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"My Dinner with Andre" is a passionate, volatile and humorous encounter between two friends who have not seen each other for a long time, and decide to catch up on each others' lives over dinner.

Andre Gregory is an intense, highly experimental theatre director and playwright in search of life's meanings and spiritual revelations. His friend, Wally Shawn, is an actor and playwright living in New York who is more preoccupied with the search for his next meal. As Andre recounts his global journeys involving esoteric theatrical experiments and mystical adventures, Wally listens with more skepticism, as his attitudes shift through wonder, puzzlement, admiration, and anger. What finally emerges is a sensitive portrait of a friendship that survives and transcends beliefs of love, death, art, and man's continuing quest for self-fulfillment.

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Billy (Michael Douglas), Paddy (Robert De Niro), Archie (Morgan Freeman) and Sam (Kevin Kline) have been friends since childhood.

When sworn bachelor Billy finally proposes to his thirty-something girlfriend, the four head to Las Vegas with a plan to stop acting their age and relive their glory days.

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Freshman student Laura is struggling to make ends meet, despite holding down a part-time job. Desperate for cash, she answers an Internet ad: Joe, 57, seeks female student for tender moments. One hundred euros an hour. Just this once, she promises herself.

But what should have been a one-off becomes a downward spiral, as Laura grows gradually more reliant on her illicit second income. Finding herself in a new bed every night, Laura's situation becomes increasingly dangerous.

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Buckle up for a ride in the Black Moon, a sleek, high-tech super-car, powered by hydrogen and capable of speeds of over 300mph! Tommy Lee Jones stars as Sam Quint, a master thief working for the government, who hides a computer disk loaded with evidence of corporate crime in a prototype super-car,

the Black Moon. When a gang of thieves steal the car, Quint seduces their leader, Nina (Linda Hamilton), to get to the disk. But in order to reclaim his property, Quint and Nina must break into an impenetrable skyscraper and take down Ed Ryland (Robert Vaughn), the head of a dangerous stolen car syndicate...

As ace "Repo Men", the duo are out to beat ruthless government agents, UFO cultists, hired thugs, a lobotomised nuclear scientist and the infamous Rodriguez Brothers to an incredibly valuable '64 Chevy containing a secret that can change the course of civilisation overnight!

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In this hysterical satire of Reagan-era values, written and directed by Albert Brooks, a successful Los Angeles advertising executive (Brooks) and his wife (Julie Hagerty) decide to quit their jobs, buy a Winnebago, and follow their Easy Rider fantasies of freedom and the open road.

When a stop in Las Vegas nearly derails their plans, they're forced to come to terms with their own limitations and those of the American dream. Brooks's barbed wit and confident direction drive 'Lost in America', an iconic example of his restless comedies about insecure characters searching for satisfaction in the modern world that established his unique comic voice and transformed the art of observational humor.

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Obsessed by the world of pool, Johnny could be one of the best. But the mentor and "trainer" Joe, a shady hustler who decides how and who Johnny plays, is holding him back from his dream. When the day finally comes, Johnny breaks from Joe, which leads to only one thing – violence.

After an ultimatum from his girlfriend, Johnny finally commits to a "real" job in the construction business, but is soon miserable there. He finds himself spending most of his time with his younger brother Danny who it seems to following in his footsteps on the road to a life Johnny left when he broke from Joe. As for Joe, he is bent on revenge, and soon he has a new protege Brad who is just as good if not better than Johnny. And he's got his eye on Johnny's brother...

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Homicide detective John Hobbes (Denzel Washington) pursues a killer down a bustling sidewalk. There she is: a small, middle-aged woman. No, wait: the killer is the timid man beside her. Now it's someone else. It's all and none of them.

Because the murderer Hobbes seeks is a demon passing from one human host to another with a brush of an overcoat or touch of a hand. Hobbes stalks a seemingly immortal foe...An ages-old evil faces a shattering showdown with one, clever tenacious man.

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Superstar magicians Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) and Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi) have ruled Las Vegas for years with illusions as big as Burt's growing ego. But lately the duo's greatest deception is their public friendship, as they secretly loathe each other.

Facing cutthroat competition from guerrilla street magician Steve Gray (Jim Carrey), whose cult following surges with each outrageous stunt, even their show looks stale. But there's still a chance to save the act - both onstage and off - if Burt can get back in touch with what made him love magic in the first place.

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Meryl Streep gives a powerhouse performance as Gail, a mother who organises a white water rafting trip to celebrate her son's birthday and salvage her shaky marriage.

A former river guide, Gail's no longer the risk-taker she was in her youth, but her skills and courage are soon put to the ultimate test when an encounter with three mysterious strangers threatens to turn a family vacation into a living hell.

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Spider (Ralph Fiennes) is a strange and fragile character... having experienced such a traumatic childhood, which resulted in spending a long time in a mental institution, he returns to the streets of the East End of London where he grew up.

The sights, sounds and the smells of those streets begin to awaken the deeply buried memories of his childhood. At the centre of these memories is the great trauma of losing his mother (Miranda Richardson )... Spider believes that his father, Bill Cleg (Gabriel Byrne), murdered her so that he could move a prostitute into the house in her place. As Spider claws through the falsehoods he has woven around himself, he finally begins to arrive at the truth of his life and his mother's death... The truth, which will take him to the very limits of his faltering sanity...Spider, a supremely moving portrait of one man's struggle.

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Dead tired and flat broke after driving 12,000 miles, an unemployed Texan, Michael (Nicolas Cage), walks into a tavern in tiny Red Rock, Wyoming, and is immediately offered a job.

There's just one problem: the owner thinks Michael is a hitman, and the "job" is murdering the owner's wife (Lara Flynn Boyle). Just when Michael decides to take the money and run, the real hitman (Dennis Hopper) arrives, ready to do the job right. Full of playful twists and sexy turns, 'Red Rock West' is a perfect game of cat-and-mouse that will keep you guessing until the final, shocking shot.

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December 30th, 1999, is it the end of the world or the beginning of a new one. Lenny Nero (Ralph Feinnes) stalks the streets of Los Angeles, a street hustler, an ex-cop, a seller of stolen dreams. Lenny deals in "clips", digital recordings of real-life experiences packaged for a vicious thrill.

He doesn't deal in "blackjacks" - recordings of death - but when a close associate is murdered by a ruthless killer, Lenny gets drawn into a sleazy and psychotic world of wealth, power and paranoia. Trying to protect his ex-love Faith (Juliette Lewis), Lenny is aided by the only two people he can trust, personal security expert Mace (Angela Bassett) and ex-cop and former colleague Max (Tom Sizemore), as he tries to stay alive to see the next millennium.

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Finny, Rage and Too Fine are known as 'Time Served': a promising hip-hop act. Destined for success, their dreams are abruptly shattered when Too Fine is brutally murdered.

Dropped by their record company and driven by revenge, they are sucked back into the world of drugs, guns, and street violence they had tried so hard to escape. A merciless act of vengeance leads to a business opportunity as the group start to distribute drugs for an Essex gangster. Business is good but the consequences of their actions soon catch up with them. Two dogged detectives are on their tail and will not stop until they bring them down.

Three desperadoes (Matt Dillon, Gary Sinise and William Fichtner) are ensnared by the police in a hole-in-the-wall bar for a robbery gone awry. This hostage drama escalates to a boiling point with unexpected twists and violent consequences.