Tony Curran
Also Known As: Anthony Curran , تونی کوران
Biography: Anthony "Tony" Curran (born 13 December 1969) is a Scottish actor. Curran was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He is an alumnus of Holyrood Secondary School and is a graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Tony rose to fame in the BBC television series This Life. Since then, the Scots star has appeared in a number of major film and television roles. Some of his roles have included The Invisible Man in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. To portray the Invisible Man, he donned a special suit that turned him into a walking bluescreen (according to his commentary on the DVD, he looked like a "smurf on acid"). Curran also played the vampire named Priest in Guillermo del Toro's Blade II. Curran is active in participating in marathons to raise money for charity. He is a keen fan of Celtic Football Club. He is a frequent and popular participant in the annual Dressed To Kilt event in New York City, run by the organization Friends of Scotland in celebration of Tartan Week. In April, 2009 Curran revealed to the Daily Record newspaper that he is playing the role of Lieutenant Delcourt, in The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, due to be released in 2011. Curran played the painter Vincent Van Gogh, in the Doctor Who episode "Vincent and the Doctor", written by Richard Curtis. He also made a cameo appearance in "The Pandorica Opens".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Port Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Birthday: December 13, 1969
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Gender: Male
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The Good German
Overview: An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his investigation connects with his search for his married pre-war German lover.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-15
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Underworld: Evolution
Overview: As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death Dealers (an elite vampire special forces unit that hunts werewolves), and Michael, the werewolf hybrid, work together in an effort to unlock the secrets of their respective bloodlines.
Genres: Fantasy Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-12
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Beowulf & Grendel
Overview: The blood-soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll, Grendel. Heads will roll. Out of allegiance to the King Hrothgar, the much respected Lord of the Danes, Beowulf leads a troop of warriors across the sea to rid a village of the marauding monster.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-14
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Red Road
Overview: Jackie is a CCTV operator. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she hoped never to see again. Now she has no choice and is compelled to confront him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-27
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Flight of the Phoenix
Overview: When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down and fly them out. On the flight out over the desert on the way to Beijing, Capt. Frank Towns and co-pilot A.J. are unable to keep their cargo plane, a C-119 Flying Boxcar, in the air when a violent sandstorm strikes. Crash-landing in a remote uncharted part of the desert, the two pilots and their passengers -- a crew of oil workers and a drifter -- must work together to survive by rebuilding the aircraft. Soon, low supplies and a band of merciless smugglers add even greater urgency to their task.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-17
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Overview: To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.
Genres: Fantasy Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-11
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The Lazarus Project
Overview: After Ben Garvey foolishly turned back to crime, he thought his life was over when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. But his death sentence isn't quite what it seems, as Ben regains consciousness near an eerie psychiatric ward, where he's told he's been hired as the groundskeeper. With the state of his soul in question, and the love for his wife and daughter all the more real and powerful, Ben must figure out if he's truly cheated death, or if he's become part of something far more sinister.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-24
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Blade II
Overview: A rare mutation has occurred within the vampire community - The Reaper. A vampire so consumed with an insatiable bloodlust that they prey on vampires as well as humans, transforming victims who are unlucky enough to survive into Reapers themselves. Blade is asked by the Vampire Nation for his help in preventing a nightmare plague that would wipe out both humans and vampires.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-22
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Corrado
Overview: A ruthless mafia hit man is transformed when he rescues a woman who takes the fall for one of his hits.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Ondine
Overview: On the coast of Cork, Syracuse is a divorced fisherman who has stopped drinking. His precocious daughter Annie has failing kidneys. One day, he finds a nearly-drowned young woman in his net; she calls herself Ondine and wants no one to see her. He puts her up in an isolated cottage that was his mother's. Annie discovers Ondine's presence and believes she is a selkie, a seal that turns human while on land. Syracuse is afraid to hope again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-03-05
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Shuttle
Overview: When two friends return from a girls weekend vacation in Mexico, they find themselves stranded at the airport. Trying to get home safely, they board an airport shuttle for the short trip. But once their feet cross the threshold of the shuttle, a night that had started like any other turns terrifying, and the ride home becomes a descent into darkness.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-08
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The Adventures of Tintin
Overview: Intrepid young reporter, Tintin, and his loyal dog, Snowy, are thrust into a world of high adventure when they discover a ship carrying an explosive secret. As Tintin is drawn into a centuries-old mystery, Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine suspects him of stealing a priceless treasure. Tintin and Snowy, with the help of salty, cantankerous Captain Haddock and bumbling detectives, Thompson and Thomson, travel half the world, one step ahead of their enemies, as Tintin endeavors to find the Unicorn, a sunken ship that may hold a vast fortune, but also an ancient curse.
Genres: Adventure Animation Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-24
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Being Human
Overview: One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.
