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Switzerland:12 certified movies
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The workaholic Dr. Elizabeth Masterson (Reese Witherspoon) has a car accident after twenty-six hours working in a hospital. Three months later, the landscape architect David Abbott (Mark Ruffalo) is recovering from the loss of his wife, and rents her apartment with furniture in San Francisco. While living in the place, the spirit of Elizabeth, that only he is able to see, visits and argues with him, but later they fall in love for each other. David tries to find who Elizabeth was, and is surprised with his discovering. |
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Devastated by the abuse from her husband, Josey Aimes (Charlize Theron) gets a divorce and returns to her hometown in North Minnesota. With two kids to take care of, Josey takes a back-breaking job at the iron mine where she becomes one of only a handful of female employees and faces harsh reality. Along with the other women, she endures humiliation and sexual harassment from the male miners who brook no competition from womanhood. Despite the risk of losing her good-paying job, Josey finds the courage to take legal action against the company in order to stand up for herself and her fellow female coworkers. As a result, the case becomes the first sexual harassment lawsuit in the history of the United States to be won. |
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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 quite speculative story tells about two brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm who pretends to protect townsfolk from folklore creatures they fabricated. But when their quick-money-getting scheme is disclosed, the con men are forced to contend with a real magical curse. They enter an enchanted forest where young girls keep disappearing under mysterious circumstances. The story sometimes balances on a brink of nonsense, but Monica Belucci appearing by the end of film is good as usual. |
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Sylvia Broome (Nicole Kidman) is an interpreter. She is an expert in the obscure language of Ku, a dialect of the African Matobo, her homeland. Unintentionally she overhears a talk on Ku, where the deadly plot against the country ruler was mentioned. The life of Zuwanie (Earl Cameron), Matobo's controversial ruler, is under the treat, so as Sylvia's life. Realizing she's become a target of the assassins as well, Silvia is desperate to thwart the plot... if only she can survive long enough to get someone to believe her. Secret Service agent Tobin Keller (Sean Penn) is brought in to investigate Broome's story, and it isn't long before he's convinced that she knows more than she's willing to tell. Keller has his doubts. Is Silvia a witness or is she somehow connected to the threat against the African head of state? "The Interpreter" is a cat and mouse game with a few of the involved parties appearing to change sides throughout the process. Sometimes you should pay close attention in order to keep up with the plot (you can miss a key detail being away for a tea watching this film). |
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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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Ridley Scott's saga of a peasant blacksmith named Balian (Orlando Bloom), who has lost his family and nearly his faith. During the Crusades - the world shaping 200-year collision between Europe and the East, he wonders in a strange land, he serves a doomed king, falls in love with an exotic and forbidden queen and rises to knighthood. Balian meets a man revealing himself as his father. Ultimately, he must protect the people of Jerusalem from overwhelming forces - while trying to keep a fragile peace. |
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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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In late 90's, one man defiantly promoted himself to the high society splendour introducing himself as the great director Stanley Kubrick during the filming of Eyes Wide Shut. That man was a gay Englishman Alan Conway (John Malkovich) despite the fact that he bore no resemblance to Kubrick, and even knew almost nothing about the director's work. Conway take part on a number of ventures, as he get drinks, sex, money and almost anything from unsuspecting people, who was impressed by Kubrick's works or simply by his famous name and easily became victims of the gay venturer. This story is based on the real events, depicting the scoundrel who made his way through the various gorgeous clubs and restaurants in London. |
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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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A young and beautiful, free-spirited and many-sided nature, Charlotte 'Charlie' Cantilini (Jennifer Lopez) falls in love with a perfect man, Kevin Fields (Michael Vartan), a guy of multiple talents too and overall good, except for one thing - his crazy mom, Viola (Jane Fonda), a real disaster for the young couple’s future. With help of her long-time assistant Ruby (Wanda Sykes), the monstrous ma, a former legendary TV journalist who was fired and replaced by a younger professional, starts plotting against her son’s dearest fiance, out of grief probably. However, Viola seems to underestimate Charlie who gets armed and ready - the female war is on... |
