Biography: Bruce Martyn Payne (born 22 November 1958) is an English actor and producer. Though better known for his villainous roles, Bruce Payne has played characters across the spectrum. His notable villainous roles include Charles Rane in Passenger 57, Jacob Kell in Highlander: Endgame and Damodar in Dungeons & Dragons and Dungeons & Dragons: Wrath of the Dragon God. His notable heroic roles include Frankie in Kounterfeit, Dr. Burton in Silence Like Glass and Major Baker in Britannic. His notable comic roles include Yellow in Keen Eddie, Dogger in Solarbabies, and the Devil in Switch. Payne has received many plaudits for his acting. A reviewer in Cosmopolitan once asserted that "saying that Payne is a good actor is like saying Fred Astaire is a good dancer." Description above from the Wikipedia article Bruce Payne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 22, 1958
Deathday: N/A
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1992-11-06
Overview: An infamous terrorist has evaded capture for a long time by being extremely clever and ruthless. Things get interesting when he hijacks a plane carrying famous security expert John Cutter, who isn't about to stand for this sort of thing.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-06
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2003-08-26
Overview: NEVER SAY...NEVER MIND, the SWEDISH BIKINI TEAM find themselves in London at BUCKINGHAM PALACE receiving British Orders of Chivalry. But first, they must locate and destroy a copy of the infamous Los Alamos hard drive. Meanwhile, HELGA is missing in action in AMAZONIA and gets her Damehood in absentia. The other TEAM MEMBERS think that their next stop will be a leisurely yacht cruise and an appearance at the International Bikini Team Federation (IBTF) Open, where they will be judging the contest. Little do they know that intrigue, adventure, portable nuclear devices, a mutant yeast strain and danger in high places awaits.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-26
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2000-12-08
Overview: The Empire of Izmer is a divided land: elite magicians called “mages” rule while lowly commoners are powerless. When Empress Savina vows to bring equality and prosperity to her land, the evil mage Profion plots to depose her.
Genres: Drama Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-08
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2000-09-01
Overview: Immortals Connor and Duncan Macleod join forces against a man from Connor's distant past in the highlands of Scotland, Kell, an immensely powerful immortal who leads an army of equally powerful and deadly immortal swordsmen and assassins. No immortal alive has been able to defeat Kell yet, and neither Connor nor Duncan are skilled enough themselves to take him on and live. The two of them eventually come to one inevitable conclusion; one of them must die so that the combined power of both the Highlanders can bring down Kell for good. There can be only one... the question is, who will it be?
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-01
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2002-05-08
Overview: An entrepreneurial criminal, Slim (Dorff) is as smart as they come. Cocky and confident, he assembles a team of risk-taking rush-seekers to pull off a series of five bank heists, each time using a different extreme sport to make the getaway. Following an unexpected windfall on only their second job, the gang nets $20 million in untraceable bonds. Having scored enough money to retire on, Slim and his crew decide to call the robbery game quits. But both the mob and the police have other plans in mind for Slim: they want him to keep working, for them.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-08
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2005-09-01
Overview: Due to a curse from his former master Profion, Damodar survived his death by Ridley Freeborn as an undead entity in pursuit of an evil artifact for some hundred years, so that he might be capable of unleashing unstoppable destruction on Izmir and the descendants of those who caused his demise.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-01
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1999-10-12
Overview: A college student unexpectedly finds that she has inherited a derelict house. Accompanied by a group of friends, she goes there to clear it of heirlooms before the structure is demolished. Almost immediately, she and her friends are targeted by a powerful warlock who is very interested in her bloodline.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-12
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1985-01-02
Overview: A TV movie directed by Bob Mahoney. Based on the book by Dick Lee & Colin Pratt it tells the true story of a long running Police investigation which resulted in the arrests of 120 people and jail sentences of 170 years for the manufacture and distribution of £100M of LSD.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-02
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1993-11-01
Overview: H.P. Lovecraft anthology is divided into four segments: "The Library" which is the wraparound segment involving Lovecraft's research into the Book of The Dead and his unwitting release of a monster and his writing of the following horror segments "The Drowned", "The Cold", and "Whispers".
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-01
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2001-08-08
Overview: A massacre survivor studies serial killers under a famous expert, but her classmates soon start dying at the hands of a Jack the Ripper copycat.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-08
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1986-11-26
Overview: In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by the despotic rulers of the new Earth. The group in question plays a hockey based game on roller skates and is quite good. It has given them a unity that transcends the attempts to bring them to heel by the government. Finding an orb of special power, they find it has unusual effects on them. They escape from the orphanage (on skates) and try to cross the wasteland looking for a place they can live free as the storm-troopers search for them and the orb.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-26
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1986-04-04
Overview: A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin's Notting Hill housing estate...
