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Switzerland:12 certified movies
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Two young Texas cowboys on the cusp of manhood ride into 1940's Mexico in search of experience. What they find is a country as chaotic as it is beautiful, as cruel and unfeeling as it is mysterious, where death is a constant, capricious companion. |
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In a mountainous South American country, drug-dealing rebels kidnap Peter Bowman, a US engineer who works for an oil company's subsidiary. The company calls in a negotiator, Terry Thorne, an Aussie ex-soldier based in London. When the subsidiary goes bankrupt, the oil company washes its hands of the matter and pulls Thorne. Bowman's wife Alice begs him to stay. She and Peter's sister cobble together some money, Thorne talks ransom terms with the cash-strapped rebels, and Peter, chained high in the mountains, is sustained by a photo of Alice. When the politics of the situation change, so must Thorne's strategy. And what can Alice and he do about the attraction growing between them? |
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Skydiving, clever disguise, extreme fighting is a way of life for Charlie's Angels, three accomplished private investigators. Armed with the latest in high-tech gadgetry, high-tech weaponry, martial arts techniques and killing charm, Natalie Cook (Cameron Diaz), Dylan Sanders (Drew Barrymore) and Alex Munday (Lucy Liu) are able to pull off the impossible. Their boss, Charles Townsend (John Forsythe), gives them an important assignment to rescue a computer software owner, Eric Knox (Sam Rockwell), who has been kidnapped from his office. Moreover, the cute detectives must find and prevent his top-secret voice-identification software program from falling into the wrong hands. |
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It happens that the beautiful Princess Pei Pei (Liu) is abducted from the Forbidden City and taken to America by villainous white men. The Emperor of China sends three of his most reliable, bravest and skilful guards to pay a ransom and retrieve his daughter he loves with all his soul. Chon Wang (Jackie Chan), an athletically built yet gawky imperial guard, is not among one of the three. He, however, insists on accompanying the guards and travels to the West to rescue Pei Pei he has affection for. On arrival in Nevada, the train the Imperial Guards are on is attacked by Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson) and his well-armed gang. Both Roy and Chon happen to be separated from their groups and reluctantly become companions to find the Princess. Along the way, the unlikely duo plunges into a string of various mishaps and curious incidents. |
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The action takes place during the World War II. A crew of American mariners is given the top-secret assignment of penetrating into a submerged German U-Boat submarine to capture Enigma, a Nazi coding device that will allow the Allied naval forces to win the war much faster. However, they are unaware that the Germans also head for U-571 after a wrecked vessel sends out an SOS signal. As a result, nine U.S. soldiers become trapped in an enemy submarine in the middle of hostile waters with little chance of survival. |
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In this light-hearted romantic comedy, Alfred Connelly (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and Imogen (Julia Stiles) take turns narrating their bittersweet love story. When sophomore Al and freshman Imogen meet amid the chaos of a New York university, they fall in love at first sight and become deeply involved in a whirlwind romance. They seem to be a perfect match. He likes cooking, she enjoys making love. As their affair intensifies, the young couple must come to grips with the reactions of their mischievous friends to their romance, as well as Imogen's pregnancy scare. The sparkle of their love begins to fade and they eventually go their separate ways... |
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A 21-year-old girl with a beautiful voice, Violet Sanford (Piper Perabo), moves to New York with the hope to make it big as a songwriter. But life in Big Apple is much harder than she expected. All her efforts to rent a good apartment and to find a producer are in vain. Frustrated and aground, Violet finally gets a job as a barmaid at a famous nightclub called Coyote Ugly where only gorgeous and enterprising women run the show. In company of sexy bartenders whose manners disgust canting hypocrites and attract men, Violet has to overcome her shyness so that she can perform her songs herself. |
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The movie depicts the story of Peter Garrett (Chris O'Donnell), once an alpinist and now a wildlife photographer, who cannot obliterate from his memory a tragic event in his life. The Garrets enjoyed climbing mountains. One day while climbing in Utah, Peter, his father, Royce (Stuart Wilson), and his sister, Annie (Robin Tunney), were eyewitnesses to the death of two amatures falling down the mountain. This caused the Garrets to move quickly and slide off the side of the mountain. As the rope could hardly hold that much weight, the father made Peter cut it to save his and his sister's lives. The father died and Annie condemned her brother for making a fateful decision. Three years later, Annie, determined to continue her father's dream of climbing the world's toughest peaks, makes a risky attempt to ascend the perilous K-2. Having heard about Annie being trapped in an icy grave, Peter assembles a rescue team to save the three survivors of the expedition, his sister, Tom McLaren (Nicholas Lea) and Elliot Vaughn (Bill Paxton). |
