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Rutger Hauer
Hauer was born in Breukelen, Netherlands, to drama teachers Arend and Teunke, and grew up in Amsterdam. Since his parents were very occupied with their careers, he and his three sisters (one older, two younger) were raised mostly by nannies. At the age of 15, Hauer ran off to sea and spent a year scrubbing decks aboard a freighter. Returning home, he worked as an electrician and a carpenter for three years while attending acting classes at night school.[1] He went on to join an experimental troupe, with which he remained for five years before he was cast in the lead role in the very successful 1969 television series Floris, a Dutch Ivanhoe-like medieval action drama. The role made him famous in his native country
Hauer's career changed course when director Paul Verhoeven cast him as the lead in Turkish Delight (1973) (based on the Jan Wolkers book of the same name). The movie found box-office favour abroad as well as at home, and within two years, its star was invited to make his English-language debut in the British film The Wilby Conspiracy (1975). Set in South Africa and starring Michael Caine and Sidney Poitier, the film was an action melodrama with a focus on apartheid. Hauer's supporting role, however, was barely noticed in Hollywood, and he returned to Dutch films for several years. During this period, he made Katie Tippel (1975) and worked again with Verhoeven on Soldier Of Orange (1977), and Spetters (1980). These two films paired Hauer with fellow Dutch actor Jeroen Krabbé.
Hauer made his American debut in the Sylvester Stallone vehicle Nighthawks (1981), cast as a psychopathic and cold-blooded terrorist named "Wolfgar" (after a character in the Old English poem Beowulf). The following year, he appeared in his stand-out American movie role as the eccentric, violent, yet sensitive replicant Roy Batty in Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi thriller, Blade Runner.
Hauer went on to play the adventurer courting Gene Hackman's daughter ( Theresa Russell) in Nicolas Roeg's poorly received Eureka (1983); the investigative reporter opposite John Hurt in Sam Peckinpah's The Osterman Weekend (1983); the hardened Landsknecht mercenary Martin in Flesh & Blood (1985); and the knight paired with Michelle Pfeiffer in the Medieval romance Ladyhawke (1985). He continued to make an impression on audiences in The Hitcher (1986), in which he was the mysterious Hitchhiker intent on murdering C. Thomas Howell's lone motorist and anyone else who crossed his path. At the height of Hauer's fame, he was even set to be cast as RoboCop in the film directed by old friend Verhoeven, although the role ultimately went to Peter Weller. That same year, however, Hauer starred as Nick Randall in Wanted: Dead Or Alive as the descendant of the character played by Steve McQueen in the television series of the same name.
Italian director Ermanno Olmi mined the gentler, more mystic and soulful side of Hauer's personality in The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1989), the story of a lost soul who dies of drink in Paris while attempting to pay a debt of honour in a church. Phillip Noyce also attempted to capitalize, with far less success, on Hauer's spiritual qualities in the martial arts action adventure Blind Fury (1989). Hauer returned to science fiction opposite Joan Chen with Salute Of The Jugger (1990), in which he played a former champion in a post-apocalyptic world. He and Chen would work together again in two more science fiction films, Wedlock and Precious Find.
By the 1990s, Hauer was as well known for his humorous appearances in Guinness commercials as for his screen roles, which had increasingly involved low-budget films, including Split Second, which was set in a flooded London after global warming; Omega Doom, another post-apocalyptic story in which he plays a soldier-robot; and New World Disorder, opposite Tara Fitzgerald. He also appeared in the Kylie Minogue music video "On a Night Like This". In the late 1980s and 1990s, as well as in 2000, Hauer acted in several British and American television productions, including Inside the Third Reich (as Albert Speer); Escape From Sobibor; Fatherland; Hostile Waters; Merlin; The 10th Kingdom; Smallville; Alias; and 'Salem's Lot.
In 1999, Hauer was awarded the Dutch “Best Actor of the Century Rembrandt Award”.[3]
Hauer played an assassin in Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind (2003), a villainous cardinal with influential power in Sin City (2005) and Batman Begins (2005), playing a Devious corporate executive running Wayne Enterprises and the Host in the British reality television documentary Shock Treatment (2005). He recently starred in Goal! 2: Living the Dream... as Real Madrid coach Rudi Van Der Merwe.
