Films on Premiere Direkt 16th / 23rd March
''enjoy''
Satellite: Astra 1F and Astra 1H
Position: 19 east
Frequency: 11720H, 11758H, 11798H, 12032H & 12070H
Encryptions: Nagravision 2
March 16 to March 23
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The Hard Corps (2006) Action / Thriller NEW
Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Vivica A. Fox, Razaaq Adoti, William Zabka and Dexter Bell. Directed by Sheldon Lettich.
Jean-Claude will be playing a Combat Vet who's just spent the last 3 years fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, who is hired to be a bodyguard to a former World Heavyweight Boxing champ to protect him and his family against a Rap Music Mogul. He sets up a team called "The Hard Corps", complications arise when the boxer suspects that his sister may be in love with the bodyguard.
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Superman Returns (2006) Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi NEW
Starring Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Brandon Routh, Eva Marie Saint, Frank Langella, Parker Posey and Peta Wilson. Directed by Bryan Singer.
After eliminating General Zod & the other Kryptonian arch-villains, Ursa & Non, Superman leaves Earth to try to find his former home world of Krypton after astronomers have supposedly found it. When he finds nothing but remnants, he returns home to Earth - to find out that Lois Lane is engaged to a relative of his boss, and that Lex Luthor is at it again - after swindling an elderly, terminally ill woman. The psychopathic Luthor, whose plans to destroy California failed because of Superman's heroics, vows vengeance against the Man of Steel and contrives a new sinister plot - using the crystals of Krypton to build a continent that will wipe out most of North America! Embedded in the continent's structure is Kryptonite - the lethal substance that is Superman's only weakness. Upon learning of Luthro's sinister scheme, Superman must again race against time to stop the psychopathic Luthor before millions - possibly billions - are killed.
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Chaos (2006/I) Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Starring Jason Statham, Ryan Phillippe, Wesley Snipes, Henry Czerny, Justine Waddell and Natassia Malthe. Directed by Tony Giglio.
In Seattle, detective Quentin Conners is unfairly suspended and his partner Jason York leaves the police force after a tragic shooting on Pearl Street Bridge, when the hostage and the criminal die. When a bank is heist with hostage situation, Conners is assigned in charge of the operation having the rookie Shane Dekker as partner. The thieves, leaded by Lorenz, apparently do no steal a penny from the bank. While chasing the gangsters, the police team discloses that they planted a virus in the system, stealing one billion dollars from the most different accounts, using the principle of the Chaos Theory. Further, they find that Lorenz is killing his accomplices.
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Ultraviolet (2006) Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Starring Milla Jovovich, William Fichtner and Cameron Bright. Directed by Kurt Wimmer.
In the late 21st a disease called Hemophagia has genetically modified nearly an entire race of people, leaving them with such enhanced speed, intelligence, and strength that they resemble vampires in nearly every way. Fear begins to breed within the power elite as the disease continues to spread and those infected prove to be truly superhuman, and now, a civil war is brewing between uninfected humans and those altered by Hemophagia. Caught dead in the center of it is an infected woman called Violet (Milla Jovovich), who is bent on vengeance and has little left to lose. Provoked beyond reason by powers that will not rest until she and her people are dead, she will become everything her persecutors feared her to be.
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The Break-Up (2006) Comedy / Drama / Romance
Starring Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughn, Joey Lauren Adams and Nicole Auman. Directed by Peyton Reed.
In Chicago, the art dealer Brooke Meyers feels not appreciated and neglected by her immature husband Gary Grobowski, who is partner of his two brothers in a tourism business, and decides to break-up with him to make Gary misses her. Gary misunderstands her true intention, both follows the wrong advices of family members and friends, beginning a war of sexes with no winner.
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Brokeback Mountain (2005) Drama / Romance
Starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Linda Cardellini, Michelle Williams and Randy Quaid. Directed by Ang Lee.
In the Summer of 1963 Wyoming, two young men, Ennis a ranch hand and Jack an aspiring rodeo bull rider, are sent to work together herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain, and what had otherwise been anticipated to be a rather uneventful venture, will soon turn into an affair of love, of lust, and complications that will spand through 19 years of their lives. Through marriage, through children, and through the mighty grip of societal confines and the expectations of what it is to be a man.
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The Da Vinci Code (2006) Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Starring Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen and Jean Reno. Directed by Ron Howard.
The story tells the investigation started by symbologist Robert Langdon and a good looking cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, around the murder of a Museum Louvre's curator. In fact, the unfortunate murdered man was Sophie's grandfather, and the corpse was founded with a series of symbols and codes, like a pentagram and a Fibonacci number sequence. But police detective Fache will begin to chase Langdon, who escapes after receive a warning about the captain's real intentions. Sophie has with her a kind of key with dots and number 24 engraved on it, which opens to her and Langdon a big complex investigation, that involves a supposedly heretic theory: JesusChristh and Mary Magdalene were, in fact, a couple which give rise a daughter, named Sara.
