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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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Alexander (Farrell), the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians he leads his Army across the then known world venturing further than any Westerner had ever gone all the way to India.
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Anthony Hopkins |
Jared Leto |
Colin Farrell |
David Bedella |
Jessie Kamm |
Angelina Jolie |
Val Kilmer |
Fiona O'Shaughnessy |
Connor Paolo |
Patrick Carroll |
Brian Blessed |
Peter Williamson |
Morgan Christopher Ferris |
Robert Earley |
Aleczander Gordon |
Christopher Plummer |
Gary Stretch |
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Oliver Stone |
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Arthur is a spirited ten-year old whose parents are away looking for work, whose eccentric grandfather has been missing for several years, and who lives with his grandmother in a country house that, in two days, will be repossessed, torn down, and turned into a block of flats unless Arthur's grandfather returns to sign some papers and pay off the family debt. Arthur discovers that the key to success lies in his own descent into the land of the Minimoys, creatures no larger than a tooth, whom his grandfather helped relocate to their garden. Somewhere among them is hidden a pile of rubies, too. Can Arthur be of stout heart and save the day? Romance beckons as well, and a villain lurks.
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Freddie Highmore |
Mia Farrow |
Penny Balfour |
Doug Rand |
Adam LeFevre |
Jean Bejote Njamba |
Serge Blumental |
Madonna |
Jimmy Fallon |
Robert De Niro |
Harvey Keitel |
Lee de Jong |
Chazz Palminteri |
Rhoff |
Emilio Estevez |
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Luc Besson |
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The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel's mother, who begins killing out of revenge.
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Ray Winstone |
Robin Wright Penn |
Anthony Hopkins |
John Bilezikjian |
Brice Martin |
Sonje Fortag |
Sharisse Baker-Bernard |
Charlotte Salt |
Julene Renee |
Greg Ellis |
Rik Young |
Sebastian Roché |
Leslie Harter Zemeckis |
John Malkovich |
Woody Schultz |
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Robert Zemeckis |
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Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen, is kidnapped by an evil lord known as the Horned King. The villain hopes Hen will show him the way to The Black Cauldron, which has the power to create a giant army of unstoppable soldiers. With the aid of a stubborn princess, an exaggerating bard, and a pestering creature called Gurgi, Taran will try to save the world of Prydain from the Horned King. As the new friends face witches, elves, magic swords, and the Cauldron itself, Taran starts to learn what being a hero really means and that some things are more important than glory.
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Grant Bardsley |
Susan Sheridan |
Freddie Jones |
Nigel Hawthorne |
Arthur Malet |
John Byner |
Lindsay Rich |
Brandon Call |
Gregory Levinson |
Eda Reiss Merin |
Adele Malis-Morey |
Billie Hayes |
Phil Fondacaro |
Peter Renaday |
James Almanzar |
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Ted Berman |
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Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school, so he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences, including that she's rich, he's poor, and she's a city girl, he's a country boy, the two become fast friends. Together, they create Terabithia, a land of monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants and rule as king and queen. This friendship helps Jess cope with the tragedy that makes him realize what Leslie taught him.
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Josh Hutcherson |
AnnaSophia Robb |
Zooey Deschanel |
Robert Patrick |
Bailee Madison |
Kate Butler |
Devon Wood |
Emma Fenton |
Grace Brannigan |
Latham Gaines |
Judy McIntosh |
Patricia Aldersley |
Lauren Clinton |
Isabelle Rose Kircher |
Cameron Wakefield |
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Gabor Csupo |
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A year after their first adventure in Narnia, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy are pulled back in by Susan's magic horn. They find that hundreds of years have passed, and Narnia is now ruled by the bloodthirsty General Miraz, uncle to the true heir, Prince Caspian, now in exile. Now the children must find Caspian and help him depose Miraz...but how will they get home after it's done?
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Ben Barnes |
Georgie Henley |
Skandar Keynes |
William Moseley |
Anna Popplewell |
Sergio Castellitto |
Peter Dinklage |
Warwick Davis |
Vincent Grass |
Pierfrancesco Favino |
Cornell John |
Damián Alcázar |
Alicia Borrachero |
Simón Andreu |
Predrag Bjelac |
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Andrew Adamson |
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Based on the classic novel by 'CS Lewis' (qv). Four London children are sent to a professor's country home in order for protection during World War II. There they find a magic wardrobe which leads to a mystical land called Narnia, which is being ruled by an evil witch. To defeat the witch, they must join forces with Aslan, the lion God of Narnia.
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Georgie Henley |
Skandar Keynes |
William Moseley |
Anna Popplewell |
Tilda Swinton |
James McAvoy |
Jim Broadbent |
Kiran Shah |
James Cosmo |
Judy McIntosh |
Elizabeth Hawthorne |
Patrick Kake |
Shane Rangi |
Brandon Cook |
Cassie Cook |
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Andrew Adamson |
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A barbarian trained in the arts of war joins with thieves in a quest to solve the riddle of steel and find the sorcerer responsible for the genocide of his people in this faithful adaptation of Robert E. Howard's sword and sorcery adventures. This film briefly sparked a wave of fantasy films including the sequel, Conan the Destroyer, in the early 80s.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger |
James Earl Jones |
Max von Sydow |
Sandahl Bergman |
Ben Davidson |
Cassandra Gava |
Gerry Lopez |
Mako |
Valérie Quennessen |
William Smith |
Luis Barboo |
Franco Columbu |
Leslie Foldvary |
Gary Herman |
Erik Holmey |
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John Milius |
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China, Later Tang Dynasty, 10th Century. On the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace. The Emperor (Chow Yun Fat) returns unexpectedly with his second son, Prince Jai (Jay Chou). His pretext is to celebrate the holiday with his family, but given the chilled relations between the Emperor and the ailing Empress (Gong Li), this seems disingenuous. For many years, the Empress and Crown Prince Wan (Liu Ye), her stepson, have had an illicit liaison. Feeling trapped, Prince Wan dreams of escaping the palace with his secret love Chan (Li Man), the Imperial Doctor's daughter. Meanwhile, Prince Jai, the faithful son, grows worried over the Empress's health and her obsession with golden chrysanthemums. Could she be headed down an ominous path? The Emperor harbors equally clandestine plans; the Imperial Doctor (Ni Dahong) is the only one privy to his machinations. When the Emperor senses a looming threat, he relocates the doctor's family from the Palace to a remote area. While they are en route, mysterious assassins attack them. Chan and her mother, Jiang Shi (Chen Jin) are forced back to the palace. Their return sets off a tumultuous sequence of dark surprises. Amid the glamour and grandeur of the festival, ugly secrets are revealed. As the Imperial Family continues its elaborate charade in a palatial setting, thousands of golden armored warriors charge the palace. Who is behind this brutal rebellion? Where do Prince Jai's loyalties lie? Between love and desire, is there a final winner? Against a moonlit night, thousands of chrysanthemum blossoms are trampled as blood spills across the Imperial Palace.
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Yun-Fat Chow |
Li Gong |
Jay Chou |
Ye Liu |
Dahong Ni |
Junjie Qin |
Man Li |
Jin Chen |
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Yimou Zhang |
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