The mean and desolate streets of Brooklyn are home to a host of unhappy hopeless characters stuck in dead-end lives. A young prostitute emotionally numb from having sold her body so many times regularly leads her prospective clients to a dark alley where a gang beats and robs them; an office worker cannot deal with his repressed homosexuality; and a young girl's father refuses to admit that she is eight months pregnant. All these stories take place in a world waiting to explode: local workers are engaged in an angry strike against a nearby factory while not too far away at the Brooklyn Navy Yard soldiers sail daily for Korea many never to return. The personal and the political intermingle in this bleak look at poverty drugs and violence in the inner-city in the early 1950s based on Hubert Selby Jr's controversial book. Jennifer Jason Leigh received the Best Supporting Actress Award from the New York Film Critics Circle in 1990 for her work in this film.
A nurse secretly addicted to methadone inspires strength in her patients who are ignorant of her condition. But her marriage to a reformed addict threatens to lift the lid on her secret life... Based on a true story...
PIONEER is set in the early 80's, at the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom. Enormous oil and gas deposits are discovered in the North Sea and the authorities aim to bring the oil ashore through a pipeline from depths of 500 meters. A professional diver, Petter is obsessed with reaching the bottom of the Norwegian Sea. Along with his brother Knut he has the discipline, strength and courage to take on the world's most dangerous mission. But a sudden, tragic accident changes everything. Petter.
REVENGE HAS A NEW NAME It's 1868 and the Civil War has been over for three years. An old abandoned mine is now being transformed into a military stronghold by a corrupt Mayor (Stephen Lang, Avatar, Don t Breathe) and gang of blood thirsty outlaws who are a part of a larger hell-bent web with intentions of restarting the Civil War. When a US Marshal, James McCord (Nathan Parsons: True Blood) comes into town he discovers that his priest brother has been murdered. McCord will stop at nothing to make the killer pay and defeat the gang to protect the peace and fate of the United States.
From Sam Raimi and the creators of EVIL DEAD comes another terrifying experience about a group of teens that break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong. Click Images to Enlarge
Sometimes the hero of the story just ends up being you! In this thrill a minute Western Pecos Bill (Swayze) helps a young lad save his family's farm. They then embark on a journey where plenty of danger and surprises are waiting for them!
Mortal Engines Visionary ï¬lmmaker Peter Jackson presents a startling new adventure unlike any youve seen before. Hundreds of years after our civilisation was destroyed, a new world has emerged. A mysterious young woman named Hester Shaw leads a band of outcasts in the ï¬ght to stop London now a giant predator city on wheels from devouring everything in its path. The Great Wall Starring global superstar MATT DAMON and directed by one of the most breath-taking visual stylists of our time, ZHANG YIMOU (Hero, House of Flying Daggers), The Great Wall tells the story of an elite force making a valiant stand for humanity on the world's most iconic structure. JING TIAN, PEDRO PASCAL, WILLEM DAFOE, and ANDY LAU also star in this sweeping epic. Warcraft The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilisation faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors ï¬eeing their dying home to colonise another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction, and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, an unlikely set of heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their families, their people, and their home.
George (Wilder) has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is now finally ready to return to the real world. Eddie Dash (Pryor) a dedicated con-man is supposed to keep him out of trouble but when people begin to mistake George for a missing millionaire Eddie wants to take advantage of the situation...
After a vicious attack a lesbian couple decide take a break and stay together on Shelter Island. During the night of a storm they find a stranger unconscious on their doorstep and take him in. However when he wakes he seems very reluctant to leave... Could this stranger be connected to the violent assault?
In Stephen Hawking's Universe the world's most famous living scientist explores the greatest mysteries of the cosmos. In three landmark installments he reveals the wonders of the universe as never seen before. Definitive provocative surprising and beautiful Stephen Hawking's Universe is a fascinating look through the mind's eye of one of the finest brains on the planet. This programme is the most expensive documentary made by Discovery and will be screened by C4 in October 2010.
The setting is a working-class neighbourhood of New York in the 1950s. Among the characters are prostitute Tralala her brutal pimp Vinnie an effiminate homosexual and a corrupt union official. Based on the book by Hubert Selby Jr. (author of 'Requiem For A Dream') this is an extremely disturbing and effective adaption of his once-banned novel.
