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Germany:12 certified movies
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Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" is the story of a legendary showman's double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said. |
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M. Night Shyamalan presents another paranormal-themed thriller where Graham Hess (Mel Gibson), a priest loses his wife (Patricia Kalember) in a car accident, denying God then and remaining an ordinary farmer who devotes himself to rural work and to raise his son Morgan and daughter Bo (Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin) along with his younger brother (Joaquin Phoenix). The faith is lost, the job is quitted, and one day Hess family encounters the unknown, namely the 500-foot circles shaped with mathematical exactness. Hess is astonished and enraged thinking these circles simple are somebody's prank. But this explanation soon proves its groundlessness: Graham is confronted with the new uncommon, inexplicable events as he began to see and hear strange things. Uncovering the truth, Hess runs the more risk as his family is under the threat... |
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Ben Cronin has it all: the admiration of his many friends, a terrific girlfriend, and he's on the fast-track to an athletic scholarship. Not that it's been easy - every day Ben juggles countless hours in the pool (training for a critical swim meet), with a job at the local hospital, and finding quality time with his high school sweetheart, Amy. Ben's rock-solid, promising future and romance with Amy are turned upside-down with the arrival of Madison Bell. Madison, the "new girl in town," quickly sets her sights on the impressionable Ben. While their first few meetings are innocent enough, the obsessive and seductive Madison wants more - much more. Seducing Ben is only beginning; she becomes his biggest "fan" and most unexpected nightmare, as her obsessions quickly spiral out of control into betrayal, madness and, ultimately, murder. |
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Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) returns to Hogwarts School of Wizardry for his second year. After a confrontation with a house elf named Dobby, Harry escapes to the Weasley house with Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) in a flying car. They are then late for the train and have to ride it to school. When they get there, strange happenings invade the school. "Mudbloods" (people of Muggle families) are "petrified" by an evil monster lurking in the grounds. When every one suspects that it is him, the trio then set out to find the culprit and find out more than they bargained for: the diary of Tom Riddle, why Hagrid was expelled and what the Chamber of Secrets is and why is it so feared in Hogwarts. |
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2087. The moon is completely settled by terrestrials, and developed for human needs. This is the place where Pluto Nash, en ex-criminal (Eddy Murphy), achieved success: he runs a business, more particularly, a popular night club, and he has a personal bodyguard robot (Randy Quaid). Pluto's rival, a moon tycoon named Max Crater who wants to buy Nash's club to turn it into a casino, takes no denial and blows up his entertainment, ordering a reward for Pluto's head. Max wants to take control over the whole Earth's satellite and he takes no prisoners. Moon realities in this sci-fi comedy bear strong resemblance to Wild West at some points, and Eddy Murphy is hilariously splendid as always. |
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Sara (Elizabeth Hurley) and Gordon Moore (Bruce Campbell) are successful farmers - he is a Texan, she is typical English. Gordon is unfaithful, he has a lover and in one moment he sends a process server to deliver the divorce papers to Sara. When she gets to know about this sad fact, she realizes that if she will not outstrip Gordon, filing for divorce, she will lose her legal part of their impressive fortune. Joe Tyler (Matthew Perry) is the process server who is to deliver papers, but Sara quickly arranges things with him and tries to outrun her so to speak husbandrel. But things get complicated when the counterpart Tony (Vincent Patore) of Joe is drawn into an affair by Gordon's request... |
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Barry Egan is a wreck, driven to breakdown by the henpecking of his seven sisters. He steals his heart and manhood away from the curbside. Slowly he learns how to direct them toward love, for the sake of and with the help of another troubled soul. |
| John Q
[2002,
USA]
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| Give a father no options and you leave him no choice. |
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Loss of consciousness turns out to be a symptom of the deadly threat for the young boy, who collapses during the baseball match, and his parents get to know the kid is urgently needs an urgent heart transplantation that won't be covered by insurance. The father (Denzel Washington) finds himself in a blind alley as his beloved son can suddenly die, and the man takes the severe measures risking his life and even the lives of the hospital personnel. The hospital is taken hostage, police negotiators try to do something when the team of the doctors has to operate. This desperate race against time can become the last trial for every participant... |
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Van Wilder (Ryan Reynolds) has been at his college for seven years and can't get his diploma. He is not at all the most stupid student at college. The fact is that Van enjoys carefree collegiate life and devotes all his time and energy to throwing hilarious parties. To his dismay he discovers that his father, Vance Wilder Sr. (Tim Matheson), doesn't propose to pay his offspring's tuition. Now, Van is confronted with a dilemma: either he will pay for another year of fun by himself or he will eventually become a graduate. |
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Set in the early 1970's, this is the tale of a young man whose fiancee has been killed, but who finds himself falling for another woman even while he is still living with his fiancee's grieving parents and being drawn into the legal battle to bring her killer to justice. |
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Neal Oliver (James Marsden) is about to leave his intentions to earn a law degree for an art career; he meets an immortal supernatural being named One Wish Grant (Gary Oldman) who looks like an inveterate trickster and directs clarity-seeking Oliver right to the immense spaces of the non-existing Interstate 60. Oldman's eccentric character grants wishes to the people who deserved such benefit, and Neal takes a chance to find the girl whom he has seen in his dreams; she smiles from every billboard of the Interstate 60 roadside, the road where everything is possible as every wish could be easily fulfilled. Should one be afraid of his desires or this is the road to hell? |
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One of the most accomplished piano players in Poland, Wladyslaw Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans in the 1930s. At last deciding to escape, suffering the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw City Revolt in August/October 1944.
