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Jack Mosley, a burnt-out detective, is assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail to a courthouse 16 blocks away. However, along the way he learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley's colleagues, and the entire NYPD wants him dead. Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness, and never has such a short distance seemed so long...
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Thriller |
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Bruce Willis |
Mos Def |
David Morse |
Steve Nuke |
Jim Lavin |
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Richard Donner |
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Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs, and he regularly scours Cleveland's thrift stores and garage sales for more, savoring the rare joy of a 25-cent find. It is at one of these junk sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb, a greeting card artist and music enthusiast. When, years later, Crumb finds international success for his underground comics, the idea that comic books can be a valid art form for adults inspires Harvey to write his own brand of comic book. An admirer of naturalist writers like Theodore Dreiser, Harvey makes his American Splendor a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self portrait. First published in 1976, the comic earns Harvey cult fame throughout the 1980s and eventually leads him to the sardonic Joyce Barber, a partner in a Delaware comic book store who end ups being Harvey's true soul mate as they experience the bizarre byproducts of Harvey's cult celebrity stature.
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Biography |
Comedy |
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Chris Ambrose |
Joey Krajcar |
Josh Hutcherson |
Cameron Carter |
Daniel Tay |
Mary Faktor |
Paul Giamatti |
Harvey Pekar |
Larry John Meyers |
Vivienne Benesch |
Barbara Brown |
Earl Billings |
Danny Hoch |
James Urbaniak |
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Shari Springer Berman |
Robert Pulcini |
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In the summer of 1935, 13-year-old Briony Tallis observes a flirtation between a servant's son, Robbie, and her older sister, Cecilia, that she childishly misconstrues. Briony's misunderstanding leads to a terrible crime whose consequences follow them through World War II.
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Romance |
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Saoirse Ronan |
Brenda Blethyn |
Julia West |
James McAvoy |
Harriet Walter |
Keira Knightley |
Juno Temple |
Felix von Simson |
Charlie von Simson |
Alfie Allen |
Patrick Kennedy |
Benedict Cumberbatch |
Peter Wight |
Peter O'Connor |
Daniel Mays |
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Joe Wright |
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11-year-old Eliza Naumann comes from an odd family; they all divert their emotional frustrations into secret channels. When Eliza unexpectedly begins winning spelling bees, what had been a stable dynamic within the family becomes disrupted; long held secrets emerge, and a latent spiritual yearning is awakened in her withdrawn father Saul and compulsive mother Miriam. As Eliza moves closer and closer to the national spelling bee, the Naumann family finds itself in a spiral of surprising discovery and jarring uncertainty...
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Richard Gere |
Juliette Binoche |
Flora Cross |
Max Minghella |
Kate Bosworth |
Corey Fischer |
Sam Zuckerman |
Joan Mankin |
Piers Mackenzie |
Lorri Holt |
Brian Leonard |
Kathy McGraw |
John Evans |
Alisha Mullally |
Olivia Charles |
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Scott McGehee |
David Siegel |
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Not all Christmas stories are full of cheer - take the disturbing childhood of Billy Lenz, for example. Born during Christmas, little Billy Lenz suffered from Jaundice because of a liver defect, and was unwanted by his cruel mother (who only saw the husband she'd come to despise when she looked at her son). While she let her true feelings be known to him with beatings and abuse, only his father showed him compassion like a parent should. But on Christmas Eve in 1975, his unfaithful mother gave him one of the most cruelest gifts of all, as she made five-year-old Billy observe his beloved father's brutal murder at her own hands and those of her lover with a claw hammer. Before burying him under the house, she locked Billy in the attic for good, to hold his silence of what he'd witnessed that night. His only contact from then on was when she came to punish him for making a noise or other such trivial nuisances, while she was with her lover and starting a "new" family. As Billy's mother fell pregnant with a daughter and treated her with love, which Billy had never experienced with his mother, Billy came out of the attic on Christmas Eve 1991, taking a rolling pin to his mother's head, and a pointed tree ornament to her lovers eye before leaving his sister as disfigured as he was by blinding her. Before he could finish the job police forced there way in and dragged him off to mental institution and his sister a foster home, whose eye sight was saved in one eye... but not the other. Cut to the present where a security guard has been monitoring Billy's progress since he came into his care, back in 1991. Knowing full well that during this time for fifteen years, Billy has made a break from this asylum, but never succeeding... until now. Far away, his childhood home is now a sorority house, where nine sisters and their house-mother are celebrating the holiday season together ...but tonight they're about to get a surprise visitor... and it's not Santa.
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Horror |
Thriller |
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Katie Cassidy |
Michelle Trachtenberg |
Lacey Chabert |
Kristen Cloke |
Andrea Martin |
Mary Elizabeth Winstead |
Crystal Lowe |
Oliver Hudson |
Jessica Harmon |
Leela Savasta |
Kathleen Kole |
Karin Konoval |
Robert Mann |
Dean Friss |
Cainan Wiebe |
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Glen Morgan |
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A Japanese Yakuza gangster is exiled to the United States. Takeshi settles in Los Angeles where his younger, half brother lives and finds that although the turf is new, the rules are still the same as they try to take over the local drug trade.
