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The Hypnotist / Hypnotisören (2012)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
After a young woman and her parents are murdered by a killer determined to wipe out the entire family, Detective Inspector Joona Linna works with a psychiatrist to hypnotize the son who narrowly escaped death in order to find the one surviving daughter before the murderer does.
Starring: Tobias Zilliacus, Mikael Persbrandt, Lena Olin, Helena af Sandeberg
Director: Lasse Hallström
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Turistas (2006)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
A group of young backpackers find themselves stranded on a remote Brazilian beach; an exotic paradise, with warm sunshine, cool ocean breezes, and plenty of hot bodies. But, after a night of partying, the wayward "turistas" are drugged and robbed, and their dream vacation becomes a gruesome nightmare from which there is no awakening. Trapped and desperate, the vulnerable travelers are lured deep into the menacing jungle and beyond, where a dark and twisted fate too terrifying to imagine awaits.
Starring: Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Olivia Wilde, Desmond Askew, Beau Garrett
Director: John Stockwell
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Marvin's Room (1996)
Drama
Years ago, the fiercely independent Lee took off for Ohio, while her older sister Bessie returned to the family's Florida home to look after their bedridden father Marvin and his lovably child-like sister Ruth. In Bessie's words, Marvin has been dying slowly for the past twenty years… just to make sure she doesn't miss anything. But after a talk with Dr. Wally, Bessie realizes that the family caregiver needs a little loving herself. Lee, on the other hand, has troubles of her own–starting with her mischievous son Hank, who has a knack for burning down the neighborhood when she's not looking. Seventeen years since her last visit, but after an unexpected call from Bessie, Lee's packs up Hank and his younger brother Charlie for the trip home.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Hume Cronyn
Director: Jerry Zaks
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Tags: Diane Keaton, Hume Cronyn, Jerry Zaks, Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro
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The Nun's Story (1959)
Drama
In 1930, in Belgium, Gabrielle van der Mal is the stubborn daughter of the prominent surgeon Dr. Pascin Van Der Mal that decides to leave her the upper-class family to enter to a convent, expecting to work as nun in Congo with tropical diseases. She says good-bye to her sisters Louise and Marie; to her brother Pierre; and to her beloved father, and subjects herself to the stringent rules of the retrograde institution, including interior silent and excessive humbleness and humiliation. After a long period working in a mental institution, Gaby is finally assigned to go to Congo, where she works with the Atheist and cynical, but brilliant, Dr. Fortunati. Sister Luke proves to be very efficient nurse and assistant, and Dr. Fortunati miraculous heals her tuberculosis. Years later, she is ordered to return to Belgium and when her motherland is invaded by the Germans, she learns that her beloved father was murdered by the enemy while he was helping wounded members of the resistance. Sister…
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Dean Jagger, Mildred Dunnock, Beatrice Straight
Director: Fred Zinnemann
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Tags: Audrey Hepburn, Beatrice Straight, Dean Jagger, Edith Evans, Fred Zinnemann, Mildred Dunnock, Peggy Ashcroft, Peter Finch
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How to Be (2008)
Comedy | Drama
At first fancying himself an "enigmatic poet," twentysomething Art gradually realizes that he must take action if he's going to escape his depressed life as a struggling musician in London. A solution comes in the shape of a book titled "It's Not Your Fault." Not content to just draw inspiration from its pages, however, Art invites the elderly author of the book to come live with him and his parents, which quickly becomes a painfully funny journey about dysfunction and growing up.
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Rebecca Pidgeon, Powell Jones, Jeremy Hardy, Michael Irving
Director: Oliver Irving
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Strings (2004)
Adventure | Animation | Drama | Fantasy
Hal Tara is the son of The Kahro of the city of Hebalon and heir to the throne. When The Kahro kills himself, Hal is chosen to taken his place to rule Hebalon. But the discovery of The Kahro's suicide letter, that his father's death was no suicide, and was conducted by rivals of the city known as The Zeriths, Hal disguising himself as a commoner leaves the city and sets out to find the Zeriths and avenge his father. But Nezo, The Kahro's evil advisor who discovered the Kahro's body sends a warrior known as Erito to join Hal and to kill him. Entering the Zerith's camp, unaware of his identity, Hal falls in love with Zita, a Zerith female warrior, unaware Nezo has evil schemes to take over ruler ship of the city and Erito's wife Eike and Hal's sister Jhinna have uncovered his evil plot.
