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Switzerland:12 certified movies
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M. Night Shyamalan presents another paranormal-themed thriller where Graham Hess (Mel Gibson), a priest loses his wife (Patricia Kalember) in a car accident, denying God then and remaining an ordinary farmer who devotes himself to rural work and to raise his son Morgan and daughter Bo (Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin) along with his younger brother (Joaquin Phoenix). The faith is lost, the job is quitted, and one day Hess family encounters the unknown, namely the 500-foot circles shaped with mathematical exactness. Hess is astonished and enraged thinking these circles simple are somebody's prank. But this explanation soon proves its groundlessness: Graham is confronted with the new uncommon, inexplicable events as he began to see and hear strange things. Uncovering the truth, Hess runs the more risk as his family is under the threat... |
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On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny. |
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The tenth opus of the well-known epic series of Star Trek follows the Enterprise starship team. The ship is headed to Romulus, the planet where the foes of the Federation display an intention to conduct the peace negotiations. Coup'd'etat was arranged there and a new praetor, Shinzon, a cloned human apparently hides evil intentions. When Enterprise arrives, a new deadly threat comes to light endangering many planets including Earth and all the living forms on them. Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his crew are to ruin the interstellar villains... |
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Alexander Dumas's "The Count of Monte Cristo" gets a breathtaking screen interpretation in this movie depicting Edmond Dantes (Caviezel) betrayed and imprisoned, losing his reputation and the love of all his life; after 13 years spent in the gloomy casemates he breached of prison and plots the revenge. He managed the escape from a desolate island with the help of the fellow convict who assisted to dig the saving tunnel. Heavy thoughts of vengeance against the betrayers never left Edmond in peace; his loyal friend (Luis Guzman) helps him to penetrate into French royalty and Edmond's plans of revenge on the foes eventually incarnate into life. |
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Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck), a successful young attorney, is in a hurry to get to the courthouse. He needs to deliver legal papers that will transfer control of a deceased eccentric rich man's multi-million dollar estate over to his law firm. Doyle Gipson (Samuel L. Jackson), a down-on-his-luck insurance salesman, is also in a rush to a custody hearing to announce that he has got a house loan from the bank so that his ex-wife Valerie (Kim Staunton) and his sons won't move to another country. The two men's cars collide on the expressway at the most inopportune moment. Due to the process of the post-crash discussion Gipson misses his hearing, while Banek arrives at the court in time but discovers a crucial legal file inadvertently dropped at the scene of the accident. As Gipson loses custody of his kids, he decides to ruin the well-groomed attorney's life by refusing to give him back his paper. Thus a fierce and treacherous battle starts between the two desperate men. |
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In the midst of the XXI century, new psychological technologies have made the crime prevention almost absolutely effective in this movie set in Washington DC. All crimes are being interrupted even before its commission, all future offenders get jailed before the coming victim will suffer. John Anderton (Tom Cruise) works for the Pre-crime Division, which obtains future crime data from three genetically altered humans (Pre-Cogs), a kind of extrasensory individuals who are maintained by the chemicals. John had lost his child, a little girl several years ago. Suddenly it becomes known that Anderton is soon-to-kill somebody, a man he don't even know. John can't believe this, and now he is outlawed trying to find the truth about himself, he gets to know that the minority report exists: Agatha, one of the Pre-Cogs, is having her separate opinion on the difficult situation... |
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Alex Scott (Owen Wilson) is involved to disclose the villains who have stolen Switchblade, the new prototype of the top-secret military spy plane. American government will do anything to bring the thieves to justice; the main suspect is Arnold Gundars (Malcolm McDowell), an international arms-smuggler. Scott is to team with Kelly Robinson (Eddy Murphy), a self-esteem and rather cocky world-class boxer who have enormous ambitions along with a fair amount of humor. Gundars is a fan of boxing, so the Robinson's skills surely will help to take the villain, unless Robinson's conceit will ruin the plans of the hilarious agent couple. Special Agent Rachel Wright (Famke Janssen) assists the guys in their inquiry driving Alex mad at the same time. |
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Claire Kubik (Ashley Judd) is a successful defense attorney - she has the perfect career, happy marriage... But once she gets to know something about her husband Tom's (Jim Caviezel) past - he turned out to be a government secret agent who is now arrested for a military high crime: somebody has killed seven civil people during the mission in the 1980s and Tom is apparently a scapegoat. She is to defend him in the top-secret military court, encountering lots of unfamiliar rules and strict directions. But what is more difficult is to risk her career, at the same time being uncertain about her husband's guilty... |
