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Titles starting from letter "L"
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Bud White (Russel Crowe) and Ed Huxley (Guy Pearce) are LA cops in the 50s. These guys are so different that sometimes they even hate each other, but now they are to work together at the murder which should be solved at any cost. Wide LA beaches and the bright sun of California seems to be the perfect crime scene as the mafia bosses compete to occupy an empty place on the top of the criminal hierarchy after the main mafia boss was imprisoned to serve a long term. Kim Basinger appears in the film as a high-paid prostitute-blackmailer.
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1660. The France is being lacerated by the struggle between the king and the cardinal, each of them is having its own army: cardinal controls guardians, and the musketeers are loyal to the king. Legendary swordsman Jacques D'Artagnan's best days may be well behind him, he has schooled his daughter Valentine (Susie Amy) well in the way of the sword. Now it's time for Valentine to strike out on her own. With her father's sword and a letter of introduction to Commander Flint (Roy Dotrice), the eager young novice sets out to seek her fortune in Paris. |
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Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix), a Baltimore firefighter who was trapped in an inferno, in a blazing high rise. His life starts flashing before his eyes as he remembers fighting his first fire, bonding with fellow firefighters, falling in love with a beautiful local girl (Jacinda Barrett), getting married, and having children. He also looks back on forming a close relationship with the first mentor (John Travolta), the man, who helped him realize what it takes to be firefighter. This man, the fire chief Mike Kennedy, now is to lead his rescue. |
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This suspenseful drama tells the story of Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti), an apartment building superintendent in Philadelphia, who one night finds a mysterious naked woman swimming in the pool. The bizarre events that ensue make him believe that the young woman is none other than a narf called Story, a fairy tale character. She has come from the Blue World to warn mankind of a race of deadly wolf-type creatures that hide in the dark corners of the condominium, waylaying their victims. It’s up to Cleveland to assemble tenants to assist the nymph in accomplishing her mission, avoiding the violent scrunts, and returning to her watery world via an eagle. |
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Three sisters and a group of their friends take a trip to the home of the recently deceased grandfather — who died a particularly grisly death — to learn more about the promise of an inheritance, only to encounter a family of psychos who have taken up residence in the old man's cabin. |
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A lonely hospital doctor, Kate Forster (Sandra Bullock), happens to find her twin soul – a talented but frustrated architect, Alex Wyler (Keanu Reeves). The amazing thing is that he lives in the very same glass house in a lake where she used to live. The two begin exchanging letters and eventually develop a long distance relationship. When Kate and Alex become overwhelmed by the urge to meet each other, they face a very powerful obstacle standing in their way. It turns out that they are living in disparate time periods: he in 2004 and she in 2006. They disclose that the enchanted mailbox outside the lake house is the only link between past and future. Alex and Kate try their darndest to find means to bridge the distance between them. |
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In this new tale a harrowing vision of a modern-day world where the walking dead roam an uninhabited wasteland and the living try to lead "normal" lives behind the walls of a fortified city. A new society has been built by a handful of enterprising, ruthless opportunists, who live in the towers of a skyscraper, high above the hard-scrabble existence on the streets below. But outside the city walls, an army of the dead is evolving. Inside, anarchy is on the rise. With the very survival of the city at stake, a group of hardened mercenaries is called into action to protect the living from an army of the dead. |
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Welcome to the world of the super-speed and extreme risk, the world where the fastest cars race under the scorching sun of the hottest desert of America! These races are known by the high stakes, and the today's prize is fifty million dollars granted by Clayton Winfree (Greg Travis). Michael Sanger (Billy Zane), an experienced car driver going to be a contestant in the upcoming race along with his father (Ray Wise), they have designed the powerful bolide to break the land speed record, 1000 MPH. The team which is supported by Clayton Winfree is the most dangerous rival, but Michael and his father have a trump card. |
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In the sequel to ‘Lara Croft Tomb Raider’, Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie), a bewitching aristocrat, archaeologist and venturesome explorer, sets out on her journey to a submerged temple called the Cradle of Life in search of the notorious Pandora's Box, a unique artifact which was considered to be the root of all evil in ancient times. Lara’s mission is finding the powerful Box before it falls into the wrong hands, namely, into the hands of Chen Lo (Simon Yam), a Chinese crime kingpin. Lo teams up with Jonathan Reiss (Ciaran Hinds), an ominous scientist whose malicious intent is to use the Box as weapons of mass distruction. Lara’s associate to help with the abnormally dangerous and arduous task is Terry Sheridan (Gerard Butler), her ex-boyfriend. While travelling around the world they visit such exotic places as Greece, Hong Kong, Kenya and Tanzania to save humanity. |
