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Hong Kong:IIA certified movies
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The early years of the famous magnate, Howard Hughes (1905-1976), are charted in this biographical chronicle where Leo DiCaprio stars. His eclectic career came through everything from oil, for which he cared little, to casinos, film, and aviation - as he turned millions of dollars into billions. His relationships with Hollywood's divas, including the elegant screen star Katharine Hepburn (Blanchett) and the sensual screen beauty Ava Gardner (Beckinsale) were also volatile. He was the incarnated mid-century icon of American wealth. Martin Scorsese directed this fast-moving, epic-scale biopic documenting the life and loves of the one of the most colorful Americans of the 20th century and also chronicles Hughes' struggle with his physical phobias and disabilities, and with his increasingly erratic, obsessive-compulsive behavior that forces him to isolate himself from the world. |
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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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Conjoined twins Bob (Matt Damon) and Walt Tenor (Greg Kinnear) are living legends in their small hometown. They take full advantage of their four hands to fling off their baseball and boxing competitors, to play hockey as goalkeepers, to quickly cook hamburgers at their own fast-food restaurant. Despite a seeming inconvenience, Walt has no problems with women, while his shy, hesitant brother is only experienced in communicating with girls on the Internet. Walt is determined to bring Bob and his longtime cyber-pal together as well as to achieve his dream of becoming a star of the silver screen, and persuades his brother to move to Los Angeles. Having weighed the pros and cons, the colourful brothers leave their hometown for Hollywood, without knowing what they will have to start their star career from. |
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It is 1953. American women struggle for their rights. Meanwhile, Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts), a Berkeley graduate, takes a job as an art history teacher at the all-female Wellesley College. She likes her job and finds the students very talented and her life happy. However, Katherine discovers that patriarchal views on woman’s role in the world still prevail among the college faculty and students. She enthusiastically starts a struggle for equal rights and exerts profound influence on her students including Betty Warren (Kirsten Dunst) and Joan Brandwyn (Julia Stiles). Katherine evokes a great change in the students who in turn make her reappraise her own life. |
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In an era when Americans were in great need of heroic figures to help them forget their troubles, SEABISCUIT comes to the rescue. The picture relates a moving story of friendship and devotion in rehabilitating the main characters'fractured lives, as it interweaves the interactions between horse, jockey, trainer and owner and their adoring fans. The film accurately portrays the real people and events of those troubled times and how Seabiscuit "fixed us, every one of us." |
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James Clayton (Colin Farrell), one of the smartest graduating seniors in the country, is recruited by the secret CIA training facility called the Farm at Camp Peary in Virginia. The brilliant agent trainee quickly learns the tricks of the spy trade and rises through the ranks. When he gets a special assignment to root out a suspected spy that has infiltrated the Agency, Clayton starts to doubt whom he can truly trust as he suspects his mentor, Walter Burke (Al Pacino), and others at the Farm of being double agents for the Chinese government. |
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Honey Daniels (Jessica Alba), a talented choreographer, lives in a poor neighborhood and earns money working double-shift as a video store assistant by day and as a bartender in a night-club by night. Besides, she teaches hip-hop dancing to the local teenagers. But she dreams of becoming a successful video-clip dancer. Finally, fortune smiles on Honey when she meets the video director Michael Ellis (David Moscow) who offers her a job. She is cast in her first music video and even gets a promotion. But soon her boss begins making sexual advances towards Honey promising to turn her into a celebrity in the world of show-business. Can Honey overcome strong temptation? |
