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Movie: Far from the Madding Crowd ( 1967 )
Bathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men.
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Movie: The New World ( 2006 )
The story of the English exploration of Virginia, and of the changing world and loves of Pocahontas.
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Movie: Flesh ( 1970 )
A man desperate for money and no income, turns prostitute and interplays with a variety of clients and hustlers.
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Movie: Big ( 1988 )
After wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.
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Movie: How Stella Got Her Groove Back ( 1998 )
Stella is a highly successful, forty-something San Francisco stock broker who is persuaded by her colorful New York girlfriend Delilah to take a well deserved, first-class vacation to Jamaica. As she soaks in the beauty of the island, she encounters a strapping, young islander, Winston Shakespeare. His pursuits for her turn into a hot and steamy romance that forces Stella to take personal inventory of her life and try to find a balance between her desire for love and companionship, and the responsibilities of mother and corporate executive.
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Movie: Soul Food ( 1997 )
One person can keep a family together and, when that one person is gone, a family can be torn apart.
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Movie: Malone ( 1987 )
An ex-C.I.A. hitman running from his past (Malone) finds just how difficult it is to retire when he runs accross a small town controlled by mercenaries and a family that's resisting their control.
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Movie: Khartoum ( 1966 )
In the Sudan, in 1884 to 1885, Egyptian forces led by British General Charles "Chinese" Gordon (Charlton Heston) defend Khartoum against an invading Muslim Army led by a religious fanatic, Mohammed Ahmed el Mahdi (Sir Laurence Olivier).
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Movie: Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story ( 1993 )
A fictionalized account of the life of the martial arts superstar.
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Movie: Provoked: A True Story ( 2007 )
It's the true story of a Punjabi woman named Kiranjit Ahluwalia who leaves India to marry a London-based guy, only to be badly abused. She ends up in prison for murdering her abusive husband.
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Movie: La Haine ( 1996 )
The film follows three young men and their time spent in the French suburban "ghetto," over a span of twenty-four hours. Vinz, a Jew, Saïd, an Arab, and Hubert, a black boxer, have grown up in these French suburbs where high levels of diversity coupled with the racist and oppressive police force have raised tensions to a critical breaking point. During the riots that took place a night before, a police officer lost his handgun in the ensuing madness, only to leave it for Vinz to find. Now, with a newfound means to gain the respect he deserves, Vinz vows to kill a cop if his friend Abdel dies in the hospital, due the beating he received while in police custody.
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Movie: Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia ( 2015 )
This is an unashamedly opinionated film. In Gore Vidal's America, the political coup has already happened. The right have triumphed and the human values of the liberals have been consigned to history. But how did this happen and who organized it? In this film Gore Vidal's acerbic, opinionated and informed approach rips away at the facade of the new America. The film dramatizes Gore's political views and his concern at the present state of American democracy using interviews and historical footage of his famous appearances on television and talk shows over the last fifty years. In the recently filmed interviews Gore examines the course of American history and policy making and draws dramatic conclusions on the fate of the nation in the modern age.
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Movie: Poltergeist II: The Other Side ( 1986 )
The Freeling family have a new house, but their troubles with supernatural forces don't seem to be over.
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Movie: Murder on the Orient Express ( 1974 )
In December 1935, when his transcontinental luxury train is stranded by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before, with a multitude of suspects.
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Movie: Bring Me the Head of the Machine Gun Woman ( 2013 )
A powerful Chilean gangster uses everything in his power to stop the woman that wants to kill him, a sexy mercenary known as "the machinegun woman". The staggering sum of cash he offers for her head sets in motion an army of hitmen. And also, by accident, bursts in the life of naïve DJ Santiago, a common youth that will have to steel his guts against the underworld, and above all, survive the irresistible - and bloodthirsty - Machinegun Woman.
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TV Show: Queenie ( 1987 )
A half-caste beauty emigrates from India to Great Britain, pursues fame and fortune at the cost of personal happiness, and becomes a Hollywood movie star while suppressing the truth of her heritage.
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Movie: Oh! What a Lovely War ( 1969 )
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
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Movie: Breezy ( 1974 )
A young girl tries to find her way in life, suffering from her own naivety and sincerity.
