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Movie: West Side Story ( 2021 )
An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.
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TV Show: Al Murray: Why Do the Brits Win Every War? ( 2021 )
Together with his alter ego The Pub Landlord and joined by comedians and personalities from each country he visits, Al will be attempting to unpick the Great British psyche in a bid to understand whether we are helped or hindered by our illustrious military past and how our regular harking back to Britain's glory days is viewed by our near neighbours and so-called ‘allies'.In each episode Al will tackle Britain's relations with a different one-time military adversary, ranging from France and Germany to those who have occupied Britain at various points before being unceremoniously ejected, such as the Romans and Vikings, finishing with that fairest of all fair-weather friends, the Americans.
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Movie: No Time to Die ( 2021 )
James Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.
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Movie: The Unspeakable ( 2021 )
Documentary following four families in their struggle to find the truth about the death of their loved ones on September 11th, 2001.
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Movie: Candyman ( 2021 )
A sequel to the horror film Candyman (1992) that returns to the now-gentrified Chicago neighborhood where the legend began.
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TV Show: Time ( 2021 )
Guilt, violence and impossible choices – what does it take to survive? Tense, gritty and heartbreaking – Jimmy McGovern's award-winning prison drama, with an all-star cast.
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TV Show: The Equalizer ( 2021 )
A reimagining of the classic series, The Equalizer centers on enigmatic woman with a mysterious background who uses her extensive skills to help those with nowhere else to turn.
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TV Show: History of Swear Words ( 2021 )
Nicolas Cage hosts this proudly profane series that explores the history and impact of some of the most notorious bad words in the English language.
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Movie: Reversal ( 2020 )
Andrew Morris is living an enviable life until a chance encounter with a shut-in loner sends him on a downward spiral.
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TV Show: The Undoing ( 2020 )
The Undoing follows Grace and Jonathan Fraser who are living the only lives they ever wanted for themselves. Overnight a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and her family.
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Movie: Possessor ( 2020 )
Tasya Vos is a corporate agent who uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people's bodies, driving them to commit assassinations for the benefit of the company. While she has a special gift for the work, her experiences on these jobs have caused a dramatic change in her, and in her own life she struggles to suppress violent memories and urges. As her mental strain intensifies, she begins to lose control, and soon she finds herself trapped in the mind of a man whose identity threatens to destroy her own.
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Movie: Don't Let The Pigeon Do Storytime (TV Special 2020) ( 2020 )
A collection of live readings and sketch comedy inspired by Mo Willems' series of Pigeon books.
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TV Show: Ted Lasso ( 2020 )
Ted Lasso centers on an idealistic — and clueless — all-American football coach hired to manage an English football club — despite having no soccer coaching experience at all.
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Movie: Porno ( 2020 )
Abe is a burgeoning perv with a guilty conscience. Todd is Abe's spazzed out BFF and partner in grime. Chaz is a girl with a boy's name who hides her feelings behind a thick layer of goth eyeliner. Ricky is the star jock with a secret in his pants he dare not expose. What these uptight dweebs could never have guessed is that the wholesome movie theater they work at used to have a lot more than just gum stuck to the seats. When a remnant of the theater's porno past surfaces, the kids are visited by a sex demon that gives them a taste of the dark side.
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TV Show: Into the Night ( 2020 )
Into the Night begins with a sudden solar event, as the sun inexplicably starts killing everything in its path. The show centers around the 'lucky' passengers and crew of an overnight flight out of Brussels, as they attempt to fly west - into the safety of the dark night. The plane's manifest is multinational and multilingual, with passengers, rich and poor, young and old, civilian and military. The seemingly ordinary travelers share but one thing: A desire to survive the sun - and each other - by any means necessary.
