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Germany:12 certified movies
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Set in the Cold War era, the geopolitical thriller movie focuses on petroleum politics, and the global influence of the oil industry, whose political, financial, legal, and social effects are experienced by covert CIA agent Bob Barnes (George Clooney), energy analyst Bryan Woodman (Matt Damon), attorney Bennett Holiday (Jeffrey Wright), and laid-off worker Wasim Kahn (Mazhar Munir).
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In Miami, the professional driver Frank Martin is working temporarily for the Billings family, transporting their son Jack while his driver is on vacation. Mr. Billings is an important member of the government and Mrs. Audrey Billings trusts on Frank, who promises to protect the boy. When Jack is kidnapped by a mercenary hired by the Colombian cartels, Frank faces the criminals and the Miami police force trying to rescue the kid. When the boy returns to his family, Jack discloses the real and lethal intention of the abduction of Jack. |
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Based on a true story, the horror drama revolves around Emily Rose (Jennifer Carpenter), a 19-year-old ordinary college freshman who begins to feel as though someone else has inhabited her body. The student becomes tormented by terrifying visions and ghostly voices. She can't separate the reality from the nightmare. Doctors give her a diagnosis of a strange mental disease but are unable to cure her. So Emily desperately seeks help from her parish priest, Father Moore (Tom Wilkinson). It's obvious to him that the hapless girl is possessed by demons. He believes that the only hope to save Emily's soul is to perform the forbidden and extremely dangerous ritual of exorcism on her... |
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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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Ray Ferrier is a working class man living in New Jersey. He's estranged from his family, his life isn't in order, and he's too caught up with himself. But the unthinkable and, ultimately, the unexpected happens to him in an extraordinary sense. His small town life is shaken violently by the arrival of destructive intruders: Aliens which have come en masse to destroy Earth. As they plow through the country in a wave of mass destruction and violence, Ray must come to the defense of his children. As the world must fend for itself by a new and very advanced enemy not of this world, its inhabitants must save humanity from a far greater force that threatens to destroy it. |
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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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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. |
| Million Dollar Baby
[2004,
USA]
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| Beyond his silence, there is a past. Beyond her dreams, there is a feeling. Beyond hope, there is a memory. Beyond their journey, there is a love. |
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Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) is a veteran boxing trainer who has devoted his life to the ring and has precious little to show for it. His daughter is estranged from him, and he spends the twilight years of his life running a small, ramshackle gym in downtown Los Angeles. When Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) walks into his gym, things get changed. In a life of constant struggle, Maggie made herself this far on raw talent, unshakable focus and a tremendous force of will. Initially refusing to train Maggie due to her gender and age, Frankie relents when faced with her tenacity, spirit, and burning ambition. They form a sport tandem of great tutelage, and a talent. "Million Dollar Baby" also stars Morgan Freeman, Anthony Mackie, and Mike Colter. The movie is adapted from a short story by F.X. Toole, a former corner man with years of experience in the fight game. |
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Based on true events, Charles S. Dutton's feature-length directorial debut stars Meg Ryan as boxing promoter Jackie Kallen, a Jewish woman from Detroit who broke through and found success in the world of boxing attempting to make her mark in this male-dominated sport. She works her way up in the world of boxing by believing in the fighting skills of Luther Shaw (Omar Epps) a light-heavyweight contender from the inner-city. The drama focuses on Jackie's relationship with him in attempt to lead him to the summit. Likewise, Kallen's life and career came into focus due to Shaw and his influence on her growth. |
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After moving into the small town of Stepford, Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman), an ex-TV producer, finds herself and her family in the midst of a kind of American dream – a clean city, amiable neighbors and so on. But one day she noticed, that things are not as perfect as it seems, there's something wrong, something artificial in this town fulfilled by the spirit of glamorous serenity. When her friends Bobbie (Bette Midler) and Roger (Roger Bart) suddenly turned into typical Stepford Philistines, she began to guess if she will she uncover the truth about the Stepford wives ' lot or simply become another insouciant glamour icon. |
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Lew is a small time loser with a troubled past and a very big secret. Overhearing a couple plan a kidnapping, Lew is tempted to come up with a scheme of his own. He decides to get to the victim first and then blackmail the real criminals. His plan soon spins out of control. |
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In this movie where the mysticism and visual aesthetics interlaced, a small Pennsylvania village is surrounded by the primeval forests where the mysterious powers dwell. Everybody in the settling fears of the every night's darkness and nobody dares to walk deep into the shade of the foreboding forest. Only one man, Lucius Hunt, desires to cross the boundaries of the unknown. At the same time the village community is stunned by the series of the inner shocking events and Noah Percy, a young and wise blind woman has to leave the safe village boundaries to seek for help from afar. The state of calm between the villagers and the forest creatures came to an end... |
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Wayne and Eileen Hayes live the American Dream. Together they've raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. But there have been sacrifices along the way. When Wayne is kidnapped by an ordinary man, Arnold Mack, and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple's world is turned inside out. Eileen finds her home full of FBI agents, their life under scrutiny. While Wayne is engaged in the negotiation of his lifetime, Eileen works frantically with the FBI to secure his release. The terrifying ordeal causes Wayne and Eileen to reassess their marriage and come to a deeper sense of their commitment to each other. With each passing hour, the need and desire for Wayne to return home safely becomes ever more urgent. |
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Harry Potter, Ron and Germiona continue studying at the Hogwarts. Third year of study brings the new mystery: the condemned magician escaped from the ominous Azkaban prison, so Harry's life is under a deadly threat. Terrible dementors are lurking around the Hogwarts, trying to track down the dangerous fugitive, and a howl of wolves is being brought by the wind from neighbouring forests... |
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A man who had conquered 90% of the known world by the age of twenty-five, Alexander the Great (Colin Farrell) was one of history's most luminous and influential leaders who forged an empire stretching from Greece to India in the fourth century B.C. His conquests facilitated the promotion of Greek culture, and, centuries later, the spread of Christianity, and the expansion of the great Roman Empire. Young King of Macedonia had conquered almost the entire known world of his era, before dying at the age of 32. This epic movie follows him, his family, his allies, foes, ventures and achievements. |
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When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened — or didn't happen — in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out. |
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Starting a new school is always full of anxiety. Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) is doubly unlucky. The fact is that she moves to the United States from Africa where she has been home schooled her whole life. And now the 15-year-old girl has to enter public high school for the first time! Cady soon comes to realize that school life can be more dangerous than the jungle. Trying to 'survive' in her new surroundings, she infiltrates the school's most popular and fashionable clique that includes the meanest girls of all - Regina George (Rachel McAdams), Gretchen (Lacey Chabert), and Karen (Amanda Seyfriend). When Cady has a crush on Regina's ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett), Regina flies into a rage and becomes bent on seeking revenge by sabotaging their potential romance. |
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Sam, a shy schoolboy, suffers from a bully school troublemaker George in a small Oregon town. Sam tells his protective elder brother about the pummeling he suffers from that guy. Two brothers think out the revenge plan together and invite George to the river boat trip to put a stop to humiliation. During the trip Sam unexpectedly finds out that George is simply a child who can not find friends. But the boat is already on its way… |
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In this hilarious comedy, Will Ferrell stars as Ron Burgundy, the most popular TV news anchor in San Diego in the 1970s. As a chauvinist and sexist he thinks that men are inherently superior to women. Therefore he believes that a female who dreams of a television career must settle for being eye candy telling about fashion or sharing the latest recipes with the viewer. When an intelligent and ambitious feminist reporter, Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate), arrives at Ferrell's TV station pretending to his crown, a fierce battle breaks out between two bright anchorpersons. |
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