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-04
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2010-09-04
Overview: Amber dreams of escaping her small town existence and persuades her friends to accompany her to find an apartment in the big city. When their transportation breaks down, she and her friends gratefully accept a ride in the back of a semi. But when the driver refuses to stop and they discover the cargo is hundreds of cartons of blood, they panic. Their panic turns to terror when the truck disgorges them into a dark, abandoned warehouse where blood-thirsty creatures learn to hunt human prey, which, the friends realize, is what they now are... Written by Svetlio Svilenov
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-04
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1998-12-02
Overview: Dolph Lundgren is Christian Erickson, a leading demolition expert trained to disarm mine fields in a humanitarian minesweeping operation in Angola. His son is killed and he discovers that mines are being planted during the war to kill people in the area.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-02
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2004-03-16
Overview: Paranoid computer programmer Simon wakes up to find a package in his room one day. Despite attempts at securing his apartment, the packages keep arriving. While cameras watch Simon's every move, he struggles to find the answers to the mysterious forces taking over his life.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-16
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2003-09-26
Overview: James Bishop is a young psychology resident, excited about his new job at St. Andrews Mental Hospital and the chance to help severely ill patients. The excitement changes to puzzlement, concern and finally terror as some of those patients mysteriously die and James' efforts to find the cause results in increasingly strange behavior from the St. Andrews staff. Things begin to clarify when James finally encounters the Harvester...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-26
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1983-03-18
Overview: It is 1947, the year of the communist rebellion in Malaya and the British army's SADUSEA (Song And Dance Unit South East Asia) are called to the Malayan Jungle to entertain the troops. The eccentric, bible-bashing Major Giles Flack (John Cleese) is in command of the unit. Flack is accompanied by an ageing, theatrical drama queen, Terri Dennis (Denis Quilley) who hopes to entertain the troops with his flamboyant impressions, but the bored troops find other ways to enjoy themselves.
Genres: Comedy Drama War Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-18
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1996-11-22
Overview: Sharon Bell is back, this time she must stop a terrorist plot to smuggle Nazi nerve gas.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-22
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2004-12-03
Overview: While Emperor Domitian persecutes the Christians, the aged apostle John has prophetic visions.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-03
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1993-11-27
Overview: The LA police department have a special team of officers with a talent for reducing big-time crime. The team leader has an excellent track record for crime reduction in other big cities, but his methods are unconventional, and so is he - he's a werewolf.
Genres: Horror Action TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-27
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2007-06-14
Overview: In England, the American pathologist Dr. Richard Murray still grieves the death of his wife Carol eight months ago in a car crash. He is drinking too much whiskey due to his guilty complex since he had a love affair with a woman when Carol left home, and he has frequent blackouts, forgetting what he has done in the previous drinking night. Meanwhile a serial-killer is attacking women in the location, and the experienced American cop DCI Collins and the psychologist Frances Beale are invited to help the local police in the investigations. When Dr. Murray receives messages from beyond, he meets his friend Father Randall seeking spiritual support and explanation.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-14
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2000-01-10
Overview: It was the sister ship of the infamous Titanic... and its final destiny was the same. Experience the true untold story of Britannic, a tumultuous, epic voyage of human passion, courage and betrayal aboard an ill-fated ocean liner bound for a shattering demise. With the world at war, an undercover British agent (Amanda Ryan), embarks the Britannic in search of a German spy believed to be on board to sabotage the ship. Posing as a governess, the undercover agent finds herself falling in love with the ship's chaplain (Edward Atterton). In a stunning discovery, the lovers suddenly find themselves enemies of war. And when a massive explosion deals a deathblow to the ship, their battle becomes one for their own survival. With a dynamic, international cast and a story line that hosts a chilling tale of espionage, politics and romance, Britannic brings one of history's most devastating events to riveting, new life.
