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ADRENALIN 1997 A toxic chemical leak in Eastern Europe speeds rapidly towards America where the government is setting up quarantine camps for the increasing number of immigrants. The cops assigned to patrol the camps discover a terrible killer in their midst... |
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BEOWULF 1999 Christoper Lambert stars in this post-apocalyptic future story based on the 8th century Saxon epic poem about the knight who battled a monster in a medieval castle. In this story, Beowulf is a wanderer who learns about a man-eating creature called Grendel which comes in the night to devour warriors trapped at the Outpost. The Outpost is ruled by Hrothgar (Oliver Cotton). He has a daughter (Patricia Velasquez), whose husband may have been murdered by the Outpost's master of arms (Goetz Otto). |
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DRUIDS 2001 Druids is an exciting action-packed historical drama featuring exceptional performance from Christopher Lambert, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Max von Sydow and Ines Sastre. In 60 B.C., Vercingetorix (Lambert) is a strong, peaceful Gallic chieftain with a legacy to protect his fellow Druids on the Celtic Isles. But when Julius Caesar and his Roman army declare war, Vercingetorix has no choice but to fight. Reunited with his childhood love and armed with little more than raw courage, Vercingetorix unites his people and prepares them for the battle of their lives. |
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FORTRESS 1992 In a future time when the population are allowed only one child per couple, Captain Brennick and his wife Karen are sent to a maximum security prison for breaking the law. But can the Fortress hold an innocent man...? |
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FORTRESS 2 1999 John Brennick manages to escape from 'The Fortress', a maximum security prison only to be caught again and incarcerated in a futuristic state-of-the-art maximum security prison which is orbiting 26,000 miles from Earth. He must attempt to escape again to be reunited with his wife and son....... |
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GREYSTOKE
1983 The story of John Clayton, rescued and reared by apes following the shipwreck of his parents. The film explores the pressures on him in his transition from the jungle to English civilised society. |
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GUNMEN 1992 Two men seek a fortune in hidden drugs money. The Drug Enforcement Agent and the gunrunner try desperately to outwit each other... but each holds half the secret that will reveal the loot... |
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HIGHLANDER 1985 They are immortals, destined to live forever. They must duel down the ages until one remains. Only decapitation by sword can release them from their age-long battle for an incredible prize - power beyond imagination. From the Scottish Highlands of the sixteenth century to present-day New York, they war for the Prize, while the fate of mortal man hangs in the balance. |
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HIGHLANDER 2 1991 Years after battling the Kurgan in Scotland and New York, Connor MacLeod and his suave mentor, Juan VillaLobos Ramirez, are back, tracking timewarps and new adventures in this all action sequel, again directed by Russell Mulcahy. The Kurgan may have been vanquished remember decapitation is the only sure way of being killed but now there are new and more powerful foes to counter in an even more hostile world. |
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HIGHLANDER 3 1993 The third Highlander movie takes place at 1994, which means it's a prequel of the second film. After the death of his beloved wife Heather some centuries ago, Connor MacLeod left the highlands of Scotland and wandered around the world. Finally, he got to Japan, where he met the famous sorcerer Nakano, who was an Immortal too. Soon, they became friends, and Nakano taught Conor some tricks. But one day, an old enemy, Kane, came to Japan willing to find Nakano's cave and kill him. Although he succeeded, after cutting Nakano's head the mountain collapsed and Kane was trapped. Now, centuries after, an excavation reveals Nakano's cave... |
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HIGHLANDER ENDGAME 2000 For the next electrifying chapter in this wildly popular action-packed legacy, Highlander - Endgame teams big-screen star Christopher Lambert with Highlander TV series star Adrian Paul. To combath the fearsome Highlander villain and his ruthless band of Immortals, Connor (Lambert) and Duncan (Paul) join together in a power play for the ages. But even though it will take the combined strength of two Immortals to win this fight, in the end there can only be one. Bold, exciting and tremendously entertaining - you don't want to miss this epic struggle of good versus evil. |
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HIGHLANDER THE GATHERING 1992 For thousands of years they've walked among us. In our time, they are called immortals. They are still with us. All the legends are true. Not stictly a film, this Video features two episodes from the T.V. series. |
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THE HUNTED 1995 Paul is on one of his many business trips to Tokyo, as a computer-chip executive from New York, when he meets a beautiful and mysterious woman. Later, he finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, inadvertently interrupting an assassination by a feared Ninja-cult. As he is now the only man to have seen the face of the cult's warrior-leader and lived, he soon realizes that he is facing a markedly foreshortened life-expectancy. Teaming up with a friendly samurai couple, on a two-centuries-old blood-feud with the Ninja, he struggles to survive. Finally, recuperating on an island-fortress, he learns swordsmanship, and perhaps, a little about courage, honor, love, and loyalty. The requisite final confrontation is rife with bloody swordplay and spectacular martial-arts action sequences. |
