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Germany:12 certified movies
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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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Professional quarterback Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler), a former NFL player, and former college champion and coach Nate Scarborough (Burt Reynolds) are doing time in the same prison. Tough warden Hazen (James Cromwell) decides to organize a soccer match between the guards and the inmates and forces Paul to assemble his team. Yet, he tries to persuade Crewe to lose the game in exchange of his early release. The convicts willingly unite when they discover that the guards will be their rivals. They see the forthcoming game as a golden opportunity to exact some revenge on the sadistic warders. |
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This film, based on the novel by Arthur Golden, unfolds from the perspective of Chiyo (Zhang Ziyi), a girl who, at the age of nine, is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house in the early 1930s. Here, she goes through the training to become a geisha, and the life she leads as one. She learns that becoming a geisha can be the single path to wealth and independence for a woman. Despite a treacherous rival who nearly breaks her spirit, the girl blossoms into the legendary geisha Sayuri. She can play with the hearts of the mightiest men, but the only one she adores is beyond her reach. Sayuri must confront the possibility that history will leave all that she has worked for behind as World War II approaches, and as Japan stands at the brink of a new era. |
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Four researchers are irradiated by the unknown cosmic rays during the space voyage and get the supernatural abilities. Their DNA is once and for all altered – and so is their future. Reed gains the ability to stretch and contort his body into any shape and, as the group leader, is given the name Mr. Fantastic; Sue now is able to create powerful force fields and to become invisible as Invisible Woman; Johnny becomes known as The Human Torch, as he can now shroud his body in flames and take flight at will; and Ben, whose freakish transmutation is the most shocking, becomes an orange-colored, rock-like, superhumanly strong creature, The Thing. |
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In the sequel to 1998's "The Mask of Zorro" Elena Montero (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Don Alejandro de la Vega (Antonio Banderas) find themselves married with their 10-year-old son Joaquin (Adrian Alonso). Their happy marriage begins collapsing as Alejandro spends too much time and energy fighting various villains. When Alejandro once again breaks his promise to give up his secret identity of Zorro, the frustrated Elena separates from her adventure-seeking husband and soon begins dating her former classmate Armand (Rufus Sewell), an odious French Count. Armand allegedly runs a wine-producing business but he actually plots to prevent California from becoming the 31st state by committing electoral fraud. It's up to Zorro to protect the future of California and its citizens as well as to win back his wife and son.
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Set in the outskirts of Los Angeles, the emotional drama tells the story of Tobe (Evan Rachel Wood), a bored yet rebellious teenager whose drab existence cardinally changes after a chance encounter with charismatic and romantic cowboy Harlan Carruthers (Edward Norton). Tobe is quite taken with Harlan at their first meeting and quickly enters into an ardent romance with him, despite her father Wade's (David Morse) strong disapproval because of the significant difference in their ages and backgrounds. But then things take an unexpected turn as she begins to see that Harlan isn't exactly whom he appears to be. |
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Bruce Wayne's parents were killed, a young boy received the trauma which led him into obsession to revenge. He travels Asia, where he is trained by a ninja fighter Ra's al Ghul. When Bruce returns home, he finds his native Gotham-city overran with crime and the Wayne Enterprises, his parents' corporation, slipped from his control. The hero is determined to bring peace and safety back to the city. Wayne and his allies develop a secret identity as Batman, a masked fighter for justice. But to defeat the mafia villains will not be so easy. |
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Terry (Joan Allen), a sharp-witted woman and a mother of four, had lost her husband and trying to drown her sorrows in alcohol. Once she gets acquainted with Denny (Kevin Costner), an ex-basketball player living in her neighborhood who now works at a radio-station as a DJ. With both Terry and Denny feeling down in the dumps about recent events in their lives, the two find themselves drawn to one another. Soon Denny becomes a good drinking buddy for Terry and slowly evolves into her source of strength, and, in fact, becomes like father to her daughters. But things get complicated as Danny, Terry and her daughters attempting to juggle their romantic dilemmas. |
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In 1933, after leaving Dogville, while traveling with her father (Willem Dafoe) and his gangsters to the south of USA, Grace Margaret Mulligan (Bryce Dallas Howard) sees a slave ready to be punished in a property called Manderlay. The slavery had been abolished seventy years ago, and Grace becomes revolted with the attitude of the owners of Manderlay, keeping slaves in their cotton fields and following predetermined despicable rules called "Mam's Law". Grace decides to stay with some gangsters in Manderlay and give notions of democracy to the slaves and to the white family. When harvest time comes, Grace sees the social and economical reality of Manderlay. |
