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The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986)
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迈克尔·查普曼 actor: 更多...
other title: 洞熊家族 / 熊族之旅 …
Natural changes have the clans moving. Iza, medicine woman of the "Clan of the Cave Bear" finds little Ayla from the "others"' clan - tradition would have the clan kill Ayla immediately, but Iza insists on keeping her. When the little one finds a most needed new cave, she's allowed to stay - and thrive.
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Unnatural Causes (1986)
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Lamont Johnson actor: John Ritter / Alfre Woodard …
other title: Todesursache - Agent Orange / Todesursache: Agent Orange
Frank Coleman is a Vietnam veteran dying from cancer brought on by exposure to the defoliant chemical Agent Orange which he turns to Maude DeVictor, a Veterans Administration benefits counselor who teams up with Coleman to fight a lopsided batted against the bureaucratic system for its cover up of the possible dangers of Agent Orange.
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Go for Sisters (2013)
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John Sayles actor: LisaGay Hamilton / Yolonda Ross …
other title: 為了姐妹 / 为了姐妹
Bernice and Fontayne grew up so tight they could ‘go for sisters’. After twenty years apart, they are reunited when Bernice is assigned to be Fontayne’s parole officer — just when she needs help on the wrong side of the law.
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Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1983)
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Ellen Giffard / Muffie Meyer … actor: Maria Tucci / 凯文·贝肯 …
other title: Drei Frauen in New York / 三女性 …
This film is made up of three segments that share no plot but have a general thematic relationship. In the first segment, Virginia and her three children are left by her shiftless husband and she is courted by an old beau who is now divorced. In the second, a divorced woman reacts to some unexpected revelations from her aged father. In the third, a childless, middle-aged social worker is swept into an affair with a young cab driver and finds herself pregnant.
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Sonora: The Devil’s Highway (2019)
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Alejandro Springall actor: 华金·科西奥 / Giovanna Zacarías …
other title: Sonora : El Camino Del Diablo / Sonora
1931, a year of nationalisms and excesses: The Chinese are expelled from Sonora; the US deports Mexicans and closes its borders. Twelve desperate people cross the Sonoran desert in a 1929 Chrysler, hoping to find peace in Baja California. As their sojourn exposes both the best and the worst of human nature, racism, greed, and paranoia prove as deadly as the merciless landscape around them.
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Wild Thing (1987)
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Max Reid actor: 罗伯特·克内珀 / 凯瑟琳·奎南 …
other title: Asphalt Kid / Salvaje Kid …
A child witnesses drug dealers murder his parents. He escapes and grows up wild in the city's slums. Years later he emerges to help the residents of the area who are being terrorized by street gangs and drug dealers.
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Silver City (2004)
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约翰·塞尔斯 actor: 理查德·德莱福斯 / 索拉·伯奇 …
other title: 惊爆银色选战 / 银城竞选
影片的故事发生在的美国科罗拉多州的竞选时期，一个出身于显赫家族，父亲是资深议员的纨绔子弟迪基(Chris Cooper)。在父亲的影响下开始参与州长竞选。但是无意中发现的一具尸体却威胁到了他的竞选。他的利益群体雇佣了一个私家侦探Danny O'Brien(Danny Huston)来调查这件事情。在多年的工作中，他不断的接受了金钱违背了事实的真相，有一天他的良知被重新的唤醒，他要揭露这些人的真实面目…… 《银城竞选》可以说是一部讽刺乔治布什领导下的美国政府的作品，同时也针对于美国人民生存的这个国家的政治生活。对于这类反映国家政治的电影来说，约翰赛利斯能够在电影巧妙的组织很多大的事件，并使影片中每个人物都很生动。电影讲述的是一个出身于显赫家族，父亲是资深议员的纨绔子弟迪基参加议员竞选。但实际上他是那些大工业阶层富人们的傀儡，这些人希望利用他去推翻对环境的限制，以便赚取更多的金钱。从影片的一开始主演就穿着牛仔风格的衣服，站在湖泊前说一些关于环境的陈词滥调，这所有的一切都是想尽力去模仿乔治布什。 这部电影的力量并不是在于它所表现的愤怒，而是在于玩世不恭的态度上。影片的结尾并没有给这样的政治争论一个结束性的定论。美德是不需要回报的，犯罪并没有受到惩罚，道德并不是游戏的准则，这些都是因为体制的腐烂，没有人可以避免这样的生活。生活里也许有的人的性格比别人的要好，也许有的人并不是那么的邪恶，但是他们的想法和思维在这个政治的氛围里受到了限制，他们逐渐的开始沉沦。就象19世纪英国著名小说家萨克雷Thackeray的小说《名利场》一样，“一个没有主人公的小说”。约翰赛利斯在他的新片中表现了同样的精神。
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Alligator (1980)
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刘易斯·蒂格 actor: 罗伯特·福斯特
other title: 大鳄鱼 / Alligator: Uhyret under byens gader …
A vicious alligator named Ramon, who was flushed into the city sewer as a baby, survives to become a 32-foot-long menace who devours animals and people alike. Ramon's so huge because of the steady diet of dead pets - treated with growth hormones - that he's fed on for 12 years. Now the tremendous brute is angry and looking for revenge. Only detective David Madison knows of Ramon's existence, and it is his task to prove to the rest of the city that a tropical beast lives in their midst. Veteran screenwriter Sayles' script finds the perfect blend of comedy and horror, making this an entertaining romp through the sewers of Chicago.