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Movie: Bloodlines: Legacy of a Lord ( 1998 )
Based on one of the most famous mysterious disappearances in the world. Richard John Bingham, the Seventh Earl of Lucan was accused of the murder of 29 year old nanny, Sandra Rivett on November 7, 1974, at his family home at 46 Lower Belgrave Street, in London. On November 10, police found his borrowed Ford Corsair abandoned some 16 miles away near the docks of Newhaven. Since then there have been many reported "sightings" of Lord Lucan around the globe viz. Africa, Australia, the Netherlands, Ireland and Sicily.
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Movie: The Midnight Meat Train ( 2008 )
A photographer's obsessive pursuit of dark subject matter leads him into the path of a serial killer who stalks late night commuters, ultimately butchering them in the most gruesome ways imaginable.
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Movie: An Englishman in New York ( 2009 )
The later years of Quentin Crisp's life in New York City.
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Movie: Contagion ( 2011 )
Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.
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TV Show: Cordon ( 2014 )
After a virus outbreak in the center of Antwerp the goverment decides to lock the people who might be affected by placing a wall around the center.
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Movie: Tom Jones ( 1963 )
In eighteenth-century England, "first cousins" Tom Jones and Master Blifil grew up together in privilege in the western countryside, but could not be more different in nature. Tom, the bastard son of one of Squire Allworthy's servants Jenny Jones and the local barber Partridge, was raised by virtuous Allworthy as his own after he sent Jenny away. Tom is randy, chasing anything in a skirt, he's having a sexual relationship on the sly with Molly Seagrim, the peasant daughter of Allworthy's gamekeeper. Tom is nonetheless kind-hearted and good-natured, he who is willing to defend that and those in which he believes. Blifil, on the other hand, is dour, and although outwardly pious, is cold-hearted and vengeful. Despite his randiness, Tom eventually falls in love with Sophie Western, who has just returned to the area after a few years abroad. Despite Sophie's love for Tom, Squire Western and his spinster sister would rather see Sophie marry Blifil rather than a bastard, who Western nonetheless liked before he knew that Tom liked Sophie. Based on half truths, Tom, out of circumstance, is forced to leave his home and strike out on his own in London. While Sophie sneaks away in search of Tom, and Squire Western and Miss Western go off in search of Sophie, Tom gets into one misadventure after another on his way to London, some involving his randiness, and some which will reveal certain aspects of his life previously unknown to him. Through it all, Sophie, deep down, is never far from his mind, even when his life is in danger.
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Movie: Animal ( 1977 )
The funny misadventures of a dating duo of movie stunt professionals in France.
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Movie: A Dark Truth ( 2012 )
A former CIA operative turned political talk show host is hired by a disaffected corporate shareholder to expose her company's cover-up of an incident and deaths in an Ecuadorian village.
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Movie: Rising Damp ( 1980 )
Stingy landlord Rigsby manages to scam his lodgers Cooper, an arts student, and Philip, a medical student making both pay for a room they must share. However Rigsby's favorite lodger, Miss Jones, now flirts with both boys rather than the old goat, despite his pitiful attempts to woo her.
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TV Show: Rising Damp ( 1974 )
Popular sitcom set in a seedy bedsit lorded over by the mean, vain, boastful, cowardly landlord Rigsby. In each episode, his conceits are debunked by his long suffering tenants.
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Movie: Paper Tiger ( 1975 )
A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. His life changes when he and the boy are kidnapped by terrorists for political purposes.
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Movie: One for the Money ( 2012 )
Unemployed and newly-divorced Stephanie Plum lands a job at her cousin's bail-bond business, where her first assignment puts her on the trail of a wanted local cop from her romantic past.
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Movie: On the Beach ( 2000 )
After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.
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Movie: On the Beach ( 1959 )
After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.
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Movie: Good Gals ( 2019 )
The story of a gang of French female robbers disguised as men, who operated in the Avignon area in the mid-1980s.
