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Snakes on a Plane (2006) #56 Remove Directed by David R. Ellis. With Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips, Rachel Blanchard. An FBI agent takes on a plane full of deadly and venomous snakes, deliberately released to kill a witness being flown from Honolulu to Los Angeles to testify against a mob boss. |
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The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (2009) #176 Remove Directed by Seth Grossman. With Chris Carmack, Rachel Miner, Melissa Jones, Kevin Yon. Sam Reide uses his power to time travel to solve the mystery of his girlfriend's death. |
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Best Possible Taste (2012) #124 Remove Directed by James Strong. With Oliver Lansley, Katherine Kelly, Perry Millward, Glenn Wild. Schoolboy Maurice Cole,growing up in 1960s Liverpool,is picked on for being effeminate but is already making his own comedy tapes,one of which impresses agent Wilfred De'ath through whom he gets a job on a pirate radio station,changing his name to Kenny Everett.Though sacked for annoying the sponsor his popularity sees him working on the BBC's newly-formed Radio One. Around this time he meets and... |
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Dark Waters (2019) #1438 Remove Dark Waters: Directed by Todd Haynes. With Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Pullman. A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution |
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Philomena (2013) #518 Remove Directed by Stephen Frears. With Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Mare Winningham. A world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent. |
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Gracie (2010) #193 Remove Directed by Brian Percival. With Jane Horrocks, Tom Hollander, David Dawson, Ellie Haddington. In 1939 Gracie Fields, the 'Queen of Hearts', is at the height of her success as a singer and actress and the whole nation seems to wish her a speedy recovery from cervical cancer. When World War Two breaks out, Gracie sings for the troops despite poor health, to the dismay of her fussy husband, film director Monty Banks, an Italian, born Mario Bianchi. With Italy's entry into the war Monty is in... |
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Ready Player One (2018) #1157 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe. When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. |
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Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) #292 Remove Directed by Marc Lawrence. With Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sam Elliott, Elisabeth Moss. In New York City, an estranged couple who witness a murder are relocated to small-town Wyoming as part of a witness-protection program. |
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Snakes on a Plane (2006) #56 Remove Directed by David R. Ellis. With Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips, Rachel Blanchard. An FBI agent takes on a plane full of deadly and venomous snakes, deliberately released to kill a witness being flown from Honolulu to Los Angeles to testify against a mob boss. |
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The Weather Man (2005) #58 Remove Directed by Gore Verbinski. With Nicolas Cage, Hope Davis, Nicholas Hoult, Michael Caine. A Chicago weather man, separated from his wife and children, debates whether professional and personal success are mutually exclusive. |
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The Two Popes (2019) #1439 Remove The Two Popes: Directed by Fernando Meirelles. With Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce, Juan Minujín, Luis Gnecco. Behind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church |
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The World's Fastest Indian (2005) #43 Remove Directed by Roger Donaldson. With Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd, Iain Rea, Tessa Mitchell. The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967. |
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Horrible Bosses (2011) #121 Remove Directed by Seth Gordon. With Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis, Steve Wiebe. Three friends conspire to murder their awful bosses when they realize they are standing in the way of their happiness. |
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True Grit (2010) #336 Remove Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld, Josh Brolin. A tough U.S. Marshal helps a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer. |
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Moneyball (2011) #122 Remove Directed by Bennett Miller. With Brad Pitt, Robin Wright, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman. Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to assemble a baseball team on a lean budget by employing computer-generated analysis to acquire new players. |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) #482 Remove Directed by Jim Sharman. With Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien. A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter. |
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The Lego Movie (2014) #238 Remove Directed by Phil Lord, Christopher Miller. With Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett. An ordinary Lego construction worker, thought to be the prophesied 'Special', is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the Lego universe into eternal stasis. |
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No Country for Old Men (2007) #44 Remove Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson. Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande. |
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Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) #292 Remove Directed by Marc Lawrence. With Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sam Elliott, Elisabeth Moss. In New York City, an estranged couple who witness a murder are relocated to small-town Wyoming as part of a witness-protection program. |
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City Island (2009) #23 Remove Directed by Raymond De Felitta. With Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies, Steven Strait, Emily Mortimer. The Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arrival of a young ex-con (Strait) brought home by Vince (Garcia), the patriarch of the family, who is a corrections officer in real life, and a hopeful actor in private. |
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In Bruges (2008) #405 Remove Directed by Martin McDonagh. With Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ciarán Hinds, Elizabeth Berrington. Guilt-stricken after a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be. |
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Empire of the Sun (1987) #206 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers. A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II. |
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The Lady in the Van (2015) #958 Remove Directed by Nicholas Hytner. With Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Jim Broadbent, Clare Hammond. A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that's parked in his driveway. |
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Heat (1995) #162 Remove Directed by Michael Mann. With Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight. A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist. |
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Being There (1979) #522 Remove Directed by Hal Ashby. With Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden. A simple, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful businessman and an insider in Washington politics. |
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No Country for Old Men (2007) #44 Remove Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson. Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande. |
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) #522 Remove Directed by Stanley Kubrick. With Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn. An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically try to stop. |
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Burn After Reading (2008) #200 Remove Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, George Clooney, John Malkovich. A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it. |
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Greed (2019) #1343 Remove Directed by Michael Winterbottom. With Caroline Flack, Steve Coogan, David Mitchell, Isla Fisher. Satire about the world of the super-rich. Thought (by me at least) to be about Sir Philip Nigel Ross Green (born 15 March 1952) - the British businessman who is the chairman of Arcadia Group, a retail company that includes Topshop, Topman, Wallis, Evans, Burton, Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins and Outfit. The defunct BHS chain was also part of the group. |
