Bashar Rahal
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Biography: Bashar Mounzer Rahal is the second child to a Bulgarian mother Mariana Rahal - an interior designer and Lebanese father Mounzer Rahal - an OB/GYN. The family moved back to Bulgaria when Bashar was only 6 years old. He first started acting in TV sketches when he was 12. At the age of 14 he became a member of a professional theater group, called "Tears and Laughs", with which he took part in more than 15 performances including Shakespeare and Chekhov. He attended numerous international festivals, including the ones in Avignon, France and Thun, Switzerland among others. His first big screen role at the age of 15 was in 1952: Ivan i Aleksandra (1989) which was followed by more TV and Film appearances. After graduating from The First English Language High School in Sofia, Bashar attended the National Academy of Theater and Film Art, where he received his Masters in Dramatic Arts. Shortly after graduation he was accepted as a permanent member of the national youth theatre and was a guest actor at The National Theatre Sofia Bulgaria. For the next couple of years Bashar appeared in over 25 different TV comedy shows, but became most popular with the hit TV show "It Can't Be"equivalent of SNL ,created & directed by Nellie Andreeva .The show won " Golden Melon", for best comedy show - the most prestigious TV award in Bulgaria. In 1997 Bashar hosted "The Late Night Show" on Channel 3 Sofia , where he met his co-host and future wife Kalina Rahal. In 1999 the couple moved to California so that Bashar could pursue his acting career. He was granted Alien of Extra Ordinary ability as an actor. He is a graduate from the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Los Angeles. For a long time he was considered to play Azamat Bagatov in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Initially Bashar was not considered to play in Joshua Seftel's Political Satire War ,Inc. but the producers Danny Lerner and Les Weldon convinced both John Cusack and the Director Seftel that he is the best choice for the part. After the end of the shooting Cusack and Seftel admitted that Bashar had developed the best character. Later Danny Lerner casted Bashar as a lead in his upcoming action movie Direct Contact. Recently he was casted to play Boris in Dominic Sena's "Whiteout",starring Kate Beckinsale.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Birthday: October 20, 1974
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Gender: Male
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I'm with Me
Overview: Days before Valentine's day and their wedding, Cindy Hunter, editor-in-chief of a tabloid and Damon Tuckland, a successful therapist encounter a strange plant that magically puts Cindy's mind in Damon's body and vice versa. Now the couple really finds out how the other half lives. In a series of comic mishaps at work, with relatives and at home, Cindy and Damon must become better people and figure out a way to reverse the "awkward" situation before their wedding or face a lifetime as each other. It's the ultimate body-swapping comedy with a heart that gives a brand-new meaning to the term "The Opposite Sex".
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-20
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As Far as I Can Walk
Overview: Strahinja and his wife Ababuo left Ghana with a dream of a better life in Europe. Instead of reaching the western part of the continent, they were deported back to Serbia. Strahinja has started to build himself a career, while Ababuo is unable to fulfil her ambitions and she feels increasingly frustrated. When she disappears one day, Strahinja sets out to find her… A crystal clear, humanistic story about the need to find one’s place in the world. It’s also a tale of love, the most profound testimony of which might also be the most painful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2022-01-22
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Direct Contact
Overview: An imprisoned ex-US Special forces operative in Eastern Europe, is offered his freedom and money to rescue an American woman, who has been kidnapped by a ruthless warlord. But, shortly after freeing her discovers that the kidnap story was just a ruse to bring her out into the open.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-16
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Target of Opportunity
Overview: Jim Jacobs and Nick Carlton, childhood friends, are CIA operatives on a sting operation in Chechnya. The raid of a rebel militia group goes bad and the entire teams gets wiped out except for Jim and Nick, who manages to save them both. Five years later, they are out of the CIA game.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-26
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War, Inc.
Overview: In the future, the desert country of Turaqistan is torn by a riot after private corporation Tamerlane, owned by the former Vice President of the United States, has taken over. Brand Hauser, a hitman who suppresses his emotions by gobbling down hot sauce, is hired by the corporation's head to kill the CEO of their competitors.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-28
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Conan the Barbarian
Overview: A quest that begins as a personal vendetta for the fierce Cimmerian warrior soon turns into an epic battle against hulking rivals, horrific monsters, and impossible odds, as Conan realizes he is the only hope of saving the great nations of Hyboria from an encroaching reign of supernatural evil.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-17
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Sharks in Venice
Overview: The seemingly tranquil waterways of Venice are terrorized by the perfect killing machine. In search of his father who has mysteriously disappeared diving in the city, David stumbles across the cryptic trail leading to the long-lost fortune of the Medici. As the unwitting pawn in a Mafia plot to recover the treasure, David's girlfriend is kidnapped at gunpoint, plunging him into a desperate race against time. If he has any hope of saving her he must enter the deadly waters. Can David out-gun the Mafia assassins and survive the voracious sharks laying in wait beneath the surface, or will he succumb to the same fate as his father?
