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Brazil:12 certified movies
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In order to get out of hock with mobster Billy Walker, restaraunteur-turned-"retrieval expert" Beck has to go down to Brazil and retrieve Billy's ne'er-do-well archaeologist-wannabe son Travis, who is searching for an ancient gold idol called the Gato del Diablo. This idol is prized by not only the local population as the path to their salvation, but by Cornelius Hatcher, slavedriving operator of the Helldorado mining town who oppresses said population in the name of profits, and Hatcher just won't let Beck leave with Travis. |
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Academy Award nominee 'Diane Lane (I)' (qv) stars as 'Frances Mayes' (qv), a 35-year-old San Francisco writer whose perfect life has just taken an unexpected detour. Her recent divorce has left her with terminal writer's block and extremely depressed, and her best friend, Patti, is beginning to think she might never recover. Frances decides to take a break and she buys a villa in the beautiful Tuscan countryside and decides to begin anew. Restoring her new home, she eventually finds the fulfillment she was searching for, including love. Based on 'Frances Mayes' (qv)' memoir of the same name. |
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Set in England during the Victorian age, the tale brings together well-known figures from classic literature. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a team of superheroes led by intrepid adventurer Allan Quatermain (Sean Connery) and comprised of invisible man Rodney Skinner (Tony Curran), Captain Nemo (Naseeruddin Shah), Dracula vampiress Mina Harker (Peta Wilson), Dorian Gray (Stuart Townsend), American secret service agent Tom Sawyer (Shane West), and Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde (Jason Flemyng). The League members have an urgent assignment to scotch the mysterious Phantom who is intent on turning the nations of the world against one another so as to rule the world. Using Captain Nemo’s submarine, the Nautilus, the superheroes go to Venice, Italy where the villain is up to sabotage a conference of world leaders by blowing up the city to sink. Needless to say, this will have catastrophic consequences for all life on Earth. The Extraordinary Gentlemen have only 96 hours to prevent him from reaching his menacing aim. |
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Are you scared of ghosts? You should not even approach a gloomy old mansion with its squeaky doors and dark corridors. Hoping to make the biggest deal of his career, carefree estate agent Jim Evers (Eddie Murphy) decides to buy a desolate mansion, located on a remote bayou, in order to reconstruct it for resale. Accompanied by his wife Sara (Marsha Thomason) and two kids, Jim pays a visit to the estate to check out the property. But it soon becomes clear that the Evers are not the only owners of the estate. The other tenants of the house are 999 creepy ghosts that don’t relish the idea of sharing their eeire cosy nook with impudent and noisy people. Nobody wants to concede the house, therefore a real war of nerves breaks out between the Evers family and the scheming haunts. However, the ghosts have great advantage over their rivals – they have no nerves!.. |
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It is 1953. American women struggle for their rights. Meanwhile, Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts), a Berkeley graduate, takes a job as an art history teacher at the all-female Wellesley College. She likes her job and finds the students very talented and her life happy. However, Katherine discovers that patriarchal views on woman’s role in the world still prevail among the college faculty and students. She enthusiastically starts a struggle for equal rights and exerts profound influence on her students including Betty Warren (Kirsten Dunst) and Joan Brandwyn (Julia Stiles). Katherine evokes a great change in the students who in turn make her reappraise her own life. |
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In the second chapter of the trilogy, the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar consisting of Neo (Keanu Reeves), Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) and Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) go to Zion, the last human city on the planet Earth. On their arrival the heroes discover that the Machine Army is digging towards the city in order to destroy it and wipe out its population. While the inhabitants of Zion take measures for the defence, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity leave to make an attempt to destroy the Matrix from the inside. But they must first find the Keymaker who keeps the keys to all the "back doors" of the Matrix. To reach the Source is no easy matter as Neo and his crew confront new upgraded Agents, a mob of Agent Smith clones and other evil programs. |
