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The Bones Tunnel / Tunnel of Bones / El túnel de los huesos (2011)
Action
Based on a true story, “El Tunel de los Huesos” tells of the daring escape of prisoners who dug a tunnel from the prison hospital and came across a gruesome discovery. In order to attain freedom, they promise to tell what is found in the bowels of the jail… if they escape.
Starring: Raúl Taibo, Daniel Valenzuela, Luciano Cazaux
Director: Nacho Garassino
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Posted on June 20, 2012 |
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Le Havre (2011)
Comedy | Drama
When an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, an aging shoe shiner takes pity on the child and welcomes him into his home.
Starring: André Wilms, Blondin Miguel, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Kati Outinen
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
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Come Blow Your Horn (1963)
Comedy
Leaving home, young Buddy Baker arrives unannounced at the luxurious Manhattan apartment of his older brother, Alan, a swinging girl chasing bachelor who prefers his carefree life to working in the family business. Pleased at his brother's show of independence, Alan introduces him to New York night life. Their father is unhappy at Alan's mentoring and the loss of an important account. Buddy is so successful that he soon takes over his brother's liquor cabinet and his girl friends. After giving up a woman who lives in the same building, Alan gets beaten by the husband of another conquest. Scared off, Alan alienates his favorite girl friend, Connie, staying away from all commitment. Hit by the futility of his life, Alan urges Buddy to end his swinging life style, but Buddy is having too good a time. After their argument jolts Alan proposes to Connie. Following their marriage…
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb, Molly Picon, Barbara Rush, Jill St. John
Director: Bud Yorkin
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Missing In Action 2: The Beginning (1985)
Action | Drama | Thriller | War
Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
Starring: Chuck Norris, Soon-Tek Oh, Steven Williams
Director: Lance Hool
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Syriana (2005)
Drama | Thriller
Big oil means big money. Very big money. And that fact unleashes corruption that stretches from Houston to Washington to the Mideast and ensnares industrialists, princes, spies, politicos, oilfield laborers and terrorists in a deadly, deceptive web of move and countermove. This lightning-paced, whip-smart action thriller grips your mind and nerves with an intensity that doesn't let go for an instant.
Starring: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt
Director: Stephen Gaghan
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Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon / Saam gwok dzi gin lung se gap (2008)
Action | Drama | History | War
His country torn asunder by civil war, Zhao, a common man heeds the call of duty and from the humblest of roots rises through the ranks on wings of courage and cunning to command an army charged with liberating the land from an evil warlord. Inspiring by action, honor and a dream of unifying his divided nation, Zhao's heroism becomes legend, but as the years pass and the throne changes hands the war still rages on. When a newly enthroned king decides peace can only be achieved by defeating the warlords once and for all, the aging Zhao embarks on his final and greatest campaign, a road to adventure that will crown his name in glory for all time.
Starring: Andy Lau, Sammo Hung, Maggie Q, Vanness Wu, Andy On
Director: Daniel Lee
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Josee, the Tiger and the Fish / Joze to tora to sakana tachi (2003)
Drama | Romance
An offbeat romantic story about an ordinary college boy (Satoshi Tsumabuki) who accidentally meets an extraordinary girl, and unexpectedly falls in love with her. Based on the novel by Seiko Tanabe, and directed by Isshin Inudou (La Maison de Himiko).
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Chizuru Ikewaki, Juri Ueno, Hirofumi Arai
Director: Isshin Inudô
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Feng Kuang De Chun Zei / Crazy Stupid Thief (2012)
Comedy | Crime
The small fry in Hong Kong Yue Ye owed 500,000 loan sharks hide in the home; of the Mainland's Andy Andy due to like to watch gangster films all day looking forward to go to Hong Kong to see the big star, into the underworld. In order to get the money, the music God has planned two people to steal a Group chairman Wang Shixiong. Unexpectedly suffered a burglary to take to the "Southeast Asia's first killer" Charles, Charles employed murder, gambling debts and hired him to kill a few dial troops. Wang Shixiong the daughter of Wang Shi should kidnapping someone else to the music God rescued, but her loss of memory, low IQ. The feelings of innocence and dependent girl, Wang Shi Yi Yue Ye extortion delay in action. Thought either their money in the music god, but also to protect the way of Wang Shi Yi, behind the murderers and his fields to find their killer Charles came to the door…
Starring: Francis Ng, Ying Liu, Suet Lam, Teddy Lin, Taili Wang
Director: Kai Li
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Posted on June 19, 2012 |
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Breaking Bad (TV Series 2008-2013)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Walter White, a struggling high school chemistry teacher is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. He turns to a life of crime, producing and selling methamphetamine accompanied by a former student, Jesse Pinkman with the aim of securing his family's financial future before he dies.
Starring: Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte
Creator: Vince Gilligan
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CHAGE and ASKA 25th Anniversary Special (2004)
Music
Live DVD was recorded live without Amasa the pattern of the 25th anniversary was held in August 2004. Performance of the best music content in the general supervision of the activities of 25 years, close to the original arrangement also enjoy live music in the usual will not listen.
