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| Date Added |
2008-07-17 |
Rating |
6.0 / 10.0 |
| Number |
1212 |
Year |
1994 |
| Length |
2:02 |
Director |
Oliver Stone |
| Category |
Crime, Crime Drama, Road Movie, Media Satire |
| Other |
Directors Cut |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: A frenetic, bloody look at mass murder and the mass media, director Oliver Stone's extremely controversial film divided critics and audiences with its mixture of over-the-top violence and bitter cultural satire. At the center of the film, written by Stone and Quentin Tarantino, among others, are Mickey (Woody Harrelson) and Mallory (Juliette Lewis), a young couple united by their desire for each other and their common love of violence. Together, they embark on a record-breaking, exceptionally gory killing spree that captivates the sensation-hungry tabloid media. Their fame is ensured by one newsman, Wayne Gale (Robert Downey, Jr.), who reports on Mickey and Mallory for his show, American Maniacs. Even the duo's eventual capture... |
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| Date Added |
2008-07-17 |
Rating |
6.0 / 10.0 |
| Number |
1219 |
Year |
2008 |
| Length |
1:51 |
Director |
Roger Donaldson |
| Category |
Crime, Caper, Docudrama, Crime Comedy |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: Jason Statham and Saffron Burrows star in director Roger Donaldson's cinematic account of the true-life 1971 London bank robbery that baffled the authorities and fascinated the public. Terry Leather (Statham) was a small-time car dealer who was trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Though he'd never been involved in any major crimes, he wasn't exactly on the straight and narrow his whole life either. Martine Love (Burrows) is a beautiful model from Terry's old neighborhood who knows that her former neighbor is no angel. When Martine proposes a foolproof plan to rob a Baker Street bank, Terry recognizes the danger but realizes this may be the opportunity of... |
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| Date Added |
2007-10-06 |
Rating |
5.0 / 10.0 |
| Number |
1022 |
Year |
1997 |
| Length |
2:08 |
Director |
David Fincher |
| Category |
Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Paranoid Thriller |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: Director David Fincher followed the success of his dark and atmospheric crime thriller Seven (1995) with another exercise in stylish film noir, this time lifting the pallid atmosphere a notch to indulge in a fast-paced trip through the cinematic funhouse. Michael Douglas plays Nicholas Van Orton, a Scrooge-like San Francisco investment banker following in his father's Scrooge-like footsteps. On Nicholas's 48th birthday (the age at which his father committed suicide), his younger, free-spirited brother Conrad (Sean Penn) blows into town and gives Nicholas a special gift for "the man who has everything" -- a ticket to CRS (Consumer Recreation Services), a company that constructs games custom-fit for each participant to provide, as CRS... |
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| Date Added |
2007-09-30 |
Rating |
10.0 / 10.0 |
| Number |
1012 |
Year |
1973 |
| Length |
1:49 |
Director |
George Lucas |
| Category |
Comedy Drama, Coming-of-Age, Americana, Teen Movie, Ensemble Film, Period Film |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: It's the last night of summer 1962, and the teenagers of Modesto, California, want to have some fun before adult responsibilities close in. Among them are Steve (Ron Howard) and Curt (Richard Dreyfuss), college-bound with mixed feelings about leaving home; nerdy Terry "The Toad" (Charles Martin Smith), who scores a dream date with blonde Debbie (Candy Clark); and John (Paul Le Mat ), a 22-year-old drag racer who wonders how much longer he can stay champion and how he got stuck with 13-year-old Carol (Mackenzie Phillips) in his deuce coupe. As D. J. Wolfman Jack spins 41 vintage tunes on the radio throughout the night, Steve ponders a future with girlfriend Laurie (Cindy... |
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| Date Added |
2007-09-23 |
Rating |
8.0 / 10.0 |
| Number |
909 |
Year |
1982 |
| Length |
1:22 |
Director |
Don Bluth |
| Category |
