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Germany:6 certified movies
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Set in the 1940s, the era of general interest in hypnosis, the story follows CW Briggs (Woody Allen), a veteran insurance investigator, and Betty Ann Fitzgerald (Helen Hunt), a new efficiency expert. He is a cocky successful investigator who solely relies on his own instinct. She is a self-confident bright woman who has a secret affair with the married boss, Chris Magruder (Dan Aykroyd), and feels lonely. They don’t get along until one night at their colleague’s birthday party at a nightclub he and she are hypnotized by a magician, Voltan (David Ogden Stiers), to fall in love with each other. After the trance, with no memory of it, Briggs and Betty are implacable enemies again. However, the two begin committing robberies while under the hypnotic power of the Jade Scorpion. |
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They are monsters but they are not scary at all, some of them are even sweet and funny. They live in the world behind our closet doors, in the city of Monstropolis. The city dwellers work for Monsters Inc., a gigantic corporation which specializes in scaring human kids and generating energy from their screams. The funniest thing is that even skilled scream-generators such as James P. "Sulley" Sullivan (John Goodman), a huge monster with blue fur and horns, and his bustling dude Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal), a green one-eyed monster, are terrified of kids! And when a fearless little girl, Boo (Mary Gibbs), follows Sully into the factory, she turns the monster world topsy-turvy! |
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Lloyd (Todd Bosley) is a scraggy, clumsy eleven-year-old boy wearing glasses and having a status of a class clown. As any kid at his age, he faces and overcomes different obstacles on his way. First Lloyd gets in trouble with his teachers, as a result, he is sent to a class for underachievers. There, Lloyd joins the cohort of Troy (Brendon Ryan Barrett), Carla (Chloe Peterson) and Storm (Patrick Higgins). Then Lloyd discovers the joys and sorrows of first love when a cute girl, Tracy (Kristen Parker), joins the class. As bad luck would have it, Tracy makes eyes at Storm, a brazen rebel. Nevertheless, Lloyd soon realizes that self-esteem and modesty can win the beauty's favour. |
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A tight-collared workaholic ad executive, Nelson Moss (Keanu Reeves), is devoted to his career and can't imagine another lifestyle. One day he has to beg off work for a couple of hours to take a driving test. At the Department of Motor Vehicles he meets lively, eccentric Sara Deever (Charlize Theron), who is different from the other women in his life. Sara is a beautiful temptress who each month starts a new romantic relationship with no commitments, no pressure, no dependence and no infatuation. Before moving on to the next "patient" she helps her lover to change his life for the better. This time, she, however, falls deeply in love with Nelson, Mr. November, who is determined to give up his career and change his habitual way of life in order to make Sara happy. Will the two live a blissful life? |
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Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song), and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a problem at school; she's intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away, and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it's really all you need. |
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While people, wrapped in the plaid, spend evenings with their pussy-cats by the fireplace, or play with their dogs on the lawn in front of their houses, they are even unaware of the eternal struggle between cats and dogs. As it turns out the Cats strive for world domination and the Dogs want to protect mankind therefore they build military complexes for training canine agents equipped with high-tech gadgets.
The movie begins when Professor Brody (Jeff Goldblum) working on a vaccine for dog allergies loses his pet dog.
A power-mad Persian cat, Mr. Tinkles (Sean Hayes), and a huge feline army plot to steal and destroy the chemical formula so that all humans may acquire an allergy to dog hair. When Mrs. Brody (Elizabeth Perkins) adopts a mongrel, Lou (Tobey Maguire), for her son Scott (Alexander Pollock), it’s up to a young puppy to summon his inner reserves to guard his owners and the vaccine and to protect the human race from falling under the rule of cats.
