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He's the kind of cop who steals drugs off a dead man's body, the kind of father who'd rather feed his drug habit than his family. His badge means nothing to him other than the right to act like the very criminals he's supposed to be chasing and the fierce anger beneath his personality is only fuelled by his addiction to heroin, crack and alcohol. But when a beautiful young nun (Frankie Thorn) is raped on the altar of a local church, the 'Bad Lieutenant' (Harvey Keitel) is drawn to her case and into a final desperate attempt to find the true depths of human sin and the power of mercy. - Director:
- Abel Ferrara
- Cast:
- Harvey Keitel, Warner Fusselle, Bob Murphy
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Down-and-out former professional Ping-Pong phenomenon Randy Daytona (Dan Fogler) is sucked into a maelstrom when FBI Agent Rodriguez (George Lopez) recruits him for a secret mission. Randy is determined to bounce back and recapture his former glory, and to smoke out his father's (Robert Patrick) killer - one of the FBI's Most Wanted, arch-fiend Feng (Christopher Walken). But, after two decades out of the game, Randy can't turn his life around and avenge his father's murder without a team of his own. He calls upon the spiritual guidance of blind Ping-Pong master and restaurateur Wong (James Hong), and the training expertise of Master Wong's wildly sexy niece Maggie (Maggie Q). All roads lead to Feng's mysterious jungle compound and the most unique Ping-Pong tournaments ever staged. Can Randy keep his eye on the balls? - Director:
- Robert Ben Garant
- Cast:
- Dan Fogler, Christopher Walken, George Lopez
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During the Civil War a wounded Union soldier is sheltered by the headmistress and students of a girls' academy in the South. As his health returns his desire increases, but can he trust these enemy women not to turn on him? He takes his chances but soon realises that his benefactress can't be trusted... with his love or with his life! His lustful ambition turns quickly against him and the story follows through a series of nerve shattering events, including realistic scenes that are among the boldest, most shocking ever witnessed on film. - Director:
- Don Siegel
- Cast:
- Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman
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Finally being held accountable for his catastrophic experiments in re-animating the dead, Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) finds himself incarcerated at a maximum-security penitentiary. With the arrival of a new prison doctor Howard Phillips (Jason Barry) who happens to be an enthusiastic student of West's work, the medical deviant is afforded the opportunity to resume his grisly studies - this time on his fellow inmates, with predictably hair-raising results. - Director:
- Brian Yuzna
- Cast:
- Jeffrey Combs, Tommy Dean Musset, Jason Barry
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Boyz n the Hood (1991)Boys in the Hood
"Boyz N the Hood" is the critically acclaimed story about three friends growing up in a South Central Los Angeles neighborhood, and of street life where friendship, pain, danger and love combine to form reality. "The Hood" is a place where drive-by shootings and unemployment are rampant. But it is also a place where harmony co-exists with adversity, especially for the three young men growing up there: Doughboy (Ice Cube), an unambitious drug dealer; his brother Ricky (Morris Chestnut), a college-bound teenage father; and Ricky's best friend, Tre (Cuba Gooding Jr.), who aspires to a brighter future beyond the "The Hood". In a world where a trip to the store can end in death, the friends have diverse reactions to their bleak surroundings. Tre's resolve is strengthened by a strong father (Larry Fishburne) who keeps him on the right track. But the lessons Tre learns are put to the ultimate test when tragedy strikes close to home, and violence seems like the only recourse. - Director:
- John Singleton
- Cast:
- Cuba Gooding Jr., Laurence Fishburne, Hudhail Al-Amir
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It's 1992, and the miners of Grimley Colliery are facing uncertainty. Not only is their pit under threat, but the Grimley Colliery Band is on the verge of breaking up - that is, until Gloria (Tara Fitzgerald) arrives. As the only female member of the band, she somehow manages to rekindle their enthusiasm for the forthcoming National Championship, as well as rekindling a childhood romance with Andy (Ewan McGregor). Led by the passionate Danny (Pete Postlethwaite) the band play on. Danny has his pride and his trombonist son, Phil (Stephen Tompkinson), has his problems. Problems which even Mr. Chuckles, the down, can't seem to help him solve. With the National Finals at the Royal Albert Hall looming, can they all hold it together and secure a famous victory for Grimley? - Director:
- Mark Herman
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- Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor
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A teenage farm boy looking for excitement finds himself on a collision course with his smooth-talking gang leader father in this powerfully disturbing tale based on the story of real-life killer Bruce Johnston. Oscar nominee Sean Penn and Oscar winner Christopher Walken star in this "hot, horrifying saga of an American criminal family. Juvenile delinquent Brad Whitewood, Jr. (Penn) knows about petty theft, but he wants big money - enough to blow the lid off his boring life, enough to get out of town and to find his ol' man. He wants to be like his dad, a big-time thief, who knows the business. Seductive and sinister, Brad's father is full of toxic wisdom that makes his illicit life appear eerily sexy. But when Brad witnesses his father deliberately killing someone, he realizes he may not only be in over his head...he may also lose it for good. - Director:
- James Foley
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- Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Mary Stuart Masterson
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Broadway Danny Rose (1984)Brodvejski Danny Rose
