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Ving Rhames
Ving Rhames is an award winning actor born in New York in 1959. He started out acting on Broadway in 'The Winter Boys' in 1984 before appearing in various soap operas. He starred in 'ER' for 3 seasons, before being cast alonside Tom Cruise in 'Misson Impossible'.
Staring in movie ' Pulp Fiction' brought him to 'mainstream' attention and he was later awarded an Golden Globe in 1998 for best actor in a TV miniseries for his performance in HBO's Don King: Only in America.
You can find Ving in many movies including: Striptease (1996) Bringing Out The Dead (1999), Mission: Impossible II (2000), American Tragedy (2000), Lilo & Stitch (2002), Dawn Of The Dead (2004) and the Day Of The Dead (2008)
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Surrogates
(2009)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Rosamund Pike
Director: Jonathan Mostow
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Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop (Willis) is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
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A Broken Life
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Tom Sizemore, Corey Sevier, Grace Kosaka
Director: Neil Coombs
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Tom Sizemore (of Saving Private Ryan and Heat) delivers a powerhouse performance as Max Walker, an empty, bitter man who has decided to commit suicide. Instead of a leaving a note, he hires struggling young film student Bud (Corey Sevier) to document the last day of his life. As Bud and his camera ..read more »
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from 22 members
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Day Of The Dead
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Mena Suvari, Nick Cannon, Ving Rhames
Director: Steve Miner
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Nick Cannon, Mena Suvari and Ving Rhames star in this horror film based on the George A. Romero classic zombie film. A mysterious virus has infected the small town of Leadville, Colorado, and the military is brought in to enforce a quarantine and stop the spread of the disease. As people perish, ..read more »
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Day Of The Dead - BLU-RAY Version
(2008)
Starring: Mena Suvari, Nick Cannon, Ving Rhames
Director: Steve Miner
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Nick Cannon, Mena Suvari and Ving Rhames star in this horror film based on the George A. Romero classic zombie film. A mysterious virus has infected the small town of Leadville, Colorado, and the military is brought in to enforce a quarantine and stop the spread of the disease. As people perish, ..read more »
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from 862 members
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Broken Love
(2008)
Starring: Tom Sizemore, Ving Rhames, Saul Rubinek
Director: Neil Coombs
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Beaten and tortured by his own sense of mediocrity, Max (Tom Sizemore) decides to take his life but first acquires the help of his friend bud, a struggling filmmaker, to document his last day on Earth...
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I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jessica Biel
Director: Dennis Dugan
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Chuck Levine and Larry Valentine are two firefighters. They are good friends. However, Larry is a widower (with two small children) and Chuck is single.Larry dares Chuck one day to eat a dead rat, but he falls from the ladder that he was going to the drop the rat from. Chuck saves him but the two ..read more »
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Animal 2
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Ving Rhames, K.C. Collins, Vicellous Reon Shannon
Director: Ryan Combs
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James "Animal" Allen (Ving Rhames), is serving a life sentence for murder at Folson Prison, taking the rap for his eldest son. After a brutal prison riot between the Mexicans and the Blacks, he is transferred to Susanville Prison, where he previously served 15 years. On the outside, Animal's son, ..read more »
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54%
from 639 members
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Mission Impossible 3
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Keri Russell
Director: J.J. Abrams
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Tom Cruise is back in action in this third helping of the hit franchise. Alias and Lost creator J.J. Abrams takes the directors chair in this explosive third installment.
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from 56,272 members
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Idlewild
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Big Boi, Andre 3000, Macy Gray
Director: Bryan Barber
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A musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his piano player and partner Percival must choose between his love, Angel or his obligations to his father.
