Oleg Taktarov
Also Known As: Олег Тактаров, Oleg Nikolaevich Taktarov, Оле́г Никола́евич Такта́ров
Biography: Oleg Nikolaevich Taktarov (Russian: Оле́г Никола́евич Такта́ров; born August 26, 1967) is a retired Russian mixed martial artist and actor. He is a practitioner of Sambo and Judo and has competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and Pride Fighting Championships. Taktarov was the UFC 6 tournament champion and holds notable wins over Marco Ruas and David "Tank" Abbott. Taktarov is known for being exceptionally calm during fights and for using a variety of rarely seen, acrobatic Sambo take-downs. All of Taktarov's losses were by knockout or decision, Taktarov was never submitted in an MMA fight. Description above from the Wikipedia article Oleg Taktarov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Arzamas-16, USSR (Sarov, Russia)
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National Treasure
Overview: Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The chest's whereabouts may lie in secret clues embedded in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and Gates is in a race to find the gold before his enemies do.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-19
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Rockaway
Overview: Trane is a decorated war hero just shipped home to the States from Afghanistan after the brutal murder of his wife and child back in Rockaway, Queens. Upon his return, Trane encounters his old friend Dave, who describes the new forces of crime and prostitution that have moved into their neighborhood and caused the destruction of his family.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-07
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Rollerball
Overview: In this fast action-packed thriller, Jonathan, Marcus, and Aurora compete in a dangerous, fierce sport called Rollerball. Although, Johnathan and Marcus try to quit, cruel and vindictive promoter Alexi Petrovich encourages them to still participate.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-08
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PRIDE 1
Overview: Pride 1 was the first mixed martial arts event held by KRS-Pride (later renamed Pride Fighting Championships). It took place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on October 11, 1997. In addition to the MMA bouts, there was one kickboxing bout between K-1 Grand Prix Champion Branko Cikatic and Ralph White.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-10-11
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Call Me Genie
Overview: The students go on wild adventure when a modern Genie appears suddenly from a can of soda. He has a mission to fulfill, as a result the three students are transported instantly to the Indian state of Goa, where one of he students named Guch (Sergey Chirkov) gets a date with the lovely classmate of his Lena (Anastasia Tsvetaeva).
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-01-27
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Air Force One
Overview: When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision to give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-07-25
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Predators
Overview: A group of cold-blooded killers find themselves trapped on an alien planet to be hunted by extraterrestrial Predators.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-07
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44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out
Overview: After a failed bank robbery, two heavily armed men hold the Los Angeles Police Department at bay for 44 minutes.
Genres: Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-05
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Generation P
Overview: Set in the ground zero of gangster globalism and driven by a truly manic energy, Generation P is at once a comedy, a tragedy and a fantasy about the rise of a poet-turned-adman through Russia’s nascent advertising business during the Moscow roaring 1990s.
