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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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Frank Horrigan (Klint Eastwood) heads the Secret Service in this police detective when a dangerous maniac (John Malkovich) intends to kill the President of the USA. When this movie was filmed, Eastwood was 63, but his maniac-catching efforts display his vigourosity very evidently along with his interest in a beautiful police woman - Secret Service agent Lilly Raines (Rene Russo). John Malkovich is playing the maniac perfectly, embodying the evil mind of an ex-CIA agent. |
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In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion. |
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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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Squadron Leader Gerry Burton is sent to a tranquil country village to recover from the effects of a plane crash and be nursed back to health by his beautiful sister Joanna. As they are new to the community, they are shocked to receive an anonymous, sexually explicit poison pen letter. They later find that other village gentry have been victimized by the same crank writer, and the vicar's wife sends for her friend Miss Marple in hopes of exposing the perpetrator. When a solicitor's wife apparently takes poison after receiving a particularly vicious message, Miss Marple suspects that the letters are a smokescreen for something more ominous. When a house maid is found bludgeoned to death, she knows she is right. |
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The moving story of a Hungarian mapmaker and his dying memories of the romance that tragically alters his life. Burned horribly in a fiery plane crash while crossing the Sahara Desert during WWII, he is tended to by a Canadian nurse with ghosts of her own and haunted by a thief seeking answers for a crime from his past. |
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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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Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel (Ed Harris) and a group of renegade commandos get hold of a stockpile of deadly nerve gas rockets and take tourists of the former Alcatraz prison as hostages. They demand one million dollars to each family of war veterans who were killed during covert military operations. They threat to wipe San Francisco off the face of the earth unless their demands are fulfilled. FBI chemical warfare expert Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage) and an elite SEAL team await the government's command. But the only one who can penetrate into the island fortress is John Patrick Mason (Sean Connery), a former British intelligence agent who also happens to be the only inmate to have ever escaped from the Rock. |
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'Rent' tells the story based on Puccini's 'La Boheme' and on Jonathan Larson's award-winning Broadway musical. It's about of one year in the life of friends living the Bohemian life in modern day East Village, New York City, 1989-1990. They struggle to express themselves through their art and strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic. The story centers around Mark (Anthony Rapp) and Roger (Adam Pascal), two roommates. Will this year change their lives or all the things will stay the same? Former and actual junkies, gays, computer and music geniuses are the modern day's bohemia, but did the human changed novadays? |
| Highlander
[1986,
UK, USA]
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| He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal. (2 more taglines...) |
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Connor Macleod was born in 1518 in the Highlands of Scotland. In 1536, after facing a mysterious, evil opponent, he survives a fatal stab wound and is banished from his village, for they believe his survival is the work of the Devil. Five years later, Macleod is met by Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez, a Spanish swordsman who teaches Macleod the awful truth; he is immortal, one of a race of many who can only die when the head is cut from the body. When one immortal takes the head of another, the loser's power is absorbed into the winner. Ramirez teaches Macleod the ways of the sword, until Ramirez is tragically killed by Connor's ultimate opponent, the evil Kurgan, a murderous immortal brute who lusts for the ultimate power of the immortals, "The Prize"; enough power to rule the earth forever. Connor fights his way through the centuries, until the time of the Gathering, when the few immortals who have survived the endless battles come together to fight until only one remains, and that winner will receive The Prize. The time: 1985. The place: New York City. The final fight is about to begin, and in the end, there can be only one. |