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Everyone makes mistakes. Kevin (Lance Bass) makes a fatal mistake: he meets the girl of his dreams (Emmanuelle Chriqui) on the subway but has no sufficient courage to ask her for her name or phone number. How can he find his subway sweetheart in the large city of Chicago? However, Kevin finds an ingenious solution. He sends his romantic story to the newspapers and poster the city with flyers displaying his number. As a result, Kevin's phone keeps ringing the whole day because hundreds of women are willing to meet him... What will happen next? Will the lost girl contact Kevin by phone? |
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A moving and tender depiction of the novelist Iris Murdoch's descent into Alzheimer's Disease, covering the period from just before her marriage to intellectual John Bayley until her death. The film is based on the two books by John Bayley (Iris, Iris & The Friends). |
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During FBI operation Agent Eleven (Bob), a drug-sniffing dog, happens to bite off a major mobster's manhood. The gangster cuts up quite savage and orders two hit men to murder the dog. To secure the canine agent, the FBI places him in the witness protection program. The dog changes both his owners and his name. Now he is adopted by a postal worker, Gordon Smith (David Arquette), who is not exactly a dog lover. One fine day when Gordon's beautiful neighbor, Stephanie (Leslie Bibb), asks him to baby-sit her son, it is a challenge for Gordon to handle the pet. The super dog makes friends with James (Angus T. Jones), trees the mailman, evades the mobsters' pursuit and gets sympathy of all kids in the neighborhood. "Spot" is full of energy while waiting for his enemies to track down him again. It remains to be seen who will lead a dog's life! |
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Seriocomic story based on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio, the movie follows a young woman who finds her life radically altered by an event from her teen years. Born in 1950, Beverly grew up bright and ambitious in a working-class neighborhood in Connecticut; her father was a tough but good-hearted cop who listened to his daughter's problems, and her mother was a nervous woman eager to imagine the worst. From an early age, Beverly displays a keen intelligence and an interest in literature, and dreams of going to college in New York and becoming a writer. However, she also develops an early interest in boys, and at 15 finds herself madly in love with a boy from her high school. However, an attempt to get his attention leads to an embarassing incident at a party, and Ray, a sweet but thick-headed 18-year-old, steps forward to defend her. Beverly and Ray end up making out, and after one thing leads to another, Beverly discovers she's pregnant. Telling Ray is only marginally less difficult than informing her parents, and at 16, Beverly is a wife and mother. Against the odds, Beverly is determined to still finish high school and go on to college, but that goal becomes more difficult with time, especially after Beverly's marriage begins to fall apart. Ray tries to do the right thing but has trouble holding a job, and becomes addicted to heroin. |
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Imagine that you have arrived in Las Vegas. Your programme contains a casino visit. It is a pure accident that you win a special token in the slot machine and are invited to a secret dinner party. There, an eccentric casino mogul, Donald P. Sinclair (John Cleese), for example, makes you and your contestants a tempting offer to take participation in a race. The first to reach Silver City, New Mexico, will receive the $2 million cash prize hidden away in a locker. Can you refuse the offer? Can you miss the chance to hit the jackpot? |
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1989, South London. Jack, an ebullient butcher, has died, and his last orders are to cast his ashes off the Margate Pier. His wife of 50 years, Amy, stays home, with the excuse of a visit to their mentally-disabled daughter. Jack's three closest friends, Ray, Vic, and Lenny - along with Jack's son Vince - head for Margate. Each has memories of Jack and of friendships, family, and conflicts. It's Vince's relationship with his dad that's the most complex, and Ray's long friendship with both Jack and Amy that holds things together. The last orders - to go to Margate and strew the ashes - become an invitation to recall what's done, what's left, and what's important. |
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Rannulph Junnah is the best golfer in Savannah. He's living well and has a girl, Adele Invergordon, who's the daughter of a wealthy landowner. The First World War starts, though, and Junnah goes to Europe to fight. The only survivor of a dangerous mission, Junnah doesn't return to Savannah for 15 years. In 1930, he returns, and Adele's father has already committed suicide during the Depression. Pressured by tax collectors to sell the golf course her father built to pay off debts, Adele, now older, vows to bring to Savannah the greatest match ever played on the greatest golf course, her late father's. She's able to round up the 2 greatest golfers of their time, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen to play for $10,000. The townspeople insist on having "one of their own" compete also, and Rannulph Junnah is rounded up. Junnah now hangs out with bums and is an alcoholic, as he has lost his authentic swing from 15 years ago. At first he turns down the offer. He gets his old clubs and balls and starts practicing. He has lost his ability. Suddenly, Bagger Vance shows up. He offers to be Junnahs's caddy and help him regain his "authentic swing". He does, and Junnah agrees to play in the big match. |
| What Women Want
[2000,
USA]
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| He has the power to hear everything women are thinking. Finally... a man is listening. |