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The computer-animated movie takes place two years after the events of the Final Fantasy VII video game. The world has assuredly become a more peaceful place, though cities and industry are still lying in ruins and most of the Earth's population has been afflicted with a strange and lethal disease known as 'Seikon-Shoukougun' which is Japanese for 'Planet Scar Syndrome'. The main character, guilt-ridden ex-soldier Cloud Strife (Steve Burton), has been leading a reclusive life, no longer wanting to fight wars. However, when he is attacked by three mysterious, villainous kids, Kadaj (Steve Staley), Yazoo (Dave Wittenberg) and Loz (Fred Tatasciore), who are bent on assaulting the Planet, Cloud is forced to come out of retirement to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard. |
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This movie presents Jennifer Garner as Elektra, a deadly and gracious female ninja. She is forced to make a responsible decision when she is sent to kill Mark Miller and his 13-year old daughter Abby. She rejects her mission and begins to fight against the hand, a powerful ninja syndicate whose members practice the dark martial art of ninjiutsu. Her fantastic abilities help her to struggle: she has a gift to see the future and her fighting skills also is not a trifle! |
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At his fourth summer at the Hogwarts Harry has grown into a strapping teen, his legendary scar aches more and more. Everybody in the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry gets ready for the soon to be held Triwizard Tournament. The Goblet of Fire judges who will participate in the Tournament and who will not, three competitors should be selected. Suddenly the Goblet points at the fourth contestant – Harry Potter. Four magicians should stand three trials: the battle with the dragon, rescue a friend from the lake depths, and, finally, find the Goblet of fire hidden inside the labyrinth to win it. Meanwhile, Voldemort’s followers are preparing the reappear of the dark lord. |
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This time, the hilarious comedy focuses on Steve Stifler's younger brother Matt (Tad Hilgenbrinck). Sent to Band Camp for the summer, he intends to play outrageous pranks on his fellow campers. At first, Matt fits the camp with spy cameras in order to record how sex-obsessed students spend their time while away from home. However, the filming is put on the back burner when Matt gets infatuated with his enchanting childhood friend, Elyse (Arielle Kebbel)... |
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"Sahara" stars Matthew McConaughey as adventurer Dirk Pitt, who must try to prevent a deadly microbe from causing an epidemic in the oceans after he discovered that thousands of people in Africa are being driven mad by something polluting the water. Along the way Matthew make the acquaintance of Dr. Eva Rojas (Penélope Cruz), a scientist and physician who is trying to determine the source of a strange and deadly disease sweeping the nation. Based on the one of Clive Cusslers' best-selling novels. |
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The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. Everyone in town is too self consumed to worry about anything else than themselves. And everybody is on some form of drug just to get themselves through the day. After Troy's death, local drug dealers at the school run out of their stash. They convince Dean to get Troy's stash or they are going to kill his brother that they kidnapped, but they grabbed the wrong kid. |
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Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother's major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it's up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she's in a dream, or something far more sinister. |
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This sentimental drama centers on Sabrina 'Bree' Osbourne (Felicity Huffman), an overeducated, conservative transsexual woman from Los Angeles who awaits her final sexual reassignment surgery. Her life, however, takes an unexpected turn when she gets a phone call from Toby Wilkins (Kevin Zegers), a 17-year-old boy claiming to be his son from a long-ago liaison. He is a small-time drug user and street hustler (servicing both male and female clients) who is now in jail in New York. Toby's mother committed suicide, after which he was raised by his abusive stepfather, whom he does not get along with. So he wants to meet his biological father. Bree wants nothing to do with the troubled teenager but her psychiatrist Margaret (Elizabeth Peña) won't approve the surgery until she faces up to her past. Thus, Bree is forced to travel to New York in order to bail her son out of jail. |
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This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling. |
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Gangster-turned-movie producer Chili (John Travolta) has grown tired of the screen trade, especially after his latest project turned out to be a box-office flop. His close friend Tommy Athens (James Woods), a fellow mobster who runs an independent record label, is murdered by Russian gangsters. Chili takes over the recording company of Tommy and begins courting Tommy's girlfriend, Edie (Uma Thurman) and takes patronage over promising young singer (Christina Milian). A wannabe gangster, gay bodyguard and Russian gangsters makes his life more complicated. This film is a sequel to "Get Shorty", Steven Tyler (Aerosmith) co-stars in this movie, which can be of music lovers' interest. |
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Thirty-something Tracey Heart (Cate Blanchett) is a former drug-addict trying to redeem herself in the eyes of her mother and to recover from the vicious habit. Tracy makes a vow to set up her own business and turn back to normal life before it's too late and life has passed her by. Tracy's plan turns out to be more difficult, when three men from her past reappear: her criminal-minded brother Ray (Martin Henderson) seems having an idée fixe on making for himself a name in the underworld, her ex-boyfriend Jonny (Dustin Nguyen), and the emotional interests of an ex-football star and also a troubled family friend Lionel Dawson (Hugo Weaving). Shaken and confused, emotionally vulnerable Tracy finds herself became tangled with the criminal boss Bradley "The Jockey" Thompson (Sam Neill). How she can learn to love again when the pain of the past ain't letting her go? |
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