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David Huxley is an American politician living in Hungary whom gets blackmailed by an unknown party after being videotaped having sex with his fiancée Tish and a local supermodel. Desperate to find the extortionists, David goes into the sordid Red Light district of Eastern Europe, only to end up kidnapped, leaving Tish to try to come up with a $5 million ransom on her own.
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Johnathon Schaech |
Lori Heuring |
Bruce Davison |
Julie Benz |
Valentine Pelka |
Zita Görög |
Robert Cavanah |
Alex Scarlis |
Barna Illyés |
Jane How |
F.J. Flynn |
Andrew Fettes |
Ferenc Kovács |
Géza Schramek |
George Mendel |
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J.S. Cardone |
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Dr. Evil uses a device he calls a "Time Machine" to travel back to 1969 and remove Austin Powers' mojo. The sexually wounded swinger must travel back in time and, with the help of agent Felicity Shagwell, recover his vitality. Meanwhile, Dr. Evil's personal life runs amok as he discovers love, continues to shun his son and develops a close relationship with himself. Well, actually, a clone 1/8 his size whom he dubs "Mini-Me". The always time-baffled Dr. Evil begins his plan to put a gigantic cannon on the moon, thus turning it into a device called either "The Death Star" or "Alan Parson's Project," depending on which name is available.
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Mike Myers |
Heather Graham |
Michael York |
Robert Wagner |
Rob Lowe |
Seth Green |
Mindy Sterling |
Verne Troyer |
Elizabeth Hurley |
Gia Carides |
Oliver Muirhead |
George Cheung |
Jeffrey Meng |
Muse Watson |
Scott Cooper |
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Jay Roach |
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When "The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help of his bowling buddy, Walter, a gun-toting Jewish-convert with anger issues. Deception leads to more trouble, and it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude.
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Jeff Bridges |
John Goodman |
Julianne Moore |
Steve Buscemi |
David Huddleston |
Philip Seymour Hoffman |
Tara Reid |
Philip Moon |
Mark Pellegrino |
Peter Stormare |
Flea |
Torsten Voges |
Jimmie Dale Gilmore |
Jack Kehler |
John Turturro |
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Joel Coen |
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A con man flees to Southeast Asia when an international scam he was involved in goes sour. Suspecting he's been double-crossed by his long-time mentor, he sets off to Cambodia for his promised cut. What he finds there is a mysterious and hostile environment where even the most polished criminal can end up on deadly ground.
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Matt Dillon |
James Caan |
Natascha McElhone |
Gérard Depardieu |
Kem Sereyvuth |
Stellan Skarsgård |
Rose Byrne |
Shawn Andrews |
Chalee Sankhavesa |
Christopher Curry |
Rob Campbell |
Bernard Merklen |
Jack Shearer |
Kirk Fox |
Kyoza |
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Matt Dillon |
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Wayne and Eileen Hayes live the American Dream. Together they've raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. But there have been sacrifices along the way. When Wayne is kidnapped by an ordinary man, Arnold Mack, and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple's world is turned inside out. Eileen finds her home full of FBI agents, their life under scrutiny. While Wayne is engaged in the negotiation of his lifetime, Eileen works frantically with the FBI to secure his release. The terrifying ordeal causes Wayne and Eileen to reassess their marriage and come to a deeper sense of their commitment to each other. With each passing hour, the need and desire for Wayne to return home safely becomes ever more urgent.
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Robert Redford |
Helen Mirren |
Willem Dafoe |
Alessandro Nivola |
Matt Craven |
Melissa Sagemiller |
Wendy Crewson |
Larry Pine |
Diana Scarwid |
Elizabeth Ruscio |
Gwen McGee |
Sarah Koskoff |
Graciela Marin |
Mike Pniewski |
Geoff McKnight |
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Pieter Jan Brugge |
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In the year 1971, San Francisco faces the terror of a maniac known as Scorpio- who snipes at innocent victims and demands ransom through notes left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Harry Callahan (known as Dirty Harry by his peers through his reputation handling of homicidal cases) is assigned to the case along with his newest partner Inspector Chico Gonzalez to track down Scorpio and stop him. Using humiliation and cat and mouse type of games against Callahan, Scorpio is put to the test with the cop with a dirty attitude.
