James Cosmo
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James Cosmos is known for his film roles as Angus MacLeod in Highlander, Campbell in Braveheart and as Father Christmas in the adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Over the years he has also had roles in films such as Trainspotting, The Last Legion, Troy, and 2081 . He also appeared in Take the High Road as Alex Geddes from 1982-83.
He is also a staple of British television, with credits in hundreds of television shows, Cosmo made a name for himself playing Scottish "tough guy" characters.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.768 |
| Birthday | 1948-05-24 |
| Place of Birth | Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK |
| Also Known As | Джеймс Космо, ஜேம்ஸ் காஸ்மோ, |
1995
Braveheart
7.94/10312
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's sol...
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2005
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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1996
Trainspotting
7.963/9776
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends -- Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also ha...
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Trainspotting
2007
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
5.4/418
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The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
2022
Breath
3.4/5
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2001
To End All Wars
6.4/165
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Storm Rider: Legend of Hammerhead
0/0
A young man is haunted by visions of the future ever since he got struck by the lightning.
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1996
Emma
6.66/615
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Emma
2022
My Sailor, My Love
6.2/16
The thorny relationship between a woman and her retired father worsens after he becomes romantically involved with the housekeeper she hires for him.
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My Sailor, My Love
2008
Futureshock: Comet
5.038/13
A comet hits Ireland, and a bigger one is on its way towards the U.S. where 900 million people have to be evacuated.
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1986
Highlander
6.871/2662
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Highlander
2001
All the Queen's Men
4.9/25
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All the Queen's Men
1998
Babe: Pig in the City
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1972
Doomwatch
5.9/23
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2006
Half Light
6/287
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1985
Operation Julie
2/2
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2007
The Last Legion
5.6/803
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The Last Legion
2009
2081
6.4/63
2081 depicts a dystopian future in which, thanks to the 212th Amendment to the Constitution and the unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapp...
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1999
The Match
6.2/13
Romantic comedy set against the story of a grudge football match between two pubs. The prize for the winner of the centenary match is the the closure...
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The Match
2010
Outcast
5.3/44
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Outcast
2019
Off Grid
10/1
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Off Grid
2010
The Runway
6.1/10
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Hotel Caledonia
0/0
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Hotel Caledonia
2012
Citadel
5.3/162
Chronically agoraphobic since the day his wife was murdered, Tommy Cowley finds himself terrorized by a gang of syringe-wielding feral children, who a...
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Citadel
1999
One More Kiss
5.6/7
When Sarah Hopson realizes her successful high-rise New York lifestyle is devoid of meaning, she packs her bags and heads for her home town in the Sco...
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One More Kiss
2005
The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
5.7/15
This is the true story of a little dog that refused to leave his master's graveside in Edinburgh. The dog visited the grave for years.
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The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby
2003
Sweet Dreams
6.1/8
Skagerrak is the story of being hit by happiness when you least expect it. In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world, Da...
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Sweet Dreams
2007
Lives of the Saints
6.143/7
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Lives of the Saints
2011
The Glass Man
5.6/7
The chilling story of a middle class man whose desperate weathering of the current economic crisis ends with the arrival one night of a debt collector...
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The Glass Man
2012
Songs for Amy
3.5/2
Sean O'Malley, a struggling Irish musician, writes an album for the love of his life in an attempt to redeem himself, with the help and hindrance of h...
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Songs for Amy
2004
One Last Chance
5.6/5
A group of slackers think they have found gold in the Highlands.
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One Last Chance
2010
The Santa Incident
4.6/11
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The Santa Incident
2010
Donkeys
6.7/7
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2013
Justin and the Knights of Valour
5.908/315
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2013
Hammer of the Gods
4.4/156
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Hammer of the Gods
2009
The Narnia Code
8/2
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2013
Get Lucky
5/24
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2013
The Christmas Candle
5.8/39
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2024
Can You Hear Me?
0/0
A woman awaiting her brother's return from war falls in love with an allied American soldier.
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The Morrigan
0/0
Follows an archaeologist who travels to Ireland to uncover a long-dead tomb. A threat is released and she will have to fight to keep her teenage daugh...
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1969
Battle of Britain
6.8/316
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the N...
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2022
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
6.778/441
On a cold Christmas Eve, selfish miser Ebenezer Scrooge has one night left to face his past — and change the future — before time runs out.
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2013
The Golden Scallop
4.5/2
A comedy about a fried seafood cooking competition. The 43rd Golden Scallop pits a food truck seeking redemption, an aging former champion and a well...
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The Golden Scallop
2015
The Legend of Barney Thomson
6.1/197
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2002
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands
6.1/51
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1990
The Fool
7/2
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The Fool
2002
The Four Feathers
6.641/556
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The Four Feathers
2000
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
6.7/16
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2014
We Still Kill the Old Way
5.967/75
A group of aging London gangsters go on a vigilante killing spree when one of their number is murdered by a street gang.
