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A silicon chip is captured from the Soviets and found to be identical to a prototype British design capable of withstanding the intense electromagnetic radiation of a nuclear blast. The British suspect industrialist Max Zorin of leaking details of the design to the Russians. When James Bond is sent to investigate he finds that Zorin is stockpiling silicon chips and, mysteriously, drilling near the San Andreas fault.
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Thriller |
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Roger Moore |
Christopher Walken |
Tanya Roberts |
Grace Jones |
Patrick Macnee |
Patrick Bauchau |
David Yip |
Fiona Fullerton |
Manning Redwood |
Alison Doody |
Willoughby Gray |
Desmond Llewelyn |
Robert Brown |
Lois Maxwell |
Walter Gotell |
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John Glen |
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When a casino owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven basically by default since all dogs to heaven. However, since he wants to get back at his killer, he cons his way back to the living with the warning that doing that damns him to Hell. Once back, he teams with his old partner, Itchy to prep his retaliation. He also stumbles on to an orphan girl who can talk to the animals, thus allowing him to get the inside info on the races to ensure his wins to finance his plans. However, all the while, he is still haunted by nightmares on what's waiting for him on the other side unless he can prove that he is worthy of Heaven again.
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Animation |
Drama |
Family |
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Burt Reynolds |
Dom DeLuise |
Judith Barsi |
Melba Moore |
Daryl Gilley |
Candy Devine |
Charles Nelson Reilly |
Vic Tayback |
Rob Fuller |
Earleen Carey |
Anna Manahan |
Nigel Pegram |
Loni Anderson |
Ken Page |
Godfrey Quigley |
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Don Bluth |
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Harry Angel is a private investigator. He is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer called Johnny Favorite. As he begins to investigate, all the people he contacts concerning Johnny are killed in mysterious ways. As he finds out more about himself and his client he discovers that he is fighting for his very existence and is forced to deal with the devil himself.
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Horror |
Mystery |
Thriller |
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Mickey Rourke |
Robert De Niro |
Lisa Bonet |
Charlotte Rampling |
Stocker Fontelieu |
Brownie McGhee |
John Michael Higgins |
Elizabeth Whitcraft |
Eliott Keener |
Charles Gordone |
Dann Florek |
Kathleen Wilhoite |
George Buck |
Judith Drake |
Gerald Orange |
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Alan Parker |
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This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.
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Matt Dillon |
Lili Taylor |
Marisa Tomei |
Fisher Stevens |
Didier Flamand |
Adrienne Shelly |
Karen Young |
Thomas Lyons |
Dean Brewington |
James Cada |
James Michael Detmar |
Kurt Schweickhardt |
Dee Noah |
James Noah |
Michael Egan |
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Bent Hamer |
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When con artist Roy Dillon (Cusack) is visited by his Mother, Lilly (Huston), who is also a con artist, she sends Roy off to the hospital because of a blow to the gut he suffered while working the grift. Roy's girlfriend, Myra (Bening), the third con artist, comes to visit Roy, and we discover that Lilly and Myra don't get along. After he is released from the hospital, Roy and Myra go on a little trip, where he is propositioned to be partners in crime with Myra. Everything soon falls apart for the three con artists, which leads to a bloody climax.
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Crime |
Drama |
Thriller |
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Anjelica Huston |
John Cusack |
Annette Bening |
Jan Munroe |
Robert Weems |
Stephen Tobolowsky |
Jimmy Noonan |
Richard Holden |
Henry Jones |
Michael Laskin |
Eddie Jones |
Sandy Baron |
Lou Hancock |
Gailard Sartain |
Noelle Harling |
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Stephen Frears |
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Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you "know wot I mean?" However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.