Children's/Family, Fantasy, Children's Fantasy, Fantasy Adventure |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: Frustrated with the Walt Disney studio's reluctance to produce full-length animated films, Don Bluth and a number of animators left the studio in the early '80s with the intent of creating movies in the style of Disney's classics. The Secret of NIMH is the first film Bluth produced after leaving the studio. Adapted from Robert C. O'Brien's acclaimed children's book Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of N.I.M.H., the film is about a widowed mouse whose home is threatened; also, one of her children is gravely ill. On her way to find help, she discovers NIMH, a secret society of highly-intelligent rats who have escaped from a nearby science lab. The rats help the... |
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| Date Added |
2007-08-10 |
Rating |
6.0 / 10.0 |
| Number |
825 |
Year |
1987 |
| Length |
2:40 |
Director |
Steven Spielberg |
| Category |
Drama, War, POW Drama, War Drama, Childhood Drama |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: Based on J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, Empire of the Sun stars Christian Bale as a spoiled young British boy, living with his wealthy family in pre-World War II Shanghai. During the Japanese invasion, Bale is separated from his parents. With the help of soldier-of-fortune John Malkovich, Bale learns to survive without a retinue of servants at his beck and call. By the time Malkovich and Bale are tossed into a Japanese prison camp, the boy has picked up enough street-smarts and developed enough intestinal fortitude to regard his imprisonment as an exciting adventure. The story ends during the 1945 liberation: on the verge of manhood, the 13-year-old Bale will never again be the... |
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| Date Added |
2007-08-10 |
Rating |
6.0 / 10.0 |
| Number |
840 |
Year |
2005 |
| Length |
2:25 |
Director |
Ridley Scott |
| Category |
Historical Film, Epic, Historical Epic, Religious Epic |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: Ridley Scott directed this epic-scale historical drama inspired by the events of the Crusades of the 12th century. Balian (Orlando Bloom) is a humble French blacksmith who is searching for a reason to go on after the death of his wife and children. Balian is approached by Godfrey of Ibelin (Liam Neeson), a fabled knight who has briefly returned home after serving in the East. Godfrey informs Balian that he is his true father, and urges the blacksmith to join him as he and his forces journey to Jerusalem to help defend the holy city. Balian accepts, and he and Godfrey arrive during the lull between the Second and Third Crusades, in which... |
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Delta Force 2: Operation Stranglehold |
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| Date Added |
2007-07-11 |
Rating |
3.0 / 10.0 |
| Number |
960 |
Year |
1990 |
| Length |
1:50 |
Director |
Aaron Norris |
| Category |
Action, Action Thriller |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: This confused sequel -- bearing many names in the credits: Delta Force 2, Delta Force 2: Operation Stranglehold, Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection -- to the first Delta Force movie lacks the nightmarish collection of guest stars gracing the first film, i.e. Hanna Shygulla, Martin Balsam, Shelley Winters, George Kennedy, and Joey Bishop. Chuck Norris, however, returns as Col. Scott McCoy, a man in a blue funk because notorious drug dealer Ramon Cota (Billy Drago) arranged to have McCoy's partner and his partner's wife and baby brother killed. Cota has also kidnapped three DEA agents to boot. Even without Lee Marvin, Col. McCoy wants to enact biblical vengeance upon Cota and his... |
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| Date Added |
2007-07-11 |
Rating |
3.0 / 10.0 |
| Number |
1003 |
Year |
1984 |
| Length |
1:41 |
Director |
Joseph Zito |
| Category |
Action, Action Thriller, War Adventure |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: One of a string of Ramboesque films dashed off in the '80s, Missing in Action is yet another entry that attempts to exploit the lingering public bitterness over the outcome of the war in Vietnam. Colonel Braddock (karate champion Chuck Norris) travels to Vietnam on a mission to recover lost POWs. A former POW himself, Braddock has the saavy and bad temper to kill droves of communists at a time, not to mention the inclination. Together with former war comrade M. Emmet Walsh, he sets off for the POW camp where Americans are supposedly still held. Of course, there are lots of nameless, faceless Asian communists, and of course, every one of... |