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A Night at the Opera (1935) #525 Remove Directed by Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding. With Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies. |
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The Shape of Water (2017) #1156 Remove Directed by Guillermo del Toro. With Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Doug Jones. At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity. |
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Papillon (1973) #983 Remove Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. With Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon. A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape. |
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Strength and Honour (2007) #228 Remove Directed by Mark Mahon. With Michael Madsen, Vinnie Jones, Patrick Bergin, Richard Chamberlain. A single father decides to break his dying wife's last wish to not box again in order to save his young son from certain death. |
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Waltz with Bashir (2008) #520 Remove Directed by Ari Folman. With Ari Folman, Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ori Sivan. An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict. |
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Mic Macs (2009) #291 Remove Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. With Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Nicolas Marié, Yolande Moreau. A man and his friends come up with an intricate and original plan to destroy two big weapons manufacturers. |
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Ready Player One (2018) #1157 Remove Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe. When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune. |
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Beyond the Sea (2004) #348 Remove Directed by Kevin Spacey. With Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, John Goodman, Bob Hoskins. A swooning study of "Mack the Knife" singer Bobby Darin (Spacey) specifically, and his relationship with his wife Sandra Dee (Bosworth). |
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Godzilla (2014) #489 Remove Directed by Gareth Edwards. With Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Ken Watanabe. The world is beset by the appearance of monstrous creatures, but one of them may be the only one who can save humanity. |
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Sorority Row (2009) #226 Remove Directed by Stewart Hendler. With Briana Evigan, Rumer Willis, Carrie Fisher, Teri Andrez. A group of sorority sisters try to cover up the death of their house-sister after a prank gone wrong, only to be stalked by a serial killer. |
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Solitary Man (2009) #20 Remove Directed by Brian Koppelman, David Levien. With Michael Douglas, Susan Sarandon, Jesse Eisenberg, Danny DeVito. A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions. |
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Letters to Juliet (2010) #21 Remove Directed by Gary Winick. With Amanda Seyfried, Gael García Bernal, Vanessa Redgrave, Marcia DeBonis. Sophie dreams of becoming a writer and travels to Verona, Italy where she meets the "Secretaries of Juliet". |
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The Descendants (2011) #95 Remove Directed by Alexander Payne. With George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause. A land baron tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident. |
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Ghost in the Shell (2017) #1189 Remove Directed by Rupert Sanders. With Scarlett Johansson, Pilou Asbæk, Takeshi Kitano, Juliette Binoche. In the near future, Major Mira Killian is the first of her kind: A human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals. |
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A Bridge Too Far (1977) #575 Remove Directed by Richard Attenborough. With Sean Connery, Ryan O'Neal, Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier. Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines. However, mismanagement and poor planning result in its failure. |
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State of Play (2009) #173 Remove Directed by Kevin Macdonald. With Russell Crowe, Rachel McAdams, Ben Affleck, Helen Mirren. When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the congressman, his old college friend. |
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Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) #1212 Remove Directed by Bryan Singer. With Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy. The story of the legendary British rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985). |
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Seeking Justice (2011) #335 Remove Directed by Roger Donaldson. With Nicolas Cage, January Jones, Guy Pearce, Harold Perrineau. After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score. Then he discovers they want a 'favor' from him in return. aka Justice |
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Never Let Me Go (2010) #356 Remove Directed by Mark Romanek. With Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Izzy Meikle-Small. The lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood. The film is based on the book Never Let Me Go by Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize. |
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Long Weekend (2008) #307 Remove Directed by Jamie Blanks. With Jim Caviezel, Claudia Karvan, John Brumpton. A vacationing couple in the wilderness learns what happens when they disrespect nature. |
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Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (2005) #180 Remove Directed by Randall Miller. With Robert Carlyle, Marisa Tomei, Mary Steenburgen, John Goodman. A widowed man's life turns upside down when he embarks on a journey to find a dying man's long lost love. |
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Lawn Dogs (1997) #10 Remove Directed by John Duigan. With Sam Rockwell, Kathleen Quinlan, Mischa Barton, Christopher McDonald. Newly arrived in an up-market housing development, quiet ten-year-old Devon doesn't quite fit in. Ignoring the urgings of her social-climbing father, Devon chooses the company of Trent, who mows the estate's lawns, rather than of the girls her own age. Their friendship grows during her visits to his trailer home, but although it is completely innocent it is obvious that it would be unacceptable ... |
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One Day (2011) #99 Remove Directed by Lone Scherfig. With Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Patricia Clarkson, Tom Mison. After spending the night together on the night of their college graduation Dexter and Em are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, sometimes not, on that day. |
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Breaking the Waves (1996) #213 Remove Directed by Lars von Trier. With Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr. Oilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another. |
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The Sting (1973) #1120 Remove Directed by George Roy Hill. With Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning. Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con. |
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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) #226 Remove Directed by Tony Scott. With Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzmán, Victor Gojcaj. Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime. |
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Burn After Reading (2008) #200 Remove Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. With Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, George Clooney, John Malkovich. A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it. |
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Kick-Ass (2010) #294 Remove Directed by Matthew Vaughn. With Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Chloë Grace Moretz, Garrett M. Brown. Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a superhero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so. |
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Solitary Man (2009) #20 Remove Directed by Brian Koppelman, David Levien. With Michael Douglas, Susan Sarandon, Jesse Eisenberg, Danny DeVito. A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions. |
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Alita: Battle Angel (2019) #1342 Remove Directed by Robert Rodriguez. With Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali. A deactivated cyborg's revived, but can't remember anything of her past and goes on a quest to find out who she is. |
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The Beauty of Diagrams (2010) #309 Remove 60mins. Marcus du Sautoy. Including Dark Side of the Moon cover design. |