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Accidental Spy, The (2001)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Thriller
Countries: Hong Kong
Actors: Chan, Jackie | Tsang, Eric | Hsu, Vivian | Kim, Min | Wu, Hsing-kuo | Cheung, Alfred | Jones, Anthony Rene | Simon, Glory | Allan, Bradley James | Cheung, Tat-Ming
Directors: Chan, Teddy
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This action movie unfolds with the story of Bei, a salesman at a workout equipment store, who harbors dreams of adventures. It all starts when on one normal dull day, Bei follows his instincts to trail two suspicious looking men into an alley. When he realizes that these men are robbing a jewelry store, he jumps into action to foil their plans. Soon after Bei meets Liu, a private investigator who convinces Bei that he may be the long-lost son of a rich Korean businessman. In no time, Bei is on his way to fulfill his dreams of adventure and fortune travelling to Korea and even exotic Turkey. As Bei is drawn deeper into the game of cat and mouse, he realizes he has become the key to locating a lung cancer virus. With an assortment of characters fighting him along the way, will Bei succeed in finding the virus himself?

Last Emperor, The (1987)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: China | France | Italy | UK
Actors: Lone, John | Chen, Joan | O'Toole, Peter | Ying, Ruocheng | | Dun, Dennis | Sakamoto, Ryuichi | Han, Maggie | Young, Ric | Wu, Vivian | Tagawa, Cary-Hiroyuki | Go, Jade | Ikeda, Fumihiko | Vuu, Richard | Tijger, Tsou
Directors: Bertolucci, Bernardo
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A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People’s Republic.

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Woods, James | McGovern, Elizabeth | Weld, Tuesday | Williams, Treat | Hayden, James | Pesci, Joe | Rapp, Larry | Aiello, Danny | Forsythe, William | Young, Burt | Fluegel, Darlanne | Miller, Dutch | Harper, Robert | Bright, Richard
Directors: Leone, Sergio
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Epic tale of a group of Jewish gangsters in New York, from childhood, through their glory years during prohibition, and their meeting again 35 years later.

Enter the Dragon (1973)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: Hong Kong | USA
Actors: Lee, Bruce | Saxon, John | Shih, Kien | Capri, Ahna | Mao, Angela | Kelly, Jim | Wall, Robert | Yeung, Bolo | Chung, Betty | Weeks, Geoffrey | Archer, Peter | Yan, Ho Lee | Clark, Marlene | Kent, Allan | Keller, William
Directors: Clouse, Robert
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Hong Kong circa 1973. Lee, a member of a Shaolin Temple, is a master of the physical and spiritual disciplines of the martial arts, and is being visited by Braithwaite, a British law officer. Lee has been invited to a tri-annual martial arts tournament held on an island owned by Han, a reclusive billionaire who was once a member of the Temple but has now become a renegade. Braithwaite believes Han uses his tournaments as cover for narcotic and prostitution activities. Lee reluctantly agrees to enter the tournament, but his reluctance to confront Han disappears when a Shaolin monk reveals that during the previous staging of this tournament, he and Lee’s sister were accosted by several toughs led by Han’s personal bodyguard, an American named O’Hara. In the ensuing confrontation the monk cut a deep scar on O’Hara’s face but Lee’s sister ultimately perished, and at her gravesite Lee vowes revenge for her death. Also attending the tournament are two American martial arts experts, John Roper and Kelly Williams, who served together in Vietnam and took differing paths toward martial arts upon their discharge - Roper is on the run from Mafia gambling debt collectors, while Williams was accosted by two racist cops whom he’d dispatched before stealing their car to escape. All three will soon find themselves at the mercy of Han and his army of martial arts fighters as he protects his underground factory of narcotics and prostitution.