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Comedy |
Crime |
Drama |
Thriller |
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Guy Pearce |
Rachel Griffiths |
Robert Taylor |
Joel Edgerton |
Damien Richardson |
Rhondda Findleton |
Kate Atkinson |
Vince Colosimo |
Paul Sonkkila |
Kym Gyngell |
Dorian Nkono |
Stephen Whittaker |
Torquil Neilson |
Don Bridges |
Doug Bowles |
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Scott Roberts |
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Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final request, 'Last Orders', that his ashes be scattered in the sea at Margate. The movie follows his mates, Ray, Lenny and Vic and his foster son Vince as they journey to the sea with the ashes. Along the way, the threads of their lives, their loves and their disappointments are woven together in their memories of Jack and his wife Amy
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Drama |
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Michael Caine |
Tom Courtenay |
David Hemmings |
Bob Hoskins |
Helen Mirren |
Ray Winstone |
JJ Feild |
Cameron Fitch |
Nolan Hemmings |
Anatol Yusef |
Kelly Reilly |
Stephen McCole |
George Innes |
Laura Morelli |
Sally Hurst |
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Fred Schepisi |
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Let It Ride
He drinks. He smokes. He gambles. He curses. He thinks about committing adultery. You'll love him.
[1989,
USA] from $1.99
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An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it seems as though he can't lose, no matter how he bets; and he has an incredible day.
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Comedy |
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Richard Dreyfuss |
David Johansen |
Teri Garr |
Jennifer Tilly |
Allen Garfield |
Edward Walsh |
Richard Edson |
David Schramm |
John Roselius |
Joseph Walsh |
Ralph Seymour |
Cynthia Nixon |
Richard Dimitri |
Robert Towers |
Michelle Phillips |
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Joe Pytka |
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The movie combines a diverting story, songs, color and sequences of live action blended with the movements of animated figures. Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who flies in with her umbrella in response to the request of the Banks children and proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers before flying off again.
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Comedy |
Family |
Fantasy |
Musical |
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Julie Andrews |
Dick Van Dyke |
David Tomlinson |
Glynis Johns |
Hermione Baddeley |
Reta Shaw |
Karen Dotrice |
Matthew Garber |
Elsa Lanchester |
Arthur Treacher |
Reginald Owen |
Ed Wynn |
Jane Darwell |
Arthur Malet |
Robert Banas |
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Robert Stevenson |
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In the middle of a raging thunderstorm, a traveling circus accidentally leaves behind some very precious cargo—a baby zebra. The gangly little foal is rescued by horse farmer Nolan Walsh, who takes him home to his young daughter Channing. Once a champion thoroughbred trainer, Walsh has given up horse training for a quiet life with Channing on their modest Kentucky farm. The little zebra, or "Stripes," as Channing calls him, is soon introduced to the farm's misfit troupe of barnyard residents, led by a cranky Shetland Pony named Tucker and Franny, a wise old goat who keeps the family in line. The group is joined by Goose, a deranged big-city pelican who's hiding out in the sticks until the heat dies down in Jersey. The un-aptly named bloodhound Lightening keeps a lazy eye on goings-on at the farm - in between naps. The Walsh farm borders the Turfway Racetrack, where highly skilled thoroughbreds compete for horse racing's top honor, the ultra-prestigious Kentucky Crown. From the first moment Stripes lays eyes on the track, he's hooked—he knows that if he could just get the chance, he could leave all those other horses in the dust. What he doesn't know is—he's not exactly a horse. But with characteristic zeal, he devotes himself to training for the big time, with a little help from Tucker, who has coached a host of champion racehorses in the past.
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Comedy |
Drama |
Family |
Sport |
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Bruce Greenwood |
Hayden Panettiere |
Caspar Poyck |
Gary Bullock |
Wendie Malick |
M. Emmet Walsh |
Thandi Puren |
Morne Visser |
Dawn Matthews |
Matt Stern |
John Lesley |
Graeme Hawkins |
Tarryn Downes |
Frankie Muniz |
Mandy Moore |
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Frederik Du Chau |
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In an era when Americans were in great need of heroic figures to help them forget their troubles, SEABISCUIT comes to the rescue. The picture relates a moving story of friendship and devotion in rehabilitating the main characters'fractured lives, as it interweaves the interactions between horse, jockey, trainer and owner and their adoring fans. The film accurately portrays the real people and events of those troubled times and how Seabiscuit "fixed us, every one of us."
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Drama |
History |
Sport |
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| Actors: |
David McCullough |
Jeff Bridges |
Paul Vincent O'Connor |
Chris Cooper |
Michael Ensign |
James Keane |
Valerie Mahaffey |
David Doty |
Carl M. Craig |
Michael O'Neill |
Annie Corley |
Michael Angarano |
Cameron Bowen |
Noah Luke |
Mariah Bess |
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Gary Ross |
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