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Germany:6 certified movies
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When the summer came, Wabasha county fishermen were almost ready to use their fishing rods when the serious trouble appeared in their small town. Trouble's name was Maria and she was going to turn the local shop where they used to buy rods and baits into a fashionable restaurant. Max Goldman (Walter Matthau) finds Maria very attractive (Sophia Loren herself!), but he and his friend John Gustavson (Jack Lemmon) stand against her and her business weaving the different plots to stop her. Old grumblers should solve problems of their children at the same time. |
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Finn (Wynona Ryder) has the steady course on her life: she is certain to marry her boyfriend Sam (Dermot Malroney) and to end up her thesis. She is heading to her grandma's house to concentrate attention at the work. There, at the grandma's sitting room, Finn and her friends spend some time talking and sewing a quilt. Having exchanged with personal experience, and listened to the stories of treason, love and forgiveness she re-exams her plans on life...
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When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret) in straitened circumstances. They are taken in by a kindly cousin, but their lack of fortune affects the marriageability of both practical Elinor and romantic Marianne. When Elinor forms an attachment for the wealthy Edward Ferrars, his family disapproves and separates them. And though Mrs. Jennings tries to match the worthy (and rich) Colonel Brandon to her, Marianne finds the dashing and fiery Willoughby more to her taste. Both relationships are sorely tried. But this is a romance, and through the hardships and heartbreak, true love and a happy ending will find their way for both the sister who is all sense and the one who is all sensibility. |
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Before Sunrise is a passionate and intelligent romance between a young American (Jesse) and a French student (Celine). A chance encounter on the train incites intrigue, and Jesse provocatively suggests that Celine postpones her return to France and embarks instead on a spontaneous expedition to Vienna. In the course of their 14-hour relationship, the two share in their love for the unrehearsed and their appreciation for the unexpected as they explore in a powerful meeting of hearts and minds. |
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When Waring Hudsucker, head of hugely successful Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide, his board of directors, led by Sidney Mussberger, comes up with a brilliant plan to make a lot of money: appoint a moron to run the company. When the stock falls low enough, Sidney and friends can buy it up for pennies on the dollar, take over the company, and restore its fortunes. They choose idealistic Norville Barnes, who just started in the mail room. Norville is whacky enough to drive any company to ruin, but soon, tough reporter Amy Archer smells a rat and begins an undercover investigation of Hudsucker Industries. |
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A faithful adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of Mowgoli the jungle boy who is raised by wolves after being lost when a tiger attacked an encampment and killed his father. Years later he finds himself re-united with his childhood love Kitty and back in the "civilization" of Colonial India which he finds far less civilized then his jungle haunts. The search for a lost treasure shows who the truly civilized members of society are. |
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Two political speechwriters fall in love before they find out they are working for candidates on opposite sides. |
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Baby Bink couldn't ask for more; he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, he lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby Bink's parents; especially the three enterprising kidnapers who pretend to be photographers from the newspaper. Successfully kidnaping Baby Bink, they have a harder time keeping hold of the rascal, who not only keeps one step ahead of them, but seems to be more than a little bit smarter than the three bumbling criminals. |
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Edward Walters, an auto mechanic, falls for the intelligent and beautiful Catherine Boyd. It is love at first sight. There is however a problem, she's engaged to jerk James Moreland. Fortunately, Catherine's uncle likes Ed, and with his friends they scheme to make Catherine fall for Ed. The comedy in this movie stems from the fact that Catherine's uncle is none other than Albert Einstein, who's portrayed as a fun loving genius, as are his mischievous colleagues, Nathan, Kurt and Boris. |
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The film follows the fortunes of Charles and his friends as they wonder if they will every find true love and marry. Charles thinks he's found "Miss Right" in Carrie, an American. This British subtle comedy revolves around Charlie, his friends and the four weddings and one funeral which they attend. |
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Russian mafia boss Konstantine Konali is laundering money under the guise of a legitimate business. The business: a highly addictive video game that allows him to bring down almost any security system controlled by a computer on which the game has been played, with a string of major robberies as the result. Desperate to nail Konali, Commandant Alexandrei Nikolaivich Rakov sends for help from America. Rakov decides to bring in someone he met at a convention a month ago. This person is Commandant Eric Lassard. Lassard briefs his team about the mission in Russia, then they head to Moscow. Along with Lassard in Moscow are Sergeant Larvell Jones, Sergeant Eugene Tackleberry, Captain Debbie Callahan, Cadet Kyle Connors, and Captain Thaddeus Harris. As they plan to nail Konali, he has cooked up a new scheme — create an even better version of the Game by making it good enough to bring down absolutely any computer security system in the world, including the systems that protect the databases that belong to world powers. |