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Yes, Austin Powers (Mike Myers), the most renowned international man of mystery, is back again to face his enemy number one – Dr. Evil! In this stunning comedy-adventure Dr. Evil and his plotter Mini Me (Verne Troyer) escape from prison and who but Austin is good enough to stop them? The villains, with help of a Goldmember, kidnap Austin's father (Michael Caine), and to save him and the humanity Austin leaps to 1975 where he teams up with his ex-girlfriend Foxxy Cleopatra (Beyonce Knowles). There are also some girls involved whose lovely names are Fook Mi and Fook Yu. |
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Landon Carter (Shane West), the most popular hunk at Beaufort high school, is an independent, restless and rebellious guy who likes nothing more than playing pranks on his school's outcasts. It goes without saying that he pays no attention to Jamie Sullivan (Mandy Moore), an outwardly plain, studious and responsible girl. When a harmless prank goes terribly wrong leaving a boy in hospital, Landon is held responsible and forced to tutor a young student at a poor school and participate in the school drama production in which Jamie is also involved. As Landon can't act, he asks her for help with his lines. The girl agrees to cooperate with Landon if he promises not to fall in love with her. The self-assured guy willingly vows but soon he comes to realize that keeping his word is no easy matter... |
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Mitch Preston, a LAPD officer, always cared only about his job and has catching criminals well. But his new partner was always interested in other thing - he wanted to be an actor who plays policemen on TV in contrast to his serious colleague. DeNiro (Preston) and Eddy Murphy (Trey Sellars) are first time together on the screen, playing two policemen of different views. Mitch Preston is a strict and experienced policeman who is compelled to be a star in a new reality show on the TV. In spite of his reluctance to take part in this doubtful project, the show becomes a high-rated one... to cap Trey's joy! "T.J. Hooker" star William Shattner ridiculously portrays himself and Renee Russo acts as an uneasy producer in this action comedy, which looks like a side-splitting competition between Murphy and DeNiro. |
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Toula Portokalos is a single thirty years old Greek woman, living with her parents and brother in a Chicago Greek community. After convincing her father to go to the university, she meets the non-Greek Ian Miller and they decide to get married. Her father does not accept the wedding of his daughter with a non-Greek man. |
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Eminem, the white star of American rap, acts in this movie incarnating some events of his own life on-screen. We can see a talented, emotional young rapper Jimmy Smith-Jr. aka Rabbit who has hard times living on the 8 mile street in Detroit. After the break-up with his girlfriend Jimmy lives with his mother who is constantly quarrelling with her admirer. To rent a flat and to save up money he lands a job at the metallurgical plant where he meets Alex, a girl who believes in his rap talents. His Afro-American buddy allows Jimmy to make a demo-record at the studio but their friendship crushes when Jimmy and Alex get caught red-handed at the scene of kissing. Meantime, Jimmy takes part in rap contests despite the fact he isn't met with open hands in the Afro-American community. |
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New York fashion designer Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But Melanie's past holds many secrets, including Jake, the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce her. Bound and determined to end their contentious relationship once and for all, Melanie sneaks back home to Alabama to confront her past, only to discover that you can take the girl out of the South, but you can never take the South out of the girl. |
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When the Russian President suddenly dies of a heart attack, the new Russian President is sworn in quickly. American intelligence belives him to be a hard-liner, but young CIA analyst Jack Ryan doesn't think so. While Ryan & his boss, Bill Cabot, are inspecting disarmament at Russian nuclear sites, 3 Russian scientists have mysteriously disappeared. Although the Russians have explanations for their absence, none of them are true. In Austria, a strange man - a neo-fascist - has developed a frightening plan to incite a war between Russia & the U.S., using an unexploded bomb from the deserts of the Middle East. When the 3 Russian scientists are later found dead, Ryan tries to trace their path. By this time, the bomb is on its way to the U.S.A - in a cigarette machine! The bomb is placed in a football stadium where the U.S. President is in attendance. Ryan soon discovers the bomb is in Baltimore and alerts Bill Cabot, who gets the President out of the stadium quickly. Minutes later, the low-yield nuclear bomb explodes, killing several thousands! From Air Force One, the President transmits messages to the Russian President, who denies that the Russians have placed the bomb on U.S. soil. But rogue members of the Russian Air Force are in on the sinister plan, and when an aircraft carrier is attacked and crippled by Russian planes, things quickly go from bad to worse. It is up to Ryan to find out where the bomb came from and get that information to the President before SNAPCOUNT - the order to launch ICBMs at Russia - is completed. |
| Adaptation.
