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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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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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The rise and fall of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula, showing the violent methods that he employs to gain the throne, and the subsequent insanity of his reign - he gives his horse political office and humiliates and executes anyone who even slightly displeases him. He also sleeps with his sister, organises elaborate orgies and embarks on a fruitless invasion of England before meeting an appropriate end. There are various versions of the film, ranging from the heavily- truncated 90-minute version to the legendary 160-minute hardcore version which leaves nothing to the imagination (though the hardcore scenes were inserted later and do not involve the main cast members).
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Malcolm McDowell |
Teresa Ann Savoy |
Helen Mirren |
Peter O'Toole |
John Steiner |
Guido Mannari |
Paolo Bonacelli |
Leopoldo Trieste |
Giancarlo Badessi |
Mirella D'Angelo |
Anneka Di Lorenzo |
Lori Wagner |
Adriana Asti |
John Gielgud |
Bruno Brive |
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Tinto Brass |
Bob Guccione |
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After his Vice-president suddenly dies, the President (Jeff Bridges) who is near the end of his final term, decides to leave a legacy by selecting a woman to fill the position. Enter a Senator (Joan Allen), who has shifted from the Republican Party to the Democratic. Initially appearing to be the perfect candidate, an allegation suddenly appears that she had been involved in a sexual orgy as a 19 year old in college. The confirmation committee chairman (Gary Oldman), a Republican, leaks the information to the press, while using the press discussion as a forum to bring it into the hearings. The chairman desires to get a Governor (William Petersen) into the office. The Governor had become a national hero when he attempted to rescue a young woman from a car that crashed from a bridge into deep water near where the Governor had been fishing.
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Gary Oldman |
Jeff Bridges |
Christian Slater |
Sam Elliott |
William Petersen |
Saul Rubinek |
Philip Baker Hall |
Mike Binder |
Robin Thomas |
Douglas Urbanski |
Noah Fryrear |
Joe Taylor |
Kevin Geer |
Doug Roberts |
Bev Appleton |
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Terrorists take over a 747 bound from Athens to Washington D.C., supposedly to effect the release of their leader. Intelligence expert David Grant suspects another reason and convinces the military that the 'plane should not be allowed to enter U.S. airspace. An assault mission is devised, using a specially equipped 'plane designed for mid-air crew transfers, and Grant finds himself aboard the 747 with a team of military anti-terrorists who have to defuse a bomb and overpower the terrorists.
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Kurt Russell |
Steven Seagal |
Halle Berry |
John Leguizamo |
Oliver Platt |
Joe Morton |
B. D. Wong |
Len Cariou |
Whip Hubley |
Andreas Katsulas |
Mary Ellen Trainor |
Marla Maples |
J.T. Walsh |
Ingo Neuhaus |
William James Jones |
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Stuart Baird |
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When a crusading chairperson of the military budget committee pressures the would be Navy secretary to begin full gender integration of the service, he offers the chance for a test case for a female trainee in the elite Navy SEALS commando force. Lt. Jordan O'Niel is given the assignment, but no one expects her to succeed in an inhumanly punishing regime that has a standard 60% dropout rate for men. However, O'Niel is determined to prove everyone wrong.
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Jason Beghe |
Lucinda Jenney |
Daniel von Bargen |
Demi Moore |
Anne Bancroft |
Boyd Kestner |
Angel David |
Morris Chestnun |
John Michael Higgins |
Scott Wilson |
Josh Hopkins |
David Vadim |
Gregg Bello |
Stephen Ramsey |
David Warshofsky |
Viggo Mortensen |
Kevin Gage |
Jim Caviezel |
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Ridley Scott |
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Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son, Commodus, and a power struggle leaves Maximus and his family condemned to death. The powerful general is unable to save his family, and his loss of will allows him to get captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies. The only desire that fuels him now is the chance to rise to the top so that he will be able to look into the eyes of the man who will feel his revenge.
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Russell Crowe |
Joaquin Phoenix |
Connie Nielsen |
Oliver Reed |
Richard Harris |
Derek Jacobi |
Djimon Hounsou |
David Schofield |
John Shrapnel |
Tomas Arana |
Ralf Moeller |
Spencer Treat Clark |
David Hemmings |
Tommy Flanagan |
Sven-Ole Thorsen |
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Ridley Scott |
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The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
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Al Pacino |
Robert Duvall |
Diane Keaton |
Robert De Niro |
John Cazale |
Talia Shire |
Lee Strasberg |
Michael V. Gazzo |
G.D. Spradlin |
Richard Bright |
Gastone Moschin |
Tom Rosqui |
Bruno Kirby |
Frank Sivero |
Francesca De Sapio |
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Francis Ford Coppola |
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In the early 1950's, the threat of Communism created an air of paranoia in the United States and exploiting those fears was Senator 'Joseph McCarthy (II)' (qv) of Wisconsin. However, CBS reporter 'Edward R. Murrow (I)' (qv) and his producer 'Fred W. Friendly' (qv) decided to take a stand and challenge McCarthy and expose him for the fear monger he was. However, their actions took a great personal toll on both men, but they stood by their convictions and helped to bring down one of the most controversial senators in American history.
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David Strathairn |
Robert Downey Jr. |
Patricia Clarkson |
Ray Wise |
Frank Langella |
Jeff Daniels |
George Clooney |
Tate Donovan |
Thomas McCarthy |
Matt Ross |
Reed Diamond |
Robert John Burke |
Grant Heslov |
Alex Borstein |
Rose Abdoo |
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George Clooney |
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Mays Gilliam, a Washington D.C. neighborhood Alderman, is about to be red-lined out of his job. But after the untimely death of the party frontrunner, Gilliam is plucked from obscurity, and thrust into the limelight as his party's nominee—for President of the United States. The players in Gilliam's life include: Mitch Gilliam, his unsophisticated older brother who becomes his running mate; Kim, his ex-girlfriend who had once dumped him, but who now has a sudden change of heart as she sees a chance at becoming First Lady; Martin Geller, his campaign manager; Lisa Clark, the woman who truly believes in Gilliam; and Debra Lassite | | |