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Prime is a sophisticated, character comedy set in New York City about Rafi, a recently divorced 37-year-old career woman from Manhattan and what happens when Dave, a talented 23-year-old painter from the upper West Side of Manhattan falls in love with her. The film looks at love from everyone's point-of-view friends, relatives and in this case, Rafi's therapist Lisa, and follows all who comes apart and some who pull it together, when two people fall in love. |
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Three wealthy kids - gadget geek Violet (Emily Browning), bookworm Klaus (Liam Aiken), and little Sunny (Kara Hoffman, Shelby Hoffman) are sent to live with a distant relative after losing their parents in a fire that destroyed the family home. Wild, weird and paranoid relative Count Olaf (Jim Carrey), an out-of-work actor, locks them up at night and plots to kill them for their inheritance. This black comedy for the whole family is based on the best-selling books by Daniel Handler and also stars Meryl Streep as Aunt Josephine and Billy Connolly as Uncle Monty. |
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Reuben Feffer's (Ben Stiller's character) bride Lisa (Debra Messing) dumps him on their honeymoon for a muscular scuba instructor. Reuben is a risk-averse insurance salesman, he is quite predictable and play-it-safe human, but when he accidentally meets an adventure-craving childhood friend named Polly who drags him into a vortex of extreme sports, spicy foods, and dirty dancing. When Reuben's wife returns from her underwater macho, Reuben must choose to take back his cold-hearted wife or to run with the sweet Polly. |
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In the 1990s, an American student, Jesse (Ethan Hawke), and a young beautiful Frenchwoman, Celine (Julie Delpy), met on a train in Europe and spent several hours strolling through Vienna and revealing secrets from their pasts and dreams for their futures. Much water has flowed under the bridge since then. Jesse has become a writer; he is married with a kid. Celine is an advocate for the environment, has a boyfriend. While promoting his latest work in Paris, Jesse unexpectedly meets his fellow passenger again. They reunite and walk around the astounding and romantic city, talking about what tomorrow may bring forth. |
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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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In this sequel to "Meet The Parents" Greg Focker faces a difficult task: he must now introduce the straight-laced Byrnes family to his wholly unconventional and totally eccentric parents. Ex-CIA agent Jack Byrnes and his wife travel to Florida to take a look at the people who had called their son Gaylord M. Focker. As the critics soundly state, the cast of the movie is brilliant (as well as in the previous one), but the movie itself is more contrived and predictable, and a lot less fun than the original. "The casting is grand, but one wishes more thought was put into the script". |
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The comedy drama tells the story of Alfie Elkins (Jude Law), a charming British limousine driver living in New York and having an extraordinary genius for seducing any beautiful woman. One day he sleeps with a well-to-do widow who yearns for touching, hugging, snuggling, caressing, etc, the next day he goes to bed with an enchanting single-mother who dotes on the philanderer. His carefree existence is threatened to come to an end when one of his mistresses, Lonette (Nia Long), becomes pregnant. Will the inveterate womanizer and convinced bachelor be able to change his lifestyle and shift his focus from women to the paternity? |
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When Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks) arrives at the NY airport, he finds himself a citizen of a non-existing country as the tiny European commonwealth where he lived disappeared after the military coup-d-etat. Thus, as he has nowhere to return and the USA can not let him in, the last and the best thing he can think out is to live in the airport until his legal status become apparent. The situation is complicated by lack of Navorski language knowledge, and an airport official, Frank Dixon (Stanley Tucci), who considers Viktor a problem he can't control but still desperately wants to take him off the hands. As the weeks and months stretch on, Viktor finds himself involved in the romance with a beautiful flight attendant named Amelia Warren (Catherine Zeta-Jones). |
| Sideways
[2004,
USA]
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| In search of wine. In search of women. In search of themselves. |
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In this comedy drama movie, failed writer Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti) decides to take his longtime friend and unsuccessful TV actor (Thomas Haden Church) on a week-long tour of California's vineyards before the latter's upcoming wedding. A wine connoisseur, Miles intends to turn on his buddy to the art of wine tasting, while Jack is determined to appease his insatiable sexual thirst. However, the two hapless buddies can't foresee what awaits them and how much the trip will change their lives... |
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