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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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Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.
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Rudy Youngblood |
Dalia Hernández |
Jonathan Brewer |
Morris Birdyellowhead |
Carlos Emilio Báez |
Amilcar Ramírez |
Israel Contreras |
Israel Ríos |
María Isabel Díaz |
Espiridion Acosta Cache |
Mayra Serbulo |
Iazua Larios |
Lorena Hernández |
Itandehui Gutierrez |
Sayuri Gutierrez |
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Mel Gibson |
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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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Based very loosely on Robert Ludlum's novel, the Bourne Identity is the story of a man whose wounded body is discovered by fisherman who nurse him back to health. He can remember nothing and begins to try to rebuild his memory based on clues such as the Swiss bank account, the number of which, is implanted in his hip. He soon realizes that he is being hunted and takes off with Marie on a search to find out who he is and why he is being hunted.
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Adventure |
Mystery |
Thriller |
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Matt Damon |
Franka Potente |
Chris Cooper |
Clive Owen |
Brian Cox |
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje |
Gabriel Mann |
Walton Goggins |
Josh Hamilton |
Julia Stiles |
Orso Maria Guerrini |
Tim Dutton |
Denis Braccini |
Nicky Naude |
David Selburg |
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Doug Liman |
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After finding himself at the constant abuse of his best friend Bobby, Marty has become fed up with his friend's twisted ways. His girlfriend, a victim of Bobby's often cruel ways, couldn't agree more and they strategize murdering Bobby, with a group of willing and unwilling participants in a small Florida town. In the midst of their plotting, they find themselves contemplating with the possible aftermath of what could happen.
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Crime |
Drama |
Thriller |
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Brad Renfro |
Rachel Miner |
Bijou Phillips |
Nick Stahl |
Michael Pitt |
Leo Fitzpatrick |
Kelli Garner |
Daniel Franzese |
Nathalie Paulding |
Jessica Sutta |
Ed Amatrudo |
Steve Raulerson |
Judy Clayton |
Alan Lilly |
Irene B. Colletti |
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Larry Clark |
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A poetic guitarist Eric Draven is brought back to life by a crow a year after he and his fiancée are murdered. The crow guides him through the land of the living, and leads him to his killers: knife thrower Tin-tin, drugetic Funboy, car buff T-Bird, and the unsophisticated Skank. One by one, Eric gives these thugs a taste of their own medicine. However their leader Top-Dollar, a world-class crime lord who will dispatch his enemies with a Japanese sword and joke about it later, will soon learn the legend of the crow and the secret to the vigilante's invincibility.
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Crime |
Fantasy |
Thriller |
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Brandon Lee |
Rochelle Davis |
Ernie Hudson |
Michael Wincott |
Ling Bai |
Sofia Shinas |
Anna Levine |
David Patrick Kelly |
Angel David |
Laurence Mason |
Michael Massee |
Tony Todd |
Jon Polito |
Bill Raymond |
Marco Rodríguez |
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Alex Proyas |
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With this sequel to his prize-winning independent previous film, "El Mariachi," director Robert Rodriquez joins the ranks of Sam Peckinpah and John Woo as a master of slick, glamorized ultra-violence. We pick up the story as a continuation of "El Mariachi," where an itinerant musician, looking for work, gets mistaken for a hitman and thereby entangled in a web of love, corruption, and death. This time, he is out to avenge the murder of his lover and the maiming of his fretting hand, which occurred at the end of the earlier movie. However, the plot is recapitulated, and again, a case of mistaken identity leads to a very high body count, involvement with a beautiful woman who works for the local drug lord, and finally, the inevitable face-to-face confrontation and bloody showdown.
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Crime |
Thriller |
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Antonio Banderas |
Salma Hayek |
Joaquim de Almeida |
Cheech Marin |
Steve Buscemi |
Carlos Gómez |
Quentin Tarantino |
Tito Larriva |
Angel Aviles |
Danny Trejo |
Abraham Verduzco |
Carlos Gallardo |
Albert Michel Jr. |
David Alvarado |
Angela Lanza |
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Robert Rodriguez |
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In a futuristic world, a strict regime has eliminated war by suppressing emotions: books, art and music are strictly forbidden and feeling is a crime punishable by death. Cleric John Preston (Bale) is a top ranking government agent responsible for destroying those who resist the rules. Whe he misses a dose of Prozium, a mind-altering drug that hinders emotion, Preston, who has been trained to enforce the strict laws of the new regime, suddenly becomes the only person capable of overthrowing it.
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Action |
Sci-Fi |
Thriller |
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Dominic Purcell |
Christian Bale |
Sean Bean |
Christian Kahrmann |
John Keogh |
Sean Pertwee |
William Fichtner |
Angus Macfadyen |
David Barrash |
Dirk Martens |
Taye Diggs |
Matthew Harbour |
Maria Pia Calzone |
Emily Siewert |
Emily Watson |
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Kurt Wimmer |
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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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Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that's wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed.
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Drama |
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Hugh Jackman |
Rachel Weisz |
Ellen Burstyn |
Mark Margolis |
Stephen McHattie |
Fernando Hernandez |
Cliff Curtis |
Sean Patrick Thomas |
Donna Murphy |
Ethan Suplee |
Richard McMillan |
Lorne Brass |
Abraham Aronofsky |
Renee Asofsky |
Anish Majumdar |
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Darren Aronofsky |
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