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Ten years ago, Jake Hopper was a CIA agent who was stationed in Thailand. Then one day, things went sour, and his partner, Sunti barely escaped with his life...after accidentally killing a woman. Jake called it quits and returned to the United States when his wife died, and Sunti became a Buddhist monk to atone for his sins. For the past 10 years, Jake has run a successful private security business, and has been raising his daughter Jessica, who is now an adult. While hiking in Thailand, Jessica and her friend Sarah Winthorpe are kidnapped. A group of Islamic fundamentalists known as the Abu Karaf claims responsibility. Sarah is the daughter of United States senator John Winthorpe. For ransom, the Abu Karaf demand the release of 20 prisoners from American custody. The US Secretary of State urges restraint — he won't negotiate. Tom Collins, an ex-colleague of Jake's, recognizes Jessica on the ransom tape and tips Jake off. Jake knows that he must rescue the girls himself. An old CIA buddy puts Jake in contact with Leon Washington, an active CIA agent who is working in Thailand. Jake goes to Bangkok, and escapes an assassination attempt. Leon arranges a meeting for himself with with Soku — the internal security chief for General Jantapan. Jantapan is a rebel military general who is making a play to be one of the most powerful men in Thailand. Secretly, Jantapan is messing with some dangerous spiritual forces. Soku provides Jake with a cover story, but the CIA wants Jake out of it — they are planning to take out the Abu Karaf with the aid of the Thai army, and they don't want a civilian in the middle. Jake is a spiritual man, so he contacts his spiritual master Paijan Paitoon. As Jake is in trouble, Paitoon offers to arrange a divination from the oracle of the order. Jake enlists the help of Sunti. Jake gets Lulu, the girlfriend of arms dealer Fitch McQuoid, to steal information leading to the Abu Karaf. Jake and Sunti follow the leads to a warehouse where they discover evidence of highly sophisticated weaponry. With their enemies now after Lulu, Jake takes Lulu under his wing. Jake shares some of his info with Leon. Can he trust Leon? Another attempt is made on Jake's life — and this time, Jake is sure that Leon was involved. Finally, the Abu Karaf contact Jake to arrange a meeting — the pieces are coming together, and Jake figures out that it was not the Abu Karaf who kidnapped Jessica and Sarah. Jantapan tries to send the spirit of an ancient warrior demon to kill Jake, but the ceremony goes wrong and the spirit enters Jantapan himself, giving Jantapan amazing physical and spiritual powers. Jake and Sunti go to meet Mongkol, the leader of the Abu Karaf. Mongkol confirms that ever since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Jantapan has worked to corner the narcotics and arms markets. It was Jantapan who kidnapped the girls, blaming the Abu Karaf so the army would wipe out his competition. Mongkol knows where the girls are, and he gives Jake plans and intelligence. They both need the girls alive. Jake must engage in a battle that will put both his physical and spiritual powers to the ultimate test.
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Steven Seagal |
Byron Mann |
Monica Lo |
Tom Wu |
Sarah Malukul Lane |
Patrick Robinson |
Vincent Riotta |
Norman Veeratum |
Elidh MacQueen |
Chau Siu Tung |
Kevork Malikyan |
Pongpat Wachirabunjong |
Alastair Vardy |
Andy Adam |
Shahkrit Yamnarm |
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Siu-Tung Ching |
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Contact, based on the novel of the same name by Carl Sagan, is the story of a free thinking radio astronomer (Jodie Foster) who discovers an intelligent signal broadcast from deep space. She and her fellow scientists are able to decipher the Message and discover detailed instructions for building a mysterious Machine. Will the Machine spell the end of our world, or the end of our superstitions? Will we take our place among the races of the Galaxy, or are we just an upstart species with a long way to go?
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Drama |
Mystery |
Sci-Fi |
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Jena Malone |
David Morse |
Jodie Foster |
Geoffrey Blake |
William Fichtner |
Sami Chester |
Timothy McNeil |
Laura Elena Surillo |
Matthew McConaughey |
Tom Skerritt |
Henry Strozier |
Michael Chaban |
Max Martini |
Larry King |
Thomas Garner |
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Robert Zemeckis |
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Evita
The Most Anticipated Motion Picture Event of The Year
[1996,
USA] from $1.99
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Based on the incredible true story, Eva (Evita) Peron, starts out life as a poor girl who goes on to become an actress and then become the wife of the president of Argentina, Juan Peron. The musical is a story of love and politics, showing all the battles and triumphs Evita has in her short, but amazing life.
