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In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minister Cao Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military campaign of unprecedented scale, led by the Prime Minister, himself. Left with no other hope for survival, the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu formed an unlikely alliance. Numerous battles of strength and wit ensued, both on land and on water, eventually culminating in the battle of Red Cliff. During the battle, two thousand ships were burned, and the course of Chinese history was changed forever.
- 4 / 5.0
"Red Dwarf: The Movie" is set in the distant future where Homo Sapienoids, a fearsome combination of flesh and machine, and the next stage of human evolution, have taken over the solar system and almost wiped out the human race. The only survivors are the crews of long-haul space freighters that left Earth before the conflict began. The Sapienoids send forth fleets of Death Ships to hunt them down. One by one - the human ships fall, until only one remains. Its name - Red Dwarf...
An Atlanta resident spends the summer in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
- 3.33 / 5.0
Living on one of the last remaining military bases amidst a hedonistic group of French armed forces in 1970s Madagascar, ten-year-old Thomas begins to find cracks in the surface of his family’s blissful existence on the idyllic island. Taking inspiration from his comic book hero Fantomette, Thomas spies on those around him, discovering the hidden and tangled political and sexual lives of the colonizers and the colonized. As relocation looms, Thomas questions whether the memories he has made are ones he should remember fondly.
Joan Stanley (Judi Dench) is a widow living out a quiet retirement in the suburbs when, shockingly, the British Secret Service places her under arrest. The charge: providing classified scientific information—including details on the building of the atomic bomb—to the Soviet government for decades. As she is interrogated, Joan relives the dramatic events that shaped her life and beliefs: her student days at Cambridge, where she excelled at physics while challenging deep-seated sexism; her tumultuous love affair with a dashing political radical (Tom Hughes); and the devastation of World War II, which inspired her to risk everything in pursuit of peace.
- 3.2 / 5.0
Centers around the crumbling life of a father of a 15-year old boy accused of kidnapping an 8-year old.
It's a summer holiday weekend in Paris and Antoine and Hélène are on their way to pick up their children at summer camp, thus joining thousands of other vacationers on the highways to the south of France. At first in high spirits, the couple starts sniping at each other during the drive as tensions in their relationship bubble to the surface. Frustrated by the freeway, Antoine takes a byway detour, much to Helene's displeasure, and then leaves her in the car as he stops for a drink. Once they're back on the road, their bickering escalates, with Antoine blaming Hélène for his drinking. Antoine then stops again to continue drinking at another tavern, although this time, Helene warns that she won't be there when he gets back. Still he defies her and goes into the bar, taking the car keys with him. He panics when he leaves the bar and discovers she has left. Believing that she has taken the train, he drives like a madman to the next station, but upon his arrival, the last train is mid-pulling out of the station. Driving away in a state of dread, he picks up a strange hitchhiker—not knowing he might have already crossed the path of his soon-to-be-missing wife.
The film, set on the bicentennial date of July 4, 1976, centers on a trio of Los Angeles vice cops who are framed by a local drug czar while trying to uncover a large shipment of narcotics.
Set in the Jiu-Jitsu fight world of Los Angeles, after a Jiu-Jitsu master, turns from prizefighting to running a self-defense studio, he is conned by a group of movie stars and fight promoters and must enter the ring and fight in order to regain his honor.
- 2 / 5.0
Based on a true story about Derek Hounakey, a thirty-something West African native who has weekly sessions with his psychologist. Derek attends these sessions to get over the life-shattering breakup of his marriage from his new wife. During a visit to West Africa, Derek's mother introduces him to a woman named Virginia, a beautiful but troubled young woman with a hidden agenda and one major secret. Virginia desperately wants to live in the United States and is looking for an unsuspecting victim to win over to gain her citizenship. She moves into Derek's home in New Jersey and announces her pregnancy. Derek is happy about being a father, but a series of questionable events leads Derek to become suspicious of Virginia. He discovers something that shatters his world once again.
Joyce Ann Brown spends more than nine years in prison for a 1980 fur store robbery and murder in Dallas that she didn't commit. Jim McCloskey, a crusader for the wrongly convicted, fights for her release.
Story centers on a magical film projector that brings things to life.
A young dreamer, born in the circus, embarks on a search to find his long lost true love.
Follows Snoop Dogg on a spiritual journey as he immerses himself in Rastafari, explores musical and religious histories deeply rooted in Jamaica, and reemerges from his experience as "Snoop Lion."
- 4 / 5.0
A documentary that traces the evolution of Gospel through its many musical styles – the spirituals and early hymns, the four-part harmony-based quartets, the integration of blues and swing into Gospel, the emergence of Soul, and the blending of Rap and Hip Hop elements.
- 4.33 / 5.0
A young man tries to reconstruct his past out of fragmented memories. His obsessive efforts are funded by a large financial settlement for an accident he cannot remember, but neither his friends nor he can anticipate the extremes he will go to in realizing his quest.
In WWII, a young merchant marine's tour of duty is with folksingers Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston aboard Liberty ships.
David Strathairn portrays Jan Karski in this genre-defying true story of a reluctant World War II hero and Holocaust witness. After surviving the devastation of the Blitzkrieg, Karski swears allegiance to the Polish Underground and risks his life to carry the first eyewitness reports of war-torn Poland to the Western world, and ultimately, the Oval Office. Escaping a Gestapo prison, bearing witness to the despair of the Warsaw ghetto and confronted by the inhumanity of a death camp, Karski endures unspeakable mental anguish and physical torture to stand tall in the halls of power and speak the truth.
- 5 / 5.0
The story centers on love, death and the fragility of the mind.
Two down-and-out community theater actors think they've accidentally killed a co-star. In a panic, they go on the lam and hide out in a Renaissance fair.