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Usa movies
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Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thorton) was born and raised in a fanatically religious family. At the age of twelve, he caught his mother having sex with her lover. He considered their actions appalling and killed them with a sling blade. Twenty-five years later, the partially handicapped Karl is deemed harmless to society and released from a mental asylum. When he returns to his Arkansas hometown, he takes a job at a repair shop and lives in the backroom. He develops a warm friendship with a young boy named Frank Wheatley (Lucas Black) and is soon invited by his widowed mother, Linda (Natalie Canerday), to move into their garage. However, when he meets Linda's aggressive and abusive boyfriend who maltreats Frank and Linda and mocks at Karl's disabilities, Karl is faced with an agonizing moral dilemma. |
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Regina Lambert returns to Paris from a ski holiday in Switzerland to find that her husband has been murdered. She is later told by CIA agent Hamilton Bartholemew that Charles Lambert was one of five men who stole $250,000 in gold from the U.S. government during World War II, and the government wants it back. The money was not found among his possessions, and Regina can shed no light on its whereabouts. Later that day she is visited by Peter Joshua, whom she had met briefly while on holiday. When her husband's former partners in crime, who were double-crossed by Charles, start calling her looking for the money, Peter offers to help find it. Thus begins an elaborate charade in which nothing is what it seems to be. |
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The animated family movie tells the delightful story of what happens when toys are left alone in a room. Andy Davis (John Morris) is a wide-eyed little boy who likes playing with his toys, especially with Woody (Tom Hanks), an old-fashioned pull-string cowboy doll. Woody finds his status as Andy's favorite in jeopardy when the boy gets a space ranger named Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) for his birthday. Woody becomes so jealous that he schemes to get rid of his rival. Things, however, backfire. When the spaceman accidentally falls out of the window, the other toys blame Woody for the accident. Racked with remorse, Woody ventures into the outside world to find Buzz. Then the two toys find themselves in the clutches of Sid Phillips (Erik von Detten), a nasty neighborhood kid who takes a sadistic delight in dismembering and reconstructing his toys into gruesome mutants. Woody and Buzz must join forces to escape from the ruthless Sid and his savage dog, Scud, and find their way home before Andy moves to a new house. |
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When Castro opened the port at Mariel Harbor, thousands of Cubans fled to the United States. One is a young tough named Antonio (Tony) Montana, who, with his friend Manny Ray, starts in with Miami's cocaine trade. He survives attack by chainsaw after a deal goes bad, and several other attempts by other dealers to eliminate him. Eventually the grandiose Montana becomes head of a cocaine cartel. But his enemies start coming after him, and his paranoia threatens to drive Montana's empire into the ground... |
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After a notorious criminal, Ben Wade (Russell Crowe), is eventually captured, his gang of thieves and thugs continues to terrorize the townspeople. Civil War veteran and impoverished rancher Dan Evans (Christian bale) volunteers to secretly escort Wade to the nearest town with a railway station where he will be put on the 3:10 train to the prison in Yuma, Arizona. As soon as they stay at the hotel, it becomes apparent that they both become hunted... |
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Once in London there lived a young and naïve barber named Benjamin Barker (Johnny Depp). He was married to a beautiful woman named Lucy (Laura Michelle Kelly) who gave birth to a lovely baby girl. Unfortunately for Barker, voluptuous Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman) coveted his wife and sentenced him to a life of hard labor so that he could ravish Lucy. The woman couldn't survive disgrace and poisoned herself with arsenic. Following that, the judge took Barker's little daughter, Johanna (Jayne Wisener), as his ward, perhaps to soothe his conscience. Fifteen years later, Barker escaped from prison and returned to his hometown under the assumed name of Sweeney Todd, only to find his beloved wife dead and his grown-up daughter in the clutches of the corrupt judge. Embittered and devastated, Todd vowed vengeance against Turpin and his henchman, Beadle Bamford (Timothy Spall). He followed advice of his former landlady Mrs. Lovett's (Helena Bonham Carter) and reopened his barbershop in the hope of someday luring the judge and slitting his throat with his sharp razor. |
