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Brazil:14 certified movies
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The action takes place in the 17th century in the Caribbean Sea. Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), a beautiful young daughter of a governor, gets a mysterious golden medallion. The skull medallion brings misfortune upon Elisabeth and her childhood friend Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) as it is cursed by the pirates of the Caribbean Sea. Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) and his horde of undead pirates doomed to the eternal crucifixion have been guarding the Aztec treasures for many years. The medallion they have lost is the thing they need to get rid of an ancient damnation. Owing to the disappearance of the medallion, the skeletal pirates have to attack the city of Port Royal and kidnap Elisabeth to get it back. The roguish yet courageous Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), along with Will Turner, assembles a crew to rescue Ms. Swann and take vengeance on the detestable pirates. They hijack a ship from the British Navy and set out on an extremely adventurous quest that makes the blood curdle and shivers run up and down the spine. |
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Bureaucracy and ductwork run amok in the story of a paperwork mixup that leads to the imprisonment of Mr. Buttle, shoe repairman, instead of Harry Tuttle, illegal freelance Heating Engineer. Bureaucrat Sam Lowry (prone to escapes to a fantasy world) gets branded a terrorist and becomes hunted by the state himself in the process of correcting the mistake. |
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An anonymous, but deadly man rides into a town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo's. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain. |
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The compelling drama opens in a nursing home where an elderly man named Duke (James Garner) regularly visits an invalid woman (Gena Rowlands) whom he reads a touching story of enduring love from a tattered old notebook. The story follows two young sweethearts, socialite Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) and poor country boy Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling), who were separated by Allie's snobbish parents and World War II. Noah wrote 365 letters to his beloved but Allie's mom (Joan Allen) kept them from reaching her. After waiting to hear from Noah for seven years, Allie decided to marry a wealthy war veteran, Lon Hammond (James Marsden). But when fate once again threw them together, Allie and Noah became seized by overwhelming passion. Allie had to make a difficult choice between her first love and her prosperous fiancé... |
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In the North American Great Depression, the former successful boxer James Braddock loses all his possessions and savings with the crash of the stock market. His beloved wife Mae Braddock and their three children survive to starvation and lack of heating and the daily difficulties supported by their love. In 1934, when Jim's couch and manager Joe Gould offers to him a chance to return to boxing, he becomes the symbol of hope of hopeless people in a ruined nation. |
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In feudal China, the King of Qin is waging a bloody campaign to conquer the entire land. He has been made a target of three dangerous assassins: spear-wielding Sky, and the lovers Broken Sword and Flying Snow. One day word comes that he has nothing left to fear; a prefect known only as Nameless has killed all three assassins. Nameless is called to the palace and asked to recount the tale of how he accomplished this amazing feat. After he tells his story, however, the King notices some flaws in it... |
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This explosive, action-packed thriller introduces James Bond (Daniel Craig), a British intelligence agent, before he receives his license to kill. He sets out on his first 007 mission to Madagascar in pursuit of international terrorist Mollaka (Sebastien Foucan). However, things don't go exactly according to plan and Bond makes an independent decision to track down the rest of the terrorist gang. The trail leads him to the Bahamas where he crosses the path of criminal Alex Dimitrios (Simon Abkarian). Bond seduces his entrancing wife, Solange (Caterina Murino), only to find out that Dimitrios goes in cahoots with Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), banker to the international terrorist organizations. After losing their funds, he makes up his mind to organize a high-stakes poker tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro, to recoup the investors' money. With the help of the entrancing British Treasury representative Vesper Lynd ((Eva Green) supplying his betting funds, James Bond sets out to defeat the corrupt banker and force him to seek protection with the MI-6, revealing the names of the terrorists. |
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After various skirmishes, two wounded soldiers, one Bosnian and one Serb, confront each other in a trench in the no man's land between their lines. They wait for dark, trading insults and even finding some common ground; sometimes one has the gun, sometimes the other, sometimes both. Things get complicated when another wounded Bosnian comes to, but can't move because a bouncing mine is beneath him. The two men cooperate to wave white flags, their lines call the UN (whose high command tries not to help), an English reporter shows up, a French sergeant shows courage, and the three men in no man's land may or may not find a way to all get along. |
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After a notorious criminal, Ben Wade (Russell Crowe), is eventually captured, his gang of thieves and thugs continues to terrorize the townspeople. Civil War veteran and impoverished rancher Dan Evans (Christian bale) volunteers to secretly escort Wade to the nearest town with a railway station where he will be put on the 3:10 train to the prison in Yuma, Arizona. As soon as they stay at the hotel, it becomes apparent that they both become hunted... |
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The movie tells the story of a love affair between two lonely Americans – Bob Harris (Bill Murray), a middle-aged movie actor burdened with his unloved wife and kids, and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a young woman bored of her unloving husband. They meet in the Tokyo hotel and spend together an unforgettable weekend. Their love is not one of passion but rather one of emotional need. The relation is motivated by loneliness and melancholy. It’s probably a passing infatuation that provides long hoped-for comfort and companionship... |
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The action takes place in the USA in the 1930s. Grace (Nicole Kidman), a beatiful woman on the run from gangsters, arrives in the small Rocky Mountain town of Dogville. Town philosopher Tom Edison (Paul Bettany) takes her in and convinces the townsfolk to hide her. In exchange for shelter, Grace has to work for the townspeople all hours: she teaches math to the local kids, takes care of the blind old man, helps the apple farmer (Stellan Skarsgård) and the shopkeeper (Lauren Bacall). Eventually, the townspeople, egoistic and ruthless, begin demanding more and more from poor Grace. Tired of working double shifts, Grace decides to leave the town, but the escape fails, and she has to pass through a black ordeal. As a slave she is forced to toil from dawn to dusk, and raped by every man in Dogville night after night. Finally, Tom calls up Grace’s father (James Caan) to rescue his daughter from her inexorable torturers. |