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TV Show: Fawlty Towers ( 1975 )
Fawlty Towers is set in a fictional hotel in the seaside town of Torquay. The plots centre on tense, rude and put-upon owner Basil Fawlty, his bossy wife Sybil, comparatively normal chambermaid Polly, who is often the peacemaker and voice of reason, and hapless Spanish waiter Manuel, showing their attempts to run the hotel amidst farcical situations and an array of demanding and eccentric guests.
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TV Show: Night Gallery ( 1969 )
Rod Serling returns to anthology television as the host of Night Gallery, a three-season show where each story revolves around a mysterious and ominous painting hanging in an empty gallery. Mr. Serling provides the opening and closing narration to these stories, typically tales of horror and the supernatural. During the first season, the hour-long series features several shorter stories, some of which are comedic blackout sketches. The show was subsequently cut down to a half-hour, and in syndication was mixed with episodes of the TV series The Sixth Sense.
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Movie: S.O.B. ( 1981 )
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
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Movie: The Emerald Forest ( 1985 )
After the son of engineer Bill Markham is abducted by an aboriginal tribe on the edge of the rain forest, the engineer spends the next 10 years searching for him.
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Movie: El Cid ( 1961 )
The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.
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Movie: The Driver ( 1978 )
A getaway driver becomes the latest assignment for a tenacious detective.
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Movie: The Likely Lads ( 1976 )
Terry is divorced from his German wife and has a Finnish girlfriend Christina. At Thelma's suggestion they join her and Bob on a caravan holiday but due to a mishap the men get separated from the women. Thelma mistakenly accuses Bob of infidelity and their row is heard publicly as they are in a van with the P.A. still switched on. Bob and Terry then holiday without the girls and,in a hotel at Whitley Bay,score with both the landlady and her daughter but have to make a hurried,trouserless,exit. Terry decides to emigrate and Bob joins him for a farewell drink on board his ship. However Terry changes his mind at the last minute and disembarks, realising too late that Bob is still on board and heading for Bahrain.
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Movie: The Brood ( 1979 )
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.
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Movie: Warlords of the Deep ( 1978 )
Searching for the lost world of Atlantis, Prof. Aitken, his son Charles and Greg Collinson are betrayed by the crew of their expedition's ship, attracted by the fabulous treasures of Atlantis. The diving bell destroyed, a deep sea monster attacks the boat. They are all dragged to the bottom of the sea where they meet the inhabitants of the lost continent, an advance alien race makes slaves of the ship-wrecked sailors. The aliens want to rule the human world to create a nazi state. Due to his high IQ, they think that Charles may join them. Greg and the team will need the help of Delphine, the daughter of a slave, to escape the city surrounded by evil creatures...
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Movie: The Bourne Identity ( 2002 )
A man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and attempting to regain his memory.
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Movie: The Bourne Supremacy ( 2004 )
When Jason Bourne is framed for a CIA operation gone awry, he is forced to resume his former life as a trained assassin to survive.
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Movie: The Bourne Ultimatum ( 2007 )
Jason Bourne dodges a ruthless C.I.A. official and his Agents from a new assassination program while searching for the origins of his life as a trained killer.
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Movie: Noises Off... ( 1992 )
A travelling theater group find so much action going on behind-the-scenes, they almost ruin the performances.
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Movie: The Fountainhead ( 1949 )
An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.
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Movie: The Quiet Earth ( 1985 )
A man named Zac Hobson awakens to find himself alone in the world. In a desperate attempt to search for others, he finds only two who have their own agenda.
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Movie: Night of the Juggler ( 1980 )
A tough, New York City ex-cop relentlessly searches for his kidnapped teenage daughter whom is held by a twisted psycho after mistaking her for the daughter of a wealthy businessman.
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Movie: The Wrong Box ( 1966 )
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other, or can be made to have seemed to do so.
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Movie: Bronco Billy ( 1980 )
An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.
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Movie: Legion ( 2010 )
When a group of strangers at a dusty roadside diner come under attack by demonic forces, their only chance for survival lies with an archangel named Michael, who informs a pregnant waitress that her unborn child is humanity's last hope.
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Movie: The Millionairess ( 1960 )
A Millionairess and a doctor cannot marry until they meet conditions set-up by their respective parents.
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TV Show: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver ( 2014 )
On Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, John Oliver presents a satirical look at the week in news, politics and current events.
