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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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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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A flying saucer orbits the 1950s Earth. It lands in Washington, DC, on the Mall. The lone occupant steps out and is shot by a jumpy soldier. Gort, a large and very powerful robot appears to save him and is able to melt tanks with the slightest bit of his power. The wounded alien orders Gort to stop his rampage and is taken to a hospital from which he escapes in order to learn more about this planet, even moving in as a boarder with an Earth family. When they begin to suspect him, he reveals himself, along with the news that Gort is a member of a race of super-robot enforcers invented to keep the peace of the galaxy that will destroy the Earth if provoked.
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Drama |
Family |
Sci-Fi |
Thriller |
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Michael Rennie |
Patricia Neal |
Hugh Marlowe |
Sam Jaffe |
Billy Gray |
Frances Bavier |
Lock Martin |
Elmer Davis |
H.V. Kaltenborn |
Drew Pearson |
Gabriel Heatter |
Holly Bane |
Marshall Bradford |
John Brown |
John Burton |
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Robert Wise |
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A group of young film students run into real-life zombies while filming a horror movie of their own.
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Thriller |
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Nick Alachiotis |
Matt Birman |
George Buza |
Joshua Close |
Christopher Cordell |
Wes Craven |
Joe Dinicol |
Stephen King |
Tino Monte |
Simon Northwood |
Simon Pegg |
Philip Riccio |
Martin Roach |
Shawn Roberts |
Todd Schroeder |
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George A. Romero |
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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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Crime |
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Thriller |
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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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Chen Chen returns to the international compound of China only to learn of his beloved teacher's death. This is compounded by the continual racist harassment by the Japanese population in the area. Unlike his friends, he confronts it head on with his mastery of martial arts while investigating his teacher's murder.
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Bruce Lee |
Nora Miao |
James Tien |
Maria Yi |
Robert Baker |
Fu Ching Chen |
San Chin |
Yin-Chieh Han |
Riki Hashimoto |
Jun Arimura |
Chung-Hsin Huang |
Quin Lee |
Feng Tien |
Yin Chi Lee |
Tony Liu |
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Wei Lo |
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In this exploration of our violent society and how depictions of violence reflect and shape our culture, a middle-class housewife Anna tells the story of how she and her husband George and their 10-year-old son Georgie submitted both physically and mentally to the torture, violence, and death foisted upon them by two young, unexpected, white-gloved visitors at their weekend vacation retreat near a lake.
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Thriller |
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Tim Roth |
Michael Pitt |
Brady Corbet |
Devon Gearhart |
Boyd Gaines |
Robert LuPone |
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Gremlins begins with inventor Rand Peltzer trying to find a quick gift for his son Billy before returning home from a New York trip. He settles on a unique pet in a Chinatown curio shop--a cute, furry creature known as a Mogwai. Before he leaves, he is warned by the shop's owner that three rules must be obeyed by a Mogwai owner: 1) Keep it away from bright light, 2) Don't get any water on it, and 3) Never, never ever feed it after midnight. Rand takes note of these rules and returns home with the Mogwai to his idyllic small-town home of Kingston Falls. Rand's gift is an instant hit: Billy loves his adorable new pet, naming it Gizmo and taking it everywhere he goes. Unfortunately, he and his friends also begin breaking the rules of Mogwai care. When water is accidentally spilled on Gizmo, it causes him to multiply and produce a number of mischievous little brothers. Among these is the mean-tempered Stripe. Soon enough, the new Mogwai get hold of some food after midnight and this causes them to change from cute fur-balls into nasty, scaly monsters dubbed 'Gremlins.'
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Comedy |
Fantasy |
Horror |
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Hoyt Axton |
John Louie |
Keye Luke |
Don Steele |
Susan Burgess |
Scott Brady |
Arnie Moore |
Corey Feldman |
Harry Carey Jr. |
Zach Galligan |
Dick Miller |
Phoebe Cates |
Polly Holliday |
Donald Elson |
Belinda Balaski |
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Joe Dante |
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Yesterday it was rural Kingston Falls. Today it's the Big Apple — and lots of wild, anarchic comedy — because a new batch of mischievous green meanies is on the loose. We told you. Remember the rules. You didn't listen. Now you'll have to face up to the hilarious consequences.
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Fantasy |
Horror |
Sci-Fi |
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Zach Galligan |
John Glover |
Robert Prosky |
Robert Picardo |
Christopher Lee |
Dick Miller |
Gedde Watanabe |
Keye Luke |
Don Stanton |
Dan Stanton |
Shawn Nelson |
Archie Hahn |
Ron Fassler |
Time Winters |
Jason Presson |
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Dear Diary: Veronica Sawyer is sick of being part of the Heathers, the most powerful clic of Westerberg High; making fun of Martha Dunnstock ("Dumptruck"), the fat girl, or doing some stupid polls is something she'll never get used to. Meanwhile she meets JD, a cool rebel guy who wouldn't mind shooting a gun at school just to make his point. Remington University's party is where Veronica has to go as a Heather, and there's where she gets her ultimatum as a Heather from Heather Chandler, the head of the Heathers. So Veronica and her lover JD "accidentally" kill Heather Chandler and manage to cover it up by making a suicide note. Will this be just the beginning of the assasination-turned-suicide serie of Westerberg High which nor the FBI, the CIA or the PTA would be able to stop? Or will Veronica be able to pull herself together and stop her psychotic lover from killing absolutely EVERYONE at school?
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Comedy |
Crime |
Drama |
Mystery |
Romance |
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Winona Ryder |
Christian Slater |
Shannen Doherty |
Lisanne Falk |
Kim Walker |
Penelope Milford |
Glenn Shadix |
Lance Fenton |
Patrick Labyorteaux |
Jeremy Applegate |
Jon Matthews |
Carrie Lynn |
Phill Lewis |
Renée Estevez |
John Zarchen |
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| Directors: |
Michael Lehmann |
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In ancient China, before the reign of the first emperor, warring factions throughout the Six Kingdoms plot to assassinate the most powerful ruler, Qin. When a minor official defeats Qin's three principal enemies, he is summoned to the palace to tell Qin the story of his surprising victory.
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Adventure |
Drama |
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| Actors: |
Jet Li |
Tony Leung Chiu Wai |
Maggie Cheung |
Ziyi Zhang |
Daoming Chen |
Donnie Yen |
Liu Zhong Yuan |
Zheng Tia Yong |
Yan Qin |
Chang Xiao Yang |
Zhang Ya Kun |
Ma Wen Hua |
Jin Ming |
Xu Kuang Hua |
Wang Shou Xin |
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Yimou Zhang |
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