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Usa movies
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Mike (Nicholas Cage), who is in search for work, is mistakenly considered to be a hitman and given 5 thousand bucks as a payment to kill the wife of the cafee's owner. The customer is a local sherrif as well: he thought that the killer will be a Texan (Mike's car had tags of the same state). Mike faces several problems: he is consent to kill the woman, but she offers him double money. Then the real assassin (Dennis Hopper) arrives to the place... |
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The energetic film adaptation of the popular Broadway musical is about American teens in love in the 1950s. During her summer vacation goody-two-shoes Australian girl Sandy Olsen (Olivia Newton-John) visits America and meets leader of the greaser gang Danny Zuko (John Travolta) at the beach. Despite social differences, the two fall in love and spend time together until the summer ends. Sandy is upset to return home as she never expects to see her love interest again. But fortunately for her, her parents decide to stay in America and Sandy begins to attend the same high school. |
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The humour-packed, heartwarming drama tells the story of Dan Millan (Scott Mechlowicz), a gifted college gymnast with aspirations of winning the Olympic Games. He seems to have it all: plenty of money, good grades, trophies, fast motorcycles, fast women and wild parties. Despite his many successes, Dan feels restless and empty inside. Haunted by terrifying nightmares, he is forced to run along streets in the early hours of the morning. One night, awakened by another nightmare, he wanders into a service station and encounters an eccentric old man called Socrates (Nick Nolte) who becomes his mentor. Guided by Socrates, Millan embarks on a spiritual odyssey in search of his inner peace and enlightenment. |
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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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Emma Thompson portrays a governess who uses magic to alter the behavior of a gaggle of previously irredeemable kids. She enters the household of the recently widowed Mr. Brown (Colin Firth) and attempts to tame his seven exceedingly ill-behaved children. She almost does, but there is a menace looming over the family – aunt Adelaide (Angela Lansbury) is going to take away one of the kids. |
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A sculptor of wax figures for a museum is horrified when his partner proposes setting fire to the unpopular museum in order to collect the insurance money. As the wax figures melt amid the blaze, the two men have a fight. The sculptor is knocked out in the scuffle and left to "perish" among the flames. He resurfaces many years later for the launch of his own wax museum. The opening coincides with the sudden disappearance of some dead bodies from the city morgue. His assistant begins to suspect his boss of foul play, especially after the deranged wizard of wax begins eyeing his assistant's lovely girlfriend's friend as a model for a waxed figure of Marie Antoinette. |
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Desperately short of food and driven by hunger, 17-year-old orphan Henry Young (Kevin Bacon) steals $5 from a post office and gets nabbed by the clerk. His sister is sent to an orphanage and he is sentenced to prison. Some time later, he is transferred to Alcatraz, America's most notorious prison. After a failed attempt to escape, Young is sent to solitary confinement which is supposed to last nineteen days. However, he spends three years alone in a cell with no window, no heating, no toilet and no furniture. After his release from solitary confinement, the mad Young is accused of murdering Rufus McCain (David Michael Sterling), the inmate who squealed on him, and is sentenced to death. With no chance to get acquitted, Young is defended by James Stamphill (Christian Slater), a rookie lawyer... |
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A married couple sail the Pacific Ocean to forget a tragic accident. After a month at sea, they sight a mysterious yacht and are boarded by its lone surviving crew member. When the husband discovers the yacht's terrible secret, the crewman goes wild, kidnapping his wife and taking his ship. Terror on the high seas is center stage as the husband fights to keep the mystery yacht afloat and his wife battles the psychotic who's assumed control of their ship. |
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Sam (John Wayne) and George (Stewart Granger) strike gold in Alaska. George sends Sam to Seattle to bring George's fiance back to Alaska. Sam finds she is already married, and returns instead with Angel (Capucine). Sam, after trying to get George and Angel together, finally romances Angel, who, in the meantime, is busy fighting off the advances of George's younger brother, Billy (Fabian). Frankie (Ernie Kovacs) is a con man trying to steal the partner's gold claim. |
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On her sixteenth birthday, Samantha Baker (Molly Ringwald) feels that she is the unhappiest girl in the world because he parents, who are preoccupied with her older sister's wedding, completely forget the momentous occasion. To add insult to injury, her irksome grandparents bring along an odd Japanese exchange student, Long Duk Dong (Gedde Watanabe), and force her to take him with her to the school dance. On top of it all, Sam can hardly get rid of an obnoxious freshman named Ted (Anthony Michael Hall) who has a crush on her and insistently tries to bed her. Nevertheless, she nourishes hope that she will capture the attention of the boy of her dreams, Jake Ryan (Michael Schoeffling)... |