Genres: Comedy Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2011-04-14
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By the Will of Chingis Khan
Overview: Three childhood friends. Three sworn brothers. One was initiated into the sacrament and grew up to be a great shaman. The other two followed the path of war and the nation recognised them as leaders. But only one of them was to become the ruler of the entire steppe. He was chosen by the Eternal Blue Sky and the Sky itself put him on a trial. Love for a woman will make him a warrior. Allegiance to the law will lead him to fratricide. Striving for peace will force him to start war. The council of nine tribes, speaking nine tongues, proclaimed him the sovereign and gave him the name of an ancient deity - Genghis Kahn.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-03-12
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UFC 7: The Brawl In Buffalo
Overview: UFC 7: The Brawl in Buffalo was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on September 8, 1995, at the Memorial Auditorium in Buffalo, New York. The event was seen live on pay per view in the United States, and later released on home video.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-08
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UFC 5: Return Of The Beast
Overview: UFC 5: The Return of the Beast was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on April 7, 1995, at the Independence Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina. The event was seen live on pay per view in the United States, and later released on home video.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-07
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UFC 6: Clash Of The Titans
Overview: UFC 6: Clash of the Titans was the sixth mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on July 14, 1995, at the Casper Events Center in Casper, Wyoming. The event was seen live on pay per view in the United States, and later released on home video.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-14
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UFC 7.5: The Ultimate Ultimate
Overview: The Ultimate Ultimate (also referred to as "Ultimate Ultimate 1995" and "UFC 7.5") was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on December 16, 1995, at the Mammoth Gardens in Denver, Colorado. The event was seen live on pay per view in the United States, and later released on home video.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-16
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Red Serpent
Overview: A powerful drug cartel in Moscow wants to use American businessman Steve Nichols in a smuggling scheme and ensures his cooperation by kidnapping his daughter. So Nichols solicits the help of a former KGB agent.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-05
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World Wrestling Peace Festival
Overview: The World Wrestling Peace Festival was a professional wrestling supercard event produced by Japanese professional wrestler Antonio Inoki, which took place on June 1, 1996 at the Los Angeles Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California. The event was organized by Inoki to promote world peace with an interpromotional event involving major promotions from around the world. Forty wrestlers from six countries ended up taking part in the event. Inoki's home promotion New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), as well as smaller independent groups, represented Japan, while World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) took part on behalf of the United States. Both of Mexico's top promotions Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA) and Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) participated in the event, which was considered unlikely by many in the industry given their own heated rivalry.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-01
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The Machine
Overview: Bert Kreischer faces a familial crisis and the arrival of his estranged father when the ghost of his booze-soaked past arrives: a murderous mobster hellbent on kidnapping Bert back to the motherland to atone for his crimes. Together, he and his father must retrace the steps of his younger self in the midst of a war between a sociopathic crime family while they attempt to find common ground.
Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-25
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Montana
Overview: Nikolai, a Russian hit-man escapes from his adversaries into the streets of Los Angeles. He is taken into the household of Lesley and her son Johnny. In exchange for refuge, Nikolai repairs the single mother's decaying house and symbolically mends fences between everyday people of Russia and the U.S. When enemies get too close to his new home, Nikolai makes his escape to Montana.
Genres: Action Crime Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-02-07
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Officer Down
Overview: When a cop's crooked past comes back to get him, can he do the right thing, or will he succumb to the threats of his dangerous connections?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-22
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Absolute Force
Overview: A corrupt politician intends to use a powerful weapon to execute an evil plan.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-26
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Quest
Overview: The fathers of two teenagers from wealthy families — on a bet who will break down first — send them to a secret camp where quests with a special forces theme are held. Faced with the first difficulties and imminent social conflicts, one of the guys asks to take him home. However, on the eve of leaving the camp, the youngest pupil disappears. All quests are canceled and the most prepared children are asked to help with the search. Children become unwitting witnesses of a crime and fall into the hands of bandits. With a series of adventures, mutual help and revenue, young people are trying to find their way home and escape from danger, because everything did not go according to plan.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2023-08-24
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Duels: The Test of Death
Overview: The story behind the film began in 1979... Alexey Kozlov then lived in Italy with a passport of a citizen of Germany, worked in a large company as an agent for the sale of dry cleaning equipment, traveled throughout Europe, the Middle and Far East, and African countries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2010-08-01
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Courier from 'Paradise'
Overview: A funny story about the Moscow policemen travel to a small town.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-11-28
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The Man from Toronto
Overview: In a case of mistaken identity, the world’s deadliest assassin, known as the Man from Toronto, and a New York City screw-up are forced to team up after being confused for each other at a rental cabin.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-23
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1992