Genres: Drama Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-06
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The Veteran
Overview: Soldier Robert Miller returns home from Afghanistan unable to fit back into society. Living on a violent council estate and finding work in undercover surveillance, he becomes obsessed with taking down a group of local gangsters who are intrinsically tied to a suspected terrorist cell. Taking the situation into his own hands, Robert embarks on a brutal quest for justice, with devastating consequences.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-29
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The Presence
Overview: In this darkly romantic ghost story, a woman travels to an isolated cabin where she is stalked by an apparition who inhabits her space as his own. With the unexpected arrival of the woman’s boyfriend, the dark spirit’s haunting grows obsessive. Soon the woman begins to exhibit weirdly irrational behavior as the thin line between sanity and possession begins to unravel. Is she battling her inner demons, or is a much darker presence threatening them all?
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-04
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Cat Run
Overview: When a sexy, high-end escort holds the key evidence to a scandalous government cover-up, two bumbling young detectives become her unlikely protectors from a ruthless assassin hired to silence her.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-01
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Thor: The Dark World
Overview: Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-30
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Golf in the Kingdom
Overview: In 1956, American philosophy student Michael Murphy is on his way to an ashram in India when he stops off in Scotland for one last game of golf. He meets a spirited pro who teaches him about golf and life, and how the two are beautifully intertwined.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-07-28
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Two-Legged Rat Bastards
Overview: A short film detailing the strange estrangement of an elderly father and his son. Set on a park bench in the present day, Eddie, a cantankerous old alcoholic, attempts to connect with his son Winstead, who's spent the majority of his adult life trying to get away from him. In the course of their conversation Eddie reveals how he lost his leg - in a high stakes poker game 30 years ago.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-27
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No Holds Bard
Overview: Comedy following the lives of five people as they prepare to vie for the 2009 Cup O'Kindness, the trophy awarded to the champion in Robert Burns poetry recital. The film captures the ups and downs of each participant's progress as the pressure intensifies, the poems are recited and the champion is crowned. Held in Alloway, the birthplace of Burns himself, this prestigious competition is the centrepiece of the annual celebrations devoted to the Bard's immortal memory. And this year it may prove memorable for all the wrong reasons.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-25
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Mary, Queen of Scots
Overview: The life and death of the Scottish monarch.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-04
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The Seventeenth Kind
Overview: Black comedy scifi about a washed up TV presenter who doesn't let small things like alien invasions stop him from broadcasting.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-01
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National Achievement Day
Overview: On National Achievement Day, the lives of a detective, a shopkeeper, a garage attendant, a barmaid, a dog and two mice interconnect. Their conversation provokes self-reflection, stirring up memories that evoke longings and regrets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-01
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The Midnight Meat Train
Overview: A photographer's obsessive pursuit of dark subject matter leads him into the path of a serial killer who stalks late night commuters, ultimately butchering them in the most gruesome ways.
Genres: Horror Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-07
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Marvellous
Overview: Dramatisation of the true story of the life of Neil "Nello" Baldwin. Born with a mild learning disability but without the burden of social embarrassment & how his inexhaustible ability to see the good in any situation overcame any stigma society tried to label him with.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-25
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The 13th Warrior
Overview: A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their behavior but growing to respect them. As they travel together, they learn of a legendary evil closing in and must unite to confront this formidable force.
Genres: Adventure History Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-13
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Shoot for the Sun
Overview: Set in the bleak backdrop of Edinburgh a low level drug dealer strives for making a living and surviving the natural elements of such an environment day to day.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-16
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Awaiting
Overview: After a car accident, Jake is rescued by Morris and brought to his remote farmhouse. As he recovers from his injuries, Jake soon begins to suspect that something is very wrong. Morris has sinister plans for his new houseguest.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-01
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Gladiator
Overview: After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus preferred. Eventually, Maximus is forced to become a gladiator and battle to the death against other men for the amusement of paying audiences.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-04
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Heavenly Pursuits
Overview: Vic Mathews teaches a remedial class at the Blessed Edith Semple School in Scotland. Some at the school are trying to discover the two more miracles that would promote the late Edith Semple to sainthood; Mathews, a non-believer, wishes the school would concentrate on teaching the children. He becomes confused, however, when he is involved in possibly miraculous events himself! Written by George S. Davis
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-11
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Coming Down
Overview: A group of friends come to Gary's flat after a hard night's clubbing, take more drugs and chill out until the next morning.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Hunt for Tony Blair
Overview: The Comic Strip team return for a special 50s-style 'fugitive' film noir spoof. The 60-minute film, penned by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens, follows Prime Minister Tony Blair (Stephen Mangan), wanted for murder and on the run. Escaping from Number 10 and leaving behind his adoring wife Cherie (Catherine Shepherd), Tony vows to clear his name no matter what the consequences.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-15
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Go Now
Overview: Nick, is a young Scottish soccer player living in the big city. He meets Karen, and the two fall in love and move in together. Soon after, Nick exhibits signs of serious illness. As his body slowly succumbs to multiple sclerosis, he experiences a wide sweep of jagged emotions, and in the process gives himself and those who love him the strength to carry on.
