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  • The Prince and the Pauper

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    An adaptation of the classic, “The Prince and the Pauper” is the retelling of Edward Tudor and young Thomas Canty, two amazing look-alikes caught up in imperial intrigue and scandal. In fleeing from his violent father, Tom stumbles into the palace courtyard, and is seen by young Prince Edward, who takes him in. Each desiring…

  • Crossfire

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    Junko was born with a type of ESP called pyrokinesis which she can use to incinerate anyone and anything at will. Junko is secretly in love with Kazuki, a young man who works with her. His sister is killed and a boy named Masaki suspected but the police don’t arrest him. Junko tells Kazuki about…

  • The Luzhin Defence

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    Based upon the novel by Vladimir Nabokov, a chess grandmaster travels to Italy in the 1920s to play in a tournament and falls in love.

  • The Captive

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    Ariane and Simon met down by the water. Simon has managed to prize Ariane away from her friends, a bunch of free and arrogant girls, and move her into his place, with her own room at the end of the hall and her own bathroom next to his. He has taken on Andrée, one of…

  • The Spiral Staircase

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    During a storm, a group of people are trapped inside a mansion with a killer.

  • Presence of Mind

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    A governess, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted and the children are under an evil influence.

  • Fail Safe

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    Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.

  • Stepsister from Planet Weird

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    Megan’s world is turned upside down when she hears her calm life with her little brother and single mum is about to change. She hears she’s soon to have a stepfather and a stepsister. Megan thinks they’re a bit weird and is determined to stop the wedding. She discovers they’re actually even stranger than she…

  • On the Beach

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    The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floating in on the breezes. One American sub located in the Pacific has survived and is met with disdain by the Australians. The calculations of Australia’s most renowned scientist says…

  • Waking the Dead

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    A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.

  • The Claim

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    A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come. But changes are brewing and his past is coming back to haunt him. A surveyor and his…

  • Beau Travail

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    Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, until the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup’s mind.

  • La Belle

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    On one gloomy rainy night, a writer encounters an unexpected visit paid by a woman of his past. Seeking solitude from her ex-lover, she finds solace in this gentleman and from that day on, they cherish every inch of each other’s body and indulge in ecstasy until her forbidden past is gradually revealed.

  • Battlefield Earth

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    In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the powerful Terl, the Psychlos are stripping Earth clean of its natural resources, using the broken remnants of humanity as slaves. What is left of the human race has descended…

  • Wonder Boys

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    Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn’t had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his award winning ‘Great American Novel’ 7 years ago. This weekend proves even worse than he could imagine as he finds himself reeling from one misadventure to another in the company of a new wonder boy author.

  • Finding Forrester

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    Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He accidentally runs into an old writer named Forrester who discovers his passion for writing. With help from his new mentor Jamal receives a scholarship to a private school.

  • Chopper

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    The true and infamous story of Australia’s notorious criminal Mark ‘Chopper’ Read and his years of crime, interest in violence, drugs and prostitutes.

  • The Legend of Bagger Vance

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    World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tournament to save the financially ravaged golf course of a long-ago sweetheart. Help arrives in the form of mysterious caddy Bagger Vance.

  • Chocolat

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    A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them, as they represent free-thinking and indulgence. When a group of gypsies arrive by riverboat, the Mayor’s prejudices lead to a crisis.

  • Battle Royale

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    In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary “Battle Royale” act.

  • The Beach

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    Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss – excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.