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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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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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While pursuing a suspect one night, Chicago Police officer Sharon Pogue (Jennifer Lopez) nearly becomes the victim of a fatal ambush until a mysterious stranger, Catch (Jim Caviezel) intervenes, disarms the assassin and saves Sharon's life. Is it a stroke of luck? A twist of fate? Or just a concerned citizen who happened to pass by at the right time and wasn't afraid to get involved? Maybe, But Sharon and Catch have met once before. As the two fall in love, they discover the truth about each other and are forced to deal with the secrets from their past.
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Romance |
Thriller |
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Jennifer Lopez |
James Caviezel |
Jeremy Sisto |
Terrence Howard |
Sonia Braga |
Victor Argo |
Monet Mazur |
Shirley Knight |
Daniel Magder |
Guylaine St-Onge |
Connor McAuley |
Jeremy Ratchford |
Peter MacNeill |
Eldridge Hyndman |
Kari Matchett |
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Luis Mandoki |
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Anna Karenina
In a world of power and privilege, one woman dared to obey her heart.
[1997,
USA] from $1.99
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Anna is a young and elegant wife of Mr. Karenin, who is wealthy and old. She meets the handsome Count Vronsky. Anna and Vronsky fall in love with each other, and he comes to be with her in St. Petersburg. They are very happy together and make a great looking couple, but soon their happiness gets under social pressures. Anna is hopelessly begging Mr. Karenin for a divorce, but he wants to keep the mother of their child. She has another baby born from her lover Vronsky. Conflict between her untamed desires and painful reality causes her a depression...
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Sophie Marceau |
Sean Bean |
Alfred Molina |
Mia Kirshner |
James Fox |
Fiona Shaw |
Danny Huston |
Phyllida Law |
David Schofield |
Saskia Wickham |
Jennifer Hall |
Anna Calder-Marshall |
Petr Shelokhonov |
Valerie Braddell |
Niall Buggy |
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Bernard Rose |
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Austin Powers is a 60's spy who is cryonically frozen and released in the 1990's. The world is a very different place for Powers. Unfortunately for Austin, everyone is no longer sex-mad. Although he may be in a different decade, his mission is still the same. He has teamed up with Vanessa Kensington to stop the evil Dr. Evil, who was also frozen in the past. Dr. Evil stole a nuclear weapon and is demanding a payment of (when he realises its the 90's) 100 billion dollars. Can Austin Powers stop this madman? or will he caught up with Evil's henchman, with names like Alotta Fagina and Random Task? Only time will tell!
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Mike Myers |
Elizabeth Hurley |
Michael York |
Mimi Rogers |
Robert Wagner |
Seth Green |
Fabiana Udenio |
Mindy Sterling |
Paul Dillon |
Charles Napier |
Will Ferrell |
Joann Richter |
Anastasia Sakelaris |
Afifi Alaouie |
Monet Mazur |
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Jay Roach |
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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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Internet love connections and mail-order brides rarely ever work out, and John (played by Ben Chaplin) should have known. Having never been lucky in the game of love and tired of waiting for the perfect woman to come along, John decides to take his chances and orders a mail-order bride from Russia online. At first, things seem perfect: his new bride Nadia (Nicole Kidman) is a gorgeous woman, and although she may not speak much English, her skills in the bedroom more than make up for any communication problems. When Nadia's 'cousins' unexpectedly arrive to celebrate her birthday, John is drawn into their web of corruption and crime.
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Crime |
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Romance |
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Nicole Kidman |
Ben Chaplin |
Vincent Cassel |
Mathieu Kassovitz |
Kate Lynn Evans |
Stephen Mangan |
Alexander Armstrong |
Sally Phillips |
Jo McInnes |
Ben Miller |
Jonathan Aris |
Katya Barton-Chapple |
Rebecca Clarke |
Mark Gatiss |
Raj Ghatak |
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Jez Butterworth |
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George Jung is the son of a struggling small business owner. Seeing his family struggle to make ends meet and failing, George vows never to share a similar fate. Moving to California, he starts his own pot pushing operation in which he finds both success and imprisonment. In prison, he meets a cellmate who introduces him into a partnership to the lucrative new market in cocaine. Upon release, George Jung quickly becomes instrumental in establishing the exploding US market for cocaine in which he claimed that he handled about 85% of the supply in the 1970's. However, for all the fabulous wealth and power he gained, the true costs of his dangerously treacherous occupation catch up with him in ways from which he would never recover.