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We Still Kill the Old Way
1972
The Duna Bull
0/0
A group of Scottish islanders have to figure out how to bring a new bull over from the mainland.
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The Duna Bull
2024
The Last Redemption
4.083/6
In a land of swords and sorcery, bandits break from their gang to protect a little girl, pitting them against their old friends and former leader who...
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The Last Redemption
1994
Sin Bin
0/0
A male nurse in a mental hospital witnesses one patient killing another, but struggles with his loyalties and his conscience to come forward.
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Sin Bin
Santa / Claws
0/0
A little boy's desire to meet Santa Claus takes a dark turn.
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Santa / Claws
2019
Tomorrow
0/0
A film about soldiers trying to reintegrate into society after tours of duty.
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Salvable
0/0
Sal 'The Bull' is a washed-up boxer on the brink of 40, fighting more than just his opponents. With a life of regrets and fading dreams, Sal’s chance...
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Salvable
2015
Estranged
5.3/64
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Estranged
2015
The Pyramid Texts
10/1
If we have been remiss in our life, and hurt the people we most love, is it ever too late to redress the balance? Ray, a lonely old boxer, desperately...
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The Pyramid Texts
2010
One Night in Emergency
8/1
Over the course of one night, a man struggles to find his wife in the wards of an inner-city hospital. Journeying through the corridors he meets a ser...
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One Night in Emergency
2011
No Saints for Sinners
5/1
Mickey O'Hara is a committed IRA member but his days of freedom fighting are long gone, leaving him peddling drugs and disenchanted with "the cause."...
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No Saints for Sinners
1970
Sovereign's Company
7/1
Sovereign's Company is the story of a boy from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction, who goes to a military academy as an of...
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Sovereign's Company
1973
The Professional
0/0
An insignificant little middle-aged man strikes a heinous bargain with an underworld expert. The man has a problem: his wife. A professional killer wo...
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The Professional
2023
The Three Musketeers
5.259/85
France is in turmoil and a new, naive King finds himself manipulated by the evil Cardinal Richelieu. With a corrupt commander of the royal guard by hi...
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The Three Musketeers
1972
The Stone Tape
5.9/34
A research team from an electronics company move into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Gr...
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The Stone Tape
2016
Breakdown
5/13
A professional contract killer, haunted by visions of his violent past, spirals out of control. His work compromised as he reaches breaking point, he...
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Breakdown
2016
Bunker: Project 12
5/17
At the height of the Cold War, Russia was working on a secret scientific mission, which, if successful, would have changed the course of history. The...
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Bunker: Project 12
2024
The Beast Within
6/167
Ten-year-old Willow follows her parents on one of their secret late-night treks to the heart of an ancient forest. After witnessing her father undergo...
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The Beast Within
2016
Dark Signal
3.8/46
The spirit of a murdered girl returns with a message. Now a stranded woman must team up with the staff of a local station to solve the mystery of her...
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Dark Signal
2016
Whisky Galore
5.9/45
The story of the inhabitants of the isolated Scottish island of Todday, in the Outer Hebrides, where gloom sets in as their wartime rationing of whisk...
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Whisky Galore
1972
Young Winston
6.2/46
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war corres...
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Young Winston
2014
The Boogeyman
1.5/1
Lester Billings is a man tormented by an unseen entity destroying his family one by one, until he is forced to confront the evil taking over his soul....
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The Boogeyman
2015
Amélia & Duarte
5.667/3
In this story we are guided through the relationship of Amelia and Duarte, two people that felt out of love and are trying to cope with the feelings t...
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Amélia & Duarte
1988
Stormy Monday
5.794/80
When a corrupt American businessman tries to strong arm his way into businesses in Newcastle, England, he is thwarted by a club attendant and his wait...
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Stormy Monday
2018
In Darkness
6.1/492
A blind musician hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London's gritty criminal underworld...
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In Darkness
2016
Ben-Hur
5.743/1679
A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betrayed him.
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Ben-Hur
2017
Eliminators
6.4/181
A former US Federal Agent must abandon the witness protection program and come out of hiding when his London home is invaded in error due to a wrong a...
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Eliminators
2015
Moonwalkers
6.146/370
What if Apollo 11 never actually made it? What if, in reality, Stanley Kubrick secretly shot the famous images of the moon landing in a studio, workin...
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Moonwalkers
1982
Living Apart Together
0/0
Starring musician B.A. Robertson as Ritchie Hannah a singer/songwriter returning to his mediocre life in Glasgow after the death of a friend Living Ap...
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Living Apart Together
1989
The Nightwatch
5/3
Dark and brooding thriller. A group of mercenaries are assembled in Amsterdam by a British intelligence officer. Believing they are awaiting the detai...