Genres: Horror Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-06
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Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare
Overview: It is 200 years before the birth of Christ and Rome is the new superpower of the ancient world. She believes she is invincible - but one man is destined to change that. He is a man bound by oath to avenge the wrongs inflicted on his home and, in pursuit of revenge, he will stop at nothing. Hannibal explores the man behind the myth, revealing what drove the 26-year-old to mastermind one of the most audacious military moves in history. With 40,000 soldiers and 37 elephants, he marched 1,500 miles to challenge his enemies on their own soil. It was an act so daring that few people believed it possible.
Genres: History Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-05
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Survivor
Overview: A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for crimes she did not commit.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-21
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The Shepherd: Border Patrol
Overview: A Texas cop battles ex-navy seals who are trying to traffic drugs from Mexico into the USA.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-04
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U.S. Seals
Overview: Dozens of American cargos with high valuable goods have disappeared, probably attacked by modern pirates. The United States decide to mobilize a team of expert SWAT, with Mike Bradley as leader, sending them to destroy the pirates' base, namely a deserted oil rig near Turkey. But these are cleverly waiting for them.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-18
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City of Fear
Overview: When reporter Steve Roberts acts on a call from his good friend, Charlie, urging him to report on a hot scientific story in Bulgaria, he ends up in a world of disappearance, death and deception.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-20
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Basilisk: The Serpent King
Overview: Two millennia ago, a Lybian king has a basilisk (snake-shaped dragon), which petrifies people, subjected to the same fate with a golden scepter during a solar eclipse. Both these and several victims are dug up by modern archaeologist Harrison 'Harry' McColl's expedition. Despite a cryptic warning from tribal locals, everything goes to his Colorado university's museum. It's all exhibited during another eclipse, which leads to the monster reviving. Harry and some of his friends must try to petrify the monster again.
Genres: Action Horror TV Movie Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-25
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Shark Attack 3: Megalodon
Overview: When two researchers discover a colossal shark's tooth off the Mexican coast their worst fears surface - the most menacing beast to ever rule the waters is still alive and mercilessly feeding on anything that crosses its path. Now they must hunt the fierce killer and destroy it... before there is no one left to stop it
Genres: Horror Thriller Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-26
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In the Heart of the Machine
Overview: Heat, iron, dust and the smell of oil. A typical workday of maximum security inmates will prove to be fateful for all of them. They find something extraordinary inside one of the machines, and an unexpected wave of compassion makes the prisoners take hostages and block the entrance to the workshop and risk their lives, because sometimes the desire to be human is stronger than the survival instinct.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2022-03-18
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El Gringo
Overview: A man crossing into Mexico with a satchel of $2,000,000—and a bloody past—finds himself under sudden attack in the sleepy town of El Fronteras.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-10
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Reunion 2
Overview: "Reunion 2" continues the story of four friends who came from different parts of the world to meet again at their hometown of Plovdiv, 20 years after they left. This time they unite to help a fifth friend who is trying to save one of the last wild beaches at the southwest of the Black Sea from construction. As one of them is an actor, they decide to make a movie about their story and to buy out the beach with the profit. This leads to bunch of comedic and dramatic situations where their friendship and their relationships with their significant others are put on the line.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2022-02-14
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Assassin's Bullet
Overview: In Assassin's Bullet, Slater plays Robert Diggs, a black ops agent who comes to work for Ambassador Ashdown (Hunger Games star Donald Sutherland), tracking down a vigilante assassin in Eastern Europe. The maverick hit(wo)man has been taking out high-profile targets on the U.S. hit list, and Diggs must uncover the killer's identity before there's an international incident. The usual game of cat and mouse ensues.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-01
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In the Name of the King III
Overview: Hazen Kaine, an American contract killer living in Sofia, Bulgaria, gets more than he bargains for when he enters into a contract with the mob. One last job before he gets out and starts a new life for himself. The targets: the three children of royal billionaire Andon Dupont. Seems simple enough, or so he thought. Hazen apprehends the children, and before he can blink an eye, a simple necklace worn by one of the children sends his life spiraling back to medieval times. Now completely out of his element, Hazen fights for his life as he tries to escape a medieval army and a fierce fire-breathing dragon.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-05
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Death Train
Overview: A man is supposed to guard a shipment of diamonds being sent by rail. But a man robs the train and kills the men guarding the diamonds. The robbers derail the train and hope to get away with their crime. The robbers get caught in Mexico and are sent to prison by rail. The robbers take over the prison train they are on. Will these robbers get away with their crime or will the bodyguard kill all of the robbers and reclaim the train?
