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1. Sean has won one academy award. For what role in what movie?
2. Following the theft of a highly-secured piece of artwork, an agent convinces her insurance agency employers to allow her to wriggle into the company of an aging but active master thief.
3. A group of renegade marine commandos seizes a stockpile of chemical weapons and takes over Alcatraz, with 81 tourists as hostages. Their leader demands $100 million to be paid in ransom, as restitution to families of soldiers who died in covert operations and were thereby denied compensation.
4. Set in the 10th Century, a man teams up with the last dragon to remind the people of a long lost code of honor, and inspire them to fight for their freedom from a tyrannical king.
5. Lady Guinevere, on her way to marry King Arthur is ambushed by the evil Sir Malagant. Fortunately Lancelot is lurking nearby and he rescues his future queen. They fall in love, but Guinevere still honours her promise to marry Arthur.
6. In the enchanted Emerald Isle, an old man spins tall tales of leprechauns and banshees. Unfortunately, when he actually captures the leprechaun king and discovers their hidden gold, no one will believe him!
7. In the far future, Earth is divided into two groups, the barely civilized, and the overly civilized with mental powers. A plague is attacking the second group, after which it's members cease to have any interest in life and become nearly catatonic. A barbarian, trained only to kill, crosses over to into the community of bored immortals, and disrupts life in the vortex.
8. A marshal in outer space assigned to a remote mining colony refuses to look the other way when miners begin dying from a deadly narcotic designed to increase their productivity. Separated from his family, the marshal finds few allies in the corporate-controlled colony when assassins are sent to take care of him.
9. An immortal Scottish swordsman meets another like himself, Ramirez, (Sean Connery) who teaches him swordsmanship.
10. A young boy's wardrobe contains a time hole. Kevin joins a band of dwarves who have 'borrowed' a map to the Universe's time holes from The Supreme Being. Sean plays King Agamemnon.
11. An eccentric scientist working for a large drug company is working on a research project in the Amazon jungle. He sends for a research assistant and a gas chromatograph because he's close to a cure for cancer. When the assistant turns out to be a mere woman, initially he rejects her help. They eventually learn to work together, and begin falling in love.
12. Three notebooks supposedly containing Russian military secrets are handed to a British publisher during a Russian book conference. The British secret service are naturally keen to learn if these notebooks are the genuine article. To this end, they enlist the help of the scruffy British publisher Barley Blair, an unconventionaly character who doesn't respond well to authority.
13. In 1984, the USSR's best submarine captain in their newest sub violates orders and heads for the USA. Is he trying to defect, or to start a war?
14. The Nazis have kidnapped an archaeologist's father for his diary, which contains maps and first-hand accounts of many of the world's most sacred and hidden items. One of these such items, the Holy Grail, is what the Nazis are after.
15. Two British soldiers, Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnahan, pack guns and supplies and head north to Kafiristan, a distant and mysterious land they've only heard tales about, to try to bamboozle high priests into turning over their riches.
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