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A Boeing 747 carrying a US space shuttle on loan to the UK crashes into the Atlantic Ocean. When the British examine the wreckage they can find no trace of the spacecraft and send agent James Bond to the shuttle's manufacturers, Drax Industries, to investigate.
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Roger Moore |
Lois Chiles |
Michael Lonsdale |
Richard Kiel |
Corinne Clery |
Bernard Lee |
Geoffrey Keen |
Desmond Llewelyn |
Lois Maxwell |
Toshirô Suga |
Emily Bolton |
Blanche Ravalec |
Irka Bochenko |
Mike Marshall |
Leila Shenna |
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Lewis Gilbert |
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At the start of World War 1, Charlie Allnut is using his old steamer, The African Queen, to ferry supplies to villages in East Africa. When the Rev. Samuel Sayer dies, Charlie agrees to take Sayers' sister, Rose, back to civilization. taking on the Germans at the same time.
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Humphrey Bogart |
Katharine Hepburn |
Robert Morley |
Peter Bull |
Theodore Bikel |
Walter Gotell |
Peter Swanwick |
Richard Marner |
Errol John |
Gerald Onn |
John von Kotze |
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John Huston |
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Aladdin is a street-urchin who lives in a large and busy town long ago with his faithful monkey friend Abu. When Princess Jasmine gets tired of being forced to remain in the palace that overlooks the city, she sneaks out to the marketplace, where she accidentally meets Aladdin. Under the orders of the evil Jafar (the sultan's advisor), Aladdin is thrown in jail and becomes caught up in Jafar's plot to rule the land with the aid of a mysterious lamp. Legend has it that only a person who is a "diamond in the rough" can retrieve the lamp from the Cave of Wonders. Aladdin might fight that description, but that's not enough to marry the princess, who must (by law) marry a prince.
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Scott Weinger |
Robin Williams |
Linda Larkin |
Jonathan Freeman |
Frank Welker |
Gilbert Gottfried |
Douglas Seale |
Bruce Adler |
Brad Kane |
Lea Salonga |
Charles Adler |
Jack Angel |
Corey Burton |
Philip L. Clarke |
Jim Cummings |
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Ron Clements |
John Musker |
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After escaping from the alien planet, the ship carrying Ellen Ripley crashes onto a remote and inhabited ore refinery. While living in the ore refinery until she is rescued by her employers, Ripley discovers the horrifying reason for her crash: An alien stowaway. As the alien matures and begins to kill off the inhabitants, Ripley is unaware that her true enemy is more than just the killer alien.
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Drama |
Horror |
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Thriller |
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Sigourney Weaver |
Charles S. Dutton |
Charles Dance |
Paul McGann |
Brian Glover |
Ralph Brown |
Danny Webb (V) |
Christopher John Fields |
Holt McCallany |
Lance Henriksen |
Christopher Fairbank |
Carl Chase |
Leon Herbert |
Vincenzo Nicoli |
Pete Postlethwaite |
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David Fincher |
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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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Drama |
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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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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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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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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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The great grand niece of Jesus Christ is enlisted to prevent two angels from reentering Heaven and thus undoing the fabric of the universe. Along the way, she is aided by two prophets, Jay and Silent Bob. With the help of Rufus, the 13th Apostle, they must stop those who stand in their way and prevent the angels from entering Heaven.
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Adventure |
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Alan Rickman |
Alanis Morissette |
Chris Rock |
Salma Hayek |
Bud Cort |
Barret Hackney |
Jared Pfennigwerth |
Kitao Sakurai |
George Carlin |
Betty Aberlin |
Matt Damon |
Ben Affleck |
Dan Etheridge |
Linda Fiorentino |
Derek Milosavljevic |
Lesley Braden |
Brian O'Halloran |
Marie Elena O'Brien |
Janeane Garofalo |
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Kevin Smith |
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Set in the 10th Century, a man (Bowen) teams up with the last dragon to remind the people of a long lost code of honor, and inspire them to fight for their freedom from a tyrannical king.
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Dennis Quaid |
Julie Christie |
Sean Connery |
David Thewlis |
Pete Postlethwaite |
Dina Meyer |
Jason Isaacs |
Brian Thompson |
Lee Oakes |
Wolf Christian |
Terry O'Neill |
Eva Vejmelková |
Milan Bahúl |
Peter Hric |
Sandra Kovacicova |
Kyle Cohen |
Thom Baker |
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Rob Cohen |
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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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Thriller |
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William H. Macy |
Frances Bay |
Rebecca Pidgeon |
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