Genres: Romance Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-16
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Eat Locals
Overview: In a quiet countryside farmhouse, Britain's vampires gather for their once-every-fifty-years meeting. Others will be joining them too; Sebastian Crockett, an unwitting Essex boy who thinks he's on a promise with sexy cougar Vanessa; and a detachment of Special Forces vampire killers who have bitten off more than they can chew. This is certainly going to be a night to remember... and for some of them it will be their last.
Genres: Action Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-06
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Pearl Harbor
Overview: The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Genres: War History Romance Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-21
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Race
Overview: Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-19
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Great Expectations
Overview: A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imagining that Miss Havisham, a rich lady whose adopted daughter Estella he loves, is the benefactor, Pip believes in a grand plan at the end of which he will be married to Estella. However, when the criminal from his childhood turns up one stormy night and reveals that he, Magwitch, is his benefactor, Pip finds his dreams crumbling. Although initially repulsed by his benefactor, Pip gradually becomes loyal to him and stays with him until his death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-12
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Shallow Grave
Overview: When David, Juliet, and Alex find their new roommate dead with a large sum of money, they agree to hide the body and keep the cash. However, this newfound fortune gradually corrodes their friendship.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-22
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In the Dark Half
Overview: A teenage girl comes to terms with the unexplained death of the boy next door.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-10
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X-Men: First Class
Overview: Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-01
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Postman Pat: The Movie
Overview: Like always, Postman Pat is happily going about his duty delivering letters and parcels around the fictional town of Greendale. One day, auditions for the TV talent show, "You're the One", are held in Greendale, which Pat manages to pass. With Pat required to be away from Greendale whilst participating in the contest, various Patbot 3000 robots are deployed to take Pat's postal duties. This soon turns out to be an evil plot to take over the world, which Pat must now stop.
Genres: Family Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-05-23
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Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
Overview: FBI agent Malcolm Turner and his 17-year-old son Trent go undercover at an all-girls performing arts school after Trent witnesses a murder. Posing as Big Momma and Charmaine, they must find the murderer before he finds them.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-16
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Calibre
Overview: Two lifelong friends head up to an isolated Scottish Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip that descends into a never-ending nightmare as they attempt to cover up a horrific hunting accident.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-22
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Outlaw King
Overview: Forced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the Bruce fights to reclaim the throne.
Genres: Action History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-06
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Captives
Overview: A beautiful young dentist working in a tough British prison starts to become attracted to a violent inmate after the break-up of her marriage, and embarks upon an illicit affair with him, with terrible consequences for all.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-03
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Deadwood: The Movie
Overview: Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable changes that modernity and time have wrought.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-31
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Donkeys
Overview: Alfred is 64. He's lost touch with his family and a threat to his health makes him realise he wants to make amends. The more he tries to do right, the more he does wrong, and as his past comes back to haunt him, he is forced to face up to what his life means to him. Rounding Up Donkeys is the second film in Sigma and Zentropa's three feature film concept 'Advance Party'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-08
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Nightlife
Overview: An agoraphobic woman with voyeuristic impulses witnesses the kidnapping of a young man. Breaking out of her comfort zones, she strives to track down and rescue the man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-01
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Trust Me
Overview: Danny Marrs, a young huckster from small town America, arrives in Hollywood with a line of patter and a wannabe actress girlfriend. Things turn interesting when he meets Joe, a janitor who does great impressions and loves old movies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-08
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Miami Vice
Overview: A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox Crockett gets involved romantically with the Chinese-Cuban wife of a trafficker of arms and drugs, while Tubbs deals with an assault on those he loves.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-07-27
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Two Deaths of Henry Baker
Overview: When the famous outlaw Henry Baker is released from prison after 25 years, old friends and enemies are waiting for him. The son he left behind, entrusted to watch over his ill-gotten riches. A bearded vagrant with a pistol and a decades-old bullet scar in his stomach. An alcohol soaked deputy with half an ear on one side. And a burned out street hustler with a sick mother and a festering vendetta. They trail Henry to a dilapidated hotel where he plans to reunite with his son and the secret bag of gold he left behind.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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Split Second
Overview: A split-second decision made in a fit of rage drives attorney and family man Michael Anderson to desperate measures.The stressed-out lawyer hits his melting point one fateful day, when he runs away from the consequences of his actions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-26
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A Day in the Life
Overview: Onyx rapper Sticky Fingaz directs and stars in this hip-hop musical about a gangster who gets caught up in a bloody war between two feuding crime families while struggling to leave the streets behind. When Black's family raids one of Stick's drug houses and kills two of his men, Stick is forced to choose between leaving it all behind or seeking revenge and feeding the cycle of violence.
Genres: Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-07
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