[2002,
USA]
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| Charlie Kaufman writes the way he lives... With Great Difficulty. His Twin Brother Donald Lives the way he writes... with foolish abandon. Susan writes about life... But can't live it. John's life is a book... Waiting to be adapted. One story... Four Lives... A million ways it can end. |
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Kaufman is struggling with the arduous task of adapting The Orchid Thief, by Susan Orlean, which doesn't have an obvious dramatic line (it is essentially a book about orchids). At the same time he faces a mid-life crisis, which is worsened by the presence of his twin brother Donald, a less talented but more joyous person than Charlie, who dreams of making a lot of money with screenplays. The movie also shows Susan Orlean as she does her research for the book, and John Laroche, a colorful orchid hunter whom Susan interviews and, later, falls in love with. These stories eventually intertwine, with unpredictable results. |
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Ten years past after the events of Phantom Menace, the Republic slowly falls into the abyss of chaos and contradictions. An upcoming conflict which is being clandestinely planned by some powerful forces, unavoidably leads to the beginning of the Clone wars. Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) succeeds with consolidating authorities in his own hands and establishes the Republican Army to support Jedi forces. Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) now is an experienced Jedi apprentice who is to protect Padme Amidala (Natalie Portman) against the continuing attempts on her life along with master Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor). Anakin and Padme haven't seen each other for years, and now, as Skywalker is assigned to guard her at the green fields of her native planet Naboo, he escorts her, and the burning, forbidden passion flares between them. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan directs to the hidden planet Kamino where he finds incalculable forces which can affect the fate of the Galaxy. |
| John Q
[2002,
USA]
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| Give a father no options and you leave him no choice. |
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Loss of consciousness turns out to be a symptom of the deadly threat for the young boy, who collapses during the baseball match, and his parents get to know the kid is urgently needs an urgent heart transplantation that won't be covered by insurance. The father (Denzel Washington) finds himself in a blind alley as his beloved son can suddenly die, and the man takes the severe measures risking his life and even the lives of the hospital personnel. The hospital is taken hostage, police negotiators try to do something when the team of the doctors has to operate. This desperate race against time can become the last trial for every participant... |
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Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor who almost cannot stand the death of his wife when something weird happens. Dead and dying patients start to speak to him in his wife's voice. He goes after the clues that the symbols left, which lead him to different mystical places. Is he just insane? Is she speaking to him from beyond the grave? Or is she still alive? Ending would be very surprising… |
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Will Freeman (Hugh Grant) seems to "have it all" - a cool sport car, a chic flat, pretty girls, etc. In his thirty-eight he is a mischievous child who use to pamper himself and not to take it all to the heart. Will's life was a series of fleeting romances, he had no problems and no boring obligations, and he was simply a handsome egoist until he met Marcus - twelve-aged child who turned all his life upside down. A sybarite and sweet bachelor's life is now totally changed... for the better! |
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