Bobby Bishop (Charlie Sheen) is one of the President's most powerful and trusted advisors but when he becomes involved with a college professor who has information on a traitor he suddenly becomes a fugitive. Hunted down in the dead of night by a ruthless killer Bishop enlists the help of former girlfriend Amanda Givens (Linda Hamilton) a plucky reporter and together they uncover a hideous conspiracy. But Bishop is now an outsider and must try to get Washington to believe him be
Gods And Generals:'God's And Generals' recounts the fierce allegiances and combat of the early Civil War. Ronald F. Maxwell directs this epic prequel to his Gettysburg framing the story with three bold men and three fateful battles. The men: Joshua Chamberlain (Jeff Daniels) ""Stonewall"" Jackson (Stephen Lang) Robert E. Lee (Robert Duvall). The battles: Manassas Fredericksburg Chancellorsville. Through these combatants and conflicts we witness the bravery and strife of a na
Following the phenomenal success of Miami Vice executive producer Michael Mann returned to the small screen with a new kind of gritty police drama one that talked tougher and hit harder than anything TV had ever seen before. Crime Story is the hard boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Mike Torello (Dennis Farina) and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca (Anthony Dennison) from the mean streets of early 1960s Chicago to the neon nights of mob paradise Las Vegas. Episodes comprise: 1. Pilot 2. Final Transmission 3. Shadow Dancer 4. The Saint Louis Book Of Blues 5. The War 6. Abrams For The Defense 7. Pursuit Of A Wanted Felon 8. Old Friends Dead Ends 9. Justice Hits The Skids 10. For Love Or Money 11. Hide And Go Thief 12. Strange Bedfellows 13. Fatal Crossroads (aka Fortune On Men's Eyes) 14. Torello On Trial 15. The Kingdom Of Money 16. The Battle Of Las Vegas 17. The Survivor 18. The Pinnacle 19. Top Of The World (aka The King In A Cage) 20. Ground Zero
Jarhead 2: Field of Fire is an all-new action-packed and intensely thrilling movie featuring a solid cast including Josh Kelly (Transformers) Stephen Lang (Avatar) Esai Morales (Criminal Minds) Cole Hauser (Olympus Has Fallen) and Bokeem Woodbine (Riddick). Directed by Don Michael Paul (Company of Heroes). A young Marine's courage and dedication to the Corp is tested when he is forced to lead his squad on a vital mission through Afghanistan.
The steamy exotic city if New Orleans in America's deep south is the setting for this true story of an ingenious brutal murder plot that goes terribly wrong. Based on a true story.
Thanks to generous funding from media mogul Ted Turner, first-time director Ronald F Maxwell was able to make an almost word-for-word adaptation of Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Killer Angels. Running over four hours, Gettysburg (1993) splits into two convenient parts for TV viewing (although a 70mm print was given limited theatrical release). This story of three bloody days of conflict in July, 1863 (an unimaginable 50,000 casualties), is divided equally between Union and Confederate forces. On the Union side, Jeff Daniels is the quietly heroic Colonel Joshua Chamberlain; Sam Elliott is utterly convincing as General Buford, the Union cavalryman who holds the Confederate army at bay on the first day. Martin Sheen plays an oddly subdued and vacillating General Lee--a controversial portrait of the legendary Confederate chief--while Tom Berenger, despite being almost hidden underneath an enormous authentically period-style beard, is strong and authoritative as General Longstreet (whose opposition to Lee's plans gave many in the Confederacy a reason to blame him for the disaster at Gettysburg). Chamberlain's last-ditch defence of Little Round Top, which prevented the Union forces from being flanked on the second day of battle, forms the climax to the first half; the heartbreaking Pickett's Charge--the Confederates' disastrous frontal assault on the entrenched Union lines on the third day--is the movie's greatest set piece and one of the most compelling reasons to endure a little too much stodgy dialogue (lifted directly from the novel) and an apparently over-reverential attitude to the subject-matter. But much of this movie was made in and around the actual battle site, so it's only to be expected that the cast and crew tread carefully, as if literally under the watchful eyes of the men whose lives they are re-enacting. And re-enactment is the key: with a cast of thousands in splendidly detailed period costumes, cannonades galore and massed ranks of musketry, the sheer scale of the military spectacle is endlessly impressive. If as a piece of filmmaking it has many faults, as an historical re-enactment Gettysburg is unsurpassed--even by the epic Waterloo (1970), which drafted in a large chunk of the Russian army as Napoleonic extras. --Mark Walker
A coming of age story set in 1975 Brooklyn. Two teenage brothers living with their abusive father and well-meaning mother are caught up in a life of petty crime. Older brother Danny concocts a daring scheme to steal enough money for them both to escape. Sensitive younger brother, Brian, has a choice: remain loyal to the brother he shares a violent love-hate relationship with, or try to get out on his own. As the day of the crime approaches, tensions boil over and it becomes clear not both of the brothers will escape.
When you don't have a memory how can you remember who to trust? When Simon (Ryan Phillippe) awakens in the hospital with amnesia unable to remember the last two years of his life. However he discovers that he can travel back in time to change his future and possibly solve the mystery of his brother's murder...
Creighton Masterson, in a last ditch effort to save his marriage, whisks his wife Lydia away for a tropical vacation. Staying on an isolated beach in the Bahamas, the Mastersons meet William and Mary, who live on a nearby island and invite them for dinner. Upon their return, Lydia and Creighton are shocked to discover that they have been robbed. With no sign of the intruders, they seek help from the only other people on the island, a couple named Jacob and Nina. Though friendly at first, the mysterious couple seems to be hiding darker motives. With no one to trust but each other, Lydia and Creighton are forced to work together and fight for their future.
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