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The crime suspense movie centers on a promising young assistant district attorney, Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling), who finds himself drawn into an intricate cat-and-mouse game of Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) who has shot his adulterous wife (Embeth Davidtz) but manages to avoid being imprisoned due to legal loopholes. |
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When Hank Deerfield is told by the military that his son Mike, who only recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, has gone AWOL he travels to the military base to see if he can make any sense of the young man's disappearance. Hank is himself a retired military investigator and is frustrated by both the military and the civilian police's apparent lack of interest in the case. In the end he does manage to get help from Det. Emily Sanders and together they piece together the events that led to Mike's disappearance. In the end, this is a story of how war dehumanizes individuals to the point where the taking of life makes no sense and has no purpose |
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Based on the popular video game series of the same name, the action-packed crime thriller follows Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant), a cold-blooded highly trained hitman who is hired by a group known only as 'The Organization' to assassinate Russian president Mikhail Belicoff (Ulrich Thomsen). But the hunter becomes the hunted when he unexpectedly finds himself involved in political intrigue. Pursued by both Interpol and Russian military officers, Agent 47 goes on the run across Eastern Europe to figure out who has betrayed him and why. |
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A guy fed up with his job and married to a cheating wife reluctantly mentors a rebellious teen. |
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Welcome to the far future when the Earth lies in ruins, including City 2035. In order to keep power over people, the city's corrupt government decides to implant chips into their heads. Due to the chips creating a false reality, the people think they live in a dream city and are as happy as happy can be. There is only a handful of citizens with disabled chips who see reality the way it really is and plot to foment a revolution. |
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When a family falls victim to a vicious attack perpetrated as a gang initiation ritual, the vengeful father vows to track down each person involved in the crime in Saw director James Wan and screenwriter Ian Jeffers feature adaptation of author Brian Garfield's original novel. Aisha Tyler co-stars as the sympathetic homicide detective who questions her pledge to assist Bacon's character after suspecting that he may have turned to murder as a means of exacting his revenge. |
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This biopic drama follows the life and death of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (Dan Futterman) who went missing while researching a story about the infamous shoe bomber Richard Reid in Karachi, Pakistan. Six months gone with child, his wife Mariane (Angelina Jolie) embarked on a desperate quest to find him, calling on the FBI, Pakistani police, and American embassy personnel to help. However, she soon got the shattering news that Daniel was captured by terrorists, denounced as an Israeli spy and beheaded. Afterwards the kidnappers made the videotape of Daniel's execution public through the media... |
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An ex-con returns to his rural Ontario roots and outwits a corrupt and wealthy thoroughbred owner trying to take over a slew of local farms. Ray Dokes, a charming ex-ballplayer, returns from jail to discover the rural landscape of his childhood transformed by urban development. A film noir reminiscent of the stories of Elmore Leonard, ALL HAT is adapted from the novel by Brad Smith; Smith also penned the screenplay. Determined to stay out of trouble, Ray heads to the farm of his old friend Pete Culpepper, a crusty Texas cowboy who trains losing racehorses and whose debts are growing faster than his corn. Sonny Stanton, gambling addict and spoiled heir to a thoroughbred dynasty, is in the process of buying up an entire concession of farmland to build a casino and golfing resort, and the only one brave enough to stand in the way of Sonny is Etta Parr, Ray's old flame, who might be willing to forgive Ray if it wasn't for her pride and common sense. The situation is a minefield, one Ray is determined to avoid. He hooks up with Chrissie, a sexy, sassy and talented jockey and steers clear of Sonny. But when a ten-million-dollar thoroughbred goes missing from the Stanton Stables, Sonny pushes things too far and forces the sale of the community's remaining farms. Ray reacts by coming up with a plan to stop Sonny in his tracks and right a few wrongs in the process. The scheme is unlikely and audacious; the players are as unpredictable as nitroglycerin. One false move and Ray will land back in jail. And the smart money is against him. |
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The comedy focuses on Eddie Cantrow (Ben Stiller), a 40-year-old sporting goods store owner who, after years of bachelorhood, finally meets a seemingly perfect woman named Lila (Malon Akerman) and hastily proposes to her after only 6 weeks. While on their honeymoon in Cabo, Eddie gets shocked to realize that he has married the woman from hell. Things get even worse for him when he unexpectedly falls for a fellow vacationer, Miranda (Michelle Monaghan), a smart, beautiful and cheerful woman - a rose without a thorn. Now he has to find a way to break off his marriage to the sociopathic Lila. |
