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Keanu Reeves stars as veteran cop Tom Ludlow in this brutal, action packed thriller set on the mean streets of Los Angeles. Hardened by years of fast living, tough talking and seeing too many 'bad guys' get away with it, Detective Tom Ludlow has crossed the line and now delivers his own brand of street justice ensnaring himself in a deadly game of conspiracy, police brutality, corruption and murder. But events are starting to catch up on him and his band of 'renegade' fellow officers...soon Tom is implicated in the murder of a fellow cop and the body count starts to go up as events explode beyond his control. - Director:
- David Ayer
- Cast:
- Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie
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A Scanner Darkly (2006)Una mirada a la oscuridad
What does a scanner see? Into the head? Into the heart? From the novel by Philip L. Dick - the sci-fi legend whose works-to-film include 'Blade Runner', 'Total Recall' and 'Minority Report' - comes 'A Scanner Darkly', brought to the screen by filmmaker Richard Linklater with an edgy graphic-novel look. The time: just beyond now. The place: suburbia. The story: a twisted, funny tale of people hooked on Substance D. And of a government that cheerfully destroys its citizens - their rights, their relationships - in order to save them. Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder and Rory Cochrane play strung-out friends terrified of each other and of spies. Keanu Reeves plays a spy who's also one of the friends... until his two personalities begin to split. Enjoy the paranoia. Nobody's watching you. Really. - Director:
- Richard Linklater
- Cast:
- Keanu Reeves, Sean Allen, Cliff Haby
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The 21st Century. Information is the ultimate commodity. The most valuable of information is transported in Mnemonic implants in the heads of professional couriers like Johnny (Keanu Reeves), who offer both security and confidentiality for the right price. But Johnny has paid a heavy price of his own - he's dumped his own memories to make room for the programmes he smuggles. To buy them back, he agrees to deliver priceless data, the most important data of the 21st Century, data that has already set an army of professional killers on his trail. But the massive upload is too much for his brain and Johnny must find the secret codes to download the information - or die. - Director:
- Robert Longo
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- Keanu Reeves, Dolph Lundgren, Dina Meyer
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Parenthood (1989)Todo en familia
Director Ron Howard teams with Steve Martin and an all-star cast to create a hilarious, touching and unforgettable portrait of life's most rewarding occupation: Parenthood. The Buckmans are a modern-day family facing the age-old dilemma of trying to raise children the 'right' way. At the centre of the storm is Gil (Steve Martin), who manages to keep his unique sense of humour while attempting to maintain a successful career and be a loving husband and parent, all at the same time. As Gil and the rest of the Buckmans discover, being the 'perfect' parent often means just letting children be themselves. - Director:
- Ron Howard
- Cast:
- Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Dianne Wiest
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In an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe winning performance, Casey Affleck stars as Lee, a man whose spare existence is suddenly ruptured when the death of his brother Joe (Kyle Chandler) forces him to return to the hometown he abandoned years before. Rocked by contact with his estranged ex-wife (Michelle Williams) and the revelation that Joe has made him guardian of his teenage son (Lucas Hedges), Lee is forced to face up to painful memories and newfound levels of responsibility as he reconnects with his family. Kenneth Lonergan's critically acclaimed masterpiece is an extraordinary journey of grief, love and wit that will stay with you long after watching. - Director:
- Kenneth Lonergan
- Cast:
- Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler
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Meet Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp), a young man who lives in Endora, Iowa, population 1,091. Gilbert lives with his mother, whose 36 stone frame is slowly destroying the fragile Grape homestead, his brother Arnie, (Leonardo DiCaprio) who was never expected to survive childhood, and his two sisters. Gilbert's only excitement is his affair with Mrs. Betty Carver (Mary Steenburgen). Besides that, Gilbert's life is weird. And he doesn't seem to enjoy it. But one day a mysterious, beautiful girl named Becky (Juliette Lewis) moves into town with her grandmother, and Gilbert's world begins to change... - Director:
- Lasse Hallström
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- Johnny Depp, David H. Kramer, Drew Ebersole
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Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)Dracula
Francis Ford Coppola returns to the original source of the Dracula myth, and from that gothic romance, lie creates a modern masterpiece. It follows the tortured journey of the devastatingly seductive Transylvanian Prince (Gary Oldman) as lie moves from Eastern Europe to 19th century London in search of his long lost Elisabeta, who is reincarnated as the beautiful Mina (Winona Ryder). Anthony Hopkins co-stars as the famed Doctor Van Helsing, and Keanu Reeves is Jonathan Harker who is forced to fight the dark forces of Dracula for the love of Mina. Visually stunning, passionately seductive and utterly irresistable, this is Dracula as you've never seen him before - a powerful and poignant vampire whose yearning for human love ultimately proves his undoing. - Director:
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Cast:
- Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins
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Devil's Advocate (1997)El abogado del diablo
