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More than a half-century after the events of 'Alien', Warrant Officer Ripley - the sole survivor of the Nostromo - is discovered adrift in the shuttle she used to escape. By now, the Company - Ripley's employer - has colonized the planet where the alien was found. Intent on covering up its illegal actions of years before, the Company strips Ripley of her flight officer's license. But when transmissions from the colony stop without warning, she is called into action again - this time with a group of Space Marines. Now the alien menace is hundreds of times larger, more insidious, and all but invincible. The sole survivor of the Nostromo re-enters a world of sudden, unspeakable horror - one that attacks without warning again and again and again.
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Sci-Fi |
Thriller |
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Sigourney Weaver |
Carrie Henn |
Michael Biehn |
Lance Henriksen |
Paul Reiser |
Bill Paxton |
William Hope |
Jenette Goldstein |
Al Matthews |
Mark Rolston |
Ricco Ross |
Colette Hiller |
Daniel Kash |
Cynthia Dale Scott |
Tip Tipping |
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James Cameron |
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In this sequel to the Evil Dead films, a discount-store employee ("Name's Ash. Housewares.") is time-warped to a medieval castle beset by monstrous forces. Initially mistaken for an enemy, he is soon revealed as the prophecised savior who can quest for the Necronomicon, a book which can dispel the evil. Unfortunately, he screws up the magic words while collecting the tome, and releases an army of skeletons, led by his own Deadite counterpart. What follows is a thrilling, yet tongue-in-cheek battle between Ash's 20th Century tactics and the minions of darkness.
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Adventure |
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Fantasy |
Horror |
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Bruce Campbell |
Embeth Davidtz |
Marcus Gilbert |
Ian Abercrombie |
Richard Grove |
Timothy Patrick Quill |
Michael Earl Reid |
Bridget Fonda |
Patricia Tallman |
Ted Raimi |
Deke Anderson |
Bruce Thomas |
Sara Shearer |
Shiva Gordon |
Billy Bryan |
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Sam Raimi |
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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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Riddick, now a hunted man, finds himself in the middle of two opposing forces in a major crusade. 'Colm Feore' (qv) plays Lord Marshal, a warrior priest who is the leader of a sect that is waging the tenth and perhaps final crusade 500 years in the future. 'Judi Dench' (qv) is Aereon, an ambassador from the Elemental race. She is an ethereal being who helps Riddick unearth his origins.
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Thriller |
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Vin Diesel |
Colm Feore |
Thandie Newton |
Judi Dench |
Karl Urban |
Alexa Davalos |
Linus Roache |
Yorick van Wageningen |
Nick Chinlund |
Keith David |
Mark Gibbon |
Roger R. Cross |
Terry Chen |
Christina Cox |
Nigel Vonas |
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David Twohy |
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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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An ancient Ring thought lost for centuries has been found, and through a strange twist in fate has been given to a small Hobbit named Frodo. When Gandalf discovers the Ring is in fact the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron, Frodo must make an epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it! However he does not go alone. He is joined by Gandalf, Legolas the elf, Gimli the Dwarf, Aragorn, Boromir and his three Hobbit friends Merry, Pippin and Samwise. Through mountains, snow, darkness, forests, rivers and plains, facing evil and danger at every corner the Fellowship of the Ring must go. Their quest to destroy the One Ring is the only hope for the end of the Dark Lords reign!
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Adventure |
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Thriller |
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Noel Appleby |
Elijah Wood |
Sean Astin |
Sala Baker |
Sean Bean |
Cate Blanchett |
Orlando Bloom |
Billy Boyd |
Marton Csokas |
Megan Edwards |
Michael Elsworth |
Mark Ferguson |
Ian Holm |
Ian McKellen |
Christopher Lee |
Lawrence Makoare |
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Peter Jackson |
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Shrek is a big ogre who lives alone in the woods, feared from all the people in the land of Duloc. When Lord Farquaad, the ruler of Duloc, exiles all the fairy-tale beings in the woods, Shrek looses his peaceful life and his home becomes a refugees camp. So, he sets to find Lord Farquaad and convince him to take the fairy-tale beings back where they belong, and leave him alone. Lord Farquaad accepts, under one condition. Shrek must first go and find the beautiful young princess Fiona, who will become Farquaad's bride. So, the big Ogre begins his quest, along with his newfound donkey friend...
