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4/28/2008


Cinemax Asia Synopses - Month of May 2008


A SOUND OF THUNDER
It is 2055, and man has mastered time travel. Charles Hatton's (Kingsley) company, Time Safari, will take anyone with big money back 65 million years for dinosaur hunting. The time-travelers return to a specific moment in time and must not change anything or leave anything behind to avoid catastrophic problems when they return. A safari goes awry when the expedition leader Ryer's (Burns) gun malfunctions and the time travelers run for cover from an angry dinosaur. They somehow manage to return unscathed. But the next day, the world is turned upside down as mysterious vines spring up everywhere and monstrous creatures of all forms and sizes appear. Ryer and his team must now find out what caused the anomaly before it is too late.
Starring: Edward Burns, Ben Kingsley, Catherine McCormack

ABSOLUTE POWER
The notorious master thief, Luther Whitney (Eastwood), is on his final heist when he sees no less than Allen Richmond (Hackman), the President of the United States, engaged in a kinky, extra-marital affair that leaves his mistress dead. The scene of the crime is quickly sanitized by Chief Of Staff, Gloria Russell (Judy Davis) and the Secret Service agents. However, they've forgotten the one thing that could link the President to the crime - which Whitney has in his possession. Whitney is soon named and framed as the killer. He's on the run, and thinking of a way to prove his innocence. His only hope lies with the homicide detective, Seth Frank (Harris).
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Gene Hackman, Judy Davis

ACCIDENTAL HERO
This Stephen Frears-directed flick is a contemporary re-working of a Frank Capra-styled fable about a two-bit criminal named Bernie (Hoffman) who saves several passengers from a plane crash and departs from the scene without being identified, leaving only a lost shoe behind. One of the passengers happens to be news reporter Gale (Davis), who is intent on finding her savior, and offers a million dollars to the "hero" of the crashed flight. Bernie has since given his remaining shoe to a homeless man named John (Garcia), who decides to cash in on the offer. A handsome, charming man, John wins the hearts of the entire city. Soon, Bernie realizes that he's been cheated out of a million dollars, and attempts to get both his proper recognition, and his money back.
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Andy Garcia, Geena Davis

ALLAN QUATERMAIN AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD
In this sequel to 1985's "King Solomon's Mines," an intrepid adventurer, Allan Quatermain (Chamberlain), receives a mysterious gold piece from a dying man. Could it be a clue leading to Quatermain's missing brother, Robeson? Together with his archaeologist girlfriend, Jesse Huston (Stone), Quatermain embarks on a quest to East Africa in search of his lost brother. Based on the H. Rider Haggard book, this action adventure promises high thrills and spills in the style of Indiana Jones.
Starring: James Earl Jones, Sharon Stone, Richard Chamberlain

AMERICAN PASTIME
The Nomura family is happily living in America until the attack on Pearl Harbor breaks out. The next thing they know, they are shipped to an internment camp in Utah where they find themselves prisoners in a country they had come to be free. What the prisoners and guards have in common however, is the love of baseball. Before long, a guards vs. prisoners game is in the works. Can baseball bridge the rift?
Starring: Gary Cole, Kj Adachi

ANGELS FALL
A highly anxious chef Reece Gilmore (Locklear) gets stuck in a small town after her car breaks down. She decides to give the town a shot and takes up a cooking job at the local diner. While on a hike in the woods, she observes a murder through her binoculars. With no body and no missing person reports, no one in town is sure whether or not Reece was witness to anything but her own anxieties.
Starring: Heather Locklear, Johnathon Schaech

AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
This spectacular adventure brings to life Jules Verne's fanciful tale of the chronicles of an unflappable Victorian gentleman, Phileas Fogg (Niven), and his butler, Passepartout (Cantinflas), who tried to circle the world in 80 days to win a wager.
Starring: David Niven, John Gielgud, Cantinflas

ATTACK FORCE
Seagal is back as Marshall Lawton whose strike force is decimated by villains with extraordinary strength. It turns out they are on a new strength-inducing drug called the CTX and Lawton assembles a new force to take out the bad guys, exact revenge and clean out the streets.
Starring: Steven Seagal

AVALANCHE EXPRESS
Aboard a transcontinental train roaring across Europe, U.S. agents are smuggling a top-rank Russian defector to the West. Lee Marvin, Linda Evans and Mike Connors are part of the handpicked team trying to shield the KGB's Robert Shaw from a barrage of Iron Curtain assassins, lovely ladies - and an avalanche heading for an Alpine village.
Starring: Linda Evans, Robert Shaw, Lee Marvin