Starring: James McAvoy, Catherine McCormack, Julian Glover, Derek Jacobi, Ian Hart, Claire Skinner, David Harewood, Samantha Bond
Director: Anders Rønnow Klarlund
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Tags: Anders Rønnow Klarlund, Catherine McCormack, Claire Skinner, David Harewood, Derek Jacobi, Ian Hart, James McAvoy, Julian Glover, Samantha Bond
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Student of the Year (2012)
Comedy | Romance
Dean Yoginder Vashisht (Rishi Kapoor), retired, has fallen gravely ill. Several students from his final year at St. Theresa's College rush to his side. In flashbacks, they all recall the events that none of them have gotten over yet, including the dean, and how the "Student of the Year" competition shaped who they were, how they related, and what they've become.
Starring: Sidharth Malhotra, Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan
Director: Karan Johar
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Labyrinth (TV mini-series 2012)
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
The series follows two women, modern-day archeologist Alice Tanner (Vanessa Kirby) and medieval Alaïs Pelletier du Mas (Jessica Brown Findlay) who lives through the Crusades and Cathar massacres in medieval France-and their quest to find the Holy Grail. Alice, a volunteer at a French archaeological excavation, discovers the skeletal remains of two people in a cave, as well as a labyrinth-engraved ring, which attracts the attention of unscrupulous individuals. In 1209, newly married Alaïs is living in Carcassonne, a stronghold of Cathars who have been declared heretical by the Church. Alaïs and her father are protecting three sacred books that reveal the secret of the Holy Grail from the Crusaders.
Starring: John Hurt, Tom Felton, Jessica Brown Findlay, Tony Curran, Vanessa Kirby, Sebastian Stan, Emun Elliott, Katie McGrath
Creator: Kate Mosse
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Tags: Emun Elliott, Jessica Brown Findlay, John Hurt, Kate Mosse, Katie McGrath, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton, Tony Curran, Vanessa Kirby
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Night of the Living Dead: Re-Animation (2012)
Horror
After inheriting the family mortuary, a pyrophobic mortician accidentally exposes hundreds of un-cremated bodies to toxic medical waste. As the corpses re-animate, the mortician's inheritance-seeking younger brother unexpectantly shows up, stumbling upon a full zombie outbreak!
Starring: Andrew Divoff, Jeffrey Combs, Sarah Lieving, Robin Sydney, Adam Chambers, Scott Thomson
Director: Jeff Broadstreet
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90 Minutes / 90 minutter (2012)
Drama
What happens in the last 90 minutes of a human life before they commit murder? In 90 Minutes we follow Johan who is making a lavish last meal for his wife, Fred who is on his weekly visit with the kids and Trond who completely has lost control of his use of violence towards his young wife who just gave birth to a child. Before the irretrievable act of murder happens, these men are still considered as human beings. 90 Minutes don’t try to give any answers or to find psychological explanations, but simply to follow these men’s perspective and stay with them and share the minutes just before it’s too late.
Starring: Bjørn Floberg, Fred Heggland, Aksel Hennie, Annmari Kastrup, Mads Ousdal, Pia Tjelta, Kaia Varjord
Director: Eva Sørhaug
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Tags: Aksel Hennie, Annmari Kastrup, Bjørn Floberg, Eva Sørhaug, Fred Heggland, Kaia Varjord, Mads Ousdal, Pia Tjelta
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Young Guns (1988)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller | Western
The year is 1878, Lincoln County. John Tunstall, a British ranchowner, hires six rebellious boys as "regulators" to protect his ranch against the ruthless Santa Fe Ring. When Tunstall is killed in an ambush, the Regulators, led by the wild-tempered Billy the Kid (Estevez), declare war on the Ring. As their vendetta turns into a bloody rampage, they are branded outlaws, becoming the objects of the largest manhunt in Western history.
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, Jack Palance
Director: Christopher Cain
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Tags: Charlie Sheen, Christopher Cain, Dermot Mulroney, Emilio Estevez, Jack Palance, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips
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The Secret Life of Words (2005)
Drama | Romance
Hannah, who wears a hearing aid, is forced to go on holiday. On holiday she manages to find a job: caring for Josef, a burn victim on an oil rig who temporarily lost his sight, until he's stable enough to be transferred. There is almost no one on the rig, except a cook, an oceanographer and a few others out at sea. Hannah tends to Josef and he slowly breaks her shell of silence.
Starring: Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Javier Cámara, Danny Cunningham
Director: Isabel Coixet
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Spooky Encounters / Gui da gui (1980)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
It is a tale about Cheung, a cuckolded husband, sent on a wild roller coaster ride of spooky encounters when his wife's wealthy lover tries to do away with him with the help of black magic by a Taoist monk. How Cheung defiles his enemies is an uproarious comedy featuring hopping vampires, supernatural possession, copious splashings of chicken blood and relentless chanting, all mixed with an exhilarating dose of kung fu and slapstick humour.