Genres: Action Drama History TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-10
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1996-07-26
Overview: When a man's wife and family are murdered, he plots revenge only to find out that the killer is under Federal protection and he must exact his own form of justice.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-26
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1995-01-01
Overview: There have been two mysterious plane crashes in only 48 hours. The aircraft suddenly lose control and crash, killing everyone aboard. A woman of Russian descent, Francesca Zaborszin, the daughter of a slain Federal investigator, claims responsibility for the crashes. She believes her father was killed by the FBI as part of a cover-up operation and wishes to avenge his death by threatening to down more aircraft using the same electromagnetic pulse method. She also intends to crash a stolen military jet into the White House. There's no time to ground the planes: just enough time to try to stop her.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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1996-11-15
Overview: Flush with $3 million in counterfeit bills, a pair of small-time criminals hope to make the big time by trading it in for a cool million in authentic cash. However, when the trade goes awry, three men end up murdered- one a cop with a vengeful sister--and the hapless buddies find themselves caught between the police and mob hit men after the money.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-15
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2013-08-29
Overview: Former race car driver Brent Magna is pitted against the clock. Desperately trying to save the life of his kidnapped wife, Brent commandeers a custom Ford Shelby GT500 Super Snake, taking it and its unwitting owner on a high-speed race against time, at the command of the mysterious villain holding his wife hostage.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-29
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2013-09-30
Overview: A veteran hostage negotiator's next call leads him to an overrun insane asylum. He soon finds that dark forces are pushing the patients to commit atrocities, and he may be the only one that can stop them.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-30
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2010-01-01
Overview: The tragic story of Joe, a Police Sargeant in London who falls for Carmen a feisty gypsy girl who is the victim of a eastern European gang of sex traffickers. Joe rescues her from her horrific entrapment and begins to love her like no man has before.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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1994-02-06
Overview: This update of the 1950 western TV series changes Cisco and Pancho from wandering heroes of the old west to somewhat anti-"gringo" Mexican revolutionaries.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-06
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2013-11-08
Overview: Special ops interrogation officer Jimmy Vickers tracks down a gang who slaughtered his parents while at the same time avoiding being tracked down by his old unit and the cops. With police closing in and his old unit on his trail, he has to evade capture long enough to complete his gruesome crusade.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-08
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2013-11-20
Overview: Victor Perez was a Jewish boxer who became world flyweight champion in 1931 and 1932, but was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp when Paris fell to the Nazi s in 1943. While there he was forced into slave labour and made to participate in violent boxing matches for the amusement of the Nazi guards. Surviving Auschwitz tells Victors astonishing, harrowing, brutal and incredibly moving true story.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-11-20
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1988-11-04
Overview: Eddie and Michael are two 16-year-old gay friends from Liverpool. Berated by his father for his camp behavior, Eddie runs away from his Liverpool home and joins Michael, a streetwise hustler, who is also on the run.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-04
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1988-05-17
Overview: A retired British soldier struggles to adjust to everyday life, with increasing difficulty.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-17
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1989-07-06
Overview: True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-07-06
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1991-12-18
Overview: As soon as they meet Ari and Sam get into a pretty passionate - and combustible - relationship. Indeed, the scenes of their rendezvous often seem reminiscent of the Chicago Fire. But the course of true flaming lust never runs true, and as they try to handle their all-consuming passion their two best friends endlessly meet to compare notes on developments.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-18
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2014-10-17
Overview: This film consists of six supernatural tales linked together by a demon that is intent on collecting human souls. The Demon banished to Earth by The Devil performs unholy rituals that releases the souls of the damned.
Genres: Fantasy Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-17
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2015-06-15
Overview: A black ops sniper is blackmailed by a psychotic international terrorist into killing 6 unrelated people in 6 hours... but there is more to the victims than meets the eye.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-15
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1997-09-06
Overview: A small passenger spaceship is forced to make a crash landing somewhere on a desolate territory on Earth. In search of some essential mineral the crew discovers a hidden stash of military bio-weapon surplus. One of the crew members gets infected, and starts showing murderous tendencies.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-06
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1984-08-24
Overview: A young American hustler in Las Vegas spots a rich English Lady. Smitten, he pursues her to England, where his only chance of getting together with her is to enroll in Oxford and join the rowing team.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-24
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1983-06-19
Overview: A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-19
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2016-01-15
Overview: A professional contract killer, haunted by visions of his violent past, spirals out of control. His work compromised as he reaches breaking point, he is forced to defend his family from his ruthless employers.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-15
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2015-10-16
Overview: Five years after a zombie outbreak, the men and women of R-Division hunt down and destroy the undead. When they see signs of a second outbreak, they fear humanity may not survive.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-16
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Overview: A man struggling with his identity travels to Spain as a tutor and falls in love with one of his students. Sex, love and ultimately murder ensue.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
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2015-03-21
Overview: A ruthless businessman's payoff to the Belgian mafia is intercepted by his revenge-seeking former protegees, launching a deadly war of violence and double-dealing.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-21
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2016-06-19
Overview: A young man meets the worn voice of a fading city under the dim lights of a London sex shop.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-19
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2017-05-06
Overview: The year is 1955. NATO and the Allied Forces have been conducting secret, occult experiments in a bid to win the Arms Race. Now, they have finally succeeded but what the Army has unleashed threatens to tear our world apart. One woman must lead the only survivors past horrors that the military has no way to control - and fight to close what should never have been opened.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-06
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2016-01-13
Overview: London , 1888 and the Ripper murders are gripping the country. The people of Whitechapel are afraid to walk the streets at night, the police are no closer to cracking the case. But someone is watching, waiting, ready to strike.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-13
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1986-10-26
Overview: Leon, a hacker convicted for a crime he did not commit, escapes from detention centre following the death of his father, to take revenge on the man who really did it.
