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Baron Munchausen is a character of European myth that might be considered the predecessor of American tales of Pecos Bill or Paul Bunyan. The Baron's stories are taken to be outrageous and fanciful lies. This is the origin of the name of the psychiatric diagnosis of "Munchausen's Syndrome", a particularly bizzare form of hypochondria.
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John Neville |
Eric Idle |
Sarah Polley |
Oliver Reed |
Charles McKeown |
Winston Dennis |
Jack Purvis |
Valentina Cortese |
Jonathan Pryce |
Bill Paterson |
Peter Jeffrey |
Uma Thurman |
Alison Steadman |
Ray Cooper |
Don Henderson |
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Terry Gilliam |
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Jack Elgin is the European editor of The Economist, which is based in London, England. Jack has a wife named Maria and three kids named Joanne, Julia, and Andrew. Jack subtly changes the family vacation from a lazy week of Mediterranean fun and sun in Corfu, Greece, to a tour of India, because of a story he has to cover. Maria is not as impressed by this as the kids are. Jack himself envisioned a chance to simultaneously work an easy reporting assignment and spend a little quality time with his family. But on the way to India, the airplane, a 747 owned by AM Air, an American airline, makes an unscheduled stopover in Limassol Cyprus, because of a mechanical problem. After a while of waiting inside the Limassol airport, everyone gets back on the plane — which is then hijacked by a group of terrorists known as the August 15th Movement, led by a Serbian man named Ivanic Loyvek and his right-hand man Karadan Maldic. And they are demanding $50,000,000 from the US State Department in one hour, or everyone on the airplane will die. The demand is met, and Loyvek and Maldic start releasing the women and children, with the men to go last. But as soon as a front passenger door is opened, a local police team gunning for the terrorists opens fire. The flight attendants frantically open the rest of the airplane's doors and start getting passengers out, but the terrorists start killing passengers, leading to an explosion. Maria, Joanne, and Julia get out of the airplane, and then Jack, holding Andrew, gets out — only to watch Maria, Joanne, and Julia get shot by the terrorists. Jack tries to hide Andrew's face so he can't see it. Maria and Joanne are dead, and Julia is still alive — but Julia burns to death while crying for help. Jack and Andrew survive. In all, a total of 15 passengers die, and Loyvek and Maldic, the surviving terrorists, escape, knowing that they now have the $50,000,000. The hijacking would never have ended this way if the police team had waited until after the passengers were released from the airplane before getting trigger happy. Back in London, an absolutely devastated Jack is told that the terrorists were captured, but they were released and deported secretly, with no charges and no arrest, the result of some awfully compromised politics. Jack is understandably enraged that Loyvek and Maldic got off scot-free. While helping Andrew cope, Jack tries all the legal ways to ensure justice for his family, but to no avail. Jack even pays a visit to Henry Davidson, a CIA agent who works at the American Embassy in London. Davidson tells Jack that there's little that can be done. Obviously, the American and British governments are completely impotent when it comes to going after Loyvek and Maldic, so Jack has absolutely no choice in the matter. He must do it himself. With the help of his ex-intelligence operative friend Kate Stockton, who is well-schooled in the finer points of international intelligence, Jack becomes a one-man anti-terrorist squadron, searching for Loyvek and Maldich. Dogging Jack's trail is FBI agent Jules Bernard, who's cooperating with Scotland Yard on anti-terrorist activities, and who suspects that Jack is the man who has been killing anyone involved in the hijacking. But as it turns out, Jules is on Jack's side, and he's willing to help Jack make those responsible pay for the deaths of his family and the other people who died in Cyprus.
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Thriller |
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Jeremy Irons |
Forest Whitaker |
Jason Priestley |
Briony Glassco |
Charlotte Rampling |
Lois Maxwell |
Timothy West |
Joel Pitts |
Anna Maguire |
Holly Boyd |
Kal Weber |
Ian McNeice |
William Armstrong |
Garrick Hagon |
Serge Soric |
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John Irvin |
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As waves of immigrants swell the population of New York, lawlessness and corruption thrive in Manhattan's Five Points section. After years of incarceration, young Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon returns seeking revenge against the rival gang leader who killed his father. But Amsterdam's personal vendetta becomes part of the gang warfare that erupts as he and his fellow Irishmen fight to carve a place for themselves in their newly adopted homeland!
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Action |
Crime |
Drama |
History |
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Leonardo DiCaprio |
Daniel Day-Lewis |
Cameron Diaz |
Jim Broadbent |
Henry Thomas |
Liam Neeson |
Brendan Gleeson |
John C. Reilly |
Gary Lewis |
Stephen Graham |
Eddie Marsan |
Alec McCowen |
Larry Gilliard Jr. |
Cara Seymour |
David Hemmings |
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Martin Scorsese |
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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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Shy, chain-smoking, insomniac Peter McGowan is an L.A. playwright with a string of hits that preceded his current ten years of failed productions. His mother-in-law is sinking into senility, a stranger is meandering the neighborhood claiming to be him, neighbors have a new dog that barks all night; his wife wants to have a child, and he does not: he's become impotent. He's working on a new play when a single mom moves in next door with her 8-year-old daughter. His wife immediately invites the girl into the McGowan household. Will this child stir Peter's paternal feelings? Will she also help him get his dialogue right? And what of his doppelganger and the neighbor's dog?