AVALON: BEYOND THE ABYSS
This state-of-the-art action adventure flick stars Parker Stevenson as John Alden, the head of the Abyss, a world-class oceanographic research institute. When a seemingly idyllic island in the Gulf of Mexico mysteriously blows up, Alden and his team of underwater specialists is called in to salvage the situation. But as they attempt to avert a worldwide ecological disaster, the group stumbles upon a bizarre discovery on the ocean floor.
Starring: Parker Stevenson, Billy Rieck

BABY MONITOR: SOUND OF FEAR
Carol Whiston (Tyson) is a wife, mother and successful career woman. When she secretly learns that her husband, Matt (Beghe) is having an affair with the babysitter, she delves into another type of business - murder. Using an upcoming birthday party as an excuse, she coyly invites her husband's mistress, Ann (Bissett) to baby-sit their young son. She hires a couple of thugs to murder Ann and make it look like a robbery gone bad. Unfortunately, the plan doesn't work out as expected and a series of unexpected twists add to the suspense in this well crafted thriller.
Starring: Jason Beghe, Barbara Tyson, Josie Bissett

BABYLON 5: THE RIVER OF SOULS
When an archaeologist brings a stolen relic to the space station Babylon 5, the soul hunters - an immortal race that captures and eternally imprisons souls - lay siege to the remote outpost. Now Babylon 5 is caught between two implacable forces: the soul hunters and the wrathful souls that have escaped their control, in this installment of the cult Babylon 5 series.
Starring: Jerry Doyle, Tracy Scoggins

BABYLON 5: THIRD SPACE
The crew risks everything to salvage a mysterious portal which may allow them to travel to another dimension and attempt to saves Babylon 5 from destruction.
Starring: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian

BLUE HAWAII
Elvis Presley stars in this romantic comedy as a tour guide in Hawaii, crooning well-loved tunes, including'Can't Help Falling in Love'.
Starring: Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Angela Lansbury

BLUE SMOKE
A police detective Reena Hale (Witt) finds herself once again followed by the stalker who traumatized her years ago by killing any man she fell in love with.
Starring: Scott Bakula, Alicia Witt, Matthew Settle

CAROLINA MOON
A young woman Tori (Forlani) returns to her hometown to confront the demons that have possessed her since childhood: the thought that her father might have murdered her best friend. Tori also has uncanny visions of events which are about to occur.
Starring: Claire Forlani, Jacqueline Bisset, Oliver Hudson

CHINATOWN
This brooding 1974 tale of corruption, murder and sex in 1930s L.A. is truly a Roman Polanski classic. L.A. detective Jake Gittes (Nicholson) is a cynical private eye drawn against his will into a bizarre case involving a beautiful, mysterious woman, a ruthless tycoon and a plot to control the city's water supply. Jake is initially hired by a young woman to investigate her husband whom she suspects is having an affair. But it turns out the woman is an imposter and when the real wife Evelyn Mulwray (Dunaway) appears, Jake discovers a complicated plot against the husband, a sex scandal and a plot to control the city's water.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway

CLOAK & DAGGER
A whiz at computer games, 11-year-old Davey Osborne (Thomas) also has a very lively imagination. His life changes when he stumbles upon a real espionage plot. Soon he's got all the intrigue and danger a boy can handle, but he can't get the adults to believe his seemingly far-fetched story. He calls on an imaginary hero to help him retrieve vital coded documents from the enemy.
Starring: Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman

CODE NAME PHOENIX
The year is 2020, and the human race is at risk of being wiped out by the fountain of youth. An anti-aging serum has been developed. Lucy Chang, a Chinese undercover agent codenamed Phoenix, tries to destroy it, her attempt is sabotaged; she is compelled to flee to America with a million-dollar bounty on her head. While trying to clear her name, she tries to destroy the serum, but she runs into Jake Randall (Meek), an honest US Marshal who is torn between turning her in or risking his life to save her and all of mankind.
Starring: Jeffery Meek, Christina Cox

CRACKHOUSE
Two Las Vegas policemen break into a crack house and find themselves battling the underground drug world in a bid to survive.
Starring: Benjamin Bratt, Don Franklin

CRY-BABY
Maverick director John Waters does a quirky spin on '50s nostalgia in Cry-Baby, his musical homage to Rebel Without a Cause and Romeo and Juliet. Set in Baltimore in 1954 at the birth of rock 'n' roll, the film features Johnny Depp as Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker. He is a juvenile delinquent with a permanent tear slithering down his cheek, a reminder of the tragedy of a lost romance. In the depths of his despair appears goody-goody girl Allison (Locane), who has a sexual crush on Cry-Baby. But Allison's boyfriend is dead set against Cry-Baby and the rest of the juvenile delinquents. The stage is set for a riotous time.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Amy Locane

CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF
A rich man, Don Alfredo Corledo, finds a hapless girl heavily pregnant and wandering in the woods. He takes pity on her and decides to bring her home. She gives birth on Christmas Day, unknowingly fulfilling a curse: an unwanted child born on the hour of the Lord's birth is an insult to heaven. The baby is named Leon, and is raised by Don until he reaches adulthood. The grown-up Leon (Reed) finds work in a nearby vineyard and falls in love with the vineyard owner’s daughter, Cristina. However, Leon finds it increasingly difficult to curb his thirst for blood and hide his evil alter ego. At night, he goes around killing anyone and anything unlucky enough to cross his path. Will Cristina’s love for Leon ultimately be strong enough to stop him from evolving into the bloodthirsty creature that he is fated to become?
Starring: Oliver Reed, Clifford Evans

DARK AVENGER
A federal judge is brutally attacked and left for dead but the killer is released on a technicality after his conviction. Found and nursed back to health by someone he previously helped to reform, the judge regains his strength and begins a new chapter of his life. Though crippled and maimed, he dons a mask and equips himself with a series of high-tech gadgets to battle evil as the "Dark Avenger."
Starring: Hector Elizondo, Robert Vaughn, Leigh Lawson

DARK CITY
John Murdoch (Sewell) awakens alone in the bathtub of a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. Pursued by Detective Bumstead (Hurt), Murdoch seeks to unravel the twisted riddle of his identity. He stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers, who put people to sleep and alter the city, environment and its inhabitants through a process of “telekinetic tuning”. With the help of the inscrutable Doctor Schreber (Sutherland), Murdoch must stay ahead of his adversaries while piecing together the puzzle of his past, his childhood, his love for his estranged wife Emma (Connelly) and the key to a hideous series of murders he is accused of committing.
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt, Rufus Sewell

DOWNHILL RACER
Magnificent skiing footage sparks this 1969 drama about the U.S. Olympic ski team. Robert Redford plays an ambitious skier from Colorado who sets out to become an Olympic champion - but learns that winning isn't everything. Shot on location in the Alps.
Starring: Robert Redford, Gene Hackman

FIRE SERPENT
A massive fireball from the sun strikes Earth and unleashes an invincible fire demon that starts possessing humans. Can the human race find a way to stop the demon before it is too late?
Starring: Nicholas Brendon, Sandrine Holt, Randolph Mantooth

FIREWALL
Jack Stanfield (Ford) is the head of IT security at a global bank, where he has built a powerful firewall to defend his bank against external threats. But when his family is kidnapped and held at gun point for ransom, Jack must hack into his company’s hardened IT security in order to save them.
Starring: Paul Bettany, Harrison Ford, Virginia Madsen

FIRST KNIGHT
A new telling of the tale of Camelot with Sean Connery as King Arthur and Richard Gere as Lancelot. Julia Ormond plays Guinevere, torn between her attraction for Lancelot and her love for Arthur. The drama pits nobility and loyalty against carnal desire, and when the latter wins out, tragedy befalls Camelot.
Starring: Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond

FLATLINERS
Is death the ultimate trip? Five maverick medical students - Nelson (Golden Globe® winner Sutherland, Jiminy Glick In La-La Wood, Taking Lives) Rachel (Academy Award® and Golden Globe® winner Roberts, Ocean's Twelve, Closer) David (Bacon, Loverboy, Cavedweller) Joe (Baldwin, Art Heist, Red Rover) and Randy (Platt, Loverboy, Kinsey) dare to cross the final barrier, temporarily "flatlining" their heartbeats in search of life beyond death. Little do they suspect that what they find on the other side may be able to follow them back.
Starring: Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt

FLIGHT OF FURY
Seagal stars as a secret Air Force operative who must stop a terrorist organization from stealing a stealth bomber. He must succeed or the world will be put in extreme danger.
Starring: Steven Seagal

FRANTIC
What do you do when your wife suddenly disappears in a foreign city and you don't even speak the language? That's the unnerving situation faced by an American doctor (Ford) in Paris, in this taut thriller from Roman Polanski. Paris becomes a dark, impenetrable maze as the doctor teams up with a beautiful woman who holds the key to the mystery. Together, they uncover a plot involving stolen nuclear technology and international terrorists.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Emmanuelle Seigner

