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The Meaning of Life |
Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise. |
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A Perfect Day |
Film about a group of aid workers trying to resolve a crisis in an armed conflict zone in the Balkans. |
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De Premier |
The family of the Belgian prime minister is kidnapped. To get them released, he must murder the American president. |
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They Called Him Bulldozer |
The "Bulldozer", a former football star, is now working as a fisherman. As a group of street-people arranges a football match against the local Armybase, he is asked to be their trainer. His boat was damaged by a submarine and he currently has no work, so he agrees. |
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The Ducktators |
A wartime cartoon that satirizes the Axis leaders of World War II. |
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Colonel Redl |
Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception. |
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Vine of the Soul: Encounters with Ayahuasca |
On a quest for emotional healing and spiritual awakening, a naturopathic doctor and an accountant join others in the Peruvian Amazon to drink a psychedelic brew called ayahuasca. |
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Fort Saganne |
In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh. |
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Standard Time |
A corporate lawyer is caught in a love triangle with an ambitious cabaret singer. |
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Anna and the King of Siam |
In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King. |
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Tea for Two |
In this reworking of "No, No, Nanette," wealthy heiress Nanette Carter bets her uncle $25,000 that she can say "no" to everything for 48 hours. If she wins, she can invest the money in a Broadway show featuring songs written by her beau, and of course, in which she will star. Trouble is, she doesn't realize her uncle's been wiped out by the Stock Market crash. |
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Not My Life |
After a car accident, a woman with a seemingly perfect life begins to have visions that suggest she is not who she thinks she is. |
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Futuresport |
In the not too distant future, a new deadly sport is the only way to stop a war that will kill millions. Fix (Snipes) is the creator of the sport, but the spotlight has always been on Ramzey (Cain), this hothead must use this game to stop the Revolution. |
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Little Dead Rotting Hood |
The residents of a small town discover that something more sinister than killer wolves is lurking in the backwoods: first the wolves start turning up dead...then people. |
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The Chase |
Most everyone in town thinks that Sheriff Calder is merely a puppet of rich oil-man Val Rogers. When it is learned that local baddie Bubber Reeves has escaped prison, Rogers' son is concerned because he is having an affair with Reeves' wife. It seems many others in town feel they may have reasons to fear Reeves. Calder's aim is to bring Reeves in alive, unharmed. Calder will have to oppose the powerful Rogers on one hand and mob violence on the other, in his quest for justice. |