Tzi Ma
1) The farewell
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Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a minefield of family expectations and proprieties, she finds...
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In this adaptation of Graham Greene's prophetic novel set at the beginning of the United States' disastrous entanglement in Southeast Asia, idealism, love and betrayal lead to murder for THE QUIET AMERICAN.American Alden Pyle (Brandon Fraser--Crash) arrives in Saigon in the fall of 1952, the decisive moment in the struggle by the Vietnamese to free themselves from the French yoke. Eager to succeed in his mission to help the Vietnamese people through...
5) Pali Road
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A young doctor wakes up from a car accident and discovers she is married to another man and living a life she can't remember. Her search for the truth to her past life will lead her to question everyone around her and her entire existence.
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Marva Munson is a spry, elderly woman who is looking for a tenant for the spare room in her house. Goldthwait H. Dorr moves in and gains Munson's permission to use the basement for rehearsals with his "medieval music ensemble." Dorr is masterminding the robbery of a riverboat casino, and the fellow musicians in his ensemble are actually the crew he's assembled to pull off the job. Despite their best efforts, Munson finds out about their scheme and...
7) A good man
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After an illustrious special ops career ends in disaster, Alexander goes off the grid and attempts to lead a quiet life as a handyman at an apartment complex. But when one of his tenants and her family fall under the thumb of a Russian gangster, Alexander is dragged into an all-out war between rival Chinese and Russian gangs; forcing him to not only defend the family, but bringing him face to face with and old foe.
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Robocop: "Set in Detroit sometime in the near-future, the film is about a policeman killed in the line of duty, who the department decides to resurrect as a half-human, half-robot supercop. The robocop is indestructible, and within a matter of weeks he has removed crime from the streets of Detroit. However, his human side is tortured by his past, and he wants revenge on the thugs who killed him."--Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide.
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9) A Good Man
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In this non-stop action movie, Steven Seagal goes off the grid as a mercenary to take out the Russian mob.
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Rush hour: A tough Hong Kong cop, Lee, and a fast-talking LAPD detective, Carter, join forces to solve the kidnapping of a Chinese diplomat's daughter, despite the fact that they can't stand each other.
Rush hour 2: Lee and Carter's much needed vacation in Hong Kong is cut short when a bomb explodes at the American Embassy.
Rush hour 3: When a Chinese criminal flees to Paris Lee and Carter find themselves in the middle of a battle between the French...
11) Pali Road
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A young doctor wakes up from a car accident and discovers she is married to another man and living a life she can't remember. Her search for the truth to her past life will lead her to question everyone around her and her entire existence.
12) The Jade Pendant
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The Old West becomes a battleground for power and revenge as thousands have come to the Wild West to build railroads in search of fortune and power. Based on true events.
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A stylish political thriller where love and war collide. Set in early 1950s Vietnam, a young American becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle when he falls for the beautiful mistress of a British journalist. As a war is waged around them, these three only sink deeper into a world of drugs, passion and betrayal where nothing is as it seems! Based on the classic novel by Graham Greene.