Hauer is a dedicated environmentalist. He fought for the release of Greenpeace's co-founder, Paul Watson, who was convicted in 1994 for sinking a Norwegian whaling vessel.[1] Hauer has also established an AIDS awareness foundation called the Rutger Hauer Starfish Foundation.[1][4] He married his second wife, Ineke, in 1985 (they had been together since 1968); and he has one child, actress Aysha Hauer, who was born in 1966 and who made him a grandfather in 1988.[1]
In April 2007, he published his autobiography All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners (co-written with Patrick Quinlan) where he discusses many of his movie roles.[5] Proceeds of the book go to Hauer's Starfish Foundation
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7eventy 5ive
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Brian Hooks, Jud Taylor, Cherie Johnson
Director: Brian Hooks, Deon Taylor
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Finals at the prestigious University of Dreyskill are finally over and it's time to party. "The Crew", as they are known by their peers and dorm mates, are invited to a rich classmate's hideaway mansion high up in the hills of Colorado. What was supposed to be a weekend of fun and relaxation ..read more »
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Moving McAllister
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Ben Gourley, Jon Heder, Mila Kunis
Director: Andrew Black
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Aspiring lawyer Rick Robinson (Ben Gourley) has found an unusual way of moving up the corporate ladder in this romantic comedy. When a partner (Rutger Hauer) asks Rick for a favour, the intern gets in over his head and has to drive cross-country with his boss' sexy-but-off-limits niece (Mila Kunis).
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Hunt For Eagle One: Crash Point
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Mark Dacascos, Rutger Hauer, Theresa Randle
Director: Henry Crum
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n this sequel to 'The Hunt For Eagle One', terrorists have stolen a Ground
Control Encoder, a new anti-hijack device that enables Air Traffic
Control to lock out the pilot's instruments and fly a plane by remote control. When the military learns of the terrorists' plans to use it to crash a
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The Poseidon Adventure
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Adam Baldwin, Rutger Hauer, Steve Guttenberg
Director: John Putch
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As the luxury liner Poseidon slices through the waters of an ocean storm, a radical terrorist group is preparing to send a bloody message to Western politicians. Shortly after the 2,500 passengers and crew have celebrated New Year, a huge blast rips through the hull, sending freezing waters rushing ..read more »
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Sin City - BLU-RAY Version - Recut, Ext...
(2005)
Starring: Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba
Director: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarant
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Comic artist genius Frank Miller and Desperado director Robert Rodriguez combine to bring Miller's searing, stylised vision of a torn, twisted city - and the people within it. Told in three chapters and definitely not for the faint of heart...
Recut, Extended, Unrated Version Includes:
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The Hunt For Eagle One
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Mark Dacascos, Theresa Randle, Rutger Hauer
Director: Brian Clyde
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A dangerous rescue mission is necessitated when Matt Daniels (Mark Dacascos) leads a team into the Philippines, where terrorists are hiding. When Captain Amy Jennings (Theresa Randle) is shot down, it's up to Daniels to venture into highly dangerous enemy territory, dismantling the terrorists' bio-..read more »
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Salem's Lot
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Rob Lowe, Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hauer
Director: Mikael Salomon
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Made for television series which finds Ben Mears, a writer returning to his hometown of Jerusalem's Lot to research his new book and come to terms with a childhood incident. Two newcomers; an antiques dealer and his companion become the focus of his attention when they prevent him from renting the ..read more »
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Scorcher
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, John Rhys Davies, Mark Rolston
Director: James Seale
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Man's quest to capture the power of nuclear weapons has resulted in a potential environmental catastrophe. The Earth's plates are shifting and the world is heating up, in three days mankind faces apocalypse. All that can save the planet now is a crack team of scientists and military personnel. ..read more »
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Flying Virus
(2001)
Starring: Gabrielle Anwar, Rutger Hauer, Craig Sheffer
Director: Jeff Hare
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A deadly virus threatens the world. The symptoms are horrifying - bleeding eyes, restricted breathing, coma and finally, death. It starts in the Amazon Rainforest when Journalist Ann Baurer stumbles on a top secret conspiracy involving biological weapons. These weapons are virus carriers - ..read more »
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Turbulence 3 - Heavy Metal
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Joe Mantegna, Gabrielle Anwar, Rutger Hauer
Director: Jorge Montesi
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When a hot new Death Metal band plans the most exclusive concert ever, their plans go terrifyingly wrong. Slade Craven is performing live on a 747 Jumbo Jet on a flight from Los Angeles to Toronto for a select group of fans. Suddenly, a crazed crowd member takes control of the flight and begins a ..read more »
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Wilder
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Pam Grier, Rutger Hauer, Romano Orzari
Director: Rodney Gibbons
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A routine investigation for Chicago policewoman Della Wilder (Pam Grier) takes an unexpected turn when she discovers that the victim is the latest link in a chain of murders. As Wilder pursues the killer, a mysterious pharmaceutical company is implicated in the proceedings.