FUGITIVE NIGHTS
Brenda Burrows (Teri Garr), a former detective turned private eye enlists the aide of soon-to-be-retired police detective, Lynn Cutter (Sam Elliott), in an ordinary surveillance, only to have another gung-ho police officer entangle them in a fugitive investigation which leads to murder. Set amidst the warm splendor of Palm Springs, the duo encounters problems as they team up to discover the identity and mission of a mysteriously well-connected stranger in town.
Starring: Sam Elliott, Teri Garr

FUNNY FACE
When top fashion photographer Fred Astaire transforms New York bookworm Audrey Hepburn into a chic Paris model, the result is enchanting entertainment. A wondrous blend of nifty footwork, great Gershwin tunes and fabulous French locations, this 1957 romantic comedy cum musical is one of Astaire's best, and most stylish, movies.
Starring: Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, Kay Thompson

G.I. BLUES
Elvis Presley stars as an American G.I. in Germany, who falls in love with the cabaret dancer he is trying to seduce in order to win a bet.
Starring: Elvis Presley, Juliet Prowse, Robert Ivers

GONE
While travelling through the Australian Outback, a young British couple Alex (Evans) and Sophie meets a charismatic American man Taylor (Mechlowicz) who seems just too nice to be true. What is his ulterior motive?
Starring: Scott Mechlowicz, Shaun Evans

HITCHED
Marriages are made in heaven, but could end up feeling like hell. That's what philandering Ted Robbins (Hall) discovers, when a short while after being married to Eve Robbins (Lee), she imprisons him in the basement of their house and reports him missing. Then it's left to Detective Cary Grant (Matheson) to get to the bottom of the matter.
Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Tim Matheson, Sheryl Lee Diamond

HOUDINI
Ten years after the death of the master illusionist, Harry (Schaech) and his widow Bess (Edwards) attempt to summon his spirit with the help of a medium (Perlman). From there on, the legacy of Houdini is told in a series of flashbacks - from his poverty-stricken childhood in New York to his incredible rise to international celebrity, capturing the hearts and minds of the masses with his death-defying feats. It also takes a peep into the darker side of Houdini, a perfectionist obsessed with his craft and gaining love and respect of his mother; and his so-called "Holy War" against fraud clairvoyants.
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Johnathon Schaech, Rhea Perlman, Ron Perlman, David Warner, George Segal, Stacey Edwards, Paul Sorvino, Grace Zabriskie, Judy Geeson

I'LL ALWAYS KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER
A group of friends who played a prank accidentally causes the death of a friend. Instead of reporting it to the police, they try to cover up their tracks. But one year later, it seems that their little secret is turning into something bigger - someone is killing them and they need to figure out who it is before they are all gone.
Starring: David Paetkau, Brooke Nevin

IN THE COMPANY OF SPIES
A CIA agent holding vital information is captured by Korean officials. The CIA recalls veteran agent, Kevin Jefferson (Berenger), out of retirement to rescue the captured agent and retrieve the secret information.
Starring: Ron Silver, Tom Berenger, Alice Krige

JOURNEY TO SHILOH
It is the beginning of the Civil War and seven friends make a long journey to join the Confederates.
Starring: Harrison Ford, James Caan

JUDICIAL INDISCRETION
Upon her nomination to the United States Supreme Court, respected judge Monica Barrett (Archer) meets Jack Sullivan (Shanks), an Irishman who claims to be a writer. What she discovers about Jack, however, is far worse and Monica is faced with the difficult decision of exposing Jack as a psychopath or a tool of a political plot.


KING SOLOMON'S MINES
Adventurer Allen Quatermain must locate King Solomon's mines before the bad guys get to it.
Starring: John Rhys-Davies, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom, Richard Chamberlain, Ken Gampu

KISS KISS, BANG BANG
Harry Lockhart (Downey Jr), a petty thief with a good heart, stumbles upon an audition while he's being chased by cops, and gets selected to act as a detective. He witnesses a murder with a real-life private eye, Gay Perry (Val Kilmer), and a struggling actress, Harmony Lane (Monaghan). Together, the trio must put their wits together to solve the crime.
Starring: Val Kilmer, Robert Downey Jr., Michelle Monaghan

LAST STAND AT SABER RIVER
In post Civil War America, Paul Cable (Selleck) is an embittered Confederate soldier who is desperate to reclaim his Arizona homestead from rebel pioneers sympathetic to the Union war effort. And as fate would have it, he finds himself forced to make an ally of Vern Kidston, his Union adversary to make a last stand for the one thing worth fighting for — his family.
Starring: Tom Selleck, Keith Carradine, Suzy Amis