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| Date Added |
2007-07-11 |
Rating |
4.1 / 10.0 |
| Number |
1006 |
Year |
2000 |
| Length |
1:35 |
Director |
Eric Norris, Michael Preece |
| Category |
Action, Martial Arts, Action Thriller |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: Chuck Norris stars in this made-for-TV thriller as Joshua McCord, a Presidential secret agent. Though still quite virile and limber, McCord feels that he is getting too old for his job, thus he begins training a younger man named Deke Slater (Dylan Neal) as his replacement, using Zen and proper nutrition as primary teachings tools. But McCord springs back into action -- and kicks plenty of serious butt in the process -- when the First Lady is kidnapped by a terrorist organization. First telecast by CBS on April 2, 2000, The President's Man was followed two years later by a sequel, The President's Man: A Line in the Sand. -- Hal Erickson
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The President's Man 2: A Line In the Sand |
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| Date Added |
2007-07-11 |
Rating |
3.8 / 10.0 |
| Number |
1007 |
Year |
2002 |
| Length |
1:33 |
Director |
Eric Norris |
| Category |
Action, Action Thriller |
| Other |
AKA "Ground Zero" |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: Based on characters created by Bob Gookin, the made-for-TV thriller The President's Man 2: A Line in the Sand casts Chuck Norris in a role not dissimilar to his title character on the long-running series Walker: Texas Ranger. Norris is seen as secret agent Joshua McCord, the right-hand man to the President of the United States (Robert Urich). The plot thickens when a band of terrorists breaks into a museum to retrieve hidden nuclear-bomb components from the statues therein. Apprised of the situation, the military attempts to abduct the charismatic leader of the terrorists, but to no avail. It is up to Joshua to infiltrate the terrorists' lair and disarm the bomb before... |
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| Date Added |
2007-07-08 |
Rating |
3.0 / 10.0 |
| Number |
812 |
Year |
1986 |
| Length |
1:32 |
Director |
Newt Arnold |
| Category |
Action, Martial Arts, Sports Drama |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: Jean-Claude Van Damme makes his starring debut in the aptly titled Bloodsport. An American soldier at large in Hong Kong, Van Damme becomes involved in the Kumite (also spelled Kumatai), a highly illegal kickboxing competition. Whoever survives the bout will be crowned Kumite champion of the world-a title that has plenty of challengers with homicide in their hearts. The finale offers a duel to the death (or near-death) between Van Damme and reigning Kumite king Bolo Yeung. The script is based on the real-life exploits of martial arts champ Frank Dux (who serves as the film's fight coordinator). Denied such niceties as production values, Bloodsport scores big-time in the violent action department. A... |
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| Date Added |
2007-07-08 |
Rating |
4.0 / 10.0 |
| Number |
832 |
Year |
1980 |
| Length |
1:35 |
Director |
Sean S. Cunningham |
| Category |
Horror, Slasher Film, Teen Movie |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: One of the longest-running horror film series began with this gory shocker from director Sean S. Cunningham, who had previously produced Wes Craven's classic Last House on the Left. Entrepreneur Steve Christie (Peter Brouwer) re-opens Camp Crystal Lake after many years during which it has been cursed by murders and bad luck. The young and nubile counselors all begin to die extremely bloody deaths at the hands of an unseen killer during a rainstorm which isolates the camp. A woman is chopped in the face with an axe, another has her throat sliced in amazingly gruesome fashion, a male counselor (Harry Crosby) is pinned to a door with arrows, and a young Kevin... |
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| Date Added |
2007-07-08 |
Rating |
8.0 / 10.0 |
| Number |
865 |
Year |
1982 |
| Length |
1:54 |
Director |
Tobe Hooper |
| Category |
