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overview : High-priced prostitutes are being systematically murdered, their corpses mutilated, and a bizarre South American symbol painted in blood is found …

overview : In a utopian society created at the end of the third world war, a female warrior who has been plucked …

overview : Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog are best pals and the unsung heroes of the African savanna. This prequel …

overview : Young, impulsive Rosetta lives a hard and stressful life as she struggles to support herself and her alcoholic mother. Refusing …

overview : Juvenile delinquents are sent to a small British island after a fellow prisoner's death, where they must fight for survival.

overview : A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of …

overview : Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece …

overview : Bizet's Carmen gets a modern adaptation. Seducting, provocating, sensual. All the ingredients for a perfect drama. With her charm, Karmen …

overview : With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic …

overview : When members of the nefarious crime syndicate KAOS attack the U.S. spy agency Control and the identities of secret agents …

overview : Bill Dancer and his young companion Curly Sue are the classic homeless folks with hearts of gold. Their scams are …

overview : Martijn, an idealistic Dutch pianist, travels to Morocco to help start a food program for malnourished children. Within moments of …

overview : A young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists kidnap a Hollywood movie goddess and force her to …

overview : An American family on holiday in Africa becomes lost in a game reserve and stalked by vicious killer lions.

overview : Creatures, bound by the blood of the wolf, that can kill with curses and move at lightening speed, watching the …

overview : Bennie travels to Buenos Aires to find his long-missing older brother, a once-promising writer who is now a remnant of …

overview : Lilja lives in poverty and dreams of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States and abandons her …

overview : Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between …