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The compelling drama opens in a nursing home where an elderly man named Duke (James Garner) regularly visits an invalid woman (Gena Rowlands) whom he reads a touching story of enduring love from a tattered old notebook. The story follows two young sweethearts, socialite Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) and poor country boy Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling), who were separated by Allie's snobbish parents and World War II. Noah wrote 365 letters to his beloved but Allie's mom (Joan Allen) kept them from reaching her. After waiting to hear from Noah for seven years, Allie decided to marry a wealthy war veteran, Lon Hammond (James Marsden). But when fate once again threw them together, Allie and Noah became seized by overwhelming passion. Allie had to make a difficult choice between her first love and her prosperous fiancé... |
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This explosive, action-packed thriller introduces James Bond (Daniel Craig), a British intelligence agent, before he receives his license to kill. He sets out on his first 007 mission to Madagascar in pursuit of international terrorist Mollaka (Sebastien Foucan). However, things don't go exactly according to plan and Bond makes an independent decision to track down the rest of the terrorist gang. The trail leads him to the Bahamas where he crosses the path of criminal Alex Dimitrios (Simon Abkarian). Bond seduces his entrancing wife, Solange (Caterina Murino), only to find out that Dimitrios goes in cahoots with Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), banker to the international terrorist organizations. After losing their funds, he makes up his mind to organize a high-stakes poker tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro, to recoup the investors' money. With the help of the entrancing British Treasury representative Vesper Lynd ((Eva Green) supplying his betting funds, James Bond sets out to defeat the corrupt banker and force him to seek protection with the MI-6, revealing the names of the terrorists. |
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This movie is based on the TV Series "Firefly". "SERENITY" takes place 500 years in the future when the crew of a small transport ship takes on odd and sometimes criminal assignments. A small, eclectic crew of the ship is squabbling, insubordinate and undyingly loyal to its captain, Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan Fillion). When he takes two new passengers onboard - a young doctor and his unstable, telepathic sister, he gets much more than he bargained for. The pair are fugitives from the coalition dominating the universe, who will stop at nothing to reclaim the girl. The crew must defend the entrance to a galaxy-wide broadcasting station while the captain, Mal, tries to tell the worlds the truth behind the mysterious deaths on planet Miranda. |
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Once there were three kids Dave, Jimmy and Sean playing in a tight blue-collar Boston neighborhood. One of them, Dave, is raped and abducted by two men for several days. Twenty-five years later friends meet again: Jimmy's teen daughter is killed. Dave is haunted by memories and protective of his own son. Jimmy's an ex-con, father of three. Sean is a homicide detective, estranged from his pregnant wife. Jimmy hardly wants to find the killer before the cops. Dave becomes a primary suspect. Sean, assigned to investigate the crime, finds himself facing both demons from the past and demons in the present as the circumstances surrounding Katie's death are uncovered. |
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Once upon a time, in a far away kingdom, there lived a big green ogre named Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers). He led a solitary life in his own smelly swamp in the woods. One day the evil midget - Lord Farquaad (voiced by John Lithgow), the ruler of Duloc – banished all the familiar fairy tale characters to Shrek's swamp land. Unfortunately for the ogre, his peaceful life has an end. To get rid of annoying settlers, Shrek must rescue the beautiful Princess Fiona (voiced by Cameron Diaz), confined to the tower and guarded by a fire-spouting dragon, and convince her to be Farquaad's wife. Accompanied by the garrulous and wisecracking Donkey (voiced by Eddie Murphy), Shrek makes his way to the distant castle and, on his quest, gets involved in a set of bizarre situations. |
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In the North American Great Depression, the former successful boxer James Braddock loses all his possessions and savings with the crash of the stock market. His beloved wife Mae Braddock and their three children survive to starvation and lack of heating and the daily difficulties supported by their love. In 1934, when Jim's couch and manager Joe Gould offers to him a chance to return to boxing, he becomes the symbol of hope of hopeless people in a ruined nation. |
| Magnolia
[1999,
USA]
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| Things fall down. People look up. And when it rains, it pours. |
