard's death.
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Drama |
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Christina Ricci |
Steve Buscemi |
Laura Linney |
Summer Phoenix |
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Moisés Kaufman |
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The Legendary Zorro goes off on another adventure to protect the future of California and its citizens. This time, he fights against evil-doers with the help of his beautiful wife, Elena, and their precocious young son, Joaquin. Alejandro De LaVega is torn between two worlds: his life as Zorro and his life as a family man. After Alejandro once again breaks his promise to stop wearing the mask, Elena leaves him, and soon begins seeing Armand, a haughty French Count. But a mysterious explosion in the desert leads Zorro to believe that there's more to Armand than meets the eye, and our hero is intent on finding out what that is. Little does he know, there are others working to uncover certain truths as well.
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Adventure |
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Alberto Reyes |
Julio Oscar Mechoso |
Gustavo Sanchez-Parra |
Adrian Alonso |
Nick Chinlund |
Giovanna Zacarías |
Carlos Cobos |
Antonio Banderas |
Michael Emerson |
Shuler Hensley |
Pedro Armendáriz Jr. |
Mary Crosby |
Catherine Zeta-Jones |
Mauricio Bonet |
Fernando Becerril |
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Martin Campbell |
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Dr. David Gale, an advocate of eliminating the death penalty, is falsely accused of rape and murder. Once convicted, he ends up on death row in Texas himself, telling his story to a reporter through a series of flashbacks.
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Crime |
Drama |
Thriller |
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Kate Winslet |
Cleo King |
Constance Jones |
Kevin Spacey |
Laura Linney |
Lee Ritchey |
Gabriel Mann |
Matt Craven |
Brandy Little |
Cindy Waite |
Jim Beaver |
Leon Rippy |
Jesse De Luna |
Vernon Grote |
Rhona Mitra |
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Alan Parker |
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The Passion of The Christ focusses on the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life. The film begins in the Garden of Gethsemane where Jesus has gone to pray after sitting the Last Supper. Jesus must resist the temptations of Satan. Betrayed by Judas Iscariot, Jesus is then arrested and taken within the city walls of Jerusalem where leaders of the Pharisees confront him with accusations of blasphemy and his trial results in a condemnation to death.
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Rosalinda Celentano |
Sergio Rubini |
James Caviezel |
Maia Morgenstern |
Hristo Jivkov |
Francesco De Vito |
Monica Bellucci |
Mattia Sbragia |
Toni Bertorelli |
Luca Lionello |
Hristo Shopov |
Claudia Gerini |
Fabio Sartor |
Giacinto Ferro |
Olek Mincer |
Sheila Mokhtari |
Lucio Allocca |
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Mel Gibson |
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Just before their wedding, Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner are arrested by Lord Cutler Beckett for helping the pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, but Cutler proposes a deal to Will: their freedom per Jack's compass. Meanwhile, Jack is afraid of the sea, because he owes his soul to the evil Davy Jones, the Captain of the Flying Dutchmen. When Will meets Jack, the pirate proposes to exchange his compass by a key owned by Davy Jones. Will goes to the Flying Dutchman without knowing how dangerous and diabolic Davy Jones and his crew are.
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Comedy |
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Johnny Depp |
Orlando Bloom |
Keira Knightley |
Jack Davenport |
Bill Nighy |
Jonathan Pryce |
Lee Arenberg |
Mackenzie Crook |
Kevin McNally |
David Bailie |
Stellan Skarsgård |
Tom Hollander |
Naomie Harris |
Martin Klebba |
David Schofield |
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Gore Verbinski |
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This swash-buckling tale follows the quest of Captain Jack Sparrow, a savvy pirate, and Will Turner, a resourceful blacksmith, as they search for Elizabeth Swann. Elizabeth, the daughter of the governor and the love of Will's life, has been kidnapped by the feared Captain Barbossa. Little do they know, but the fierce and clever Barbossa has been cursed. He, along with his large crew, are under an ancient curse, doomed for eternity to neither live, nor die. That is, unless a blood sacrifice is made. Full of edge-of-the-seat action and swashbuckling adventures, this is a movie you won't want to miss!
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Johnny Depp |
Geoffrey Rush |
Orlando Bloom |
Keira Knightley |
Jack Davenport |
Jonathan Pryce |
Lee Arenberg |
Mackenzie Crook |
Damian O'Hare |
Giles New |
Angus Barnett |
David Bailie |
Michael Berry Jr. |
Isaac C. Singleton Jr. |
Kevin McNally |
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Gore Verbinski |
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In a distant galaxy eons before the creation of the mythical planet known as Earth, vast civilizations have evolved, and ruling the galaxy is an interstellar Empire created from the ruins of an Old Republic that held sway for generations. It is a time of civil war, as solar systems have broken away from the Empire and are waging a war of rebellion. During a recent battle techical schematics for a gigantic space station, code named The Death Star, have been unearthed by Rebel spies, and a young woman who is a dissident member of the Imperial Senate, under the cover of a diplomatic mission to the planet Alderaan, is trying to smuggle these plans to the Rebellion. But her spacecraft is attacked by a vast warship of the Empire and seized. The dissident Senator is captured, but the plans for the Death Star are nowhere to be found. While soldiers of the Empire search the nearby planet Tatooine, a series of incidents sweeps up a young desert farmer with dreams of being a fighter pilot in the Rebellion, as he winds up with the Death Star plans and also the assistance of an elderly hermit who once served as a warrior of an ancient order whose chosen weapons were powerful energy swords known as light sabers. The pair recruit a cynical interstellar smuggler and his outsized alien copilot with an ancient freighter heavily modified for combat to help them reach Alderaan - but the planet is obliterated and now the foursome must rescue the young woman held prisoner by the Empire and lead an attack by the Rebellion against the Death Star before it can annihilate all hope of restoring freedom to the galaxy.
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