LONELY ARE THE BRAVE
Kirk Douglas stars as a rebel cowboy who gets arrested so he can go to the same jail as his best friend to help him break out. The problem is his friend does not want to break out and now the hero must go the distance alone.
Starring: Walter Matthau, Kirk Douglas, Carroll O'Connor

MACKENNA'S GOLD
Sheriff Gregory Peck is forced to help bandit chief Omar Shariff search for a lost Apache canyon filled with gold. But they are not the only one looking for it.
Starring: Gregory Peck, Telly Savalas, Omar Sharif

MERRILL'S MARAUDERS
Jeff Chandler shines in his last screen role as courageous WWII General Frank Merrill. This 1962 war drama recalls Merrill's thunderous exploits in the enemy-ridden jungles of Burma as he leads his 3,000 volunteer soldiers against the Japanese.
Starring: Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Peter Brown

MONDAY NIGHT MAYHEM
When the league pitched its sports series "Monday Night Football" to three television networks, only ABC gave it a second look. It was up to Roone Arledge (Heard) to make it an unprecedented sports phenomenon. Putting a ragtag team of sports announcers together, they kick off to a bad start, but his team soon discovers a chemistry that builds to a crowd-pleasing crescendo. When Frank Gilford (Anderson) joins the group, the show goes through the ratings roof and they become sports gods who are worshipped more than the game itself. Eventually, their egos grow to the size of melons, nerves get frayed and they go their separate ways, but not without leaving "Monday Night Football" to end off on a high note.
Starring: John Turturro, John Heard, Kevin Anderson

MONTANA SKY
Three half-sisters are brought together by the death of their estranged father. The wealthy stock dealer bequeaths his Montana farm to them. But there's a catch - they must live there together at least for a year. Murder and romance ensues.
Starring: Diane Ladd, Ashley Williams, Charlotte Ross, John Corbett

PARIS WHEN IT SIZZLES
Screenwriter Richard Benson (Holden) has put off writing the screenplay for his latest movie till the last three days before his deadline. He hires a temporary secretary Gabrielle Simpson (Hepburn) to help him type but soon sparks begin to fly between the two.
Starring: William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Noel Coward

PIRATES OF SILICON VALLEY
On the threshold of the Digital Age, visionary geniuses Bill Gates and Steve Jobs launch the revolutionary race between rivals Microsoft and Apple Computers. From nights of dorm-room tinkering to days of boardroom scheming, their fierce and often humorous battle to rule the fledgling computer industry creates a new technology that literally changes the world. Based on the book Fire in the Valley by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine.
Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Noah Wyle

PRAYING MANTIS
Linda Crandell (Seymour) is not just a beautiful woman. She's also a temptress who manages to marry well – every time. And the next man to let her into his life is Don McAndrews (Bostwick), an attractive widower unprepared for what is about to happen to him. However, his sister-in-law discovers the danger he is in when she recognizes the “Praying Mantis” serial killer he has just been smitten with. Will she be able to convince him in time? Or will she suffer a worse fate before she has a chance to do so?
Starring: Barry Bostwick, Jane Seymour

RED ROCK WEST
Nicolas Cage plays a down-and-out drifter mistaken to be the hit man a bartender hired to kill his unfaithful wife. Taking full advantage of this situation, Michael collects the money and runs. Things go really wrong during his getaway as Michael soon runs into the real hit man.
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Nicolas Cage, Lara Flynn Boyle

SECRETS OF AN UNDERCOVER WIFE
A newly-wed wife is shocked when her husband is arrested by the FBI. Unable to get information from her husband, she goes undercover with the mob to free her husband, only to uncover a bigger conspiracy.
Starring: Shawnee Smith, Linda Ko, Brenda Campbell

SEXUAL ADVANCES
Paula Pratt (Zimbalist) is a happily married career woman who is at the losing end of sexual harassment at her workplace. When her boss hits on her and she rebuffs his advances, he turns vicious, compromising her career and marriage.
Starring: Terry O'Quinn

SILHOUETTE
On her way home through Texas from a business trip, architect Samantha Kimball (Dunaway) experiences car trouble that forces her to put up at a small town for the night. Restless and strolling that evening, Sam witnesses a brutal murder, but sees only the silhouette of the perpetrator. The next day the body of a cocktail waitress is found, and Sam becomes the key witness. Her extended stay takes a sinister turn as Sam herself is stalked - possibly by the killer. And then when you think it's not possible, the shadowy murderer pushes the tension up one more notch.
Starring: Faye Dunaway, Talisa Soto, John Terry, David Rasche, Carlos Gomez

