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Four adopted brothers — Bobby (Mark Wahlberg), Angel (Tyrese Gibson), Jeremiah (André Benjamin), and Jack (Garrett Hedlund) — reunite at the funeral of their foster mother, Evelyn Mercer (Fionnula Flanagan), who was murdered during a grocery store robbery. They decide to take the matter of her death into their own hands in order to track down the killer and exact revenge on him. Ignoring the police orders, they start combing the city of Detroit. As they dig deeper and deeper into the case, all evidence seems to point to local crime boss Victor Sweet (Chiwetel Ejiofor)... |
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"Shopgirl" catches a glimpse inside the lives of three very different people on diverse paths, but all in search of the same thing. In Steve Martin's own adaptation of his best-selling novella, Claire Danes plays Mirabelle, a young glove saleswoman and aspiring artist who has two men in her life: Ray Parker, a wealthy older man (Martin), and Jeremy, a struggling young musician (Jason Schwartzman). Steve Martin also served as co-producer for this adaptation. |
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"My Big Fat Independent Movie" is a satiric comedy including parodies of some of the world's most well-known movies made at independent studios. Films such as "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", "Amelie", "Memento", "Magnolia", "Run Lola Run", "Pulp Fiction", "El Mariachi", "Pi", "Swingers", "The Good Girl", and many others, gets a very hilarious interpretation in this flick. Harvey (Eric Hoffman) and Sam (Neil Barton) are a pair of identically black-suited hitmen who have been assigned to take part in a conceptually disastrous robbery in Las Vegas. Harvey and Sam runs into the variety of the different bizarre characters when picking the other members of their crew en route. |
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This time, the hilarious comedy focuses on Steve Stifler's younger brother Matt (Tad Hilgenbrinck). Sent to Band Camp for the summer, he intends to play outrageous pranks on his fellow campers. At first, Matt fits the camp with spy cameras in order to record how sex-obsessed students spend their time while away from home. However, the filming is put on the back burner when Matt gets infatuated with his enchanting childhood friend, Elyse (Arielle Kebbel)... |
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This slightly low-budget but nevertheless sometimes breathtaking 35-mm movie tells about young woman abducted by an aliens. Further she goes through the even more hard trial – a military rehabilitation hospital. What is more terrific - an alien abduction or the terrestrial military medicine? |
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Journalist Amy Klein (Kari Wuhrer) switches her professional attention from the crack junkies to the strange cenobites who practice murder-and-resurrection ceremonies possessing some unknown mystic power; resurrected humans evidently become zombies. Soon Amy gets involved in the malevolent experiments with the afterlife, when she found Marla (Georgina Rylance), a member of the mystic society, dead with a puzzle cube grasped in her hands. Amy’s journey to hell begins when she takes the cube to her hotel room and opens it. |
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1928, Kentucky: over 63,000 passed away at the hands of the infectious terrible disease known as "White Plague." So a large sanatorium was built to quarantine the infected and was also used for odd experiments to discover a cure for the disease. Unable to cope with lots of corpses, authorities built a 500-foot underground tunnel to dispose of bodies and keep the public in the dark. It was called "Death Tunnel." 30 years later, a cure was found and the hospital was closed. This massive structure, the monument of Pain and Sorrow, had been abandoned and mute for decades till five college girls attending an initiation party dared spend five hours in the most horrible place on Earth.
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While escaping from the cops after a failed toyshop robbery attempt for a Christmas present for his niece, likable small-time crook Harry Lockhart (Robert Downey Jr.) finds himself fortuitously in an audition for a Hollywood detective movie. Impressed by his energy and forcefulness, the producer sends Harry to Los Angeles for a screen test where the latter meets private-eye and movie consultant Perry van Shrike (Val Kilmer), also known as Gay Perry, who teaches him all the tips on how to act. At a Hollywood party Harry crosses the path with his unrequited old flame, Harmony Faith Lane (Michelle Monaghan), an aspirant actress. Harmony mistakes Harry for an actual detective and implores him to investigate her younger sister’s death. Teamed up with Gay Perry, Harry is out to solve an intricate murder case.
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This sentimental drama centers on Sabrina 'Bree' Osbourne (Felicity Huffman), an overeducated, conservative transsexual woman from Los Angeles who awaits her final sexual reassignment surgery. Her life, however, takes an unexpected turn when she gets a phone call from Toby Wilkins (Kevin Zegers), a 17-year-old boy claiming to be his son from a long-ago liaison. He is a small-time drug user and street hustler (servicing both male and female clients) who is now in jail in New York. Toby's mother committed suicide, after which he was raised by his abusive stepfather, whom he does not get along with. So he wants to meet his biological father. Bree wants nothing to do with the troubled teenager but her psychiatrist Margaret (Elizabeth Peña) won't approve the surgery until she faces up to her past. Thus, Bree is forced to travel to New York in order to bail her son out of jail. |
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In 2046, in a research facility in Mars, some subjects are released and the place is kept in quarantine. A team of Marines, leaded by Sarge (The Rock), is assigned to rescue the personnel and retrieve the research data, with the support of Dr. Samantha Grimm (Rosamund Pike), the twin sister of the Marine John "Reaper" Grimm (Karl Urban). While in the mission, Samantha finds a dark hidden secret about the monsters and the researches. |
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In the 1970s, a foundling lad, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving his Irish town for London, in part to look for his mother and in part because his trans-gender nature is beyond the town's understanding. |
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When Kyle Williams (Matthew Le Nevez) takes up a position as sheriff in the sleepy town of Bywater, he hopes of having a quiet life. Contrary to all expectations Kyle has to roll up his sleeves and get down to work. A string of mysterious murders makes him believe that there is a weird force in the nearby swamps which has been claiming the lives of people. A tribe of Seminole Indians warns Kyle about a sinister ancient spirit which has been reawakened in their sacred place but the local oil tycoon, Frederic Schist (Jack Thompson), anxious to lay hands on the vast swampland, doesn’t believe in myths and legends. Nevertheless, eerie groans and screams are heard from the swamps by night. The sheriff makes up a decision to set out on a mission to discover the truth. There, in the very heart of the baleful deep swamp, he will have to face the Man-Thing (Conan Stevens), a monster that grows more ferocious as your fear grows.