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A young Mexican woman Maya crosses American border into LA illegally where her sister Rosa works as a maid in one of the city's largest corporations. Surrounded by the big business machinations, the sisters try to organize a janitorial union. A chance meeting with a passionate American activist Sam leads Maya to a confrontation with their employers. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa and Maya's lives change radically,their interests may be set to collide. |
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What can you do in 60 seconds? You can have a smoke or a cup of coffee. But there is a legendary thief named Randall "Memphis" Raines (Nicolas Cage) who can steal a car in a few seconds. Tired of playing hide-and-seek with the police and determined to turn over a new leaf, Randall leaves his "job", his home and his girlfriend Sara "Sway" Wayland (Angelina Jolie), and now he teaches carting driving to kids. However, five years later he finds out that his younger brother Kip (Giovanni Ribisi) who followed in his footsteps breaks a contract with a vicious British crime lord, Raymond Calitri (Christopher Eccleston), to deliver high end cars. Randall has no choice but to return to the criminal world in order to save his brother from the mafia and police. He reassembles his old team to steal 50 cars in one night. |
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Nicholas Oseransky (Matthew Perry) is a nice, mild-mannered, a bit naive guy living in peaceful suburban Montreal and working as a dentist. Oz, as his buddies call him, is unhappily married to a nymphomaniac woman, Sophie (Rosanna Arquette), who is sick and tired of him. If he divorced his wife, he would be poor as a church mouse.
One day a famous hitman from Chicago, Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (Bruce Willis), moves in next door under the assumed name of "Jimmy Jones" to make a new start. But his "hope" doesn't come true. When Sophie learns of Jimmy's true identity, she forces Nicholas to go to Chicago and sell the hitman's whereabouts to the dangerous mobsters he ratted out. Moreover, the greedy Sophie decides to kill two birds with one stone: she presses Jimmy to finish her husband off so that she can get the life insurance money...
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Hanks stars as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose personal and professional life are ruled by the clock. His fast-paced career takes him, often at a moment's notice, to far-flung locales - and away from his girlfriend Kelly, played by Helen Hunt. Chuck's manic existence abruptly ends when, after a plane crash, he becomes isolated on a remote island - cast away into the most desolate environment imaginable. Stripped of the conveniences of everyday life, he first must meet the basic needs of survival, including water, food and shelter. Chuck, the consummate problem solver, eventually figures out how to sustain himself physically. But then what? Chuck begins his true personal journey. After four years, fate gives Chuck a chance to fight his way back to civilization, only to find an unexpected emotional challenge greater than all the earlier physical ones. His ability to persevere and to hope are a product of his life-changing experience. |
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The true-life military drama focuses upon two "men of honor", Carl Brashear (Cuba Gooding Jr.), the first African-American deep-sea diver, and Leslie W. Sunday (Robert De Niro), the training officer. In the 1940s, Brashear managed to overcome racism and become a Navy student. But he was the main enemy of other students and Leslie William "Billy" Sunday, the Leading Chief Petty Officer and head instructor. However, he had enough grit to hold out in the face of mental and physical challenges. He successfully graduated from the diving school and began to serve in the Navy. Years later, after having lost half his left leg in the atomic bomb incident, he continued to dive and his old enemy Billy Sunday unexpectedly became his guardian angel... |
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Abbie Reynolds (Madonna) is a 30-year-old yoga instructor whose years go never to return. All her efforts to succeed in business and find her significant other are still in vain. The only soul mate with a shoulder to cry on is her best childhood friend, Robert Whittaker (Rupert Everett). He is a successful landscaper and a bright, witty, responsive person who can always help by word and deed. He would be a perfect match for Abbie if he weren't a gay. However, their friendly relations take a different twist when, after drinking too many cocktails one night, they black out and can't remember what happened between them, but Abbie soon turns up pregnant. Will they find a way out of this delicate situation? |