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Drama |
Musical |
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Madonna |
Antonio Banderas |
Jonathan Pryce |
Jimmy Nail |
Victoria Sus |
Julian Littman |
Olga Merediz |
Laura Pallas |
Julia Worsley |
María Luján Hidalgo |
Servando Villamil |
Andrea Corr |
Peter Polycarpou |
Gary Brooker |
Maite Yerro |
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Alan Parker |
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Three-times MVP baseball player Bobby Rayburn joins San Fransisco Giants, and obsessive fan, whose profession is selling hunting knives, Gil Renard is excited over that. But Rayburn plays the worst season of his career and Renard tries to do everything to help him, but goes too far.
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Sport |
Thriller |
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Robert De Niro |
Wesley Snipes |
Ellen Barkin |
John Leguizamo |
Benicio Del Toro |
Patti D'Arbanville |
Chris Mulkey |
Andrew J. Ferchland |
Brandon Hammond |
Charles Hallahan |
Dan Butler |
Kurt Fuller |
Michael Jace |
Frank Medrano |
Don S. Davis |
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Tony Scott |
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'It's Monopoly out there'. Jason Staebler, The King of Marvin Gardens, has gone directly to jail, lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is also a dreamer who asks his brother, David, a radio personality from Philadelphia to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island - asking him to believe in yet another of his dreams, yet another of his get-rich-quick schemes. But luck is against them both and the game ends badly - real life reduced to radio drama.
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Crime |
Drama |
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Jack Nicholson |
Bruce Dern |
Ellen Burstyn |
Julia Anne Robinson |
Scatman Crothers |
Charles LaVine |
Arnold Williams |
John P. Ryan |
Sully Boyar |
Josh Mostel |
William Pabst |
Garry Goodrow |
Imogene Bliss |
Ann Thomas |
Tom Overton |
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Bob Rafelson |
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In 1938, two aspiring comic strip talents, Jerry Siegal and Joe Shuster, published a character that would create a new genre of fantasy, Superman, the first superhero. This film explores the creation of the character and his subsequent evolution over the decades through various media. With various interviews of noted creative luminaries, the film shows how the character has adapted to the times and bounced back from times when he felt irrelevant to always regain his prominence as one of the great heroes of popular culture.
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Documentary |
History |
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Forrest J Ackerman |
Gilbert Adler |
Stephan Bender |
Marlon Brando |
Dean Cain |
Mike Carlin |
Gerard Christopher |
Jackie Cooper |
Dan Didio |
Richard Donner |
Michael Dougherty |
Stephen Fishler |
Alfred Gough |
Gary H. Grossman |
Mark Hamill |
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Kevin Burns |
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In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan, a young boy, via the telephone. But when questions about the boy's identity come up, the host's life is thrown into chaos.
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Drama |
Mystery |
Thriller |
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Robin Williams |
Toni Collette |
Joe Morton |
Bobby Cannavale |
Rory Culkin |
Sandra Oh |
John Cullum |
Lisa Emery |
Guenia Lemos |
Marcia Haufrecht |
Nick Gregory |
Ed Jewett |
Becky Ann Baker |
Billy Vann |
E.J. Carroll |
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Patrick Stettner |
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The movie is a celebrity version of Garrison Keillor's radio show of the same name. The movie takes place during the last live performance of the show as the new radio network owners have sent an axeman (Tommy Lee Jones)to close the show. Another fantasy element is thrown in as an angel (Virginia Madsen) stalks the theater to take one of the performers. Keillor essentially plays himself, even using his own name for the character. Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep play the singing Johnson Sisters, with Lindsay Lohan as a suicide-obsessed daughter of Streep. Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly are hilarious as the slightly off-color singing cowboy duo, Dusty & Lefty. Kevin Kline is a security guard who act as the narrator. Maya Rudolph also appears as a pregnant stage coordinator. Contains some mild sexually-oriented jokes.
