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Germany:12 certified movies
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Welcome to a near future world where cloning has run amok, free relationship between a man and a woman is forbidden by genetics laws, and travel from city to city is severely restricted. A Seattle insurance fraud investigator named William Geld (Tim Robbins) is sent to Shanghai to figure out who is forging and smuggling 'papelles', identity documents that allow people to travel. But when he gets on the trail of Maria Gonzalez (Samantha Morton), a charming woman who is supposedly responsible for the forgeries, he becomes deeply infatuated with her. He conceals her crime and enters into an illicit affair with her. Back home, William can't help thinking about Maria. He returns to Shanghai only to find that she will be severely punished for a Code 46 violation. Desperate, William is determined to leave no stone unturned to save his flame. |
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The movie begins with the words from Sylvia Plath’s poem ‘Lady Lazarus’: ‘Dying is an art’. The movie relates the story of love and passion between two well-known poets of the XX century – Sylvia Plath (Gwyneth Paltrow) and Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig). Their first meeting developed into a stormy relationship. However, their marriage proved to be fragile, and they separated (mainly because of Hughes’ affair with Assia Wevill (Amira Casar). Down-and-out, depressed, with a broken heart, Sylvia Plath took her own life in 1963. |
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Set in 1882, four friends, Boss Spearman (Robert Duvall), Charley Waite (Kevin Costner), Mose Harrison (Abraham Benrubi) and "Button" (Diego Luna), moving their cattle across the vast prairies of the Wild West, lead a life by a code of honor. But the fate takes an unexpected turn in the small town of Harmonville where bribal Sheriff Poole (James Russo) and a wealthy rancher, Denton Baxter (Michael Gambon), keep the entire town in awe and break the laws. Faced with their flagrant outrages, the valiant cowboys must battle with the local criminals to defend their love, freedom and values of a lifestyle. |
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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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The film tells the story of unbeaten racer Manuel Galloway (Laurence Fishburne), also known as Smoke, the "King of Cali" and president of the underground motorcycle club "The Black Knights". The members are all African-American white-collar workers and lawyers who go into the streets in their leather gear and motorcycle helmets to race by night. The focus of this story takes place at an annual drag-racing event in Fresno, as Smoke’s reign is about to be threatened by a young talented racer called Kid (Derek Luke), who starts his own club "The Biker Boyz". Kid wants to challenge Smoke so as to kill two birds with one stone: to gain both the crown and respect. Smoke doesn’t even suspect that his opponent used to be his ally. |
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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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Larry Gigli (Ben Affleck), a lowly hitman in Los Angeles seeking the big score. He accepts an assignment to kidnap Brian (Justin Bartha), a disabled younger brother of a powerful Californian federal prosecutor, in order to save his mobster boss from incarceration. Gigli abducts the boy from his mental hospital and holds him as a hostage in his apartment. Having known of Gigli’s sympathy for the kidnappee, Louis (Lenny Venito), his boss, sends Ricki (Jennifer Lopez), a "lesbian assassin", to keep a close eye on Gigli to make sure he doesn't screw it up. When Larry and Ricki lodge together, waiting for further orders and taking a liking to Brian, Larry falls in love with a gorgeous, independent-minded female gangster. As time passes Ricki returns his affection. The events take an unexpected turn when Larry and Ricki receive orders to murder Brian. They both refuse point-blank to do it at the risk of their own lives. |
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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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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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Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins), a classics professor at a small New England college town, is fired after accusations of racism. His wife Iris (Phyllis Newman) takes it to heart and passes away. Coleman, broken-hearted and depressed, tries to redeem his honour but he soon finds consolation in a love affair with a local janitor, Faunia Farely (Nicole Kidman), a tempting woman half his age. The relations get strained when it turns out that both Coleman and Faunia have the dark secrets they have kept for many years. It’s high time they revealed all the secrets. |
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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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It’s a lovely fall day. We become observers of the events that happen throughout the day at an Oregon high school. On the way to school photographer Elias (Elias McConnell) takes some pictures of a punk-rock couple. After football practice Nathan (Nathan Tyson) leaves gym class and meets up with girlfriend Carrie (Carrie Finklea) for lunch. John leaves his dad’s car keys in the school office for his brother to collect. In the cafeteria, Brittany (Brittany Mountain), Jordan (Jordan Taylor) and Nicole (Nicole George) gossip and complain about their mothers’ snooping. Michelle (Kristen Hicks) dashes to the school library for her volunteer work. John (John Robinson) walks out onto the lawn, crossing paths with outsiders Alex (Alex Frost) and Eric (Eric Deulen)... It seems to be an ordinary high school day. Except that it’s not. |
