Category: Western
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The Faculty (1998)
Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Herrington High, Ohio, a small-town highschool. All of a sudden, the teachers start changing attitude. When Casey and Delilah have to hide in a closet in the teacher's lounge, they witness the strangulation of Nurse Harper by two of them. Shocked, they manage to flee. Only moments later, the nurse seems to be very alive, but also somehow changed, like all the teachers and most of the students. Only Casey, Delilah and four others seem to be suspicious. Proof of an alien infection is finally brought by the chemistry teacher, who also points out a way to kill the infected humans. The plan now is to get the queen, before the aliens can spread out over the whole country.
Starring: Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, Josh Hartnett, Shawn Hatosy, Elijah Wood
Director: Robert Rodriguez
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Conte de printemps / A Tale of Springtime (1990)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Simple conversations engender complicated human interactions. Jeanne is open and even-tempered, a philosophy teacher at a lycée. Her fiancé is away and she doesn't want to stay at his messy flat; she's loaned hers to a cousin, so she accepts the invitation of Natasha, a music student whom she meets at a party, to sleep in her father Igor's bedroom because he's always with his young girlfriend, Eve. Natasha tells Jeanne a story of a missing necklace and her suspicions of Eve. They all meet at dinner, then again at Igor's country house. Is Natasha scheming to get Igor and Jeanne together alone? Once alone, what determines how they choose to act? And the necklace, what of it?
Starring: Anne Teyssèdre, Hugues Quester, Florence Darel, Eloïse Bennett, Sophie Robin, Marc Lelou, François Lamore
Director: Eric Rohmer
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La grande bellezza / The Great Beauty (2013)
Comedy | Drama
Jep Gambardella, a 65-year-old journalist and once promising novelist, lives his easy life among Rome’s decadent high society in a swirl of rooftop parties and late-night soirees. But when he learns of the death of his friend's wife – a woman he once loved as an 18-year-old – his life is thrown into perspective and he begins to see the world through new eyes.
Starring: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso, Luca Marinelli, Serena Grandi, Vernon Dobtcheff
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
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Riding the Bullet / Stephen King's Riding the Bullet (2004)
Horror | Thriller
A young man hitchhiking back home to visit his mother is picked up by a mysterious stranger. As the ride goes on, the young man uncovers a terrible secret about the stranger, and is given a choice by the stranger. A choice that can mean life or death.
Starring: Jonathan Jackson, David Arquette, Barbara Hershey, Barbara Hershey, Erika Christensen, Barry W. Levy
Director: Mick Garris
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Conspiracy Theory (1997)
Action | Crime | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Jerry Fletcher is a man in love with a woman he observes from afar. She works for the government. Fletcher is an outspoken critic of that government. He has conspiracy theories for everything, from aliens to political assassinations. But soon, one of his theories finds itself to be accurate. But which one? Some dangerous people want him dead and the only person he trusts is that woman he loves but does not know.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart, Steve Kahan, Terry Alexander, Alex McArthur
Director: Richard Donner
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The Unknown Known (2013)
Documentary
Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Starring: Donald Rumsfeld
Director: Errol Morris
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Hot Dog… The Movie (1984)
Comedy | Romance | Sport
A hopeful young American hot-dogger goes pole-to-pole with an arrogant Austrian pro on the slopes as the pro's ex-girlfriend sets her eyes on the new blood.
Starring: David Naughton, Patrick Houser, Tracy Smith, John Patrick Reger, Frank Koppala, James Saito, Shannon Tweed
Director: Peter Markle
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The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
Action | Drama | War
In the last days of World War II, the Allied Army desperatly searched for a bridgehead across the impenetrable Rhein River, in order to launch a major assault into the center of Germany. "Bridge at Remagen" tells the true story of the battle for this last bridgehead, from both the German and American perspective.
Starring: George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall, Peter van Eyck
Director: John Guillermin
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In the Company of Men (1997)
Comedy | Drama
Director Neil LaBute's debut film is the wildly controversial story of two angry young businessmen who set out to destroy a naive secretary by pretending to fall in love with her. Chad (Aaron Eckhart), furious about the way women are ruining his man's world, enlists his wishy-washy co-worker (Matt Malloy) in a callous plan to date then dump a vulnerable secretary (Stacy Edwards). Both horrifying and hilarious, IN THE COMPANY OF MEN is a "brilliant black comedy…sure to be one of the best pictures of the year. This is a movie event."