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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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A young Hawaiian girl Lilo (voice of Daveigh Chase) makes friends with an amazing alien creature who is a dangerous, but rather cute being. The creature's name is Stitch (voice of Chris Sanders) as she called him, the tricky little monster is a product of an illegal "Genetic Experiment 626" escaped to Earth. But Lilo thinks he's a kind of dog, and this "dog" gradually proves to be a rowdy and mischievous being. Mad professor, who had created Stitch, is jailed and his fluffy blue nursling is being searched by intergalactic police and considered to be the most dangerous creature in the Universe. But Lilo can unwittingly reclaim the crafty extraterrestrial... |
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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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This historical drama presents us one of the greatest romantic stories of doomed love. After the fall of the Roman Empire, King of Ireland (David O'Hara) has in fact taken control over England. While Tristan dreams of banishing Ireland's presence in England, he harbours a secret he's been hiding from his patron Marke - after suffering serious wounds, he was rescued and nursed back to health by Isolde (Sophia Myles), King Donnchadh's daughter, and the two fell deeply in love. Still seeking to throw the English tribes back into chaos, King Donnchadh gives away his daughter as the prize in a tournament between all the champions of England. Tristan wins the princess' hand for Lord Marke, whose vision of a united England may finally be realized. Tristan is horrified to see that the woman he has won for his Lord, the woman whom Marke will marry, is his Irish savior Isolde. |
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During the civil war, injured Yankee soldier, John McBurney is rescued on the verge of death by a teenage girl from a southern boarding school. She manages to get him back to the school, and at first the all-female staff and pupils are scared. As he starts to recover, one by one he charms them and the atmosphere becomes filled with jealousy and deceit. |
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After losing her self-indulging parents in an earthquake, a bitter young girl named Mary Lennox is sent to live in England with her reclusive Uncle. Eventually she discovers her bedridden cousin and a 'secret garden' that once belonged to her deceased aunt. With the help of her cousin, the kindly Dikon, and a little 'magic', can Mary find a way to bring love back to her family? |
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Roddy St. James (Hugh Jackman) is a pet mouse who lives a privileged life in the most prestigious and elegant penthouse apartment in London. He feels he has achieved a lot in his life. He is, to all appearances, absolutely on plush: he eats well, sleeps well and has no trouble. Roddy enjoys his blissful life, until one day vulgar sewer rat Sid (Shane Richie) comes spewing out of the clogged sink. Inclined to get rid of his uninvited guest, Roddy schemes to lure him into the "jacuzzi", which is actually the toilet bowl, and flush him away. However, his plan comes unstuck, for Sid so loses his heart to the luxurious place that he decides to replace Roddy at any cost. As a result, Roddy ends up in the bustling sewer world where he meets an eye-catching scavenger rat named Rita (Kate Winslet). To return home, Roddy and Rita must escape the crafty designs of the spiteful Toad (McKellen) who hates all rodents.
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They finally meet - the tough cop John Mc Clein played by Bruce Willis and the dangerous terrorist, who is an ace of explosion technique. Simon (Jeremy Irons), the terrorist, wants to wreak vengeance on John involving him into the dangerous game when body count rapidly increases and McClein should save New York: Simon's cat-and-mouse game compels the cop to make difficult decisions, but nevertheless he should act really fast. Police is searching for terrorists when the genuine aim of the gang emerges... It will be a very, very hard day for our hero, because John McTiernan is the director known well by the tough action movies and their high budget.
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Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen year-old boy, is at war with the oppressive world of his East Coast "old money" family. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there, and he sets out to find it. After happily flunking out of several Prep Schools, Igby escapes into the bohemian underworld of Manhattan. His darkly comic trip—shared by a deviant cast of characters, including his terminally bored, part-time lover Sookie, his Godfather's trophy mistress Rachel, and smack-dealing performance artists Russel—veers from bizarre to tragic in Igby's ultimately noble attempt to keep himself from "going down." |
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Vin Diesel acts as a true person "Jackie Dee" DiNorscio who was sent to prison for a drug charge, but didn't rat on his associates. Already in the midst of serving a 30-year sentence, Jackie is offered an opportunity to shorten his time by testifying against many of his closest friends. By the way, some of them previously tried to kill him out of fear he might talk. Jackie Dee suddenly goes so far as to defend himself in what will ultimately become the longest criminal trial of its time. |
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