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Woody Harrelson |
Tommy Lee Jones |
Kevin Kline |
Lindsay Lohan |
Virginia Madsen |
Meryl Streep |
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Robert Altman |
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In a mountainous South American country, drug-dealing rebels kidnap Peter Bowman, a US engineer who works for an oil company's subsidiary. The company calls in a negotiator, Terry Thorne, an Aussie ex-soldier based in London. When the subsidiary goes bankrupt, the oil company washes its hands of the matter and pulls Thorne. Bowman's wife Alice begs him to stay. She and Peter's sister cobble together some money, Thorne talks ransom terms with the cash-strapped rebels, and Peter, chained high in the mountains, is sustained by a photo of Alice. When the politics of the situation change, so must Thorne's strategy. And what can Alice and he do about the attraction growing between them?
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Action |
Drama |
Thriller |
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Meg Ryan |
Russell Crowe |
David Morse |
Pamela Reed |
David Caruso |
Anthony Heald |
Stanley Anderson |
Gottfried John |
Alun Armstrong |
Michael Kitchen |
Margo Martindale |
Mario Ernesto Sánchez |
Pietro Sibille |
Vicky Hernández |
Norma Martínez |
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Taylor Hackford |
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Sleepless in Seattle
What if someone you never met, someone you never saw, someone you never knew was the only someone...
[1993,
USA] from $1.99
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Sam is a recent widower who is seeking someone new. Sam's son Jonah, is also looking for a new mother, so when Jonah puts his father on national radio, hundreds of women write to him. One of the women is Annie. She's engaged to Walter, but he's a bit strange. Annie goes to great lengths to meet Sam.
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Comedy |
Drama |
Romance |
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Tom Hanks |
Meg Ryan |
Bill Pullman |
Ross Malinger |
Rosie O'Donnell |
Gaby Hoffmann |
Victor Garber |
Rita Wilson |
Barbara Garrick |
Carey Lowell |
David Hyde Pierce |
Dana Ivey |
Rob Reiner |
Tom Riis Farrell |
Le Clanché du Rand |
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Nora Ephron |
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The true life story of Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene Jr. In the mid-to-late 1960s, in Washington, D.C., vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Petey to fully express himself - sometimes to outrageous effect - and "tell it like it is." With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell, the newly minted ex-con talks his way into an on-air radio gig. He forges a friendship and a partnership with fellow prison inmate Milo's brother Dewey Hughes. From the first wild morning on the air, Petey relies on the more straight-laced Dewey to run interference at WOL-AM, where Dewey is the program director. At the station, Petey becomes an iconic radio personality, surpassing even the established popularity of his fellow disc jockeys, Nighthawk and Sunny Jim. Combining biting humor with social commentary, Petey openly courts controversy for station owner E.G. Sonderling. Petey was determined to make not just himself but his community heard during an exciting and turbulent period in American history. As Petey's voice, humor, and spirit surge across the airwaves with the vitality of the era, listeners tune in to hear not only incredible music but also a man speaking directly to them about race and power in America like few people ever have. Through the years, Petey's "The truth just is" style — on - and off-air - would redefine both Petey and Dewey, and empower each to become the man he would most like to be.
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Biography |
Drama |
History |
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Jim Annan |
Benz Antoine |
Matt Birman |
David Brown |
Cedric the Entertainer |
Don Cheadle |
J. Miles Dale |
Davidx |
Chiwetel Ejiofor |
Mike Epps |
Kamal Jones |
Jeff Kassel |
Jim Malmberg |
Erick Peterson |
Kwame Rakes |
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Kasi Lemmons |
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WWII. Joe Enders, a decorated Marine who is by-the-book to a fault, is just coming back on duty (by cheating on his medical tests). "Ox" Anderson, much greener, is also getting the same new task: Protect the Navajo codetalkers (Ben Yahzee and Charles Whitehorse, respectively). While Enders is initially frustrated with his assignment, his respect grows as the codetalkers prove their worth in the brutal battle to take Saipan.
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