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Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson) is a successful man in every way. He is a lady-killing yet bumptious advertising executive living on the A-list of life and having women on a string. It takes him only to crook his finger to obtain all women. His promotion is in the bag. Everything seems to be getting along first-rate. His perfectly-ordered life, however, is disrupted when the creative director position he aspired to goes to a new team member, Darcy Maguire (Helen Hunt), who thinks he must learn to advertise feminine products. Disappointing isn't the word for it. Nick tries desperately to prove that he is still the best and to get Darcy's job. But suddenly his life takes whole new turn when, after a fluke accident, Nick discovers that he is able to hear women's thoughts. At first, he thinks of it as a curse because he learns that most of his women colleagues pull him to pieces as soon as he's out of the room. However, Nick soon realizes that he can take advantage of his uncanny ability to hear what women really want. |
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Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother, desperate to find a job, but is having no luck. This losing streak even extends to a failed lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in. With no alternative, she successfully browbeats her lawyer to give her a job in compensation for the loss. While no one takes her seriously, with her trashy clothes and earthy manners, that soon changes when she begins to investigate a suspicious real estate case involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. What she discovers is that the company is trying quietly to buy land that was contaminated by hexavalent chromium, a deadly toxic waste that the company is improperly and illegally dumping and, in turn, poisoning the residents in the area. As she digs deeper, Erin finds herself leading point in a series of events that would involve her lawfirm in one of the biggest class action lawsuits in American history against a multi-billion dollar corporation. |
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Long before humans appeared on the planet, dinosaurs ruled the earth. On a little off-coast island, a clan of lemurs finds a dinosaur egg, hatching. Since there are no parents, the lemurs take care of the newborn, Aladar. Years later, a medium meteor goes down close to the island and the shockwave forces its inhabitants to flee to the continent. There, Aladar and his family meet other dinosaurs for the first time as well as real dangers. The destruction caused by the meteor here has also forced a herd of different herbivores to move to a remote valley that can provide food and protection against the carnivorous predators following after. Since Aladar grew up with a different understanding of the ways of the world, his way of helping others first isn't accepted within the herd, but soon it is proven that reason may be better than panic. |
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Denzel Washington is hired as the T.C. Williams High football coach over a white coach in Alexandria, Virginia in the early 1970's during a time when the school has just been integrated to allow blacks into the school. |
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The action takes place in a small French town where its residents lead a hopeless life full of restrictions, rules and regulations. They are blamed and faced with a boycott for any irregularity. Regular church services and masses give no joy to the townspeople but strengthen dogmatism and prejudices in their hearts.
One winter day a mysterious young woman, Vianne Rocher (Juliette Binoche), and her 6-year-old daughter, Anouk (Victoire Thivisol), move to the conservative town. A stranger to fear and prejudice, she dares to open a chocolate shop during Lent and offer the customers to enjoy her delicious candies they've never tasted. Vianne is immediately met with bitter censure and resistance. But, vivacious and persistent, she doesn't lose heart and continues to work her magic giving love and comfort to those around her. It's no wonder that the locals are gradually won-over by this cordial, responsive woman and her delectable chocolates.
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Get Ready for Close Encounters of the Scooby Kind! A cosmic case of UFOs, intergalactic intrigue and out-of-this-world romance launches Scooby, Shaggy and the Mystery, Inc. kids into their most unearthly adventure ever! Stranded in a remote desert town, the gang soon discovers the place is crawling with flying saucer buffs, secretive scientists... and less-than-friendly extraterrestrials! Then, after being chased by aliens and beamed aboard a UFO, something even weirder happens to Shaggy and Scooby— they fall head-over-heels in love! As clues to the mystery of the alien invaders lead them from a top-secret government research base to a huge network of caves hidden under the town, our love-struck heroes join the rest of the gang in a race to crack a case that re-defines the term "far out!" |
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FBI agent Malcolm Turner is known best for being a brilliant, master of disguise. Malcolm's latest assignment sends him to small-town Georgia, where he's assigned to trap a brutal bank robber (and a recent prison escapee) who they suspect will be coming down to visit his ex-girlfriend Sherry and her son. Malcolm sets up a stakeout across from the home of a larger-than-life southern matriarch known as Big Momma, who's about to be visited by Sherry. It's a simple plan, but there's one big problem: Unbeknownst to Sherry, Big Momma has unexpectedly left town. So Malcolm, decides to impersonate the cantankerous Southern granny. Using a few tricks of disguise, he completely transforms himself into Big Momma, even taking on the corpulent septuagenarian's everyday routine-from cooking soul food to delivering babies to "testifying" at the local church. In the mean time, Malcolm starts falling for Sherry, who may or may not be hiding some stolen cash. Now, Malcolm/Big Momma must somehow find a way to nab his criminal and the girl. |
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