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The 13th Warrior (Widescreen)
»rank: 6862
Chroniques et points de vue:From :What happened to The 13th Warrior? Directed by John McTiernan (Die Hard), it's the tale of young Arab ambassador Ahmahd ibn Fahdalan (Antonio Banderas), who's vanquished from his homeland for loving the wrong woman. 0n his journeys he associates with a ragtag group of Vikings who are traveling back to their homeland to confront a nefarious threat that's cloaked in such superstition they're forbidden to speak its name. lt is prophesied by a witch doctor that 13 warriors must confront the evil; however, the 13th chosen man must not ...
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Runaway (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 8597
Chroniques et points de vue:From :What happened to The 13th Warrior? Directed by John McTiernan (Die Hard), it's the tale of young Arab ambassador Ahmahd ibn Fahdalan (Antonio Banderas), who's vanquished from his homeland for loving the wrong woman. 0n his journeys he associates with a ragtag group of Vikings who are traveling back to their homeland to confront a nefarious threat that's cloaked in such superstition they're forbidden to speak its name. lt is prophesied by a witch doctor that 13 warriors must confront the evil; however, the 13th chosen man must not ...
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The Great Train Robbery (Widescreen)
»rank: 15633
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Best-selling novelist Michael Crichton had already directed Westworld and Coma when he tackled the ambitious production of The Great Train Robbery in 1978. Adapting his own novel (which was inspired by the facts of the first known train robbery), Crichton sets this attractive, highly enjoyable film in London in 1855, where Edward Pierce (Sean Connery) and Agar (Donald Sutherland) plot to steal £25,000 in gold that is being transported by train to pay British troops in the Crimean War. Lesley-Anne Down plays Miriam, Pierce's sophisticated paramour and the third ...
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Westworld (Widescreen)
»rank: 11670
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Welcome to Delos, the high-tech Disneyland for adults that Michael Crichton created for Westworld, a nifty science fiction thriller from 1973 that also marked the popular novelist's feature-film directorial debut. The movie is so named because the vacationing buddies who travel to Delos (James Brolin, Richard Benjamin) choose Westworld as their destination (the other choices being Roman World and Medieval World), where they are free to indulge their movie-inspired fantasies of the Wild West. From brothel beauties to black-hatted gunslingers (like the villain played by Yul Brynner), the place ...
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Coma (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 21911
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Something is awry at Boston General Hospital. Dr. Wheeler's (Genevieve Bujold) friend Nancy goes in for a routine procedure, but never comes out of the anesthesia and slips into a coma. Wheeler learns that a tissue sample from the young woman went to the lab, then soon finds out that a high number of patients have become comatose recently. She digs a little deeper and finds a conspiracy mired in hospital politics, running afoul of the head of anesthesia, Dr. George (Rip Torn) and the head of surgery, Dr. ...
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Looker
»rank: 21911
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Something is awry at Boston General Hospital. Dr. Wheeler's (Genevieve Bujold) friend Nancy goes in for a routine procedure, but never comes out of the anesthesia and slips into a coma. Wheeler learns that a tissue sample from the young woman went to the lab, then soon finds out that a high number of patients have become comatose recently. She digs a little deeper and finds a conspiracy mired in hospital politics, running afoul of the head of anesthesia, Dr. George (Rip Torn) and the head of surgery, Dr. ...
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Westworld (Widescreen)
»rank: 48229
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Welcome to Delos, the high-tech Disneyland for adults that Michael Crichton created for Westworld, a nifty science fiction thriller from 1973 that also marked the popular novelist's feature-film directorial debut. The movie is so named because the vacationing buddies who travel to Delos (James Brolin, Richard Benjamin) choose Westworld as their destination (the other choices being Roman World and Medieval World), where they are free to indulge their movie-inspired fantasies of the Wild West. From brothel beauties to black-hatted gunslingers (like the villain played by Yul Brynner), the place ...
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Physical Evidence
»rank: 48229
Chroniques et points de vue:From : Physical Evidence is meant to be a hard-boiled, gritty courtroom whodunit. With two sexy leads, a big-name director (Michael Crighton), and a classy score by legendary composer Henry Mancini (The Pink Panther), everything would appear to be in place. Burt Reynolds, whose career had shifted into low-gear in the late '80s, plays Joe Farley, a hard-living, hard-drinking cop with a volatile temper and plenty of enemies. When he becomes the main suspect in a high-profile murder, tyro public defendant Jenny Hudson (Theresa Russell), eager to make a name ...
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Pursuit (1972)
»rank: 45588
Chroniques et points de vue:From : Physical Evidence is meant to be a hard-boiled, gritty courtroom whodunit. With two sexy leads, a big-name director (Michael Crighton), and a classy score by legendary composer Henry Mancini (The Pink Panther), everything would appear to be in place. Burt Reynolds, whose career had shifted into low-gear in the late '80s, plays Joe Farley, a hard-living, hard-drinking cop with a volatile temper and plenty of enemies. When he becomes the main suspect in a high-profile murder, tyro public defendant Jenny Hudson (Theresa Russell), eager to make a name ...
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The 13th Warrior
»rank: 45588
Chroniques et points de vue:Chronique amazon.fr:Crépusculaire, barbare, épique, Le Treizième Guerrier aura d'emblée pris place dans nos coeurs parmi les plus beaux films d'aventures de ces vingt dernières années, aux côtés de Conan le barbare, de Braveheart, du Dernier des Mohicans ou de Blade. Voulu, coproduit et réalisé par un John McTiernan qui s'est laissé emporter par le souffle héroïque de ses personnages, Le Treizième Guerrier est l'adaptation d'un roman de Michael Crichton, Eaters 0f The Dead, inspiré des écrits d'un érudit arabe du Xe siècle, Ahmed ibn Fahdlan, et proche, dans son souci ...
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