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Leon is a first-class hit man, but is also a sensitive guy who loves his potted plants. He is moral: "No women, no children" is his professional motto. He is sympathetic to his neighbor, Mathilda, a typically rebellious twelve-year-old who has trouble with her family. But when her father runs afoul of drug kingpin Norman Stansfield, Mathilda turns to Leon for assistance. |
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One of the most accomplished piano players in Poland, Wladyslaw Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans in the 1930s. At last deciding to escape, suffering the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw City Revolt in August/October 1944.
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In the last movie a cyborg was sent from the future to kill Sarah Connor, but he failed. Now a much more powerful one sent from the future to kill Sarah's son - John Connor, the leader of the future rebels. A terminator was send from the future once more, but this time to protect Connor. The only problem is that the terminator who was send to kill Connor is much more powerful and clever than the one who was send to protect him. Moreover, none can help Connor, since they do not believe in robots. Now Connor and his protector has no choice but to survive on their own. |
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In the summer of 1935, 13-year-old Briony Tallis observes a flirtation between a servant's son, Robbie, and her older sister, Cecilia, that she childishly misconstrues. Briony's misunderstanding leads to a terrible crime whose consequences follow them through World War II. |
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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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After various skirmishes, two wounded soldiers, one Bosnian and one Serb, confront each other in a trench in the no man's land between their lines. They wait for dark, trading insults and even finding some common ground; sometimes one has the gun, sometimes the other, sometimes both. Things get complicated when another wounded Bosnian comes to, but can't move because a bouncing mine is beneath him. The two men cooperate to wave white flags, their lines call the UN (whose high command tries not to help), an English reporter shows up, a French sergeant shows courage, and the three men in no man's land may or may not find a way to all get along. |
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September 11, 2001. The nation was under attack by suicide hijackers, who hit Three famous buildings. The fourth plane United 93 was a story of 40 passengers who were strangers. Who sat through terrifying event. But found courage, rebelled and become hero's. And stood united. |
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The action takes place in the USA in the 1930s. Grace (Nicole Kidman), a beatiful woman on the run from gangsters, arrives in the small Rocky Mountain town of Dogville. Town philosopher Tom Edison (Paul Bettany) takes her in and convinces the townsfolk to hide her. In exchange for shelter, Grace has to work for the townspeople all hours: she teaches math to the local kids, takes care of the blind old man, helps the apple farmer (Stellan Skarsgård) and the shopkeeper (Lauren Bacall). Eventually, the townspeople, egoistic and ruthless, begin demanding more and more from poor Grace. Tired of working double shifts, Grace decides to leave the town, but the escape fails, and she has to pass through a black ordeal. As a slave she is forced to toil from dawn to dusk, and raped by every man in Dogville night after night. Finally, Tom calls up Grace’s father (James Caan) to rescue his daughter from her inexorable torturers. |
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Three story lines are interwoven in the movie. A sensual brunet beauty (Laura Harring) survives after a terrible car accident but suffers amnesia. An ambitious young blonde ingénue, Betty Elms (Naomi Watts), dreaming of movie stardom goes to Los Angeles for an audition and finds a woman named Rita at her aunt's apartment. Betty really feels for the lost woman and is willing to help her to investigate the mysterious accident. Meanwhile, a severe serious young director, Adam Kesher (Justin Theroux) disagrees with a producer and bankers about the female lead in his new movie. |
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Sam "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro) is a gambling genius who is coronated by Mafia bosses to head the major "Tanjer" casino in Vegas. Nikki Santoro (Joe Pecsi) is to accompany him during his doubtful work, being a bodyguard of Ace (more to say, they are childhood friends). This film depicts the most interesting period in the Las Vegas history along with the dangerous relations "ace" had with Ginger, a prostite who is played by stunning beauty Sharon Stone. Violence and brutality are not given here as a crime: it seems to be only an unpleasant, but necessary part of the dirty and bloody gambling business. This movie is based on the real events and on the book by Nicholas Pileggi which encloses an adaptation of the real entries of judgement which was held in Cansas-City when the Las Vegas' mafia bosses was convicted there.
