Rutger Hauer
Rutger Oelsen Hauer (January 23, 1944 – July 19, 2019) was a Dutch film actor. He was well known for his roles in Flesh + Blood, Blind Fury, Blade Runner, The Hitcher, Nighthawks, Sin City, Ladyhawke, The Blood of Heroes and Batman Begins. Hauer was born in Breukelen,... Read full bio →
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Moonage Daydream
A cinematic odyssey featuring never-before-seen footage exploring David Bowie's creative and musical journey.
Tayna pechati drakona
Early 1700: Cartographer Jonathan Green (Jason Flemyng) from Forbidden Empire (2014) is back to map the Russian Far East. He's forced on to China, where he confronts the Dragon Master et al. The iron masked Russian Czar escapes the Tower of London to a Russian ship.
The Sisters Brothers
Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore want to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.
Samson
After losing the love of his life to a cruel Philistine prince, a young Hebrew with Supernatural strength defends his people, sacrificing everything to avenge his love, his people, and his God.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
In the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories.
Gangsterdam
A student in Amsterdam tries to win over a young woman by chasing after a packet of drugs, which happens to belong to the Dutch mafia.
24 Hours to Live
An assassin seeks redemption after being given a second chance at life.
The Scorpion King: The Lost Throne
When he is betrayed by a trusted friend, Mathayus must marshal all his strength and cunning to outwit a formidable opponent who will stop at nothing to unlock a supreme ancient power.
Michiel de Ruyter
When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany and the country itself is on the brink of civil war, only one man can lead the county's strongest weapon, the Dutch fleet: Michiel de Ruyter.
2047: Sights of Death
The year is 2047. Our planet is ruled by the repressive Confederate Central Government (CCG). Ryan is a Green War rebel agent sent on a mission by Sponge to collect evidence against the CCG for its heinous crimes. Ryan soon faces the sinister Colonel Asimov, Major Anderson and a group of mercenaries lead by Lobo.
Il futuro
When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. The orphans explore the dangerous streets of adulthood until Bianca finds Maciste, a retired Mr. Universe, and enters his dark mansion in search of a future.
Metal Hurlant Chronicles
Metal Hurlant Chronicles is inspired by the popular comics anthology Métal Hurlant, which in turn inspired the well known fantasy magazine Heavy Metal. Each episode takes place on a different planet - fantastical in its own way - with the common thread between stories being a traveling asteroid that impacts the lives of all it encounters.
The Rite
Seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O'Donoghue) reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest, Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins), who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, uncovering the devil’s reach even to one of the holiest places on Earth.
Portable Life
In the mist at the edge of a lake, seventeen-year-old Sea (Ella-June Henrard) finds a mysterious medallion.
Mlyn i krzyz
The stories of the characters painted on Pieter Bruegel's famous painting - "Christ Carrying the Cross".
Hobo with a Shotgun
A homeless vigilante blows away crooked cops, pedophile Santas, and other scumbags with his trusty pump-action shotgun.
Black Butterflies
In Apartheid-torn South Africa, poet Ingrid Jonker struggles tragically in search of love and a sense of home.
Alle for én
Four rogues, who were best friends as kids, have one big problem: they're sitting on both sides of the law. Martin is a policeman, while Nikolai, Ralf, and Timo can't distinguish between personal possessions and the possessions of others!
Barbarossa
Year 1100. Italy.The Northern lands are ruled by a German emperor: Fredrick aka "Barbarossa.
Bride Flight
The story of the women on the KLM flight that won the 1953 Air Race from London to Christchurch, New Zealand.
Moving McAllister
Rick Robinson is a ladder-climbing law intern from Miami with four days until the Bar Exam. Desperate to score points with his boss (McAllister)..
Goal II: Living the Dream
After gaining experience with the football club Newcastle United, Santiago Munez (Becker) gets a huge break when he's transferred to Real Madrid.
7eventy 5ive
As another semester draws to a close at the University of Dreyskill, a simple game dreamt to help students avoid studying becomes a bloody battle for survival in this stalk-and-slash frightener from filmmaking duo Brian Hooks and Deon Taylor.