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Animal
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Ving Rhames, Terrence Howard, Jim Brown
Director: David J. Burke
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Animal is a violent gang member sentenced to prison, leaving his young son to grow up alone on the streets. While in prison, Animal meets an aging black revolutionary who changes the way Animal sees himself and his place in the world. When Animal returns home many years later, now a reformed man, ..read more »
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Back In The Day
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Ja Rule, Ving Rhames, Tatyana M. Ali
Director: James Hunter
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Reggie (Ja Rule) finds life kicking him in the teeth when his father suddenly dies in a suspected murder. With a previous life of crime now long behind him, Reggie considers getting back in the game and calling on the talents of his former colleague and ex-jailbird J-Bone (Ving Rhames) to help ..read more »
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from 1,006 member
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Dawn Of The Dead
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber
Director: Zack Snyder
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A female nurse, Anna, and a black police officer, Kenneth, are caught in the middle of world-wide chaos as flesh-eating zombies begin to take over the world by attacking the living...
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from 26,026 members
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Dark Blue
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Kurt Russell, Brendan Gleeson, Scott Speedman
Director: Ron Shelton
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Set amidst the brutal L.A riots, Dark Blue tells the gritty story of crime and corruption within the Los Angeles Police Department. Kurt Russell stars as Sgt. Eldon Perry, a committed but crooked cop who will stop at nothing to rid the streets of crime. But when the old-blooded shootings and ..read more »
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from 4,028 members
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Undisputed
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Ving Rhames, Peter Falk, Michael Rooker
Director: Walter Hill
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UNDISPUTED tells the story of a champion boxer (Ving Rhames) who is sent to prison on rape charges. There, he goes up against the top boxer (Wesley Snipes) in the inner-prison competition.
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Sin
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Gary Oldman, Ving Rhames, Gregg Henry
Director: Michael Stevens
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Gary Oldman plays evil so well. Here he plays a sadistic maniac who has retired cop Eddie Burns (Rhames) hunting for him across Reno. Burns' sister has gone missing and an ingenious and wicked trail is leading him to Oldman. Is this an act of revenge by an old adversary
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Baby Boy
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Taraji P. Henson, Tyrese Gibson, Omar Gooding
Director: John Singleton
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Director John Singleton (BOYZ IN THE HOOD, SHAFT) revisits to South Central L.A. with BABY BOY. Former Calvin Klein model Tyrese Gibson stars as Jody, a smooth-talking but immature black male who has children from two different women. One of them, Yvette (Taraji P. Henson), wants him to be faithful ..read more »
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from 878 members
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Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Ving Rhames, Ming-Na Wen
Director: Hironobu Sakaguchi
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Directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi (who also created the best-selling series of video games that inspired the film), the groundbreaking FINAL FANTASY, which stars a startlingly lifelike cast of animated characters, is the first photo-realistic computer-generated feature film ever made. In the year 2065,..read more »
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Holiday Heart
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Ving Rhames, Alfre Woodard, Mykelti Williamson
Director: Robert Townsend
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Drama based on the Cheryl L. West stageplay. Holiday is a choirmaster during the day. At night he is a female impersonator. He becomes involved with a woman and her daughter who are trying to escape a life of drugs.
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from 117 members
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Mission: Impossible 2
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton
Director: John Woo
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This is the action-packed sequel to the 1996 blockbuster, which in turn was based on the popular 1960s television show of the same name. Tom Cruise reprises his role as Ethan Hunt, leader of the IMF team that is responsible for embarking on top secret, dangerous missions that will maintain world ..read more »
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from 26,880 members
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Mission: Impossible 2 - HD DVD Version
(2000)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton
Director: John Woo
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This is the action-packed sequel to the 1996 blockbuster, which in turn was based on the popular 1960s television show of the same name. Tom Cruise reprises his role as Ethan Hunt, leader of the IMF team that is responsible for embarking on top secret, dangerous missions that will maintain world ..read more »
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65%
from 263 members
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Mission: Impossible 2 - BLU-RAY Version
(2000)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton
Director: John Woo
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This is the action-packed sequel to the 1996 blockbuster, which in turn was based on the popular 1960s television show of the same name. Tom Cruise reprises his role as Ethan Hunt, leader of the IMF team that is responsible for embarking on top secret, dangerous missions that will maintain world ..read more »
