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Arn: The Knight Templar: The Complete Series
2010 | NR | 4.2 out of 5 StarsYoung Arn leaves his monastic training to help his family fight for Sweden's crown. But his mission is interrupted when he impregnates his lover, Cecilia, and as penance the couple is separated -- Arn must serve Christ as a warrior in the Crusades.
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Arn: The Knight Templar: The Complete Series
2010 | NR | 4.2 out of 5 StarsAdapted from the "Crusades Trilogy" by Jan Guillo, this epic tale of daring knights and ferocious battles focuses on the Swedish crusader Arn. With his true love Cecilia sent to a convent, Arn travels to the Holy Land to fight for Christendom.
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Arn: The Knight Templar
2007 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsBased on Jan Guillou's trilogy, this adventure saga follows the son of nobility from his monastic education to his return home to help fight for Sweden. But when Arn impregnates his lover, he must become a warrior of the Crusades as penance.
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Shakespeare in Love
1998 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsYoung Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman (Gwyneth Paltrow) auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love -- and his play finds a new life (and title). As their relationship progresses, Shakespeare's comedy soon transforms into tragedy. This bittersweet romance won seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actress.
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James and the Giant Peach
1996 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhen young orphan James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he soon finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands. But that's not half as odd as the oversize talking insects he finds living inside the peach.
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A Room with a View
1986 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn this adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, Lucy travels to Florence with her chaperone in tow. There, she falls for a fellow countryman's moody son. But like any proper Englishwoman of that era, she must fight her feelings, and it's a losing battle.
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Christmas Carol: The Movie
2001 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsNicolas Cage, Kate Winslet and Simon Callow provide voices for this animated version of the classic Charles Dickens tale about the miserable Ebenezer Scrooge, who learns the true meaning of Christmas from three ghosts who confront him in the night. The film uses live-action sequences to bookend the story, and a mouse in the animated portion helps younger viewers follow the story. Winslet sings the film's main theme.
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Love's Kitchen
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAfter the tragic loss of his wife, a down-on-his-luck London chef starts afresh by pouring his energies into a fixer-upper eatery and attracting the attention of an American food critic with a decadent dessert: a mouth-watering trifle.
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The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
2006 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsConvinced that an emerald tablet once owned by King Tut has the power to control the world, archaeologist Danny Freemont (Casper Van Dien) and Egyptologist Dr. Barakat (Leonor Varela) set out on a quest to find it. But among Freemont's various colleagues, only his nemesis, archaeologist Morgan Sinclaire (Jonathan Hyde), believes it actually exists. Malcolm McDowell co-stars in this epic action adventure directed by Russell Mulcahy (Highlander).
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The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
2006 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsConvinced that an emerald tablet once owned by King Tut has the power to control the world, archaeologist Danny Freemont (Casper Van Dien) and Egyptologist Dr. Barakat (Leonor Varela) set out on a quest to find it. But among Freemont's various colleagues, only his nemesis, archaeologist Morgan Sinclaire (Jonathan Hyde), believes it actually exists. Malcolm McDowell co-stars in this epic action adventure directed by Russell Mulcahy (Highlander).
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Victory
1996 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsAxel Heyst (Willem Dafoe) lives in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya, in a hotel owned by a racist German. An all-woman orchestra plays in the hotel each night, and the orchestra owner agrees to "sell" one of the girls, Alma (Irene Jacob), to the German. Heyst saves Alma from this terrible fate and they escape to a remote island, but the German sends the sinister Mr. Jones (Sam Neill) and his bandits to hunt them down.
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Street Fighter
1994 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsLeading an international army isn't easy, but Col. William Guile is ready for a challenge -- which is exactly what he gets when a malevolent warlord kidnaps a busload of Guile's Allied Nations relief workers and holds them for ransom.
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