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| Last Emperor, The
[1987,
China, UK, France, Italy]
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| He was the Lord of Ten Thousand Years, the absolute monarch of China. He was born to rule a world of ancient tradition. Nothing prepared him for our world of change. |
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A biography of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at the age of three was named the Emperor of China, and dies as a gardener at the Botanical Gardens of Peking. Told in an interesting flashback/flashforward style, we learn of Pu Yi's childhood, the time he spent imprisoned in the Forbidden City, his term as the emperor of Japans Manchuguo, and his eventual release back to public life in 1959. |
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Set in late 18th century England, the compelling drama revolves around the five Bennet sisters, Jane (Rosamund PIike), Elizabeth(Keira Knightley), Lydia (Jena Malone), Mary(Talulah Riley), and Kitty (Carey Mulligan), who have been raised by their overactive mother (Brenda Blethyn), obsessed with arranging for all of them 'advantageous' marriages to wealthy men. Despite her efforts, the strong-willed and intelligent Lizzie can tell you 100 reasons why you shouldn't marry. But the sisters find their lives turned upside down when the prosperous bachelor Mr. Bingley (Simon Woods) and his buddy Mr. Darcy (Mattew Macfayden) rent a nearby mansion for the summer vacation. Charles immediately the eldest Bennet girl, Jane.When Lizzie meets up with the mysterious handsome Darcy, their couple seems to be made in heaven. But their emotions swing between pride and prejudice. Will the lovers be able to cope with their problem? Will Lizzie eventually find the reason to get married? |
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A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town. |
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Richard and Susan are a couple from San Diego, California who are vacationing in Morocco while their two children are at home with their Mexican housekeeper, Amelia. A rifle finds its way into the hands of a local herdsman's young sons, who recklessly take a shot at a tour bus and hit Susan in the shoulder, causing her severe injury. The distraught Richard calls home to tell Amelia of the situation, who shortly departs for Mexico to attend her son's wedding, with Richard and Susan's children in tow. Disaster thus multiplies, with the situation in Morocco ascribed to terrorists in the media, while Amelia meets with trouble at the Mexican border when she attempts to return to San Diego with Richard and Susan's children. Meanwhile, in Tokyo, a widower tied to the rifle in question, a complex shift of ownership to which the audience is privy, attempts to deal with the memories of his recently deceased wife and his strained relationship with his deaf teenage daughter. |
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In the Texas desert nearby the border of Mexico, Melquiades Estrada (Julio Cedillo), a Mexican illegal immigrant working as a cowboy, ends up being mistakenly shot and killed by tough border patrolman Mike Norton (Barry Pepper). Scared to death, Mike quickly buries the body and does not report anything. A week later, Estrada’s body is accidentally found and reburied in a local cemetery. But when Pete Perkins (Tommy Lee Jones), a rancher and Estrada’s best friend, finds out the killer’s identity, he abducts Norton and forces him to disinter the body. With the body tied to a mule and his captive in tow, Pete undertakes a perilous and surreal journey horseback into Jimйnez, Mexico in order to give Estrada his third and final burial.
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The cynical Ukrainian immigrant Yuri Orlov (Nicolas Cage) becomes the biggest arms dealer in the world. His clients include the world's most notorious dictators he is on close terms with. He can do anything he sets his mind to, and the luck is apparently on his side. It is he who sold off huge stockpiles of Kalashnikovs from Ukrainian ammunition depots. It is he who outsmarted the FBI. It is he who knows holes in laws. He could be named Batman or Iron Man. When his illegal business makes him a millionaire, Orlov suddenly faces an unexpected adversary - his own conscience. Moreover, Interpol agent Jack Valentine (Ethan Hawke) is after him. But it is not easy to give up the world full of gratifications, beautiful women and weapons, especially as no one wants him to stop, even his rivals... |
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1327: after a mysterious death in a Benedictine Abbey, the monks are convinced that the apocalypse is coming. With the Abbey to play host to a council on the Franciscan's Order's belief that the Church should rid itself of wealth, William of Baskerville, a respected Franciscan monk, is asked to assist in determining the cause of the untimely death. Alas, more deaths occur as the investigation draws closer to uncovering the secret the Abbey wants hidden, and there is finally no stopping the Holy Inquisition from taking an active hand in the process. William and his young novice must race against time to prove the innocence of the unjustly accused and avoid the wrath of Holy Inquisitor Bernardo Gui. |
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Set on the remote Isle of Jersey in 1945, the horror drama focus on a beautiful young woman named Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) who raises her two small kids alone waiting for her husband to return from the front. All her worries are connected with a rare disease of Nicholas (James Bentley) and Anne (Alakina Mann) who are deathly allergic to bright light. But Grace's anxiety becomes aggravated when Anne reveals to her mother that she sees ghosts appearing in every room of the house. At first, the devout woman refuses to believe that other-worldly beings can intrude into the world of the living. However, events over the next few days persuade her that there are other people, invisible and terrible, in the house with them. |
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A young woman takes a soul-searching journey across America to resolve her questions about love while encountering a series of offbeat characters along the way. |
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In 1933, after leaving Dogville, while traveling with her father (Willem Dafoe) and his gangsters to the south of USA, Grace Margaret Mulligan (Bryce Dallas Howard) sees a slave ready to be punished in a property called Manderlay. The slavery had been abolished seventy years ago, and Grace becomes revolted with the attitude of the owners of Manderlay, keeping slaves in their cotton fields and following predetermined despicable rules called "Mam's Law". Grace decides to stay with some gangsters in Manderlay and give notions of democracy to the slaves and to the white family. When harvest time comes, Grace sees the social and economical reality of Manderlay. |
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