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Michael Jennings (Ben Afleck) is a brilliant computer engineer who works for high-tech companies. As soon as the job is done, all memory of what he has been working on is erased from his mind so that he can’t let out any secrets to competitor companies. For his most recent top-secret project that has taken him 5 years, Jennings expects to receive a huge sum of money. When he awakens one day, he, however, receives not his paycheck of four billion dollars, but an envelope filled with 19 random objects he has sent himself before the procedure. Having no opportunity to claim his rights due to his wiped memory, Michael suddenly realizes that the envelope contains the clues to his own past. With the help of his old flame, Dr. Rachel Porter (Uma Thurman), Michael must somehow solve a puzzle until his ex-employers who want him dead find him. |
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By day, Matt Murdock (Ben Affleck) represents as a Hell's Kitchen defense attorney. By night Matt becomes Daredevil, a man with no fear, fighting for justice in the dark streets of the city. Wearing a red leather suit and mask, Daredevil skips from high skyscrapers to pursue his enemies with his radar-like vision. The radioactive chemical accident left Matt blind but also granted him a "radar sense" which, combined with his superhuman senses of hearing, smell, taste and touch, allows him to perceive his environment far better than a sighted person. He is able to distinguish individuals by their natural odors, to sense a human body at a long distance, his heartbeat, blood circulation, to react to physical movements, etc. Daredevil’s enemies include Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, the biggest crime lord in New York, involved in extensive illegal activities such as drug running, smuggling, murder and dozens of other crimes. "Kingpin" is determined to hold the post of Mayor of New York but there is just one hitch. It is Daredevil who attempts to hamper him. Wanting to kill Daredevil standing in his way, Kingpin recruits psychotic killer Bullseye (Colin Farrell) who is famous for his targeting skills. Daredevil fights their powerful forces alone, until he meets Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner), a skilled martial artist and sexy superheroine who believes Daredevil to be responsible for her father's death and wants to take revenge on him. Sparks fly between the two heroes in this action-packed adventure fantasy. |
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Roving reporter Cindy Campbell sets out to find a hard news story in the middle of television sweeps. She soon uncovers an outrageous onslaught of globe-threatening developments including alien invaders, killer videotapes, freaky crop circles, prophecies of The One, eerie-eyed children, ambitious white rappers and even a run-in with Michael Jackson. Faced with conspiracies of massive proportions, and a crew of very strange people following her around, Cindy must fight to stop evil from taking over the world yet again. |
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Jim proposes to Michelle and she accepts. Now their families are looking forward to it as is Jim's friends, Kevin and Finch. They do their best to keep Stifler from knowing but he does and all he sees is the bachelor party that goes with it. However Jim is more concerned about whether or not Michelle's parents will like him and he is also worried that he can learn how to dance before the wedding. |
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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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James Clayton (Colin Farrell), one of the smartest graduating seniors in the country, is recruited by the secret CIA training facility called the Farm at Camp Peary in Virginia. The brilliant agent trainee quickly learns the tricks of the spy trade and rises through the ranks. When he gets a special assignment to root out a suspected spy that has infiltrated the Agency, Clayton starts to doubt whom he can truly trust as he suspects his mentor, Walter Burke (Al Pacino), and others at the Farm of being double agents for the Chinese government. |
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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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The story follows a University of Austin professor, Dr. David Gale (Kevin Spacey). In a twist of fate this anti-death-penalty activist is convicted and condemned to death for the rape and murder of colleague Constance Hallaway (Laura Linney). Three days before his execution, he grants an exclusive interview to Elizabeth "Bitsey" Bloom (Kate Winslet), the brave reporter who sets out to learn the truth behind Gale's crime. Bitsey, full of skepticism and scorn for the convict, soon finds herself believing in David's innocence as he reveals his tragic tale to her. Can Bitsey find out who framed the professor? |
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