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Once a promising writer, John Hayson now gets by on the odd writing job. A personal tragedy has left him dispassionate about the world and his work and he lives his life in limbo. In the midst of this existential crisis he attends a high school reunion and meets three old friends; acquaintances he's tried to forget but who now emerge like ominous shadows from his past. Once again, face to face with the love of his life, Hayson tries to right old wrongs and get his life back on track. However, life has other plans, and he realizes that the past is best laid to rest or it might haunt you forever. He soon finds himself embroiled in a nightmarish brew of deceit, passion and murder. Wanted by the police for a heinous killing, he must choose between succumbing to his darkest desires or the light that will renew his faith in himself and his future. |
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In the years following World War II Father Lankester Merrin (Stellan Skarsgard) is haunted by memories of brutality of his war. He can no longer honestly call himself a man of God since he was occasionally forced to participate in a Nazi crime. He tries to escape his memories travelling through far countries. In Cairo he meets a collector of rare antiquities who have unearthed a Christian church in the remote region of Kenya. The church seemed to be buried at the same day it was built. The collector wants Merrin, an Oxford-educated archeologist, to find some ancient artefact hidden within the church before the British discover it. But while investigating, they find out that the church was built to protect the area against an evil force, which has been buried long ago and eventually released along the excavations. The horror has only just begun. |
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After hearing of her mother's death, freedom-loving teenage girl Purslane Hominy Will (Scarlett Johansson) comes back to her native New Orleans. She expects to find her childhood home abandoned but, to her utter amazement, there are two men living in the rundown house. The strange dwellers — retired college professor Bobby Long (John Travolta) and his young protйgй and biographer Lawson Pines (Gabriel Macht) — turn out to be her mother's old pals who have put down roots and now flatly refuse to leave the house, claiming it has been devised to all three of them. There is nothing else left for Pursy to do but share the place with the complete strangers. Over time, the three homeowners get accustomed to each other and Bobby and Lawson reveal the startling truth about Pursy's family history.
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| 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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Steve Zissou, a sea-film amateur, has hard times. His partner was eaten by a shark, in addition Steve has problems with his own wife and some young man states that he is Zissou's son. Recent filming brought no success to Steve, he has troubles with money and with a pregnant reporter to whom he is attracted to. A revolt, pirates, a pursuit by shark and the bonds of fatherhood awaits him at the sea as the story unfolds. He should learn how to smile and how to handle the monster from the ocean depths... besides restoring the box office positions. |
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Set in 1963, a spirited woman turns her world upside down search for her husband who disappeared from his Beirut home. But when she discovers he’s a Russian spy, her love will be put to tests no one should have to face. |
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The Bride (Uma Thurman) has only three left in her death list after dispensing with former colleagues O-Ren Ishii and Vernita Green in "Kill Bill Vol. 1". She resumes her quest for justice in the series' second installment, "Kill Bill Vol. 2." With those two down, the Bride has two remaining foes to pursue - Budd and Elle Driver - before moving on to her ultimate goal...to confront her former employer, Bill (David Carradine), having dispatched, with much blood and gore, his team of assassins. |
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Wonderful comedy, existential philosophy, corporate satire, and idealistic quest are mixed in this offbeat movie about a married couple of metaphysicians working as private "existentialist" detectives. They fearlessly investigate the mysteries at the core of their clients' secret innermost lives. They help others to solve their existential issues — the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means. Jason Schwartzman plays Albert, an environmental activist with a penchant for bad poetry and self-doubt. During his campaign to stop Huckabees, a suburban superstore, from destroying marshland, Albert's group is taken over by one of the store's vapidly charming salesmen, a pitch-perfect Jude Law. Utterly distraught and questioning the meaning of life, Albert seeks the help of a bizarre husband-and-wife team of "existential detectives." By spying on Albert's daily life, they seek to help him answer that most elemental of human questions, "Why am I here?" |
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The Roman Empire is stretched across many nations, including Britain. In their conquest for more land, the Romans went into Sarmatia where they fought the very brave Sarmatian cavalery. The Romans, impressed by the Sarmatian's weaponery and fighting skills, included them into their army as knights. After 15 years of serving and fighting for the Roman Empire the Sarmatian Knights, lead by Arthur/Artorious Castus, are about to receive their freedom as the Romans are leaving Britain. But the Knights must carry out one final order before they are free. A Roman priest and his family, especially his son Alecto, must be rescued from the invading Saxons. But there is another danger lurking on the road to freedom - the Woads, British rebels who hate the Romans. |