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Movie: Benny Hill: The World's Favourite Clown ( 1991 )
Documentary about Benny Hill's career.
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Movie: Wittgenstein ( 1993 )
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language. A series of sketches depict the unfolding of his life from boyhood, through the era of the first World War, to his eventual Cambridge professorship and...Read all
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Movie: Runaway Train ( 1986 )
Two convicts escape from a prison situated in the snowy desolated Alaska. After a taxing cross-country walk n a swim across a freezing river, the two fellas board an empty train but their joy is interrupted when the old driver falls off due to heart attack and the train accelerates.
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Movie: Rita, Sue and Bob Too ( 1987 )
Realistic story of working class Yorkshire life. Two schoolgirls have a sexual fling with a married man. Serious and light-hearted by turns.
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Movie: The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash ( 1978 )
Charts the adventures of the prefab four, possibly the most famous band of all time.
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Movie: Rush Hour 3 ( 2007 )
After an attempted assassination on Ambassador Han, Lee and Carter head to Paris to protect a French woman with knowledge of the Triads' secret leaders.
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Movie: Hopscotch ( 1980 )
Grounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them.
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Movie: Raising Arizona ( 1987 )
Recidivist hold-up man H.I. McDonnough and police woman Edwina marry, only to discover they are unable to conceive a child. Desperate for a baby, the pair decide to kidnap one of the quintuplets of furniture tycoon Nathan Arizona. The McDonnoughs try to keep their crime secret, while friends, co-workers and a feral bounty hunter look to use Nathan Jr. for their own purposes.
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TV Show: Gangsters ( 1976 )
John Kline, a former SAS officer is recruited by law enforcement to become an undercover agent in Birmingham.
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TV Show: Play for Today ( 1970 )
Play for Today, an anthology series of plays carrying on in the tradition of its predecessor The Wednesday Play, presented controversial works by such writers as Dennis Potter, David Mercer, Alan Bennett, and Jim Allen, with such directors as Ken Loach, Alan Clarke, Philip Saville, and Mike Newell. Several plays in the series led to various spin-offs, including Play for Tomorrow and Rumpole of the Bailey.
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Movie: Lawman ( 1971 )
A lawman from Bannock arrives in Sabbath to arrest all the cattlemen whose wild celebration the year before resulted in the accidental death of an old man.
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Movie: Rush Hour 2 ( 2001 )
Carter and Lee head to Hong Kong for a vacation, but become embroiled in a counterfeit money scam.
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Movie: Running Scared ( 2006 )
A low-ranking thug is entrusted by his crime boss to dispose of a gun that killed corrupt cops, but things get out of control when the gun ends up in wrong hands.
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Movie: The Beguiled ( 1971 )
As the costly American Civil War still rages on, a twelve-year-old student of the forgotten Miss Martha Farnsworth's Seminary for Young Ladies in warm and humid Louisiana stumbles upon a gravely wounded Union soldier, Corporal John McBurney. Taken in to recover from his injuries, before long, McBurney will find himself imprisoned in a small room inside the mansion. Little by little, the seductive but unwanted guest tries to take advantage of the female inhabitants' wartime-subdued desires; however, is McBurney really in control over the situation?
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Movie: The Seven-Ups ( 1973 )
A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money.
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Movie: The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2002 )
The eccentric members of a dysfunctional family reluctantly gather under the same roof for various reasons.
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Movie: The Most Dangerous Game ( 1932 )
An insane hunter arranges for a ship to be wrecked on an island where he can indulge in some sort of hunting and killing of the passengers.
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Movie: Roxanne ( 1987 )
The large-nosed C.D. Bales is in love with the beautiful Roxanne; she falls for his personality but another man's looks.
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Movie: Romeo + Juliet ( 1996 )
Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.
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Movie: Rollerball ( 1975 )
In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.
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Movie: The Changeling ( 1980 )
A man staying at a secluded historical mansion finds himself being haunted by the presence of a spectre.
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Movie: Bon Cop Bad Cop ( 2006 )
Two Canadian detectives, one from Ontario and the other from Quebec, must work together when a murdered victim is found on the Ontario Quebec border line.
