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Canada:14A certified movies
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Japan, 2077: A female agent named Vexille is dispatched to Tokyo to investigate whether Japanese are developing robotic technology, which has been banned by the U.N. due to its potential threat to humankind. |
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The shy son (Chittenden) of an aging comedienne (Blethyn) tries to find a balance between his demanding home life, his new girlfriend (Booth), and his mother's second chance at fame. |
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The paranoid thriller centers on Walter Sparrow (Jim Carrey), an average man who has dearly loved wife Agatha (Virginia Madsen) and teenage son Robin (Logan Lerman) and works as a dog-catcher. His perfectly ordered life starts to unravel when he gets a red-covered detective book, The Number 23, for his birthday. Walter becomes absorbed in reading the novel, and the deeper he gets into the plot, the more convinced he is that the book bears similarities to his own life. The only difference between the book and Walter’s life is that the story doesn’t have a happy ending. Walter suspects the murder to take place in reality and becomes obsessed with the idea of uncovering a mystery that drives him mad.
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Angie gets the sack from a recruitment agency for bad behaviour in public. Seizing the chance, she teams up with her flatmate, Rose, to run a similar business from their kitchen. With immigrants desperate to work the opportunities are considerable, particularly for two girls so in tune with these times. |
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A young Bangladeshi woman, Nazneem, arrives in 1980s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. Trapped within the four walls of her flat in East London, and in a loveless marriage with the middle aged Chanu, she fears her soul is quietly dying. Her sister Hasina, meanwhile, continues to live a carefree life back in Bangladesh, stumbling from one adventure to the next. Nazneen struggles to accept her lifestyle, and keeps her head down in spite of life's blows, but she soon discovers that life cannot be avoided - and is forced to confront it the day that the hotheaded young Karim comes knocking at her door. |
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A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada. |
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Based on Ron Hansen's novel, this action-packed western drama tells the story of Robert Ford (Casey Affleck), a seemingly insecure and quiet young man who has grown up worshiping America's most notorious outlaw, Jesse James (Brad Pitt). In 1881, he finds James and his older brother Frank (Sam Shepard) in Missouri and joins their gang for a final train robbery. One day the ambitious yet cowardly cowboy wants the fame that Jesse James gets and ventures to murder his idol. |
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The story centers on a corporate climber who gets stuck working late on Christmas Eve and finds herself the target of an unhinged security guard. With no help in sight, the woman must overcome physical and psychological challenges to survive. |
| Reaping, The
[2007,
USA]
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| Thousands of years ago there was a series of bizarre occurrences that many believed to have been the Ten Biblical Plagues. No one thought they could happen again. Until now. (3 more taglines...) |
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Christian missionary Katherine Winter (Hilary Swank) lost her faith on God after her dearly loved husband and daughter were sacrificed by the Sudanese who blamed them for the long drought. Since then Katherine, a college professor, has become a famous expert in refuting superstitions, mysteries and miracles, finding a scientific explanation for a particular event. One day she arrives in a sleepy town of Haven, Louisiana, to examine a series of inexplicable incidents that appear to be the ten biblical plagues. In the course of her investigation Katherine comes to the conclusion that science can't explain all phenomena; and she ultimately regains her faith which grants her the power to withstand the dark forces.
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The story of a young ex-con Jack, newly released from serving a prison sentence for a murder he committed as a child. |
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A group of young film students run into real-life zombies while filming a horror movie of their own. |
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David Cronenberg's thriller is set in London where Anna Khitrova (Naomi Watts), a regular midwife living with her aunt and uncle Stepan, a man of Eastern European origin, tries to help a child whose mother, a young Russian immigrant, died in childbed. She finds the girl's diary and asks her uncle Stepan to translate it. She also finds the Trans-Siberian restaurant card inside the diary and visits Semyon, its owner, to trace the baby's relatives. Semyon shows much interest in the diary too, because being the head of a Russian mafia brotherhood it was he who made the child's mother a sex slave. His son Kirill (Vincent Cassel) is to become Semyon's successor, but there is Nikolai Luzhin (Viggo Mortensen), the mafia's driver and killer with great veiled ambitions who seems waiting for the moment to take the whole power in his own hands. Anna has known too much about the criminals, the baby is in great danger and Nikolai has to play the double game to protect them and at the same time to get benefit from the situation. |
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This psychologically thrilling movie that leaves you gasping in the end revolves around Brad (Sam Rockwell) and Abby Cairn (Vera Farmiga), an upscale couple living a happy family life in their plush Manhattan apartment with their precocious, gifted 9-year-old son, Joshua (Jacob Kogan). Their well-ordered life is suddenly upended when their second kid Lily arrives. Joshua seems to be far from happy about the new addition to the family and begins to display evil tendencies. After a string of bizarre, sometimes tragic, events happens, the Cairns start questioning whether they are doings of their jealous, sociopathic son or merely strange and eerie coincidences. |
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A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father. |
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Taken aback by his mother's wedding announcement, a young man returns home in an effort to stop her from marrying his old high school gym teacher, a man who made high school hell for generations of students. |
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This nail-biting thriller tells the story of Egyptian-born chemical engineer Anwar El-Ibrahimi (Omar Metwally) who has lived in the U.S. since he was 14, and is now married to Isabella (Reese Witherspoon). While returning home from a business trip to South Africa, he finds himself apprehended on suspicion of involvement in the terrorist act and transported to a secret detention facility in North Africa where he is brutally tortured. Unaware what's happened to him, his pregnant wife enlists her former college boyfriend Alan Smith (Peter Sarsgaard), a senator’s assistant, to help to track Anwar down. |
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High school senior Nick Powell (Justin Chatwin) is destined to have a bright future. But no one can feel secured against a fatal case of mistaken identity. So one day Nick becomes the victim of a brutal attack by a school hoodlum. Nick stays alive, though his spirit has departed from his perishable body. His frightened soul, caught between the living and the dead, vainly attempts to go to its eternal rest. Nick tries to give his mother Diane (Marcia Gay Harden) a signal for help but she can neither hear nor see him. Meanwhile, the police led by Detective Brian Larson (Callum Keith Rennie) takes great pains to find the missing guy, without knowing that Nick is just hours away from truly perishing. By the irony of fate, the only person who can save his life is his sullen and cruel classmate, Annie Newton (Margarita Levieva), who beat him so unmercifully. |
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When Hank Deerfield is told by the military that his son Mike, who only recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, has gone AWOL he travels to the military base to see if he can make any sense of the young man's disappearance. Hank is himself a retired military investigator and is frustrated by both the military and the civilian police's apparent lack of interest in the case. In the end he does manage to get help from Det. Emily Sanders and together they piece together the events that led to Mike's disappearance. In the end, this is a story of how war dehumanizes individuals to the point where the taking of life makes no sense and has no purpose |
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A small town girl runs into big time trouble as she takes on her roommates identity as a dominatrix to pay the bills. |
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Three brothers - Peter (Adrien Brody), Jack (Jason Schwartzman) and Francis (Owen Wilson) – residents of the USA, all of them a kind of drug-addicted and more or less depressed, have not been in touch for a year and are now (after they learn about the accidental death of their father) trying to reunite the family bonds. So they set off on a train voyage across India and... eventually find themselves moneyless in the middle of the desert with eleven suitcases, a printer, and a laminating machine. From here for them starts a new, unplanned and totally unpredictable journey. |
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