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John Sullivan (Caviezel) is a New York City homicide officer who is traumatized for 30 years following the death of his father, Frank (Quaid), After finding Frank's HAM radio, John begins talking to Frank, 30 years into the future. Together, they change the past but have to find a way to stop a serial killer from murdering John's Mom & Frank's wife with a 30 year gap. |
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In 2050 resources of the Earth are depleted and the human race is threatened with extinction. American astronauts make the first expedition to Mars to investigate it for possible liveable conditions. The next mission is to make the red planet suitable for human colonization with the help of a multitask robot "AMEE". All goes well until the crew faces a tough challenge: the robot is damaged and transforms into a killer machine. The three survivors, Commander Kate Bowman (Carrie-Anne Moss), Robby Gallagher (Val Kilmer) and Dr. Quinn Burchenal (Tom Sizemore), try desperately to escape from the attacking robot. But there is more to it than that. Though the red planet seems to be desert, in fact, there is life on it... |
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When moving up to the 7th grade, Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) doesn't even suspect that his new social studies teacher, Mr. Simonet (Kevin Spacey), will change not only his life forever but lives of many people all over America. Having assigned his students to come up with an idea of world improvement, Eugene Simonet at first doesn't take seriously Trevor's utopian plan. The precocious Trevor reflects that you can make the world better by doing a favor for a stranger and by that stranger paying it forward with good deeds for three other people. Trevor starts to follow his own philosophy of life and helps local outcast Jerry (James Caviezel) to open a new chapter. His next recipients whom Trevor wants to bring together are his single, overworked, alcoholic mother, Arlene McKinney (Helen Hunt), and the lonely Eugene with a scarred face. |
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After his Vice-president suddenly dies, the President (Jeff Bridges) who is near the end of his final term, decides to leave a legacy by selecting a woman to fill the position. Enter a Senator (Joan Allen), who has shifted from the Republican Party to the Democratic. Initially appearing to be the perfect candidate, an allegation suddenly appears that she had been involved in a sexual orgy as a 19 year old in college. The confirmation committee chairman (Gary Oldman), a Republican, leaks the information to the press, while using the press discussion as a forum to bring it into the hearings. The chairman desires to get a Governor (William Petersen) into the office. The Governor had become a national hero when he attempted to rescue a young woman from a car that crashed from a bridge into deep water near where the Governor had been fishing. |
| Perfect Storm, The
[2000,
USA, Germany]
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| In the Fall of 1991, the "Andrea Gail" left Gloucester, Mass. and headed for the fishing grounds of the North Atlantic. Two weeks later, an event took place that had never occurred in recorded history. (4 more taglines...) |
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Billy Tyne is a sword-fishing-boat captain out of Gloucester, highly competitive and stung by a string of poor outings. His crew is hardly back in port when he tells them he's going out again, even though it's October and the weather can turn ugly. Five join him: the young Bobby, newly in love; Murph, a devoted father recently divorced; Sully, a guy Murph despises; Bugsy, who's finally met a woman who likes him; and Alfred, a quiet Jamaican. They catch little, so they sail east, with Tyne ignoring storm warnings behind him. Finally, the fish bite, but the ice machine fails. Should they head home through the storm of the century, or wait it out and lose their catch? Fearful, the women wait. |
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Cookie's Fortune unfolds over an eventful Easter weekend in the small town of Holly Springs, Mississippi. The town residents are peaceful, kind folk--with the exception of Camille Dixon (Glenn Close)--a pushy theatre director with an incredibly shy younger sister, Cora (Julianne Moore), whose estranged daughter Emma (Liv Tyler) has just returned to town. On the heels of her latest play, Camille is shocked to discover that her Aunt Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt (Patricia Neal) has committed suicide. Terrified at the thought of how this will tarnish the family name, she eats the suicide note to make it look like a burglary. This set-up leads the police to one main suspect, Willis Richland (Charles S. Dutton), who also happens to be Cookie's best friend. Although the rest of the town is convinced Willis didn't commit the crime, an outside investigator (Courtney B. Vance) isn't so sure. As Easter Sunday and opening night of the play arrive, the truth comes out, revealing more secrets than anyone could have possibly imagined. Director Altman tells his story at a leisurely pace, beautifully recreating the eccentricities of small town life in this sweet-natured tale. |
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