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The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)
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Steve Bendelack actor: Mark Gatiss / Steve Pemberton …
other title: The League of the Gentlemen's Apocalypse / Tres locos andan sueltos
The fictional world of Royston Vasey is facing apocalypse and the only way to avert disaster is for our nightmarish cast of characters to find a way into the real world and confront their creators. From present day Soho to the fictional film world of 17th Century Britain, the residents must overcome countless bizarre obstacles in their bid to return Royston Vasey to safety.
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It's Nice Up North (2006)
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Graham Fellows actor: Graham Fellows / Elma Johnson …
other title: John Shuttleworth: It's Nice Up North
Shuttleworth travels to the Shetland Islands to test his theory that the further north in Great Britain you go the nicer people are, Shetland being the most far north part of the UK. He meets various Shetland people in unrehearsed situations. Many assume him to be a real person and not a comic creation, though some scenes are acted, particularly parts with famous local tour guide Elma Johnson.
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Snatch (2000)
Snatch
★ 7.9 14 ratings
Guy Ritchie actor: Jason Statham / Alan Ford …
other title: Snatch - Lo strappo / Snatch - Porcos E Diamantes …
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookies, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewellers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
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Unleashed (2005)
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Louis Leterrier actor: Jet Li / Morgan Freeman …
other title: Danny the Dog / Danny the Dog - Força Destruidora …
Raised as a slave, Danny is used to fighting for his survival. In fact, his "master," Bart, thinks of him as a pet and goes as far as leashing him with a collar so they can make money in fight clubs, where Danny is the main contender. When Bart's crew is in a car accident, Danny escapes and meets a blind, kindhearted piano tuner who takes him in and uses music to free the fighter's long-buried heart.
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The Purifiers (2004)
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Richard Jobson actor: Kevin McKidd / Dominic Monaghan …
The story of martial arts clubs who have created their own city infrastructure after tiring of government initiatives. Responding to the greed and corruption creeping into the other clubs, headed by capitalist-wannabe Moses, The Purifiers battle to maintain the successful system which has rid the city of crime and violence.
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Torque (2004)
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Joseph Kahn actor: Martin Henderson / Ice Cube …
other title: Torque - Circuiti di fuoco / Torque - A Lei do Mais Rápido …
Biker Cary Ford is framed by an old rival and biker gang leader for the murder of another gang member who happens to be the brother of Trey, leader of the most feared biker gang in the country. Ford is now on the run trying to clear his name from the murder with Trey and his gang looking for his blood.
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Code Rush (2000)
Code Rush
David Winton actor: Scott Collins / Stuart Parmenter …
other title: 代码奔腾
Independent filmmakers followed the Mozilla team from March 1998 to April 1999, as they worked to open Netscape Communicator's source code to the world, in a last-ditch effort to save the company. The result is an amazing snapshot of computer history, capturing the people that worked on it, the first internal beta test, the moment Jamie Zawinski uploaded the first builds publicly, the launch party, the all-hands meeting announcing the AOL acquisition, and so much more. It aired on PBS nationally in March 2000, the same month as the beginning of the dot-com collapse.
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PTU (2003)
PTU
★ 8.2 17 ratings
Johnnie To actor: Simon Yam / Maggie Shiu Mei-Kei …
other title: PTU - Police Tactical Unit
Follows a police tactical unit during one dangerous night on the streets of Hong Kong as they try to recover a cop's stolen gun. Things turn deadly when they run into a web of gangland crimes.
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Crazy Lips (2000)
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Hirohisa Sasaki actor: Hitomi Miwa / Kazuma Suzuki …
other title: 発狂する唇
After her brother is accused of murdering four people, his sister, desperate to prove his innocence, goes to a psychic for help. The price they ask, however, is far more than she expected, and the answers they give her are nothing she could ever have imagined. And what is the FBI doing investgating a murder in Japan?
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Man with the Screaming Brain (2005)
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Bruce Campbell actor: Bruce Campbell / Tamara Gorski …
other title: Man With the Screaming Brain
The brains of a Russian taxi driver and a wealthy businessman are brought together in one body by a mad scientist.
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House of Flying Daggers (2004)
十面埋伏
★ 5.9 9 ratings
Zhang Yimou actor: Takeshi Kaneshiro / Andy Lau …
other title: La foresta dei pugnali volanti / O Segredo dos Punhais Voadores …
In 9th century China, a corrupt government wages war against a rebel army called the Flying Daggers. A romantic warrior breaks a beautiful rebel out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
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Critical Mass (2001)
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Fred Olen Ray actor: Treat Williams / Lori Loughlin …
other title: Missione ad alto rischio / Critical Mass - Wettlauf mit der Zeit …
Jeffers works security at a nuclear power plant. The plant is being decommissioned, and a politician is touring the plant and videotaping his comments regarding the closing. A terrorist group led by Samson gets inside the gates, with their ultimate goal the detonation of a nuclear bomb inside the plant. After local policemen and the other plant workers are killed, Jeffers and Janine alone must confront and halt Samson and his terrorist squad.
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World of Pub (2001)
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actor: Peter Serafinowicz / Phil Cornwell …
World of Pub is a radio and television sitcom, set in a pub in the East End of London, written by Tony Roche and produced by Jane Berthoud. The radio version had two series on BBC Radio 4, between 4 March 1998 and 28 January 1999, both lasting four episodes. The series one episodes last 15 minutes, whereas series two had episodes lasting 30 minutes. The TV series ran for six episodes, lasting 30 minutes, between 24 June and 29 July 2001 on BBC Two.
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Electric Dragon 80000V (2001)
ELECTRiC DRAGON 80000V
Gakuryu Ishii actor: Tadanobu Asano / Masatoshi Nagase …
other title: Electric Dragon 80.000 Volt / ELECTRiC DRAGON 80000V
A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha.
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The Transporter (2002)
The Transporter
★ 6.2 9 ratings
Corey Yuen / Louis Leterrier actor: Jason Statham / Shu Qi …
other title: Correio de Risco / Le Transporteur …
Former Special Forces officer Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price, and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive, it sets in motion a dangerous chain of events. The bound and gagged Lai is being smuggled to France by a shady American businessman, and Frank works to save her as his own illegal activities are uncovered by a French detective.