Hotshot attorney Kevin Lomax's 64-0 case record has brought him a tempting offer from an elite New York firm. But the job Lomax accepts isn't what it seems. The Devil is in the details. In this gleeful, modern gothic fable, Keanu Reeves plays eager Lomax and Al Pacino is the charismatic firm founder who knows there are cases to be won…. and soul to be lost. From Lomax's court triumphs and skyrocket rise to its double-twist ending, "The Devil's Advocate" is red-hot entertainment. Lomax's life, wife (Charlie Theron) and soul are on the line. He's landed a job that's Heaven on Earth.. which can lead him straight to Hell. - Director:
- Taylor Hackford
- Cast:
- Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron
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Life Is Beautiful (1997)La Vita e Bella
Guido - a charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colourful imagination and an irresistible sense of humour - has won the heart of the woman he loves and created a beautiful life for his young family. But then that life is threatened by World War II... and Guido must rely on those very same strengths to save his beloved wife and son from an unthinkable fate! - Director:
- Roberto Benigni
- Cast:
- Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini
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Payback (1999)Revancha
The pay off is excitement when Mel Gibson portrays hard-boiled Porter in 'Payback', a fast, frequently funny and ecstatically twisted blend of action and noir atmosphere co-written and directed by Brian Helgeland, Academy Award winner for 'LA Confidential'. Porter makes his living outside the law. So when his partners in a heist rip off his $70,000 share and leave him for dead, there's only one way for Porter to settle things: his way. And that sends him on a vendetta that will have a lot of lowlifes gaping at the talking end of Porter's fat revolver. Crooked cops. Street gangs. Spineless flyspecks. Crime bosses. Anyone and everyone standing between Porter and his 70 grand are going to know he's back... with a vengeance. - Director:
- Brian Helgeland
- Cast:
- Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello
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Dear Zachery (2008)Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
On November 5, 2001, Dr..Andrew Bagby was murdered in a parking lot in western Pennsylvania; the prime suspect, his ex-girlfriend Dr. Shirley Turner, promptly fled the United States for St. John's, Canada, where she announced that she was pregnant with Andrew's child. She named the little boy Zachary. Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne, Andrew's oldest friend, began making a film for little Zachary as a way for him to get to know the father he'd never meet. But when Shirley Turner was released on bail in Canada and was given custody of Zachary while awaiting extradition to the U.S., the film's focus shifted to Zachary's grandparents, David and Kathleen Bagby, and their desperate efforts to win custody of the boy from the woman they knew had murdered their son. - Director:
- Kurt Kuenne
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- Kurt Kuenne, Dr. Andrew Bagby, David Bagby
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Math savant Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck) is more comfortable with numbers than people, working as a freelance accountant for the world's most dangerous criminal organisations. With the Treasury Department's Crime Enforcement Division closing in, he takes on a legitimate client, a robotics company where a clerk has discovered a discrepancy involving millions of dollars. But as Christian uncooks the books and gets closer to the truth, it's the body count that starts to rise. - Director:
- Gavin O'Connor
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- Ben Affleck, Daeg Faerch, Anna Kendrick
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Surreal character study focusing on the friendship between two male hustlers, Mike and Scott, in Portland, Oregon. They live on the streets, do drugs, and sell themselves to men and women. Mike (River Phoenix) is quite, gay and suffers from narcolepsy. Abandoned as a child, he is obsessed with finding his long-lost mother. Scott (Keanu Reeves) is the rebellious son of a high-ranking family, who lives this life mostly to embarrass his father. Mike is in love with Scott, who still maintains he is straight and insists that his wild lifestyle on the streets is only temporary. Together, they embark on a quest to find Mike's mother, traveling from Portland to Idaho to Italy, whit Scott picking up a beautiful girl along the way. - Director:
- Gus Van Sant
- Cast:
- River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo
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What Dreams May Come (1998)Más allá de los sueños
Academy Award winners Robin Williams and Cuba Gooding Jr., embark on a supernatural journey beyond the realm of mortality in this visually stunning and unforgettable epic. Deceased Chris Nielsen (Williams) begins to adapt to his new state of being in a setting that can only be described as heavenly. When his distraught wife, Annie (Annabella Sciorra) takes her own life, she is banished to eternal damnation. Chris vows to find her so they can share eternity together. With the help of his heavenly friends, Chris sets out on the most perilous and harrowing journey of his life, or afterlife: a quest for everlasting love that will take him to hell and back! - Director:
- Vincent ward
- Cast:
- Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr., Annabella Sciorra
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Embark on a journey into an enchanting prehistoric adventure with dinosaur pals Littlefoot, Cera, Spike, Ducky and Petrie in this acclaimed animated classic for the entire family. In a long-ago age of rumbling volcanoes and perilous earthquakes, a young bracheosaurus named Littlefoot suddenly finds himself on his own. Setting out to find the lush feeding grounds of the legendary Great Valley, he meets up with four other young dinosaurs who agree to join his quest. On their daring trek across a landscape filled with excitement and danger, the brave little band encounters hungry predators and daunting challenges as they discover new lessons in life and the importance of teamwork. - Director:
- Don Bluth
- Cast:
- Gabriel Damon, Judith Barsi, Helen Shaver
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