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In 1863, in Fairhope, Alabama, a group of former Confederate soldiers robbers a commerce bank and kills many clients and employees. While escaping to Mexico, they spend the night in an isolated house that belonged to a dead soldier of their company. When weird events happen in the stormy night, they find that the dwellers are demons. |
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Lew is a small time loser with a troubled past and a very big secret. Overhearing a couple plan a kidnapping, Lew is tempted to come up with a scheme of his own. He decides to get to the victim first and then blackmail the real criminals. His plan soon spins out of control. |
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Frank Castle's family was murdered as a payback for his final FBI undercover assignment when the son of a criminal-minded, ruthless businessman named Howard Saint (John Travolta) was mistakenly killed by Castle. He had lost any confidence in the police & courts to put the killer of the family and his thugs behind the bars and aims to wreak vengeance by tracking down the offenders responsible for the demise. He has no superpowers to battle the evil he sees - only his ferocious intelligence, his years of fighting experience and, above all, his iron determination to avenge those rejected by society's criminals. Dave (Ben Foster), Bumpo (John Pinette), and Joan (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) are the Castle's fellow outcasts combined with him to get the job done as he hunts down Saint. Thrilling stunt work, gunfights, and huge explosions are abundant in this creation of Jonathan Hensleigh's directorial mind. |
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Wayne and Eileen Hayes live the American Dream. Together they've raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. But there have been sacrifices along the way. When Wayne is kidnapped by an ordinary man, Arnold Mack, and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple's world is turned inside out. Eileen finds her home full of FBI agents, their life under scrutiny. While Wayne is engaged in the negotiation of his lifetime, Eileen works frantically with the FBI to secure his release. The terrifying ordeal causes Wayne and Eileen to reassess their marriage and come to a deeper sense of their commitment to each other. With each passing hour, the need and desire for Wayne to return home safely becomes ever more urgent. |
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Walter is released from the prison after the 12-years imprisonment and being shunned as he is a sex offender. Was he really guilty or it was a terrible mistake? Now he is to prove his innocence to the people who met him with hate and indifference. To cap it all, a maniac attacks children in the Walter's town and all victims of the villain had been arrogated to Walter. Now he has the only chance to get clear - by attempting to catch the real pervert. Walter begins an all-out war against the dangerous predator. |
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One year past the murder of a local girl, Sheriff Jack Shepard sees a blood-covered boy came out of the darkness of night. Shepard is guilt ridden over the girl's murder, he desperately begins to investigate the boy's true identity and tries to reveal if the mysterious teenager had possible victims any further. Sheriff Sheppard must meet his own demons and face his fears without any uncertainty if he is to finally solve the bloody mystery that has nearly consumed a small town as a stranglehold of a vicious killer and the living will sense the same pain the defuncts have suffered. |
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Two twenty-something stoner roommates — one a Korean American investment banker; the other an Indian American medical school candidate — go through a life changing journey, as they spend a night roaming the state of New Jersey in search of White Castle hamburgers. |
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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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Michael Kittredge (Jones), a terrorist, hijacks an oil rig off the coast of California, posing himself as an environmentalist and intends to detonate an electromagnetic bomb over the United States in this explosive action entry from veteran genre specialist Anthony Hickox. But Kittredge's plan goes awry when the plucky ship's captain Lamont Dixon (Eddie Griffin) attempts to wreck his vicious plans. Dixon's only hope is to team with sexy FBI agent Lisa Reed (Vivica A. Fox) to save the lives of both the hostages and thousands of unsuspecting citizens and to coordinate a counterstrike from the shore. |
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Ten years ago some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda--and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, one million people were brutally murdered. In the face of these unspeakable actions, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees, by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages. |
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In the Midwest of USA, the sweethearts Drew (Martin Henderson) and Julia (Piper Perabo) are graduating in the college. Drew convinces Julia to move with him to Los Angeles, where his sister Terri (Kathleen Wilhoite) lives and got a job for him. The young couple become close friends of their neighbors Elyse (Jennifer Tilly) and Lenny Steinberg (Artie Lange ), who owns a small real estate business. However, the immature Drew breaks the relationship with Julia, afraid of the consequences of their commitment. |
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