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Crime |
Drama |
Thriller |
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Takeshi Kitano |
Omar Epps |
Kuroudo Maki |
Masaya Kato |
Susumu Terajima |
Royale Watkins |
Lombardo Boyar |
Ren Osugi |
Ryo Ishibashi |
James Shigeta |
Tatyana Ali |
Makoto Otake |
Kouen Okumura |
Naomasa Musaka |
Rino Katase |
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Takeshi Kitano |
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Set in 1963, a spirited woman turns her world upside down search for her husband who disappeared from his Beirut home. But when she discovers he’s a Russian spy, her love will be put to tests no one should have to face.
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Drama |
Romance |
Thriller |
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Sharon Stone |
Rupert Everett |
Julian Wadham |
Michael Cochrane |
Anne Lambton |
Jim Piddock |
Richard McMillan |
Mimi Kuzyk |
Emily VanCamp |
Tamara Hope |
Mark Rendall |
Damir Andrei |
John Bourgeois |
Sonja Smits |
Edward Hibbert |
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Marek Kanievska |
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During the WWII battle of Stalingrad, two snipers, a Russian (Law), and a German (Harris), are locked in a battle of wills and marksmenship, while the Russian is boosted to the status of hero by a political official (Fiennes).
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Drama |
Romance |
Thriller |
War |
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Jude Law |
Ed Harris |
Rachel Weisz |
Joseph Fiennes |
Bob Hoskins |
Ron Perlman |
Eva Mattes |
Gabriel Thomson |
Matthias Habich |
Sophie Rois |
Ivan Shvedoff |
Mario Bandi |
Hans Martin Stier |
Clemens Schick |
Mikhail Matveyev |
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Jean-Jacques Annaud |
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Jack Elgin is the European editor of The Economist, which is based in London, England. Jack has a wife named Maria and three kids named Joanne, Julia, and Andrew. Jack subtly changes the family vacation from a lazy week of Mediterranean fun and sun in Corfu, Greece, to a tour of India, because of a story he has to cover. Maria is not as impressed by this as the kids are. Jack himself envisioned a chance to simultaneously work an easy reporting assignment and spend a little quality time with his family. But on the way to India, the airplane, a 747 owned by AM Air, an American airline, makes an unscheduled stopover in Limassol Cyprus, because of a mechanical problem. After a while of waiting inside the Limassol airport, everyone gets back on the plane — which is then hijacked by a group of terrorists known as the August 15th Movement, led by a Serbian man named Ivanic Loyvek and his right-hand man Karadan Maldic. And they are demanding $50,000,000 from the US State Department in one hour, or everyone on the airplane will die. The demand is met, and Loyvek and Maldic start releasing the women and children, with the men to go last. But as soon as a front passenger door is opened, a local police team gunning for the terrorists opens fire. The flight attendants frantically open the rest of the airplane's doors and start getting passengers out, but the terrorists start killing passengers, leading to an explosion. Maria, Joanne, and Julia get out of the airplane, and then Jack, holding Andrew, gets out — only to watch Maria, Joanne, and Julia get shot by the terrorists. Jack tries to hide Andrew's face so he can't see it. Maria and Joanne are dead, and Julia is still alive — but Julia burns to death while crying for help. Jack and Andrew survive. In all, a total of 15 passengers die, and Loyvek and Maldic, the surviving terrorists, escape, knowing that they now have the $50,000,000. The hijacking would never have ended this way if the police team had waited until after the passengers were released from the airplane before getting trigger happy. Back in London, an absolutely devastated Jack is told that the terrorists were captured, but they were released and deported secretly, with no charges and no arrest, the result of some awfully compromised politics. Jack is understandably enraged that Loyvek and Maldic got off scot-free. While helping Andrew cope, Jack tries all the legal ways to ensure justice for his family, but to no avail. Jack even pays a visit to Henry Davidson, a CIA agent who works at the American Embassy in London. Davidson tells Jack that there's little that can be done. Obviously, the American and British governments are completely impotent when it comes to going after Loyvek and Maldic, so Jack has absolutely no choice in the matter. He must do it himself. With the help of his ex-intelligence operative friend Kate Stockton, who is well-schooled in the finer points of international intelligence, Jack becomes a one-man anti-terrorist squadron, searching for Loyvek and Maldich. Dogging Jack's trail is FBI agent Jules Bernard, who's cooperating with Scotland Yard on anti-terrorist activities, and who suspects that Jack is the man who has been killing anyone involved in the hijacking. But as it turns out, Jules is on Jack's side, and he's willing to help Jack make those responsible pay for the deaths of his family and the other people who died in Cyprus.
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Drama |
Thriller |
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Jeremy Irons |
Forest Whitaker |
Jason Priestley |
Briony Glassco |
Charlotte Rampling |
Lois Maxwell |
Timothy West |
Joel Pitts |
Anna Maguire |
Holly Boyd |
Kal Weber |
Ian McNeice |
William Armstrong |
Garrick Hagon |
Serge Soric |
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John Irvin |
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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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Plot Summary:
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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Action |
Drama |
History |
War |
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| Actors: |
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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Set in the Philippines in 1945 towards the end of WWII, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci and Captain Robert Prince, the 6th Ranger Battalion undertake a daring rescue mission against all odds. Traveling thirty miles behind enemy lines, they intend to liberate over 500 American Soldiers from the notorious Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp in the most audacious rescue ever.
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Drama |
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Benjamin Bratt |
James Franco |
Robert Mammone |
Max Martini |
James Carpinello |
Mark Consuelos |
Craig McLachlan |
Freddie Joe Farnsworth |
Laird Macintosh |
Jeremy Callaghan |
Scott McLean |
Paolo Montalban |
Clayne Crawford |
Sam Worthington |
Royston Innes |
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John Dahl |
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