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Set in the 1930's in England, the story takes place at Gosford Park, the majestic country estate where Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon) and his wife, Lady Sylvia (Kristin Scott Thomas), are giving a splendid party for their relatives and friends, aristocrats and celebrities. The guests intend to spend the weekend enjoying the luxurious decor of the gilded drawing rooms and indulging in gluttony. The personal maids and servants are ready to satisfy every wish and caprice of the carefree Corinthians. The party is about to begin but the host is unexpectedly found dead, and what is worse is that somebody has had a hand in dispatching him to the next world. |
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Negotiator is a person who is to conduct talks with a terrorists or another kind of criminals when hostages are taken. When a police negotiator Danny Roman (Samuel L. Jackson) standing on his own legs, one of the best negotiators in Chicago, is framed and faced the perspective of serving time for a murder he not committed, he has to take hostages. His friend is killed by corrupt cops, and the detractive documents are stealthily placed to defile Roman's reputation. When Inspector Terence Niebaum (J.T. Walsh) and his equally corrupted colleagues conduct a search in Roman's place of abode, he takes them as hostages and demands to talk with a negotiator who serves in another police precinct, because he knows that the killer of the friend is between his own counterparts. Chris Sabian (Kevin Spacey), a high-skilled negotiator, is involved and all that Roman can do is to try to prove his innocence and to expose the real criminals. |
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This biopic television miniseries features Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as the King of Rock-n-roll, the story traces all his life from the very boyhood in 1950's Memphis to the pinnacles of his worldwide glory and the depths of isolation and drug addiction of his life's end. |
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Einar (Robert Redford) was a once successful rancher who developed a serious drinking problem being still in shock from his only son's death a decade ago. He has let his ranch fall into ruin so as his marriage. His daughter-in-law, a down-on-her-luck single mother (Jennifer Lopez) is forced to move in with Einar, from whom she has been estranged, in order to properly care for her young daughter. Lasse Hallstrom directs this adaptation of the same name novel by Mark Spragg. |
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In 1967, after burning most of his henchmen, Dr. Evil sets a trap for Austin Powers, but freezes himself so Austin won't catch him. Austin then volunteers to be frozen in case Dr. Evil shows up again. 30 years later, Dr. Evil wakes up in Nevada and steals a nuclear weapon and holds the world hostage for 1 million dollars. Sorry, 100 billion dollars. Austin is woken up to stop Dr. Evil but gets Vanessa Kensington, his ex-partner's daughter and goes to Vegas to look for Evil, but finds out there is no longer any free love in the 90's, or Swinging. |
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While waiting for his car to get fixed, cynical salesman Jimmy Starks (Guy Pearce) decides to drop in on a roadside foreteller, Vacaro (J.K. Simmons), for fun. The soothsayer promises him unhoped-for success and ... death when the first snow falls. Self-assertive and skeptical, Jimmy doesn't take the old man's predictions seriously, but he becomes confused and anxious when the words of the prophecy begin to come true. And, as the temperature goes down steadily, he can't help thinking of the ominous oracle... |
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Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations. |
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This touching comedy follows the story of a bashful, chain-smoking, successful playwright having a midlife crisis. Peter McGowan (Kenneth Branagh) runs out of inspiration; his new play is set to open, but he can't find a child to act the part of a 10-year-old character; his neighbors' dog barks all night; he is unnerved by his wife who insists on having a child. Fortunately, things take a turn for the better when a recently separated woman, Trina Walsh (Lucinda Jenney), and her 8-year-old cerebral palsy-afflicted daughter Amy (Suzi Hofrichter) move next door. Peter befriends the girl who helps him to see the world through other eyes... |
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Jessy (Parminder Nagra), a young girl loves football very much. Despite her orthodox Indian parents want their daughter to be a lawyer, she desires to play professional football and accepts no half-ways. Along with her friend Jules (Keira Knightley) who share her football passion Jessy became obsessed by training in order to join the semi-pro team. Perspectives seem to be rosy when your team coach is handsome and when the first goals scored, but one should work really hard to succeed. To bend it like Beckham. |
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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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Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France. |
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1989, South London. Jack, an ebullient butcher, has died, and his last orders are to cast his ashes off the Margate Pier. His wife of 50 years, Amy, stays home, with the excuse of a visit to their mentally-disabled daughter. Jack's three closest friends, Ray, Vic, and Lenny - along with Jack's son Vince - head for Margate. Each has memories of Jack and of friendships, family, and conflicts. It's Vince's relationship with his dad that's the most complex, and Ray's long friendship with both Jack and Amy that holds things together. The last orders - to go to Margate and strew the ashes - become an invitation to recall what's done, what's left, and what's important. |
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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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Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" is the story of a legendary showman's double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said. |
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Angie gets the sack from a recruitment agency for bad behaviour in public. Seizing the chance, she teams up with her flatmate, Rose, to run a similar business from their kitchen. With immigrants desperate to work the opportunities are considerable, particularly for two girls so in tune with these times. |
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Kevin Lomax is a hotshot southern lawyer who knows how to play the game. He gets the opportunity of a lifetime when he is offered a job with a law firm that promises many opportunities. He takes his wife to the Big Apple in hopes of a better life and a good job. He only finds himself on the receiving end of trouble when his boss is the Devil himself and has some treacherous plans up his sleeve for Kevin. |
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Terry (Joan Allen), a sharp-witted woman and a mother of four, had lost her husband and trying to drown her sorrows in alcohol. Once she gets acquainted with Denny (Kevin Costner), an ex-basketball player living in her neighborhood who now works at a radio-station as a DJ. With both Terry and Denny feeling down in the dumps about recent events in their lives, the two find themselves drawn to one another. Soon Denny becomes a good drinking buddy for Terry and slowly evolves into her source of strength, and, in fact, becomes like father to her daughters. But things get complicated as Danny, Terry and her daughters attempting to juggle their romantic dilemmas. |
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In a place soon to be known as The Valley of Death, in a small clearing called landing zone X-Ray, Lt. Colonel Hal Moore (Mel Gibson) and 400 young fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons, all troopers from an elite American combat division, were surrounded by 4,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. The ensuing battle was one of the most savage in U.S. history. We Were Soldiers Once...And Young is a tribute to the nobility of those men under fire, their common acts of uncommon valor, and their loyalty to and love for one another. |
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Based on a true story, the inspiring drama follows the life of renowned Scottish amateur cyclist, world champion Graeme Obree (Jonny Lee Miller). He had a passion for cycling and was determined to become the fastest cyclist in the history of the sport. Unemployed and aground, Obree decided to build his own bike so that he could fulfil his ambition. Despite his mental health problems, he showed fortitude and persistence and took great pains to set up the world one-hour record on his revolutionary bike, made out of scrap metal and washing machine parts. |
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Astrid Magnussen is a 15 year old girl, living in California. Her mother, Ingrid, is a beautiful, free-spirited poet. Their life, though unusual, is satisfying until one day, a man named Barry Kolker (that her mother refers to at first as "The goat man") comes into their lives, and Ingrid falls madly in love with him, only to have her heart broken, and her life ruined. For revenge, Ingrid murders Barry with the deadly poison of her favourite flower: The White Oleander. She is sent to prison for life, and Astrid has to go through foster home after foster home. Throughout nearly a decade she experiences forbidden love, religion, near-death experiences, drugs, starvation, and how it feels to be loved. But throughout these years, she keeps in touch with her mother via letters to prison. And while Ingrid's gift is to give Astrid the power to survive, Astrid's gift is to teach her Mother about love. |
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