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Germany:12 certified movies
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Nick Wells (Robert De Niro), an aging professional thief, is determined to retire from crime after he nearly gets caught on his last job. He intends to focus on running his jazz club and romancing his charming and sexy girlfriend Diane (Angela Bassett). But Nick is soon pressured to pull one last heist by his longtime friend, financial partner and fence named Max (Marlon Brando). To make matters worse, he has to break his most important rule – always work alone - and teams up with a hotheaded young thief, Jack Teller (Edward Norton), who works as a janitor at Montreal's Customs House. He is plotting the heist of a unique 17th century French scepter worth $30 million stored in the heavily guarded Customs House. Nick agrees to play this risky game once again, unaware that it may be extremely dangerous and complicated... |
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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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The adventure drama follows the story of the most legendary American outlaws, daring young guys who, after returning to their hometown from the frontlines of the Civil War, are forced to declare a war on a ruthless, powerful railroad tycoon, Thaddeus Rains (Harris Yulin), who attempts to grab farmers' homesteads in order to move his rail line across the country. Jesse James (Colin Farrell) forms a gang made up of his elder brother Frank (Gabriel Macht), their companion Cole Younger (Scott Caan), and other farmers in order to disrupt the railroad company's expansion by sabotaging its tracks, robbing banks and distributing the stolen money to the poor. The so-called Robin Hoods soon become the subject of the greatest manhunt in American history, led by Allan Pinkerton (Timothy Dalton), the founder of the Secret Service. |
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Paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) accepts the offer of well-to-do adventurer Paul Kirby (William H. Macy) and his wife Amanda (Téa Leoni) to make a sightseeing flight over infamous Isla Sorna. In fact the Kirbys want Alan Grant to find their missing son Eric (Trevor Morgan) who crashed on the island while paragliding. When they land on the island, they encounter fierce flesh-eating prehistoric creatures. As a result, Dr. Grant and his company have to start a terrible race for survival... Will the heroes be able to find the boy and survive? |
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Based on Stephen King’s novel, the movie tells the story of Bobby Garfield (David Morse), a middle-aged photographer who returns to his hometown for a funeral of his childhood friend. Bobby remembers the summer of 1960 when the entire world changed for him. The story begins when 11-year-old Bobby (Anton Yelchin) and his best friends, Carol (Mika Boorem) and Sully (Will Rothaar), enjoy their sweet childhood days. Into his life comes a mysterious stranger named Ted Brautigan (Anthony Hopkins) who befriends Bobby and tries to replace his father. The boy suddenly gets what he really needs – his parents’ love. His mother Liz (Hope Davis) is embittered after her husband’s death and doesn’t devote loving care to her little son. Ted comes into a vacancy in Bobby’s heart; he opens the boy’s eyes to the world around him and helps him to understand his own feelings toward Carol and his mother. However, Ted keeps his own secrets deep in his mind, and Bobby attempts to stop a powerful danger that's pursuing his adult friend. |
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Welcome to the Far Future when Man has made a technological breakthrough. Now, with the help of artificial intelligence, the human race hopes to cope with the polar cap melting which causes the raise of the ocean waters and coastal flooding. Moreover, Cybertronics Manufacturing has created companion robots to replace friends, lovers or kids. One of these androids is David (Haley Joel Osment), a 12-year-old boy programmed to love and adopted by a Cybertronics employee, Henry Swinton (Sam Robards), and his wife, Monica (Frances O'Connor). David’s appearance and behaviour is not different from other kids. Even his love to the adoptive parents is quite real. One day David realizes that to be a human being is something totally different than to be a robot. David dreams of being a real kid to be loved and journeys out into the forests to find someone who can make his dreams come true. |
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In the year 2065, the meteorite fall has caused almost complete destruction and chaos on Earth. Alien creatures are threatening to wipe the human race off the face of the earth. The last remaining earth dwellers settle in the barrier cities so as to survive and battle against the aliens. Dr. Aki Ross (Ming-Na) is determined not to surrender to the invaders at any price, though she is aware of being deadly infected by alien particles. Teamed up with Dr. Sid (Donald Sutherland), her scientific mentor, and Captain Gray Edwards (Alec Baldwin), the leader of the Deep Eyes military squadron, Aki keeps on fighting against the alien race. The movie depicts the story of love, soul, and the basic human instinct - striving to survive at any cost. |