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-25
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Whiteout
Overview: The only U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica, Carrie Stetko will soon leave the harsh environment behind for good – in three days, the sun will set and the Amundsen-Scott Research Station will shut down for the long winter. When a body is discovered out on the open ice, Carrie's investigation into the continent's first homicide plunges her deep into a mystery that may cost her her own life.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-09
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Disaster
Overview: When the girlfriend of a cult leader tries to leave the flock, she finds escape to be more difficult than she imagined.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-17
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The Tournament
Overview: Every ten years, in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man standing receives the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of World's No. 1 Assassin, which itself carries the legendary million dollar-a-bullet price tag.
Genres: Horror Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-01
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The Legend of Hercules
Overview: In Ancient Greece 1200 B.C., a queen succumbs to the lust of Zeus to bear a son promised to overthrow the tyrannical rule of the king and restore peace to a land in hardship. But this prince, Hercules, knows nothing of his real identity or his destiny. He desires only one thing: the love of Hebe, Princess of Crete, who has been promised to his own brother. When Hercules learns of his greater purpose, he must choose: to flee with his true love or to fulfill his destiny and become the true hero of his time. The story behind one of the greatest myths is revealed in this action-packed epic - a tale of love, sacrifice and the strength of the human spirit.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-10
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Rapid Response Corps 2: Nuclear Threat
Overview: Hilarious comedy about a bunch of crazy private detectives who are trying to save the world from a nuclear disaster! Everything would be easier if there were not so many pretty Bulgarian girls who destract some of the agents, but sometimes help with fighting back. This is a second instalment of the Rapid Response Corps with the same characters from the first movie.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2014-01-17
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Boyka: Undisputed IV
Overview: In the fourth installment of the fighting franchise, Boyka is shooting for the big leagues when an accidental death in the ring makes him question everything he stands for. When he finds out the wife of the man he accidentally killed is in trouble, Boyka offers to fight in a series of impossible battles to free her from a life of servitude.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-01
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Septembers of Shiraz
Overview: In this adaptation of the critically acclaimed debut novel by Iranian American author Dalia Sofer, a secular Jewish family is caught up in the maelstrom of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-15
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Pulse of the dance
Overview: FILM ABOUT THE PRICE OF SUCCESS. The story revolves around 10-year-old Martina, who is a dancer. At such a fragile age, she has to cope with her ambitious mother, whose aim is to make Martina champion of Bulgaria. Fortunately, she meets Victor - her new coach, he is an ex-dancer, trying to escape from his past. The film reveals the world of dancesport - the kingdom of glory and beauty, but also its immoral side and dark secrets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2024-02-09
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Young Woman and the Sea
Overview: This is the extraordinary true story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to successfully swim the English Channel. Through the steadfast support of her older sister and supportive trainers, she overcame adversity and the animosity of a patriarchal society to rise through the ranks of the Olympic swimming team and complete the 21-mile trek from France to England.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-31
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Footsteps in the Sand
Overview: At the airport, Slavi tells his life's story to a young customs officer. As children, Nelly promises Slavi to marry him. The two teenagers are passionately in love with each other but after some time Nelly falls in love with another guy. Slavi takes up drinking and gets into trouble with the Bulgarian militia (police) because of his family background. This is when he decides to defect to the West. After staying at a refugee camp in Austria and another desperate love, he sets out to the United States. There Slavi makes some new friends who help him buy a truck. He hits the roads of America, where he comes across an Indian who sells him an arrow. The vender tells him this amulet will bring his love back. Eventually, Slavi comes back to Bulgaria, where communism has collapsed. His beloved Nelly lives alone with her daughter. One day Slavi meets her again...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2010-07-01
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Automata
Overview: Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-09
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The Throwaways
Overview: Notorious hacker Drew Reynolds is captured by the CIA and given a proposition - work for them or spend the rest of his life in prison. Agreeing on the condition that he can form his own team, he puts together a group of "throwaways" - the people deemed expendable and seemingly the worst in the organization.