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She is an exceptional case. Divinely beautiful, incredibly clever and courageous – a rose without thorn! She speaks foreign languages, is skilled in hand-to-hand fighting and weapons training, and able to survive in extreme conditions. There is no woman on the planet to compare with her. This girl is a daughter of Lord Richard Croft (Jon Voight). Her name is Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie). She is a tireless adventurer and archeologist who travels to exotic places in search of lost treasures and artifacts. This time she must find the unique artifact that grants the possessor ultimate power over space and time. Lara starts a race against time to get the two halves of the Triangle of Light before a crew of villains called the Illuminati acquires the talisman. The destiny of the human race is in Lara's delicate and safe hands... |
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The violent attack on Matthew Shepard was the kind of wakeup call a society fortunately doesn't get very often. Shepard, a gay college student, was found tied to a fence after being hardly beaten to death (he died five days later). This tragedy made Laramie, WY, infamous overnight in the fall of 1998 and set American society in debates on homophobia. This film is the response of the one American playwright Moises Kaufman, his goal was to create a play that focused not on the assault on Matthew Shepard, but on the community where such an attack could happen, and how many of the citizens reacted to the crime. The result is this inquiry into hate and the thoughts and feelings of an American community. It's a film, based on the play by the troupe, that presents the details of the slaying as revealed by those closest to it, and the truth lies in the details. |
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A laid-back restaurant health inspector Larry is not met with open arms at the various fancy eateries he inspects. He begins to investigate an outbreak of mysterious food poisonings at the city's most expensive restaurants. But when his bizarre methods cost him his job, Larry has to go undercover to bring the conspirators to justice. |
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Young Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien) gets to the other side of the silver screen and he meets his idol - Arnold Schwarzenegger who appears in the film as an action superhero Jack Slater. Danny becomes a participant of an action, and what is more, becomes the workmate of the movie superstar. The most difficult trial awaits our heroes when Slater gets into the real world facing the real, not the onscreen, offenders. Here, in the real world, he can die as every other man. This movie contains many allusions to the several famous Schwarzenegger's films - "Terminator -1, -2, Predator, True Lies" and other. |
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This tough, ironic action begins when a strip teaser girl gets killed by a maniac. A cop (Bruce Willis) tries to find the criminal, and the only man who can help is a former sportsman James Alexander Dix (Damon Wayans). The threads which can explain the murder, lead to the high politics and professional football teams. Bones crunch, bullets fly and dark jokes spout in the film by Tonny Scott (Top Gun and other). |
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World War II should be ended before Christmas. In this daring attempt 35,000 British troops are dropped behind the enemy lines in occupied Holland. Meanwhile, a small top-secret group of skilled men, codename "Matchbox", is shot down on its way to the landing zone where they should carry out an order to get hold the valuable booty and bring it back to the US war effort. "Matchbox" soldiers suddenly ran into three renegade Germans who also intended to get the hidden cache of Nazi gold and, further, to lay claim to the horde. |
| Last Emperor, The
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China, UK, France, Italy]
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| He was the Lord of Ten Thousand Years, the absolute monarch of China. He was born to rule a world of ancient tradition. Nothing prepared him for our world of change. |
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A biography of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at the age of three was named the Emperor of China, and dies as a gardener at the Botanical Gardens of Peking. Told in an interesting flashback/flashforward style, we learn of Pu Yi's childhood, the time he spent imprisoned in the Forbidden City, his term as the emperor of Japans Manchuguo, and his eventual release back to public life in 1959. |
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This suspence drama begins when two ordinary women falls on evil times when the car wreckage happens. One is a single mother of a handicapped son; another is a careerist trying to combine her high-pressure career and her family demands. When the police is involved, it becomes clear that the car crash was not a simple coincidence after all. But however it may be, each woman's life spirals out of control. |
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Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) lives small life having big dreams, despite her perfect skills in the kitchen, she lives frugally and doesn't put her talent to use. Suddenly she finds out she's to be gone in three weeks to live. There, thinking she has nothing to lose, Georgia cashes her savings and throws all cautions to the wind. She heads to Europe to have fun for the last time. She has nothing to lose, so Georgia tells what she thinks and do everything she wants. What will be an ending? |
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Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy), a young idealistic Scottish doctor, wants to escape from the bourgeois life of his parents and thus volunteers to work in a remote Ugandan village. His arrival is coincident with the beginning of Idi Amin's (Forest Whitaker) reign. The new leader unexpectedly offers Garrigan the position of his personal physician, and, enamored by the president's magnanimity and charisma, the doctor accepts a tempting offer. Nicholas soon catches himself being his advisor on all matters, from architecture to foreign affairs. At first he feels proud to be given the honor of being Amin's closest confidante but then becomes appalled by the tyrant's savagery and murderous insanity. Moreover, he realizes that he is abetting Amin. Eventually, Garrigan has to put out considerable effort in order to avoid falling victim to the barbaric dictator and escape Uganda alive. |
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