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2001 is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith here on earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well) Evolution then enabled man to reach the moon's surface where he finds yet another monolith, one which signals the monolith-placers that we have evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and man (Bowman) to reach the monolith-placers, the winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.
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Keir Dullea |
Gary Lockwood |
William Sylvester |
Daniel Richter |
Leonard Rossiter |
Margaret Tyzack |
Robert Beatty |
Sean Sullivan |
Douglas Rain |
Frank Miller |
Bill Weston |
Ed Bishop |
Glenn Beck |
Alan Gifford |
Ann Gillis |
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Stanley Kubrick |
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A small VHS only video store faces foreclosure in a poor community. While watching the store for the owner, a blundering employee's friend accidentally erases all of the tapes. In order to keep their blunder from becoming apparent, the duo of Mos Def and Jack Black begin remaking the films themselves using homemade special effects and outdated filming techniques.
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Jack Black |
Mos Def |
Danny Glover |
Irv Gooch |
Chandler Parker |
Arjay Smith |
Quinton Aaron |
Gio Perez |
Tomasz Soltys |
Marcus Carl Franklin |
Blake Hightower |
Amir Ali Said |
David Slotkoff |
Frank Heins |
Harvey Hogan |
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Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill's lives are put in danger.
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Drama |
Fantasy |
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Jonathan Pryce |
Robert De Niro |
Katherine Helmond |
Ian Holm |
Bob Hoskins |
Michael Palin |
Ian Richardson |
Peter Vaughan |
Kim Greist |
Jim Broadbent |
Barbara Hicks |
Charles McKeown |
Derrick O'Connor |
Kathryn Pogson |
Bryan Pringle |
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Terry Gilliam |
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In a futuristic Britain, a gang of teenagers go on the rampage every night, beating and raping helpless victims. After one of the boys quells an uprising in the gang, they knock him out and leave him for the police to find. He agrees to try "aversion therapy" to shorten his jail sentence. When he is eventually let out, he hates violence, but the rest of his gang members are still after him.
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Crime |
Drama |
Thriller |
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Malcolm McDowell |
Patrick Magee |
Michael Bates |
Warren Clarke |
John Clive |
Adrienne Corri |
Carl Duering |
Paul Farrell |
Clive Francis |
Michael Gover |
Miriam Karlin |
James Marcus |
Aubrey Morris |
Godfrey Quigley |
Sheila Raynor |
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Stanley Kubrick |
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The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.
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Drama |
Horror |
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Richard Bohringer |
Michael Gambon |
Helen Mirren |
Alan Howard |
Tim Roth |
Ciarán Hinds |
Gary Olsen |
Ewan Stewart |
Roger Ashton-Griffiths |
Ron Cook |
Liz Smith |
Emer Gillespie |
Janet Henfrey |
Arnie Breeveld |
Tony Alleff |
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Peter Greenaway |
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Donnie Darko gets along badly with his family, with his teachers and with his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him; and he has a compassionate psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank, who is either a large purple bunny, or man in a large purple bunny costume. Either way, Donnie is the only one who can see him. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his room, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie's escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events. Donnie's mental illness, if such it is, may never allow him to find out for sure.
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Drama |
Mystery |
Sci-Fi |
Thriller |
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Drew Barrymore |
Jena Malone |
Jake Gyllenhaal |
Holmes Osborne |
Maggie Gyllenhaal |
Daveigh Chase |
Mary McDonnell |
James Duval |
Arthur Taxier |
Patrick Swayze |
Mark Hoffman |
David St. James |
Tom Tangen |
Jazzie Mahannah |
Jolene Purdy |
Stuart Stone |
Gary Lundy |
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Richard Kelly |
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La Planète sauvage AKA Fantastic Planet is a surrealist story based on the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Set in a far distant world human beings or "Oms"have been domesticated by the gigantic Draags. Wild Oms however are a problem and are exterminated by the dozen. One domesticated om Terr is able to escape his masters with a headset that puts information directly into the brain. Armed now with the Draags technology he leads the Oms in an attempt to make life better for them...But will the deomizing destroy them?
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Sci-Fi |
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Jennifer Drake |
Eric Baugin |
Jean Topart |
Jean Valmont |
Sylvie Lenoir |
Michèle Chahan |
Yves Barsacq |
Hubert de Lapparent |
Gérard Hernandez |
Claude Joseph |
Philippe Ogouz |
Jacques Ruisseau |
Barry Bostwick |
Mark Gruner |
Marvin Miller |
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René Laloux |
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The big-screen version of Hunter S. Thompson's seminal psychedelic classic about his road trip across Western America as he and his large Samoan lawyer searched desperately for the "American dream"... they were helped in large part by the huge amount of drugs and alcohol kept in their convertible, The Red Shark.
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Comedy |
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Johnny Depp |
Benicio Del Toro |
Tobey Maguire |
Ellen Barkin |
Gary Busey |
Christina Ricci |
Mark Harmon |
Cameron Diaz |
Katherine Helmond |
Michael Jeter |
Penn Jillette |
Craig Bierko |
Lyle Lovett |
Flea |
Laraine Newman |
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Terry Gilliam |
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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 |
Romance |
Sci-Fi |
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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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Bruges, the most well-preserved medieval city in the whole of Belgium, is a welcoming destination for travellers from all over the world. But for hit men Ray and Ken, it could be their final destination; a difficult job has resulted in the pair being ordered right before Christmas by their London boss Harry to go and cool their heels in the storybook Flemish city for a couple of weeks. Very much out of place amidst the gothic architecture, canals, and cobbled streets, the two hit men fill their days living the lives of tourists. Ray, still haunted by the bloodshed in London, hates the place, while Ken, even as he keeps a fatherly eye on Ray's often profanely funny exploits, finds his mind and soul being expanded by the beauty and serenity of the city. But the longer they stay waiting for Harry's call, the more surreal their experience becomes, as they find themselves in weird encounters with locals, tourists, violent medieval art, a dwarf American actor shooting a European art film, Dutch prostitutes, and a potential romance for Ray in the form of Chloë, who may have some dark secrets of her own. And when the call from Harry does finally come, Ken and Ray's vacation becomes a life-and-death struggle of darkly comic proportions and surprisingly emotional consequences.
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Crime |
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Rudy Blomme |
Olivier Bonjour |
Mark Donovan |
Colin Farrell |
Jean-Marc Favorin |
Ralph Fiennes |
Brendan Gleeson |
Eric Godon |
Zeljko Ivanek |
Louis Nummy |
Jordan Prentice |
Jérémie Renier |
Theo Stevenson |
Angel Witney |
Ciarán Hinds |
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A bright-eyed young actress travels to Hollywood, only to be ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving a woman who was nearly murdered, and now has amnesia because of a car crash. Eventually, both women are pulled into a psychotic illusion involving a dangerous blue box, a director named Adam Kesher, and the mysterious night club Silencio.
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