Genres: Action Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-30
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XIa
Overview: XI "A" follows the story of Lina - a former dancer, who goes in for her dream job, namely to become a literature teacher.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2015-10-08
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Gasoline
Overview: After spending fifteen years in prison a former race car driver returns to his old life in order to fulfill the promise he made to the love of his life.
Genres: Action
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2017-05-19
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Security
Overview: An ex-special services veteran, down on his luck and desperate for work, takes a job as a security guard at a run-down mall in a rough area of town. On his first night on the job, he opens the door to a distraught and desperate young girl who has fled the hijacking of a Police motorcade that was transporting her to testify as a witness in a trial. Hot on her heels is the psychopathic hijacker and his team of henchmen, who will stop at nothing to extract and eliminate the witness.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-03-04
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Operation Delta Force 4: Deep Fault
Overview: When a group of seismologists are taken prison, the forces that be know that there is only one team of rescuers to turn to--the highly elite Delta Force. Upon beginning this difficult mission to track down and save the hostages, the men on the Force are met with several surprises--surprises that lead them to think this may be one mission they cannot get out of.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-09
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All She Wrote
Overview: When Aaron, an ex-fighter, turns to music after years of being knocked around and left with permanent mental disabilities, he falls for Jana, an off-centered Bulgarian immigrant living in New York. While he recognizes that she is as crazy as he is, Jana does not share the same opinion. But her brother, Bobby, an up and coming wannabe fighter, decides to convince her she is that crazy in order to get Aaron in the ring against him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-05
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Day of the Dead: Bloodline
Overview: In a world overrun by zombies, military personnel and survivalists live in an underground bunker while they seek a cure.
Genres: Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-29
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Attraction
Overview: The young ravishing history teacher Lora Angelova is torn apart by the love she has for the school her father founded, and her former life as a competitive dancer. As the principal's position at the school becomes vacant, Lora needs to make the difficult decision between staying and fighting for the job, or running away from the intimidation she faces. With the help of the beloved students in her class, she discovers who she really is and easily makes the right decision.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2018-02-23
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Revolution X
Overview: The cult group "Revolution X" goes on their first big tour at sea, but the producer imposes on Bobby and Philip a new vocalist - the popular in BG singer GARY - NICHOL, which everyone in the group is annoyed with. The two couples plan to see each other secretly and spend a romantic vacation, but the director of the school Tsekov has his own plan for the trip ...
Genres: Music Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2018-05-11
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Reunion
Overview: Three friends return from abroad and every one of them comes upon at something from his past. Finally they go to their hometown to save the house of one of their childhood friends from being demolished.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2019-10-18
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The Expendables 3
Overview: Barney, Christmas and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables -- but Barney has other plans. Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy. The latest mission becomes a clash of classic old-school style versus high-tech expertise in the Expendables’ most personal battle yet.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-07
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Index Zero
Overview: 2035, United States of Europe. Some humans are not sustainable anymore.
Genres: Thriller Action Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-24
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Search and Destroy
Overview: When American Ranger John Cutter fails to save a family being held hostage and loses his entire team in a confrontation with infamous Ukrainian arms dealer Igor Rodin, he is discharged from the army.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-19
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Monster Ark
Overview: Archaeologist Nicholas Zavaterro and his student find an antique vase with an inscription that points to where Noah's Ark is hidden. They decide to go looking, but things get out of control when they encounter opposing forces, including a monster named Tama.
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Bridge of Dragons
Overview: The tough and cold mercenary Warchild, is working for the man who took care of his war training and upbringing, the greedy General Ruechang. Ruechang is planning to take over the country by marrying Princess Halo. But Halo discovers that Ruechang killed her father to gain more power than he had working for the King, so she decides to run away. Warchild is the one who has to bring her back to Ruechang, but the one thing no one counted on happens... Warchild and Halo falls in love, and together they take on the forces of Ruechang... Written by Zorteper -
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-30
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Uncle Claus
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2021-11-26
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No Wings
Overview: Follow the life path of Mihayl Hristov, who finds solace in sport while adapting the power of his spirit
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2024-12-06
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Никога не е просто секс
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 2024-05-08
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