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Phat Beach |
A hefty homeboy borrows his dad's Mercedes and goes to the beach with his friends for wild sun & fun. |
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My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? |
A.D. 2015: A virus has been spreading in many cities worldwide. It is a suicidal disease and the virus is infected by pictures. People, once infected, come down with the disease, which leads to death. They have no way of fighting against this infection filled with fear and despair. The media calls the disease "the Lemming Syndrome". |
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Cattle Queen of Montana |
Sierra Nevada Jones must fight a villainous rancher to regain the land that is rightfully hers. |
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Man Alive |
A reportedly dead man (Pat O'Brien) haunts his wife (Ellen Drew) and her boyfriend. |
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Hard Ticket to Hawaii |
A man with a bazooka helps defend air-freighters Donna and Taryn against drug smugglers and a snake. |
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A Patriotic Man |
Every nation gets the heroes it deserves. A man with a special blood type is used as a device for human doping athletes skiing national team. |
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To End All Wars |
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon (Ciaran McMenamin), Lt. Jim Reardon (Kiefer Sutherland) and Maj. Ian Campbell (Robert Carlyle) are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gordon tries to take a more stoic approach, an attitude that proves to be surprisingly resonant. |
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Broken Blossoms |
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's "Masterpiece". |
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Pervert Park |
Florida Justice Transitions is home to 120 convicted sex offenders. Like in many other U.S. states, sex offenders are not allowed to live within 1000 feet of places frequented by children. Because of this, many sex offenders live under bridges or in woods – or in the trailer park Florida Justice Transitions – known as Pervert Park. The crimes committed by the residents range from simple misdemeanors to horrendous acts unbearable to contemplate. |
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Birdboy: The Forgotten Children |
Birdboy and his animal friends plan their escape from an ecologically devastated island in this surreal, animated fantasy. |
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What Richard Did |
What Richard Did is a striking portrait of the fall of a Dublin golden-boy and high school rugby star whose world unravels one summer night. |
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Enemy Mine |
A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexpected way. |
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Synthetic Pleasures |
Conceived as an electronic road movie, this documentary investigates cutting edge technologies and their influence on our culture as we approach the 21st century. It takes off from the idea that mankind's effort to tap the power of Nature has been so successful that a new world is suddenly emerging,an artificial reality. Virtual Reality, digital and biotechnology, plastic surgery and mood-altering drugs promise seemingly unlimited powers to our bodies, and our selves. This film presents the implications of having access to such power as we all scramble to inhabit our latest science fictions. |
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Vanessa: Her Love Story |
The Victorian wife (Helen Hayes) of a mad baron waits years for a British soldier (Robert Montgomery) sent to Egypt. |
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The Island |
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last uncontaminated location on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about his existence is a lie. |