Minotaur
Long ago in the Iron Age, a shadow loomed over a lonely village. For generations, the village youths are stolen from their families and delivered as sacrifice to a mythical beast - the Minotaur, that dwells beneath a great palace.
Zerkalnie voyni: Otrazhenie pervoye
Фильм о самом современном истребителе корпорации «Сухой», носящем кодовое название «СУ-XX». Цель бывших сотрудников ЦРУ, ставших наемными боевиками, чужими руками столкнуть два государства: Россию и США.
Sin City
The first of three films based on the beautiful comic world of Frank Miller. Sin City depicts the comic book almost page for page with its heavy contrast black and white extremely violent and graphic imagery. Sin City is set in a dangerous and dark Basin City where corruption, sex and violence is everyday life.
Dracula III: Legacy
Dracula leads vampire hunters Father Uffizi and Luke back to Eastern Europe, and a country plagued by civil war.
Batman Begins
Many years ago a young millionaire’s son named Bruce Wayne witnesses his parents murder. His life from then on would be lonely and dark. Changed by hate, violence, and injustice, he heads to Asia where he trains in advanced forms of Martial Arts. During his time away, Gotham City has become dark, corrupt and full of crime. It’s bat time!
'Salem's Lot
Writer Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot and discovers that it is being terrorized by vampires.
Scorcher
The only hope for humanity to survive a natural disaster is to detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles.
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" is the story of a legendary showman's double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal
Rock superstar Slade Craven has decided to hang up his rock & roll shoes and has planned something very special for his final show -- instead of a typical concert in some sports arena, he'll play a set aboard a 747 jumbo jet, flying from Los Angeles to Toronto, with the gig broadcast live to millions of fans over the Internet.
Flying Virus
A journalist uncovers a government conspiracy to unleash virus-carrying killer bees that could wipe out humanity.
The 10th Kingdom
Virginia and Tony, a father and daughter living in Manhattan, find themselves in a parallel universe where Snow White, Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood are struggling to maintain order. Their kingdoms have been fragmented by trolls, giants and goblins.
Simon Magus
Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops.
Merlin
A retelling of the legend of King Arthur from the perspective of the wizard Merlin. Sam Neill stars in the title role in a story that covers not only the rise and fall of Camelot but also the phase in the legendary history of Britain that precedes it.
Bone Daddy
When a pathologist-turned-author publishes a novel about the true case of a serial killer still at large, he inadvertently inspires the murderer to kill again.
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Knockin' On Heaven's Door is a story about two terminally ill cancer patients who befriend eachother in a hospital and decide to have one last hurrah. Drunk from Tequila they steal a car and are off. The car they stole turns out to belong to some gangsters who start chasing them for not just the car but what’s in the trunk.
Deathline
A prostitute helps a U.S. smuggler evade assassins and seek revenge upon his traitorous partner in Moscow.
Crossworlds
College good guy Joe is drawn into a battle to save the world from arch-enemy Ferris. Joe's heirloom pendant just happens to be the key to the staff that opens doors to the Crossworlds. When Laura shows up to check on the key and Ferris' goons begin their assaults, they run to semi-retired adventurer A.T. for help and guidance.
Bleeders
A man with an unknown disease travels to an island with his girlfriend where his relatives once lived, hoping to find a cure to his illness. Although his relatives were all thought to be dead, he finds them living underground.
Blast
A deadly team of terrorists mounts a precision attack on a swimming complex, which holds the world's finest women's swimming team hostage, and unknowingly traps a janitor inside.
Precious Find
The year is 2049. 200 years after the great Californian goldrush. The new generation of gold diggers are just as full of gold fever as their ancestors.
Omega Doom
After earth is taken over by an army of robots, the small number of humans left are forced into hiding. In the nuclear winter, only droids walk the face of the earth, in fear of the rumored human resurgence, and in search of a hidden cache of weapons.
Split Second
In a futuristic London, the rising sea levels mean that large areas are under feet of water. Hauer plays a cop who previously lost his partner to some strange creature. Now the creature is back and its after him.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Blonde, bouncy Buffy (Kristy Swanson) is your typical high school cheerleader-- her goal is to "marry Christian Slater and die" and nothing gets in her way when it's time to shop. But all that changes when a strange man (Donald Sutherland) informs her she's been chosen by fate to kill vampires.
