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Los amantes pasajeros / I'm So Excited (2013)
Comedy
A technical failure has endangered the lives of the people on board Peninsula Flight 2549. The pilots are striving, along with their colleagues in the Control Center, to find a solution. The flight attendants and the chief steward are atypical, baroque characters who, in the face of danger, try to forget their own personal problems and devote themselves body and soul to the task of making the flight as enjoyable as possible for the passengers, while they wait for a solution.
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, Antonio de la Torre, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Javier Cámara, José María Yazpik
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
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Chi trova un amico trova un tesoro / A Friend Is a Treasure (1981)
Action | Adventure | Comedy
Alan gets a map to some war treasure which the Japanese army left behind on a small Pacific island at the end of World War II. But some gangsters try to steal the map from him and so he hides on Charlie's boat which just leaves the harbor. He manipulates the ship's compass so that Charlie is not aware that he is sailing to the treasure island. But when they step on the island, they discover that it is not as abandoned as they believed: there are some natives – and a Japanese soldier still defending the treasure.
Starring: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, John Fujioka, Louise Bennett, Salvatore Borghese
Director: Sergio Corbucci
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The Brotherhood of Satan (1971)
Horror
A family is trapped in a desert town by a cult of senior-citizens who recruit the town's children to worship Satan.
Starring: Strother Martin, L.Q. Jones, Charles Bateman, Ahna Capri, Charles Robinson
Director: Bernard McEveety
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Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
Drama | Horror | Mystery
A search for a winning lottery ticket in his dead father's grave causes Sardonicus' face to freeze in a horrible grimace, until he forces a doctor to treat his affliction–with even more grotesque results!
Starring: Ronald Lewis, Audrey Dalton, Guy Rolfe, Oskar Homolka, Vladimir Sokoloff, Erika Peters
Director: William Castle
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Crashout (1955)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
The survivors of a prison break set out on an arduous journey to retrieve some loot.
Starring: William Bendix, Arthur Kennedy, Luther Adler, William Talman, Gene Evans, Marshall Thompson, Beverly Michaels
Director: Lewis R. Foster
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Tags: Arthur Kennedy, Beverly Michaels, Gene Evans, Lewis R. Foster, Luther Adler, Marshall Thompson, William Bendix, William Talman
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The Sword in the Stone (1963)
Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Based upon T.H. White's beloved novel, this Disney-fied version chronicles the tutoring of the Once and Future King, Arthur, as handled by the magician Merlin.
Starring: Sebastian Cabot, Karl Swenson, Rickie Sorensen, Junius Matthews, Martha Wentworth, Norman Alden
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman
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Kicking and Screaming (1995)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to escape their university's pull. Nobody wants to make any big decisions that would radically alter his life, yet none of them wants to end up like Chet, the professional student who tends bar and is in his tenth year of university studies.
Starring: Josh Hamilton, Olivia d'Abo, Parker Posey, Chris Eigeman, Cara Buono, Eric Stoltz
Director: Noah Baumbach
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Tags: Cara Buono, Chris Eigeman, Eric Stoltz, Josh Hamilton, Noah Baumbach, Olivia d'Abo, Parker Posey
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The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
Comedy | Family
Some college students manage to persuade the town's big businessman, A. J. Arno, to donate a computer to their college. When the problem- student, Dexter Riley, tries to fix the computer, he gets an electric shock and his brain turns to a computer; now he remembers everything he reads. Unfortunately, he also remembers information which was in the computer's memory, like the illegal business Arno is involved in.
Starring: Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn, William Schallert, Alan Hewitt, Richard Bakalyan
Director: Robert Butler
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Between Us (2012)
Drama
The film is about two couples who meet as old friends and discover their lives are tainted by money, success, sex and children.
Starring: Julia Stiles, Melissa George, Taye Diggs, David Harbour
Director: Dan Mirvish
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The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh (2012)
Horror | Thriller
The story of Leon Leigh, an antiques collector who inherits a house from his estranged mother only to discover that she had been living in a shrine devoted to a mysterious cult. Soon, Leon comes to suspect that his mother's oppressive spirit still lingers within her home and is using items in the house to contact him with an urgent message. As paranormal events mount, Leon comes to suspect that there is a darker truth to his deceased mother's religious convictions.
Starring: Aaron Poole, Vanessa Redgrave, Julian Richings, Stephen Eric McIntyre, Charlotte Sullivan, Mitch Markowitz
Director: Rodrigo Gudiño
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Tags: Aaron Poole, Charlotte Sullivan, Julian Richings, Mitch Markowitz, Rodrigo Gudiño, Stephen Eric McIntyre, Vanessa Redgrave
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Congratulations (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
JIM and BRIDGET are on a road trip to visit Jim's mother on the anniversary of his father's death. Along the way, Jim proposes and Bridget says no. When they arrive at his mother's house, she showers them with congratulations. Caught up in the moment, they pretend to be engaged for the weekend.
