2012 2009  PG-13, 158 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Roland Emmerich
Cast: John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Danny Glover, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Thomas McCarthy, Woody Harrelson, Zlatko Buric, Beatrice Rosen, Johann Urb, George Segal, Chin Han, Stephen McHattie, Jimi Mistry
According to the Mayan calendar, Earth will come to an end on December 21, 2012. Scientist Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) warns U.S. President Wilson (Danny Glover) that the end of the world is coming. The date arrives, and catastrophes ensue. An earthquake causes Los Angeles to erupt, Las Vegas is demolished, and a volcano destroys Yellowstone National Park. Those disasters are combined with more devastation taking place all over Earth. Meanwhile, Jackson Curtis' (John Cusack) plans to connect with his children at Yellowstone include a harrowing plane ride to Yellowstone where he meets crazy Charlie (Woody Harrelson) who has a map leading to space arks hidden by the government for use if the Mayan prediction proves true.
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 Dirty Pretty Things 2002  R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Stephen Frears
Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sergi Lopez, Sophie Okonedo, Benedict Wong, Zlatko Buric, Kriss Dosanjh, Israel Aduramo, Yemi Ajibade, Nizwar Karanj
Problems faced by illegal immigrants are the focus of this story. Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) was a Nigerian doctor who now ekes out a living in London working as a cab driver and hotel porter. Then there is his friend, Senay (Audrey Tautou), who is a Turkish illegal immigrant finding survival by offering sexual favors to her sweatshop boss. As if that's not enough, the hotel manager (Sergi Lopez) buys human kidneys from desperate donors, which he sells on the black market. Despite all, Okwe and Senay are survivors.
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Pusher 1996 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast: Kim Bodnia, Zlatko Buric, Laura Drasbaek, Slavko Labovic, Mads Mikkelsen, Peter Andersson, Vanja Bajicic
As a successful drug dealer, Frank (Kim Bodnia) had enjoyed living the good life UNTIL the police caught him, but he dumped the heroin in the lake and destroyed the evidence. As if that is not enough, Frank's real problem now comes to the fore: he will be killed if he does not repay the buyer, and Frank has already spent the money.
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Pusher 3 2005 N/R, 102 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama / Comedy / Thriller
aka: Pusher III
Pusher 3: I'm the Angel of Death
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast: Zlatko Buric, Marinela Dekic, Ilyas Agac, Slavko Labovic, Ramadan Huseini, Kujtim Loki, Levino Jensen, Marek Magierecki, Sven Erik Eskeland Larsen, Karsten Schroder, Dan Dommer, Kurt Nielsen
In this final entry of the "Pusher" trilogy, drug kingpin Milo (Zlatko Buric) is aging and preparing a 25th birthday party for his spoiled daughter, Milena (Marinela Dekic). Then there is the other side to Milo involving his life as a Serbian crime boss who is faced with a problem after accepting a shipment of heroin that turns out to be ecstasy pills. What is Milo to do? Why, turn to his old friend and henchman, Radovan (Slavko Labovic), of course. And the body count begins to rise.
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Pusher II 2004 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Pusher 2
Pusher II: With Blood on My Hands
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Jesper Salomonsen, Leif Sylvester, Anne Sorensen, Oyvind Hagen-Traberg, Kurt Nielsen, Dan Dommer, Karsten Schroder, Maria Erwolter, Zlatko Buric, Maya Ababadjani, Maria Mendoza
In this second offering of the "Pusher" trilogy, that not-so-bright thug, Tonny (Mads Mikkelsen) is released from prison. Now, he wants to change his life and convinces his mob boss father (Leif Sylvester) to accept him back into the fold. But, a warm family reunion is not in the cards.
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| 1. 2012 (2009)
2. Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
3. Pusher (1996)
4. Pusher 3 (2005)
aka: Pusher III
aka: Pusher 3: I'm the Angel of Death
5. Pusher II (2004)
aka: Pusher 2
aka: Pusher II: With Blood on My Hands
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