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Lions for Lambs begins after two determined students at a West Coast University, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. But when the two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan, Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field, they become the string that binds together two disparate stories on opposite sides of America. In California, an anguished Dr. Malley attempts to reach a privileged but disaffected student who is the very opposite of Arian and Ernest. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. the charismatic Presidential hopeful, Senator Jasper Irving, is about to give a bombshell story to a probing TV journalist that may affect Arian and Ernest's fates. |
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A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father. |
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When jealous superior officers transfer London's successful constable Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) to the remote sleepy town of Sandford, he tries to accommodate himself to a seemingly crime-free life in the village as well as to his oafish partner, Danny Butterman(Nick Frost). However, a series of ghastly crimes that rocks the town make Nicholas realize that Sandford is not what it seems at first glance. Angel and the overzealous Butterman set out to solve the murder cases. |
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A teenager turns her babysitting service into a call-girl service for married guys after fooling around with one of her customers. |
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Twitch (Kurput), a long time inmate at New Alcatraz, deliberately starts a fight so that he will be transferred to Carton, an even tougher penitentiary. Once there, he finds himself caught in the crossfire of a turf war between two rival gangs. When his fiancée Cherise (Angell Conwell) visits him with plans to sever their relationship, a huge riot erupts, and the leader of the Latino gang, Cortez (Robert Madrid), intends to make his escape by taking Cherise and Burk's daughter hostage. Meanwhile, Burk (Bill Goldberg) is wrongly blamed for murder of the African-American gang leader, Angel (Stogie Kenyatta). Both Twitch and Burk team up to recover their loved ones and stay alive. Twitch tries to conceal the reason why he has been sent to this prison but he has to divulge his secret: a cash of gold is buried in the death chamber. |
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On a trip to a Mexican border town, three college friends stumble upon a human-sacrifice cult. |
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The Chicago Chronicle reporter Newton Piles (Chris Coppola) arrives in a godforsaken town to write an article about the Wild West and unexpectedly finds himself at the centre of mystical confrontation. Led by 357-year-old Transylvanian Billy the Kid (Zack Ward), a vampire gang terrorizes townspeople, turning men into bloodsuckers. Thus Billy forms an army of vampires to create his own kingdom in the New World. The only person on earth capable of withstanding the deadly vampire is dhampir Rayne (Natassia Malthe), a perfect creature with vampire powers and human soul. Teamed up with Piles, a preacher and a farmer, she sets out to wreak bloody vengeance in a shattering showdown. |
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In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader. Ariza is persistent, writing her constantly, serenading, speaking poetically of love. Her father tries to keep them apart, and then, one day, she sees this love as an illusion. She's soon married to Urbino, a cultured physician, and for years, Ariza carries a torch, finding solace in the arms of women, loving none. After Urbino's fall, are Ariza's hopes delusional? |
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A montage of stories about U.S. soldiers fighting in the Iraq conflict, focusing on the modern forms of media covering the war. |
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Mr. Earl Brooks (Kevin Costner) — a respectable family man, a prosperous businessman, a generous philanthropist, one of so-called pillars of society — wins Man of the Year awards. The old saying goes that still waters run deep. Earl has a secret life full of terrific things. He is a brilliant and diabolical serial killer who manages to conceal his double life from his family and avoid being caught by police thanks to the efforts of his cunning alter ego Marshall (William Hurt). He is too wide awake to be caught napping. But one day Mr. Brooks ends up embroiled in the sinister agenda of an opportunistic, voyeuristic photographer, Mr. Smith (Dane Cook), who has accidentally witnessed the sadistic crime and now wants to adopt Earl's methods so as to become a killer himself. Meanwhile, hotshot police detective Tracy Atwood (Demi Moore) is on Earl's trail... |
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A meditation on isolation and intersection in the big city - the layered story of three characters who find courage to move to the next stage of life through profound encounters with strangers they meet on their daily routes. Rose, an optometrist paralyzed by crushing grief after the death of her infant, has built a wall around herself, unable to relate to her estranged husband or anyone else. When an elderly patient, a painter losing his eyesight, begins to visit her office unannounced, Rose registers how alone he is, urging him to reach out and ask for help—something neither does easily. Meanwhile Simon, a late-blooming teenager with an overbearing mother, photographs people at a distance with a borrowed long lens. One day, Rose, beautiful and melancholy in a vibrant scarf, comes into focus in his camera sight. The pictures he shoots become a conduit for each of them to touch something deep within and expand their confining existence. - Caroline Libresco |
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