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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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Based on Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, this is a controversial addition to the multitude of Vietnam war movies in existence. Set in 1969 Vietnam, we follow U.S. Special Forces Captain Willard on his mission up a river into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.
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Robert Duvall |
Marlon Brando |
Martin Sheen |
Frederic Forrest |
Sam Bottoms |
Laurence Fishburne |
Dennis Hopper |
Albert Hall |
Harrison Ford |
G.D. Spradlin |
Jerry Ziesmer |
Scott Glenn |
Bo Byers |
James Keane |
Kerry Rossall |
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Francis Ford Coppola |
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Long ago, as the Earth was emerging from the Ice Age, there were three brothers. After a bear takes the life of the oldest brother, impulsive youngest brother Kenai kills the bear in revenge, only to be transformed into a bear himself. Denahi, the middle brother, comes upon this bear and, thinking it killed Kenai, vows revenge. Now brother hunts brother and Kenai's only hope for survival is to befriend his own worst enemy, a grizzly cub named Koda. Koda main goal is to show Kenai the real meaning of brotherhood.
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Animation |
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Joaquin Phoenix |
Jeremy Suarez |
Jason Raize |
Rick Moranis |
Dave Thomas |
D.B. Sweeney |
Joan Copeland |
Michael Clarke Duncan |
Harold Gould |
Paul Christie |
Daniel Mastrogiorgio |
Estelle Harris |
Greg Proops |
Pauley Perrette |
Darko Cesar |
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Aaron Blaise |
Robert Walker |
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Donnie Darko gets along badly with his family, with his teachers and with his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him; and he has a compassionate psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank, who is either a large purple bunny, or man in a large purple bunny costume. Either way, Donnie is the only one who can see him. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his room, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie's escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events. Donnie's mental illness, if such it is, may never allow him to find out for sure.
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Drama |
Mystery |
Sci-Fi |
Thriller |
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Drew Barrymore |
Jena Malone |
Jake Gyllenhaal |
Holmes Osborne |
Maggie Gyllenhaal |
Daveigh Chase |
Mary McDonnell |
James Duval |
Arthur Taxier |
Patrick Swayze |
Mark Hoffman |
David St. James |
Tom Tangen |
Jazzie Mahannah |
Jolene Purdy |
Stuart Stone |
Gary Lundy |
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Richard Kelly |
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In 1933, after leaving Dogville, while traveling with her father (Willem Dafoe) and his gangsters to the south of USA, Grace Margaret Mulligan (Bryce Dallas Howard) sees a slave ready to be punished in a property called Manderlay. The slavery had been abolished seventy years ago, and Grace becomes revolted with the attitude of the owners of Manderlay, keeping slaves in their cotton fields and following predetermined despicable rules called "Mam's Law". Grace decides to stay with some gangsters in Manderlay and give notions of democracy to the slaves and to the white family. When harvest time comes, Grace sees the social and economical reality of Manderlay.
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Bryce Dallas Howard |
Isaach De Bankolé |
Danny Glover |
Willem Dafoe |
Michaël Abiteboul |
Lauren Bacall |
Jean-Marc Barr |
Geoffrey Bateman |
Virgile Bramly |
Ruben Brinkmann |
Doña Croll |
Jeremy Davies |
Llewella Gideon |
Mona Hammond |
Ginny Holder |
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Lars von Trier |
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It is the year 2029: Astronaut Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) boards a pod cruiser on a Space Station for a "routine" reconnaissance mission. But an aburupt detour through a space time wormhole lands him on a strange planet where talking apes rule over the human race. With the help of a sympathetic chimpanzee activist named Ari (Helena Bonham-Carter) and a small band of human rebels, Leo leads the effort to evade the advancing Gorilla Army led by General Thade (Tim Roth) and his most trusted warrior Attar (Michael Clarke Duncan). Now the race is on to reach a sacred temple within the planet's Forbidden Zone to discover the shocking secrets of mankind's past - and the key to its future.
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Mark Wahlberg |
Tim Roth |
Helena Bonham Carter |
Michael Clarke Duncan |
Paul Giamatti |
Estella Warren |
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa |
David Warner |
Kris Kristofferson |
Erick Avari |
Lucas Elliott |
Evan Parke |
Glenn Shadix |
Freda Foh Shen |
Chris Ellis |
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Tim Burton |
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