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Movie: To: Gerard (Short 2020) ( 2020 )
Toward the doldrums end of his shift, a sprightly mailman sorts envelopes and packages nimbly with the flick of a wrist. Despite working in a post office all his life, Gerard has dreamed of one day finding his audience as a famous magician like his childhood hero. With effortless dexterity that accompanies mastery, this delightfully overgrown kid practices magic every day with a special coin...a gift from The Great Vivonti. When an inquisitive young girl named Jules wanders upon his practiced routine, she's dazzled by his talents. With the help of his cherished coin, Gerard charms his first-ever audience member with an impromptu magic show. In this moment, two artists-separated by decades-unknowingly set off a chain reaction that will change both of their lives forever.
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Movie: The Hunt ( 2020 )
"Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are -- or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted, Crystal, turns the tables on her pursuers.
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Movie: The Gentlemen ( 2020 )
An American expat tries to sell off his highly profitable marijuana empire in London, triggering plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.
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Movie: The Irishman ( 2019 )
Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran is a man with a lot on his mind. The former labor union high official and hitman, learned to kill serving in Italy during the Second World War. He now looks back on his life and the hits that defined his mob career, maintaining connections with the Bufalino crime family. In particular, the part he claims to have played in the disappearance of his life-long friend, Jimmy Hoffa, the former president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, who mysteriously vanished in late July 1975 at the age of 62.
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Movie: I Am That Man ( 2019 )
Struggling to come to terms with the break-up of his marriage and his reintegration into civilian life, former Navy SEAL John Beckett contemplates returning to what he knows best, war. When a close friend is brutally murdered in a racially motivated attack, Beckett calls upon his specialized military skills to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice. Has he found a new sense of purpose, or will this be his last mission?
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Movie: Iron Sky: The Coming Race ( 2019 )
Twenty years after the events of Iron Sky, the former Nazi Moonbase has become the last refuge of mankind. Earth was devastated by a nuclear war, but buried deep under the wasteland lies a power that could save the last of humanity - or destroy it once and for all. The truth behind the creation of mankind will be revealed when an old enemy leads our heroes on an adventure into the Hollow Earth. To save humanity they must fight the Vril, an ancient shapeshifting reptilian race and their army of dinosaurs.
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Movie: The Vanishing ( 2019 )
Based on the Flannan Isle mystery. A small relief boat approaches a tiny, isolated island where a lighthouse is located. They're to replenish the stocks and replace the crew of 3. After they dock no one greets them. The winch is broken. The lamps are clean and refilled; the table's laid for dinner. There's an upturned chair, 2 sets of yellow oilskins are missing - the 3 men have vanished.
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Movie: The Mule ( 2018 )
A ninety-year-old horticulturist and Korean War veteran turns drug mule for a Mexican cartel.
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Movie: Mandy ( 2018 )
The enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance.
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TV Show: Bobcat Goldthwait's Misfits & Monsters ( 2018 )
Bobcat Goldthwait's Misfits & Monsters is a genre-hopping, scripted anthology comedy series will bring viewers twisted morality tales from the darkly witty mind of creator and four-time Sundance Award-winning writer and director Bobcat Goldthwait. Each episode will tell a different story in a different genre – including 1970s-era science fiction, psychological thriller, romantic comedy, and reality – and will satirize our social norms and exploit the awkwardness of its flawed characters.
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TV Show: Killing Eve ( 2018 )
Based on the novellas by Luke Jennings, Killing Eve centers on two women; Eve is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade security services operative whose desk-bound job doesn't fulfill her fantasies of being a spy. Villanelle is an elegant, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. Killing Eve topples the typical spy-action thriller as these two fiercely intelligent women, equally obsessed with each other, go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.
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TV Show: Frankie Boyle's New World Order ( 2017 )
In an attempt to make sense of the bewildering world we live in, Frankie Boyle dissects the week's news using stand-up, review, discussion and audience interaction.
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Movie: Nitro Rush ( 2016 )
We find Max in jail, after losing his young wife. When he learns that his son Theo has just been hired by a criminal organization, Max will risk everything to save him. His car chase and athletic skills prove to be a great asset.
