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Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project known as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader. The confrontation sparks off Tetsuo's supernatural power leading to bloody death, a coup attempt and the final battle in Tokyo Olympiad where Akira's secrets were buried 30 years ago.
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Mitsuo Iwata |
Nozomu Sasaki |
Mami Koyama |
Tesshô Genda |
Hiroshi Ôtake |
Kôichi Kitamura |
Michihiro Ikemizu |
Yuriko Fuchizaki |
Masaaki Ôkura |
Tarô Arakawa |
Takeshi Kusao |
Kazumi Tanaka |
Masayuki Katô |
Yôsuke Akimoto |
Masato Hirano |
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Katsuhiro Ôtomo |
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In the 50's, in Louisiana, the smart populist, manipulative and wolf hick Willie Stark is elected governor with the support of the lower social classes. He joins a team composed of his bodyguard and friend Sugar Boy; the journalist from an aristocratic family Jack Burden; the lobbyist Tiny Duffy; and his mistress Sadie Burke, to face the opposition of the upper classes. When the influent Judge Irwin supports a group of politicians in their request of impeachment, Stark assigns Jack to find some dirtiness along the life of Irwin, leading to a tragedy in the end.
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Sean Penn |
Jude Law |
Anthony Hopkins |
Kate Winslet |
Mark Ruffalo |
Patricia Clarkson |
James Gandolfini |
Jackie Earle Haley |
Kathy Baker |
Talia Balsam |
Travis Champagne |
Frederic Forrest |
Paul Desmond |
Kevin Dunn |
Kevin McCarthy |
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Steven Zaillian |
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The script begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese's favorite films, Hell's Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that he waits forever for perfect conditions, right down to cloud formations. The Aviator ends in 1946, when Hughes was still a dashing young man and romancing actresses like Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn.
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Leonardo DiCaprio |
Cate Blanchett |
Kate Beckinsale |
John C. Reilly |
Alec Baldwin |
Alan Alda |
Ian Holm |
Danny Huston |
Gwen Stefani |
Jude Law |
Adam Scott |
Matt Ross |
Kelli Garner |
Frances Conroy |
Brent Spiner |
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Martin Scorsese |
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Bank Job, The
The true story of a heist gone wrong... in all the right ways.
[2008,
UK] from $1.99
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Based on the true story of the 1971 Baker Street bank robbery which was prevented from being told for over thirty years because of a Government gagging order. The real story of how one of the biggest robberies in British history took place with no arrests ever made nor money ever recovered.
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Thriller |
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Jason Statham |
Saffron Burrows |
Stephen Campbell Moore |
Daniel Mays |
James Faulkner |
Alki David |
Michael Jibson |
Richard Lintern |
Don Gallagher |
David Suchet |
Peter Bowles |
Andrew Brooke |
Trevor Byfield |
Peter De Jersey |
Rufus Dean |
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Roger Donaldson |
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In tone with the early "Batman: Year One" style comics. As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes, a trauma which led him to become obsessed with revenge but his chance is cruelly taken away from him by fate. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra's Al-Ghul, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system whilst the company he inherited is slowly being pulled out from under him. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armored suit leads him to take on a new persona, one which will strike fear into the hearts of men who do wrong - he becomes, Batman. In the new guise, and with the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various nefarious schemes in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan 'The Scarecrow' Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right.
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Fantasy |
Thriller |
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Christian Bale |
Michael Caine |
Liam Neeson |
Katie Holmes |
Gary Oldman |
Cillian Murphy |
Tom Wilkinson |
Rutger Hauer |
Ken Watanabe |
Mark Boone Junior |
Linus Roache |
Morgan Freeman |
Larry Holden |
Gerard Murphy |
Colin McFarlane |
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Christopher Nolan |
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Bobby
He saw wrong and tried to right it. He saw suffering and tried to heal it. He saw war and tried t...
[2006,
USA] from $1.99
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The Ambassador Hotel, 1968: the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy will soon take place here but none of the hotel residents and employees knows about it yet. Everyone at the hotel is busy with his own affairs, and their paths never seem to cross, not even in this closed space. However, it only seems so and twenty two individuals who will become unwitting witnesses to the tragedy will make a lot of startling discoveries and have strange meetings.
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This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas—it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970's and '80's are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw—Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence.
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Robert De Niro |
Sharon Stone |
Joe Pesci |
James Woods |
Frank Vincent |
Pasquale Cajano |
Kevin Pollak |
Don Rickles |
Vinny Vella |
Alan King |
L. Q. Jones |
Dick Smothers |
Joseph Rigano |
John Bloom |
Melissa Prophet |
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Martin Scorsese |
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When John Eastland's best friend, Michael Jefferson, is mugged and left permanently crippled, he decides to do something about it. Jefferson had saved Eastland's life in Vietnam and now it's time for Eastland to get revenge for his friend. Using his old Army gear he sets out on a crusade to clean up the streets of New York using the name "The Exterminator."
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Christopher George |
Samantha Eggar |
Robert Ginty |
Steve James |
Tony DiBenedetto |
Dick Boccelli |
Patrick Farrelly |
Michele Harrell |
David Lipman |
Cindy Wilks |
Dennis Boutsikaris |
Roger Grimsby |
Judy Licht |
Stan Getz |
George Cheung |
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James Glickenhaus |
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In this film, muckraker Michael Moore turns his eye on George W. Bush and his War on Terrorism agenda. He illustrates his argument about how this failed businessman with deep connections to the royal house of Saud of Saudia Arabia and the Bin Ladins got elected on fraudulent circumstances and proceeded to blunder through his duties while ignoring warnings of the looming betrayal by his foreign partners. When that treachery hits with the 9/11 attacks, Moore explains how Bush failed to take immediate action to defend his nation, only to later cynically manipulate it to serve his wealthy backers' corrupt ambitions. Through facts, footage and interviews, Moore illustrates his contention of how Bush and his cronies have gotten America into worse trouble than ever before and why Americans should not stand for it.
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Michael Moore |
Jeffrey Toobin |
Jack Cloonan |
James C. Moore |
John Major |
Michael Castle |
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Michael Moore |
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In Detroit, when the beloved citizen Evelyn Mercer is murdered in a store heist, her four dangerous stepsons come to her funeral. Bobby Mercer, Angel Mercer and Jack Mercer join the regenerated ex-union leader Jeremiah Mercer, and they decide to investigate the murder. They disclose that her execution was intentional, and resolve to find the criminals by themselves.
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Thriller |
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Mark Wahlberg |
Tyrese Gibson |
André Benjamin |
Garrett Hedlund |
Terrence Howard |
Josh Charles |
Sofía Vergara |
Fionnula Flanagan |
Chiwetel Ejiofor |
Taraji P. Henson |
Barry Shabaka Henley |
Jernard Burks |
Kenneth Welsh |
Tony Nappo |
Shawn Singleton |
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John Singleton |
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As waves of immigrants swell the population of New York, lawlessness and corruption thrive in Manhattan's Five Points section. After years of incarceration, young Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon returns seeking revenge against the rival gang leader who killed his father. But Amsterdam's personal vendetta becomes part of the gang warfare that erupts as he and his fellow Irishmen fight to carve a place for themselves in their newly adopted homeland!
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