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Fabio Montale - Disc 2 (2001)
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Legendary French actor Alain Delon is Fabio Montale, a crime squad detective who knows Marseille like the back of his hand. Unfortunately, the city crawls with gangs, corrupt policemen, shady politicians and the mafia - all standing in the way of justice.
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Fabio Montale - Disc 1 (2001)
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Legendary French actor Alain Delon is Fabio Montale, a crime squad detective who knows Marseille like the back of his hand. Unfortunately, the city crawls with gangs, corrupt policemen, shady politicians and the mafia - all standing in the way of justice.
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Flanders (Flandres) (2006)
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Winner of The Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival 2006. Andre Demester leaves his farm in northern France to become a soldier in a far off land. On his last night of freedom, he witnesses Barbe, his childhood friend and secret love, sleeping with another
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Little Shaolin Monks (2006)
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This acclaimed documentary follows the lives of a group of "Little Warrior Monks" who live in the famous Shaolin Temple and practice the highest form of martial arts known to man. The kids range in age from 6 to 12 years and lead lives isolated
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What Your Eyes Don't See (Ojos Que No Ven) (1999)
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WHAT YOUR EYES DON'T SEE opens with a murder. Abelardo Sachs was the owner and editor of a famous political magazine but a masked killer has gunned him down in his luxurious home. Who had a reason to assassinate this powerful high society editor?
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Make Your Bets, Ladies (1965)
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One of Eddie's better films. He plays a secret agent searching for a missing NATO weapons scientist who has invented a ring that emits a strange paralysis ray. Very James Bondish in places.
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The Magic Voyage of Sinbad (1952)
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Sinbad searches the world over for the magical bird of happiness. This was an impressive Russian production, imported to America and dubbed into English.
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License To Kill (1964)
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A scientist has just invented a top secret weapon that will be able to destroy any sort of jet or airplane. A Euro crime syndicate is very interested in stealing it and selling it to a rogue nation. Eddie plays daring agent, Nick Carter, who's called in
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Flickering Lights (Blinkende lygter) (2001)
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Here comes a brand new kind of gangster comedy, a runaway hit in Denmark, starring Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale, After the Wedding). Both shocking and funny, violent and gentle, it's the story of childhood buddies whose screwed-up crime turns out to
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The Kid & The General (1921)
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Charlie Chaplin's first starring role in a feature film was also written and directed by the star himself and took a whole year to make. The Tramp (Chaplin) discovers an abandoned baby and eventually adopts it as his own. Years later, the mother has
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About Action MoviesAction movies usually involve a straightforward story of good guys versus bad guys, where most disputes are resolved by using force. Action films are largely derived from crime movies and thriller movies, by way of western movies and to some extent war movies. Modern Hollywood examples of the genre are usually "high concept" films where the whole movie can be easily summarized (eg. "a scientist brings dinosaurs back to life only to find them threatening to dominate earth, again" for Jurassic Park). The nature of the good guys varies from movie to movie, but in Hollywood films they usually are patriotic and rather conservative (though not die-hard) Americans, whereas the bad guys are usually either criminals or agents of foreign powers. In the 1950s and 1960s, the bad guys were very often Communists, which almost made some action films seem like propaganda films. Action movies also tend to have a single heroic protagonist and often portray institutions such as the military or police as incompetent, corrupt and limited by rules and regulations which the protagonist has no regard for. This creates the stereotypical conflict between an action hero and the establishment. The action movie genre, although popular since the 1950s, did not become one of the most dominant film style in Hollywood until the 1980s and 1990s, when it was popularized by actors such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone. The special effects and stars that are characteristic of action movies tend make these films expensive. Action films have become a mostly-American genre, although there have been a significant number of action films from Hong Kong which are primarily modern variations of the martial arts film. Some action movies also constitute very good examples for feminist film theory. Although female characters in most action films are nothing more than objects, a prize for the winner, hostages, loving wives and the like, there has been a move towards stronger female characters. These are maybe best exemplified in works by James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow. Due to their widespread appeal, many action movies have also spawned one or more sequels. - The preceding paragraph was derived from a full article available from Wikipedia and its use is governed by the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2. |
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