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from 2,108 members
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Entrapment
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta Jones, Maury Chaykin
Director: Jon Amiel
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Sparks fly as Zeta-Jones, an insurance agent, charms her way into doing business with Connery, an aging thief. In preparation for their latest heist, Connery has her suffer through a rigorous training camp. Promises begin to blur and dwindle as romance introduces itself into the picture, building ..read more »
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60%
from 11,886 members
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Entrapment - BLU-RAY Version
(1999)
Starring: Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta Jones, Maury Chaykin
Director: Jon Amiel
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Sparks fly as Zeta-Jones, an insurance agent, charms her way into doing business with Connery, an aging thief. In preparation for their latest heist, Connery has her suffer through a rigorous training camp. Promises begin to blur and dwindle as romance introduces itself into the picture, building ..read more »
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59%
from 1,124 member
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Bringing Out The Dead
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese exhilaratingly adapts Joe Connelly's novel about Frank (Nicolas Cage), a paramedic working among the filth and mental desolation of New York City's Hell's Kitchen in the early 1990s. Lately he has been haunted by the visions of a beautiful 18-year-old girl whom he was unable to ..read more »
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from 4,212 members
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Out Of Sight
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Dennis Farina
Director: Steven Soderbergh
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Based on Elmore Leonard's famous crime novel, OUT OF SIGHT finds director Steven Soderbergh back in Hollywood after a brief return to the independent world with SCHIZOPOLIS and GRAY'S ANATOMY. A funny, hip, and vibrant action-drama, OUT OF SIGHT tells the story of the unlikely relationship that ..read more »
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from 9,600 members
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Doctor Dolittle
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt
Director: Betty Thomas
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Three features. In 'Doctor Dolittle', a remake of the 1967 Richard Fleischer film of the same name, an animal doctor whose patients bark, squeal, and meow finds that he can suddenly understand his patients, which upsets the practice. Eddie Murphy updates the role as a San Francisco doctor who as a ..read more »
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from 7,314 members
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Body Count
(1998)
Starring: David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, Forest Whitaker
Director: Robert Patton Spruill
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Pike is a man who always seems to get mixed up with the wrong people. After he is released from prison a friend persuades him to do one more hit, this time a no violence raid on an art gallery. Things don't go quite as planned...
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from 167 members
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Con Air - BLU-RAY Version
(1997)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich
Director: Simon West
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Nothing makes good-guy non-recidivist offender Cameron Poe happier than the thought of returning to society, where his angelic wife and the equally angelic little girl he's never known are waiting. And nothing makes him angrier than the passel of psychopathic murderers and rapists aboard his prison ..read more »
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from 1,988 member
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Con Air
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich
Director: Simon West
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Nothing makes good-guy non-recidivist offender Cameron Poe happier than the thought of returning to society, where his angelic wife and the equally angelic little girl he's never known are waiting. And nothing makes him angrier than the passel of psychopathic murderers and rapists aboard his prison ..read more »
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70%
from 28,144 members
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Mission: Impossible - HD DVD Version
(1996)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jean Reno, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Brian De Palma
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, leader of a crack squad of intelligence operatives, in this labyrinthine action-thriller based on the hit 1960s-'70s television series. When a dangerous mission in Prague goes inexplicably wrong, Hunt finds himself out in the cold. A mole has infiltrated the CIA, and ..read more »
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from 299 members
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Mission: Impossible
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jean Reno, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Brian De Palma
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, leader of a crack squad of intelligence operatives, in this labyrinthine action-thriller based on the hit 1960s-'70s television series. When a dangerous mission in Prague goes inexplicably wrong, Hunt finds himself out in the cold. A mole has infiltrated the CIA, and ..read more »
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from 33,682 members
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Dangerous Ground
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Ice Cube, Elizabeth Hurley, Ving Rhames
Director: Darrell Roodt
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After 14 years in exile from his South African homeland, a former black freedom fighter (Ice Cube) returns to attend his father's funeral, only to find that drugs have taken over a large segment of his community--including his brother, whose indebtedness to an iron-fisted drug lord threatens his ..read more »