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The seductive love story set in the mid 1930s revolves around a young British officer, John Truscott (Hugh Dancy), dispatched to the remote island of Borneo to civilize the native Iban tribe, and a gorgeous, beguiling native maiden Selima (Jessica Alba), a so-called sleeping dictionary. She is the kind of girl to fast-teach colonial officers the language and the local habits – in bed. Forbidden love flourishes between the officer and his concubine but unfortunately, their unexpected romance makes variance between the colonizers and the colonized. Thus Selima and John are ruthlessly separated by war. A year later, the officer returns to the island with his wife but suddenly his past intrudes on his present to cardinally change all his plans... |
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In the small town of Knapely, Yorkshire, England, Annie Clarke (Julie Walters) has just lost her husband, who was ill with leukemia. Inspired in his speech to the local Women's Institute, where he said that "the flowers of Yorkshire are like the women of Yorkshire", and "the last phase of the women of Yorkshire is always the most glorious", her best friend Chris Harper (Helen Mirren) decides to make a calendar with twelve local middle-age women nude to raise funds for the wing of leukemia treatment in the local hospital. The calendar becomes well succeeded, making them famous and affecting their lives. |
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This black comedy tells the story of a young yuppie couple who is looking for a perfect home. Alex Rose (Ben Stiller) and Nancy Kendricks (Drew Barrymore) are over the moon when they finally settle for a grand Brooklyn duplex which comes with an upstairs tenant, Mrs. Connelly (Eileen Essell). However, their happiness and their security fly out of the window as soon as they become conscious that Mrs. Connelly isn’t a frail old person she appears to be. The spiteful, sneaky woman turns their dream home into a living nightmare. Desperate by her wild scoffing escapades, the spouses decide to get the old hag out of their lives.
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If you are enamoured of your boss’s luscious daughter and want to get a job promotion, get ready for the worse. Tom Stansfield (Ashton Kutcher) proved to be unready. When his despotic boss Jack Taylor (Terence Stamp) asked him to house-sit, Tom only hoped to spend a quiet evening with his daughter Lisa (Tara Reid) and win her heart. However, it turned out quite different. And now he wishes the earth could swallow him up. How can Tom get out of a scrape if the house is full of havoc? He surely can’t pay off either the antique Persian carpets or the boss’s pet owl... |
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As Neo (Keanu Reeves) somehow becomes trapped in a train station between The Matrix and the real world, Morpheus, Trinity, and Seraph set out to rescue him by means of the Merovingian. As this is going on, the Machines are approaching Zion with the intent of laying waste to every human there, but they do not realize that something is taking over The Matrix, with the intent of destroying everything: Smith. After Neo is freed, he and Trinity take the Logos and make a beeline for the Machine City. The Machines have reached Zion and the battle of a lifetime rages on. However, there is one way to save Zion and put an end to the war, and that is Neo. He must venture into the Matrix and put an end to Smith's evil plans once and for all, and if he succeeds, Zion will live to see another day. It's like the Oracle says, "Everything that has a beginning has an end." |
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Archaeology students, Andre Marek (Gerard Butler), Chris Johnston (Paul Walker), and Kate Ericson (Frances O'Connor), working on the ruins of a 14th-century castle in France, find amazing historical artifacts - an old bifocal lens and an appeal for help dated 1357 and written by ... their history professor Edward Johnston (Billy Connolly)! The perplexed students make for International Technology Corporation headquarters to inform about the mysterious discoveries. ITC president Robert Doniger (David Thewlis) explains to them that he has created the time machine to travel into the past, and Professor Johnston, who wanted to be the first to experience it, is now trapped in world history. The students are certain that their knowledge of medieval Europe will be enough for them to get him back safe and sound, and they fearlessly travel back in time to find themselves in the midst of the Hundred Years' War. Will they manage to rescue the professor and return home if they have only six hours?
