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"Taxi Driver" provoked fierce controversy when it was released, running into censorship problems in America as some of the scenes of violence were described to be "as gory as Clockwork Orange and Straw Dogs".

In addition there was an outcry at a 13-year-old schoolgirl actress (Jodie Foster) co-starring as a prostitute. It won Best Picture at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival and received Academy Award Nominations for Best Film, Best Actor (Robert de Niro) and Best Supporting Actress (Foster).

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In the near future, the sun is rapidly expanding and will engulf the earth within 100 years. To ensure the survival of humankind, nations join hands to form an unprecedented, ambitious global project to build powerful engines on the Earth's surface and propel the planet away from impending doom.

Meanwhile, protests have broken out to demand the restart of the controversial Digital Life Project, which digitalises human beings after they have passed. Tensions soon escalate and the protestors plan to sabotage the Wandering Earth Project by attacking the Ark Space Station...

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Adam Sandler stars as 'Happy Gilmore' in the over-the-top comedy that scores a hole in one for hilarity. After his dream of stardom on the hockey ice melts, 'Happy Gilmore' discovers he has a gift that could bring him glory on the greens.

Trouble is, with his hot head and hard-hitting drives, Happy doesn't just play golf...he destroys it. With the help of a retired golfer (Carl Weathers) and hot publicist (Julie Bowen), can Happy perfect his game and tame his temper to win the tournament prize money? With unforgettable appearances by Bob Barker, Christopher McDonald and Kevin Nealon, this comedy favorite features non-stop laughs that are par for the course!

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Based on the true life best seller 'Wiseguy' by Nicolas Pileggi and backed by a dynamic pop/rock oldies soundtrack, critics and filmgoers alike declared 'GoodFellas' great.

It was named the best film of the '90s by the New York, Los Angeles and National Society of film critics, and it earned 6 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director.

Upon examining the Warren Commission report on President Kennedy's assassination, New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin Costner) suspects that there is more to the story than the public is being told.

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Police Academy salutes the men, women and borderline cases who protect the people very much like themselves. A comic success story over a decade, it begat six sequels and both animated and live-action TV series.

New recruits include sound-effects wizard Larvelle Jones, florist Moses Hightower, shy Laverne Hooks. and gun buff Eugene Tackleberry, Instructors Harris and Callahan aim to wash these turkeys out before they graduate. As directed by Hugh Wilson, they and stars Steve Guttenberg and Kim Cattrall make some police farce.

Sean Cannery is back for his final performance as agent James Bond in this high-velocity action thriller. Agent 007 is hurled into a pulse-pounding race to save the world from Armageddon when two atomic warheads are hijacked by the evil 'Spectre' organisation.

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Vincent (Tom Cruise) is a cool, calculating contract killer at the top of his game. Max (Jamie Foxx) is a cabbie with big dreams and no results. On this fateful night, Max has to transport Vincent on his next job - one night, five stops, five hits and a getaway.

Thrown together, their lives in collision - neither man will ever be the same again. Tonight everything is changing...

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people...

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Based in vulnerable terrain just 14 mi,es from the Pakistani border, a small unit of U.S. soldiers must hold their base as a force of Taliban fighters launch a co-ordinated attack.

Starring Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones and Orlando Bloom, 'The Outpost' is based on the true story of one of the United States' deadliest battles during the war in Afghanistan -The Battle of Kamdesh.

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Quentin Tarantino rocked the film world with this powerful and controversial debut movie.

Set mainly in a warehouse in the aftermath of a bungled robbery the story gradually unfolds to introduce the colour-coded gangsters and the planning of the crime step by step, through Tarantino's trademark flashbacks. Four have survived after a police ambush - betrayed. What went wrong and who is the betrayer?

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America's Cold War fears are rekindled after the President of Russia dies and is succeeded by a man with a cryptic past. But East-West tensions erupt when the CIA suspects that renegade Russian scientists are developing more nuclear weapons.

Mobilised into action by CIA Director William Cabot (Morgan Freeman), Jack Ryan (Ben Affleck) follows a danger-ridden trail to a shocking conclusion: terrorists plan to provoke a war between the U.S. and Russia – by detonating a nuclear bomb at a championship football game!

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San Francisco detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) is investigating the murder of a once-celebrated rock star and he's made a few unsettling discoveries: a bloody ice pick, a white silk scarf tied to a bedpost and evidence of an otherwise romantic evening.

As Nick digs into the case, lie becomes entangled in a deadly affair involving three intriguing women, each with an unexpected motive for the crime. Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) is a fast-living novelist whose fictional murders have a strange way of coming true. Roxy (Leilani Sarelle) is Catherine's street-wise, provocative girlfriend. Dr. Beth Garner (Jeanne Tripplehorn) is a police psychologist counselling Nick...

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Harrison Ford is intrepid CIA agent Jack Ryan. When his mentor Admiral James Greer (James Earl Jones) becomes gravely ill, Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence. His first assignment: investigate the murder of one of the president's friends, a prominent U.S.

businessman with secret ties to Colombian drug cartels. Unbeknownst to Ryan, the CIA has already dispatched a deadly field operative (Willem Dafoe) to lead a paramilitary force against the Colombian drug lords. Caught in the crossfire, Ryan takes matters into his own hands, risking his career and life for the only cause he still believes in - the truth.

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Directed by Roland Joffe and brilliantly scripted by Bruce Robinson, 'The Killing Fields ' is based on the true story of the relationship between Sydney Schanberg (Sam Waterston), a Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times correspondent, and Dith Pran (Haing S.

Ngor), the Cambodian aide who remains behind following the evacuation of Cambodian citizens by the US army.