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Regular Guys |
Christoph, cop and self-confident macho, has trouble with his fiance. After a long night he wakes up in the arms of Edgar, a good-looking, gay auto-mechanic. His live gets more and more troublesome after his girl friend throws him out of their apartment and as last resort he moves to Edgars place. Working together with a new, good-looking, very self-confident, female collegue, but living with a good-looking gay guy makes him pretty uncertain about his sexuality and his role as a cop. Written by Konstantin Articus |
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Don Quixote |
Senor Quexana has read so many books on chivalry that he believes that he is the knight Don Quixote de la Mancha. So Don Quixote sets off on his horse, accompanied by his squire Sancho Panza on a mule, to perform valiant deeds. They mistakenly save the Lady Altisidora who is so amused that she invites them to visit the Duke to provide some merriment at court. Among other deeds, Don Quixote frees some prisoners, who then turn upon him, and Don Quixote attacks a windmill that he imagines is a monstrous wizard. |
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The Pig Farm |
This is the story about Robert Pickton, Canada's most prolific serial killer. |
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The Prodigal |
A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the High Priest as well. |
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The Mirror |
When a young Iranian's mother doesn't meet her after school, she tries to negotiate the streets of Tehran by herself. |
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The Man Who Wasn't There |
A tale of passion, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity presents him with a chance to change it. |
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The Country Girl |
The 1954 musical film based on the play by the same name. Actress Grace Kelly won an Academy Award for Best Actress. The film tells the story of an ex-theater actor who is given one more chance to star in a musical yet his alcoholism may prevent it from happening. |
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Riot |
Copper Jack Stone purposefully orchestrates a bank robbery in order to be thrown into prison with the notorious Russian kingpin Balam. Balam is more than just a mob criminal; he's a very cunning and dangerous lord who controls the police force from behind bars. Balam lives in prison as a cover for his real power, which is King of the city. His cell is a lavish private room built specifically for him, inaccessible to most in the depths of the prison structure. Even the warden fears venturing into his area of the prison. However, even surrounded by his loyal henchmen and guards in his sectioned off fortress, Balam doesn't know Jack is coming for him to avenge his family, who Balam murdered in cold blood. Balam is tough... but Jack is tougher. |
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Fat Man and Little Boy |
This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built. |
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De Hel Van Tanger |
Augustus 1996. De Belgische buschauffeurs Marcel Van Loock en Wim Moreels worden door de Marokkaanse douane aangehouden op verdenking van drugssmokkel. In hun bus blijkt 350 kilogram hasj verborgen te zitten. Marcel en Wim worden veroordeeld tot vijf jaar cel. De gevangenis in Tanger is een ware hel. Marcel leert al snel dat het niemand iets kan schelen dat hij onschuldig achter de tralies zit... |
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Zip & Zap and the Captain's Island |
Naughty brothers Zip and Zap finds themselves in a home for lost children that might just be haunted. Will they ever escape? |
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I Flunked, But... |
Takahashi finds a creative way to avoid doing his revision in this roguish comedy reminiscent of Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman. |
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The Mad |
A horror-thriller in which a doctor and his teenage daughter are terrorized by flesh-eating zombies at a truck stop. |
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Dorian Gray |
A vain London playboy offers his soul in exchange for eternal beauty in this adaptation of the chilling tale by author Oscar Wilde. Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth), handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance, and commissions a special portrait that will weather the winds of time while he remains forever young. When Gray's obsession spirals out of control, his desperate attempts to safeguard his secret turn his once-privileged life into a living hell. |
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Mutiny on the Bounty |
The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell aboard the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny. |