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King Girl (1996)
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At 14, Glenn already knows about crime, casual violence and despair. She and her sister live with their mother on a decaying housing estate in Leeds. Glenn is still at school, but her real life is with the King Girls. They steal, harass their teacher and terrorize the weaker kids. Nearby, classmate Gail is going back to school after her beloved father's death. She becomes the perfect target.

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No Good Deed (2014)
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other title: 危险行为 / 노 굿 디드 …
Terri is a devoted wife and mother of two, living an ideal suburban life in Atlanta when Colin, a charming but dangerous escaped convict, shows up at her door claiming car trouble. Terri offers her phone to help him but soon learns that no good deed goes unpunished as she finds herself fighting for survival when he invades her home and terrorizes her family.

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大象果汁 (2000)
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other title: Elephant Juice
Chantel is happy: her son's away at school playing soccer, she and her husband get along, her neighbor Agnès is her best friend, and her job at a government office is easy. When her husband is laid off and she wonders for how long, her office pal Jackie recommends Alban, a psychic (and compulsive gambler), who promptly tells Chantel of a curse on her that will take three sessions (and 10,000 FF) to dispel. Through happenstance, she meets Alban's half-brother; thinking she is following the psychic predictions, she tries to start an affair with him. She also undergoes Alban's exorcism, and soon, terrible things indeed start to happen. Is there any way out of her misery?

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Among Giants (1998)
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other title: 在巨人中间 / 欲望天堂 …
A manager hires Ray, off the books, to paint all the power towers in a 15-mile stretch of high-tension wires outside Sheffield. Ray's crew of men are friends, especially Ray with Steve, a young Romeo. Into the mix comes Gerry, an Australian with a spirit of adventure and mountain climbing skills. She wants a job, and against the others' advice, who don't want a woman on the job, Ray hires her. Then she and Ray fall in love. He asks her to marry him, gives her a ring. Steve's jealous; Ray's ex-wife complains that he spends on Gerry, not his own kids, and she predicts that Gerry won't stay around. Plus, there's pressure to finish the job fast. Economics, romance, and wanderlust spark the end.

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The Quatermass Experiment (2005)
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other title: Le Monstre / 夸特马斯实验 …
Bernard Quatermass heads the futuristic Experimental Rocket Group whose greatest voyage is coming to an end, but after a dramatic crash landing Victor Carroon begins to metamorphose into a strange, deadly alien, setting off a race against time to save humanity.

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Krakatoa: The Last Days (2006)
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other title: 末世纪火山
◎简  介 1883年8月26日,位于印度尼西亚爪哇和苏门答腊之间的喀拉喀托火山 (Krakatoa)发生史上破坏力最强之一的火山爆发。在短短48小时内,上百条村落被摧毁,随之而来的海啸更淹没了爪哇和苏门答腊的海岸线,至少有3万6千人丧生。1930年湖中的火山口冒出一座新山峰﹐被命名安腊喀拉喀托(Anak Krakatoa)﹐意思是喀拉喀托的孩子,往后的70年间仍在不断冒升。 这次火山爆发的爆炸威力相等于二亿万吨黄色炸药,接近前苏联试爆世界上最大核弹的两倍,毁去原有岛屿的三份之二﹔引起强烈地震和高达30~40米的海啸,浪涛比2004南亚海啸高三倍之多﹔发出的爆炸声是史上最巨大声响,传达远至3,500公里之外﹔冰雹大小的碎石最远落到一百英里以外,雅加达全城陷入一片漆黑之中。对许多当地居民而言,这好比世界末日来临 本片结合了丰富的数据搜集及迫真的计算机特技,用上三千万港元重现火山爆发及海啸的震撼,带大家回到灾难现场,亲身经历这场震撼的大自然灾难。故事除了讲述是次猛烈地震,亦环绕着四段感人的支线发展政府官员Willem与妻子合力保卫家园;科学家Rogier纵得悉灾难出现却未能及时向村民作出警告;灯塔看护员Jacob尽忠职守至最后一刻;正在海上的船长Lindeman带领船上逾百乘客对抗海啸。

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丹尼男孩 (2021)
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other title: Danny Boy
The gripping true story of a young man’s journey from hero to alleged war criminal, the determined lawyer on his tail, and their search for truth in the fog of war. Anthony Boyle plays the real-life soldier Brian Wood, accused of war crimes in Iraq by the tenacious human rights lawyer Phil Shiner, played by Toby Jones. The two men go head to head in a legal and moral conflict that takes us from the battlefield - at so-called Checkpoint Danny Boy - to the courtroom, and one of Britain’s biggest ever public inquiries, the Al-Sweady Inquiry. Memory, evidence and trauma collide, as Brian finds himself caught on the fine line between war and unlawful killing. After his service in Iraq and years of legal investigation, will he ever be able to look his family in the eye again and be the husband, father, and son, they need him to be? Danny Boy is an urgent and thought-provoking drama that questions what we ask of those who fight - and kill - for their country. Danny Boy is made by Expectation for the BBC. It is written by Bafta-winner Robert Jones and directed by Sam Miller, and also stars Alex Ferns, Leah McNamara, Pauline Turner, Kiran Sonia Sawar, and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor. Executive Producers are Colin Barr and Susan Horth for Expectation, with Lucy Richer, Jo McClellan and Clare Sillery for the BBC.