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Abducted and imprisoned, Phillipe (Richard Chamberlain) is unaware that he's the rightful heir to the throne of France.

While Phillipe was spirited away at birth by the treacherous and manipulative Fouquet (Patrick McGoohan), his twin brother Louis (also Richard Chamberlain) has grown into an easily manipulated spendthrift who is unconcerned for the welfare of his country. Phillipe's freedom now depends on the skill and bravery of the Captain of Musketeers the legendary D'Artagnan!

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Everybody's favourite prehistoric pals are back! Join Littlefoot, Cera, Spike, Ducky and Petrie in this delightful, all-new, feature-length movie.

The enchanting tale continues in the beautiful, peaceful Great Valley where Littlefoot and his plant-eating friends live and play under the watchful eyes of their parents. But when mischievous Cera coaxes the group into the forbidden "Mysterious Beyond", they soon find themselves in big trouble! The excitement begins when they encounter two egg-snatching struthiomimuses named Ozzie and Strut, a thundering landslide, a pair of ferocious Sharpteeth, and most amazing of all, a mysterious egg that's just about to hatch!

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Two talented song-and-dance men (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. One winter, they join forces with a sister act (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen) and trek to Vermont for a white Christmas.

Of course, there's the requisite fun with the ladies, but the real adventure starts when Crosby and Kaye discover that the inn is run by their old army general who's now in financial trouble. And the result is the stuff dreams are made of.

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Dashing young sailor Edmond Dantes (Jim Caviezel) is a guileless and honest young man whose peaceful life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes (Dagmara Dominczyk) are abruptly shattered when his best friend Fernand (Guy Pierce) betrays him.

Unlawfully sentenced to the infamous island prison of Chateau D'If, Edmond is trapped in a nightmare that lasts for thirteen years. With the help of an equally innocent fellow inmate (Richard Harris), Dantes plots his mission to escape from prison, whereupon he transforms himself into the mysterious and wealthy Count of Monte Cristo with only one thing on his mind - revenge

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Somewhere in Eastern Europe 1922… Filming F. W. Murnau's classic vampire movie, Noferatu, is being disrupted not only by funding problems, but by rumours of disappearances and deaths amongst and cast and crew.

On the first night of shooting, the cameraman mysteriously takes ill and collapses… Some days later, his replacement falls into a trance and never recovers… Leading man Max Shreck (Willem Dafoe) is never introduced to the cast and crew and he is never seen out of character. Hapless actor Gustav (Eddie Izzard) thinks his sinister co-star is the ultimate method actor. In fact, director Murnau (John Malkovich) has sealed a pact with Shreck offering him the neck of his leading lady (Catherine McCormack) at the end of the shoot if he delivers the ultimate performance for the camera. Stranded on an island, the crew must finish the film before Shreck's bloodlust becomes incontrollable.

The epic story of love, adapted from Leo Tolstoy's timeless novel by Tom Stoppard. The story powerfully explores the capacity for love that surges through the human heart. As Anna questions her happiness and marriage, change comes to all around her.

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A good man intent on making the world a better place, Father James (Brendan Gleeson) is continually shocked and saddened by the spiteful and confrontational inhabitants of his small country town. One day his life is threatened during confession.

He shrugs off the altercation and continues to perform his pastoral duties, trying as best he can to help his parishioners. Soon, however, the sinister and troubling undercurrents he has tried to ignore start to make their presence felt more keenly, and as the forces of darkness close in around him he begins to wonder if he will have the courage to face his own personal Calvary.

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In early 18th-century England, a frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne, and her closest friend, Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz), governs the country while tending to Anne's ill health and volatile temper.

When new servant Abigail (Emma Stone) arrives, Sarah takes Abigail under her wing as she cunningly schemes to return to her aristocratic roots, setting off an outrageous rivalry to become the Queen's favourite.

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Four elderly, affluent friends form The Chowder Society, meeting regularly to drink brandy, smoke cigars and share chilling ghost stories.

Following the suspicious death of one of the member's son and the subsequent apparition of a mysterious young woman, the old friends are forced to confront a terrible secret from their past. What follows is the most terrifying ghost story of all, one in which they have all played their part.

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American psychologist John Holden (Dana Andrews) arrives in England to discover that his colleague, Henry Harrington (Maurice Denham), has suddenly died following his efforts to discredit notorious occultist Julian Karswell (Niall MacGinnls).

The cynical Holden dismisses Karswell's warnings as supernatural nonsense, even when he and Harrington's niece, Joanna (Peggy Cummins), are confronted by a series of bizarre and inexplicable events. Holden discovers that Karswell has slipped him a parchment featuring ancient runic symbols - a sign that, like Harrington before him, he has been marked for imminent destruction by a fire-breathing demon.

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Moving from America to Hong Kong, young Chun-Li is trained to be a concerto pianist and mastered in the ancient art of self-defence by her father. But her idyllic childhood is shattered after her father is kidnapped by evil crime lord Bison and his ruthless gang of assassins.

Many years later Chun-Li has become an accomplished pianist. After the death of her mother, the arrival of a strange, ancient Chinese scripture and a violent incident involving a man with a spider tattoo, Chun-Li realises her true destiny and begins a quest that goes beyond revenge. Using the strength of a warrior, the stealth of a predator and the wisdom of a master, Chun-Li will save her father and unleash an unstoppable rage upon those who have done her wrong.

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When ex-con Tom Yately (Stanley Baker) signs up as a driver for Hawlett's, he uncovers shady dealings between the manager and the viciously ambitious head driver - the drivers are paid per trip, with a bonus system encouraging them to drive at reckless speeds and take dangerous risks.

The stakes are raised when a fatal accident claims the life of Tom's only workplace ally, and he vows to take revenge.

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The year is 1924 and Alain Lefevre (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a headstrong boxer who has been declared the victor in a heavily wagered boxing match. Two people are dead, and the blame has fallen at his feet.

With his pockets stuffed with cash he runs through the alleyways, desperately hiding in the shadows, hunted like an animal. As both the Police and a mobster's henchmen close in, Lefereve escapes into soldier in the French Foreign Legion. By dawn, he is launched into a brutal conflict in a strange and unfamiliar country. What he learns there will change the course of his life forever...

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Alain Moreau's (Jean-Claude Van Damme) investigation into the death of his identical twin brother leads him from the south of France to the mean streets of New York City... and into the arms of his brother's beautiful girlfriend (Natasha Henstridge).

Pursued by ruthless Russian mobsters and renegade FBI agents, the duo race against time to solve his brother's murder and expose an international conspiracy. There's only one problem: all traces of his brothers' life are rapidly disappearing, and the one person who knew him best may not be telling all she knows...

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Christopher Dubois (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a street criminal on the run from the police, thrust into a forbidding realm of gun smugglers, pirates and an ancient, underworld martial arts competition.

The legendary contest, known as the Ghan-gheng, pits the world's deadliest fighters against each other in a furious winner-takes-all battle. Forced to compete, Dubois faces the ultimate test of manhood where one wrong move could cost him not only the competition, but his life.