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TV Show: Vikingane ( 2016 )
Set in 790AD, Vikingane features the daily challenges of people living in a small Viking village, from power struggle, brother rivalry, gender equality, to betrayal and friendship. "It's the story of people from our time, but living during the Viking era. Of course everyday choices have far more dramatic consequences and that makes for great comedy material.
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Movie: Showdown in Manila ( 2016 )
Private detectives Nick (Alexander Nevsky) and Charlie (Casper Van Dien) live and work in Manila. A murder investigation leads them to the jungle camp of an international terrorist called The Wrath. Not trusting the police, Nick and Charlie assembly a team of daredevils to walk straight into the Wrath's lair and fight an army of his goons.
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TV Show: Crashing ( 2016 )
Sitcom about the lives and loves of six twenty-to-thirty-something adults living together as Property Guardians in a disused hospital.
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TV Show: Childhood's End ( 2015 )
Written by Arthur C. Clarke and hailed as a revolutionary work of science fiction since its publishing in 1953, Childhood's End follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious "Overlords," whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.
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Movie: Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans ( 2015 )
STEVE MCQUEEN: THE MAN and LE MANS is the story of obsession, betrayal and ultimate vindication. It is the story of how one of the most volatile, charismatic stars of his generation, who seemingly lost so much he held dear in the pursuit of his dream, nevertheless followed it to the end.
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Movie: Bridge of Spies ( 2015 )
During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
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Movie: Suffragette ( 2015 )
In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end.
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Movie: Kubrick Remembered ( 2014 )
Kubrick Remembered is one of the supplementary bonus documentaries included in Stanley Kubrick: The Masterpiece Collection. This box set of eight Kubrick classics has films, from the 1962 Lolita to his final film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999). In addition to the eight discs (films), there are two more discs, making this a ten-disc set. It does include the previously-released supplements on each film, plus it features two new-to-disc documentaries and one new feature length film, along with a 78-page book of stills, storyboards, production art, script pages, and other production paraphernalia from the featured films. Part of this collection is the aforementioned bonus documentary, which is with the feature-length documentary Kubrick Remembered. Kubrick's widow opened up the Kubrick archives for this documentary, allowing all of us a closer glimpse into his methods.
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TV Show: Roommates ( 2014 )
Victoria, Isabella, Sara, and Julieta share a house with no rules at all. These models have a taste for partying, dancing and sex. They're out to have a good time, and for them, sex is the very best time of all.
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Movie: Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt? ( 2014 )
In a post-apocalyptic America, the iron fist of the totalitarian government seeks to crush one mysterious man named John Galt, who has the power and influence to change everything..
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Movie: An Erotic Tale of Ms. Dracula ( 2014 )
An investigation at Ms. Dracula's mansion into the disappearance of a local beauty leads a group of characters, pulled from the pages of vampire fiction, on a wild goose chase that results in numerous hijinks and the discovery of new erotic secrets.
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Movie: A Common Man ( 2013 )
A terrorist plants several bombs throughout the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka and threatens to detonate them unless prisoners are released.
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Movie: The Wipers Times ( 2013 )
Just after the First World War Fred Roberts goes for a job as a newspaper journalist and tells the sub-editor how, in the trenches in 1916, he discovered a printing press in working order. Helped by ex-printer Sergeant Harris and with his friend Jack Pearson as his assistant, he sets up the Wipers Times - the name coming from the soldiers' pronunciation of the town Ypres. Despite disapproval from officious Colonel Howfield but with backing from sympathetic General Mitford they produce twenty-three issues of a satirical magazine - its articles represented on screen in black and white - which boosts morale and even gets mentioned in the Tatler. The press is destroyed by a German shell but another is found and the paper's title changed to fit in with wherever the regiment is deployed. Pearson and Roberts are both awarded gallantry medals but when Roberts is only offered the job of crossword compiler by the sub-editor he moves to Canada as a prospector while Pearson marries and opens a hotel in Argentina. Both survived into the 1960s.