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Set almost entirely in London, England during five frantic weeks before Christmas follows a web-like pattern of inter-related, loosely related and unrelated stories of a dozen or more various individuals with their love lives, or lack of them. The central character is the new bachelor prime minister David who cannot express his growing feelings for his new personal assistant Natalie. The prime minister's older sister Karen slowly grows aware of her husband Harry's flirtation with an office worker named Mia. Karen's friend Daniel is a recently widowed writer whose 11-year-old son asks for love advice about a girl he has a crush on. Meanwhile, Jamie is another writer who leaves his girlfriend after catching her cheating on him and travels to France to write a novel where he pursues a possible romance with his non-English speaking Portuguese maid Aurelia. Also, Harry's American secretary Sarah questions a romance she pursues with the office hunk Karl, but her personal family problems get in the way. Other secondary characters involve a photographer who pursues his best friend's new wife Juliet; a pair of movie stand-ins, named John and Judy, who grow closer after their simulated love scenes; a libidinous chum who wants to travel to Wisconsin, USA to score with women; and a burned-out former rock star named Billy Mack who is the main connection between all stories involved. |
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The action takes place in the 17th century in the Caribbean Sea. Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), a beautiful young daughter of a governor, gets a mysterious golden medallion. The skull medallion brings misfortune upon Elisabeth and her childhood friend Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) as it is cursed by the pirates of the Caribbean Sea. Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) and his horde of undead pirates doomed to the eternal crucifixion have been guarding the Aztec treasures for many years. The medallion they have lost is the thing they need to get rid of an ancient damnation. Owing to the disappearance of the medallion, the skeletal pirates have to attack the city of Port Royal and kidnap Elisabeth to get it back. The roguish yet courageous Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), along with Will Turner, assembles a crew to rescue Ms. Swann and take vengeance on the detestable pirates. They hijack a ship from the British Navy and set out on an extremely adventurous quest that makes the blood curdle and shivers run up and down the spine. |
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In the small town of Knapely, Yorkshire, England, Annie Clarke (Julie Walters) has just lost her husband, who was ill with leukemia. Inspired in his speech to the local Women's Institute, where he said that "the flowers of Yorkshire are like the women of Yorkshire", and "the last phase of the women of Yorkshire is always the most glorious", her best friend Chris Harper (Helen Mirren) decides to make a calendar with twelve local middle-age women nude to raise funds for the wing of leukemia treatment in the local hospital. The calendar becomes well succeeded, making them famous and affecting their lives. |
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This black comedy tells the story of a young yuppie couple who is looking for a perfect home. Alex Rose (Ben Stiller) and Nancy Kendricks (Drew Barrymore) are over the moon when they finally settle for a grand Brooklyn duplex which comes with an upstairs tenant, Mrs. Connelly (Eileen Essell). However, their happiness and their security fly out of the window as soon as they become conscious that Mrs. Connelly isn’t a frail old person she appears to be. The spiteful, sneaky woman turns their dream home into a living nightmare. Desperate by her wild scoffing escapades, the spouses decide to get the old hag out of their lives.
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This film follows the incredible life of Edward Bloom (Albert Finney), a well known wonderful storyteller whose tall tales involve a witch with a glass eye that can see the future, giants and werewolves, a haunted forest, and of course, a big fish that refuses to be caught. A self-described small-town hero, Bloom enjoys recounting his unbelievable adventure stories about how he left home at 18 determined to explore the world. He worked for the circus, took on courageous assignments as a WWII soldier, and wandered across the country as a traveling salesman. Bloom weaves his magical and delightful stories into his genealogical fabric. As a result, his son Will (Billy Crudup) considers him a braggart that never cares for his family and doesn’t get along with him. When Edward becomes incurably ill with cancer, his estranged son visits him for the last time. Will tries to separate the myth from the truth and finally understand who his father really was... |
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This comic film parodying the James Bond secret agent genre tells the story of a bumbling British spy who knows neither fear nor danger. In fact, he knows absolutely nothing. He doesn’t know what he does... When a plot to steal the Crown Jewels is exposed, Britain puts its secret agents on the case. However, almost all of MI5's top agents are killed in an explosion. Now there is only one man remaining who can even hope to protect his country. So the inept Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) tries to solve who has stolen the crown jewels from the Tower of London and to save the monarchy from the scheming Frenchman Pascal Sauvage (John Malkovich). Accompanied by his assistant Bough (Ben Miller), Johnny gets into one scrape after another. On his way Johnny also comes face to face with Lorna Campbell (Natalie Imbruglia), a special agent whom he fancies. |