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Clint Eastwood |
Harry Guardino |
Reni Santoni |
John Vernon |
Andrew Robinson |
John Larch |
John Mitchum |
Mae Mercer |
Lyn Edgington |
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Fargo is based on true events that occurred in Minnesota in 1987 with the names changed to protect the victims. Jerry works in his father-in-law's car dealership and has gotten himself in financial problems. He tries various schemes to come up with money needed for a reason that is never really explained. It has to be assumed that his huge embezzlement of money from the dealership is about to be discovered by father-in-law. When all else falls through, plans he set in motion earlier for two men to kidnap his wife for ransom to be paid by her wealthy father (who doesn't seem to have the time of day for son-in-law). From the moment of the kidnapping, things go wrong and what was supposed to be a non-violent affair turns bloody with more blood added by the minute. Jerry is upset at the blood shed, which turns loose a pregnant sheriff from MN who is tenacious in attempting to solve the three murders in her jurisdiction.
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William H. Macy |
Steve Buscemi |
Peter Stormare |
Kristin Rudrüd |
Harve Presnell |
Tony Denman |
Gary Houston |
Sally Wingert |
Kurt Schweickhardt |
Larissa Kokernot |
Melissa Peterman |
Steve Reevis |
Warren Keith |
Steve Edelman |
Sharon Anderson |
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Ethan Coen |
Joel Coen |
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A wave of kidnappings has swept through Mexico, feeding a growing sense of panic among its wealthier citizens, especially parents. In one six-day period, there were twenty-four abductions, leading many to hire bodyguards for their children. Into this world enters John Creasy, a burned-out ex-CIA operative/assassin, who has given up on life. Creasy's friend Rayburn brings him to Mexico City to be a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos, daughter of industrialist Samuel Ramos and his wife Lisa. Creasy is not interested in being a bodyguard, especially to a youngster, but for lack of something better to do, he accepts the assignment. Creasy barely tolerates the precocious child and her pestering questions about him and his life. But slowly, she chips away at his seemingly impenetrable exterior, his defenses drop, and he opens up to her. Creasy's new-found purpose in life is shattered when Pita is kidnapped. Despite being seriously wounded during the kidnapping, he vows to kill anyone involved in or profiting from the kidnapping. And no one can stop him.
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Denzel Washington |
Dakota Fanning |
Marc Anthony |
Radha Mitchell |
Christopher Walken |
Giancarlo Giannini |
Rachel Ticotin |
Jesús Ochoa |
Mickey Rourke |
Angelina Peláez |
Gustavo Sánchez Parra |
Gero Camilo |
Rosa María Hernández |
Heriberto Del Castillo |
Mario Zaragoza |
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Tony Scott |
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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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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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Tom Mullen, rich airline owner, is shocked when his son is kidnapped. He is willing to pay the two million dollar ransom, but the drop goes wrong. So Tom turns the ransom money into a bounty on the head of the kidnapper.
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Mel Gibson |
Rene Russo |
Brawley Nolte |
Gary Sinise |
Delroy Lindo |
Lili Taylor |
Liev Schreiber |
Donnie Wahlberg |
Evan Handler |
Nancy Ticotin |
Michael Gaston |
Kevin Neil McCready |
Paul Guilfoyle |
Allen Bernstein |
José Zúñiga |
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Ron Howard |
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Stanley Goodspeed, who lives in Washington D.C., is a biochemist who works for the FBI. Soon after his fiancée Carla Pestalozzi announces that she is pregnant, Stanley gets a call from FBI director James Womack. Womack tells Stanley that San Francis | | |