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Movie: Europa Report ( 2013 )
An international crew of astronauts undertakes a privately funded mission to search for life on Jupiter's fourth largest moon.
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Movie: A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman ( 2013 )
An animated, factually incorrect biography of Graham Arthur Chapman, one of the founding members of the comedy group Monty Python.
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TV Show: Metal Hurlant Chronicles ( 2012 )
Based on the popular French comics anthology Métal Hurlant (known as Heavy Metal in the United States) each of the 12 episodes take place on a different planet with a different cast, linked together by the presence of an asteroid, which plays a vital role in their lives--and the future of their civilization. This is an originally French series, although all of the episodes are spoken in English (in France they were dubbed or subtitled) except season 1 episode 3 which is in French.
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Movie: The Bourne Legacy ( 2012 )
An expansion of the universe from Robert Ludlum's novels, centered on a new hero whose stakes have been triggered by the events of the previous three films.
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TV Show: Deep Space 69 ( 2012 )
A human (Jay) and a koala (Hamilton) go on space-adventures together. Hamilton is usually responsible and trying to complete the mission, while Jay is trying to bone busty ladies.
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TV Show: The Girl's Guide to Depravity ( 2012 )
The Girl's Guide to Depravity is a guide for the girl who wants to get laid without getting screwed. Best friends, Samantha and Lizzie, have dated more than their fair share of d**ks and douchebags. So they've come up with their own set of rules - The Rules of Depravity - which are designed for maximum pleasure and minimal heartbreak. But whether they'll admit it or not, they're just looking for the same thing we all want - love.
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Movie: The Heineken Kidnapping ( 2011 )
A bold, amateur kidnapping goes wildly awry in this fictionalized account of beer magnate Alfred Heineken's 1983 abduction, which would go on to become one of The Netherlands' most infamous crimes.
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Movie: The Assault ( 2011 )
Based on a true story, a SWAT team is tasked with storming a hijacked Air France plane to save its passengers.
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Movie: Fortress of War ( 2010 )
The film shows the heroic defense of the Brest Fortress, which had taken upon the first strike of German fascist invaders on June 22 1941. Story describes the events of the first days of the defense. The film tells about three main resistance zones, headed by the regiment commander, Pyotr Mikhailovich Gavrilov, the commissar Efim Moiseevich Fomin and the head of the 9th frontier outpost, Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov. Many years later veteran Alexander Akimov again and again recalls the memories of the time, when he, then a 15 year old Sasha Akimov was deeply in love with the beautiful Anya and suddenly found himself in the middle of the bloody events of war.
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Movie: Hotel Hell Vacation ( 2010 )
Clark and Ellen Griswold embark on a trip to visit their son Rusty and his family, but along the way, Clark has planned a romantic getaway where everything turns to disaster.
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Movie: Ice Twisters ( 2009 )
Charlie Price, a former scientist turned science fiction author, starts living one of his novels when the Federal Science Foundation's weather experiments escape control and turn disastrous.
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TV Show: Life on Top ( 2009 )
In the second season of Life on Top, the girls -- Bella, Melissa, Regina and Tippi -- search for love in the most unexpected places while living "Life on Top". In the Season Two premiere, Bella explores her options for her career and her love life. Meanwhile, her roommate Melissa lands a gig as a party promoter at a new club; Regina discovers her old sexual bucket list and decides to check off a few more items; and Bella is intrigued by Vincent's new workout regimen.
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Movie: Carriers ( 2009 )
Four friends fleeing a viral pandemic soon learn they are more dangerous than any virus.
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Movie: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee ( 2009 )
After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
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Movie: Brüno ( 2009 )
Flamboyant, gay Austrian Brüno looks for new fame in America.
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Movie: Australia ( 2008 )
Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.
