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Titles starting from letter "F"
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Based on Mary Shelly's novel, the hair-raising movie tells the sad story of Victor Frankenstein (Kenneth Brannagh), a promising young scientist. The doctor was so devastated by his mother's death during childbirth that he became obsessed with the idea of bringing the deceased back to life, unaware of the consequences of his actions. The result of his experiment with the remains of the corpse and electricity was a simple, seemingly harmless creature (Robert De Niro) which, however, turned into a wrathful and vindictive monster after his ''father'' abandoned him. Dr. Frankenstein wished he had never created him! |
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein incarnates again into this screen interpretation of the classic bestseller directed by Kevin Connor. The film follows the storyline of the book closely: Dr Frankenstein creates a human (Luke Goss) from the parts of different corpses and the monster is given with a mind of his own. Notwithstanding the creature seems to be superior to his creator in some ways, the creation turns on the creator when it turns out to be that the world is unable to recognize the creation's humanity. |
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An American cardio surgeon, Dr. Richard Walker (Harrison Ford), has come to Paris, the City of Lights, with his wife Sondra (Betty Buckley) for a medical conference. "I love Paris," he is singing while taking a shower. But when his wife unexpectedly disappears from their hotel room and doesn't return after several hours, Walker begins to fear the city. He embarks on a frantic, extremely dangerous quest for his adorable wife and finds himself plagued by misunderstandings, laissez-faire police officers and painstaking bureaucrats who offer him little help. The only person who may hold clues to finding the anxious Walker's wife is Michelle (Emmanuelle Seigner), a streetwise sexy gamine. |
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In a modern retelling of Tod Browning's "Freaks" (1932), "Freakshow" tells the story of a group of criminals who chose to hide out by working security at a traveling circus. At first, they plot with an insider to steal the ticket sales, but the wily Lucy has bigger plans. She convinces the gang to let her seduce and marry the aging circus owner, Lon, in order to secure the entire circus fortune after he "suffers an accident". "People die all the time," Lucy says. The freaks are on to their scheme, however, and when the youngest of them is caught by the ruthless gang, they show no mercy to ensure her silence. When the circus folk find the child's remains, they swear vengeance, and no one is safe from their fury—least of all, the wily Lucy. |
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The generation gap between Dr. Tess Coleman (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her teenage daughter Annabel (Lindsay Lohan) is obvious. Their tastes and opinions actually differ. The tomboy disapproves of her widowed mother’s fiance. In her turn, Tess is dissatisfied with Anna's music, grades and friends. They wish they could exchange bodies so that they could see what it's like to be in the other person's situation, and you can’t believe it but it somehow happens! One Thursday evening, at a Chinese restuarant, they have fortune cookies that unexpectedly switch their bodies and minds. The next morning, when they discover the metamorphosis, they are seized with indescribable horror. They have no choice but to cope with the other person’s responsibilities. To make matters worse, this all happens on Friday when Tess's wedding rehearsal and Anna's band audition take place. Do they have a chance to switch back? |
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After the end of the Two Years Gulf War leaders of Arab countries decided to sign the Treaty of Peace but the summit talks were wrecked by terrorists who had seized an Iraqi nuclear reactor, threatening to attack the United States. Spearheaded by America’s best Tomcat pilot Tom Dickson (Michael Dudikoff), the Rapid Deployment Forces code-named "Freedom Strike" were assigned to infiltrate into the enemy rear, liberate hostages and neutralize the terrorists. Their mission is complicated by the fact that national security is in jeopardy.
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The touching movie tells the story of Erin Gruwell (Hilary Swank), an optimistic and idealistic English language teacher at Long Beach's Wilson High School where racial violence flourishes. Her students are troubled teenagers from different walks of life who feel vehement hatred for each other. Willing to help the kids to get along, Erin assigns them to read "The Diary of Anne Frank" and then encourages them to write their own journals. Erin tries to change their attitudes about themselves and others before it's too late. While organizing unconventional class activities, she faces various personal and professional obstacles that stand in her way.