Genres: Comedy Thriller TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-26
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2018-10-05
Overview: A portmanteau exploration of disparate characters scattered across London, many of whose lives intersect unpredictably. A refreshing take on the complexities, contradictions and compromises of modern living in the greatest City on Earth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-05
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1985-11-25
Overview: Cocky cockney snooker player Billy Kid accepts the challenge of a grudge match from Maxwell Randall (the Green Baize Vampire), six times world champion; the loser will never play professional snooker again.
Genres: Western Comedy Horror Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-25
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1991-04-18
Overview: A villainous carnival owner traps a young werewolf to include in his growing menagerie of inhuman exhibits.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-18
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1986-01-01
Overview: A girl finds herself inside a fashion magazine – Joanna Hogg's graduation piece at the National Film and Television School starring a then unknown Tilda Swinton.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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2020-10-08
Overview: Where do we come from and where do we go ? The eternal question of humanity which religions have tried to answer over the centuries - lt's the end of the year 2012. The Universe is about to undergo an imposing planetary alignment and a Total Eclipse will soon be upon Planet Earth. Great vibrational changes are imminent and set to disturb us. The eight members of the Galactic Council, led by Lord Ogmha (William Shatner), meet to discuss the effects of the imminent alignment. They are 8 creators (aliens) and each one of them governs a Planet. They are each responsible for the security and well-being of a 'LENS'. Together they balance the conflict and allegiance of the Universe. Treason puts Earth in danger and the LENS, the hard disc (crystal core) containing the recording of the entire history, DNA, memories and nucleus of mankind is hidden somewhere in Italy. Everyone is searching for it. If the Lens is opened and in the wrong hands it could reveal to the human beings the shocking
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Romance Fantasy Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-08
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1983-12-16
Overview: Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks in an ancient stone fortress. Two of the soldiers unwittingly release a mysterious entity that kills or corrupts those within its influence, drawing the attention of a Gestapo commander, a Jewish scholar and a mysterious traveller.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-16
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2024-06-28
Overview: When ‘Smiley’ takes over the Vala Drug Corporation, a masked vigilante, Rendel, will avenge the murder of his family.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-28
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2020-07-14
Overview: A rave in a deserted warehouse, the perfect place to introduce a NEW designer drug - right? Two young blokes, alongside two girls picked up en route, quickly discover just how wrong they were. With Users turning, blood gushing and body parts flying - Will there be anyone left alive amongst the undead?
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-14
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1991-05-10
Overview: Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil. But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-10
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2012-09-06
Overview: In October 2009, the filmmakers went into an abandoned psychiatric hospital to explore the 'haunted' institution, famous for its radical treatment of patients with mental illness. Electroshock, insulin therapy, and lobotomies were commonplace. Once inside, the filmmakers quickly discovered that they were not alone.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-06
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2021-03-29
Overview: An underworld kingpin's past catches up with him when he returns to London, igniting an explosive chain of events which ends in revenge and murder.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-03-29
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2008-02-27
Overview: In a once thriving Arizona mining town, a woman starts renovating an abandoned brothel and meets the ghosts who still haunt it.
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-27
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2021-11-20
Overview: 'Give Them Wings' is based on the true story of severely disabled football fan Paul Hodgson.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-20
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2024-10-18
Overview: A group of mercenary leaders convene in a country retreat after pulling off a drug raid. Things take a turn for the worse after they raise the attentions of 'The Stoic', a man from an ancient clan of smugglers.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-18
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