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Eastwood stars as Earl Stone, a man in his 80's who is broke, alone and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. And even as his money problems become a thing of the past, Earl's past mistakes start to weigh heavily on him, and it's uncertain if he'll have time to right those wrongs before law enforcement or the cartel's enforcers catch up to him. - Director:
- Clint Eastwood
- Cast:
- Clint Eastwood, Patrick L. Reyes, Cesar De León
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This 1971 comedy-drama stars Lynn Carlin and Buck Henry as middle-class New York suburbanites, whose teenage daughter runs away from home when she gets in trouble with her parents. In the process of trying to unravel the mystery of the girl's whereabouts, the couple rediscover their own lives. This funny, alternative coming-of-age tale features exclusive musical appearances from Tina and Ike Turner, Carly Simon and actress Kathy Bates (as 'Bobo' Bates). - Director:
- Milos Forman
- Cast:
- Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry, Georgia Engel
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Potiche (2010)Potiche (Trophy Wife)
Suzanne (Deneuve) is a "Potiche"; a beautiful, subservient wife dedicated to serving the selfish whims of her tyrannical husband. But after the exploited workers of his umbrella factory decide to strike, Suzanne takes on the role as head of the company to great success. Although business and personal politics are about to collide with the arrival of Maurice (Depardieu), a charming union leader and a former lover of Suzanne's. - Director:
- François Ozon
- Cast:
- Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini
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Irreversible (2002)Irréversible
When Marcus (Vincent Cassel) and his girlfriend Alex (Monica Bellucci) decide to go to a party with their friend Pierre (Albert Dupontel), they are totally unaware that their world is about to be torn apart in the most unimaginably brutal way possible. Plunged headlong into a nightmarish world of darkness, where an act of extreme sexual and physical violence will serve as the spark for yet more violence, Marcus and Pierre soon discover what they themselves are capable of. - Director:
- Gaspar Noé
- Cast:
- Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel
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Alice, a beautiful and passionate woman has never quite been able to pick herself up after losing her husband in a motorcycle accident. Her two best friends, Penelope and Isabelle are desperate to help her, and they think it's high time she made a new life for herself. But Alice doesn't want to put the best part of her life so far behind her, and rejects every man her well-intentioned friends suggest. Despite her lack of enthusiasm, they treat her to a weekend at the luxurious Hotel Normandy, the perfect place for a romantic encounter. But who, if anyone, will be able to win her over? - Director:
- Charles Nemes
- Cast:
- Eric Elmosnino, Héléna Noguerra, Ary Abittan
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Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)C'era una volta il West / There Was Once the West
Sergio Leone's monumental epic 'Once Upon a Time in the West' ranks among the five or six all-time Western masterpieces. The picture itself is as big as its Monument Valley locations, as grand as its fine, distinguished cast. Henry Fonda plays the blackest character of his long career. He's Frank, the ruthless, murderous psychopath who suffers conscience pangs after annihilating an entire family. Jason Robards is the half-breed falsely accused of the terrible slaughter. Charles Bronson plays the harmonica playing man who remembers how his brother was savagely tortured. - Director:
- Sergio Leone
- Cast:
- Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale
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Inspector De Luca: Series (2008)Il commissario De Luca
Between 1938 and 1948, from the height of Italy's Fascist regime to the end of the tumultuous post-war period, Chief Detective De Luca investigates and solves crimes in the City of Bologna and along the Adriatic coast. With little or no regard for those in power, whoever they happen to be, his solitary, uncompromising character often lands him in trouble, but his respect is reserved for truth and justice alone. In the four TV movies of the series "Unauthorized Investigation", "Carte Blanche", "The Damned Season" and "Via Della Oche" - each taken from a novel by best-selling mystery writer Carlo Lucarelli - Chief Detective De Luca always ultimately gets to the bottom of his cases, though what he finds often leaves a bitter aftertaste. - Director:
- Antonio Frazzi
- Cast:
- Alessandro Preziosi, Corrado Fortuna, Rolando Ravello
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Midwich is a sleepy commuter town and a great place to bring up children. One evening, some of its inhabitants fall unconscious. Humans, animals, pass out without warning, without reason. For twelve hours no one can get into the Blackout Zone, and no one knows what's happening inside. Then suddenly everything returns to normal. But not quite. For something truly inexplicable has happened. Every woman of child-bearing age has fallen pregnant. The spawn of these pregnancies are The Midwich Cuckoos, a group of chillingly unusual "children". They will change this community forever, dividing loyalties, threatening lives both within the town and beyond and require a terrifying sacrifice in order to prevent them causing catastrophe. - Director:
- Alice Troughton
- Cast:
- Dexter Sol Ansell, Keeley Hawes, Synnove Karlsen
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Based on the third of Elena Ferrante's adored, best-selling "Neapolitan novels". Elena Greco (Margherita Mazzucco) and Lila Cherullo have been inseparable from the moment they met at school in 1950s Naples. Now ir the 1970s, Lila has left her wealthy but abusive husband and is struggling to hold her life together as a single mother with a punishing job. Elena who spread her wings to study in Naples has become a successful author, opening the doors to a propserous and cultured world. The two women continue to drift in and out of each other's lives, but their fates are intertwined as past passions and deep rivalries flicker below the surface. - Director:
- Daniele Luchetti
- Cast:
- Alba Rohrwacher, Margherita Mazzucco, Annarita Vitolo
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The Last Movie (1971)Chinchero
A film shoot in Peru goes badly wrong when an actor is killed in a stunt, and the unit wrangler, Kansas (Dennis Hopper), decides to give up film-making and stay on in the village, shacking up with local prostitute Maria (Stella Garcia). But his dreams of an unspoiled existence are interrupted when the local priest asks him to help stop the villagers killing each other by re-enacting scenes from the film for real because they don't understand movie fakery... - Director:
- Dennis Hopper
- Cast:
- Julie Adams, Daniel Ades, Richmond L. Aguilar
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In the wake of his parents' murders, disillusioned heir Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the fearful. With the help of his trusted butler Alfred (Michael Caine), detective Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and his ally Lucius Fox (Morgan Freeman), Wayne returns to Gotham City and unleashes his alter ego: Batman, a masked crusader who uses strength, intellect and an array of high-tech weaponry to fight the sinister forces that threaten the city. - Director:
- Christopher Nolan
- Cast:
- Ken Watanabe, Christian Bale, Michael Caine
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Eight years ago, after assuming the blame for D.A. Harvey Dent's death, a disgraced Batman (Christian Bale) mysteriously vanished. But everything changes with the appearance of a cunning cat burglar (Anne Hathaway) and the arrival of Bane (Tom Hardy), a ruthless madman. Bane's reign of terror forces Bruce out of his self-imposed exile and into the ultimate battle for Gotham City's survival... and his own. - Director:
- Christopher Nolan
- Cast:
- Christian Bale, Constantine Malahias, Tom Hardy
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Elena (Laia Costa) and Jake (Josh O'Connor) meet by chance on New Years Eve, fighting for the same taxi. But instead of going their separate ways after sharing a ride, a passionate relationship blossoms intoxicating every facet of their lives. Within weeks they are living together, and not long after they talk about starting a family. But, as the seasons pass, reality catches up with them. Falling in love was the easy part. Can love remain when life doesn't give them everything they hoped for? - Director:
- Harry Wootliff
- Cast:
- Natalie Arle-Toyne, Isabelle Barth, Tam Dean Burn
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Is there someone who lingers in your memory - someone who makes you wonder what might have been? Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy make magic again, reprising their 'Before Sunrise' roles of Jesse and Celine and reuniting with director Richard Linklater (School of Rock) in this engaging tale of love and renewal. When Jesse and Celine first met in the mid 90's, their few hours together in Vienna were spontaneous and life-altering. Nine years later, lightning strikes twice. They unexpectedly meet in Paris...and have only one fading afternoon to decide if they should share their tomorrows. Smart, witty, real and unfolding largely in real time to heighten its immediacy, 'Before Sunset' glows with the moments that are every heart's greatest adventure. - Director:
- Richard Linklater
- Cast:
- Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff
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Sometimes, an entire life can change in one night. This dark comedic thriller, based on the novel by Chris Bohjalian, stars Kaley Cuoco as Cassie Bowden, a New York-based, globe-trotting flight attendant with a devil-may-care attitude and a history of binge drinking, who relishes flying off at a moment's notice to her next great adventure. But Cassie's glamorous world is thrown into a tailspin when she wakes in the wrong bed, in the wrong hotel, with a dead man - and no idea what happened. Haunted by the bleak future she faces if she doesn't clear her name, Cassie scrambles to put together the pieces of a night in Bangkok gone terribly wrong, leading her down a twisted path filled with unsettling discoveries and more than a few illegal escapades. - Director:
- Susanna Fogel
- Cast:
- Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting, Michiel Huisman, Zosia Mamet
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