A small but perfectly-formed comedy-drama about Broadway legend Danny Rose (Woody Allen) - not a star but perhaps the most hapless agent ever to work in the profession, whose no-hope clients include piano-playing parrots, blind jugglers, one-legged tap dancers and stuttering ventriloquists. Things change dramatically when an unexpected lounge-music craze threatens to make cheesy crooner Lou Canova (Nick Apollo Forte) both famous and successful, a situation that natural loser Danny is helplessly ill-equipped to deal with. Fie proves similarly hapless when Lou turns out to have a mistress (an unrecognisable Mia Farrow) whose mobster ex-boyfriend is none too impressed with the company that she's currently keeping and decides to advertise this fact at the worst possible moment. Both laugh-out-loud funny and warmly nostalgic, 'Broadway Danny Rose' is Allen's heartfelt tribute to the days of New York vaudeville that he himself experienced first-hand when starting out as a comedian two decades earlier - underscored by the fact that the Greek chorus of Broadway veterans chuckling over Danny's various mishaps and misfortunes are the real thing. - Director:
- Woody Allen
- Cast:
- Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, Nick Apollo Forte
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Bullets Over Broadway (1994)Balas sobre Nueva York
Big-city mobsters and the Broadway stage collide hilariously in this side-splitting, all-star comedy that has audiences and critics rolling in the aisles! John Cusack stars as David Shayne, an idealistic young writer who'll do anything to get his first Broadway play off the ground - even if it means teaming up with the mob! Surrounded by a wacky cast of characters, including a gangster's ditzy girlfriend, a mob hit man, and a tipsy actress, Shayne's got to pull it all off before the curtain falls, and the bullets start to fly! - Director:
- Woody Allen
- Cast:
- John Cusack, Dianne Wiest, Jennifer Tilly
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Megan Williams (Natasha Lyonne) is a good Christian cheerleading girl, but perhaps she's taking her love of her team mates a step too far! Noticing her unorthodox leanings, Megan's parents arrange on intervention, sending her off to New Directions, a sexual rehabilitation camp run by a hilariously straight-laced school madam, Mary. But on a strict regime of corrective therapy, Megan falls head over heels for surly dyke, Graham (Clea DuVall) and is forced to reassess whether straight is really all that is great.... - Director:
- Jamie Babbit
- Cast:
- Natasha Lyonne, Clea DuVall, Michelle Williams
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Buddy Holly laid the foundations for a generation of popular music with his ground-breaking combination of country music and rhythm and blues. This film tells his story from it's explosive beginning to its tragic end with Gary Busey giving an electrifying, Oscar nominated performance as the young genius from Lubbock, Texas, who changed the tune of rock 'n' roll history. 'The Buddy Holly Story' is one of the best biopics ever produced for cinema and features 12 of his greatest hit songs. It's a dynamic tribute to one of the most influential rock 'n' rollers of all time and his legacy. - Director:
- Steve Rash
- Cast:
- Gary Busey, Will Jordan, Don Stroud
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Brubaker (1980)Shadow Walk
Robert Redford stars in this potent drama based on the real life story of Tom Murton, the prison superintendent who rocked Arkansas politics when he exposed scandalous abuses and murders in a state prison. Posing as a new prisoner, Brubaker (Redford) discovers vast corruption in a state penitentiary before revealing himself to be the new warden. His personal crusade to bring reform puts him in grave danger, especially when he insists on exposing a series of secret murders that took place years earlier. - Director:
- Stuart Rosenberg
- Cast:
- Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Morgan Freeman
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The Bridge at Remagen (1969)El puente de Remagen
An all-star cast - including George Segal, Robert Vaughan, Ben Gazzara and E.G. Marshall - brings all the glory and agony of war to stunning life in this intense and exhilarating, but uniquely human look at a struggle widely regarded as the most strategic coup of World War II. Excellent special effects, spectacular photography and fine action sequences put you on the front lines of the battle, and with the courageous soldiers who fought it. 1945: The Allies are making their final advance into German territory and only one strategic bridge on the Rhine river remains in Nazi hands. Both sides have much to gain, the Germans, the lives of 50,000 soldiers stationed on the wrong side of the bridge, and the Allies, a quicker end to the war with fewer lives lost. Though both armies would fight valiantly, only one could win the heart-rending battle for The Bridge at Remagen. - Director:
- John Guillermin
- Cast:
- George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara
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Bowling for Columbine (2002)Masacre en Columbine
With his trademark charm and biting wit, Michael Moore's documentary sets off on a rollicking journey to the heart of America, hoping to discover why the American pursuit of happiness is so riddled with mass violence. Moore boldly asks a question that post September 11, no other American dare ask: "Are we a nation of gun nuts - or are we just nuts?" For Americans, it is a damningly funny indictment of a culture of feat that is armed to the teeth and running amuck. For everyone else, it is a humourous warning about what could happen to any country that chooses the American Way of creating a massive permanent underclass that must be fought off with a constitutionally protected Uzi. - Director:
- Michael Moore
- Cast:
- David Smith, Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson
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Being John Malkovich (1999)¿Quieres ser John Malkovich?
Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) is a struggling street puppeteer. In order to make some money, Craig takes a job as a filing clerk. One day he accidentally discovers a door... a portal into the brain of John Malkovich (played by John Malkovich)! For 15 minutes, he experiences the ultimate head trip – He is being John Malkovich! Then he's dumped onto the New Jersey turnpike! With has beautiful office mate Maxine (Catherine Keener) and his pet-obsessed wife (Cameron Diaz), they hatch a plan to let others into John's brain for just $200 a trip. - Director:
- Spike Jonze
- Cast:
- John Cusack, Pamela Hayden, Cameron Diaz
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