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The Nightwatch
2017
T2 Trainspotting
6.943/3159
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
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T2 Trainspotting
2000
Tales from the Madhouse
6.5/2
Set inside the crumbling walls of a dilapidated Victorian sanatorium, eight mysterious characters reveal their secret stories to the visiting camera....
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Tales from the Madhouse
2016
Monochrome
4.778/9
A disillusioned young woman becomes a serial killer who targets wealthy land-owners, and a brilliant detective must use his unusual neurological condi...
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Monochrome
1999
Sunset Heights
6/1
Irish thriller starring Toby Stephens. Belfast of the near future finds the city ruled by two rival law-enforcing punishment squads. When Luke Bradley...
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Sunset Heights
2017
London Heist
5.4/27
Armed robber and career criminal Jack Cregan seeks to discover the truth behind his father's murder and his stolen heist money and in doing so puts hi...
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London Heist
2017
Wonder Woman
7.217/20111
An Amazon princess comes to the world of Man in the grips of the First World War to confront the forces of evil and bring an end to human conflict.
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Wonder Woman
2000
Honest
1.7/3
In 1960s London, sisters Gerry, Mandy and Jo don male disguises and rob jewelry stores. Gerry also takes a job at a hip magazine in order to scope out...
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Honest
1969
The Virgin Soldiers
6.9/12
The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg, a worldly professional soldier nam...
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The Virgin Soldiers
2004
Troy
7.164/10350
In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leav...
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Troy
2018
Ashes in the Snow
6.6/115
The coming-of-age tale of 16-year-old Lina Vilkas who is deported to Siberia amid Stalin's reign of terror in the Baltic region during WWII. An aspiri...
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Ashes in the Snow
1971
Assault
5.3/22
After a schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another murdered a few days later, the police are baffled. With the...
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Assault
2019
The Hole in the Ground
5.6/692
Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O’Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying...
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The Hole in the Ground
2004
The Reckoning
6.4/108
In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they arrive in a small tow...
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The Reckoning
1990
Treasure Island
6.5/135
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Treasure Island
1999
Billy and Zorba
0/0
In a Scottish fishing village squeezed between sea and bluffs, a single mom named Mhairi has accepted an offer from her boyfriend Black to move to the...
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Billy and Zorba
1981
The Nightmare Man
6.5/2
A heavy fog cuts the small isolated Scottish island off from the mainland, and dentist Michael Gaffikin has just discovered a dismembered corpse on th...
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The Nightmare Man
1986
Biggles
5.236/72
Unassuming catering salesmen Jim Ferguson falls through a time hole to 1917 where he saves the life of dashing Royal Flying Corps pilot James "Biggles...
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Biggles
2018
Outlaw King
6.816/1568
Forced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the Bruce fights to reclaim the throne.
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Outlaw King
2018
Malevolent
5/488
A brother-sister team who fake paranormal encounters for cash get more than they bargained for when a job at a haunted estate turns very, very real.
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Malevolent
2018
Darkness Comes
0/0
When Eddie Bowen hooks up with the sexually aggressive Suze Phillips he thinks it's his lucky night. It's not. He's drugged and trapped within a speci...
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Darkness Comes
2019
Get Duked!
6.2/238
An anarchic, hip-hop inspired comedy that follows four city boys on a wilderness trek as they try to escape a mysterious huntsman.
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1974
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
0/0
In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic account of Scottish history, from the aftermath of Cu...
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The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
2004
Man Dancin'
1.5/2
Tough comedy drama set in Glasgow. Former enforcer Jimmy exits jail a changed man, but both his criminal boss and a corrupt copper think he's bluffing...
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Man Dancin'
1988
Codename: Kyril
0/0
At the height of the cold war, a known Russian spy ("Kyril") is sent to the UK under falsely reported pretenses in order to hopefully indirectly spark...
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Codename: Kyril
2021
Jagame Thandhiram
5.7/44
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Jagame Thandhiram
2018
Rogue Trooper: The Quartz Massacre
0/0
Souther and Nordland forces have been locked in war for decades on Nu-Earth. The war has turned the planet toxic. Genetic Infantrymen designed to surv...
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Rogue Trooper: The Quartz Massacre
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Skylines
5.6/554
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Skylines
2003
Solid Air
0/0
Seeking refuge, compulsive gambler Robert Houston Junior comes home to his estranged father, Robert Senior. Discovering a lapsed compensation claim fo...
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Solid Air
2019
Forget Me Not
5/1
Lost and alone, a young girl forms an unlikely alliance with a lonely homeless man as she struggles to get a message to her family in time for Christm...
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Forget Me Not
2021
The Kindred
6.4/119
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The Kindred
1999
Split Second
4/2
A split-second decision made in a fit of rage drives attorney and family man Michael Anderson to desperate measures.The stressed-out lawyer hits his m...
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Split Second
Preschool
0/0
Two determined fathers engage in a comical battle to enroll their kids in an elite preschool, escalating into an absurd competition with unexpected re...
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