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It is spring 480 BC, Persian King Xerxes, continuing his father Darius' master plan to conquer the Hellenic city-states, arrives in Hellas. The previous Persian invasion and diplomatic attempts have already turned most northern Hellas tribes and states to the Persian side. But the people of Athens and Sparta, the largest Hellenic powers at the time, feel quite insulted by the Persian emissaries' request to surrender to Xerxes, and so slay them. In Sparta, King Leonidas consults the local oracle, who gives two options: Either a spartan king will have to be sacrificed, or Sparta will be burned to the ground. A year earlier (481, BC) a Panhellenic consortium of all southern city-states had already recognized the superiority of the Spartan army (the best organized and trained army at the time) and had declared King Leonidas as supreme commander of the combined Hellenic army. It is then decided that a small force should block Xerxes' way to southern Hellas in the Thermopylae passage. This passage was, at that time, 12 meters wide. The great historian Herodotus, possibly exaggerating, states that there were 1,700,000 Persians (their true number could have been anywhere from 100,000 to 1,000,000) against 7,000 Hellenic hoplites and slaves, including the 300 men of the Spartan King elite guard. King Xerxes waited four days for the Hellenes to be frightened and eventually surrender and was quite astonished by his opponents' complete apathy. Xerxes tried to convince Leonidas to drop weapons, give up his position, kneel before him and live on as a local governor under Xerxes. King Leonidas replied "molon lave," which means "Come and get them." The three-day battle began, with the 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians (the other Hellenes where sent by Leonidas to protect passages to their flanks) slaying thousands of Persians with minimal losses. The whole Persian campaign would have failed if it hadn't been for Efialtes, who showed Xerxes a secret passage to the Hellenic flanks. After a final battle led by King Xerxes himself, the Hellenic force was slain and their heroism and glory was written forever in history. From the beginning of the battle, the Hellenes buried their dead in the spot where they fell. Then battle signs where made for the dead of each Hellenic faction. For the Pelloponisians, (including the 300 Spartans) the sign generally read (free translation) "In this place 4,000 Pelloponisians fought 30 millions)." For the 300 Spartans (Lakaedaemonians), the sign reads (free translation) "Oh foreigner, tell the Lakaedaemonians that we are buried here obeying their laws," meaning that they never hesitated and never retreated from the enemy. The impact of the battle was enormous for both sides. The Persians' morale dropped to zero, and the Hellenes lost their fear for the Persian conqueror and organized their defense. After several successful battles, the Hellenes ultimately defeated the Persian army and repelled their invasion in the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC.
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Gerard Butler |
Lena Headey |
Dominic West |
David Wenham |
Vincent Regan |
Michael Fassbender |
Tom Wisdom |
Andrew Pleavin |
Andrew Tiernan |
Rodrigo Santoro |
Giovani Cimmino |
Stephen McHattie |
Greg Kramer |
Alex Ivanovici |
Craig Kelly |
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Zack Snyder |
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Narcotics cops Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Bennett (Lawrence) head up a task force investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami. Their search leads to a dangerous kingpin, whose plan to control the city's drug traffic has touched off an underground war. Meanwhile, things get sexy between Mike and Syd (Union), Marcus's sister.
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Martin Lawrence |
Will Smith |
Jordi Mollà |
Gabrielle Union |
Peter Stormare |
Theresa Randle |
Joe Pantoliano |
Michael Shannon |
Jon Seda |
Yolanda Vazquez |
Jason Manuel Olazabal |
Otto Sanchez |
Henry Rollins |
Antoni Corone |
Gary Nickens |
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Michael Bay |
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The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel's mother, who begins killing out of revenge.
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Ray Winstone |
Robin Wright Penn |
Anthony Hopkins |
John Bilezikjian |
Brice Martin |
Sonje Fortag |
Sharisse Baker-Bernard |
Charlotte Salt |
Julene Renee |
Greg Ellis |
Rik Young |
Sebastian Roché |
Leslie Harter Zemeckis |
John Malkovich |
Woody Schultz |
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Robert Zemeckis |
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Boogeymen brings together 17 great horror-flick baddies of the last 40 years, ranging from Norman Bates to Leatherface to Freddy Krueger to Chuckie. Accompanying the clips of their dastardly deeds are optional FlixFacts trivia bits and an optional commentary soundtrack from Robert Englund.
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Andrew Robinson |
Grace Kirby |
Ashley Laurence |
Doug Bradley |
Nicholas Vince |
Simon Bamford |
Amanda Wyss |
Jsu Garcia |
Robert Englund |
Heather Langenkamp |
Andrew Divoff |
Brian Klugman |
Marilyn Burns |
Edwin Neal |
Gunnar Hansen |
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Stuntman Mike is a former Hollywood stunt race car driver who targets and kills women with his "death-proof" stunt car. In Act I, Mike surfaces in Austin, Texas to target a group of women whom he knows; Jungle Julia an outgoing, dope-smoking, radio DJ/fashion model meeting her old school friends for a night on the town whom are sentimental model Arlene, and local bad-girl Shanna, as well as bar-nut hippie Pam who tries to make Mike notice her, unaware of his sociopath and misogynist tendencies. In Act II, Stuntman Mike surfaces in Tennessee where he randomly picks another another group of women to stalk all of whom work in the motion picture business; Abernathy is a make-up girl and stand-in wanting a chance of pace in her life. Lee is a naive B-movie actress. Kim is a tough-minded stunt woman always wanting action. And Zoe is a fellow stunt woman from New Zealand visiting her friends. However, the second set of girls proves more though to get, and because of a combination of bad luck and Stuntman Mike's carelessness, the girls decide to turn the tables on their tormentor for revenge of their own...
