Released Date:
1990-02-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
136 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (2658 Reviews)
Director:
Bob RafelsonWilliam Harrison (novel)
William Harrison (screenplay)
Bob Rafelson (screenplay)
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the story of their meeting, their friendship emerging amidst hardship, and then dissolving after their journey.
Released Date:
2001-06-15
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, UK, Japan, Germany
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.7 (145822 Reviews)
Director:
Simon WestSara B. Cooper (story)
Mike Werb (story)
Michael Colleary (story)
Simon West (adaptation)
Patrick Massett (screenplay)
John Zinman (screenplay)
A member of a rich British aristocratic family, Lara Croft is a "tomb raider" who enjoys collecting ancient artifacts from ruins of temples, cities, etc. worldwide, and doesn't mind going through death-defying dangers to get them. She is skilled in hand-to-hand combat, weapons training, and foreign languages - and does them all in tight outfits. Well, the planets of the solar system are going into planetary alignment (Which occurs every 5,000 years), and a secret society called the Illuminati is seeking an ancient talisman that gives its possessor the ability to control time. However, they need a certain clock/key to help them in their search, and they have to find the talisman in one week or wait until the next planetary alignment to find it again. Lara happens to find that key hidden in a wall of her mansion. The Illuminati steal it, and Lara gets an old letter from her deceased father telling her about the society's agenda (Her father was also the one who hid the key). Now, she must retrieve the key and find and destroy the talisman before the Illuminati can get their hands on it.
Released Date:
1998-04-26
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, USA
Runtime:
204 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (409 Reviews)
Director:
Julian JarroldFrom the Irish countryside to London to New York and back again, Maggie reenters the world as a countess and shady art dealer. With her panache and charisma, she finds more than an auction, a rekindled interracial love affair, helpful relatives and a painting of great price. She finds more than she bargained for in the labyrinth and milieu of stolen art.
Released Date:
2001-01-19
Languages:
English, German
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
86 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (2952 Reviews)
Director:
Bill EaglesOne stormy Glasgow night Dorothy and Petula's lives are inextricably thrown together, bonded by a common flaw. Dorothy's on the run from her boyfriend and Petula should be doing the same. Evasion, blackmail, murder, betrayal, revenge and a suitcase loaded with a million quid... it's all there... and then some.
Released Date:
2004-12-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Spain
Runtime:
88 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.4 (16024 Reviews)
Director:
Jaume BalaguerèGenres:
HorrorJaume Balaguerè
Fernando de Felipe
Miguel Tejada-Flores (additional dialogue)
There's something in this house... Something ancient and dark that remains still, hidden and silent. It can only wait, having been concealed in the shadows for years. In fact, its milieu is darkness. Only in it can it show itself and move. It even takes its name: DARKNESS. It's lived here since someone tried to call it, more than forty years ago. Because this house hides a secret, a terrible past, an inconceivably evil act... Seven children, faceless people, a circle that must be completed. And blood, lots of blood...
Released Date:
2003-08-22
Languages:
English
Countries:
Ireland, UK, Denmark, Spain
Runtime:
94 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (2709 Reviews)
Director:
Aisling WalshGenres:
DramaAisling Walsh
Kevin Byron Murphy
Patrick Galvin
In 1939 William Franklin, an anti-Franco veteran of the bloody Spanish Civil War, arrives as first-ever lay teacher in a strict Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School for wayward boys. He soon learns the academic challenge is formidable, many boys being still illiterate, but gradually earns their trust, respect, in time almost devotion, with 'paternal' kindness, making the layman the opposite of the cruel prefect, brother John, who frequently administers painful and humiliating punishments, even the gentle, old superior Father Damian has no authority against his disciplinary mandate from the grim bishop Conlon. Slowly even class rebel Liam Mercier is turned around, trough his gift for literature. After Franklin dares stop the sadist's penny-weighted strap severely striking 'sinful scum' for a futility, the whole dorm is treated to an icy night outdoors, arms outstretched wearing only shorts. Brother Mac's mind may mean to educate well, his flesh is too weak for celibacy, so the coy, pretty new boy becomes his latest pederastic lust-object, sworn to suffer sodomy in silence- even devoutly confessing to Father O'Driscoll his fear to have lost his innocence during painful rape costs him an endless cold shower, shivering stark-naked before his tormentor. Constructing a nativity stall for the village church allows Franklin's class to grow close, have fun and earn praise, but after the Peters brothers cross the forbidden red lines to hug each-other on Christmas night across the wall separating the age sections, John punishes their 'blasphemous abomination' (?!) by publicly flogging their bare backs to bloody pulp till Franklin arrives. Still the prefect is capable of viler abuse: Liam, who sent a boy to get Franklin and received a book with dedication from that 'communist', privately gets the sturdy strap in the face till even secret-blackmailed brother Mac can't watch the orgy of child-abuse any more, but now Franklin arrives so late...
Released Date:
2005-04-13
Languages:
English
Countries:
France, South Africa, UK
Runtime:
122 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (1721 Reviews)
Director:
Règis WargnierGenres:
DramaWilliam Boyd
Michel Fessler (screenplay)
Fred Fougea (screenplay)
Règis Wargnier
1870. Dr. Jamie Dodd is elated : he has finally succeeded in capturing not one, but two pygmies. He brings them to Scotland with the help of Elena Van den Ende, an adventurous woman who sells wild animals to the zoos of Europe. His two anthropologist friends, Alexander and Fraser, and himself are certain they have discovered the missing link, which will make them famous. They start examining the pygmy couple from every angle and Jamie gradually discovers that Toko and Likola are just as sensitive and intelligent as any other homo sapiens. His two colleagues strongly reject this idea as it is glory they are after not the truth. Will Jamie be able to prove the two short people are genuine human beings and not freaks to be shown in a zoo?
Released Date:
2007-09-21
Languages:
English
Countries:
France, Australia, Germany, UK, USA
Runtime:
94 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (139881 Reviews)
Director:
Russell MulcahyYears after the Raccoon City disaster, Alice is on her own; aware that she has become a liability and could endanger those around her, she is struggling to survive and bring down the Umbrella Corporation led by the sinister Albert Wesker and head researcher Dr. Isaacs. Meanwhile, traveling through the Nevada Desert and the ruins of Las Vegas, Carlos Olivera, L.J., and new survivors K-Mart, Claire Redfield, and Nurse Betty must fight to survive extinction against hordes of zombies, killer crows and the most terrifying creatures created as a result of the deadly T-Virus that has killed millions.
Released Date:
2009-10-22
Languages:
English, Latin
Countries:
Germany, UK, Italy, Spain
Runtime:
149 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (6361 Reviews)
Director:
Sènke WortmannDonna Woolfolk Cross (novel)
Heinrich Hadding (screenplay)
Sènke Wortmann (screenplay)
Jodi Ann Johnson
German village Igelheim's backward priest hopes his sons to succeed him after education in the bishop's cathedral school, but the elder succumbs to disease and the youngest lacks any intellectual drive. Traveling teacher Aesculapius arranges for the inquisitive daughter Johanna to be enrolled too, against their father's wishes. Unfit for the boys-only dorm, she gets to stay with count Gerold, incurring his wife's due jealousy. She's to be dismissed, but survives a Viking pillaging slaughter and assumes brother Johannes's identity to join a monastery, where she becomes the infirmary's trainee. Fleeing exposure as female, she arrives in Rome. As a protègèe of rivals in the viper nest-like papal court, she ends up elected as pope, but carries count Gerold's baby, guaranteeing exposure.
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