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In the Mix (2005) Comedy / Crime / Drama / Music / Romance
Starring Usher Raymond, Chazz Palminteri and Emmanuelle Chriqui. Directed by Ron Underwood.
When an African-American man accidentally saves a mob boss's life, his reward is a job protecting the don's daughter. Complications arise when the two begin to fall in love.
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The Lake House (2006) Drama / Fantasy / Romance
Starring Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Shohreh Aghdashloo and Christopher Plummer. Directed by
Alejandro Agresti.
In Chicago, the lonely architect Alex Wyler has a troubled relationship with his father Simon Wyler. In 2004, he buys an old glass house in a lake, designed and built by his father, and he finds a message in his mailbox from the former tenant, the also lonely Dr. Kate Forster, asking to deliver her correspondence in an address downtown. Alex meets his brother Henry in Chicago and when they go to the address with Dr. Forster's correspondence, they find a building of luxury apartments under construction to be delivered eighteen months later. After some messages, Alex and Kate disclose that she is living in 2006 and Alex in 2004, they fall in love for each other and they try to find means to meet each other.
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Prime (2005) Comedy / Drama / Romance
Starring Meryl Streep, Uma Thurman, Bryan Greenberg and Jon Abrahams. Directed by
Ben Younger.
In colorful, bustling modern-day Manhattan, Rafi, a 37-year-old photography producer reeling from a recent divorce, meets David, a 23-year-old painter recently out of college. Rafi's therapist, Dr. Lisa Metzger, who is working to help Rafi overcome her fears of intimacy, finds out that Rafi's new lover is--unfortunately for Lisa--her only son, David. Both David and Rafi must contend with their 14-year age gap, vastly different backgrounds and the demands of David's traditional mother. Despite their intense attraction, the charmed couple soon realizes that vastly different ages and backgrounds create much conflict. A Jewish hip-hop lover and closet painter who still lives with his grandparents, David has little in common with Rafi--a non-practicing Catholic from a wealthy, broken family who travels in the sophisticated, high-end world of fashion.
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Shadow Man (2006) (V) Action / War
Starring Steven Seagal,
Skye Bennett, Vasile Albinet, Werner Daehn and Zoltan Butuc. Directed by Michael Keusch.
Seagal plays (surprise, surprise) an ex C.I.A agent, who whilst on vacation with his young daughter, gets tied up in a plot to smuggle a deadly chemical agent (capable of doing serious damage to the human race) and in the carnage, his father in law is killed(?) and his daughter kidnapped......
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United 93 (2006) Drama / History
Starring David Alan Basche, Richard Bekins, Susan Blommaert, Ray Charleson, Christian Clemenson, Starla Benford and Polly Adams. Directed by
Paul Greengrass.
Four young Arabians prepared themselves physical and spiritually in order to hijack flight United 93, the night before the fatal 11-S-2001. Same day, other three planes were hijacked as well and reached their targets: The World Trade Center and The Pentagon. British director Paul Greengrass gives a close version about what could possible happened inside the plane, basing upon the last recordings from the pilot cabin and the telephone calls made by the passengers to their beloveds. The movie shows how the passengers tried to subdue the terrorists, one of them with a bomb tied to his waist, once they had killed both pilots and one of the passengers. Meanwhile, we see the prevailing crisis in the Air Traffic Control, trying to deal with a situation which leads to close all the country's aerial space. Despite the courage of the passengers, the United Airlines' plane, with an original route to San Francisco, crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, without reaching its target, located in Washington D.C.
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V for Vendetta (2005) Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Starring Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, James Purefoy, John Hurt, Sinead Cusack, Stephen Fry, Stephen Rea and Tim Pigott-Smith. Directed by
James McTeigue.
In the not too distant future, Britain is filled with torture cells, unfair punishments, prejudice against minorities. However in the mist of all this chaos, one man known only by the name V dares to stand up to the government and is labeled as a terrorist. One night V rescues a mild young woman called Evey Hammond and an unlikely bond between the two emerges which results with Evey becoming Vs ally. But though V may be charismatic and have a passion for justice he also is bitter and has his own personal hatred of the government for something they did to him long ago. As November the 5th, the day V says he and those who will follow him will stand up to the government once and for all approaches, Detective Finch becomes more and more determined to uncover the truth about V, however his search leads him to ask to question whether or not he is on the right side.
Regards Satdude.