SIXTY SIX
A 12-year-old Jewish boy has his coming-of-age ceremony slated on the same day that England is playing in the World Cup Finals of 66. He secretly prays for England's defeat so that his big-day will not turn up empty and the asthmatic brainy kid suddenly develops an interest in football, especially on any team that can knock England out.
Starring: David Bark-Jones, Helena Bonham-Carter

STALAG 17
During WWII, a group of G.I.s are thrown together in the notorious German prison camp Stalag 17. For the most part, they spend their time scheming ways to help each other escape. But when two prisoners are killed in an escape attempt, it becomes obvious that there is a spy among them. William Holden stars as a cynical, sharp-tongued soldier who spends his time scheming up rackets and trading with the Germans for special privileges.
Starring: William Holden, Don Taylor

STROKER ACE
Real-life husband and wife team Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson co-star in this action comedy about the Daytona 500. Reynolds is Stroker Ace, a stock car racing star who makes a frantic dash in order to arrive for the start of one of the world’s biggest stock car races. There is, however, no shortage of people lining up to take his place of prominence in the world of stock car racing. As the race draws nearer, tension runs high with his rivals going all out to make him lose.
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Loni Anderson

SUBLIME
Tom Cavanagh stars as a man undergoing what should be a minor surgical procedure in this supernatural medical thriller that mixes psychological chills with pulse-pounding terror. But when complications arise that threaten his sanity and his life in this eerie hospital, he realizes he is trapped in a deadly ward. Now he must solve the mystery behind the murders in this supposed place of healing… before it's too late.
Starring: Thomas Cavanagh, Paget Brewster

SUDDEN IMPACT
In this fourth Dirty Harry installment, the rebel cop uncovers a string of rapes and murders and brings the perpetrators to justice one by one.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke

TARZAN GOES TO INDIA
One of a seemingly endless production of Tarzan movies, this tale by director and co-scripter, John Guillermin, places the hero in India. Tarzan is called to India to help save the many elephants that are endangered by the opening up of a new dam. The reservoir created will flood the elephants' home territory, drowning them all. The Lord of the Jungle now has to battle exploitative businessmen, interested only in the bottom line.
Starring: Jock Mahoney, Leo Gordon

THE 3 WORLDS OF GULLIVER
Kerwin Mathews, star of Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, headlines this action classic as Jonathan Swift's globetrotting adventurer Lemuel Gulliver. The first "world" is Lilliput, populated with teeny-tiny people who are about to go to war. Gulliver's second stop is Brobdignag, where our hero is surrounded by giants. The third world is England, where Gulliver is thrown into a lunatic asylum when he tries to relate his astonishing adventures. The film features a whole host of special effects created by special effects wiz, Ray Harryhausen!
Starring: Kerwin Mathews, Jo Morrow

THE BALLAD OF JOSIE
The fur flies in this wild west tale of women's rights and sheepfarming. Josie (Day) is acquitted of bludgeoning to death her whisky-soaked husband, but finds herself a widow who needs to make a living. Her broken-down ranch offers some hope, but a wealthy neighbor, Arch Ogden (Kennedy), eager to expand, has other plans. The rest of the cattle rearing town is also against her for choosing sheep over cow. Emotional support comes in the form of Jason Meredith (Peter Graves).
Starring: Doris Day, George Kennedy, Peter Graves, Andy Devine, William Talman

THE COMPANY PART 1
The Company is a fictional miniseries following the intelligence battle between the CIA and the KGB during the Cold War. Jack McCauliffe (Chris O'Donnell) is a CIA agent stationed in Berlin in the 1950s. The Russians are somehow staying ahead of the Americans, leading Jack to suspect that a mole is amongst their ranks. He is determined to unearth the mole together with an agent codenamed The Sorcerer. But uncovering the identity of the mole will rock the foundations of the CIA and affect its policies for years to come.
Starring: Michael Keaton, Alfred Molina, Chris Donnell

THE COMPANY PART 2
Budapest 1956 and Cuba 1960. Both the United States of America and the Soviet Union work behind the scenes to muster allies for their respective causes. However, in this dangerous spy game, Jack is caught between politics and a just cause as Washington weighs whether to honor its promises.
Starring: Michael Keaton, Alfred Molina, Chris Donnell

THE COMPANY PART 3
Already deeply entangled within a web of mystery and espionage, Jack continues on his dangerous quest for the identity of the mole who is operating within the CIA.
Starring: Michael Keaton, Alfred Molina, Chris Donnell

