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Don’t Look Now (1973)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Italy | UK
Actors: Julie Christie | Donald Sutherland | Hilary Mason | Clelia Matania | Massimo Serato | Renato Scarpa | Giorgio Trestini | Leopoldo Trieste | David Tree | Ann Rye | Nicholas Salter | Sharon Williams | Bruno Cattaneo | Adelina Poerio
Directors: Nicolas Roeg
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John and Laura Baxter are living in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists that she sees the spirit of the Baxters’ daughter, who recently drowned. Laura is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own psychic flashes, seeing their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola.

Casino Royale (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Daniel Craig | Eva Green | Mads Mikkelsen | Judi Dench | Jeffrey Wright | Giancarlo Giannini | Caterina Murino | Simon Abkarian | Isaach De Bankolé | Jesper Christensen | Ivana Milicevic | Tobias Menzies | Claudio Santamaria | Sebastien Foucan | Malcolm Sinclair
Directors: Martin Campbell
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After receiving license to kill from the MI-6, the secret agent James Bond follows his leads and avoids the destruction of the greatest airplane in the world in Miami plotted by the evil banker Le Chiffre to crash the bonds in the stock market and break the air flight company. The banker loses the funds of international terrorist organizations and organizes a poker game in Casino Royale, in Montenegro, to raise the money of the investors. James Bond travels with the British accountant Vesper Lynd to bet and defeat La Chiffre and force him to look for protection with the MI-6, disclosing the names of the terrorists. James wins, but is double-crossed, in a game of betrayals and murders.

Saw III (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tobin Bell | Shawnee Smith | Angus Macfadyen | Bahar Soomekh | Donnie Wahlberg | Dina Meyer | Leigh Whannell | Mpho Koaho | Barry Flatman | Lyriq Bent | J. LaRose | Debra McCabe | Costas Mandylor | Betsy Russell | Jane Luk
Directors: Darren Lynn Bousman
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Jigsaw has disappeared. Now aided by his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Dr. Lynn Denlon is unaware that she is about to become the latest pawn on his vicious chessboard. One night, after finishing a shift at her hospital, Lynn is kidnapped by the deranged Amanda and taken to an abandoned warehouse where she meets Jigsaw, aka: John Kramer, who’s now bedridden and on the verge of death. Lynn is told that she must keep the madman alive for as long as it takes Jeff, another of his victims, to complete a game of his own. Racing against the ticking clock of Jigsaw’s own heartbeat, Lynn and Jeff struggle to make it through each of their vicious tests, unaware that Jigsaw and Amanda have a much bigger plan for both of them…

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeffrey Wright | Pablo Schreiber | Anthony Mackie | Dorian Missick | Jose Pablo Cantillo | Teddy Dunn | Joaquin Perez-Campbell | Tim Artz | Denzel Washington | Robyn Hitchcock | Liev Schreiber | Antoine Taylor | Joseph Alessi | Raymond Anthony Thomas | Bill Irwin
Directors: Jonathan Demme
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When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened — or didn’t happen — in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.

Frankenstein (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert De Niro | Kenneth Branagh | Tom Hulce | Helena Bonham Carter | Aidan Quinn | Ian Holm | Richard Briers | John Cleese | Robert Hardy | Cherie Lunghi | Celia Imrie | Trevyn McDowell | Gerard Horan | Mark Hadfield | Joanna Roth
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Two hundred years after Mary Shelley’s novel the brilliant but mad Doctor (Thomas Kretschmann) has sustained his creature and himself over two centuries through genetic experimentation. In present-day America Detective O’Connor (Parker Posey) is investigating a series of horrific murders which leads her to the doctor and his creature. What she uncovers reveals the strange evolution the doctor and his creation undergo over the course of two centuries and the divergent paths creator and monster take in pursuing good or evil.