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Crime |
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Johnny Depp |
Penélope Cruz |
Franka Potente |
Rachel Griffiths |
Paul Reubens |
Jordi Mollà |
Cliff Curtis |
Miguel Sandoval |
Ethan Suplee |
Ray Liotta |
Kevin Gage |
Max Perlich |
Jesse James |
Miguel Pérez |
Dan Ferro |
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Ted Demme |
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Hanks stars as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose personal and professional life are ruled by the clock. His fast-paced career takes him, often at a moment's notice, to far-flung locales - and away from his girlfriend Kelly, played by Helen Hunt. Chuck's manic existence abruptly ends when, after a plane crash, he becomes isolated on a remote island - cast away into the most desolate environment imaginable. Stripped of the conveniences of everyday life, he first must meet the basic needs of survival, including water, food and shelter. Chuck, the consummate problem solver, eventually figures out how to sustain himself physically. But then what? Chuck begins his true personal journey. After four years, fate gives Chuck a chance to fight his way back to civilization, only to find an unexpected emotional challenge greater than all the earlier physical ones. His ability to persevere and to hope are a product of his life-changing experience.
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Paul Sanchez |
Lari White |
Leonid Citer |
David Allen Brooks |
Yelena Popovic |
Semion Suradikov |
Tom Hanks |
Helen Hunt |
Peter Berg |
Dmitri S. Boudrine |
François Duhamel |
Michael Forest |
Viveka Davis |
Nick Searcy |
Jennifer Choe |
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Robert Zemeckis |
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With this dystopian world ravished by war, paranoia and the frustrations of Man the Orwellian vision of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the totalitarian future is now complete and amongst us. With female fertility becoming obsolete, Man cannot reproduce, and no child has been born on the face of the planet for eighteen years. Man, and his future, is dying. Soon he shall be extinct. Theo, the beaten, downtrodden and middle-aged ex-political activist will, unwittingly, become involved in a war of an underground revolt. Here he is active once more, in the perilous journey across England's Home Counties, with a young girl, Kee, who, to Theo's bewilderment is pregnant. The first pregnant woman for more than eighteen years. This secret must be protected, at all cost, and mother and child must flee to the mysterious and enigmatic Human Project, across the seas. Their flight is a constant fight for survival. Who can be trusted? Who can keep a secret?
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Drama |
Sci-Fi |
Thriller |
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Juan Gabriel Yacuzzi |
Michelle Hussain |
Rob Curling |
Jon Chevalier |
Rita Davies |
Kim Fenton |
Chris Gilbert |
Phoebe Hawthorne |
Rebecca Howard |
Atalanta White |
Laurence Woodbridge |
Clive Owen |
Maria McErlane |
Michael Haughey |
Paul Sharma |
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Alfonso Cuarón |
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A man in a suit at a Manhattan firm leaves work on Friday; he looks unhappy. He stops at a fortune teller's for a Tarot reading: "You are not where you belong," she tells him. That evening he quits his marriage and walks the streets of New York, passing from a classy bar to a gentleman's club, then to a high-class bordello, a mugging, a pawnshop, and a diner where someone does listen. He shares his insights with her and later with others. Violence, disappointment, and musings entwine as Edmond loses his moorings while believing he's found them. Where does he belong?
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William H. Macy |
Frances Bay |
Rebecca Pidgeon |
Joe Mantegna |
Denise Richards |
Wendy Thompson |
Vincent Guastaferro |
Ling Bai |
Matt Landers |
Dulé Hill |
Russell Hornsby |
Aldis Hodge |
Debi Mazar |
Mena Suvari |
Jeffrey Combs |
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Stuart Gordon |
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In a castle high on top of a hill lives an inventor's greatest creation - Edward, a near-complete person. The creator died before he could finish Edward's hands; instead, Edward is left with metal scissors for hands. Edward has always lived alone, until a kind lady called Peg discovers Edward and welcomes him into her home. At first, everyone welcomes Edward into the community, but soon things begin to take a change for the worse.
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Romance |
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Johnny Depp |
Winona Ryder |
Dianne Wiest |
Anthony Michael Hall |
Kathy Baker |
Robert Oliveri |
Conchata Ferrell |
Caroline Aaron |
Dick Anthony Williams |
O-Lan Jones |
Vincent Price |
Alan Arkin |
Susan Blommaert |
Linda Perri |
John Davidson |
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Tim Burton |
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