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An adaptation of Richard Price's novel "Freedomland" portrays a single mother Brenda Martin (Julianne Moore) who thinks her son is dead after he is disappeared. She tells police detective Lorenzo Council (Samuel L. Jackson) a terrible story of being carjacked on the isolated strip of undeveloped land that divides two towns. She claims that her child was kidnapped by an African-American. This reveals the long-existing racial animosity between two towns... |
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William Friedkin's gritty police drama portrays two tough New York City cops trying to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming from France. An interesting contrast is established between 'Popeye' Doyle, a short-tempered alcoholic bigot who is nevertheless a hard-working and dedicated police officer, and his nemesis Alain Charnier, a suave and urbane gentleman who is nevertheless a criminal and one of the largest drug suppliers of pure heroin to North America. During the surveillance and eventual bust, Friedkin provides one of the most gripping and memorable car chase sequences ever filmed. |
| French Kiss
[1995,
UK, USA]
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| Kate's stuck in a place where anything can happen with a guy who'll make sure that it does |
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Timothy hutton's hero named Charlie is to Paris, and his fiancee stays in Canada because she is afraid to travel by plane. Several days later he calls her by phone and tells that he loves her no more and had find another woman. Then it turns to be that the plane phobia is not so hard to overcome and Meg Ryan's Kate instantly jumps into one and heads to France. There (in the plain as yet) she meets a charming Frenchman who is a jewelry smuggler who stealthily places an expensive necklace into her handbag to pass it through the custom-house. When arrived, the bag disappears... and the things just get worse. But as the bag is stolen, Kate and Luc (Kevin Kline) should keep together... |
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John Sullivan (Caviezel) is a New York City homicide officer who is traumatized for 30 years following the death of his father, Frank (Quaid), After finding Frank's HAM radio, John begins talking to Frank, 30 years into the future. Together, they change the past but have to find a way to stop a serial killer from murdering John's Mom & Frank's wife with a 30 year gap. |
| Friday
[1995,
USA]
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| a lot can go down between thursday and saturday... |
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Having just been canned from his job on his day off, Craig and his best friend Smokey spend the day smoking up in their South Central neighborhood while dealing with a neighborhood bully, relationship troubles, an angry drug dealer, and a lot of other odd characters. |
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A single woman in her mid-thirties, Jennifer Aniston's heroine Olivia quits teaching for a maid work and to think her life over. She feels she's reached a turning point in her life. She wants to feel the support of her married friends – Christine, Jane and Franny. Their material and matrimonial basis seems to be so solid and stable, but some of them find collaborating with own husband boring, another one became unconcerned to one another with her man as lovers and friends, and the other couple got emotionally exhausted as well. And nothing more? This comedy drama was created by Nicole Holofcener (director, writer), who previously made the welcomed independent films Walking and Talking and Lovely & Amazing. |
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Dr. Pretorius and his colleagues are working on a sensational experiment: by means of stimulation of the pineal gland, they want to open the human mind to higher dimensions. When the experiment succeeds, however, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms, which apparently are floating around us all the time. When Dr. Pretorius is killed by one of them, Dr. Tillinghast is under suspect and thrown into the psycho ward due to his stories. Only the ambitious psychologist Dr. McMichaels believes him and wants to continue the experiment. |
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Two fugitive brothers at gunpoint get an ex-minister and his two children to take them accross the border into Mexico. They drive to a Mexican biker bar to rendevous with other crooks. While at the bar, a few unusual things happen. |
| Fugitive, The
[1993,
USA]
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| A murdered wife. A one-armed man. An obsessed detective. The chase begins. |
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This double-Oscar-nominated movie is a detective story where a woman, Helen Kimble (Sela Ward), is killed, she was the wife of a well-known surgeon named Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford). The doctor gets arrested being accused of murder, but he escapes from the judgment and tries to find the real murderer being persecuted by Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones), a detective. |
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Set in the small British town of Sheffield, six old friends, Gary "Gaz" (Robert Carlyle), Dave (Mark Addy), Lomper (Steve Huison), Gerald (Tom Wilkinson) and Guy (Hugo Speer), find themselves out of job and out of money when their steel mill shuts down. The former steel workers are desperate and depressed over their unemployment and Lomper is so despondent that he attempts to commit suicide. Meanwhile, the Chippendales, a troupe of male strippers, arrive in town and their act is a tremendous success with the local women. Inspired by the exotic dancers, Gaz comes up with the brilliant idea of putting on a similar show of his own, with one difference – they are daring to end the performance "fully nude". But there is only one snag: their bodies are far from perfect and they can't dance at all. |
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As the proverb goes, one lie makes many. When 17-year-old Sam Leonard (Ryan Pinkston) arrives at a new school, the first thing he does is tells tall tales to strike his peers, who have not yet got his measure, and infiltrate the most popular clique. He would have got entangled in his lies if they hadn't turned to truths. To his great astonishment, Sam becomes the focus of attention in the school. Little does he know that his overnight popularity will bring him a new set of problems. |
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Dick and Jane are a quite happy couple and living the American dream until the one awful day. When the company Dick works for becomes involved in a scandal he gets fired, Dick and Jane begin to sink into poverty. He looks for work, even trying day labor along with the relatives of their Mexican nanny. They are to turn into a sort of Bonny and Clyde in order to exact the hilarious revenge on Dick's boss. |
| Funny Face
[1957,
USA]
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| Presenting a Real New Dimension in Motion Picture Entertainment. |
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Fashion photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire), in search for an intellectual backdrop for an air-headed model, expropriates a Greenwich Village bookstore. When the photo session is over the store is left in a shambles, much to salesgirl Jo Stockton's (Audrey Hepburn) dismay. Avery stays behind to help her clean up. Later, he examines the photos taken there and sees Jo in the background of one shot. He is intrigued by her unique appearance, as is Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson), the editor of a leading fashion magazine. They offer Jo a modeling contract, which she reluctantly accepts only because it includes a trip to Paris. Eventually, her snobbish attitude toward the job softens, and Jo begins to enjoy the work and the company of her handsome photographer. |
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