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Germany, May 1945, deep in the Harz Mountains a U.S. tank crew discovers a platoon of Germans preparing to ambush U.S. supply trucks. A deadly game of cat and mouse quickly unfolds as the Americans find themselves out-gunned and out-manned by three German tanks. Tension and fear begin to grow as the crew reluctantly decide they must stop the enemy from executing their deadly plan. Knowing that hundreds of lives are at stake they must put aside their differences and work together to fight a desperate battle against the greatest odds they have ever faced. - Director:
- Ryan Little
- Cast:
- Adam Gregory, Timothy S. Shoemaker, Michael Todd Behrens
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The Banquet (2006)Ye Yan
Locked in a loveless marriage Empress Wan (international superstar Zhang Ziyi) is desperate to keep her forbidden love for Prince Wu Luan (Daniel Wu), from a family divided by cruelty and oppression. When the Emperor suddenly dies, his conniving younger brother Li takes up the throne forcing Wan to marry him. Convinced that this is the only way to protect all she loves from being destroyed by this new power hungry tyrant, Wan agrees. But Wu Luan refuses to see his love snatched away through such evil, greed and deception. After repeated attempts on his life amid furious confrontations with the new Emperor's imperial assassins, Wu Luan resolves to return to the palace and take revenge for himself, his beloved and a nation in the grip of a murderous madman. - Director:
- Xiaogang Feng
- Cast:
- Ziyi Zhang, You Ge, Daniel Wu
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Days of Glory (2006)Indigènes
1943. They had never set foot on French soil, but because France was at war, four young Algerian men, Said, Abdelkader, Messaoud and Yassir, enlisted in the French army along with 130,00 other 'indigenous soldiers', to liberate the 'fatherland' from the Nazi enemy. Days of Glory chronicles the story of these forgotten heroes and the discrimination they subsequently faced from the French authorities. After seeing the film, French President Jacques Chirac agreed to restore veterans' pensions to the North Africans who fought along French troops during the war. A movie can make a difference... - Director:
- Rachid Bouchareb
- Cast:
- Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila
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Butterfly and Sword (1993)San lau sing woo dip gim
"Butterfly and Sword" explodes into action from the very first scene and continues at a mind-blowing pace until the stunning climax. Characters routinely spin upside down, through the air, use soccer balls as deadly weapons, run up walls with the greatest of ease, shred opponents into pieces in seconds flat, and, in a particular memorable moment, use one another as a human bow and arrow, sending Tony Leung flying straight through the bad guys like a hot knife through butter... - Director:
- Michael Mak
- Cast:
- Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Simon Broad, Michelle Yeoh
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Lioness: Series 1 (2023)Special Ops: Lioness: Series 1
From Taylor Sheridan, co-creator of Yellowstone, comes 'Special Ops: Lioness'. Inspired by an actual US Military program, follows the life of Joe (Zoe Saldaña) while she attempts to balance her personal and professional life as the tip of the CIA's spear in the war on terror. The Lioness Program, overseen by Kaitlyn Meade (Nicole Kidman) and Byron Westfield (Michael Kelly), enlists an aggressive Marine Raider named Cruz (Laysla De Oliveira) to operate undercover alongside Joe among the power brokers of State terrorism in the CIA's efforts to thwart the next 9/11. - Director:
- Anthony Byrne
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- Zoe Saldana, Laysla De Oliveira, Dave Annable
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Fear City (1984)Ripper
Tom Berenger plays an ex-boxer who quits the ring after killing an opponent and along with his partner (Jack Scalia) runs a talent agency for strippers, among them is a bi-sexual ex-girlfriend (Melanie Griffith) - who spends most of the movie minus her clothes! When two of their dancers are brutally mutilated and murdered the headlines scream "Serial Killer on the Loose". Set against a backdrop of mob - controlled violence and NYPD gritty police work, it is left to Berenger to return to his murderous fighting skills and find the psycho killer... - Director:
- Abel Ferrara
- Cast:
- Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia
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Indigenous Detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) arrives in the frontier mining town of Goldstone on a missing persons enquiry. What seems like a simple 'light duties' investigation soon opens into a web of crime and corruption implicating the local Mayor (Jacki Weaver), mining boss and Aboriginial Land Council. - Director:
- Ivan Sen
- Cast:
- Aaron Pedersen, Alex Russell, Jacki Weaver
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Gwendoline (1984)The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak
For the first time on video, Just Jaeckin's erotic masterpiece can finally be seen in its full uncut glory! From acclaimed master of erotica Just Jaeckin comes Gwendoline, one of the most sought-after 'guilty pleasure' movies of all time! Filled to the brim with enough female flesh and fetishistic imagery to satisfy the most demanding of jaded voyeurs, this is one cult fantasy film you definitely won't want to miss! Follow the adventures of the sweet and innocent Gwendoline (Tawny Kitaen) in which she travels as a stowaway to the Far East with her sexy friend Beth (Zabou Breitman) on a mission to track down her father, who has mysteriously disappeared whilst on a mission to find a mythical butterfly. Rescued from a group of lecherous seamen by the hunky adventurer Willard (Brent Huff), Gwendoline persuades him to make up their trio and embark on a daring journey to the land of the Yek Yeik, a country ruled by a diabolical dominant Amazon queen and an army of female fetish-clad Amazonian warriors! There Gwendoline must defeat the evil queen and prevent Willard from being forced to spawn a new race of female warriors - or face certain death. - Director:
- Just Jaeckin
- Cast:
- Tawny Kitaen, Patrick Floersheim, Brent Huff
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Loosely inspired by Jake Adelstein's non-fiction first-hand account, the crime drama series 'Tokyo Vice' follows the young American journalist's (played by Ansel Elgort) rapid descent into Tokyo's neon-soaked underbelly in the late '90s. Hired as prestigious newspaper Meicho Shimbun's first American crime reporter, Adelstein soon finds himself covering seemingly unrelated cases - but quickly grows suspicious that more nefarious forces are at play. After embedding himself into the Tokyo Metro PD, alongside Detective Hiroto Katagiri (Ken Watanabe), Adelstein is thrust into a seedy, fast-paced world of corruption, crime, and deception, where nothing and no one are what they seem. - Director:
- Josef Kubota Wladyka
- Cast:
- Koshi Uehara, Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe
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Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning: Part 1 (2023)Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning: Part One / Mission: Impossible 7
Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: to track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With the fate of the world at stake, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission - not even the lives of those he cares about most. - Director:
- Christopher McQuarrie
- Cast:
- Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames
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Dune (2021)Dune: Part One
Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), a brilliant, gifted young man born into a destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, only those who can conquer their fear will survive. - Director:
- Denis Villeneuve
- Cast:
- Jean Gilpin, Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson
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Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain (2023)Please Don't Destroy: Mascothood
In 'Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain', John Goodman narrates the adventure of Ben (Ben Marshall), Martin (Martin Herlihy), and John (John Higgins), three childhood friends turned deadbeat co-workers, who fend off hairless bears, desperate park rangers and a hypocritical cult leader in the hopes of finding a priceless treasure, only to discover that finding the treasure is the easiest part of their journey. Oh, and Conan O'Brien plays Ben's dad in it. - Director:
- Paul Briganti
- Cast:
- Martin Herlihy, John Higgins, Ben Marshall
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Vincent Gallo stars as a Middle-Eastern insurgent captured by US forces and transported to a secret detention centre somewhere in Europe. When the vehicle he is riding in crashes, he escapes into a snowy wilderness, a world way from the desert home he knew. Forced into extreme survival mode, and relentlessly pursued by an army that does not officially exist, he must confront the necessity to kill in order to survive. - Director:
- Jerzy Skolimowski
- Cast:
- Vincent Gallo, Emmanuelle Seigner, Zach Cohen
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Peeping Tom (1960)Face of Fear
Mark (Carl Boehm), a focus puller at the local film studio, supplements his wages by taking glamour photographs in a seedy studio above a newsagent. By night he is a sadistic killer, stalking his victims with his camera forever in his hand trying to capture the look of genuine, unadulterated fear - an obsession that stems from his disturbing and terrifying childhood at the hands of his scientist father. Mark slowly becomes enamoured with Helen (Anna Massey), who lives with her blind mother (Maxine Audley) in the flat downstairs, but how long before he turns the deadly gaze of his camera towards her? - Director:
- Michael Powell
- Cast:
- Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer
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Education Anglaise (1982)Éducation anglaise / English Style Education
After the deaths of her parents, the sweet, young and innocent Sylvie (Obaya Roberts) is entrusted to her uncle, a libertine who has two women - one of whom is played by French erotic superstar Brigitte Lahaie. Sylvie is sent to a very strict boarding school, where they offer a form of Victorian English education. The school readily and willingly resorts to a very strict regime of correction and corporal punishment to discipline its female pupils and the young girls compensate for the rigours of their education by devoting themselves to all kinds of kinky schoolgirl sexual encounters... - Director:
- Jean-Claude Roy
- Cast:
- Jean Antolinos, André Dupon, Brigitte Lahaie
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