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Directed by Aris IliopulosOrigin USAGenres ComedyActors Billy Zane,
Ron Perlman,
Sandra Bernhard,
Tippi Hedren,
Bud Cort,
Andrew McCarthyRating54%
Overcoming a nurse, and dressing in her clothes, a madman escapes from the Casa de la Loco Sanitarium. The Thief (Billy Zane) then goes on a crime spree that nets him a gun, a car, a fortune in stolen cash, and one dead loan office manager. As he escapes the murder scene, he comes upon a forbidden cemetery as a burial, replete with bagpipe music and a bizarre ceremony employing tuning forks and strange icons, is taking place. As the undertaker, the caretaker, and an odd assortment of mourners leave the service, The Thief peers into the coffin, thinking it is a good place to hide his briefcase of ill-gotten gains. As he strikes the tuning fork that is buried with the robe-draped skeleton, bagpipe music fills the air and throws him into convulsions. The coffin lid slams shut, locking his money inside, and The Thief is thrown into an open grave, knocking himself unconscious. When he awakens, he sets off to track down everyone present at the funeral in an attempt to find his cash, killing anyone who gets in his way., 1h51
Directed by YonfanOrigin Hong kongGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related films,
LGBT-related filmActors Stephen Fung,
Daniel Wu,
Shu Qi,
Terence Yin,
Kenneth Tsang Wing Kong,
Lisa Chiao ChiaoRating66%
Jet (Stephen Fung) is a handsome gay hustler whose sex appeal seems to know no bounds. Everyone wants to make love to him, but he is in love with no one but himself., 1h30
Directed by Sean McNamaraOrigin USAGenres Fantastic,
Comedy,
Horror comedy,
Fantasy,
AdventureThemes Films about children,
Films about magic and magicians,
Ghost films,
Witches in film,
Comedy horror films,
Children's films,
Films about child abuseActors Hilary Duff,
Cathy Moriarty,
Shelley Duvall,
Teri Garr,
Ben Stein,
Richard MollRating54%
The film opens with the tail end of a Friday night baseball game. With the bases loaded, the home team wins by a narrow margin as the batter hits the ball out of the park. Both the celebration of the home team and fans and the dread of losing for the visiting team are cut short as a mysterious spaceship floats over the park, thus snatching the attention of everybody there: the players, the fans, the hot dog and popcorn vendors, and the announcer. After the ship performs a tune, it dissipates into three floating balls of light. One of them forms into a ghost who initially appears as an alien, but thereafter, is revealed to be Fatso (voiced by Jess Harnell), a member of The Ghostly Trio, who releases gas which hits the scoreboard, causing it to explode, also sparking terror. The other two ghosts of the trio, Stinky (voiced by Bill Farmer), and Stretch (voiced by Jim Ward), join in, causing panic in the park, as everybody got frightened. Casper (voiced by Jeremy Foley), a shy, friendly ghost (whom all three ghosts are uncles to), arrives, attempting to settle the frightened crowd, but the people are just as scared, saying that Casper's a ghost and ran away. The park is eventually empty, as Casper's uncles plan a vacation., 1h47
Directed by Mika KaurismäkiOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceActors David Tennant,
Vinessa Shaw,
Jean-Pierre Kalfon,
Julie Delpy,
Vincent Gallo,
Monte HellmanRating59%
While visiting a Northern English city, Barbara (Vinessa Shaw), an aspiring Hollywood actress, has a fling with the town undertaker Richard (David Tennant), who also writes obituaries for the local paper and has written one unpublished novel, Uzi Suicide. Barbara returns home, where she works as a waitress at a Japanese restaurant. She brags about the handsome writer she met while away. Unfortunately, Richard follows her to Hollywood., 1h53
Directed by Woody AllenOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes Films about writers,
Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related film,
Lesbian-related filmsActors Hank Azaria,
Kenneth Branagh,
Judy Davis,
Leonardo DiCaprio,
Winona Ryder,
Melanie GriffithRating62%
Lee Simon (Kenneth Branagh) is an unsuccessful novelist turned travel writer who immerses himself in celebrity journalism following a midlife crisis and subsequent divorce from his insecure wife, Robin (Judy Davis), a former English teacher, after sixteen years of marriage., 2h7
Directed by Emir KusturicaOrigin FranceGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
Musical,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Films about music and musicians,
La culture tzigane,
Musical films,
Films about marriageActors Srđan Todorović,
Branka Katić,
Bajram Severdžan,
Predrag Laković,
Miki ManojlovićRating79%
Matko Destanov, a small-time Romani smuggler and profiteer, lives with his teenage son Zare in a ramshackle house by the Danube River in eastern Serbia near the Bulgarian border.Viol@ (1998)
on 11 september 1998 Directed by Donatella MaiorcaGenres Drama,
ThrillerThemes Films about sexuality,
Erotic filmsActors Stefania Rocca,
Maddalena Crippa,
Ennio Fantastichini,
Rolando Ravello,
Neri Marcorè,
Giselda VolodiRating52%