Overview: In 1992, Mercer is desperately trying to rebuild his life and his relationship with his son amidst the turbulent Los Angeles uprising following the Rodney King verdict. Across town, another father and son put their own strained relationship to the test as they plot a dangerous heist to steal catalytic converters, which contain valuable platinum from the factory where Mercer works. As tensions rise and chaos erupts, both families reach their boiling points when their worlds collide.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-08-29
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Forbidden Empire
Overview: Early 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Europe to the East. Having passed through Transylvania and crossed the Carpathian Mountains, he finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods. Nothing but chance and heavy fog could bring him to this cursed place. People who live here do not resemble any other people which the traveler saw before that. The villagers, having dug a deep moat to fend themselves from the rest of the world, share a naive belief that they could save themselves from evil, failing to understand that evil has made its nest in their souls and is waiting for an opportunity to gush out upon the world.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Mystery Fantasy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-01-30
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The Way
Overview: Aleksey is an ordinary young man living in Russia during the 1990s. Like most of his contemporaries, he is looking for a way to survive. The easiest way is the way of crime. He joins a gang. Fortunately, his fate takes a sudden turn and he manages to find the right path. The film also addresses global terrorism, one of the most important and painful issues of today's world. The main characters of the film, together with their American colleagues, take part in a special operation to destroy a band of international terrorists and drug traffickers.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-21
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Shift
Overview: A young seismologist, who lives in Amsterdam, along with a popular journalist, accidentally become the participants of a deadly game, lead by an international syndicate that plans to take over the power (with the help of a seismological weapon) in the republics of the former Soviet Union. Russian Secret Services, that provide security for the heads of the summit of the region of the Kaspiiskoe Sea, intervene in this case...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2006-09-28
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Betrayal
Overview: Vazgen "Vaz", a Mobster turned businessman, is pulled back into his past life, when his eldest son is accused of killing a Russian gangster. Now he must find a way to save his family and all that he's built.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-29
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Ticket to Vegas
Overview: Four Russian friends come from Moscow to Las Vegas to get 5 million dollars they've won in lottery. But everything goes wrong, when they discover that someone stole their winning ticket.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2013-01-24
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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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We Own the Night
Overview: A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-12
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Папу маме заверни
Overview: The teacher's daughter dreams of giving her mother an unusual gift for the New Year and making her happy. At a custom gift agency, she chooses the most expensive one - dinner with a star. But it was difficult to guess what kind of fee we were talking about, and now she and her friends have several months to earn this money. Musician friends help her with this. By coincidence, the star is my mother's unrequited high school love, and New Year's dinner with the star will take place against all odds.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2024-12-05
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15 Minutes
Overview: When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story."
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-03-01
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Law of Corruption
Overview: Events of the film take place in both hemispheres. Presidents of countries, bosses of drug cartels, special agents and powerful secret service agencies from all around the world are the first hand participants of its events. The film begins with an account of a shocking yet quite ordinary skirmish - an average drug kin pin is beating one of his assistants with a golf club with a purpose of educating him, because the assistant's cell phone was quite unlawfully confiscated by an overly diligent secret service agent. The mutilated gangster understands the incommensurability of his guilt and the level of his fault, and becomes the first character who asks the question: What do we know about the world we live in?
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2005-09-15
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Righteous Kill
Overview: Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-11
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Supreme Champion
Overview: SUPREME CHAMPION is a fun, sexy, stylized and fast paced fight action thriller about honor and courage featuring eight world class mixed martial arts champions.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-01
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Total Force
Overview: An evil scientist creates a device that controls humans. With a press of the button, the subject will explode. A special forces team called "Total Force" must seek out and destroy the scientist and his lab. Later on in the film they are supported by terrorist Jack O'Hara, played by Frank Stallone. 'Comic relief' is provided by a corrupt senator, whose character is not at all funny.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-19
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The Maltese Cross
Overview: "The Maltese Cross" - Prince Dmitry a descendant of the Romanov dynasty is kidnapped by a mafia boss - who also claims to have royal blood and sees himself as the new Russian emperor.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2008-12-04
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Картина маслом
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-12-31
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Battle Drone
Overview: 6 mercenaries are hired by CIA to abduct an heir to a republic and take out an arms dealer in Moscow. They get a followup mission in Chernobyl. Treason awaits them.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-01
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The Last Trial
Overview: The house of culture “Mir” (from Russian: “Peace”) is being taken over by masked people. People who came to the premiere of the show have to face death. Now they are to pass a dreadful challenge, preserving their dignity and courage. This is a thriller about the struggle against the world evil, terrorism, and a win of the word over weapons. The dramatic and emotional story embraces everything — struggle, confrontation, betrayal, heroic deeds, and love!