Wedlock
A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot electronically attached to a female prisoner.
The Blood of Heroes
In a future where most of mankind and technology is wiped out, six people travel from place to place playing a brutal form of football with a dog skull. They hope one day to play in the league in a city.
In una notte di chiaro di luna
An American journalist works for a French newspaper. He is writing an article about the reaction against people with AIDS, without knowing he is infected too. Once he finds out, he decides to cut off himself leaving his wife and daughter.
Bloodhounds of Broadway
On New Year's Eve 1928, in the New York underworld, a gambler sells his body to science, a gangster needs a transfusion, and a gambler is on the run
Blind Fury
A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.
La leggenda del santo bevitore
An alcoholic homeless man is given two hundred francs by a stranger, who requests that when he can he will return the money to Saint Therese in the cathedral.
Escape from Sobibor
Based on a true story, this is the gripping account of the largest prisoner escape from a Nazi death camp during World War II. Sobibor is one of three death camps located in eastern Poland. Reminded of their inhumane fate each day, the prisoners plan to perform the impossible- escape from Sobibor.
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Nick Randall is a Los Angeles-based bounty hunter and an ex-CIA operative who is asked by a former co-worker to help track down terrorist Malak Al Rahim. However, Malak Al Rahim is also looking for Randall, forcing a showdown on the waterfront.
The Hitcher
A young man who escaped the clutches of a murderous hitch-hiker is subsequently stalked, framed for the hitcher's crimes, and has his life made into hell by the same man he escaped.
Ladyhawke
A bishop has put a curse on Isabeau d’Anjou that causes her to turn into a hawk during the day. When she finds a thief that had been imprisoned by the Bishop she asked for his help to get her past the guards to kill the Bishop. A poetic fantasy from Richard Donner.
Flesh+Blood
In medieval Europe, a young girl from a noble family is obsessed with her captors--commoners.
A Breed Apart
A conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs.
The Osterman Weekend
The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that threatens national security.
Eureka
The best minds in the US are tucked away in a remote town where they build futuristic inventions for the government's benefit.
Blade Runner
From the atmospheric vision of Ridley Scott comes this futuristic film noir declared by many as the greatest Science Fiction movie of all time. Based on the novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick.
Nighthawks
An international terrorist has New York in a grip of panic and it's up to Det. Sgt. Deke DaSilva to take him down.
Spetters
Amateur dirt-bikers Rien and Hans–and their mechanic Eef–each fall in love with Fientje, a young woman who, with her brother Jaap, works a concession stand at the races. Everyone seeks a better life: Fientje wants out of the business and away from Jaap; and Rien and Hans aim to make their marks as pro racers, like their hero, Gerrit Witkamp.
Een vrouw tussen hond en wolf
In 1940 Antwerp, Lieve marries Adriaan, who joins German forces. She shelters resistance fighter François in 1942, finding true love. Post-war, she stays with convicted Adriaan despite loving François, but grows distant as François.
Pastorale 1943
Verfilming van de gelijknamige roman van Simon Vestdijk waarin een groepje burgers uit een dorp in de Betuwe dappere daden verricht in het verzet tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Het verraad van onderduikers op een boerderij doet vijf mannen besluiten de plaatselijke NSB-kruidenier te liquideren. Dit blijkt lastiger dan gedacht.
Mysteries
In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence soon disturbs the lives of the local inhabitants, especially the beautiful daughter of the parson.
Soldaat van Oranje
Soldier of Orange depicts life for students in the Netherlands during the German occupation of the Second World War. The film was the most successful Dutch film and gave director Paul Verhoeven a name in Hollywood.
The Wilby Conspiracy
A black anti-Apartheid activist and a British engineer are forced to run from South African Secret Police.
Keetje Tippel
The young girl Keetje moves to Amsterdam in 1881 with her impoverished family, and is led into prostitution in order to survive. In the process she sees the corrupting influence of money.
Turks fruit
Gifted but hot-headed sculptor Eric has a stormy, erotic, and star-crossed romance with a beautiful young woman named Olga.