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Stacy Edwards, Matt Malloy
Director: Neil LaBute
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Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller | Western
The tuff biker Harley and his no less tuff Cowboy friend Marlboro learn that an old friend of them will lose his bar, because a bank wants to build a new complex there and demands 2.5 million dollars for a new contract in advance. Harley and Marlboro decide to help him by robbing the corrupt bank. Unfortunately they target the wrong safety transport and get hold of an amount of a new synthetic drug. Now they are targeted both by criminal bankers and killers of the drug mob.
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Don Johnson, Chelsea Field, Daniel Baldwin, Giancarlo Esposito, Vanessa Williams
Director: Simon Wincer
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Tags: Chelsea Field, Daniel Baldwin, Don Johnson, Giancarlo Esposito, Mickey Rourke, Simon Wincer, Vanessa Williams
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Cutter's Way (1981)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.
Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Ann Dusenberry, Stephen Elliott
Director: Ivan Passer
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Posted on April 6, 2014 |
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Justin and the Knights of Valour (2013)
Adventure | Animation | Family
Justin would much rather be a Knight of Valour like his grandfather than a lawyer as his father wishes, so he leaves the kingdom and sets off to begin his training. While on his journey he meets a wizard called Melquiades and a handsome knight called Sir Clorex who inspire him to do well in his training. The peace is soon disrupted, however, when former knights Sir Heraclio and Sota return to the kingdom, threatening to destroy it, which puts Justin's courage to the ultimate test…
Starring: Antonio Banderas, James Cosmo, Rupert Everett, Freddie Highmore, Saoirse Ronan, Charles Dance
Director: Manuel Sicilia
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My Life as a Dog / Mitt liv som hund (1985)
Comedy | Drama
A twelve-year old Swedish boy is sent to live with his aunt and uncle in a country village after his mother becomes ill.
Starring: Anton Glanzelius, Ing-Marie Carlsson, Kicki Rundgren, Tomas von Brömssen, Ralph Carlsson
Director: Lasse Hallström
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All the King's Men (1949)
Drama
All The King's Men is the story of the rise of politician Willie Stark from a rural county seat to the spotlight. Along the way, he loses his initial innocence, and becomes just as corrupt as those who he assaulted before for this characteristic. Also included is the romance between one of his "right hand women" and the up-and-coming journalist who brings Stark to prominence.
Starring: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, John Derek, Mercedes McCambridge, Shepperd Strudwick
Director: Robert Rossen
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Což takhle dát si špenát / What Would You Say to Some Spinach? (1977)
Comedy | Sci-Fi
The heroes of this absurd comedy full of breakneck twists, confusions, commotion and disentanglement are the moonlighters Jarda Zemanek and Franta Liska, whom nothing is sacred. As soon as they get out of prison, where they were due to attempted theft of spirit, they are involved in another swindle. Both scoundrels are hired by the owner of a beauty salon in the Hotel Imperial, who is in league with Professor Mlejnek from the Research Institute, where they just invented a device to regenerate old cows. He wants them to get an exact copy of the device, which would return lost youth to rich ladies. But it has a catch. Who wants to undergo the treatment must not eat spinach at the critical time, because it magnifies the effects of the device…
Starring: Vladimír Mensík, Jirí Sovák, Iva Janzurová, Michal Kocourek, Ondrej Hach, Frantisek Filipovský
Director: Václav Vorlícek
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Posted on April 5, 2014 |
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Family United / La gran familia española (2013)
Comedy
During the final of the World Cup in South Africa celebrated a wedding. That day, while Spain freezes whole, a family with five children biblical names (Adam, Benjamin, Caleb, Daniel and Ephraim) also faces the biggest game of his life.