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Tenth Kingdom, The - The Entire Series
(3 discs)
(1999)
Starring: Ann Margret, Dianne Wiest, Kimberly Williams
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Virginia (Williams) and her father Tony (Larroquette) encounter a stray dog wandering the streets of New York City. The dog turns out to be Snow White's Prince Wendell under a spell by an evil queen (Wiest) who plans to rule his kingdom! In an effort to help the prince, they follow him through a ..read more »
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Tactical Assault
(1998)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Robert Patrick, Isabel Glasser
Director: Mark Griffiths
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September 24, 1990. The Gulf War. Two United States Air Force F-16 fighter jets make a routine reconnaissance run in the no-fly zone over Iraq, when an Iraqi jetliner is spotted in NATO airspace. Captain Lee Banning on alert prepares to chase the straggler home. Captain John "Doc" Holiday flies in ..read more »
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Bone Daddy
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Barbara Williams, R.H. Thomson
Director: Mario Azzopardi
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A successful writer, formerly a chief medical officer for the city of Chicago, bases his latest novel on a murder case that he was once involved with.... At the official book launch his agent fails to appear and a finger is found in his hotel room...
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Merlin
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Sam Neill, Helena Bonham-Carter, John Gielgud
Director: Steve Barron
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This ambitious, all-star miniseries treatment of the Round Table legends is narrated from the perspective of the sorcerer Merlin (Sam Neill), who must choose between loyalty to the court and his love for beautiful Nimue (Isabella Rossellini). Solid acting and spectacular special effects combine to ..read more »
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Hostile Waters
(1997)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Martin Sheen, Max von Sydow
Director: David Drury
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When a Soviet nuclear submarine collides with an American sub off the coast of Bermuda, the captains of both vessels (Rutger Hauer as the Russian skipper, Martin Sheen as his American counterpart) are forced to work together to thwart a meltdown. Based on an actual event that occurred in 1986, with ..read more »
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Armageddon
(1997)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Mark Dacascos, Yvonne Scio
Director: Tibor Takacs
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Small-time crook John Anderson Wade is about to pull off a highly profitable operation with his partner-in-crime Merrick (Mark Dacascos). At the last minute, Merrick betrays his friend, shooting Wade and fleeing with the money. Moscow police however, use experimental bionic technology to bring Wade ..read more »
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Hemoglobin
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Roy Dupuis
Director: Peter Svatek
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In HEMOGLOBIN, John Strauss (Roy Dupuis) is dying from a mysterious blood disease. Having traced his roots to an eerie New England island, John arrives there with his wife, Kathleen (Kristin Lehman), in the vain hope that he may find a cure and a link to his family. He succeeds in discovering some ..read more »
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Crossworlds
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Josh Charles, Stuart Wilson
Director: Krishna Rao
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Boyish Josh Charles is the lucky Luke Skywalker look-a-like in Crossworlds, a Star Wars meets A Wrinkle in Time adventure of an intergalactic war and one unassuming young man who holds the key to dimensional travel. Charles plays a good-natured underachiever shocked out of his lovelorn moping when ..read more »
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Surviving The Game
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Gary Busey, F. Murray Abraham
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
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Six sportsmen, ranging from an ex-CIA agent to a Wall Street tycoon, ask a homeless and penniless man Mason (Ice T) to lead them on a hunting expedition through the woods of the Pacific Northwest. However, the moment the men are isolated in the wild country, and their high-powered guns are loaded, ..read more »
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hauer
Director: Fran Rubel Kuzui
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In BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, a fully accessorised L.A. high school cheerleader (Kristy Swanson) is informed by a mysterious stranger (Donald Sutherland) that she is destined to battle vampires. Soon she's wreaking havoc on a local chapter of bloodsuckers. But when the top vampire (Rutger Hauer) ..read more »
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Wedlock
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Mimi Rogers, Joan Chen
Director: Lewis Teague
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Frank Warren, an electronics expert, is imprisoned in an experimental 'high-tech' prison for being convicted of a diamond robbery. Here, inmates are secretly connected by collars which explode if separated by more than 100 yards...
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Bloodhounds Of Broadway
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Madonna, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Grey
Director: Howard Brookner
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This film, which incorporates the plots of four Damon Runyon stories, takes place in and around a grand New Year's Eve party in 1928. The guests, many of whose lives intertwine during the evening, include Harriet (Julie Hagerty), the rich society doll throwing the bash; the aptly named Feet Samuels ..read more »
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Salute Of The Jugger
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Vincent D'Onofrio
Director: David Webb Peoples
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A future barren world destroyed by war is inhabited by settlers whose daily task is to survive a harsh world where food is scarce. The only pleasure in life is the Game in which opposing settlers put forward a team of gladiators to do battle.
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Escape From Sobibor
(1987)
Starring: Alan Arkin, Rutger Hauer, Joanna Pacula
Director: Jack Gold
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Horrifyingly true story of the Nazi's inhumane treatment of Jews at a secluded death camp. Despite the terrible odds, a number of emaciated prisoners successfully organised an escape resulting in the setting loose of over 600 inmates, some 320 actually getting to freedom. TV screened.