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Magnolia is the study of nine lives in one day in San Fernando Valley, California. These nine lives all connect and revolve around the game show "What Do Kids Know?"(WDKK), where a team of three kids play against adults and everytime the show is on, there is a new team of adults and the kids remain; if they won the previous game. Earl Partridge (the late Jason Robards) produced "WDKK" when it was first on in the late 60s. He is dying of brain and lung cancer and is being taken care of by Phil Parma (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a male nurse. Linda, Earl's trophy wife (Julianne Moore) starts to fall in love with Earl for real, despite her cheating. Earl, rapidly dying on his bed, asks Phil to find his estranged son, Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise), who grew up hating Earl and now runs a seminar for single men, which teaches them how to seduce a woman and leave her... The host of "WDKK", Jimmy Gator (Philip Baker Hall), is also dying, but not as rapidly as Earl. He has a very rocky relationship with his daughter Claudia (Melora Waters), who sniffs crack 24/7 and accuses her father of sexually molesting her. Police Officer Jim (John C. Reilly) goes to Claudia's house after getting called about a disturbance. He falls in love with her right away... Stanley Specter (Jeremy Blackman) is a contestant on "WDKK", who is a genius and is being used by his father to make money. If Stanley and his team keep winning, they will set a record on the show and get tons of money. The record Stanley is trying to beat is the 1968 record set by Donnie Smith (William H. Macy), who had the exact same childhood when he was on the show and has now grown up to be a pathetic loser. He's been recently fired from his job, and is trying to find his way into happiness... |
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The charming dramedy follows the life of legendary New Zealander Burt Munro (Anthony Hopkins) who spent years improving and modifying his beloved 1920 Indian Scout motorcycle. He travelled all over the world on his bike and eventually made his dream come true. During the 1967 famous race held at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, he set a world speed record of 190.07 mph, which has not been broken yet. |
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Adrift in the Depression-era Southwest, 'Clyde Barrow' (qv) and 'Bonnie Parker (II)' (qv) embark on a life of crime. They mean no harm. They crave adventure — and each other. Soon we start to love them too. But nothing in film history has prepared us for the cascading violence to follow. Bonnie and Clyde turns brutal. We learn they can be hurt — and dread they can be killed. |
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The movie tells the story of a love affair between two lonely Americans – Bob Harris (Bill Murray), a middle-aged movie actor burdened with his unloved wife and kids, and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a young woman bored of her unloving husband. They meet in the Tokyo hotel and spend together an unforgettable weekend. Their love is not one of passion but rather one of emotional need. The relation is motivated by loneliness and melancholy. It’s probably a passing infatuation that provides long hoped-for comfort and companionship... |
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Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his beaming honker, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into the Abominable Snowman and find a whole island of misfit toys. Rudoph vows to see if he can get Santa to help the toys, and he goes back to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. But Santa's sleigh is fogged in. But when Santa looks over Rudolph, he gets a very bright idea... |
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Echoes of "Madame Bovary" in the American suburbs. Sarah's in a loveless marriage, long days with her young daughter at the park and the pool, wanting more. Brad is a househusband, married to a flinty documentary filmmaker. Ronnie is just out of prison - two years for indecent exposure - living with his mother; Larry is a retired cop, fixated on driving Ronnie away. Sarah and Brad connect, a respite of adult companionship at the pool. Ronnie and Larry have their demons. Brad should be studying for the bar; Larry misses his job; Ronnie's mom thinks he needs a girlfriend. Sarah longs to refuse to be trapped in an unhappy life. Where can these tangled paths lead? |
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Charley is a hustler. He's been on his own long enough to know how to work people and situations. He finds that the father who threw him out as a teen ager has died. He's left him a now antique convertible and something more important, a previously unknown brother, Raymond. Raymond is Autistic, but is able to calculate complicated mathematical problems in his head with great speed and accuracy. Their father has left his fortune to Raymond who doesn't even understand what money is for. Charley is enraged by what has happened and by his father keeping Raymond's existence from him for his entire life. He kidnaps Raymond from his residential home but then finds that Raymond will only fly Qantas. The two begin a long road trip that will lead them to an understanding of each other. |
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Safecracker Henri Charriere (Steve McQueen), also known as Papillon ("butterfly"), is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in a French penal colony on Devil's Island whose name speaks for itself. He keeps his mind on an escape. Papillon befriends his cell-mate Louis Dega (Dustin Hoffman), a counterfeiter, who agrees to join forces to escape from the prison. But they are captured and incarcerated in solitary confinement. Papillon makes numerous escape attempts which are foiled every moment either by an informant or by force majeure. Despite the consequent recapture and even more horrible conditions, Papillon tries not to lose heart and continues his attempts to gain freedom.
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