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William Thacker (Hugh Grant) was a shy, kind, attractive Englishman who kept a small travel bookstore in the Notting Hill district in West London and shared an apartment with a whimsical Welsh pal, Spike (Rhys Ifans). The chance meeting with a celebrated American movie star, Anna Scott (Julia Roberts), who one day dropped into his store, could have ended in nothing if William hadn't run out a few minutes later to buy some coffee. On his way back to the shop, he accidentally rammed into Anna in the street, spilling the coffee onto her blouse. The gentlemanlike William kindly offered to remove a spot at his nearby house and Anna agreed. They began dating and love blossomed between the ordinary guy and the famous actress was ardent and romantic. Nevertheless the idyl came to an end when Anna's actor boyfriend Jeff King (Alec Baldwin) arrived in London to see her... |
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While in the burial of Countess Torlato-Favrini, her friend Harry Dawes and her acquaintance Oscar Muldoon recalls parts of her past. When the wealthy Kirk Edwards hires director and screenplay writer Harry Dawes, they travel to Spain with the public relations Oscar Muldoon to see the dancer of a nightclub Maria Vargas and invite her for an audition, since they need a new face for their next movie. Maria, a naive woman with simple origins, is convinced by Harry to go to Hollywood and becomes a famous star and a close friend of Harry and his girlfriend Jerry. Along her successful career, Maria lives personal dramas including lack of adaptation for her new lifestyle, is unable to love and is disputed by the powerful millionaires Kirk Edwards and Alberto Bravano. When she meets the noble and handsome Count Vincenzo Torlato-Favrini in the French Riviera, she believes that she found her prince charming and her life becomes a fairy tale. But after the wedding, she sees that her Cinderella's castle of dreams has become a pumpkin. |
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Movie trailer editor, Amanda of Los Angeles, CA and journalist Iris of Surrey, England live five thousand miles apart and have never met, but are dealing with the same problem: men. Amanda having just broken up with her cheating boyfriend, Ethan and Iris having pined for her ex, Jasper, becoming engaged to the woman he left her for decide to take a vacation during Christmas. They come upon a website called home exchange and swap houses for two weeks both with a goal to forget their troubled love lives. But love ends up finding them anyways. Amanda starts a romance with Iris' older brother, Graham, a book editor and Iris starts a romance with a movie composer named Miles. With new found romance, both their lives change forever. |
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The plot takes place in the Philippines in 1945. The Second World War is coming to an end. Under the command of the confident Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci (Benjamin Bratt), the 6th Ranger Battalion gets an order to infiltrate deep into enemy territory and liberate U.S. prisoners. The mission appears to be virtually impossible to undertake but the tough Mucci sends his soldiers to their doom, performing one of the most daring rescue missions in history. The Rangers manage to penetrate thirty miles behind enemy lines and rescue over five hundred prisoners who are about to be transferred to the infamous Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp. |
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Preston, Idaho's most curious resident, Napoleon Dynamite (Heder), lives with his grandma and his 32-year-old brother (who cruises chat rooms for ladies) and works to help his best friend, Pedro (Efren Ramirez), snatch the Student Body President title from mean teen Summer Wheatley (Haylie Duff). |
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The up-and-down-and-up-again story of musician Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly), whose songs would change a nation. On his rock'n roll spiral, Cox sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 kids and 14 stepkids, stars in his own 70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp, and gets addicted to (and then kicks) every drug known to man, but despite it all, Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a good woman. |
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35-year old video game tester Alex (Allen Covert) gets kicked out of his rental house after his roommate spends all the rent money on Filipino hookers. He is forced to find a new place to live and ends up moving in with his 80-year-old grandmother Lilly (Doris Roberts) who shares her home with two older friends, sex-obsessed Grace (Shirley Jones) and overmedicated Bea (Shirley Knight). Though stricken in years they are still energetic and enjoy living life to the fullest. The extremely hilarious party at Grandma's house has begun! |
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Jim Carroll (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a high school basketball player. His life centers around the basketball, and his dream is being a basketball star. Once in a while he gets stoned with his friends, and step by step, he falls into the dark world of crime and drugs. Once his mother expelled him out of the house, he goes into the streets of New York, and together with his friends they take drugs for which they steal, rob and even kill. As the time pass, Jim's situation becomes worse. It looks like he will never get out from the his drug addiction. |
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The US Army is under pressure from the desperate relatives of white prisoners of the Comanches to secure their rescue. A cynical and corrupt marshal, Guthrie McCabe, is persuaded by an army lieutenant to assist in the negotiations with the Comanches. However, just two captives are released; and their reintegration into white society proves highly problematic. |
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This political thriller set in a South-American country follows Agustin Rejas (Javier Bardem) who had left his law practice for a police detective being to deal with crime and justice more directly. He tracks down the terrorist group which is ready to overturn the current government; these guys practice everything from political pranks to assassinations and bombings. Things get complicated as Agustin begins to suspect his girlfriend of the possible connections with the terrorists. And these suspicions seem to prove to be correct. This taut movie became the directorial first-born of one famous person known well as John Malkovich. |
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