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I LOVE YOU 1986 Handsome Michel finds women lacking in the one thing he craves above all else - utter devotion. Eventually he finds the one worthy of his great love - an electronic key ring. |
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KNIGHT MOVES 1992 A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster's innocence as the string of grisly murders continues |
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LOVE SONGS 1984 When Yves, Margaux's American-writer-husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds herself the single parent of two near teens. She also gets a new assignment at work: to find, sign, and promote new rock singers. She discovers a duo, Michel and Jeremy, and jump-starts their career. Jeremy is attracted to the older Margaux, asserts himself with her, befriends her children, and neglects Michel and the music. The kids go to New York to be with their father, freeing Margaux to respond to Jeremy. Does that relationship have any future? And what of the musical duo? |
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MEAN GUNS 1997 A gangster boss (Ice-T) has a list of about 100 people who have screwed up at one point or another. Rather than outright killing them, he decides to have a little fun by putting all of them together in a high security prison, unarmed, and dumping bucketfulls of guns, ammo, and baseball bats on them and letting them kill each other. The final three who survive are given a prize of 10 million dollars. Let chaos reign. |
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MORTAL KOMBAT 1995 The Lightning God Rayden guides warrior Liu Kang, police detective Sonja Blade, and martial arts movie star Johnny Cage to a remote island to compete in the Shaolin Tournament known as Mortal Kombat. If the Outworld wins the Shaolin Tournament ten times in a row, they can enter the Realm of Earth and take over. They have been victorious the last nine times, and with warriors like Scorpion, Sub Zero, and Goro, the future of Earth looks bleak. |
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NORTH STAR 1997 A hunter who owns the rights to an Alaskan Gold mine refuses to allow mining to take place. A corrupt miner decides to try and take over the mine and a violent confrontation ensues. |
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THE POINT MEN 2000 Tony Eckhart (Christopher Lambert), a Secret Service Agent, must hunt down and kill Amar (Vincent Regan), who threatens to disrupt the peace process in the Middle East. However, the operation goes terribly wrong when Tonys partner kills the man who everyone believes to be Amar, but is in fact the wrong man. Demoted to a desk job, Tony is the only one who knows that Amar is really still alive. And Amar has a personal vendetta of his own. Having undergone radical plastic surgery and unrecognisable in his new appearance, Amar tracks down and systematically kills Tonys former team members. Tony decides to take things into his own hands by hunting down the Houdini of international terrorism once and for all. Based on actual events, this is an intricate and violent game of cat and mouse between super spies. |
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PRICELESS BEAUTY AKA LOVE DREAM 1988 The priceless talents of Christopher Lambert and Diane Lane entwine together in this classic story of Fantasy, Magic, Love and Passion. |
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RESURRECTION 1999 Detective John Prudhomme, a Cajun transplanted to Chicago, is assigned to investigate the savage murder of a man who has bled to death from a severed arm. A message, "He Is Coming", written in blood on the victim's window is a dark, forboding clue of his task. After two more victims with missing body parts are discovered, Prudhomme realizes he is on the trail of a serial killer who is using the missing body parts to reconstruct the body of Christ...just in time for Easter. As Prudhomme struggles to catch the zealot-murderer, he is haunted by the death of his son, his continued estrangement from his wife, and his wavering faith in God. |
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ROAD FLOWER AKA ROAD KILLERS 1993 After a young boy is almost runover by a maniac on a highway, a re-encounter and confrontation by the boy's father with the driver sets off conflicts with a carful of maniacs. |
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SUBWAY 1985 Fred is living in the Paris Metro system. He is blackmailing Helena, whose safe he has robbed. Fred has various 'friends' all living in this sureal setting. The Roller is a rollerskating bag snatcher and Big Bill is a 'strongman'. The blackmail and Freds relationship with Helena and her heavies make up the bulk of the plot but on the side are Freds attempts to start a band using buskers from the Metro. |
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THE SICILIAN 1987 This film is based on Mario Puzo's bestselling novel which follows the life of Salvatore Giuliano, the Sicilian bandit leader who took on the church, the state, and the Mafia in his attempt to lead Sicily to secede from Italy. |
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TO KILL A PRIEST 1988 This film is based on the real-life events in Poland during the early 1980's. At the end of 1981 the authorities in Warsaw declared a state of martial law throughout Poland, in an attempt to crush the illegal Solidarity party. The workers were united by the church and in particular Father Alec. He was seen by the secret police as a threat to communist Poland, a threat that had to be silenced... |
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WHY ME 1990 The world's largest ruby which rightfully belongs to Turkey is about to be returned by the CIA but a group of Armenians steal it and hide it in their safe....Two safe crackers on their last job steal the ruby and discover that an awful lot of people want it back.... |