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In this provocative and brutal thriller from director Michael Haneke, a vacationing family gets an unexpected visit from two deeply disturbed young men. Their idyllic holiday turns nightmarish as they are subjected to unimaginable terrors and struggle to stay alive.
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Eastern Promises |
The new thriller reteaming acclaimed director David Cronenberg with his A History of Violence leading man Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises is written by Steve Knight (Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Dirty Pretty Things).
As in the earlier film, director and star together explore the psyche, physicality, and fortunes of a man whose true nature may never be wholly revealed. The mysterious and charismatic Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin (Mr. Mortensen) is a driver for one of London's...
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The new thriller reteaming acclaimed director David Cronenberg with his A History of Violence leading man Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises is written by Steve Knight (Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Dirty Pretty Things).
As in the earlier film, director and star together explore the psyche, physicality, and fortunes of a man whose true nature may never be wholly revealed. The mysterious and charismatic Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin (Mr. Mortensen) is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood.
Headed by Semyon (Academy Award nominee Armin Mueller-Stahl), whose courtly charm as the welcoming proprietor of the plush Trans-Siberian restaurant impeccably masks a cold and brutal core, the family's fortunes are tested by Semyon's volatile son and enforcer, Kirill (Vincent Cassel), who is more tightly bound to Nikolai than to his own father.
But Nikolai's carefully maintained existence is jarred once he crosses paths at Christmastime with Anna Khitrova (Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts), a midwife at a North London hospital. Anna is deeply affected by the desperate situation of a young teenager who dies while giving birth to a baby. Anna resolves to try to trace the baby's lineage and relatives. The girl's personal diary also survives her; it is written in Russian, and Anna seeks answers in it.
Anna's mother Helen (Sinead Cusack) does not discourage her, but Anna's irascible Russian-born uncle Stepan (Jerzy Skolimowski) urges caution. He is right to do so; by delving into the diary, Anna has accidentally unleashed the full fury of the Vory.
With Semyon and Kirill closing ranks and Anna pressing her inquiries, Nikolai unexpectedly finds his loyalties divided. The family tightens its grip on him; who can, or should, he trust?
Several lives including his own hang in the balance as a harrowing chain of murder, deceit, and retribution reverberates through the darkest corners of both the family and London itself.
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The Painted Veil |
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A love story set in the 1920s about a young English couple - a conservative doctor and a restless society girl - who marry hastily, relocate to Hong Kong.
There they betray each other easily, and find an unexpected chance at redemption and happiness while on a deadly journey into the heart of ancient China.
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A dedicated New York psychiatrist Sam Foster urgently attempts to stop a secretive and unusual young patient he inherited, Henry Lethem, from carrying out a planned suicide on the eve of his 21st birthday. But Sam's investigation of Henry has reality-shattering effects on the psychiatrist.
As Sam is drawn deeper into the web of Henry's life--and then into the labyrinth of his subconscious--it puts stress on Sam's relationship with his artist girlfriend and former patient Lila. But soon...
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A dedicated New York psychiatrist Sam Foster urgently attempts to stop a secretive and unusual young patient he inherited, Henry Lethem, from carrying out a planned suicide on the eve of his 21st birthday. But Sam's investigation of Henry has reality-shattering effects on the psychiatrist.
As Sam is drawn deeper into the web of Henry's life--and then into the labyrinth of his subconscious--it puts stress on Sam's relationship with his artist girlfriend and former patient Lila. But soon Sam's own tightly-held grip on the rational world begins to melt away.
Faced with increasingly surreal encounters and a Manhattan transformed into a wildly shifting dreamscape, Sam can no longer figure out what is true and what is happening only in his head, nor where he begins and Henry ends.
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King Kong |
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Documentary filmmaker Carl Denham sails off to remote Skull Island to film his latest epic with leading lady, Ann Darrow. Native warriors kidnap Ann to use as a sacrifice as they summon Kong with the local witch doctor.
But instead of devouring Ann, Kong saves her. Kong is eventually taken back to New York to be exploited as the 8th Wonder of the World where he searches high and low for Ann, eventually winding up at the top of the Empire State Building, facing off against a fleet of World War I fighter planes.
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The Ring Two |
Fear comes full circle as Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts reprises the role of investigative reporter Rachel Keller in The Ring Two, the long-awaited sequel to the suspenseful thriller, The Ring.
Six months after the frightening rampage by Samara and the cursed videotape that left so much death and terror in its wake, Rachel and her son start a new life in a small Oregon town. But when evidence at a local crime scene includes a mysterious unmarked videotape, Rachel realizes that the...
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Fear comes full circle as Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts reprises the role of investigative reporter Rachel Keller in The Ring Two, the long-awaited sequel to the suspenseful thriller, The Ring.
Six months after the frightening rampage by Samara and the cursed videotape that left so much death and terror in its wake, Rachel and her son start a new life in a small Oregon town. But when evidence at a local crime scene includes a mysterious unmarked videotape, Rachel realizes that the nightmarish cycle of violence still has not ended.
With her son's life at stake, Rachel must confront Samara one last time in a terrifying battle that will cross the border between the living and the dead.
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I Heart Huckabees |
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Kindhearted but confused activist Andrew Markovski hires a pair of screwball "existential detectives" to help him find the meaning of life. All the while, a sexy, French author is trying to throw a wrench in their plan by seducing Andrew's mind and body.
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Ned Kelly |
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Ned Kelly is an epic story of one man's struggle against corrupt lawmen to fight the oppression of his people and avenge his family's name.
In the process he becomes the most wanted man the world had ever known - and a legendary hero.
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Le Divorce |
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Kate Hudson lights up the screen as Isabel, a film school dropout who jets off to Paris when her pregnant step-sister Roxy (Naomi Watts) is abandoned by her husband. Soon, Isabel has a scandal of her own when she falls for an older man who's related to Roxy's cheating husband!
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The Ring |
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A video tape is circling the globe. People watch it and receive a phone call stating that they only have one week left to live. Viewers of the tape die mysteriously exactly one week from watching the tape.
A reporter is researching the phenomenon when she and her son become the latest victims. Now, she has only one week to solve the curse of this freaky video before death consumes her.
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