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Adventure |
Animation |
Comedy |
Family |
Fantasy |
Romance |
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Mike Myers |
Eddie Murphy |
Cameron Diaz |
John Lithgow |
Vincent Cassel |
Peter Dennis |
Clive Pearse |
Jim Cummings |
Bobby Block |
Chris Miller |
Cody Cameron |
Kathleen Freeman |
Michael Galasso |
Christopher Knights |
Simon J. Smith |
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Andrew Adamson |
Vicky Jenson |
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This First Episode follows the young years of Anakin Skywalker (Darth Vader). The friendship of Obi-wan Kenobi, Yoda and Qui-Gon Jinn are also central aspects. And the beginning of the rise to power of Senator Palpatine to Emperor.
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Liam Neeson |
Ewan McGregor |
Natalie Portman |
Jake Lloyd |
Pernilla August |
Frank Oz |
Ian McDiarmid |
Oliver Ford Davies |
Hugh Quarshie |
Ahmed Best |
Anthony Daniels |
Kenny Baker |
Terence Stamp |
Brian Blessed |
Andrew Secombe |
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George Lucas |
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In a distant galaxy eons before the creation of the mythical planet known as Earth, vast civilizations have evolved, and ruling the galaxy is an interstellar Empire created from the ruins of an Old Republic that held sway for generations. It is a time of civil war, as solar systems have broken away from the Empire and are waging a war of rebellion. During a recent battle techical schematics for a gigantic space station, code named The Death Star, have been unearthed by Rebel spies, and a young woman who is a dissident member of the Imperial Senate, under the cover of a diplomatic mission to the planet Alderaan, is trying to smuggle these plans to the Rebellion. But her spacecraft is attacked by a vast warship of the Empire and seized. The dissident Senator is captured, but the plans for the Death Star are nowhere to be found. While soldiers of the Empire search the nearby planet Tatooine, a series of incidents sweeps up a young desert farmer with dreams of being a fighter pilot in the Rebellion, as he winds up with the Death Star plans and also the assistance of an elderly hermit who once served as a warrior of an ancient order whose chosen weapons were powerful energy swords known as light sabers. The pair recruit a cynical interstellar smuggler and his outsized alien copilot with an ancient freighter heavily modified for combat to help them reach Alderaan - but the planet is obliterated and now the foursome must rescue the young woman held prisoner by the Empire and lead an attack by the Rebellion against the Death Star before it can annihilate all hope of restoring freedom to the galaxy.
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Adventure |
Fantasy |
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| Actors: |
Mark Hamill |
Harrison Ford |
Carrie Fisher |
Peter Cushing |
Alec Guinness |
Anthony Daniels |
Kenny Baker |
Peter Mayhew |
David Prowse |
James Earl Jones |
Phil Brown |
Shelagh Fraser |
Jack Purvis |
Alex McCrindle |
Eddie Byrne |
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George Lucas |
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Fleeing the evil Galactic Empire, the rebels abandon their new base on Hoth. Princess Leia, Han Solo and the droids R2-D2 and C-3P0 escape in the damaged Millenium Falcon, but are later captured by Lord Darth Vader on Bespin. Skywalker, meanwhile, follows Ben Kenobi's posthumous command and receives Jedi training by Yoda on Dagobah. Will Skywalker manage to rescue his friends from the dark lord?
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Adventure |
Fantasy |
Sci-Fi |
Thriller |
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| Actors: |
Mark Hamill |
Harrison Ford |
Carrie Fisher |
Billy Dee Williams |
Anthony Daniels |
David Prowse |
Peter Mayhew |
Kenny Baker |
Frank Oz |
Alec Guinness |
Jeremy Bulloch |
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