The Apprentice

Kaidan yukijorô / The Snow Woman (1968) Movies

Posted by fekmax at Feb. 23, 2016

A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree for carving a statue for the local temple. Finding refuge in an abandoned hut they celebrate their luck in finding the tree but soon they are visited by the Snow Witch who freezes the sculptor to death but takes pity on the apprentice. He must promise to never speak of this or she'll return and kill him.

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The Mechanic (2011) Movies

Posted by Someonelse at May 4, 2011

Jason Statham, Ben Foster and Donald Sutherland star in this remake of Michael Winner's 1972 action thriller. When his best friend and mentor Harry (Donald Sutherland) is murdered, professional hitman Arthur 'The Mechanic' Bishop (Statham) sets out to wreak his revenge on those responsible. When Harry's son Steve (Ben Foster) asks if Arthur will take him on as an apprentice, the two look set to become the deadliest duo in town, but complications arise as the young student starts to outstrip his master.

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Merlin and the war of the Dragons Movies

Posted by galandrei at Nov. 25, 2008

An army of dragons invade the crippled English countryside and the apprentice wizard Merlin must confront the fire-breathing beasts. Clashing swords, ferocious spells, and fire-spewing dragons collide in this medieval epic. When dragons take hold of England, only a young wizard by the name of Merlin can stop the devastation. This Ў Full Descriptionis the only Simon Lloyd Roberts video. Stars also making their debut in this video: Joseph Stacey.

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BBC - Harry and Paul's Story of the Twos (2014) Movies

Posted by notbanned at May 27, 2014

As part of the 50th anniversary of BBC Two, Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse present their own unique biography of BBC Two. They romp through the story of Two's highs and lows, from imported Scandinavian dramas, via The Forsyte Saga, Tim Nice But Brooke Taylor, Late Night Line Up with Joan Bakewell Tart and Monty Python. It drops into The Office and Boys from the Blackstuff, Arena, Old Grey Whistle Test and The Apprentice among many others. The show visits and parodies in the region of 50 different shows, and there are 150 of BBC Two's favourite presenters, actors, comics and politicians on parade, most of them portrayed by either Harry or Paul, with a little help from their friends.

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BBC True North - Summer in the Fountain (2024) Movies

Posted by notbanned at June 29, 2024

A small, working-class estate in a time of big change, its people looking back to a violent past but also forward to a better future. Summer in the Fountain takes us into a community at a crossroads.

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Tales from the Darkside - Complete Season 4 (1987) Movies

Posted by lococapriccio at Nov. 21, 2014

Some episodes of the series were written by or adapted from the works of famous authors. Stephen King's short stories "Word Processor of the Gods" and "Sorry, Right Number" were amongst them. Works by Frederik Pohl, Harlan Ellison, Clive Barker, Michael Bishop, Robert Bloch, John Cheever, Michael McDowell and Fredric Brown were also featured.

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The Soul of Bread Movies

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The Soul of Bread (2012)
Gao-bing works in a bakery in a small town. The owner, Mr Chiu, is so into his Rock 'n 'Roll band, and the apprentice Di doesn't seem enthusiastic about learning baking at all. The business of the bakery is getting down and Gao-bing doesn't know what to do with the situation. All he can do is work harder and makes more bread. Ping, the daughter of Mr Chiu, grew up together with Gao-bing and is Gao-bing's girlfriend. She often complains that Gao-bing only follows the traditions and doesn't take any dramatic actions to save the bakery. In order to develop revolutionary new flavors, Ping takes baking courses in the city where she meets Bread. Bread, born in America, is charming and humorous. He falls for Ping at the very first sight. Even though Ping is with Gao-bing, she finds Bread's bread has a special magic. She thinks Bread might be the one that saves the bakery

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Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (1962-1973) [The Criterion Collection #679] Movies

Posted by angus77 at Nov. 20, 2014

The colossally popular Zatoichi films make up the longest-running action series in Japanese history and created one of the screen’s great heroes: an itinerant blind masseur who also happens to be a lightning-fast swordsman. As this iconic figure, the charismatic and earthy Shintaro Katsu became an instant superstar, lending a larger-than-life presence to the thrilling adventures of a man who lives staunchly by a code of honor and delivers justice in every town and village he enters. The films that feature him are variously pulse-pounding, hilarious, stirring, and completely off-the-wall. This deluxe set features the string of twenty-five Zatoichi films made between 1962 and 1973, collected in one package for the first time.

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Cremaster 3 by Matthew Barney Movies

Posted by scrollop at Feb. 5, 2009

Cremaster 3 by Matthew Barney
English | 2002 | 93 + 87 min | XVid | 720x392 | mp3 188 kbps | 23.976 | RS | 695 + 694MB
Part Three of the Cremaster Cycle

Cremaster 3 directly references all five films in the cycle in a number of scenes: the demolition derby (each car represents a different film), the harness race (each team wears silks bearing the logo of a different installment), the Order (each level of the Guggenheim Museum presents a challenge related to a different Cremaster film), and the closing scene atop the Chrysler Building (the Architecht holds five bouquets, whose flowers symbolically refer to the five films).

The full series was released in a limited series of 20 sets of DVDs, sold each for at least $100,000, and will not be made available on mass-market DVD. However a 30-minute part of the third film is available on DVD, and the latest installment with his girlfriend, Bjork, Drawing Restraint.

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Carodejuv ucen / Krabat: The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1978) [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Dec. 16, 2015

Krabat, a beggar boy in early 18th century Lusatia, is lured to become an apprentice to an evil, one-eyed sorcerer. Together with a number of other boys, he works at the sorcerer's mill under slave-like conditions while learning black magic, such as guising himself as araven and other animals. Every Christmas one of the boys has to face the master in a magical duel of life and death, where the boy never stands a chance because the master is the only person who is allowed to use his secret grimoire: The Koraktor, or the Force of Hell.

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