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The Hitcher
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Director: Robert Harmon
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A magnanimous young man who picks up a strange hitchhiker on a desert highway on a dark, rainy night soon wishes he had just driven on. The deranged hitchhiker turns the innocent fellow's journey into a living nightmare.
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Ladyhawke
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Matthew Broderick, Michelle Pfeiffer
Director: Richard Donner
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A haunting adventure fantasy about a pair of cursed lovers who are transformed into animal shapes during alternate periods of the day. Broderick, who provides comic relief, is appealing as the couple's young friend, and ultimately, their rescuer. Academy Award Nominations: 2, including Best Sound, ..read more »
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Flesh And Blood
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Burlinson
Director: Paul Verhoeven
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The year is 1520. Martin (RUTGER HAUER) leads a band of wretched mercenaries, betrayed by their leader Arnolfini. Steven (TOM BURLINSON) is Arnolfini's idealistic son, forced to marry Agnes (JENNIFER JASON LEIGH), a woman he has never met. Their lives cross when, disguised as a band of pilgrims, ..read more »
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The Osterman Weekend
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Dennis Hopper
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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Once a year John Tanner spends a long weekend with his three best friends from college. When he is approached by a CIA agent who has evidence proving that his three pals are actually spy's working with the Soviet Union, he reluctantly allows, his house to be wired with video surveillance equipment ..read more »
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Blade Runner
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos
Director: Ridley Scott
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Four illegal humanoids, led by Rutger Hauer, have infiltrated 21st Century Los Angeles. Blade Runner hitman Harrison Ford, is recruited to eliminate the convincing android beings before they cause any damage or create unrest in the paranoid hi-tech urban society.
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Soldier Of Orange
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbe, Peter Faber
Director: Paul Verhoeven
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A gripping World War II tale about the Nazi invasion of Holland and its effects upon six wealthy, boisterous college students, SOLDIER OF ORANGE brought director Paul Verhoeven international acclaim. The film focuses on two of the friends, Erik and Gus. Erik escapes to England, and (against his ..read more »
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Katie Tippel
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Monique Van De Ven, Fons Rademakers, Rutger Hauer
Director: Paul Verhoeven
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Paul Verhoeven directed this film, a moving period drama, before he relocated to Hollywood. A true story set in 19th century Holland, Keetje Tippel is a young girl born into poverty whose mother takes her to work in a brothel. As men use her, so too, Katie decides, she can use them to obtain the ..read more »
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Turkish Delight
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Monique Van De Ven, Piet Roemer
Director: Paul Verhoeven
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The most popular film in Dutch history, TURKISH DELIGHT stars Rutger Hauer as Erik Vonk, a free spirited sculptor who enters into a passionate affair with the beautiful Olga (van de Ven), whose thirst for sexual experimentation matches his own. As their romance progresses, the two decide to marry, ..read more »
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Blade Runner - The Final Cut
Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos
Director: Ridley Scott
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Visually spectacular, intensely action-packed and powerfully prophetic since its debut, Blade Runner returns in Ridley Scott's definitive Final Cut, including ..read more »
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Minotaur
on DVD
Starring: Tom Hardy, Michelle Van Der Water, Tony Todd
Director: Jonathan English
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In an Iron Age village eight youths must be sacrificed every five years to a bloodthirsty monster, the Minotaur. Seen as a god, the offerings are lowered into the Minotaur's vast labyrinth beneath the palace to face the beast... and their death. When his love is lost to the sacrifice, Theo believes ..read more »
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Warrior Angels
on DVD
Starring: Charlotte Avery, Nick Brading, Molly Culver
Director: Bruce Wayne Gillies
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Set in Medieval England, Warrior Angels is an action-packed tale of adventure, vengeance and honour. Elizabeth, an aide to King Richard, returns home from the Crusades to find her castle ransacked and her son kidnapped by outlaw Grekkor and his band of marauders. As she searches for her son, ..read more »
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Wanted Dead or Alive
to Watch Now
(1986)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Gene Simmons, Robert Guillaume
Director: Gary Sherman
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Run time: 103 minutes
Nick Randall is a man with few friends, and plenty of enemies. A former CIA agent turned bounty hunter, Randall is a dangerous man to know - and the last man you want chasing you. When international terrorist Malak Al Rahim kick-starts his maniacal reign of fear over Los Angeles by blowing up a ..read more »
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A disappointing children's account of the Arthurian legend which does however have some redeeming qualities. 5 August 2009
...avid Wenham's in 300 (2007), and is cringe worthy in the role. God knows I love Rutger Hauer in mostly everthing he's done, but he's out of place in this mini-series, and d...
Dull 14 March 2005
A feast of a mini-series ... 24 November 2004
