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The documentary movie follows the exciting history of the creation of the first superhero, Superman, and his evolution from comic books to television, and finally to the silver screen. The amazing story is told through archival footage and various interviews with actors and directors involved in the Superman films and television shows. |
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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. |
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A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system. |
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Devastated Peter takes a Hawaii vacation in order to deal with recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know Sarah's traveling to the same resort as her ex ... and she's bringing along her new boyfriend. |
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Master detective Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and his faithful assistant Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) travel to the backwoods town of La Mort Rouge, Canada to investigate a string of gruesome slayings. All the victims have been found with their throats slit. The locals believe in supernatural powers and attribute the murders to the legendary phantom monster that roams the marshes around the village. But the skeptical sleuth deduces that the ghostly killer is in fact a disguised villager who exacts revenge on those who have wronged him. So Holmes devises an elaborate trap for the murderer... |
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Tobacco industry lobbyist Nick Naylor has a seemingly impossible task: promoting cigarette smoking in a time when the health hazards of the activity have become too plain to ignore. Nick, however, revels in his job, using argument and twisted logic to place, as often as not, his clients in the positions of either altruistic do-gooders or victims. Nick's son Joey needs to understand and respect his dad's philosophy, and Nick works hard to respond to that need without compromising his lack of values. When a beautiful news reporter betrays Nick's sexually-achieved trust, his world seems in danger of collapsing. But there's always one more coffin nail in Nick's pack. |
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Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life. |
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The suspense-filled war drama is based on the real-life story of German-born Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale) who satisfied his passion for flying by becoming a pilot in the U.S. Air Force. While on a secret bombing mission over Laos during the Vietnam War, he was shot down and captured by Vietcong guerrillas. The young man displayed fortitude and endurance when he was brutally tortured by his captors who wanted him to betray his country. Taken to a prison camp, Dengler didn't succumb to despair and began planning an escape from the clutches of the sadistic camp guards. |
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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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Two lifetime buddies Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera) are about to graduate high school and go off to different colleges. Therefore they decide to have a graduation blowout before a long separation. The nerdy guys set out to supply the party with alcohol, hoping to spend an unforgettable night of love with drunken girls. However, things go awry and their attempts at buying liquor become a greater challenge than picking up girls. |
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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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After a violent storm attacks a town in Maine, an approaching cloud of mist appears the next morning. As the mist quickly envelops the area, a group of people get trapped in a local grocery store -among them, artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son. The people soon discover that within the mist lives numerous species of horrific, unworldly creatures that entered through an inter-dimensional rift, which may or may not have been caused by a nearby military base. As the world around them manifests into a literal hell-on-earth, the horrified citizens try desperately to survive this apocalyptic disaster. |
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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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A calamity at Dante and Randall's shops sends them looking for new horizons - but they ultimately settle at Mooby's, a fictional fast-food restaurant. Free from his dead-end job (and lodged in a new one), Dante begins to break free of his rut, planning to move away with his clingy fiancé. Dante is ready to leave the horrors of minimum-wage New Jersey behind, but Randal - always the more hostile of the two - starts to become overwhelmed by his own rancor. |
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Before Sunrise is a passionate and intelligent romance between a young American (Jesse) and a French student (Celine). A chance encounter on the train incites intrigue, and Jesse provocatively suggests that Celine postpones her return to France and embarks instead on a spontaneous expedition to Vienna. In the course of their 14-hour relationship, the two share in their love for the unrehearsed and their appreciation for the unexpected as they explore in a powerful meeting of hearts and minds. |
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The "Star Wars" saga concludes with this chapter, written and directed by series' creator George Lucas. After three long years of relentless fighting, the Clone Wars are nearly at an end. The noble Jedi Knights have been leading a massive clone army into a galaxy-wide battle against the Separatists. When the sinister Sith unveil a thousand-year-old plot to rule the galaxy, the Republic crumbles and from its ashes rises the evil Galactic Empire. Anakin and his secret wife, Padme Amidala, have been separated for months, and he finally reunites with her to learn that she is pregnant. He is plagued by visions of her dying in childbirth, haunting images of a possible future. His fear to loose her leads Anakin down a dark side of the Force to become the Emperor's new apprentice – Darth Vader. The Jedi are ruined, as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Jedi Master Yoda are forced into hiding. Great political intrigue, tremendous drama and superb visuals are intertwined in the ending part of the Lucas's saga. |
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For teenager Tracy Turnblad (Nikki Blonsky), school is a real yawn. She somehow tolerates her boring classes just to race home to catch her favorite dance show on TV. Despite her overweight, Tracy is obsessed with her dream of someday appearing on "The Corny Collins Show." When the chance to partake in the show arrives, the aspiring dancer immediately takes the auditions. To her great joy, Tracy lands a spot on the show and quickly pursues stardom. However, she must overcome many obstacles she faces on her path. |
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This touching comedy drama tells the story of two terminally ill men given only several months to live. While sharing a room in a cancer ward, blue-collar mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) and millionaire Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) decide to live their last days to the fullest and make a "bucket list" of things they want to do before they kick the bucket. Escaping from hospital, the newly made friends embark on an adventurous journey which includes seeing the wonders of the world, race car driving, sky diving, going on a safari in Africa and playing poker in Monte Carlo. |
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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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Based on the cult-hit animated television series The Family Guy, this feature-length comedy movie centers on the dysfunctional Griffins family consisting of Peter (voiced by Seth MacFarlane), the unintelligent, bumbling patriarch of the family; his loving and patient wife Lois (voiced by Alex Borstein); his oldest kid Meg (voiced by Mila Kunis), a nerdy student unpopular in high school; his middle kid, backward Chris (voiced by Seth Green); Stewie (voiced by Seth MacFarlane), the youngest and smartest kid who is bent on world domination, and Brian (voiced by Seth MacFarlane), a melancholic talking dog. The movie follows Stewie and Brian as they embark on an incredible journey in search of Stewie's real father. Their adventure leads to a shocking discovery. Meanwhile, Peter is spotted by a TV producer and given the opportunity to host his own show "You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?" Peter immediately becomes so popular that Tom Tucker, a newscaster at Quahog 5, begins to feel envious of his success and tries the darndest to get rid of him. |
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