Starring: Verónica Echegui, Antonio de la Torre, Raúl Arévalo, Quim Gutiérrez, Alicia Rubio, Arantxa Martí, Sandra Martín, Patrick Criado, Roberto Álamo, Héctor Colomé, Miquel Fernández
Director: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
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Tags: Alicia Rubio, Antonio de la Torre, Arantxa Martí, Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, Héctor Colomé, Miquel Fernández, Patrick Criado, Quim Gutiérrez, Raúl Arévalo, Roberto Álamo, Sandra Martín, Verónica Echegui
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Venus in Fur / La Vénus à la fourrure (2013)
Drama
An actress attempts to convince a director how she's perfect for a role in his upcoming production.
Starring: Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric
Director: Roman Polanski
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Barbed Wire Dolls / Frauengefängnis (1976)
Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller
After killing her father who had attempted to rape her, Maria da Guerra is sentenced to prison for life. The wardress is a sadistic lesbian without mercy or humanity. Upon her arrival Maria is taken to a special section for mentally disturbed prisoners where torture and rape are part of the day-to-day reality. One day the Regional Governor arrives, claiming to have received a letter from one of the prisoners describing incredible events in the prison. The writer of the letter was clearly unaware that the Governor is also part of the conspiracy. Carlos Costa, a male nurse pretending to be the prison doctor Moore, falls in love with Maria. After seducing him, Maria kills him with a pair of scissors and escapes with her friends Bertha and the disturbed Rosario, hoping to find safety in the Governor's house, unaware that he will not help them…
Starring: Lina Romay, Paul Muller, Monica Swinn, Roger Darton, Ronald Weiss, Martine Stedil, Eric Falk
Director: Jesús Franco
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Rozmarné léto / Capricious Summer (1968)
Comedy
Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine… A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks over. With a handstand and a magic trick, Ernie the Conjuror invites everyone to that evening's performance… Ernie is a tightrope walker of only modest skill, but with a slim and beautiful assistant, Anna. Antonin speaks to her. The two spend the night in the change room by the river, Antonin massaging her feet all night long. Katherine decides to move into the caravan with Ernie. But now the major and even the canon sense Anna's attractiveness…
Starring: Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Frantisek Rehák, Míla Myslíková, Jana Preissová, Jirí Menzel
Director: Jirí Menzel
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Posted on April 4, 2014 |
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The Contractor / The Shooter (2007)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Retired CIA Black-Ops hit man James Jackson Dial is living his life in seclusion on his ranch in Montana when he is offered the chance to redeem himself by his former employer, Jeremy Collins. A few years ago, Dial was seconds away from taking down notorious terrorist cell leader Ali Mahmoud Jahar when when his carelessness allowed Jahar to escape, marking his mission as a failure. Now, Collins wants Dial to eliminate Jahar, who has been captured and is now in the custody of the police in London, England. Provided with a safe house, passports, and an assistant named Terry Winchell, Dial is off to London to finish what he started years ago. Disguised as a priest, Dial gets in position in a church's bell tower across the street from the building that Jahar is being brought into. When Jahar is brought out of his transport truck, his head is covered by a jacket, leaving Dial without a clean shot. Not wanting to fail again, Dial patiently waits for his opportunity. Moments later, Dial fatally shoots Jahar in the head. Because of a delay caused by a pair of cops, Winchell is late bringing the getaway car, and that brings attention to them fleeing the scene. After numerous attempts to stop the car, the police open fire, killing Winchell. The car, now out of control, comes to crashing stop, injuring Dial. On the run and bleeding profusely, Dial makes his way to the safe house, where he meets curious 12-year-old neighbor Emily Day, who lives with her grandmother. Emily helps Dial stop the bleeding. Even though Jahar was eliminated, the mission was a failure to Collins because Dial was observed fleeing the scene on a security camera. In the USA, Collins is being investigated for running a CIA Hit Squad, and if word gets back about Dial and the death of, Collins will be exposed. Stopping at nothing to keep his name clean, Collins frames Dial for the murder of Chief Inspector Andrew Windsor. Now a wanted man by Collins and the British police, Dial must do whatever it takes to prove his innocence, knowing that Inspector Annette Ballard, Windsor's vengeful daughter, is after him as well.
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Eliza Bennett, Lena Headey, Ralph Brown, Charles Dance, Gemma Jones
Director: Josef Rusnak
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