Horror, Haunted House Film |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: With Poltergeist, directed by Tobe Hopper, Steven Spielberg had his first great success as a producer. Released around the same time as Spielberg's E.T., the film presents the dark side of Spielberg's California suburban track homes. The film centers on the Freeling family, a typical middle class family living in the peaceful Cuesta Verde Estates. The father, Steve (Craig T. Nelson), has fallen asleep in front of the television, and the dog saunters around the house revealing the other family members -- Steve's wife Diane (JoBeth Williams), sixteen-year-old daughter Dana (Dominique Dunne), eight-year-old son Robbie (Oliver Robins), and five-year-old Carol Ann (Heather O'Rourke). Soon strange things begin to happen around the house; the... |
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| Date Added |
2007-07-05 |
Rating |
3.4 / 10.0 |
| Number |
933 |
Year |
2004 |
| Length |
0:00 |
Director |
Kim Du-yeong |
| Category |
Action, Action Thriller |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: Prepare for the fight of a lifetime as a former Tae Kwon Do champion takes on a feared cage fighter in a desperate bid to rescue his kidnapped daughter in this action opus from South Korean director Kim Du-yeong. His legacy is legend, but following the birth of his daughter, Sa Rang, Tae Kwon Do champion Kim Seung Hyoun (Jun Lee) decides to walk away from the violent life and raise his little girl in peace. His plans are shattered, however, when an evil gambling kingpin kidnaps Sa Rang in order to force the former champion back into the ring. If there is any hope of ever seeing his daughter alive again, Kim... |
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| Date Added |
2007-07-05 |
Rating |
4.1 / 10.0 |
| Number |
938 |
Year |
2005 |
| Length |
1:37 |
Director |
Mink |
| Category |
Action, Action Thriller, Martial Arts |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: When a fierce new breed of criminal emerges from the dreaded yakuza, the CIA must resort to a crime-fighting powerhouse whose penchant for mayhem rivals that of even the most hardened gangster in this effort from action icon Steven Seagal and Full Clip director mink. The yakuza's stronghold on Japan is legendary, but when the governor of Tokyo is assassinated and his wife's sister is kidnapped, ex-CIA agent Travis Hunter (Seagal) vows to find the men responsible for murdering his brother-in-law and rescue the girl before it's too late. The stakes are raised when Hunter learns of a deadly plot to detonate a nuclear device on U.S. soil, leaving the fate of a... |
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| Date Added |
2007-07-05 |
Rating |
3.0 / 10.0 |
| Number |
939 |
Year |
1990 |
| Length |
1:33 |
Director |
Dwight H. Little |
| Category |
Action, Action Thriller, Martial Arts |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: In Marked for Death, Steven Seagal is told to "try to find the gentle person inside yourself." But he doesn't spend too much time looking, preferring instead to crack the spines of his victims. Seagal plays John Hatcher, a burned-out narcotics agent who resigns from the Drug Enforcement Administration after his partner is killed. He returns to his hometown and finds the city in the thrall of a vicious Jamaican drug gang, led by the nasty Screwface (Basil Wallace). He meets an old friend, now a high school football coach, who tells John about losing his best player and his 13-year-old nephew to drug overdoses. Soon John's family is threatened and his prize... |
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| Date Added |
2007-07-05 |
Rating |
3.0 / 10.0 |
| Number |
940 |
Year |
2005 |
| Length |
1:31 |
Director |
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| Category |
Action, Action Thriller |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: A wandering mercenary sets out on a bullet-riddled path of revenge after being blackmailed into staging a daring prison break and subsequently being double-crossed in this explosive action entry starring American martial arts icon Steven Seagal. John Seeger (Seagal) is a soldier of fortune with a reputation for getting the job done. When the son of a billionaire arms dealer is locked away in a South African prison with little hope for freedom, the enraged father uses his far-reaching power and influence to force Seeger into a daring rescue mission. There's much more to this adventure than Seeger knows, though, and upon discovering that he has been hung out to dry by the... |
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| Date Added |
2007-07-05 |
Rating |
3.0 / 10.0 |
| Number |
941 |
Year |
1994 |
| Length |
1:41 |
Director |
Steven Seagal |