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Kurt Russell |
Zoe Bell |
Rosario Dawson |
Vanessa Ferlito |
Sydney Tamiia Poitier |
Tracie Thoms |
Rose McGowan |
Jordan Ladd |
Mary Elizabeth Winstead |
Quentin Tarantino |
Marcy Harriell |
Eli Roth |
Omar Doom |
Michael Bacall |
Monica Staggs |
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Quentin Tarantino |
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Sequel to 'House of 1000 Corpses' is set some months later with the Texas State Police making a full-scale attack against the murderous Firefly family residence for the 1,000+ murders and disappearances of the past several years. But three of the family members escape, including Otis, Baby Firefly and Baby's father Captain Spaulding. The evil trio go on a road trip, leaving dozens of mangled bodies in their wake. Evading a massive Texas Rangers dragnet as well as a group of equally murderous bounty hunters led by Ken Dwyer (the brother of a policeman Mamma Firefly killed in 'House of...') who's obsessed with finding the deadly killers, the surviving Firefly clan gather at a run-down amusement park owned by Captain Spaulding's half-brother, Charlie Altamont, whom offers them shelter and a new base of operations for their killing spree as Sheriff Dwyer, the Texas Rangers, the FBI and others slowly close in.
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Crime |
Horror |
Thriller |
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Sid Haig |
Bill Moseley |
Sheri Moon |
William Forsythe |
Ken Foree |
Matthew McGrory |
Leslie Easterbrook |
Geoffrey Lewis |
Priscilla Barnes |
Dave Sheridan |
Kate Norby |
Lew Temple |
Danny Trejo |
Dallas Page |
Brian Posehn |
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Rob Zombie |
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In 2046, in a research facility in Mars, some subjects are released and the place is kept in quarantine. A team of Marines, leaded by Sarge (The Rock), is assigned to rescue the personnel and retrieve the research data, with the support of Dr. Samantha Grimm (Rosamund Pike), the twin sister of the Marine John "Reaper" Grimm (Karl Urban). While in the mission, Samantha finds a dark hidden secret about the monsters and the researches.
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Action |
Horror |
Sci-Fi |
Thriller |
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Karl Urban |
Rosamund Pike |
Ben Daniels |
Razaaq Adoti |
Richard Brake |
Al Weaver |
Dexter Fletcher |
Brian Steele |
Dwayne Johnson |
Deobia Oparei |
Yao Chin |
Robert Russell |
Daniel York |
Ian Hughes |
Sara Houghton |
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Andrzej Bartkowiak |
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During the WWII battle of Stalingrad, two snipers, a Russian (Law), and a German (Harris), are locked in a battle of wills and marksmenship, while the Russian is boosted to the status of hero by a political official (Fiennes).
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Drama |
Romance |
Thriller |
War |
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Jude Law |
Ed Harris |
Rachel Weisz |
Joseph Fiennes |
Bob Hoskins |
Ron Perlman |
Eva Mattes |
Gabriel Thomson |
Matthias Habich |
Sophie Rois |
Ivan Shvedoff |
Mario Bandi |
Hans Martin Stier |
Clemens Schick |
Mikhail Matveyev |
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Jean-Jacques Annaud |
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Five friends go up to a cabin in the woods where they find unspeakable evil lurking in the forest. They find the Necronomicon and the taped translation of the text. Once the tape is played, the evil is released. One by one, the teens become deadly zombies. With only one remaining, it is up to him to survive the night and battle the evil dead.
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Fantasy |
Horror |
Thriller |
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Bruce Campbell |
Ellen Sandweiss |
Richard DeManincor |
Betsy Baker |
Theresa Tilly |
Philip A. Gillis |
Dorothy Tapert |
Cheryl Guttridge |
Barbara Carey |
David Horton |
Wendall Thomas |
Don Long |
Stu Smith |
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Sam Raimi |
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Since the hit-and-run murder of his wife five years ago, Rennie Cray has crisscrossed America in his souped-up, stripped-down '68 Plymouth Barracuda, pursuing her killer. The man he seeks in a high-speed, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse is James Fargo, a merciless, wheelchair-bound pyschopath. Through a series of mechanical innovations, Fargo has turned his rampaging '72 Cadillac Eldorado into a monstrous extension of his own twisted body and mind. Now, their deadly battle of wits and wills is about to move into overdrive. And caught in their headlights is a tormented beauty who unwittingly holds the key to their ultimate showdown.
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Crime |
Horror |
Thriller |
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James Caviezel |
Rhona Mitra |
Frankie Faison |
Colm Feore |
Gordon Currie |
Andrea Roth |
Noam Jenkins |
Toby Proctor |
James Kee |
Guylaine St-Onge |
Joe Pingue |
Martin Roach |
Ron Bell |
Paul Rutledge |
Kelly Jones |
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Robert Harmon |
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