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Action |
Adventure |
Biography |
Drama |
War |
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| Actors: |
Anthony Hopkins |
Jared Leto |
Colin Farrell |
David Bedella |
Jessie Kamm |
Angelina Jolie |
Val Kilmer |
Fiona O'Shaughnessy |
Connor Paolo |
Patrick Carroll |
Brian Blessed |
Peter Williamson |
Morgan Christopher Ferris |
Robert Earley |
Aleczander Gordon |
Christopher Plummer |
Gary Stretch |
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Oliver Stone |
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Plot Summary:
Alexander (Farrell), the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians he leads his Army across the then known world venturing further than any Westerner had ever gone all the way to India.
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Biography |
Drama |
Sport |
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| Actors: |
Will Smith |
Jamie Foxx |
Jon Voight |
Mario Van Peebles |
Ron Silver |
Jeffrey Wright |
Mykelti Williamson |
Jada Pinkett Smith |
Nona Gaye |
Michael Michele |
Joe Morton |
Bruce McGill |
Paul Rodriguez |
Barry Shabaka Henley |
Giancarlo Esposito |
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Michael Mann |
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Plot Summary:
In 1964, a brash new pro boxer, fresh from his olympic gold medal victory, explodes on to the scene, Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African American's in sport with his proud public self confidence with his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. To his credit, he sets out to prove that with his highly agile and forceful style soon making him a formidable boxer who soon claims the heavyweight championship. His personal life is no less noteworthy with his allegiance to the Nation of Islam, his friendship with the controversial Malcolm X and his abandonment of his slave name in favour of Muhammad Ali stirring up controversy. Yet, at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test with the military draft rules are changed, making him eligible for military induction during the Vietnam War. Despite the fact that he could easily agree to a sweetheart deal that would have meant an easy tour of duty for himself, Ali refuses to submit on principle to cooperate in an unjust war for a racist nation that treated his people so poorly. The cost of that stand is high as he finds himself unable to legally box in his own country while his case is contested in court. What follows is a battle for a man who would sacrifice so much for what he believes in and a comeback that would cement his legend as one of the great sports figures of all time.
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Biography |
Drama |
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Ioan Gruffudd |
Romola Garai |
Benedict Cumberbatch |
Albert Finney |
Michael Gambon |
Rufus Sewell |
Youssou N'Dour |
Ciarán Hinds |
Toby Jones |
Nicholas Farrell |
Sylvestra Le Touzel |
Jeremy Swift |
Stephen Campbell Moore |
Bill Paterson |
Nicholas Day |
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Michael Apted |
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Plot Summary:
The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament in 19th century England, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.
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Biography |
Comedy |
Drama |
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| Actors: |
Chris Ambrose |
Joey Krajcar |
Josh Hutcherson |
Cameron Carter |
Daniel Tay |
Mary Faktor |
Paul Giamatti |
Harvey Pekar |
Larry John Meyers |
Vivienne Benesch |
Barbara Brown |
Earl Billings |
Danny Hoch |
James Urbaniak |
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Shari Springer Berman |
Robert Pulcini |
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Plot Summary:
Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs, and he regularly scours Cleveland's thrift stores and garage sales for more, savoring the rare joy of a 25-cent find. It is at one of these junk sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb, a greeting card artist and music enthusiast. When, years later, Crumb finds international success for his underground comics, the idea that comic books can be a valid art form for adults inspires Harvey to write his own brand of comic book. An admirer of naturalist writers like Theodore Dreiser, Harvey makes his American Splendor a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self portrait. First published in 1976, the comic earns Harvey cult fame throughout the 1980s and eventually leads him to the sardonic Joyce Barber, a partner in a Delaware comic book store who end ups being Harvey's true soul mate as they experience the bizarre byproducts of Harvey's cult celebrity stature.
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Biography |
Drama |
Romance |
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| Actors: |
Derek Luke |
Malcolm David Kelley |
Cory Hodges |
Denzel Washington |
Joy Bryant |
Salli Richardson |
Leonard Earl Howze |
Kente Scott |
Kevin Connolly |
Rainoldo Gooding |
Novella Nelson |
Stephen Snedden |
Leo Nepomuceno |
Sung Kang |
Cordell Stokes |
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Denzel Washington |
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Plot Summary:
A sailor (Derek Luke) prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist (Washington) for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and reveals a horrific childhood. Through the guidance of his doctor, he confronts his painful past and begins a quest to find the family he never knew.
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| Genres: |
Biography |
Crime |
Drama |
Western |
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| Actors: |
Brad Pitt |
Mary-Louise Parker |
Brooklynn Proulx |
Dustin Bollinger |
Casey Affleck |
Sam Rockwell |
Jeremy Renner |
Sam Shepard |
Garret Dillahunt |
Paul Schneider |
Joel McNichol |
James Defelice |
J.C. Roberts |
Darrell Orydzuk |
Jonathan Erich Drachenberg |
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Andrew Dominik |
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Plot Summary:
Robert Ford, who's idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.
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Biography |
Drama |
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| Actors: |
Greg Kinnear |
Willem Dafoe |
Rita Wilson |
Maria Bello |
Ron Leibman |
Bruce Solomon |
Michael E. Rodgers |
Kurt Fuller |
Christopher Neiman |
Lyle Kanouse |
Donnamarie Recco |
Ed Begley Jr. |
Michael McKean |
Cheryl Lynn Bowers |
Don McManus |
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Paul Schrader |
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Plot Summary:
Capitalizing on his fame as the star of "Hogan's Heroes," Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) dove into the freewheeling spirit of the 60s and 70s with relish, having affairs with numerous women. Eventually, Crane teamed up with video technician John Carpenter to document his exploits, an association that may very well have led to his murder in a Scottsdale, Arizona motel room in 1978, which remains officially unsolved to this day.
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| Genres: |
Biography |
Drama |
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| Actors: |
Leonardo DiCaprio |
Cate Blanchett |
Kate Beckinsale |
John C. Reilly |
Alec Baldwin |
Alan Alda |
Ian Holm |
Danny Huston |
Gwen Stefani |
Jude Law |
Adam Scott |
Matt Ross |
Kelli Garner |
Frances Conroy |
Brent Spiner |
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Martin Scorsese |
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Plot Summary:
The script begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese's favorite films, Hell's Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that he waits forever for perfect conditions, right down to cloud formations. The Aviator ends in 1946, when Hughes was still a dashing young man and romancing actresses like Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn.
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