Kidnapping
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Oldboy
Oh Dae-su is an ordinary Seoul businessman with a wife and little daughter who, after a drunken night on the town, is locked up in a strange, private prison for 15 years. No one will tell him why he's there and who his jailer is, but he is kept in reasonably comfortable quarters and has a TV to...Watch Movie
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Mesrine: Killer Instinct
MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT introduces us to Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), a loyal son and dedicated soldier back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents....Watch Movie
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Doctor Blood's Coffin
After being expelled from medical school in the big city, Dr. Peter Blood returns to his childhood home in Porthcarron, a remote village in Cornwell, where he is free to continue his dangerous and unauthorized experiments on people. While his father, the small town's doctor,...Watch Movie
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Graceland
In this unpredictable and tightly-paced thriller, family man Marlon Villa (a longtime chauffeur to corrupt Filipino politician Manuel Chango) is faced with an unthinkable predicament when he gets ambushed while driving both his boss's twelve year-old girl and his own daughter home from school one...Watch Movie
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Curse of the Faceless Man
In an excavation site scientists uncover the body of a gladiator from the ruins of Pompeii, stone-encrusted with a bronze medallion bearing a strange Etruscan inscription. Carlo Fiorillo, Italian archaeologist, speculates the robust body may hold some life; medical researcher...Watch Movie
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Incredible Kung-fu Mission
John Liu, a Kung-fu master, is hired to rescue a revolutionary agent from the fortress of an evil warlord. To help him are five unskilled mercenaries who are trained by him in the art of Kung-fu fighting. Disguised as a travelling acrobatic troupe, the "Dirty Half Dozen" set...Watch Movie
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Wrong
Dolph Springer awakens one morning to find he has lost the sole love of his life, his dog, Paul. Desperate to reunite with his best friend and to set things right, Dolph embarks on a journey which spirals into the realm of the absurd. On his quest, he drastically alters the lives of several...Watch Movie
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Miami Connection
Motorcycle ninjas tighten their grip on Florida's narcotics trade, viciously annihilating anyone who dares move in on their turf. Multi-national martial arts rock band Dragon Sound have had enough, and embark on a roundhouse wreck-wave of crime-crushing justice. When not...Watch Movie
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Ashanti
Michael Caine stars as Dr. David Linderby, half of a married U.N. medical team vaccinating native villages in West Africa. But when his skinny-dipping wife (supermodel Beverly Johnson) is abducted by a depraved Arab slave trader (two-time Academy Award® winner Peter Ustinov), there's no time for...Watch Movie
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
In this second installment of Stieg Larsson's phenomenal "Dragon Tattoo Trilogy," Lisbeth Salander is a wanted woman. A researcher and a Millennium journalist about to expose the truth about the sex trade in Sweden are brutally murdered and Salander's prints are on the weapon....Watch Movie
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Karate Girl
Real-life black-belt Rina Takeda stars as an ordinary high school student turned martial arts master in this throwback action film with a refreshing lack of CGI and special effects and a surprisingly old-school focus on hand-to-hand martial arts action. Years ago, a murderous clan of ninjas...Watch Movie
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Hench
Toby and Oskar are henchmen - glorified body movers who hold their client's kidnapping victims in their dark basement until the ransom arrives. When the ransom for their latest victim, Gretchen, never arrives, their lives slowly begin to turn upside down. As she drives a wedge between our two...Watch Movie
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Penance
Japanese master of suspense Kiyoshi Kurosawa's eerie, intense psychological thriller PENANCE unfolds on a sleepy small town playground, when a mysterious stranger approaches a group of young friends, then kidnaps and brutally murders one of the girls. Wracked with grief, the victim's unhinged...Watch Movie
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The Adventures of Prince Achmed
When THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED premiered in Germany on September 23, 1926 it was hailed as the first full-length animated film. More than seventy-five years later, Lotte Reiniger's enchanting film (made in collaboration with Carl Koch, Reiniger's husband) still stands as...Watch Movie
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The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq
In 2011 dyspeptic French author Michel Houellebecq went off-grid for a while (it eventually turned out he'd just had internet connectivity problems), sparking widespread rumors that his "disappearance" was due to some sinister plot. Guillaume Nicloux's droll cinematic fiction...Watch Movie
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The Boss
Based largely on real people and actual events, Fernando Di Leo's action-packed film (the final part of his Milieu Trilogy) is his boldest commentary on corruption and the criminal underworld. A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the members of one mafia family except for Cocchi....Watch Movie
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The Wild Geese
Screen legends Richard Burton, Roger Moore and Richard Harris star as a team of aging mercenaries hired by a wealthy industrialist for one final mission: Recruit and train a squad of desperate commandos, parachute into an unstable African nation, snatch its deposed President from a maximum...Watch Movie
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Rat Pfink a Boo Boo
When sexy Ceebee Beaumont, main squeeze of rockabilly superstar Lonnie Lord, is kidnapped by the Chain Gang, Lonnie and his friend Titus Twimbly leap into leotards and swing into action as Rat Pfink and Boo Boo, champions of downtrodden women and children everywhere! The...Watch Movie