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A journalism student named Matt Buckner (Elijah Wood) is unfairly expelled from Harvard after authorities find a stash of cocaine which actually belongs to his powerful roommate, Jeremy Van Holden (Terence Jay). Then he makes up his mind to move to England to live with his sister, Shannon (Claire Forlani) and her husband, Steve Dunham (Marc Warren). Once there, he forms an unlikely bond with his charismatic but dangerous brother-in-law, Pete (Charlie Hunnam), who introduces him to the violent world of British football fandom. Thus, Matt soon becomes embroiled in a fierce battle between two gangs of football hooligans. |
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A ten-year-old girl named Jeliza-Rose (Jodelle Ferland) seems to have the bad luck to grow up in a family of junkies. Her aging father, Noah (Jeff Bridges), is a faded rock 'n' roll musician who has long-lasting drug trips in the evenings, and her erratic mother, Queen Gunhilda (Jennifer Tilly), is also dependent on drugs. Nevertheless, the little girl loves her family because as the old saying goes "you can't choose your parents." When his wife's unhealthy lifestyle brings her to her grave, Noah decides to take his daughter to a ramshackle remote house situated in the middle of wheat fields and prairies. To escape from harsh reality, Jeliza-Rose retreats into the realm of her own imagination. Her fairyland is populated by talking squirrels with shark heads, myriads of fireflies, resurrected bogmen, and bodiless doll heads who keep her company. |
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When Kyle Williams (Matthew Le Nevez) takes up a position as sheriff in the sleepy town of Bywater, he hopes of having a quiet life. Contrary to all expectations Kyle has to roll up his sleeves and get down to work. A string of mysterious murders makes him believe that there is a weird force in the nearby swamps which has been claiming the lives of people. A tribe of Seminole Indians warns Kyle about a sinister ancient spirit which has been reawakened in their sacred place but the local oil tycoon, Frederic Schist (Jack Thompson), anxious to lay hands on the vast swampland, doesn’t believe in myths and legends. Nevertheless, eerie groans and screams are heard from the swamps by night. The sheriff makes up a decision to set out on a mission to discover the truth. There, in the very heart of the baleful deep swamp, he will have to face the Man-Thing (Conan Stevens), a monster that grows more ferocious as your fear grows.
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The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. Everyone in town is too self consumed to worry about anything else than themselves. And everybody is on some form of drug just to get themselves through the day. After Troy's death, local drug dealers at the school run out of their stash. They convince Dean to get Troy's stash or they are going to kill his brother that they kidnapped, but they grabbed the wrong kid. |
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Jack Tulliver (Wesley Snipes) is a professional thief who is able to disarm even the most sophisticated alarm system. He tries to make no mistakes, but nobody’s perfect. One day a well-planned heist goes haywire when Tulliver accidentally makes off with a case containing a painting by Van Gogh worth millions of dollars. But what promises a large sum of money sometimes gets you into trouble. Shortly afterwards Tulliver’s associate is taken hostage, and Jack discovers that he has crossed the track of Russian gangsters chasing after the enduring masterpiece. Knowing that gangsters always rub out a witness, he wrestles with the question how to save both his partner and himself. And then Tulliver comes up with a bold and ingenious rescue plan. There is not a second to lose!
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When the Tokyo's governor is assassinated and his wife's sister is kidnapped, only the ex-CIA agent Travis Hunter (Seagal), vows to find the men responsible for murdering his brother-in-law and rescue the girl before it's too late. Seagal's Hunter had been raised in Japan and trained by ex-Yakuza, he has former ties, allowing him to determine that a war is brewing between old-guard Yakuza members and a young, crazed leader (Takao Osawa). Hunter and his ally Mac discover a plan by Kuroda, the rising leader of a new Yakuza outfit, to build a colossal drug-dealing network and a deadly plot to detonate a nuclear device on U.S. soil. The fate of a nation in the hands of the lethal crime fighter, meanwhile Hunter finds himself drawn into the treacherous world of the yakuza in order to protect his family. |
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Widowed psychologist David Callaway (Robert De Niro) tries to do his best for his traumatized 9-year-old daughter Emily (Dakota Fanning) to get over the loss of her mother (Amy Irving). However, the little girl needs far more care and attention than her loving and solicitous father can lavish on her. And Emily finds comfort in her imaginary friend Charlie with whom she enjoys playing hide-and-seek. At first, David sees this make-believe friendship as a good way for his kid to experience positive emotions. But when 'Charlie' begins making Emily commit weird, and sometimes mad, acts, David calls his colleague Katherine (Famke Janssen) for assistance.
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An impresario Vivian Van Damm is brought in to set up the running-down Windmill Theater in Soho, which is just bought by the recently widowed eccentric well-to-do Laura Henderson. All their ambitions can easily get crash, since the inter-war London does not forgive mistakes and the rivals can surpass every little success, such as the other theatres have copied their idea of a non-stop revue. Laura proposes to put nudes in the show, deciding to show audiences something they've never seen before. |
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