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David Mamet takes this story of thieves along many twists and turns, some of which work and some of which don't. Gene Hackman plays the brilliant leader of a gang (Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay & Rebecca Pigeon as Hackman's youngish wife), which pulls off complex heists for a despicable fence (Danny DeVito). After stiffing the gang on a jewelry robbery, DeVito forces the gang to go after a Swiss gold shipment and to use his nephew (Sam Rockwell) in the crime. No one trusts anyone and every step is shaded with the unexpected. |
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It happens that the beautiful Princess Pei Pei (Liu) is abducted from the Forbidden City and taken to America by villainous white men. The Emperor of China sends three of his most reliable, bravest and skilful guards to pay a ransom and retrieve his daughter he loves with all his soul. Chon Wang (Jackie Chan), an athletically built yet gawky imperial guard, is not among one of the three. He, however, insists on accompanying the guards and travels to the West to rescue Pei Pei he has affection for. On arrival in Nevada, the train the Imperial Guards are on is attacked by Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson) and his well-armed gang. Both Roy and Chon happen to be separated from their groups and reluctantly become companions to find the Princess. Along the way, the unlikely duo plunges into a string of various mishaps and curious incidents. |
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John Sullivan (Caviezel) is a New York City homicide officer who is traumatized for 30 years following the death of his father, Frank (Quaid), After finding Frank's HAM radio, John begins talking to Frank, 30 years into the future. Together, they change the past but have to find a way to stop a serial killer from murdering John's Mom & Frank's wife with a 30 year gap. |
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In this light-hearted romantic comedy, Alfred Connelly (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and Imogen (Julia Stiles) take turns narrating their bittersweet love story. When sophomore Al and freshman Imogen meet amid the chaos of a New York university, they fall in love at first sight and become deeply involved in a whirlwind romance. They seem to be a perfect match. He likes cooking, she enjoys making love. As their affair intensifies, the young couple must come to grips with the reactions of their mischievous friends to their romance, as well as Imogen's pregnancy scare. The sparkle of their love begins to fade and they eventually go their separate ways... |
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Craig Jones (Ice Cube) is a street-smart all right. Raised in the ghetto in South Central Los Angeles, he faces up to any difficulties in life. Last Friday Craig confronted a neighborhood bully, Debo (Tommy 'Tiny' Lister), and beat him to a pulp. There are rumors that Debo is bent on escaping from prison to wreak vengeance upon Craig. So Craig's father decides to send his offspring to the suburbs to live with his cousin Day-Day (Mike Epps) and unemployed Uncle Elroy (Don "DC" Curry) who has won the lottery and lost his sense of reality. While a Latin American bombshell, Karla Joker (Lisa Rodríguez), who lives across the street, gets attracted to Craig and is desperate to capture his attention, her bloodthirsty, armed gangster brothers, Joker (Jacob Vargas), Little Joker (Lobo Sebastian) and Baby Joker (Rolando Molina), seethe with wrath. In short, there is never a dull moment for him. The main thing is to smoke dope and not to take it too seriously. |
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Let's make no bones about betrayal. Cheating on your girlfriend is mean. Videotaping the entire process of cheating is worse. On top of everything, it is absolutely unforgivable for you to mail your beloved the racy tape as a present, even if you do it by accident. If the situation is to be saved, you'll have a long march across America to intercept the disastrous tape before it falls into your sweetheart's hands. But you can put out of your mind the notion that it'll be plain sailing. You'll have a road trip so breathtaking that a roller coaster seems a quiet play in a sandbox by comparison. |
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The Devil (Elizabeth Hurley) has never been so seductive. This time, he assumes the aspect of a gorgeous woman and forces a man to do reckless things. A hapless computer programmer, Elliot Richards (Brendan Fraser), is a perfect person to make a deal with. The perfidious Devil makes a tempting offer to Elliot: she promises to fulfill seven wishes in exchange for his soul. However, there is no such thing as a free lunch. It's no wonder that Elliot's life is turned into a hell when he sells his soul to the Devil. He can't enjoy the bargain because each time he makes a wish, the results are regrettable... |