THE CONTRACTOR
Former CIA marksman, James Dial (Snipes) is persuaded back into action to take out a terrorist. He is however betrayed and framed for killing a policeman. James goes into hiding and befriends a 12-year old girl.
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Lena Headey

THE DEAD POOL
This time, Dirty Harry needs to find a serial killer who is knocking off celebrities one by one before he becomes mince meat.
Starring: Clint Eastwood

THE DUKES OF HAZZARD
In Hazzard County, cousins Bo Duke (Scott) and Luke Duke (Knoxville) discover that the rich and powerful Boss Hogg (Reynolds) is plotting the destruction of the land by turning it into a huge coal mine. Hogg masks his intentions by organizing a rally, in a bid to prevent the townsfolk from objecting to his plans in court that same day. With the corrupt Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane and his men hot on their tail, the Dukes, assisted by their cousin Daisy (Simpson), Bo's car General Lee and their Uncle Jesse, fight tooth and nail to save the town from the claws of Boss Hogg.
Starring: Seann William Scott, Johnny Knoxville, Jessica Simpson

THE EXPENDABLES
A Colonel on the brink of retirement is given one last assignment: to rescue the official advisor to the President of Latin America from a Cuban prison. To do so, he must whip a group of expendable female ex-convicts into shape for the undercover mission.
Starring: Brett Cullen, Robin Givens

THE FAN
A stage star is stalked by an obsessed fan whose unrequited adoration turns into a deadly obsession.
Starring: James Garner, Lauren Bacall, Michael Biehn

THE FRIGHTENERS (DIRECTOR'S CUT)
Psychic investigator Michael J. Fox hunts down the ghost of a serial killer in this comedy-horror movie.
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Jeffrey Combs

THE FUGITIVE
Dr. Richard Kimble (Ford) is maliciously accused of murdering his wife, and there isn't a shred of evidence to disprove that theory. The case is closed swiftly and his destiny is sealed. When all seems like an airtight case, a chance for justice presents itself when Kimble escapes from a prison bus. Right now, he needs to find his wife's killer but he's cut off from the world and can trust no one. If that isn't enough to keep him on his toes, the feisty U.S Marshall, Samuel Gerard (Jones), is also hot on his heels. The hunt for the fugitive is on.
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Harrison Ford

THE GUARDIAN
In this chilling tale based on Dan Greenburg’s popular novel, The Nanny, Camilla is an enchanting guardian who enters the home of new parents Phil and Kate, possessing impeccable references and an affinity for children. But Phil and Kate soon find their worst fears coming to life when Camilla's true intentions are revealed.
Starring: Jenny Seagrove

THE HARD CORPS
Van Damme is back as an-ex Desert Storm special forces guy who is hired to protect a retired heavyweight boxing champ turned entrepreneur. But complications arise when the bodyguard falls for the sister of his boss.
Starring: Vivica A. Fox, Jean-Claude Van Damme

THE HUNT FOR EAGLE ONE
A group of US Marines led by Lieutenant Matt Daniels (Dacascos) are on a mission in the Philippines to rescue a captured Marine while stopping the Al-Qaeda from unleashing biological weapons of mass destruction.
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Mark Dacascos, Theresa Randle

THE LONELY GUY
Steve Martin stars as a lonely guy who is dumped by his girlfriend. He wanders out into the streets of New York and finds there are others just like him. In fact, there's a whole club full of them – The Lonely Hearts Club.
Starring: Steve Martin, Charles Grodin

THE NET
Sandra Bullock stars as Angela Bennett, a computer analyst whose life begins to change after a diskette containing a top-secret computer program falls into her hands. She soon learns that, using the Internet, someone has altered every record of her life. With a suspicious new name and identity, a falsified police record, no identification or credibility, Angela must search within herself for the strength and resources to fight the seemingly unbeatable forces determined to silence her.
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam

THE NIGHT OF THE GENERALS
When a woman is brutally murdered in WWII Warsaw, German intelligence officer General Grau (Sharif) is sent to investigate. The clues point to three high-ranking Nazi generals as the prime suspects. But all is not as it seems as the plot thickens in this tense action drama.
Starring: Tom Courtenay, Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Donald Pleasence, Joanna Pettet

THE NUTTY PROFESSOR
Klutzy chemistry professor, Julius F. Kelp, is a nerdish but sincere guy who yearns for campus cutie, Stella Stevens. Concocting a potion that turns him into a brash, domineering hipster singer named Buddy Love, Julius revels in newfound popularity and romance. But the potion wears off at all the wrong times, leaving Julius in the most hilarious of situations!
Starring: Jerry Lewis

