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A true story about four Allied POWs who endure harsh treatment at the hands of their Japanese captors during World War II while being forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle. Ultimately they find true freedom by forgiving their enemies.

Mark Strong, Robert Carlyle, Ciarán McMenamin, Sakae Kimura, John Gregg, Shu Nakajima, Yugo Saso, Pip Torrens

R Drama War

33%

  • 2
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In a futuristic world, a strict regime has eliminated war by suppressing emotions: books, art and music are strictly forbidden and feeling is a crime punishable by death. Cleric John Preston (Bale) is a top-ranking government agent responsible for destroying those who resist these rules. When he misses a dose of Prozium, a mind-alterering drug that hinders emotion, Preston, who has been trained to enforce the strict laws of the new regime, suddenly becomes the only person capable of overthrowing it.

Emily Watson, Kurt Wimmer, Christian Bale, William Fichtner, Sean Bean, Matthew Harbour, Dominic Purcell, Taye Diggs

R Action Adventure

50%

  • 2.5
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Sequel to the 1999 hit, "Analyze, This," follows Ben Sobel's struggle to help Paul Vitti, his mobster client. Paul, who's been spending time in prison, is released to the custody of his psychiatrist. Paul tries to adjust to a straight life, but it's Ben who has issues this time: he's depressed after the recent death of his father.

Robert De Niro, Lisa Kudrow, Harold Ramis, Billy Crystal, Joe Viterelli, Brian Rogalski

R Comedy

29%

  • 2.7
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Victor Rosa (John Leguizamo) is all about the mighty dollar and fashions himself as a businessman on par with Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Bill Gates. With an iron fist, he runs a successful "street pharmaceutical" business that peddles a heroin mix he has named Empire. His beautiful fiancée, Carmen, a Baruch College student, befriends a classmate with an investment-banker boyfriend, Jack Wimmer. Victor meets Jack, and they instantly connect. Both are hard-core businessmen from two different sides of the legal fence. When Jack offers Victor a piece of the action on the stock market, he sees his ticket out of the violent streets of the South Bronx and jumps at the opportunity. But there is a bigger price to be paid than clean money for his gorgeous new Soho lifestyle. For the first time, Victor is confronted with a price tag that he will find difficult to pay.

John Leguizamo, Denise Richards, Peter Sarsgaard, Vincent Laresca, Franc Reyes, Isabella Rossellini, Ruben Blades, Nestor Serrano

R Drama Crime

58%

  • 2.6
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It's two odd stories in one. The plot follows the attempt of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) to adapt Susan Orlean's nonfiction novel "The Orchid Thief" for the big screen. As Kaufman tries to work with the book's true story — the tale of John Laroche (Chris Cooper), a Florida plant dealer who works with Seminole Indians to create clones of rare orchids, which he sells to collectors for huge profits — he nearly goes mad. Enter his fictional twin (also Cage), a more successful version of Charlie. Charlie finally manages to finish the script, finding that in the process, he's incorporated himself and his writer's block into the story.

Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, Meryl Streep, Tilda Swinton, Brian Cox, Spike Jonze, Chris Cooper, Cara Seymour

R Drama Comedy

25%

  • 3.9
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