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Movie: The Happening ( 2008 )
Elliot Moore is a high school science teacher who quizzes his class one day about an article in the New York Times. It's about the sudden, mysterious disappearance of bees. Yet again Nature is doing something inexplicable, and whatever science has to say about it will be, in the end, only a theory. Scientists will bring out more theories, but no explanations, when a more urgent dilemma hits the planet.
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Movie: Virgin Territory ( 2008 )
Young Florentines take refuge from the black plague and engage in bawdy adventures and lusty exchanges.
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Movie: Beyond Loch Ness ( 2008 )
James Murphy is a rugged cryptozoologist, who thirty years earlier, during a trip to Loch Ness, Scotland encountered the fabled "Nessie" creature that killed his father, and left James with a deep facial scar. Thirty years later, James is hunting for Nessie, when his search leads him to the sleepy town of Pike Island, Ashburn, on Lake Superior. Hiring Josh Riley as his guide, James and Josh bond over their mutual scientific interests and deceased fathers, while James tries to convince Josh's mother, Sheriff Karen Riley, that the 60-foot plesiosaur is killing and breeding.
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Movie: Assembly ( 2007 )
A soldier fights to gain recognition for comrades who died during the Chinese Civil War.
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Movie: Great Bolshy Yarblockos! Making 'A Clockwork Orange' ( 2007 )
In this documentary, we follow Stanely Kubrick as he creates one of the most controversial films of all time, one that retains its power to shock audiences, even after 35 years. At the time of its release, A Clockwork Orange created a firestorm of controversy. Through interviews with collaborators, filmmakers, screenwriters and authors, we come to appreciate Stanley Kubrick as an artist unafraid to take risks and court controversy, committed unwaveringly to his single-minded goal: the highest artistic quality of his films.
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Movie: Rendition ( 2007 )
When a terrorist bombing in North Africa kills 19 incl. an American, an Egyptian chemical engineer flying from South Africa to his wife in USA, is arrested upon arriving USA. He disappears. His wife asks senator for help.
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Movie: Jesse Stone: Sea Change ( 2007 )
When Police Chief Jesse Stone's relationship with his ex-wife worsens, he fears he will relapse into alcoholism. To get his mind off his problems, Jesse begins working on the unsolved murder of a bank teller shot during a robbery. Meanwhile, Stone's investigation of an alleged rape draws him into conflict with the town council, which hopes to preserve Paradise's reputation as an ideal seaside resort.
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Movie: Naked Fear ( 2007 )
Diana arrives in a town to start a new job. She's threatened into working as an exotic dancer. She's later kidnapped and let loose naked in the wilderness as prey for the psycho hunter, like many women before her. Will she survive?
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Movie: Lady in the Water ( 2006 )
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.
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Movie: Tell Them Who You Are ( 2006 )
Mark Wexler's cinematic blend of biography and autobiography centers on his relationship with his father, legendary Oscar-winning cinematographer and filmmaker Haskell Wexler, whose long and illustrious career is a virtual catalogue of 20th-century classics. Haskell's collaborations with such world-class filmmakers as Elia Kazan, Milos Forman, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola and Mike Nichols include such works as WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, AMERICAN GRAFFITI, COMING HOME, BOUND FOR GLORY and ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. The film features interviews with many of these artists, along with such luminaries as Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas and Sidney Poitier. But the true "star" of TELL THEM WHO YOU ARE is Haskell himself, a controversial, larger-than-life character who challenges his son's filmmaking skills while announcing with complete conviction that he could have done a better job directing most of the movies he's shot. As these two men swap positions on camera and behind it - sometimes shooting one another simultaneously - the film looks with honesty and compassion at their attempts to reconcile before it's too late.
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Movie: Jesse Stone: Night Passage ( 2006 )
In this prequel to 'Stone Cold,' Tom Selleck reprises his role as Jesse Stone, an L.A. cop who relocates to a small town only to find himself immersed in one mystery after the other.
