In 2004, director Zhang Yimou caused a sensation with his astonishing HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS, and his CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER is yet another dazzling, visually stunning film.
Calling again upon the talents of the striking Gong Li, Yimou tells an epic tale of lust and power set in the opulent world of the Later Tang dynasty. The plot follows the story of the Emperor (Chow Yun Fat) and his Empress (Li) and the tragic disintegration of their royal family--whose problems go far beyond the merely dysfunctional. For starters, the ailing Empress has long been having an affair with her stepson, the Crown Prince Wan (Liu Ye). Unbeknownst to her, Wan has been dallying with the Imperial Doctor's daughter (Li Man), and has plans to escape the palace with her. Meanwhile, the Emperor himself has just returned from a long trip, and while relations with his wife are obviously icy, it becomes clear that his plans for her are far more ominous than she could ever imagine. Everyone involved has a secret plan for either escape or domination, resulting in an explosive ending wherein the darkest family secrets are revealed and horrifically bloody battles are waged both inside and outside the walls of the sparkling, gold-encrusted palace.
Cast: Yun-Fat Chow , Li Gong, Jay Chou, Ye Liu, Dahong Ni, Junjie Qin, Man Li, Jin Chen
Directed by Yimou Zhang
Special Agent Pete Garrison is convinced that a Neo-Nazi Aryan Disciple has managed to infiltrate the White House. When a White House Agent is murdered, Garrison is framed and blackmailed over an affair with the First Lady Sarah Ballentine. He is relieved of his duties, but Garrison won't stop in trying to prove his innocence, and save the life of the President. While attempting to uncover the person behind it all, he comes into confrontation with his protege, Agent Breckinridge.
Casting: Michael Douglas, Kim Basinger, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria
Directed by Clark Johnson
Script: George Nolfi
Producer: Bill Carraro
English language with latvian and russian subtitles.
May 1944. A five-woman commando unit parachutes into occupied France on a daring and dangerous mission to protect the secret of the D-Day Landings and eliminate Hendrich, the head German counter-intelligence.
Female Agents is an action-packed tribute to the real-life espionage operatives whose exploits inspired the film.
Cast: Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Deborah Francois
Directed by Jean Paul Salome
Successful boxer Iegor „Rock Head” did not get better after injury he get in crash. Now he remember just present day and when he falls asleep, he forget everything. His manager, criminal person, wants him to fight again. To wheedle boxer, he hires a prostitute. She must play out Iegor’s deceased bride who died in that crash. Boxer hardly separates our time from past, dreams from reality. But man-mountain isn’t so stupid as everyone was thinking…
Cast: Oksana Fander, Nikolay Valuev, Egor Pazenko, Vitaly Kichenko
Directed by Filip Iankovsky
Scriptwriter: Aleksey Misgirev, Vladimir Fedorovich with Constantin Cinchaevsky
Producer: Sergey Seljanov
This is a modern story about two young guys from Murmansk, who arrived to conquer Moscow. Purposeful Kostya wants to become a clip maker. Crafty Oleg sees his success in financial prosperity. Both get the chance to make the dream come true, but love at first sight, that occurred between Kostya and young charming ballet dancer Alina, gets out so much skeletons from wardrobe, that film turns into the action movie.
Cast: Aleksandrs Limarevs, Konstantīns Krjukovs, Svetlana Hodčenkova, Ivans Židkovs, Aleksandrs Jefimovs
Directed by Pāvels Sanājevs
Mityai and Anya didn't know about each other existence. Till that time when they have agreed to take a part in doubtful adventure: he - to rescue a friend, she - to earn money. Mityai loves good music and trusts in friendship. He don't need neither money, nor glory . Practical ?nya does not trust anybody, but soon understands, that for Mitya she is ready to make exception. Young heroes doesn't guess at once, that it could threaten with fatal danger. To survive and not to lose itself, to get rid of false million dollars and to keep the love - they choose all this things at once. Therefore they have a chance.
Cast: Ruslan Kurik, Angelina Mirimskaya, Dmitri Maryanov, Yelena Morozova.
Directed by Vladimir Shchegolkov
At the stunning conclusion of The Matrix Reloaded, Neo (KEANU REEVES) took another step forward in the quest for truth that began with his journey into the real world at the outset of The Matrix - but that transformation has left him drained of his power, adrift in a no man's land between the Matrix and the Machine World. While Trinity (CARRIE-ANNE MOSS) holds vigil over Neo's comatose body, Morpheus (LAURENCE FISHBURNE) grapples with the revelation that the One in which he has invested a life's worth of faith is merely another system of control invented by the architects of the Matrix.
In The Matrix Revolutions, the final explosive chapter in the Matrix trilogy, the epic war between man and machine reaches a thundering crescendo: the Zion military, aided by courageous civilian volunteers like Zee (NONA GAYE) and the Kid (CLAYTON WATSON), desperately battles to hold back the Sentinel invasion as the Machine army bores into their stronghold. Facing total annihilation, the citizens of the last bastion of humanity fight not only for their own lives, but for the future of mankind itself.
But an unknown element poisons the ranks from within: the rogue program Smith (HUGO WEAVING) has cunningly hijacked Bane (IAN BLISS), a member of the hovercraft fleet. Growing more powerful with each passing second, Smith is beyond even the control of the Machines and now threatens to destroy their empire along with the real world and the Matrix. The Oracle (MARY ALICE) offers Neo her final words of guidance, which he accepts with the knowledge that she is a program and her words could be just another layer of falsehood in the grand scheme of the Matrix.
Rowan plays the eponymous lead character in a spoof spy thriller. During the course of the story we follow our hero as he attempts to single-handedly save the country from falling into the hands of a despot.
Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from the matrix and brought to Zion, the one and only stronghold of the Resistance. Neo himself has discovered his superpowers including super speed, ability to see the codes of the things inside the matrix and a certain degree of pre-cognition. But a nasty piece of news hits the human resistance: 250,000 machine sentinels are digging to Zion and would reach them in 72 hours. As Zion prepares for the ultimate war, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity are advised by the Oracle to find the Keymaker who would help them reach the Source. Meanwhile Neo's recurrent dreams depicting Trinity's death have got him worried and as if it was not enough, Agent Smith has somehow escaped deletion, has become more powerful than before and has fixed Neo as his next target.
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
This holiday comedy is centered around two neighbors in a small New England town who go to war when one of them decides to decorate his house with a so many Christmas lights that they are visible from space. The neighborhood is turned upside down as the families try to discover the true meaning of Christmas.
Cast: Danny DeVito, Matthew Broderick, Kristin Davis, Kristin Chenoweth
Directed by John Whitesell
In English with subtitles in Latvian and Russian.