Satdude

Films on TV Cabo 18th / 25th August

''enjoy''

Satellite: Hispasat Position: 30.0 west Frequency: 11811H

August 18 to August 25

Please note change of name

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Video-On-Demand 1

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) NEW Adventure / Crime / Drama / Western

Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper and Dwight Yoakam. Directed by Tommy Lee Jones.

A man is shot and quickly buried in the high desert of west Texas. The body is found and reburied in Van Horn's town cemetery. Pete Perkins, a local ranch foreman, kidnaps a Border Patrolman and forces him to disinter the body. With his captive in tow and the body tied to a mule, Pete undertakes a dangerous and quixotic journey into Mexico.

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Video-On-Demand 2

The Dark (2005) NEW Horror / Mystery / Thriller

Starring Sean Bean, Maria Bello, Richard Elfyn andMaurice Roëves. Directed by John Fawcett.

A Welch abattoir is the setting for series of mysterious occurrences that befall a young family who are haunted by the angry ghost of a child who died there.

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Video-On-Demand 3

Wake of Death (2004) Action / Adventure

Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Simon Yam, Philip Tan and Valerie Tian. Directed by Philippe Martinez.

Ben Archer (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a thug/enforcer for a criminal organization. Tiring of the work, he tells his coworkers that he's ready to retire. His wife Cynthia is a social worker for the INS. She brings a Chinese refugee girl to their home. Soon, Sun Quan (Simon Yam) wants his daughter back. Cynthia Archer is murdered, and Ben's son Nicholas disappears, along with the Chinese girl. Ben must save the children and avenge his wife's murder.

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American Soldiers (2005) (American Soldiers: Dateline Iraq) War

Starring Curtis Morgan, Zan Calabretta, Jordan Brown and Eddie Della Siepe. Directed by Sidney J. Furie.

Iraq, 2004: during a routine sortie a US patrol is ambushed and the young soldiers are forced to put their training and skills into action fast. A determined foe with superior local knowledge, the Fedayeen insurgents soon draw them into close quarter combat and a desperate fight for survival.

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Video-On-Demand 4

Match Point (2005) 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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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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