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TV Show: Hotel Erotica Cabo ( 2006 )
Hotel Erotica Cabo centers around Corrine and Amanda, two young women who are the managers at a beautiful resort named Hotel Cabo located in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Hotel guests have romantic experiences and fantasies with lovers, strangers, and sometimes with Corrine or Amanda.
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Movie: Munich ( 2006 )
Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day.
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Movie: Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning ( 2005 )
The future looks bleak for Captain Pirk. Originally from the far future, he traveled back to save the world, but was shipwrecked on the 21st century. The world of the past is a dangerous place and he is finding it difficult to convince the ladies he is, in fact, an intergalactic space hero from the future. To make things right Pirk comes up with a questionable plan to save mankind's future...
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Movie: 9th Company ( 2005 )
Young Soviet Army recruits are stuck in the bloody war in Afghanistan, that was started by politicians.
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Movie: Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist ( 2005 )
Years before Father Lankester Merrin helped save Regan MacNeil's soul, he first encounters the demon Pazuzu in East Africa. Merrin's initial battle with Pazuzu leads to the rediscovery of his faith.
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Movie: Descent ( 2005 )
When the Ring of Fire starts heating up with an unprecedented amount of volcanic activity a team of scientists are gathered to prevent a global catastrophe.
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Movie: Secret Desires of a Housewife 2 ( 2005 )
When Jamie's husband Rex takes up mountain climbing, she wants to join in the fun of a new adventure! But Rex feels the sport is too dangerous for women and forbids his wife from learning. Determined to prove she can play the game, Jamie secretly signs up with a trainer and quickly becomes an expert in the dangerous and sexy sport. Once she reveals her new talents to Rex, he realizes the error of his ways and sees his wife in a whole new light!
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Movie: Cashback ( 2004 )
Ben is an art college student in London, whose imagination runs wild as he works the late-night shift at the local supermarket. What do he and his colleagues do to pass the long, endless hours of the night?
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Movie: Jericho Mansions ( 2003 )
A murder in an old apartment building leads the superintendent to suspect everyone, and eventually himself, of the murder.
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TV Show: State of Play ( 2003 )
The serial begins with the murder of a young man, in what appears to be a drug-related killing, and the apparently coincidental death of Sonia Baker, the young researcher for MP Stephen Collins (Morrissey). As the deaths are investigated by journalist Cal McCaffrey of The Herald (Simm) and his colleagues (including Kelly Macdonald as Della Smith and Bill Nighy as editor Cameron Foster) it appears that not only were the deaths connected, but that a conspiracy links them with oil industry-backed corruption of high-ranking British government ministers.
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Movie: Solaris ( 2002 )
Grieving psychologist Chris Kelvin is sent to investigate a lonely space station orbiting the mysterious planet Solaris, where terrified crewmembers are experiencing a host of strange phenomena, including impossibly halcyon visitors that seem all too human. Once aboard, he confronts an unfathomable power that could hold the key to mankind's deepest dreams and darkest nightmares.
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Movie: Thirteen Conversations About One Thing ( 2002 )
In New York City, the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a house-cleaner, a professor and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
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Movie: Blow ( 2001 )
The story of how George Jung, along with the Medellín Cartel headed by Pablo Escobar, established the American cocaine market in the 1970s in the United States.
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TV Show: The Lone Gunmen ( 2001 )
Spin-off of The X-Files featuring the trio of computer-hacking conspiracy geeks popularly known as The Lone Gunmen. Never ones to stray far from the center of corporate and government intrigue, the threesome of John Byers, Melvin Frohike, and Richard Langly play like a misguided Mission Impossible team, embarking on a series of comic adventures that simultaneously highlight their genius and ineptitude. While their newfound independence inspires them to investigate even the most shadowy of conspiracies, their social skills remain stagnant, which only makes their lives more difficult when they learn their chief competitor in the "information business" is the brilliant and beautiful Yves Adele Harlow. Perpetually short of funds to publish The Lone Gunmen newspaper, Byers, Frohike, and Langly begrudgingly take on Jimmy Bond as an unlikely benefactor who bankrolls their missions and joins them in their investigations to uncover the truth.