Starring: Chage&Aska
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The Country Girl (1954)
Drama | Music
Washed up singer/actor Frank Elgin has a chance to make a come-back when director Bernie Dodd offers him the leading role in his new musical. Frank however is very insecure, turns to alcohol and shuns even the smallest of responsibilities, leaving everything up to his wife Georgie who finds it harder and harder to cope with her husband's lack of spirit. Bernie tries to help Frank regain his self-confidence, believing that it is Georgie who's the cause of his insecurity.
Starring: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden
Director: George Seaton
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Posted on June 19, 2012 |
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Missing in Action (1984)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
Colonel James Braddock is an American officer who spent seven years in a North Vietnamese POW camp, then escaped 10 years ago
Starring: Chuck Norris, M. Emmet Walsh, David Tress, James Hong
Director: Joseph Zito
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Prison on Fire II / Jian yu feng yun II: Tao fan (1991)
Action | Crime | Drama
A story about the discord between two prisoners, pitted against each other through social circumstances: a mainland leader, Dragon, is blamed for the death of a fellow-inmate; and a Hong Kong local, Ching, is named as the squealer in order to cover up a murder committed by a sadistic prison officer and an unsavory mainlander inmate. The result–both Dragon and Ching are forced to become fugitives in order to escape the wrath of vengeance in-store for them from both sides; during the course of their escape, the two co-dependent "enemies" form a lasting kinship.
Starring: Yun-Fat Chow, Sung Young Chen, Roy Cheung, Li Yu, Chi Hung Ng, Elvis Tsui, Kwong Leung Wong
Director: Ringo Lam
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Silenced / Do-ga-ni (2011)
Drama
Gang In-ho, who is working to earn money for his daughter's surgery, is appointed to a school for hearing-impaired children in Gwangju. But what he discovers there is an ugly truth: the children are being physically and sexually abused by their teachers. When he decides to fight for the children's rights and expose the crimes being committed at the school, In-ho teams up with human rights activist Seo Yu-jin. But he and Yu-jin soon realize the school's principal and teachers, and even the police, prosecutors and churches in the community are actually trying to cover up the truth.
Starring: Yoo Gong, Yu-mi Jeong, Hyeon-soo Kim, Ji-yeong Kim, Jeong In-seo, Baek Seung-Hwan, Hye-jin Park
Director: Dong Hyeuk Hwang
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Ride Away / Dal-lyeo-la ja-jeon-geo (2008)
Drama | Romance
Ha-jung (Han Hyo-Joo), a first-year college student, is interested in a boy namedSu-ook (Lee Young-Hoon) who works at a secondhand bookstore near her school. In order to see Su-wook, Ha-jung visits the shop to buy and sell books; over time, her lifestyle becomes focused on Su-wook. She learns that he rides around on his bicycle, and this leads her to learn to ride one. They begin to express their feelings for each other, but neither of them are aware of each other's painful secrets from the past.
Starring: Hyo-ju Han, Young-hoon
Director: Seong-woon Lim
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A Thousand Words (2012)
Comedy | Drama
After stretching the truth on a deal with a spiritual guru, literary agent Jack McCall finds a Bodhi tree on his property. Its appearance holds a valuable lesson on the consequences of every word we speak.
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Ariel Winter, Kerry Washington, Clark Duke
Director: Brian Robbins
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Zoolander (2001)
Comedy
At the end of his career, a clueless fashion model is brainwashed to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
Starring: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Christine Taylor, Will Ferrell, Milla Jovovich
Director: Ben Stiller
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The School of Rock / School of Rock (2003)
Comedy | Music
Down and out rock star Dewey Finn gets fired from his band, and he faces a mountain of debts and depression. He takes a job as a 4th grade substitute teacher at an uptight private school where his attitude and hijinx have a powerful effect on his students. He also meets Zack, a 10-year-old guitar prodigy, who could help Dewey win a "battle of the bands" competition, which would solve his financial problems and put him back in the spotlight.
Starring: Jack Black, Mike White, Joan Cusack
Director: Richard Linklater
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The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Drama
A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up the their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is paralyzed by its anger and cannot let go. All but one young girl, left in a wheelchair after the accident, who finds the courage to lead the way toward healing.
Starring: Ian Holm, Caerthan Banks, Sarah Polley
Director: Atom Egoyan
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The Demoniacs / Les démoniaques (1974)
Horror
A Poe-like study of guilt and revenge, The Demoniacs concerns a band of "wreckers" who rape and murder two young sisters, the survivors of a ship they have lured into coastal rocks and plundered.
Starring: Joëlle Coeur, John Rico, Willy Braque, Paul Bisciglia, Miletic Zivomir
Director: Jean Rollin
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Tags: Jean Rollin, Joëlle Coeur, John Rico, Miletic Zivomir, Paul Bisciglia, Willy Braque