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Kenneth Branagh |
Robin Wright Penn |
Suzi Hofrichter |
Lynn Redgrave |
Jared Harris |
Peter Riegert |
David Krumholtz |
Johnathon Schaech |
Kaitlin Hopkins |
Suzy Joachim |
Brett Rickaby |
Lucinda Jenney |
Derek Kellock |
Stacy Hogue |
Peri Gilpin |
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Michael Kalesniko |
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It hadn't even been a year since a plantation owner named Louis had lost his brother, and now he had lost his will to live. A vampire named Lestat takes a liking to Louis and offers him the chance to become a creature of the night: a vampire. Louis accepts, and Lestat drains Louis' mortal blood and then replaces it with his own turning Louis into a vampire. Louis must learn from Lestat the ways of the vampire.
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Fantasy |
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Tom Cruise |
Brad Pitt |
Kirsten Dunst |
Stephen Rea |
Antonio Banderas |
Christian Slater |
Virginia McCollam |
John McConnell |
Mike Seelig |
Bellina Logan |
Thandie Newton |
Indra Ové |
Helen McCrory |
Lyla Hay Owen |
Lee E. Scharfstein |
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Neil Jordan |
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In 1660, with the return of Charles II to the English throne, theater, the visual arts, science and sexual intercourse flourish. Thirteen years later, in the middle of political and economical problems, Charles II asks the return of his friend John Wilmot, aka the second Earl of Rochester, from the exile to London. John is a morally corrupt, drunkard and sexually active cynical poet, and the King asks him to prepare a play for the French ambassador to make him pleased. John meets the aspirant actress Elizabeth Barry in the playhouse and decides to make her a great star. He falls in love for her, and she becomes his mistress; during the presentation to the Frenchman, he falls in disgrace in the court. When he was thirty-three years old, he was dying of syphilis associated to alcoholism and he converted to a religious man.
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Johnny Depp |
Samantha Morton |
John Malkovich |
Paul Ritter |
Stanley Townsend |
Francesca Annis |
Rosamund Pike |
Tom Hollander |
Johnny Vegas |
Richard Coyle |
Hugh Sachs |
Tom Burke |
Rupert Friend |
Jack Davenport |
Trudi Jackson |
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Laurence Dunmore |
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Christian, a young wannabe Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastical underworld of Paris' now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered electricity, the poet-innocent finds himself plunged into a passionate but ultimately tragic love affair with Satine, the club's highest paid star and the city's most famous courtesan. Their romance is played out against the infamous club - a meeting place of high life and low, where slumming aristocrats and the fashionably rich mingled with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and courtesans.
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Nicole Kidman |
Ewan McGregor |
John Leguizamo |
Jim Broadbent |
Richard Roxburgh |
Garry McDonald |
Jacek Koman |
Matthew Whittet |
Kerry Walker |
Caroline O'Connor |
Christine Anu |
Natalie Jackson Mendoza |
Lara Mulcahy |
David Wenham |
Kylie Minogue |
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Baz Luhrmann |
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Mr. Bean enters a church raffle and wins a vacation trip to France as well as a camcorder. After boarding a Eurostar train and arriving in Paris, the French language proves a barrier for Bean, as he struggles to get across the city to catch a train to the south of France from the Gare de Lyon. Taking time to order a meal, he finds the consumption of a seafood platter to be a challenge. Just before catching his train, he asks Emil, a Russian film director on his way to be a judge at the Cannes Film festival to use his camcorder to record his boarding, but accidentally causes Emil being left behind at the station. Bean attempts to cheer up the director's son Stepan as the train continues south but matters are made more hectic by the fact that Emil has reported his son to have been kidnapped and Bean losing his wallet and essential travel documents at a pay phone where he and Stepan attempt to contact Emil. Heading in the direction of Cannes, Bean finds himself in the cast and disrupting the flow of a commercial being shot by the egotistical director Carson Clay. He and Stepan finally hitch a ride with the young and vivacious actress Sabine who is heading to Cannes to attend the premiere of Clay's film, in which she appears. After Bean sneaks into the showing, his camcorder images are destined to enliven the proceedings.
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Family |
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Rowan Atkinson |
Max Baldry |
Steve Campos |
Willem Dafoe |
Stéphane Debac |
Clint Dyer |
Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus |
Jean Rochefort |
Karel Roden |
Pierre-Benoist Varoclier |
Emma de Caunes |
Catherine Hosmalin |
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Steve Bendelack |
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Recently widowed well-to-do Laura Henderson is at a bit of a loose end in inter-war London. On a whim she buys the derelict Windmill theatre in the West End and persuades impresario Vivian Van Damm to run it, despite the fact the two don't seem to get on at all. Although their idea of a non-stop revue is at first a success, other theatres copy it and disaster looms. Laura suggests they put nudes in the show, but Van Damm points out that the Lord Chamberlain, who licenses live shows in Britain, is likely to have something to say about this. Luckily Mrs Henderson is friends with him.
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Judi Dench |
Bob Hoskins |
Will Young |
Kelly Reilly |
Thelma Barlow |
Christopher Guest |
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Stephen Frears |
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