The adventure begins when Jack trades his cow for some magic beans from peddler Jeremy Keen. The beans sprout a beanstalk high into the clouds, and Jack and Jeremy climb it to discover a giant, a goose that lays golden eggs, and Princess Serena who is trapped in a harp by a magic spell and can only be released by a kiss.
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The Captain’s Paradise (1953) Anthony Kimmins, Alec Guinness, Yvonne De Carlo, Celia Johnson, Comedy, Romance
Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized – a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Mistress, Nita in Tangiers. A perfect life. As long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port.
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Violent Cop / Sono otoko, kyôbô ni tsuki (1989) Takeshi Kitano, Maiko Kawakami, Makoto Ashikawa, Action, Crime, Drama
Detective Azuma is a Dirty-Harry style rogue cop who often uses violence and unethical methods to get results. While investigating a series of drug-related homicides, Azuma discovers that his friend and colleague, Iwaki, is supplying drugs from within the police force. After Iwaki is murdered and Azuma’s sister is kidnapped, he breaks all the rules to dish out his particular form of justice.
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Rikisha Kuri / Da che fu (1974) Joseph Kuo, Chiang-Lung Wen, Yan-Yung Tso, Ping Lu, Action, Adventure
An action-packed film about a rickshaw boy who works to support his mother using his kung fu power to change the course of his life. This is over the top violent and a clear high point in the grimier vein of mid-70s martial arts flicks.
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This Is Cinerama (1952) Merian C. Cooper, Gunther von Fritsch, Lowell Thomas, Kathy Darlyn, Documentary
A standard screen B&W prologue during which Lowell Thomas shows how, from the dawn of history, mankind has attempted to create the illusion of depth & movement by artistic, mechanical and photographic means.
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Pig (2001) Mark Steven Bosko, T. Michael Conway, Jim Volkert, Abdullah Bey, Virginia Drda, Drama
Across America, small town cops rule the land. And what you hear about these prejudiced police is often true. This is the story of one such cop. Part mythic folk hero, part bad-ass, he is both feared and admired, hated and loved by the residents of his town. Witness first hand the violence and boredom consuming this law-man’s daily routine. Come, take a ride with Pig.
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Omega Syndrome (1986) Joseph Manduke, Ken Wahl, George DiCenzo, Xander Berkeley, Action, Drama
An ex-GI’s daughter is abducted by a gang of white supremacists. He calls on one of his former Army buddies, and together they set out to track down the gang and rescue his daughter.
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No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers (1990) Lucas Lowe, Loren Avedon, Keith Vitali, Joseph Campanella, Action
Two feuding brothers (one a policeman, the other a martial arts expert) of different political views, join forces to avenge the death of their father, a retired agent, killed by the mafia.
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Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend (1992) Ronnie Cramer, Andren Scott, Sarah Young, Jean Wolf, Comedy, Erotic
A lonely security guard can’t even get a decent blind date, so he begins peeping at women through their bedroom windows. Before long he’s paying call girls to come over and secretly videotaping every session. Within two weeks he’s blown his life savings and been subjected to a lot of verbal and physical abuse. This bizarre black comedy is loaded with naked women!
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Bare Witness (2002) Kelley Cauthen, Angie Everhart, Catalina Larranaga, Daniel Baldwin, Thriller, Erotic
Professional killer Gav Reed commits a grave mistake allowing himself to be videotaped (as she always does, for a documentary she hopes to sell to Hollywood about the real nocturnal ‘eldest business’ there) by Julie Spencer, one of Max ‘Slim’ Reuter’s hookers and porn actresses, whom he had sex with before – and while making a most incriminating call about his murder attempt at a high society campaign party for mayor Garland’s electoral challenger Mary Washington, where the bullet is however caught by councilor Frank Constantine, who also survives. Gav’s client, businessman Ian Hunter, who was videotaped earlier, has his girl Marina shoot Gav and then Julie, later Slim who. Rough but effective police detective Killian investigates, helped by Julie’s friend Carly Marsh, and unravels even more sordid connections.
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Double Dragon (1994) James Yukich, Robert Patrick, Mark Dacascos, Scott Wolf, Action, Adventure, Comedy
Set 15 years in the future in post-earthquake California, where San Diego and Los Angeles are merged into one city, two teenage brothers have half of a powerful ancient Chinese talisman. Millionaire Koga Shuko (a.k.a. Guisman) has the other half and determines to get the brothers’ half in order to have the complete medallion and the absolute power of the magical Double Dragon talisman.
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Making Love (1982) Arthur Hiller, Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin, Drama
A successful young L.A. doctor and his equally successful television-producer wife find their happily-ever-after life torn assunder when he suddenly confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men. Zach and Claire live a comfortable life secure in their love for one another when Bart, a swinging L.A. novelist, walks into Zach’s office and awakens unfamiliar feelings in him.
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Worried About the Boy (2010) Julian Jarrold, Douglas Booth, Jonny Burt, Mathew Horne, Biography, Drama, Music
In 1980 young George O’Dowd baffles his parents with his love of frocks and make-up and moves into a squat with kindred spirit Peter,who dresses as Marilyn Monroe and calls himself Marilyn. They make a splash at Steve Strange’s trendy Blitz Club where George gets a job in the cloakroom but George is unlucky in his relationships with men until he meets wannabe musician Kirk.
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I fantastici 3 Supermen / The Three Fantastic Supermen (1967) Gianfranco Parolini, Tony Kendall, Brad Harris, Aldo Canti, Action, Adventure, Crime
Brad McCallum, strongman and FBI agent, recruits two former friends to a shady operation destined to expose a counterfeiting crime ring who hides behind diplomatic immunity. The almost perfect dollar bills have traces of radioactivity, which allows a scientist to identify it as the product of a «universal duplicating machine» with the capability of cloning practically anything into anything else, except a human being. In the wrong hands, this presents a risk for the humanity.
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Lisa (1989) Gary Sherman, Staci Keanan, Cheryl Ladd, D.W. Moffett, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Fourteen year-old Lisa is raised by her unmarried mother Katherine who overprotects her by forbidding her to date until she’s sixteen. In despair, Lisa and schoolmate Wendy make up a game that consists of inferring attractive men’s phone numbers from their car ID and giving them anonymous calls. Last victim is the handsome Richard, with whom Lisa begins a passionate phone relationship, unaware that he’s also a psycho-killer and sex maniac…
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