14 Mar
In ancient China, before the reign of the first emperor, warring factions throughout the Six Kingdoms plot to assassinate the most powerful ruler, Qin. When a minor official defeats Qin’s three principal enemies, he is summoned to the palace to tell Qin the story of his surprising victory.
Posted in 2002, Action, Adventure, China, Drama, Hong Kong by: admin
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04 May
Finn is a young graduate student, finishing a master’s thesis, and preparing for marriage to her fiance Sam. But thoughts of the end of the free life, and a potential summer fling, intrude. She goes home to her grandmother, where, over the making of her wedding gift by a group of quilting-bee friends, laughter, bickering, […]
Posted in 1995, Drama, Romance, USA by: admin
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04 May
A THOUSAND ACRES is a drama about an American family who meets with tragedy on their land. It is the story of a father, his daughters, and their husbands, and their passion to subdue the history of their land and its stories.
Posted in 1997, Drama, USA by: admin
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21 Mar
A family film about a mouse that lives in an old house where the geriatric owner dies, and ‘Nathan Lane’ (qv) and ‘Lee Evans (I)’ (qv) have plans for, but they have trouble getting rid of the mouse. It’s like Home Alone with a mouse.
Posted in 1997, Action, Comedy, Family, USA by: admin
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15 Mar
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been […]
Posted in 2002, Drama, Family, Germany, New Zealand by: admin
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01 Feb
In the 1870s, Captain Nathan Algren, a cynical veteran of the American Civil war who will work for anyone, is hired by Americans who want lucrative contracts with the Emperor of Japan to train the peasant conscripts for the first standing imperial army in modern warfare using firearms. The imperial Omura cabinet’s first priority is […]
Posted in 2003, Action, Adventure, Drama, Japan, New Zealand, USA, War by: admin
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