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The Boondock Saints

1999 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 Stars

Sensing a God-given mission to cleanse the earth of all evil, twin brothers Conner (Sean Patrick Flanery) and Murphy (Norman Reedus) set out to rid Boston of crime. But instead of joining the police force, these Irish Americans decide to kick criminal butt their own way. Willem Dafoe co-stars in writer-director Troy Duffy's crime thriller as the openly gay FBI special agent who's assigned to investigate the siblings' activities.
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Platoon

1986 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 Stars

Helmed by Oliver Stone, this searing autobiographical drama chronicles the Vietnam experiences of naive volunteer soldier Chris Taylor, whose view of the conflict starts to change after witnessing murder and rape at the hands of his compatriots.
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Clear and Present Danger

1994 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 Stars

When the president's close friend is murdered over ties to a Colombian drug cartel, CIA Deputy Director Jack Ryan becomes unwittingly involved in an illegal paramilitary operation that goes awry.
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The Hunter

2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 Stars

Willem Dafoe stars as a mercenary sent to Tasmania to track down the last living Tasmanian tiger and obtain its genetic material. Once he reaches the tiger's wild habitat, the hunter poses as a scientist to begin his search.
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American Psycho

2000 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 Stars

With a chiseled chin and physique, Patrick Bateman's looks make him the ideal yuppie -- and the ideal serial killer. Bateman takes pathological pride in his business card and his CD collection, all while plotting his next victim's vivisection.
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Triumph of the Spirit

1989 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 Stars

Willem Dafoe fights the battle of his life as Salamo, a Greek Jew (and former champion boxer) who's incarcerated in Auschwitz by the Nazis and must defeat all comers in weekly boxing exhibitions. If he doesn't, he faces the gas chamber.
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Basquiat

1996 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 Stars

Director Julian Schnabel's biopic won an Independent Spirit Award for its depiction of Jean-Michel Basquiat's meteoric rise in New York's art world, his anguish over his family, and his hatred of a society that both courted and exploited him.
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Edges of the Lord

2001 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 Stars

Set in World War II Poland, this earnest drama stars Haley Joel Osment as Romek, a 12-year-old Jewish boy dispatched to the countryside to live with a family of Catholic peasants in the hope of saving him from the Nazis. Passed off as a nephew whose parents have fallen ill, Romek is befriended by a parish priest (Willem Dafoe) who tutors him on Catholic catechism. But the horrors of war are never far away as Romek adapts to his new life.
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Mr. Bean's Holiday

2007 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 Stars

The hapless Mr. Bean takes a vacation on the French Riviera, where he becomes ensnared in an accidental kidnapping, discovers romance with a lovely actress at the Cannes Film Festival and manages to give a pompous movie director his comeuppance.
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Cry-Baby

1990 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 Stars

Helmed by director John Waters, this kitschy comedy set in 1950s Baltimore stars Johnny Depp as Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker, a street hood who falls for a goody-two-shoes girl. The unlikely romance sparks a battle between rival factions.
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The Last Temptation of Christ

1988 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 Stars

Nikos Kazantzakis's landmark novel comes to life in director Martin Scorsese's moving, spiritual and highly controversial film that challenges the Christian notion that Jesus (Willem Dafoe) was both a man and a divine being. With an all-star cast that includes Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, Harry Dean Stanton and David Bowie, the film portrays Jesus as unmistakably human, susceptible to the desires, doubts and temptations that all men face.
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Miral

2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 Stars

After rescuing children who survived a massacre in Jerusalem in 1948, a Palestinian woman establishes an orphanage that helps thousands of other children. But the success of her institution is tested when a pupil gets a taste of radical politics.
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Once Upon a Time in Mexico

2003 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 Stars

In the final chapter of director Robert Rodriguez's outlaw trilogy, the CIA recruits traveling vigilante El Mariachi to take down a corrupt general allied with a powerful drug lord -- who plans to overthrow the president of Mexico.
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Born on the Fourth of July

1989 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 Stars

Tom Cruise stars as U.S. Marine Ron Kovic, who returns home from the Vietnam War paralyzed from the chest down. After months of hellish rehabilitation, he finds renewed purpose protesting the war he once proudly fought.
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Victory

1996 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 Stars

Axel 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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Tom & Viv

1994 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 Stars

Director Brian Gilbert beautifully renders the life of poet T.S. Eliot (Willem Dafoe) and his short-lived marriage to muse Vivienne Haigh-Wood (Miranda Richardson). A gifted writer who encouraged Eliot's success, Vivienne was plagued with a hormonal imbalance that wreaked havoc on her moods, her talents and her marriage.
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Flight of the Intruder

1991 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 Stars

This action thriller based on the book by Stephen Coonts charts the efforts of two U.S. Navy pilots fighting in the Vietnam War to bombard Hanoi's People's Resistance Park against government orders.
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Pavilion of Women

2000 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 Stars

To free herself from her husband's insatiable sexual demands, middle-aged aristocrat Madame Wu (Yan Luo) presents him with a young concubine. Much to Madame Wu's dismay, however, her rebellious son falls for the courtesan, while Madame Wu finds herself increasingly attracted to the boy's tutor -- village priest Father Andre (Willem Dafoe). It all comes to a head with Japan's cataclysmic World War II invasion of China.
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eXistenZ

1999 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 Stars

Leading virtual-reality game designer Allegra Geller is testing a new prototype when an assassin wielding a daunting organic weapon attacks her. She survives the assault but must "portal" into her own game to get to the bottom of the intrigue.
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Body of Evidence

1993 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 Stars

A powerful, intelligent, successful and breathtakingly beautiful woman is on trial for the murder of her wealthy, older lover, whom the D.A. is convinced died as a result of an intense lovemaking session.
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Antichrist

2009 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 Stars

After their child dies, a therapist and his wife flee to their cabin in the woods, where they hope to mend their emotional wounds. But the grief-stricken couple watches their troubles multiply when very strange things begin to happen.
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The Night and the Moment

1994 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 Stars

A philandering writer (Willem Dafoe) in search of true love accepts an invitation from an aristocratic salonniere (Lena Olin), only to insinuate himself into her house and try to seduce her with stories of his various conquests. But what he doesn't realize is that their passions date back to his recent imprisonment, when she was incarcerated in the cell beside his.
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Bullfighter

2000 | NR | 2.4 out of 5 Stars

Dogged by devil worshippers, a rebel goes on the run with his pregnant girlfriend, who may be carrying a baby with Messianic powers. As they meander through Texas and Mexico, a priest helps them protect their unborn child.
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