Marta, behind the nickname "Viol@", decided to experience the thrill of virtual sex. His interlocutor, a mysterious man named Mittler, seems to be able to please her to the point of being able to maneuver her in all respects in real life, away from the computer., 1h50
Directed by Éric RohmerOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Comedy-drama,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceActors Béatrice Romand,
Marie Rivère,
Alain Libolt,
Alexia Portal,
Didier SandreRating73%
Magali (Béatrice Romand), forty-something, is a winemaker and a widow: she loves her work but feels lonely. Her friends Rosine (Alexia Portal) and Isabelle (Marie Rivière) both want secretly to find a husband for Magali., 2h4
Directed by Shekhar KapurOrigin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
Biography,
HistoricalThemes Feminist films,
Politique,
Films about religion,
Political films,
Films about royaltyActors Cate Blanchett,
Geoffrey Rush,
Abbie Cornish,
Christopher Eccleston,
Joseph Fiennes,
Clive OwenRating73%
In 1558, the Roman Catholic Queen Mary (Kathy Burke) dies of a cancerous tumour in her uterus, leaving her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett) as queen. Elizabeth had previously been jailed for a supposed conspiracy to murder Mary but has now been freed for her coronation. The film shows Elizabeth being courted by suitors, including Henry, Duc d'Anjou (Vincent Cassel), the future King Henry III of France and Poland, whom she rejects, and urged by William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (Richard Attenborough) to marry, which, as he states, would secure her throne. Instead, she has a secret affair with her childhood sweetheart, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (Joseph Fiennes). The affair is, however, no secret from Cecil, who makes it clear that a monarch has no private life. Elizabeth deals with various threats to her reign, including Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk (Christopher Eccleston); her Catholic cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, who conspires to have her murdered; Mary's mother, Mary of Guise (Fanny Ardant), who brings French troops into Scotland to attack Elizabeth's forces when they invade., 2h
Directed by Jackie Chan,
Benny ChanOrigin Hong kongGenres Thriller,
Comedy,
Action,
Adventure,
Martial artsThemes Films set in Africa,
Spy films,
Medical-themed films,
Sports films,
Transport films,
Martial arts films,
Films about psychiatry,
Films about disabilities,
Road movies,
Kung fu films,
Chase filmsActors Michelle Ferre,
Jackie Chan,
Mirai Yamamoto,
Ed Nelson,
Ron Smerczak,
David VlokRating68%
Somewhere in the jungles of South Africa, a multinational military unit, Special Force Unit, ambushes a convoy and kidnaps several scientists working on a highly-volatile compound extracted from a recently discovered meteorite. Among the operatives is a Hong Kong national identified as "Jackie Chan". The CIA assigns Morgan (Ron Smerczak) to investigate the incident, unaware that he and newly retired Lieutenant General Sherman (Ed Nelson) orchestrated the abduction for their personal profit. At the same time, the CIA assigns another operative in South Africa for a more covert operation.Cube (1998)
on 11 september 1998 , 1h30
Directed by Vincenzo NataliOrigin CanadaGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
Thriller,
Horror,
CrimeThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about mathematics,
Films about psychiatry,
Films about disabilities,
Films about autismActors Nicole de Boer,
David Hewlett,
Nicky Guadagni,
Andrew Miller,
Julian Richings,
Wayne RobsonRating70%
A man named Alderson awakens in a cube-shaped room with a hatch in each wall, the ceiling and the floor, each of which leads to other cube-shaped rooms, identical except for their color. He enters an orange room and, without warning, is killed by a trap. In another such room, five people – Quentin, Worth, Holloway, Rennes, and Leaven – meet. None of them knows where they are or how they got there. Quentin informs the others that some rooms contain traps, which he learned by nearly being killed by one. Rennes assumes each trap is triggered by a motion detector and tests each room by throwing one of his boots in first. Leaven notices numbers inscribed in the passageways between rooms. Quentin, a policeman, recognizes Rennes as "the Wren", an escape artist renowned for getting out of jails. After declaring one room trap-free, Rennes enters and is killed when he is sprayed with acid. The others realize that there are different kinds of detectors, and Quentin deduces that this trap was triggered by heat., 2h1
Directed by John DahlOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
CrimeThemes Jeu,
Poker,
Buddy filmsActors Matt Damon,
Edward Norton,
John Turturro,
Famke Janssen,
Gretchen Mol,
John MalkovichRating72%
Gifted poker player Mike McDermott (Matt Damon) loses his entire $30,000 bankroll in a hand of Texas hold'em against Teddy "KGB" (John Malkovich), a Russian mobster who runs an illegal underground poker room. Shaken, Mike decides to concentrate on law school while promising his girlfriend and fellow law student, Jo (Gretchen Mol) that he will not play poker anymore. Mentor and fellow rounder Joey Knish (John Turturro) offers him a part-time job driving a delivery truck to make ends meet.