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Directed by Mansoor KhanOrigin IndeGenres DramaThemes Sports films,
Cycling filmsActors Aamir Khan,
Ayesha Jhulka,
Mamik Singh,
Deepak Tijori,
Kulbhushan Kharbanda,
Pooja BediRating80%
The movie is set in Dehradun in north India. The movie opens with the description of the various colleges in the city. The Rajput college has students from affluent backgrounds with each student being an heir to a multimillion fortune. In contrast, the Model college has students from poor local households. Other colleges include Xaviers College and Queens College, the latter being an all-girls college with the guys from all three colleges trying to woo the students there., 1h32
Directed by Roeland KerboschOrigin Pays-basGenres Drama,
War,
RomanceThemes L'adolescence,
Films about children,
Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
Films about pedophilia,
Political films,
Teen LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Jeroen Krabbé,
Elsje de Wijn,
Tatum DageletRating74%
Jeroen (Jeroen Krabbé) reminisces about the time in 1944 when he (Maarten Smit) and other boys were sent to the countryside by their parents to escape the war. The city suffers from food shortages, with more food available in the country. He stays with an eel fisher's family, but despite the abundance of food, he is plagued by homesickness. Jeroen and his friend Jan go to the ocean and see an American plane in the water; Jan tries to go under but claims there are too many eels and comes up with a big cut on his upper right thigh., 1h53
Directed by Lars von TrierOrigin DanemarkGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Historical,
CrimeThemes Transport films,
Rail transport filmsActors Jean-Marc Barr,
Barbara Sukowa,
Udo Kier,
Eddie Constantine,
Ernst-Hugo Järegård,
Erik MørkRating74%
A young, idealistic American hopes to "show some kindness" to the German people soon after the end of World War II. In US-occupied Germany, he takes on work as a sleeping car conductor for the Zentropa railway network, falls in love with a femme fatale, and becomes embroiled in a pro-Nazi terrorist conspiracy., 2h20
Directed by Ron HowardOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
Adventure,
Romance,
WesternActors Tom Cruise,
Nicole Kidman,
Thomas Gibson,
Robert Prosky,
Barbara Babcock,
Colm MeaneyRating66%
In 1893 Ireland, Joseph Donnelly's family home is burned down by his landlord's men because of unpaid rent. Vowing revenge, Joseph attempts to kill the landlord Christie whose daughter Shannon has rebelled against family tradition and made plans to claim free land in America. She offers to take Joseph with her as her "servant" so she, a single woman, can travel without scandal. Joseph agrees, convinced he can also stake a land claim., 1h32
Directed by Joel HershmanOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
ActionActors Adrienne Shelly,
Sean Young,
Diane LaddRating58%
When small-time criminal Eli (Max Parrish) accidentally shoots his heiress fiancee (Sean Young) in a forced shot-gun wedding, he flees with her fortune. He winds up in a trailer park in El Monte, California. While waiting for fake ID from a shady criminal (Timothy Leary), he meets an assortment of oddball characters at the trailer-park. There's Sabra (Andrea Naschak) a sadistic porno star who collects Barbie dolls; her virginal younger sister Diana (Adrienne Shelly); Olga (Ania Suli) a washed out Hungarian opera singer/actress; her foul-mouthed son Lazlo (Bella Lehcozky), and two aging southern belles (Diane Ladd and her real life mother) who lust after Eli. After Sabra seduces Bud (Eli's new alias), his real problems begin. Sabra wants him for herself, but he's just interested in her sister., 1h54
Directed by David FincherOrigin USAGenres Science fiction,
Action,
Adventure,
HorrorThemes Space adventure films,
Monde imaginaire,
Prison films,
Dans l'espace,
Sur une planète fictive,
Films set in the future,
Films about extraterrestrial life,
Space opera,
Children's films,
Films about extraterrestrial life,
Robot filmsActors Sigourney Weaver,
Charles Dutton,
Charles Dance,
Brian Glover,
Ralph Brown,
Paul McGannRating63%
A fire starts aboard the Colonial Marine spaceship Sulaco. The computer launches an escape pod containing Ellen Ripley, the young girl Newt, an unidentified man, and the damaged android Bishop. All four are in cryonic stasis. The ship's scans of the crew's cryotubes show an Alien facehugger attached to one of the crew members. The pod crash-lands on Fiorina "Fury" 161, a foundry facility and penal colony inhabited by male inmates with "double-Y" chromosome patterns and histories of physical and sexual violence. After some inmates recover the pod and its passengers, an Alien facehugger approaches the prison dog., 50minutes
Directed by Diane EskenaziGenres Fantasy,
Adventure,
AnimationThemes Children's filmsActors Cam ClarkeRating58%
The brave sailor Sinbad and his loyal servant Habeeb find themselves aboard the ship of Captain Aziz, a trip for which Sinbad had spent all of his father's fortune. They crew spot an uncharted island, which Sinbad encourages the Captain to approach, hoping that it holds untold riches. Sinbad, Habeeb and two other sailors take a rowboat to the island, which has a strange appearance: it is flat and bare, with no grass, trees or sand. The island shakes violently, and the two sailors return to Captain Aziz's ship, leaving Sinbad and Habeeb behind. The island reveals itself to be the fin of a gigantic sea monster, which swims away. Captain Aziz's ship leaves as well, leaving Sinbad and Habeeb stranded in the middle of the ocean., 2h
Directed by Satyajit RayOrigin FranceGenres DramaActors Utpal Dutt,
Mamata Shankar,
Deepankar De,
Dhritiman Chatterjee,
Rabi GhoshRating79%
Anila Bose (Mamata Shankar) receives a letter from a man, who claims to be her long lost uncle Manomohan Mitra (Utpal Dutt). He is visiting India after 35 years abroad and Anila is his only surviving relative, so he wants to meet her in Calcutta before he sets off again. Anila looks forward to the meeting, but her husband Sudhindra (Deepankar De) is suspicious. The uncle arrives and stays with the family. He says that he is an anthropologist who has traveled all over the world, and he immediately wins the friendship of Anila's son Satyaki.