| Category |
Thriller, Action, Message Movie, Action Thriller |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: Jennings (Michael Caine), a corrupt company owner will stop at nothing to open a new refinery in Alaska. Forrest Taft (Steven Seagal), a disgruntled former employee is chosen by an Eskimo chief as savior of his people. Forrest's mission is to prevent the new refinery from beginning work before the land rights are returned to the Eskimos. -- Linda Rasmussen
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| Date Added |
2007-07-05 |
Rating |
3.0 / 10.0 |
| Number |
943 |
Year |
1991 |
| Length |
1:31 |
Director |
John Flynn |
| Category |
Action, Action Thriller, Police Detective Film, Martial Arts, Gangster Film |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: Steven Seagal plays a good if troubled man living in a corrupt world (sound familiar yet?) in this action drama. Gino Felino (Seagal) is a cop who grew up in a tough Brooklyn neighborhood, and while many of his old friends now live on the other side of the law, he retains a fierce loyalty to the community. When his partner, a friend since childhood, is murdered -- in broad daylight, and in clear view of his wife and children -- Gino is assigned to investigate, and he soon learns that the shooter was Richie Madano (William Forsythe), his life-long nemesis and now a low-level wise guy with an addiction to crack. Gino... |
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| Date Added |
2007-07-05 |
Rating |
5.0 / 10.0 |
| Number |
946 |
Year |
2005 |
| Length |
1:36 |
Director |
Anthony Hickox |
| Category |
Action, Action Thriller, Martial Arts |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: A skilled soldier of fortune discovers a force more dangerous than any he's encountered in this action thriller. Chris Cody (Steven Seagal) is a top-ranked mercenary who took part in an undercover operation to scuttle a major terrorist strike on U.S. soil. However, Cody had to break a number of laws in order to do the job, and he's residing in a military prison when he's given an offer by the United States government. Cody and his crew will have their sentenced commuted and receive 100,000 dollars each if they can capture a notorious terrorist who has kidnapped five American soldiers and bring them home. Cody agrees, but he soon learns that there's... |
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| Date Added |
2007-07-05 |
Rating |
3.0 / 10.0 |
| Number |
949 |
Year |
2001 |
| Length |
1:32 |
Director |
Albert Pyun |
| Category |
Action, Action Thriller, Chase Movie |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: A cop on the edge, Nettles (Tom Sizemore), must team up with the cool-headed leader of the bomb squad, Glass (Steven Seagal), to stop the terrorist Swann (Dennis Hopper) from continuing his series of deadly bombings. Jaime Pressly co-stars as the woman who could finger the mad bomber. Singing stars Chilli (from TLC) and Nas co-star in this action drama. -- Perry Seibert
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| Date Added |
2007-07-05 |
Rating |
3.9 / 10.0 |
| Number |
950 |
Year |
2005 |
| Length |
1:30 |
Director |
Don E. Fauntleroy |
| Category |
Thriller, Crime, Action, Crime Thriller |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: A crook with a conscience takes on the men who turned on him in this action thriller. Harlan Banks (Steven Seagal) is a world-class thief who has always picked his own jobs and tried to pull heists that would leave him room to help out others; he also has powerful psychic abilities and can punish a man simply with the powers of his mind. But the work keeps getting riskier, and at the urging of his girlfriend, Banks has decided to pull one final job, going in with some men who are planning a 20-million-dollar casino robbery in Las Vegas. Banks is double-crossed by his new partners, and while he gets away with... |
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Once Upon a Time in America [1/2] |
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| Date Added |
2007-06-04 |
Rating |
10.0 / 10.0 |
| Number |
767 |
Year |
1984 |
| Length |
3:49 |
Director |
Sergio Leone |
| Category |