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育婴房 (2003)
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约翰·塞尔斯 actor: 玛吉·吉伦哈尔 / 马西娅·盖伊·哈登 …
other title: Casa de Los Babys / 求子心切
一帮来自民主法制健全国家——美国的女人到另外一个相对落后的国家去领养孩子。(美国的发展现状决定了领养的程序比较繁琐，大概需要长达几年甚至十几年的排队什么的，不遵照程序大概会构成刑事违法，搞得这帮美国女人都要跑到国外去找孩子，并且个个战战兢兢的…… 落后国家的人们很friendly也很canny(一切看在钱的份上),她们把这帮美国女人招待的很好，让她们无休止的等待，很明显在她们这个国家抱走一个小孩不用什么手续也不是很麻烦，但是她们装作好像事情很大条的样子留着这帮女人从中挣钱取酒店费和餐费。 这些身处异地，被各种问题(主要是与领养相关的意识形态的问题，诸如宗教、伦理、法律)困扰的女人自然而然的走到了一起，她们同病相怜，又各自有各自的立场，甚至有些人对别人怀有狭隘的敌意，大概是老认为别人抱养了孩子等于自己失去了一个机会的那个味道(在我看来这些女人都很不一样，有的尖酸刻薄，有的单纯善良，有学院派风格的，有市井大妈门派的)。 影片通过这个落后国家的民生状况和这帮怀抱着美好的领养愿望美国女人的行为活动的比照，用心良苦的反映了一些问题，不仅仅是culture shock,也有美国社会内部一些分歧的体现。 是个不错的人文好片。
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Men of War (1994)
Men of War
佩里·朗 actor: Dolph Lundgren / BD Wong …
other title: 魔鬼悍将 / 붉은 전사 …
Nick Gunar is a burnt-out, jaded and hard-up former mercenary who is having a difficult time adjusting to civilian life. At the end of his rope, he is hired by the Nitro Mine Corporation to strong-arm the natives of a South China Sea island into giving up their rights to its valuable mineral resources. Nick loathes the thought of another mission, but this seemingly easy job will earn him enough money to get back with his estranged family. He recruits some of his former mercenary buddies to help him with the job. The island people refuse to give up their land and Nick decides to help them fight the greedy corporation that hired him. As greed and treachery begin to unravel, Nick's band of mercenaries choose sides.
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Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)
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约翰·塞尔斯 actor: Bruce MacDonald / 玛吉·伦齐 …
other title: 西卡柯七个人的归来 / 西卡柯七个人的返来 …
Seven former college friends, along with a few new friends, gather for a weekend reunion at a summer house in New Hampshire to reminisce about the good old days, when they got arrested on the way to a protest in Washington, D.C.
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Amigo (2010)
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约翰·赛尔斯 actor: 克里斯·库珀
other title: 朋友 / 아미고
At the beginning of the 20th Century, during the Philippine-American War, a garrison under the command of US Lieutenant Compton is left to ‘protect’ San Isidro, a remote region located in the Philippines. Compton can only communicate with Rafael, the Head of the barrio, through the friar Hidalgo who bears a deep resentment towards Rafael. Neither side can understand or trust the other, but are forced to live together, trying to survive in the middle of a war. When the American occupation policy gets tougher, Rafael has to answer to both the Americans and the Filipino patriots.
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Sunshine State (2002)
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约翰·塞尔斯 actor: Alex Lewis / 阿兰·金 …
other title: 阳光天堂 / 阳光州 …
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.