Starring: Sammo Hung, Ha Huang, Dick Wei, Fat Chung, Lung Chan
Director: Sammo Hung
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Candy (2006)
Drama | Romance
Dan, a charming but reckless young poet who has fallen in love with Candy, a beautiful young art student from a comfortable middle-class family who is attracted to the bohemian lifestyle that Dan has long since embraced. In order to get closer to Dan, Candy, whose previous drug use has been casually experimental, starts shooting up. Their passionate relationship then alternates between bursts of ecstatic oblivion and bouts of despair and self-destruction. Hooked as much on heroin as one another, their story becomes a love triangle — a boy, a girl, and a drug.
Starring: Abbie Cornish, Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Budge, Roberto Meza Mont
Director: Neil Armfield
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The Long Walk Home (1990)
Drama | History
Dramatizes the events in 1955-1956 in Montgomery, Alabama, when blacks boycotted public transport becuase they were forced to sit at the back. Odessa works as a maid for the Thompsons, and as well as she is treated, she feels it is her duty to walk to work, even if it means she is exhaused, and gets to work late.
Starring: Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz, Ving Rhames, Dylan Baker
Director: Richard Pearce
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Simon Says (2006)
Horror | Thriller
The pothead Zack; the sweethearts Kate and Riff; the slut Vicky; and the spoiled Ashley travel by van to the backwoods to camp. They meet two strange gravediggers that advise them to leave the place otherwise they could be murdered. Then they meet the deranged retarded Simon in the gas station and Riff has a friction with the guy. They find a paradisiac spot to camp at the riverside, but Simon and Stanley transform their holiday in a nightmarish night.
Starring: Crispin Glover, Margo Harshman, Greg Cipes, Kelly Vitz, Artie Baxter, Carrie Finklea, Lori Lively, Bruce Glover, Blake Lively
Director: William Dear
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Trapped (2002)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
When their daughter is abducted and taken for ransom by a gang of serial kidnappers, a young doctor and his wife find themselves held hostage while a 24-hour plan to extort their money is set into motion. Now, with time running out and the health of their asthmatic daughter at serious risk, they find themselves in a life-and-death race against the clock as the "perfect crime" begins spiraling towards an unthinkable, terrifying and deadly conclusion.
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Charlize Theron, Courtney Love, Stuart Townsend, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Dakota Fanning
Director: Luis Mandoki
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Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter / Kronos (1974)
Adventure | Horror
A master swordsman and former soldier and his hunchbacked assistant hunt vampires.
Starring: Horst Janson, Shane Briant, Caroline Munro, John Carson, John Cater
Director: Brian Clemens
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Bangkok Assassins / Bangkok Kung Fu (2011)
Action
Four young boys are kidnapped from their families and handicapped by their abductors. Forced to become beggars on the street they soon find refuge in a skillful Shaolin Kung Fu master who teaches them the art of his craft. When tragedy hits this clan they will discover that together they are invincible as they unite and fight for justice to stop the man responsible for the death of their beloved master.
Starring: Arak Amornsupasiri, Mario Maurer, Athikit Pringprom, Visava Thaiyanont, Jarinya Sirimongkolsakul, Mathee Singruang, Teerasak Vongcharoenthavon
Director: Yuthlert Sippapak
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Tags: Arak Amornsupasiri, Athikit Pringprom, Jarinya Sirimongkolsakul, Mario Maurer, Mathee Singruang, Teerasak Vongcharoenthavon, Visava Thaiyanont, Yuthlert Sippapak
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The Exorcist III / Exorcist 3 (1990)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Lt. Kinderman and Father Dyer cheer each other up on the anniversary of the death of their mutual friend, Father Damien Karras, by going to see "It's a Wonderful Life" at the local theater in Georgetown, near Washington D.C. But there's no cheering Kinderman while a particularly cruel and gruesome serial killer is at large. His murders, which involve torture, decapitation and the desecration of religious icons, is bad enough; but they also resemble those of the Gemini Killer, who has been dead for fifteen years.
Starring: George C. Scott, Ed Flanders, Brad Dourif, Jason Miller, Nicol Williamson, Scott Wilson, Nancy Fish, George DiCenzo, Don Gordon
Director: William Peter Blatty
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Tags: Brad Dourif, Don Gordon, Ed Flanders, George C. Scott, George DiCenzo, Jason Miller, Nancy Fish, Nicol Williamson, Scott Wilson, William Peter Blatty