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A university professor, Dennis Burke (Peter Coyote), finds a pile of letters for the former lodger of his apartment. The letter author is a woman prisoner named Lydia Davis (Nastassja Kinski) who has served 6 years of 30-year sentence for the murder of her lover's wife. Intrigued by the contents of the letters, Burke makes up his mind to visit Lydia in prison and falls in love with her at first sight. Lydia asserts that she is innocent. After a while she somehow contrives to escape from prison and darkens his door. In order to stay out of jail himself the professor takes persistent attempts to collect the evidence and prove that his mistress has been the victim of a frame by her ex-lover. |
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Shortly before the playoffs, the Washington Sentinels and their cheerleaders have gone on strike for more money. To put their nose out, the owner of the NFL football team, Edward O'Neil (Jack Warden), brings in self-retired head coach Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman) to hire a team of substitute players. The replacement team is comprised of Daniel Bateman (Jon Favreau), a violent SWAT leader; Clifford Franklin (Orlando Jones), an ex-convict, who can outrun bit can't catch a football; Nigel 'The Leg' Gruff (Rhys Ifans), a Welsh soccer player who can kick a soccerball the full length of the playing field; Jahmal Abdul Jackson (Faizon Love) and André Action Jackson (Michael Taliferro), stout gangster rapper brothers; Jumbo Fumiko (Ace Yonamine), a Japanese sumo wrestler. Among them is Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves), a former Ohio State quarterback who has to become the ragtag team's captain. Charming blonde Annabelle Farrell (Brooke Langton), the head cheerleader, assembles a group of former strippers to encourage the replacements and kindle their fighting spirit. "Glory lasts forever, " Falco says to his team players. His plan of the game seems to be flawless. Their power is their unpredictability... |
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In 1958, four top Air Force pilots from Team Daedalus, Frank Corvin (Clint Eastwood), William Hawkins (Tommy Lee Jones), Jerry O'Neill (Donald Sutherland) and Reverend Sullivan (James Garner), were ready to be the first Americans in space. But due to intrigues they were grounded and fell into total oblivion but a chimpanzee named Mary Ann was given the honour of flying into space. Now, 40 years later, a malfunctioning Russian communications satellite is about to fall out of orbit at any point. There are only three weeks to avert a calamity and the only man who can fix its operating system is Frank Corvin, the satellite constructor. NASA wants to recruit Frank for a special mission but he agrees to place the satellite in orbit on condition that he can take his old team. |
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Duets is a road-trip comedy which revolves around the little known world of karaoke and the whimsical characters who inhabit it. There's the struggling singer who dreams of making it to the big time, a frustrated salesman who ends up on an unexpected road trip, the dysfunctional family performers which includes a con-artist (Huey Lewis) and his long lost daughter, and an escaped convict (Andre Braugher) with the voice of an angel. All roads lead to Omaha, site of a national karaoke competition where this motley group of singers and stars come together for a blow-out sing-off. |
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When Mona's key won't fit in her Yugo, she tries it in her son's; when it works, she borrows his car. The brakes fail; she goes through the guard rail, into the river, and drowns. When police chief Rash learns that the brake lines were cut, he looks for a murderer. Suspect one: Mona's dim son Jeff, whom she constantly denigrated. Suspect two: her husband Phil, whom she constantly belittled and who's having an affair with Rona, a waitress with a secret of her own. Suspect three: Jeff's landscape partner Bobby, who wants Jeff out, has yelled at Mona that he'd like to rip out her ovaries, and who is soon to be Rash's son-in-law. Can Rash find the killer and keep Bobby out of jail? |
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Satan (Harvey Keitel) who has been King of Hell for more than 10,000 years wants to retire. Unfortunately for him, none of his sons are good enough to reign. The eldest son, Adrian (Rhys Ifans), wants to disturb the balance of good and evil and annihilate the human race. The second son wants to torture the damned souls 7 days a week without rest. The youngest son, Nicky (Adam Sandler), is a shy, weak, unambitious guy with a kind face and malice toward none. So Satan makes a decision to postpone his retirement. Nicky's power-hungry elder brothers are absolutely furious at their devil father's refusal and decide to take revenge on him. When they move to New York City to create their own Hell on Earth, all the residents of the underworld feel panic. The only hope is in Little Nicky who follows the ruthless brothers to save the universe and Satan from death. |
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