Stuart Cooper — Director (12)

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Rubdown (1993)
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other title: 激情代价
A rich man offers his masseur, a former baseball player with damaged knees, $50,000 to have an affair with his wife so she'll be in violation of their pre-nuptial agreement and he can divorce her without losing his fortune. The masseur agrees although he is already having an affair with the wife, and they together work out a way to set up her husband in order that she does get his fortune. But when the client is murdered and the real wife shows up the masseur has to clear his own name, and as he begins to piece together the evidence he realises that he's been played by yet another man who still holds a grudge from years before.

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The Ticket (1997)
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other title: Un Billet pour le danger / El premio …
Cee Cee and her family crash land in the middle of the wilderness while on the way to collect a $23 million lottery win, and must flee for their lives after being set upon by criminals eager to steal the money for themselves.

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Out of Annie's Past (1995)
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other title: Schrecken der Vergangenheit
Annie's got a secret past she's eager to hide from her husband and her family. An iconclastic bounty hunter blackmails her to keep that past a secret. As the stakes increase, though, so do the ruthless and brutal actions of all those involved. Soon, deaths of some major players in the game change the stakes from dollars and cents to life and death.

TV

A.D. (1985)
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other title: Anno Domini - Kampf der Märtyrer / A.D. - Anno Domini …
A.D. is a 1985 television drama miniseries created and written by Vincenzo Labella and Anthony Burgess, based on Burgess' historical novel The Kingdom of the Wicked. The five-part serial is considered the third and final part of a trilogy, preceded by Moses the Lawgiver (1974) and Jesus of Nazareth (1977). Set just after Jesus' Crucifixion, the lives and adventures of His disciples are explored, and events in Rome during the reigns of Emperors Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.

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The Long Hot Summer (1985)
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other title: Flammender Sommer / El largo y cálido verano
When drifter Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town, Will Varner, a family patriarch, sees Ben as a better choice to inherit the family business than his only son, Jody. Will therefore tries to push Ben and his daughter Clara into marriage. Clara is initially reluctant to court Ben, and Jody senses that Ben threatens his position.

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Christmas Eve (1986)
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other title: 圣诞前夜 / Frohe Weihnachten, Mrs. Kingsley …
Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wants desperately to reunite her three grown grand children (who are scattered across the U.S. living their own lives), with their estranged father, her son. She hires a private detective to search for them so as to try to get everyone together on Christmas Eve.

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Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974)
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other title: 小马尔科姆
小马尔科姆一伙人是一所艺术学校的学生,由于看不惯某位领导,他们成立了一个只有四个人的政党,并且打算绑架该老师后撕票,四个人对这次绑架反复进行充满激情的排演,同时在虚构的演讲中试图拯救这个国家,这群疯狂的人究竟会做出什么事呢?

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Chameleon (1998)
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皮埃尔.拉里 actor: 米雷耶·达尔克 / 克里斯托弗·奥当
other title: 变色龙 / Chamäleon - Spektakuläre Verwandlung …
A super-killer female cyborg with chameleon-like powers discovers maternal instincts when she protects a child from government operatives in this science fiction tale set in the year 2028.

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A Test of Violence (1970)
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other title: Gewaltprobe
Stuart Cooper's short about the work of Spanish artist Juan Genovés is an inspired introduction to the works of this extraordinary artist, exploring its minimalist aesthetic and storytelling qualities through a variety of cinematic techniques, including rostrum, animation, news footage and live action recreations.

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Overlord (1975)
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★ 6.8 5 ratings
斯图尔特·库柏 actor: Brian Stirner / 达维德·哈里斯 …
other title: 大君主 / 太上皇 …
During World War II, a young man is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-Day, June 6th, 1944.