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A happy young couple, Sarah and Tom (Brittany Murphy and Ashton Kutcher) marry against the wishes of Sarah's friends and family and go to Europe for their Honeymoon. Unfortunately for them, Sarah's parents send Sarah's ex-boyfriend Peter Prentis (played by Christian Kane) to break up the happy marriage. |
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Scientists discover that bizarre things are happening on Earth's surface: birds lose their internal navigational ability, whales change their migration patterns, some people in Boston die at the same time for no apparent reason. They realize the cause of these anomalies: the Earth's core is about to stop spinning. If it happens the Earth will lose its electromagnetic shield and be incinerated by solar radiation. A team of the world's most gifted scientists is recruited to travel into the Earth's core in a fully functional subterranean and set off nuclear explosions in an attempt to restart the core's rotation and thus avoid fate of humanity. |
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Michael Jennings (Ben Afleck) is a brilliant computer engineer who works for high-tech companies. As soon as the job is done, all memory of what he has been working on is erased from his mind so that he can’t let out any secrets to competitor companies. For his most recent top-secret project that has taken him 5 years, Jennings expects to receive a huge sum of money. When he awakens one day, he, however, receives not his paycheck of four billion dollars, but an envelope filled with 19 random objects he has sent himself before the procedure. Having no opportunity to claim his rights due to his wiped memory, Michael suddenly realizes that the envelope contains the clues to his own past. With the help of his old flame, Dr. Rachel Porter (Uma Thurman), Michael must somehow solve a puzzle until his ex-employers who want him dead find him. |
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The movie brings us back in 1806. During the Napoleonic Wars, British Captain Jack Aubrey (Russell Crowe) receives a battle-order to sink or capture a French frigate known as the Acheron in the cold waters off the South American coast. However, the Acheron is the first to attack the Surprise, Aubrey’s Man of War. Despite serious crippling and losses in dead, the tenacious and courageous Aubrey decides to pursue the enemy’s ship that is larger and better-equipped and sets sail across two oceans. Lucky Jack’s reputation, lives of his crew and his own are at stake. |
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Bruce is a down on his luck TV news reporter. In a fit of desperation he challenges God and vents that if only he had God's power, he could solve all his problems. God responds to his challenge and allows Bruce to take on his powers to prove himself. Bruce soon learns that being God is very challenging. |
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Jessy (Parminder Nagra), a young girl loves football very much. Despite her orthodox Indian parents want their daughter to be a lawyer, she desires to play professional football and accepts no half-ways. Along with her friend Jules (Keira Knightley) who share her football passion Jessy became obsessed by training in order to join the semi-pro team. Perspectives seem to be rosy when your team coach is handsome and when the first goals scored, but one should work really hard to succeed. To bend it like Beckham. |
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Well-known and deeply respected for his great deeds, the red-and-blue-suited Spider-Man is an idol and hero in New York City. Meanwhile, the modest Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) leads a regular, almost ascetic lifestyle, trying to win his spurs as a photographer, and Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst) is the star of a great Broadway show. She is one of few people who know about Peter’s crime-fighting alter-ego. Harry Osborn (James Franco), once Peter’s friend, who is also aware of his secret identity, has become the New Goblin, bent on taking revenge the death of his father, the Green Goblin, by killing Spider-Man. Moreover, he is attracted by the charming Mary Jane and willing to take her away from Peter. To make matters more complicated, Peter is taken over by mysterious black alien substance Venom which amplifies his powers and changes his personality for the worst. And now he must battle not only with his remorseless foes, Harry and Flint Marko (Thomas Haden Church), a crime fugitive incidentally transformed into Sandman, but also with...himself.
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