 Films on TV Cabo 04th / 11th August | |
Films on TV Cabo 04th / 11th August
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Satellite: Hispasat Position: 30.0 west Frequency: 11811H
August 4 to August 11
Please note change of name
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Video-On-Demand 1
Match Point (2005) NEW Drama / Romance / Thriller
Starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Alexander Armstrong and Paul Kaye. Directed by Woody Allen.
Tennis pro Chris Wilton takes a job as a tennis instructor and hits it off immediately with one of his students, wealthy young Tom Hewitt. Tom introduces Chris to his family and Chris falls quickly into a romance with Tom's sister Chloe. But despite the growing certainty that Chris and Chloe will marry, and the enormous professional and financial advantages that come Chris's way through his relationship with the delighted Hewitt family, Chris becomes increasingly intrigued and eventually romantically involved with Tom's fiancée, Nola Rice, a struggling American actress. Their passionate trysts leave Chris in danger of losing the wealth and position he has now come to enjoy. The only solution to the dilemma seems unthinkable...
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Video-On-Demand 2
Favela Rising (2005) Documentary / Musical Language: Portuguese
Starring Andre Luis Azevedo, Jose Junior, Michele Moraes and Anderson Sa. Directed by Matt Mochary and Jeff Zimbalist.
Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson Sa is a former drug-trafficker who turns revolutionary in Rio de Janeiro's most feared slum. Through hip-hop music, the rhythms of the street, and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to war against the violent oppression enforced by teenage drug armies and sustained by corrupt police. At the dawn of liberation, just as collective mobility is overcoming all odds and Anderson's grassroots AfroReggae movement is at the height of its success, a tragic accident threatens to silence the movement forever.
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Video-On-Demand 3
Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005) Drama / Family / Sport
Starring Kurt Russel, Dakota Fanning, Kris Kristofferson and Elizabeth Shue. Directed by John Gatins.
Ben Crane (Kurt Russell) believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale (Dakota Fanning) adopt the horse (in fact is a mare)and save it of being sacrificed by the owner (David Morse). The arrival of the mare to Crane's farm, will be the perfect opportunity for both father and daughter to reconstruct their lost familiar bond. "Sońador" (Dreamer in English), the renamed mare, despite its broken leg, maybe could have another chance to return to the racecourse, with the help of Cale, Ben, and his father, Pop (Kris Kristofferson).
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Day of Wrath (2006) Action / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Starring Christopher Lambert, Blanca Marsillach, Brian Blessed and Szonja Oroszlán. Directed by Adrian Rudomin.
During the Spanish Inquisition, a sheriff of a provincial town must find the answers to a series of bizarre murders before the whole town is condemned.
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Video-On-Demand 4
Hooligans (2005) (Green Street ) Drama
Starring David Alexander, Oliver Allison, James Allison and Joel Beckett. Directed by Lexi Alexander.
Unjustly expelled from Harvard when a stash of cocaine is found in his possession, Matt (Elijah Wood) moves to London to live with his sister and her husband Steve (Marc Warren.) He is quickly introduced to Steve's chirpy, cock-sure younger brother Pete (Charlie Hunnam.) Initially, Pete is reluctant to get acquainted with Matt and allow him to tread around the capital city with him because he may be seen by others as an 'outsider', but after a heavy drinking session with him and his mates he quickly changes his opinion of him. On the way back from a football match, Matt is viciously accosted by a gang of Birmingham City thugs, until Pete and his friends step in and save him. It is from here that Matt learns the truth about Pete and his friends- they are football hooligans, operating the GSE (Green Street Elite) 'firm.' Initially afraid of the violence, Matt soon ends up becoming as desensitized to it as his new found friends- but as events roll on, suspicion, shocking revelations and unsettled scores combine to a devastating climax where London's most fierce football rivals- Millwall and West Ham United- are set to go head to head.
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Where the Truth Lies (2005) Drama / Mystery
Starring Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman and David Hayman. Directed by Atom Egoyan.
A female journalist tries to uncover the truth behind the breakup, years earlier, of a celebrated comedy team after the duo found a girl dead in their hotel room. Though both had airtight alibis and neither was accused, the incident put an end to their act.
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