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Movie: Unbreakable ( 2000 )
A man learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident.
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Movie: Ordinary Decent Criminal ( 2000 )
Brilliant, flamboyant master criminal Michael Lynch is more interested in his image and his posterity than the actual profit from his ill-gotten gains.
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Movie: Payback ( 1999 )
After a successful heist, Porter is shot by his wife and his best friend. They leave him there to die but when he recovers, he seeks revenge and wants his share of the money.
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Movie: Gloria ( 1999 )
After serving three years in prison covering for her gangster boyfriend, Kevin, Gloria returns to New York City for the money she was promised. Inside Kevin's base of operations, she finds 7 year old Nicky, whose family has been killed.
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TV Show: Supply and Demand ( 1997 )
A by-the-rule police officer must team up with a streetwise cop and go undercover in an operation to bust a major drug ring in Manchester. This becomes the start of a continuing partnership.
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Movie: Trainspotting ( 1996 )
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
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Movie: Top Fighter 2 ( 1996 )
Women too can fight! The sequel of "Top Fighter" focuses in the importance of the women in the martial-arts movies, from her first characters as "hero's girl" until becoming superstars by themselves. A voyage by the times and the most famous beauty fighters from this genre: Angela Mao, Michelle Yeoh, Cynthia Rothrock and much more.
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Movie: Miracle on 34th Street ( 1994 )
A lawyer and a little girl must prove that a man claiming to be Santa Claus is the real thing.
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Movie: Matinee ( 1993 )
The teenage son of a navy sailor newly stationed in Key West gets some excitement with his friends when a small-time film producer comes to town to premiere a kitschy horror film during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Movie: Buffy the Vampire Slayer ( 1992 )
A flighty teenage girl learns that she is her generation's destined battler of vampires.
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Movie: All Ladies Do It ( 1992 )
A happily married 24-year-old woman who experiences an inexplicable, rather restless craving to finally live her life intensely, retells her extra-marital escapades to her husband intending to spice up their marriage.
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Movie: Paprika ( 1991 )
A young country girl comes to town and works in a brothel in order to help her fiance get the money to start his own business. "Paprika" is the name given to her by the madam.
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Movie: The Russia House ( 1990 )
An expatriate British publisher unexpectedly finds himself working for British intelligence to investigate people in Russia.
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TV Show: Have I Got News for You ( 1990 )
Based on the week's news, Have I Got News for You is fronted by guest hosts and features two regular team captains, Paul Merton and Ian Hislop. Each week the show invites two guests to cast a jaundiced eye over the week's news, resulting in a fast flow of anarchic, spontaneous and hugely entertaining wit and humour. Guests typically represent the world of politics, comedy, show-business and journalism, and are often themselves particularly newsworthy participants. The final touches of Have I Got News for You are put together only hours before recording, allowing guests to comment on the late-breaking news stories of the day.
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TV Show: Agatha Christie's Poirot ( 1989 )
David Suchet is a pitch-perfect Poirot in these gorgeously filmed adaptations of Agatha Christie's mysteries. The diminutive detective cracks cases with a sharp mind, dry wit, and help from his friends, including Captain Hastings, Inspector Japp and Ariadne Oliver.
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Movie: Crocodile Dundee II ( 1988 )
Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.
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Movie: Wings of Desire ( 1987 )
An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become human when he falls in love with a mortal.
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TV Show: Shaka Zulu ( 1986 )
This 10-part 10 hour docu-drama depicts the life of Zulu warrior Shaka, an early 19th century soldier and King who through brilliant but ruthless tactics, united the smaller neighboring kingdoms in his Southeast African region, into a single Zulu nation. Interweaving historic fact with cultural practices, rituals, and mythologies, Shaka is revealed to be one of the greatest modern military figures on the African continent