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Jed Clampett and kin move from Arkansas to Beverly Hills when he becomes a billionaire, after an oil strike. The country folk are very naive with regard to life in the big city, so when Jed starts a search for a new wife there are inevitably plenty of takers and con artists ready to make a fast buck. |
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Gilbert Grape lives in Endora, a place where nothing much happens. The only times the police got something to do is when Gilbert's autistic brother Arnie tries to climb up on the watertower nearby. Taking care of Arnie is mostly Gilbert's task which can be pretty demanding, at least while you are working at the local grocery store. Then one day Becky and her grandmother passes through Endora getting trouble with the car. Gilbert falls in love with Becky, but gets problems when he tries to find time for his own private life. |
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Doug Ireland is the concierge of a ritzy hotel in New York. He does what he has to to satisfy the hotel's guests, by getting them what they need; like jewelry, candy mints, and theatre tickets. He also tries to keep the manager from terminating Milton, the bellhop, who was been working at the hotel for more than half a century, who likes to think that the spirit of the hotel's founder is still around. Doug wants to open his own hotel on Roosevelt Island. Now he has saved every cent he could to get an option on an old hotel. Now he has a matter of weeks to develop the hotel or else he will lose it. But to do it he needs at least 3 million dollars and his best chance to get it is Christian Hanover. While Hanover considers Doug's proposal, he asks him to "take care" of his girlfriend, Andy, a girl whom Doug has the hots for but is constantly turned down when he asks her out, cause she doesn't want to be two timing her boyfriend, Hanover. Now Hanover is married but says that "he will divorce his wife and marry her". Doug doesn't exactly believe him but thinks that his hotel is more important and Andy can make her own decisions. But the more Doug spends with Andy, Doug is starting to wonder what is important. |
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Scotty Smalls moves to a new neighborhood with his mom and stepdad, and wants to learn to play baseball. The neighborhood baseball guru Rodriquez takes Smalls under his wing, and soon he's part of the local baseball buddies. They fall into adventures involving baseball, treehouse sleep-ins, the desirous lifeguard at the local pool, the snooty rival ball team, and the travelling fair. Beyond the fence at the back of the sandlot menaces a legendary ball-eating dog called The Beast, and the kids inevitably must deal with him. |
| Robin Hood: Men in Tights
[1993,
France, USA]
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| The legend had it coming... Find out where Robin Hood put his Little John, what made Will Scarlet, and what did Friar Tuck into his tights that Maid Marion all of a quiver? |
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Mel Brooks is the well-known master of parody, so the film of this famous director is desperately hilarious. Now his aim is to interpretate the legend of Robin Hood in the funniest way: jokes, pranks and different allusions to the various films and stories adjoin many foolishness and follies. Without regales and, sometimes, without trouses, "men in tights" try to win over the heart (and not the only heart) of the beautiful Maid Marion. |
| Sleepless in Seattle
[1993,
USA]
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| What if someone you never met, someone you never saw, someone you never knew was the only someone for you? |
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Tom Hanks plays Sam, a citizen of Seattle, a widower and a single father, whose son Jonah calls a radio talk show and tells America a sad story of their lonely life. Annie Reed (Meg Ryan) who lives thousands miles away from Seattle hears the program and decides to meet Sam feeling dissatisfaction with her fiancee. She writes a letter to the man whom she hasn't ever seen but whom she believes to be her only one. |
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Bill Murray's hero, Phil Connors, is a weather man - he works at the silver screen telling weather reports to the audience. He is an egocentric man who suffers from megalomania, he thinks that soon he will be able to change this job for the better: to become a major TV star. At one moment Phil heads to a little town to make a report about a funny holiday named "Groundhog Day". Then it turns out to be that the Groundhog Day is the only number in the calendar of this small town - every morning is the beginning of February, 2nd. Phil understands that somehow he should leave this vicious circle... |
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There was a time when these two old men were in love with the same woman. Now they are neighbors and get along together. But when a new beautiful lady Ariel Truax (Ann-Margret) moved in, the new reason to quarrel appeared, so the two started the new all-out war one against the other simultaneously trying to win over the heart of the "woman next door". Children under 12 are not welcomed to watch this movie as it includes some "not-for-kids" scenes. But anyway, the film is very hilarious and the acting is funny as Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon do their best. |
| Man Without a Face, The
[1993,
USA]
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| A fatherless boy had almost given up all his dreams... until one man believed in him enough to make them come true. |
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People consider him a monster in this small town where he stayed to teach after his face was disfigured awfully in the car crash when he was hardly burnt. He (Mel Gibson, also the director of this picture) teaches in a local university, where hi finds an apprentice and even the best friend in the person of a young boy. The parents of the young kid (Nick Stall) know nothing about it, his father is a deranged alcoholic, and this fact seems to be a problem along with the conservative provincial society which tries to separate them from each other - the teacher and the pupil. |
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