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When two American sisters become caught up in the intimate intrigue of Paris, culture and human passions collide - and the result is a comedy of manners and marriage, sex and sorority that sheds incandescent light on what it means to be an American abroad. |
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Miles Massey (George Clooney) is the most successful divorce attorney in Southern California. Due to his outstanding skills he has a tremendous win record. One day he meets the dangerously gorgeous Marylin Rexroth (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who is willing to achieve financial independence after a divorce with her rich husband Rex (Edward Herrmann), a real estate developer. She is a typical gold digger who seeks a wealthy bachelor and then divorces him for his money. This time, she, however, ends up with nothing as Miles wins in court again. But the perfidious temptress goes all lengths to exact painful revenge on the elegant lawyer. She is bent on marrying Miles and then making fun of him during the divorce proceedings. |
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In the sequel to ‘Lara Croft Tomb Raider’, Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie), a bewitching aristocrat, archaeologist and venturesome explorer, sets out on her journey to a submerged temple called the Cradle of Life in search of the notorious Pandora's Box, a unique artifact which was considered to be the root of all evil in ancient times. Lara’s mission is finding the powerful Box before it falls into the wrong hands, namely, into the hands of Chen Lo (Simon Yam), a Chinese crime kingpin. Lo teams up with Jonathan Reiss (Ciaran Hinds), an ominous scientist whose malicious intent is to use the Box as weapons of mass distruction. Lara’s associate to help with the abnormally dangerous and arduous task is Terry Sheridan (Gerard Butler), her ex-boyfriend. While travelling around the world they visit such exotic places as Greece, Hong Kong, Kenya and Tanzania to save humanity. |
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America’s greatest secret weapon is unleashed again as three glamorous crime-fighting Charlie's Angels - Natalie Cook (Cameron Diaz), Dylan Sanders (Drew Barrymore) and Alex Munday (Lucy Liu) - reunite for a challenging new adventure. This time, they are assigned to investigate the theft of two silver bands containing important encrypted ID information for every person in the Federal Witness Protection Program. Some witnesses’ being murdered, the Angels must stop the perpetrator of the crimes, mysterious ‘fallen’ Angel Madison Lee (Demi Moore). |
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In the final chapter of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic trilogy, the Dark Lord Sauron (Sala Baker) assigns his infinite hosts to besiege Minas Tirith, the capital of Gondor. He anticipates winning the war; however, he is outsmarted by Gandalf the Wizard (Ian McKellen) who diverts the Dark Lord’s attention to allow two tiny hobbits, Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin), to reach Mount Doom with a plan to destroy the ring of power. The warrior Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), the rightful heir to the throne of Gondor, leads the army of undead soldiers and the remaining members of the fellowship to free the ancient city from Sauron's grasp. The result of the death battle against Sauron's army will decide fate of humanity. |
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To be a cop is a boy’s dream. To be an officer is a police cadet’s dream. Meanwhile, to be a National Security officer means to be a loser. Earl Montgomery (Martin Lawrence) is expelled from The Los Angeles Police Department due to his systematic violation of discipline and he has no choice but to take a job as a lowly security guard with ‘National Security’. Owing to a twist of fate, Earl teams up with Hank Rafferty (Steve Zahn), who has been framed by Earl and also kicked out of police academy. Needless to say, Earl and Hank don’t get on with each other, and what is more, they may kill each other. But when they uncover a metal alloy smuggling operation led by Nash (Eric Roberts), they must make differences to catch the criminals red-handed and bring them o justice. |
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Dr. Bruce Banner (Eric Bana), a brilliant scientist at the Berkeley Nuclear Biotechnical Institute working on a new genetic technolodgy, is accidentally exposed to gamma radiation. After the terrible accident Bruce discovers whenever he gets into a rage he transforms into the Hulk - a giant green-skinned merciless monstrosity unable to control himself and destroying everything in sight. The military, under the command of General Ross (Sam Elliott), are tasked to hold the monster before it can jeopardize the world, and the Hulk has to be on the run. Even the most disgusting monster can love, and Bruce falls in love with his colleague, Dr. Betty Ross, who happens to be the General’s daughter. She may be the only person who understands the link between the scientist and the Hulk and can stop him from being angry. Betty makes great efforts to save both man and creature. |
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After mastermind Charlie Croker (Mark Wahlberg) and his crew of expert thieves and adventurers pull off a massive gold bullion heist from a Venetian palazzo, they are shocked to discover that one of them is a traitor. It is inside man Steve (Edward Norton) who kills his companion, veteran safecracker John Bridger (Donald Sutherland), and makes off with the bullions. One year later, the surviving gang members decide to exact their revenge on the double-crosser. They track down Steve in Los Angeles, California, and plot to break into his palatial estate, steal back the gold and make their escape by hacking into the traffic control system and creating the biggest traffic jam in the city's history. |
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