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from 356 members
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Striptease
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Armand Assante, Ving Rhames, Robert Patrick
Director: Andrew Bergman
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When a Miami mom loses her job as a secretary, her lowlife ex-husband is awarded custody of their young daughter. Taking a job as a stripper to raise enough money for a court appeal, she unwittingly attracts the obsessive and insistent attentions of a crazed, slavering U.S. Congressman. Adapted ..read more »
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from 1,364 member
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Mission: Impossible - BLU-RAY Version
(1996)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jean Reno, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Brian De Palma
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
Tom Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, leader of a crack squad of intelligence operatives, in this labyrinthine action-thriller based on the hit 1960s-'70s television series. When a dangerous mission in Prague goes inexplicably wrong, Hunt finds himself out in the cold. A mole has infiltrated the CIA, and ..read more »
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from 1,682 member
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Pulp Fiction
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: John Travolta, Christopher Walken, Bruce Willis
Director: Quentin Tarantino
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Quentin Tarantino's blockbuster follow-up to RESERVOIR DOGS is a breathtaking tribute to old dime store novels about small time hoods and dangerous criminals. It features deftly woven plotlines, creating a mythic Los Angeles underworld of drug dealers, molls, affable hitmen, restaurant-robbing ..read more »
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81%
from 86,393 members
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Dave
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella
Director: Ivan Reitman
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A presidential look-alike finds himself in the oval office "filling in" for the president who has fallen ill. Lacking the political savvy of the real president, "Dave" proceeds to govern the country with a refreshingly straight-forward approach. Academy Award Nominations: Best (Original) Screenplay.
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Homicide
(1991)
Starring: William H. Macy, Joe Mantegna, Ving Rhames
Director: David Mamet
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A Jewish detective is called out to investigate the murder of an old Jewish woman. But he discovers that there's more than just a murder.....
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Casualties Of War - BLU-RAY Version
(1989)
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey
Director: Brian De Palma
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After being denied the chance to go to a nearby village to visit a prostitute before starting a reconnaissance mission, a tough, embittered American sergeant (Sean Penn) involves the four men of his patrol in the kidnapping of a young Vietnamese woman. The impending gang rape and murder of the ..read more »
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Casualties Of War
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Dan Harvey
Director: Brian De Palma
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After being denied the chance to go to a nearby village to visit a prostitute before starting a reconnaissance mission, a tough, embittered American sergeant (Sean Penn) involves the four men of his patrol in the kidnapping of a young Vietnamese woman. The impending gang rape and murder of the ..read more »
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Crime Story - Series One
(5 discs)
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Stephen Lang, Lorraine Bracco, Gary Sinise
Director: Michael Mann, Abel Ferrara
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This first volume of CRIME STORY features the complete first series of 20 episodes plus the original feature-length pilot--directed by Abel Ferrara (BAD LIEUTENANT) and produced by Michael Mann (HEAT, MIAMI VICE). The subsequent television crime drama series has become a cult favourite.The pilot ..read more »
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Beef
on DVD
Starring: 50 Cent, Ving Rhames, Ice Cube
Director: Peter Spirer
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BEEF showcases a dizzying array of rappers as they compete to be the ultimate rap champion.
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A Broken Life
to Watch Now
(2008)
Starring: Tom Sizemore, Corey Sevier, Grace Kosaka
Director: Neil Coombs
Certificate: 
Watch now: Subscribe and watch this as part of an unlimited package.
Run time: 97 minutes
Tom Sizemore (of Saving Private Ryan and Heat) delivers a powerhouse performance as Max Walker, an empty, bitter man who has decided to commit suicide. Instead of a leaving a note, he hires struggling young film student Bud (Corey Sevier) to document the last day of his life. As Bud and his camera ..read more »
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Mission Impossible
to Watch Now
(1996)
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart
Director: Brian De Palma
Certificate: 
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Run time: 110 minutes
Tom Cruise ignites the screen in this runaway smash hit that "holds you on the edge of your seat before blasting you out of it." (Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times). Cruise stars as Ethan Hunt, a secret agent framed for the deaths of his espionage team. Fleeing from government assassins, breaking ..read more »
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Exhilarates to suspension of disbelief 10 March 2004
...the audience and the three outstanding portraits aside from Malkovich come from Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi and Nicolas Cage whose character is a nice contrast and while he...
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