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The Wrong Mans (2013) WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Wrong Mans
director: James Corden / Mathew Baynton actor: Mathew Baynton / James Corden
other title: The Wrong Mans - Falsche Zeit, falscher Ort / The Wrong Mans - Mauvaise pioche
Comedy thriller about two well-meaning idiots who become entangled in a hideous world of crime, conspiracy and corruption.
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The Asphyx (1972) NeoDB TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData
The Asphyx
director: Peter Newbrook actor: Robert Powell / Robert Stephens …
other title: Asphyx / Experiments …
Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question... what is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?
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Sunshine (2007) NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Sunshine
7.6 (5 ratings) director: Danny Boyle actor: Cillian Murphy / Rose Byrne …
other title: Missão Solar / Sunshine: Missão Solar
Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.
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Absolute Beginners (1986) IMDb WikiData
Absolute Beginners
director: Julien Temple actor: Eddie O'Connell / Patsy Kensit …
other title: Principiantes / Absolute Beginners – Junge Helden …
A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin's Notting Hill housing estate...
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Cinema of Vengeance (1994) IMDb TMDB
Cinema of Vengeance
director: Toby Russell actor: Cynthia Rothrock / Yuen Biao …
other title: Le furie del cinema
A documentary study of martial arts films and their leading protagonists. Included are profiles of such artists as Bruce Lee, Cynthia Rothrock, Jackie Chan, Jean-Claude Van Damme and John Woo favorite Chow Yun-Fat.
Nov. 23, 2025 watched
Fascinating (for us fans) documentary on the history & development of Hong Kong martial arts & action films, featuring interviews with the people who make the magic happen. And lots of great clips from movies! (Which I have put into a collection here: https://eggplant.place/collection/69ChUBekkGbNHa0VeIGmSz

I'm sure watched this on VHS in the 90s. Rewatched in #KungFuSat #WatchParty on Mastodon.
1990s Action Documentary HongKong MartialArts
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Four Lions (2010) Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
Four Lions
director: Chris Morris actor: Riz Ahmed / Nigel Lindsay …
other title: Quatro leões / We Are Four Lions
Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce.
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The Draughtsman's Contract (1982) Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Draughtsman's Contract
director: Peter Greenaway actor: Anthony Higgins / Janet Suzman …
other title: I misteri del giardino di Compton House / Tegnerens kontrakt …
A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
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Mona Lisa (1986) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Mona Lisa
director: Neil Jordan actor: Bob Hoskins / Cathy Tyson …
George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.
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Life of Brian (1979) Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb
Life of Brian
7.9 (7 ratings) director: Terry Jones actor: Graham Chapman / John Cleese …
other title: Brian di Nazareth / Monty Python's life of Brian - et herrens liv …
Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his followers or being scolded by his shrill mother, the hapless Brian has to contend with the pompous Pontius Pilate and acronym-obsessed members of a separatist movement. Rife with Monty Python's signature absurdity, the tale finds Brian's life paralleling Biblical lore, albeit with many more laughs.
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The War Game (1966) NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
The War Game
director: Peter Watkins actor: Michael Aspel / Kathy Staff …
other title: La Bombe / El juego de la guerra
A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain. After backing the film's development, the BBC refused to air it, publicly stating "the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting." It debuted in theaters in 1966 and went on to great acclaim, but remained unseen on British television until 1985.
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Razor Blade Smile (1998) WikiData NeoDB IMDb Douban
Razor Blade Smile
director: Jake West actor: Eileen Daly / Christopher Adamson …
other title: Pure Vamp
A 19th century woman, who has become one of the undead, acts as a hired killer in modern times. When she starts knocking off part of the elite businessmen, "The Illuminati", who secretly are taking over business and the government, she becomes the target of a hired Scotland Yard detective. Of course, the head of "The Illuminati" is the vampire who first gave her immortality
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Threads (1984) TMDB
Threads
director: Mick Jackson actor: Karen Meagher / Reece Dinsdale …
other title: Ipotesi sopravvivenza
Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
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The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974) NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires
director: Roy Ward Baker / Chang Cheh actor: Peter Cushing / David Chiang Da-Wei …
other title: La leggenda dei 7 vampiri d'oro / Die 7 goldenen Vampire …
Professor Van Helsing had been asked to help against the tyranny of skeletal creatures that are responsible for terror and death amongst the peasants in rural China. He is the only person qualified to deal with the cause of these phenomena, for the undead are controlled by the most diabolical force of all.... Count Dracula. But he is not alone- to aid him comes a mystical brotherhood of seven martial arts warriors.
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Dead Man's Shoes (2004) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Dead Man's Shoes
director: Shane Meadows actor: Paddy Considine / Toby Kebbell …
other title: Cinque giorni di vendetta / Blutrache – Dead Man’s Shoes …
A soldier returns to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his disabled brother while he was away.
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Defence of the Realm (1986) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Defence of the Realm
director: David Drury actor: Gabriel Byrne / Greta Scacchi …
other title: Dossier confidenziale / Em Defesa da Verdade …
A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base. Has there been a Government cover-up? Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam, the MP's assistant, to find out the truth.
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The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
director: Alan Gibson actor: Christopher Lee / Peter Cushing …
other title: I satanici riti di Dracula / Satan er løs... …
The police and British security forces call in Professor Van Helsing to help them investigate Satanic ritual which has been occurring in a large country house, and which has been attended by a government minister, an eminent scientist and secret service chief. The owner of the house is a mysterious property tycoon who is found to be behind a sinister plot involving a deadly plague. It is in fact Dracula who, sick of his interminable existence, has decided that he must end it all in the only possible way- by destroying every last potential victim.