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-08-17
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Renzo Gracie: Legacy
Overview: Renzo Gracie: Legacy is a 2008 documentary film about Brazilian jiu jitsu pioneer Renzo Gracie, directed by Gethin Aldous and written by Aldous, Steve Allen and Adrian Miller. Shot over a ten-year period, it shows the origins of the sport of Mixed martial arts from its bare knuckle days to the explosion of the sport in both Japan and America.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-25
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Upon the Magic Roads
Overview: Romantic John the Fool and his friend Foal set out on a series of unpredictable adventures in different magical worlds. The two buddies will have to outsmart an evil tyrant king, catch the firebird, and find John’s true love.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-02-18
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Dead Trigger
Overview: 2021 - 5 years after the outbreak of a mysterious virus that turned humans into bloodthirsty, undead beasts much of the world’s population has been decimated. When governments were unable to keep the disease at bay, the Contagion Special Unit was formed with the toughest soldiers and best specialists to fight the infected. Because of the rapidly decreasing number of soldiers, a popular online video game Dead Trigger that mirrors the terrifying events was created. The best efforts of the gamers are monitored by the CSU who recruit the highest rated zombie killers. The young recruits are called “Dead Triggers”. The movie follows a group of young recruits who must travel to the origin of the outbreak to find a missing team of scientists who were searching for a cure.
Genres: Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-19
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Студия Нижний
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2018-02-14
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Making a Deal with the Devil
Overview: A fascinating and dramatic tale of a behind the scenes plot developed by the FBI as they work secretly with the mob to eradicate corruption and crime in USA.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-20
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See You Soon
Overview: A U.S. soccer star suffers a career-threatening injury in the run-up to the World Cup, and during his recovery, embarks on an epic romance with a Russian single mom.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-07-25
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Уходящая натура
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Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2014-07-21
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The Quickie
Overview: A crime soap opera about a Russian mobster retiring from "the business" on New Year's Eve, only to discover he has been targeted for death by a rival mobster.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-25
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Predators: The Chosen
Overview: A brief profile of the main characters of Predators movie who parashooted onto the planet. The short film was released on the Predators (2010) Blu-ray.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-19
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Bad Boys II
Overview: Detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force are tasked with stopping the flow of the drug Ecstasy into Miami. They track the drugs to the whacked-out Cuban drug lord Johnny Tapia, who is also involved in a bloody war with Russian and Haitian mobsters. If that isn't bad enough, there's tension between the two detectives when Marcus discovers that playboy Mike is secretly romancing Marcus’ sister, Syd.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-18
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Predators
Overview: An ambitious personal growth coach, author of the Predator Psychology manual, unexpectedly finds himself drawn into a confrontation with a millionaire who wants to demolish the garage complex where he keeps his Jaguar. Now he has to prove in practice to the people who believe in him that he is capable of leading them into battle. Called a predator - be ready to show your teeth. A game without rules begins, where kidnapping, blackmail, forgery ... and a giant St. Bernard are used. Problems snowball into a cascade of comedic emergencies.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2021-02-18
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Путь
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Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ru
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Selfiemania
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-10-07
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The Big Fight
Overview: Egor, a Ukrainian MMA fighter, is wrongly convicted of the murder of his trainer, and upon release from prison he sets out to find those truly responsible. Along the way he falls in love with his boss's mistress, putting them both in danger ahead of the biggest fight of his life.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: uk
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Den of Thieves
Overview: A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-18
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Island Ararat
Overview: Armenia, 1991. Against the backdrop of the Soviet Union's collapse, one family dreams of the future, says goodbye to the past, and faces a choice - to stay or to leave. A lyrical drama about love, separation, and the eternal longing for home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 2025-04-25
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