Crime, Gangster Film, Ensemble Film, Period Film |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: Though some viewers might be put off by its length, graphic violence, and absence of likable characters, Sergio Leone's final film is also a cinematic masterpiece. Spanning four decades, the film tells the story of David "Noodles" Aaronson (Robert De Niro) and his Jewish pals, chronicling their childhoods on New York's Lower East Side in the 1920s, through their gangster careers in the 1930s, and culminating in Noodles' 1968 return to New York from self-imposed exile, at which time he learns the truth about the fate of his friends and again confronts the nightmare of his past. The acting, the re-creation of the time period, the cinematography, and the music are all superb.... |
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Once Upon a Time in America [2/2] |
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| Date Added |
2007-06-04 |
Rating |
10.0 / 10.0 |
| Number |
768 |
Year |
1984 |
| Length |
3:49 |
Director |
Sergio Leone |
| Category |
Crime, Gangster Film, Ensemble Film, Period Film |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: Though some viewers might be put off by its length, graphic violence, and absence of likable characters, Sergio Leone's final film is also a cinematic masterpiece. Spanning four decades, the film tells the story of David "Noodles" Aaronson (Robert De Niro) and his Jewish pals, chronicling their childhoods on New York's Lower East Side in the 1920s, through their gangster careers in the 1930s, and culminating in Noodles' 1968 return to New York from self-imposed exile, at which time he learns the truth about the fate of his friends and again confronts the nightmare of his past. The acting, the re-creation of the time period, the cinematography, and the music are all superb.... |
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| Date Added |
2007-06-03 |
Rating |
5.0 / 10.0 |
| Number |
766 |
Year |
1992 |
| Length |
2:00 |
Director |
Jonathan Lynn |
| Category |
Comedy, Courtroom Comedy, Comedy of Manners |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: When sweet Northern college kid Bill (Ralph Macchio) and his buddy Stan (Mitchell Whitfield) are picked up and thrown into the slammer in a hick Southern town, at first it looks like no big deal. Then they are informed that they are accused of murder. Penniless and without a single friend in the area, Bill decides to call his goofy cousin Vinny (Joe Pesci), who has somehow recently become a lawyer. Full of family feeling and bravado, Vinny, who has never tried a criminal case in his short life as a lawyer, rides south to defend his trusting relative. He's an expert motormouth and street-level logician from the wilder reaches of metropolitan New... |
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| Date Added |
2007-01-15 |
Rating |
8.0 / 10.0 |
| Number |
703 |
Year |
2000 |
| Length |
1:28 |
Director |
Jonathan Glazer |
| Category |
Crime, Gangster Film, Crime Thriller |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: Gary (Ray Winstone) is a former gangster who has made a modest amount of money from his criminal career. Happy to put his life of crime behind him, he has retired with his wife Deedee (Amanda Redman) to the sunny bliss of rural Spain, where he lives an idyllic life with his family and a few close friends. But Gary's contentment is ruptured by an unwelcome visitor from his past -- Don (Ben Kingsley), a former associate who has been hired to assemble a team of criminals to rob a heavily guarded bank. Don wants Gary in on the job, and is less than pleased by Gary's unwillingness to volunteer his services. What... |
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| Date Added |
2004-07-17 |
Rating |
10.0 / 10.0 |
| Number |
191 |
Year |
1998 |
| Length |
2:50 |
Director |
Steven Spielberg |
| Category |
War, War Epic, Ensemble Film, Combat Films |
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AMG SYNOPSIS: Steven Spielberg directed this powerful, realistic re-creation of WWII's D-day invasion and the immediate aftermath. The story opens with a prologue in which a veteran brings his family to the American cemetery at Normandy, and a flashback then joins Capt. John Miller (Tom Hanks) and GIs in a landing craft making the June 6, 1944, approach to Omaha Beach to face devastating German artillery fire. This mass slaughter of American soldiers is depicted in a compelling, unforgettable 24-minute sequence. Miller's men slowly move forward to finally take a concrete pillbox. On the beach littered with bodies is one with the name "Ryan" stenciled on his backpack. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George C.... |
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