THE RIPPER
A police detective finds himself playing a cat and mouse game with a dangerous killer by the name of Jack The Ripper. While investigating a series of unexplained murders, Deputy Inspector James Hanson (Bergin) discovers that the suspect could be a member of London’s high society. He soon finds a witness, Florry Lewis (Anwar), who was attacked by The Ripper, but managed to get away with a good look at the killer’s face. Together, they team up to try and catch The Ripper before he can strike again. A beautifully crafted Victorian mystery thriller filled with foggy backstreets of suspense.
Starring: Gabrielle Anwar, Patrick Bergin, Samuel West

THE RUNNING MAN
Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Ben Richards, an innocent ex-cop wrongly accused of the mass murder of 60 innocent people, made to participate in a twisted TV game show where he must battle against time and merciless assassins in order to survive the staged execution.
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso

THE SECRET PASSION OF ROBERT CLAYTON
Robert Clayton Sr (Mahoney) and Robert Clayton Jr (Valentine) don't just share the same name, the father and son are also sleeping with the same woman. And when the woman's husband is charged for murder, Jr acts as the prosecutor while Sr is the defense counsel. Talk about complication.
Starring: Kevin Conroy, Scott Valentine, John Mahoney, Eve Gordon

THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER
John Wayne and Dean Martin star in this1965 western classic about two brothers who will go all out to find out who killed their father and swindled their mother - even if they have to take on an entire town to do it!
Starring: Dean Martin, John Wayne, Martha Hyer

THE STING II
The sequel to the original The Sting is set in 1940s New York with Jackie Gleason, Mac Davis and Oliver Reed playing the roles of Fargo Gondorff, Jake Hooker and Doyle Lonnegan respectively. The story revolves around con-artists Hooker and Gondorff who zero in on a shifty night-club owner Macalinski, with previous conned victim Lonnegan out to get them.
Starring: Jackie Gleason, Teri Garr, Mac Davis

THE WARLORD: BATTLE FOR THE GALAXY
Galactic wars has plunged the universe into a dark age where technology has stopped growing as humans fight for basic survival. In this futuristic world, a thief with a good heart needs to beat the odds to rescue his younger sister who has been abducted.
Starring: John Corbett, Carolyn McCormick

TWO FOR THE MONEY
The big-bucks world of sports gambling is the scene in this highly-charged story about a betting advisor and his star odds-maker. Walter Abrams (Pacino) is the owner of a sports betting hotline that caters to high rollers. He employs former college football star, Brandon Lang (McConaughey), and soon discovers that his new recruit has a knack for handicapping football games. Their instant bond leads to enormous success, but is it strong enough to weather the inevitable hard knocks in their high-risk world?
Starring: Rene Russo, Matthew McConaughey, Al Pacino

ULTRAVIOLET
The Hemophages, a small group of mutants with vampiric super-human powers, have evolved as a result of a biological research gone wrong. They are being targeted by humans, led by a totalitarian dictator, Daxus (Chinlund), who will wipe them out at all costs. Violet (Jovovich), a Hemophage who must rescue a human boy, that may well be her race’s secret weapon to save them from annihilation.
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, Nick Chinlund

WILD GEESE II
The world's most daring mercenaries are back in the sequel to Wild Geese to pull off the most incredible kidnapping of all time. Wild Geese II masterminds the capture of Nazi Rudolf Hess (Olivier) from Spandau, the Berlin fortress where he has lived in solitary confinement for 40 years. But can the team pull it off? Scott Glenn stars as London's top-notch TV mogul Robert McCann, ready to risk everything to uncover the scoop of the century. Hiring the world's best mercenaries, McCann prepares the coup and unwittingly becomes a target for assassination when the Russians, Palestinian terrorists, and even the Irish Republican Army get in on the act.
Starring: Scott Glenn, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox

WITCHBLADE
A modern day woman obtains Joan of Arc's mythical gloves and uses it to exact revenge on the villain who murdered her father, best friend and partner.
Starring: Yancy Butler, Anthony Cistaro

WITNESS
Cop John Book (Ford) encounters in his investigation of a drugland murder a witness within the Amish community, an eight-year-old Amish boy. When the boy and Book's lives are in danger, they hide in the relative safety of the community. The boy's young mother, Rachel (McGillis) and Book grow romantically attracted to each other. The policeman's violent 20th century background and the mother's pacifist views make for a fascinating conflict.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis




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