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The Four Feathers (2002) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb NeoDB WikiData
The Four Feathers
director: Shekhar Kapur actor: Heath Ledger / Wes Bentley
other title: Le quattro piume / De fire fjer
A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers as symbols of what they view as his cowardice. To redeem his honor, he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves their lives.
Drive (2011) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Drive
7.3 (26 ratings) director: Nicolas Winding Refn actor: Ryan Gosling / Carey Mulligan
other title: Drive - Risco Duplo
Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When Irene's husband gets out of jail, he enlists Driver's help in a million-dollar heist. The job goes horribly wrong, and Driver must risk his life to protect Irene and Benicio from the vengeful masterminds behind the robbery.
Shanghai (2010) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Shanghai
director: Mikael Håfström actor: John Cusack / Gong Li
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.
47 Ronin (2013) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
47 Ronin
director: Carl Rinsch actor: Keanu Reeves / Hiroyuki Sanada
other title: 47 Ronin - A Grande Batalha Samurai / La leyenda del samurái (47 Ronin)
Kai — an outcast — joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous overlord who killed their master and banished their kind. To restore honour to their homeland, the warriors embark upon a quest that challenges them with a series of trials that would destroy ordinary warriors.
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban
Snow White and the Huntsman
director: Rupert Sanders actor: Kristen Stewart / Chris Hemsworth
other title: Biancaneve e il cacciatore / Snow White & The Huntsman
After the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his daughter, Snow White, is taken captive. Almost a decade later, a grown Snow White is still in the clutches of the Queen. In order to obtain immortality, The Evil Queen needs the heart of Snow White. After Snow escapes the castle, the Queen sends the Huntsman to find her in the Dark Forest.
Killshot (2008) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData
Killshot
director: John Madden actor: Mickey Rourke / Diane Lane
other title: Killshot - Alvo a Abater / Killshot - Gnadenlose Jagd
Beautiful Carmen Colson and her ironworker husband Wayne are placed in the Federal Witness Protection program after witnessing an "incident". Thinking they are at last safe, they are targeted by an experienced hit man and a psychopathic young upstart killer.
The Wings of the Dove (1997) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
The Wings of the Dove
director: Iain Softley actor: Helena Bonham Carter / Linus Roache
other title: Le ali dell'amore / As Asas do Amor
Kate is secretly betrothed to a struggling journalist, Merton Densher. But she knows her Aunt Maude will never approve of the match, since Kate's deceased mother has lost all her money in a marriage to a degenerate opium addict. When Kate meets a terminally ill American heiress named Millie traveling through Europe, she comes up with a conniving plan to have both love and wealth.
Jude (1996) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
Jude
director: Michael Winterbottom actor: Kate Winslet / Christopher Eccleston
other title: Paixão Proibida / Herzen in Aufruhr
In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself. He moves to the city and begins an affair with his married cousin, Sue, courting tragedy every step of the way.