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tobey Maguire | Kirsten Dunst | James Franco | Alfred Molina | Rosemary Harris | J.K. Simmons | Donna Murphy | Daniel Gillies | Dylan Baker | Bill Nunn | Vanessa Ferlito | Aasif Mandvi | Willem Dafoe | Cliff Robertson | Ted Raimi
Directors: Sam Raimi
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Peter Parker (Tobey McGuire) can’t seem to catch any kind of break. Being Spiderman has brought him nothing but problems as far as his personal life is concerned. Not only that, Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) is engaged to astronaut John Jameson, and Peter may lose her forever. Things are so bad for him that he is pushed past his breaking point, so he decides that he doesn’t want to be Spiderman anymore, until a freak accident transforms Dr. Otto Octavius into Dr. Octopus, a super-villian with four metal tentacles coming out of him. Peter realizes that only Spiderman can stop him, but of course, problems arise. Mary Jane gets caught in the middle, and Harry Osborn, who still blames Spiderman for the death of his father, Norman Osborn, also the Green Goblin, wants him dead. Spiderman will have to push himself past his limits if he’s going to survive.

Superman Returns (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Brandon Routh | Kate Bosworth | Kevin Spacey | James Marsden | Parker Posey | Frank Langella | Sam Huntington | Eva Marie Saint | Marlon Brando | Kal Penn | Tristan Lake Leabu | David Fabrizio | Ian Roberts | Vincent Stone | Jack Larson
Directors: Bryan Singer
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After eliminating General Zod & the other Kryptonian arch-villains, Ursa & Non, Superman leaves Earth to try to find his former home world of Krypton after astronomers have supposedly found it. When he finds nothing but remnants, he returns home to Earth - to find out that Lois Lane is engaged to a relative of his boss, and that Lex Luthor is at it again - after swindling an elderly, terminally ill woman. The psychopathic Luthor, whose plans to destroy California failed because of Superman’s heroics, vows vengeance against the Man of Steel and contrives a new sinister plot - using the crystals of Krypton to build a continent that will wipe out most of North America! Embedded in the continent’s structure is Kryptonite - the lethal substance that is Superman’s only weakness. Upon learning of Luthro’s sinister scheme, Superman must again race against time to stop the psychopathic Luthor before millions - possibly billions - are killed.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Eric Sykes | Timothy Spall | David Tennant | Daniel Radcliffe | Emma Watson | Rupert Grint | Mark Williams | James Phelps | Oliver Phelps | Bonnie Wright | Jeff Rawle | Robert Pattinson | Jason Isaacs | Tom Felton | Stanislav Ianevski
Directors: Mike Newell
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Harry’s fourth summer and the following year at Hogwarts are marked by the Quidditch World Cup and the Triwizard Tournament, in which student representatives from three different wizarding schools compete in a series of increasingly challenging contests. However, Voldemort’s Death Eaters are gaining strength and even creating the Dark Mark giving evidence that the Dark Lord is ready to rise again. In the unsuspecting lives of the young wizard and witches at Hogwarts the competitors are selected by the goblet of fire, which this year makes a very surprising announcement: Hogwarts will have two representatives in the tournament, including Harry Potter! Will Harry be able to rise to the challenge for the Tri Wizard Tournament while keeping up with school or will the challenges along with Voldemort’s rebirth be too much for the young hero?

Amistad (1997)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | History | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Morgan Freeman | Nigel Hawthorne | Anthony Hopkins | Djimon Hounsou | Matthew McConaughey | David Paymer | Pete Postlethwaite | Stellan Skarsgård | Razaaq Adoti | Abu Bakaar Fofanah | Anna Paquin | Tomas Milian | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Derrick N. Ashong | Geno Silva
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny onboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.

Wilderness (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror
Countries: UK
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Directors: Michael J. Bassett
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A group of young offenders, sent to an island for some character building exercises, suddenly looses one of their fellow inmates and being hunted by some merciless slayer armed with the crossbow, who keeps a pack of blood-thirsty dogs. Guys should be united in order to survive.