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Movie: Derek and Clive Get the Horn ( 1979 )
Russell Mulcahy (of "Highlander" fame) films British comedy luminaries Peter Cook and Dudley Moore recording their last comedy album featuring two of their most beloved characters, lavatory...
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Movie: 101 Reykjavík ( 2000 )
Will the 30 y.o. Hlynur ever move out of his mother's apartment in Reykjavík? Social welfare keeps him passive but things change when his mother's Spanish friend, Lola, arrives and stays through Xmas and New Year's Eve.
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Movie: Rumble Fish ( 1983 )
Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.
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Movie: Robin and Marian ( 1976 )
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
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Movie: Ride the High Country ( 1962 )
An ex-union soldier is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him.
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Movie: 47 Ronin ( 2013 )
A band of samurai set out to avenge the death and dishonor of their master at the hands of a ruthless shogun.
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Movie: Rising Sun ( 1993 )
When an escort girl is found dead in the offices of a Japanese company in Los Angeles, detectives Web Smith and John Connor act as liaison between the company's executives and the investigating cop Tom Graham.
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Movie: RocknRolla ( 2008 )
In London, a real-estate scam puts millions of pounds up for grabs, attracting some of the city's scrappiest tough guys and its more established underworld types, all of whom are looking to get rich quick. While the city's seasoned criminals vie for the cash, an unexpected player -- a drugged-out rock 'n' roller presumed to be dead but very much alive -- has a multi-million-dollar prize fall into his hands.
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Movie: A Serbian Film ( 2010 )
An aging porn star agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.
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Movie: Bon Cop Bad Cop 2 ( 2017 )
A francophone S.Q. officer and an anglophone O.P.P officer reunite to investigate a large car theft ring led by an Italian mobster.
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Movie: Security ( 2017 )
A security guard protects an eleven year-old girl who is being targeted by a gang for participating as a trial witness.
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Movie: Nitro ( 2012 )
Max leads a good life with Alice and their son Théo; that is until Alice is threatened with death while waiting for a heart transplant. Max promises Théo that he will save Alice, but to keep his word he must find a heart, and fast. Since time is running out and he must find a solution, Max decides to reconnect with his troubled past. His decision will change his life in ways he could never have imagined.
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Movie: Serenity ( 2005 )
The crew of the ship Serenity try to evade an assassin sent to recapture one of their members who is telepathic.
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TV Show: Columbo ( 1968 )
This is the detective series that inspired them all. Legendary actor Peter Falk is back in his 4-time Emmy® Award winning role, as the ruffled, cigar-chomping, trenchcoat-wearing police lieutenant who is asking all the right questions.
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Movie: The Stepford Wives ( 1975 )
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
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Movie: Stander ( 2003 )
The life and career of Andre Stander, a South African police officer turned bank robber.
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Movie: For Queen & Country ( 1989 )
A retired British soldier struggles to adjust to everyday life, with increasing difficulty.
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Movie: Defense of the Realm ( 1986 )
A reporter Mullen 'stumbles' on a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent. In fact it is also linked to a near Nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and an Americal USAF base. Has there been a Government cover-up,Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam the MP's assistant to find out the truth.
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Movie: Never Let Go ( 1960 )
A cosmetic salesman sets out to prove to himself and his wife that he is not a failure.
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Movie: Stardust ( 1974 )
The rise and fall of the rock singer Jim Maclaine, in the mid 60s, with his manager, Mike, and his group, "The Stray Cats."
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Movie: Stardust Memories ( 1980 )
While attending a retrospective of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
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Movie: Serpico ( 1973 )
An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
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Movie: Soldier ( 1998 )
In a futuristic society, some people are selected at birth to become soldiers, and trained in such a manner that they become inhuman killing machines. One of the most succesfull and older of these soldiers (Russell) is pitted against a new breed of soldiers, and after the confrontation is believed to be dead. His body is left behind in a semi-abandoned colonial planet, where everything is peaceful, and he is taught about the other aspects of life. But eventually he has to fight the new breed of soldiers again, this time to defend his new home...
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Movie: Serial Mom ( 1994 )
A sweet mother finds herself participating in homicidal activities when she sees the occasion call for it.