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Sands of Iwo Jima

IMDB Rating: 7.10
3100 votes

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Storyline
John Marion Stryker is the ultimate Marine, a tough rifle squad leader who in 1943 is assigned a squad of new recruits saddled with three veterans and an old enemy of Stryker's from previous duties in the Far East. One recruit in particlar is a source of friction with Stryker, Peter Conway, whose father was Stryker's CO at Guadalcanal and who felt his son was too soft and cowardly to be a Marine. The squad grows more and more resentful at Stryker's increasingly brutal training regimen and his lack of sympathy for the varied personal problems of the recruits, but his determination to mold them into fighting men helps save their lives when the squad is landed at Tarawa in November 1943 and Stryker risks his life to blow up a Japanese bunker that has slaughtered Marines trapped at a log wall. The now battle-tested squad becomes more closely-knit and Stryker's relationship with the men warms as the squad eventually finds itself in the bloodiest island battle of the war, at Iwo Jima.
Actors
Sgt. John M. StrykerJohn Wayne
Pfc. Peter ConwayJohn Agar
Pfc. Al ThomasForrest Tucker

Black Sheep

IMDB Rating: 6.20
4521 votes

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Storyline
An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into blood-thirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm.
Actors
Henry OldfieldNathan Meister
ExperienceDanielle Mason
Angus OldfieldPeter Feeney

The Tattooist

IMDB Rating: 6.30
7 votes

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Storyline
American tattoo artist Jake Sawyer (Jason Behr) wanders the world, exploring and exploiting ethnic themes in his tattoo designs. At a tattoo expo in Singapore, he gets his first glimpse at the exotic world of traditional Samoan tattoo (tatau),and,in a thoughtless act,unwittingly unleashes a powerful angry spirit.In his devastating journey into Pacific mysticism,Jake must find a way to save his new love,Sina (Mia Blake) and recover his own soul.
Actors
Jake SawyerJason Behr
Lazlo McFaddenJohn Bach
Jake's FatherTimothy Balme

Eagle vs Shark

IMDB Rating: 7.10
1301 votes

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Storyline
Eagle vs Shark is the tale of two socially awkward misfits and the strange ways they try to find love; through revenge on high-school bullies, burgers, and video games.
Actors
Burger StaffBan Abdul
Flight ExtraJulian Arahanga
Kid #2Riley Brophy

River Queen

IMDB Rating: 6.30
355 votes

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Storyline
An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah (Samantha Morton) and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonisation of New Zealand.
Actors
WiremuCliff Curtis
DoyleKiefer Sutherland
Sarah O'BrienSamantha Morton

Eight Below

IMDB Rating: 7.40
7684 votes

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Storyline
In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren (Bruce Greenwood), the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd (Paul Walker) has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is called-off and the dogs are left alone at their own fortune. For six months, Jerry tries to find a sponsor for a rescue mission while his dogs fight for survival.
Actors
Jerry ShepardPaul Walker
Davis McClarenBruce Greenwood
KatieMoon Bloodgood

The World’s Fastest Indian

IMDB Rating: 8.00
7959 votes

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Storyline
In `60s New Zealand, at the bottom of the world, Burt Munro takes a 1920 Indian motorcycle and, delightfully without resources other than his own obsession and a Kiwi #8 wire mentality, spends his retirement rebuilding the bike and following his dream to go to Speed Week at Salt Lake in Utah. Under funded, without the support of a team and against all the odds he not only makes it to Bonneville, he sets a world land spend record, not once, but again and again.
Actors
Burt MunroAnthony Hopkins
GeorgeIain Rea
SarahTessa Mitchell

Whale Rider

IMDB Rating: 7.90
12227 votes

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Storyline
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.
Actors
PaikeaKeisha Castle-Hughes
KoroRawiri Paratene
Nanny FlowersVicky Haughton
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