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The powerful tycoon Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) has initiated "Operation Grand Slam," a cataclysmic scheme to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the world economy. James Bond, armed with his specially equipped Aston Martin (its accessory package includes built-in machine guns, a smoke screen and an ejector seat), must stop the plan by overcoming several outrageous adversaries. First there's Oddjob (Harold Sakata), the mute servant who kills at the toss of a lethal hat; next, the beautiful Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton), who gives new meaning to the phrase "golden girl"; and finally, sexy pilot Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman), whose romantic feelings for Bond complicate her involvement in Goldfinger's high-flying scheme. |
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One of the greatest Hollywood adventure stories gets the Peter Jackson's newest interpretation in this high-budget block-buster. A group of documentary filmmakers headed by Carl Denham (Jack Black) explores mysterious relict jungle somewhere upon the lost island near Sumatra in 1930s to examine how truthful the legends of the great ape Kong are. Soon they found themselves in this forest surrounded by dangerous and huge prehistoric fauna which was hidden there for millions of years. Explorers had found that King Kong is really exists in form of the 25 feet tall gorilla which can outfight any creature on Earth, even the dinosaurs inhabiting the mysterious Skull Island. Meanwhile, an actress Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) strikes up a romance with Jack Driscoll (Adrian Brody), a respected playwright hired by Denham to write the script for his latest epic. Adventurers manage creature capture, and bringing him to New York City for display, where Kong escapes and runs amok, finally climbing the Empire State Building. Andy Sirkis (Gollum in the Lord of The Rings) was brought in to provide the body movements and mimic for King Kong digital animation. |
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The action takes place in Japan in the 1870s. Captain Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), a respected American military officer and Civil War veteran, accepts an offer to travel to the Land of the Rising Sun to train the country's regular army in the art of modern warfare. Preparing for more Westernized policy, the Emperor of Japan wants to extirpate the hereditary class system of the samurai warriors who rule the provinces. All of a sudden Algren takes part in the sanguinary civil war between the radical samurais and the new westernized troops. The gallant officer will have to choose which side to fight on and to learn about the code of honor. |
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The year is 2029. The world has become intensively information oriented and humans are well-connected to the network. Crime has developed into a sophisticated stage by hacking into the interactive network. To prevent this, Section 9 is formed. These are cyborgs with incredible strengths and abilities that can access any network on Earth. |
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Set almost entirely in London, England during five frantic weeks before Christmas follows a web-like pattern of inter-related, loosely related and unrelated stories of a dozen or more various individuals with their love lives, or lack of them. The central character is the new bachelor prime minister David who cannot express his growing feelings for his new personal assistant Natalie. The prime minister's older sister Karen slowly grows aware of her husband Harry's flirtation with an office worker named Mia. Karen's friend Daniel is a recently widowed writer whose 11-year-old son asks for love advice about a girl he has a crush on. Meanwhile, Jamie is another writer who leaves his girlfriend after catching her cheating on him and travels to France to write a novel where he pursues a possible romance with his non-English speaking Portuguese maid Aurelia. Also, Harry's American secretary Sarah questions a romance she pursues with the office hunk Karl, but her personal family problems get in the way. Other secondary characters involve a photographer who pursues his best friend's new wife Juliet; a pair of movie stand-ins, named John and Judy, who grow closer after their simulated love scenes; a libidinous chum who wants to travel to Wisconsin, USA to score with women; and a burned-out former rock star named Billy Mack who is the main connection between all stories involved. |
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The story takes place in China in the 1940s and revolves around Sing (Stephen Chow), a young charming but clumsy hoodlum who aspires to join the legendary "Axe Gang." Meanwhile, the ruthless lord of the most feared gang, Brother Sum (Kwok-Kwan Chan), who wants to dominate everyone, starts terrorizing a slum small neighborhood called Pig Sty Alley. Nevertheless, an old but spry landlord (Wah Yuen), who rules the neighborhood, and his mean wife (Qiu Yuen) go on a warpath to defend their apartment complex and its residents from their villainous usurpers. |
| Fugitive, The
[1993,
USA]
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| A murdered wife. A one-armed man. An obsessed detective. The chase begins. |
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This double-Oscar-nominated movie is a detective story where a woman, Helen Kimble (Sela Ward), is killed, she was the wife of a well-known surgeon named Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford). The doctor gets arrested being accused of murder, but he escapes from the judgment and tries to find the real murderer being persecuted by Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones), a detective. |
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The story follows Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), a young tennis instructor who becomes involved with a wealthy family after he is hired to coach one of the members. He meets Tom Hewett, a well-off pretty boy, Tom's sister Chloe instantly falls in love with Chris but he, in his turn, has his eyes on Tom's fiancée, the sweet Nola. The attraction turns to an obsession that forces Chris to make a critical choice. This dark, disturbing drama is written and directed by Woody Allen, his first film set and shot in Great Britain and one his few films almost without any humor. |
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Based on true events, the political drama portrays the confrontation between journalist Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin that shook the American society in 1954. America's freedom, values and ideals were threatened when Joseph McCarthy launched a massive campaign against communists. Murrow, a well-known host of the CBS television program, was the first person who drew the attention of the general public to ideological and political problems. Despite corporate pressure and the potential ramifications, the courageous journalist ventured to investigate and expose McCarthy and his dirty methods during his "witch-hunts." |
| Records found: 231, viewing from 21 to 40 |
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