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Woman of the Hour
Plot In 1978, Cheryl Bradshaw, is an inspiring actress trying to get her big break in acting in LA. Her agent books her into a spot on The Dating Game, and thinking it is her big chance – takes it. Little does she know is one of the “bachelors” is a sadistic serial killer Rodney…
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The Assessment
Plot In the unknown future, human kind has wiped out all resources off the planet. The world was split into two; the new world, and the old world. The new world, which is controlled by “The State”, humans now have the medicines that will help them live forever – but it makes them infertile. To…
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Split
Plot Three young women are kidnapped by Kevin Wendell Crumb, a man who they discover is living with Dissociative Identity Disorder, who has 23 identities within him, and are known collectively as The Horde. One of the identities, is Dennis, a borderline sociopath with OCD, is responsible for the kidnapping. He, who along with ‘Patricia’…
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The Surfer
Plot An Australian born man, who has lived in the USA for years, has moved back to buy his old family home on the coast by the beach. At Summer Christmas in Australia, he takes his son to the beach to go surfing, he runs afoul of the locals who refuse to let him surf.…
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Rocky 4
Plot Following his win from Clubber Lane, Rocky’s friendship with Apollo has become one of equal respect. Soon a new boxer has arrived in the US; the Soviet born Ivan Drago. Apollo is the first to face him in the ring, which ends in his death. Rocky, grief stricken vows to face him himself –…
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Goldfinger
Plot James Bond is asked to investigate gold bouillon dealer Auric Goldfinger, who has been on the radar of MI6 due to his ability to smuggle gold out of England. Bond discovers his plan, “Operation Grand Slam” is to make the gold in Fort Knox ‘worthless’ due a dirty bomb, and must try and stop…
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Art of Self Defense
Plot Casey Davies is an accountant at a company. He is (almost) 36 (or 480 months), introverted, lives alone with his dog, and has no self confidence. One night he is attacked by a group on motorcycles, and almost killed. Seeking ‘vengeance’ he decides to take up Karate, and meets the Sensei who takes Casey…
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Civil War
Plot American has become embroiled in a modern Civil War. The government has all but been disbanded, and the US military have been at war with a group called the Western Forces. The WF, the coalition of the states of California and Texas are planning on storming the capital, and a group of four Press…
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Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
Plot Four armed men take the Pelham 123 train (leaving the Pelham train station at 13.23) hostage. The leader, Ryder orders dispatcher Walter Garber to get them $10m within the hour or he will start executing hostages. Soon a game of intelligent conversation between the two men begin, as the funds are organised and delivered.…
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Babygirl
Plot Romy is a high-flying CEO of a delivery service company whose new venture is automated robot picking. She is happily married to theater director Jacob, and has two daughters; Isabelle and Nora. She begins an affair with one of the new interns at her work, after he saved her from being attacked by a…
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Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
Plot Following on from Dead Reckoning, Ethan is called upon to assist in the recovery of the source code from the submarine Sevastapol in order to stop The Entity Direction McQuarrie returns for his fourth outing as director, and this was the usual style of film we have been used to with Cruise as his…
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Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning
Plot Ethan Hunt is called upon former boss, and now Director of the CIA Kittridge to recover a set of keys that may unlock the ‘source code’ to an AI program that has gone rogue, and now known as The Entity. His journey introduces him with master thief Grace, who has been hired to get…
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Mission Impossible Fallout
Plot Some years after the capture of Soloman Lane, Ethan is on the mission to track down three plutonium cores that maybe used for deadly terrorist attacks. Lane’s former group, The Syndicate – now known as The Apostles – have been hired by an extremist named John Lark, who wants to free an imprisoned Lark…
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Back to the Future – Pt 3
Plot Following directly from #2, Marty – now stuck in 1955 after Doc was struck by lightening and sent back to 1885 discovers he was murdered not long after getting there. He enlists “1955 Doc” to get him back to 1885 to save his Doc’s life! But once there, getting back to 1985 is going…
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Sudden Impact
Plot Harry Callahan is called to investigate a series of similar murders, who unbeknownst to him, are being committed by a woman named Jennifer. Jennifer is hell is bent on revenge on a group of people responsible for a brutal double rape of her and her sister Beth, who is now “awake but comatose” due…
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