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The tenth opus of the well-known epic series of Star Trek follows the Enterprise starship team. The ship is headed to Romulus, the planet where the foes of the Federation display an intention to conduct the peace negotiations. Coup'd'etat was arranged there and a new praetor, Shinzon, a cloned human apparently hides evil intentions. When Enterprise arrives, a new deadly threat comes to light endangering many planets including Earth and all the living forms on them. Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his crew are to ruin the interstellar villains... |
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Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) keep on their dangerous way to Mordor being accompanied by treacherous Gollum (voice of Andy Serkis) who is being torn between his evil and good identities. He still craves for the Ring he call his Precious. Meantime, Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd) are hostages of Uruk-hai while Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), Legolas (Orlando Bloom), and Gimli (John Rhys-Davies) are trying to release them. The power of Isengard grows, armies of many thousands orcs are marching on towards the lands of Gondor and Rohan, and the burning baleful Eye stares from the awful tower of Barad-Dur. The Ent nation rises when the orcs begin to cut down the ancient forest of them by Saruman's order. The might of the innumerable Mordor powers headed by Sauron looms over the Middlearth, the land became silent before the great war. |
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Mitch Preston, a LAPD officer, always cared only about his job and has catching criminals well. But his new partner was always interested in other thing - he wanted to be an actor who plays policemen on TV in contrast to his serious colleague. DeNiro (Preston) and Eddy Murphy (Trey Sellars) are first time together on the screen, playing two policemen of different views. Mitch Preston is a strict and experienced policeman who is compelled to be a star in a new reality show on the TV. In spite of his reluctance to take part in this doubtful project, the show becomes a high-rated one... to cap Trey's joy! "T.J. Hooker" star William Shattner ridiculously portrays himself and Renee Russo acts as an uneasy producer in this action comedy, which looks like a side-splitting competition between Murphy and DeNiro. |
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Matt (Josh Hartnett) is dumped by his girlfriend, she instantly found another guy leaving her former boyfriend to bite the dust and to long for her. Dispirited and disappointed, Matt vows to have no sexual and related contacts in a period of forty days... and, more particularly, nights. But suddenly he meets the seductive girl of his dreams (Shannyn Sossamon) and his vow becomes the serious obstacle for their upcoming relations. Concurrently, as you may have guessed, his ex-girlfriend tries to get him back. It's rather hilarious sight when embarrassed Matt tries hilariously to come unscrew! |
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Astrid Magnussen is a 15 year old girl, living in California. Her mother, Ingrid, is a beautiful, free-spirited poet. Their life, though unusual, is satisfying until one day, a man named Barry Kolker (that her mother refers to at first as "The goat man") comes into their lives, and Ingrid falls madly in love with him, only to have her heart broken, and her life ruined. For revenge, Ingrid murders Barry with the deadly poison of her favourite flower: The White Oleander. She is sent to prison for life, and Astrid has to go through foster home after foster home. Throughout nearly a decade she experiences forbidden love, religion, near-death experiences, drugs, starvation, and how it feels to be loved. But throughout these years, she keeps in touch with her mother via letters to prison. And while Ingrid's gift is to give Astrid the power to survive, Astrid's gift is to teach her Mother about love. |
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Alex Scott (Owen Wilson) is involved to disclose the villains who have stolen Switchblade, the new prototype of the top-secret military spy plane. American government will do anything to bring the thieves to justice; the main suspect is Arnold Gundars (Malcolm McDowell), an international arms-smuggler. Scott is to team with Kelly Robinson (Eddy Murphy), a self-esteem and rather cocky world-class boxer who have enormous ambitions along with a fair amount of humor. Gundars is a fan of boxing, so the Robinson's skills surely will help to take the villain, unless Robinson's conceit will ruin the plans of the hilarious agent couple. Special Agent Rachel Wright (Famke Janssen) assists the guys in their inquiry driving Alex mad at the same time. |
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Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is pulled from the Mediterranean Sea, he is bullet-wounded and remember nothing. The only key to uncover his identity is a mysterious capsule which is implanted directly in his body. The digits etched on the capsule lead him to the safe deposit box where he found some documents, cash, and a weapon. Soon he meets several people, who recognize him, but some of them are aggressive and Bourne realizes he is hunted by an assassins. His combat and language skills soon emerge, as he tries to survive attempting to uncover the past with the help of Marie (Franka Potente). |
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In this animated musical comedy movie, Davey Stone (Adam Sandler) is a 33-year-old grumpy boozing loser who hates himself, everyone and everything, especially the holidays. When he faces Hanukah in his New England hometown, he goes on a drunken rampage and ends up arrested. The judge (Norm Crosby) is about to throw the book at the delinquent but decides to give him one last chance at redemption and sentences him to service community. Davey must work at the community center as an assistant referee for the Junior Basketball League. He reluctantly accepts the job, though he realizes it's much better than going to the state prison for 10 years. But when he meets Whitey Duvall, a good-natured but eccentric head referee, his sentence turns into a nightmarish disaster... |
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