Starring: Brian Dietzen, Abby Miller, Debra Jo Rupp, Kevin Rankin, Terryn Westbrook, Blaise Miller, Parvesh Cheena
Director: Juan Cardarelli, Eric M. Levy
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Tags: Abby Miller, Blaise Miller, Brian Dietzen, Debra Jo Rupp, Eric M. Levy, Juan Cardarelli, Kevin Rankin, Parvesh Cheena, Terryn Westbrook
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Night Across the Street / La noche de enfrente (2012)
Drama
A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.
Starring: Christian Vadim, Sergio Hernández, Valentina Vargas, Chamila Rodríguez
Director: Raoul Ruiz
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Tags: Chamila Rodríguez, Christian Vadim, Raoul Ruiz, Sergio Hernández, Valentina Vargas
Posted on July 29, 2013 |
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Michael Clayton (2007)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Michael Clayton is an in-house "fixer" at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder Marty Bach. Though burned out and hardly content with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder rests on the multi-million dollar settlement of a class action suit that Clayton's firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But when Kenner Bach's brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life.
Starring: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, Michael O'Keefe, Amy Hargreaves
Director: Tony Gilroy
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)
Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, along with their cousin Eustace, are swallowed into a painting and transported back to Narnia and the magnificent ship The Dawn Treader. They join King Caspian and a warrior mouse named Reepicheep for a mission which holds the fate of Narnia itself. The courageous voyagers overcome their own greatest temptations, as they travel to mysterious islands; have fateful confrontations with magical creatures and sinister enemies; and reunite with their friend and protector, the "Great Lion" Aslan.
Starring: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, Ben Barnes, Will Poulter, Gary Sweet, Terry Norris
Director: Michael Apted
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy
The characters of C.S. Lewis's timeless fantasy come to life once again in this newest installment of the "Chronicles of Narnia" series, in which the Pevensie siblings are magically transported back from England to the world of Narnia, where a thrilling, perilous new adventure awaits, battling alongside a new ally: Prince Caspian.
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Ben Barnes, Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell
Director: Andrew Adamson, David Strangmuller
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy
In World War II England, the four Pevensie siblings – Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter – enter the world of Narnia through a magical wardrobe while playing a game of 'hide-and-seek' in the rural country home of an elderly professor. Once there, the children discover a charming, peaceful land inhabited by talking beasts, dwarfs, fauns, centaurs and giants that has become a world cursed to eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Under the guidance of a noble and mystical ruler, the lion Aslan, the children fight to overcome the White Witch's powerful hold over Narnia. Based on C.S. Lewis' beloved literary classic.
Starring: Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Tilda Swinton, James McAvoy
Director: Andrew Adamson
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Shao Lin xiao zi / Shaolin Temple 2: Kids from Shaolin (1984)
Action | Comedy
Two rivaling families live on opposite sides of a river. One of them practices Shaolin kung fu and has only sons, while the other has only daughters and practices the Wu-Tang sword. The father of the Wu-Tang family is so paranoid about the Shaolin kids stealing his sword style (besides, he wants a son to teach it to, and the closest thing he has is a lesbian daughter) that he is taken off guard when some real bad guys come along to kill his family, but the Shaolin family helps them out. All the while, everyone is desperately trying to get the lesbian girl to marry Jet Li.
Starring: Jet Li, Lan Ding, Qiuyan Huang, Chia Hui Liu, Cheng-Hui Yu, Hai Yu
Director: Hsin-yan Chang
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Tags: Cheng-Hui Yu, Chia Hui Liu, Hai Yu, Hsin-yan Chang, Jet Li, Lan Ding, Qiuyan Huang
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Shao Lin Si / The Shaolin Temple (1982)
Action
The Tang emperor is betrayed by one of his generals, who installs himself as emperor in the East Capital. The son of one of his slave workers escapes to the Shaolin Temple, learns kung fu, and sets out to kill the traitor, who killed his father. The monks have to help him, and in the process, they save the true emperor, who rewards them greatly. Based on a true story from Shaolin folklore, but highly fictionalized.
Starring: Jet Li, Lan Ding, Cheng-Hui Yu, Hai Yu, Chun Hua Ji, Hu Jian Qiang, Wang Guang Quan
Director: Hsin-yan Chang
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Tags: Cheng-Hui Yu, Chun Hua Ji, Hai Yu, Hsin-yan Chang, Hu Jian Qiang, Jet Li, Lan Ding, Wang Guang Quan
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The Producers (1967)
Comedy
Producers Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom make money by producing a sure-fire flop.
Starring: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn, Kenneth Mars, Andréas Voutsinas, Estelle Winwood
Director: Mel Brooks
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Love Me Not / Sarang-ttawin piryo-eopseo (2006)
Romance
Julian (Kim Ju-Hyeok) has lived off with the money he lures from his rich female customers. But now he faces usurious debts from a hasty expansion of his business, and he will be killed unless he clears the debt in one month. The only way to save himself is to pretend to be the long-lost brother of an heiress and kill her to get her huge fortune. Ryoo Min (Moon Geun-Young), the blind heiress, cold-hearted like Julian, slowly opens herself to him, and he, too, falls for her. But Julian has to pay his creditor and what makes it worse for him is that the illness that took Ryoo Min’s eyesight relapsed, threatening her life.
Starring: Ju-hyuk Kim, Geun-Young Moon
Director: Cheol-ha Lee
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