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Titles starting from letter "M"
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Scott Roper is a wisecracking hostage negotiator. When his friend and fellow police officer is assassinated by a dangerous jewel thief, he is prepared to do just about anything to bring the killer to justice. But as his quiet investigation progresses, he must also train an ultra smart SWAT sniper to become a negotiator just like him. |
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'The Mexican' is a priceless antique pistol belonging to big boss Arnold Margolese (Gene Hackman) who is about to get out of jail. A small-time gangster, Jerry Welbach (Brad Pitt), who has big problems with the mafia, is instructed to travel to Mexico so as to find this cursed legendary gun. What is worse is that he is at outs with his girl-friend Samantha (Julia Roberts) who demands that he break off with the mob. The problems multiply when the gun turns out to be hunted by many other bandits including two hired assassins. |
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This action-packed suspense thriller chronicles four very pivotal days in the life of Michael Clayton (George Clooney), an attorney who works as a fixer at one of the largest and most powerful New York City law firms. For 13 years he has been cleaning up messy situations for substantial clientele of the firm. Despite being burned-out and disgusted with his depraved clients, Clayton keeps doing his job to pay off his addicted brother's immense debt and his own one. Moreover, he experiences midlife crisis caused by his divorce and a failed personal business. To make matters worse, he is assigned to track down his former mentor, Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson), the firm's top litigator who has a nervous breakdown while defending a shady agrochemical company from a complicated multi-million dollar class action suit. Clayton is faced with a moral dilemma of whether to help his partner or to capture him. |
| Midnight Clear
[2006,
USA]
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| For many people, the holidays are the loneliest time of year. Merry Christmas. |
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A recently homeless and jobless loser, a senior citizen estranged from her family, a mother of one dealing with her husband's brain damage, a gas station owner stuck in a job he hates, and a youth pastor feeling irrelevant face depression and loneliness on Christmas Eve. As they cross paths and experience random and minor acts of kindness, their lives are changed forever. |
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Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express". |
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New York based freelance journalist John Kelso (John Cusack) arrives in the small town of Savannah to write a feature on an extravagant Christmas party held by local wealthy socialite James 'Jim' Williams (Kevin Spacey). Later that night, the host of the party acting in self-defence shoots dead his gay lover, Billy Carl Hanson (Jude Law), a troublesome young man. Clint Eastwood depicts the murder trial in great detail and states two different versions of the incident without giving any definite answer how the murder was committed. |
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Jack Walsh is a former cop from Chicago, who was framed by criminal he was investigating and about to arrest. He is now a bounty hunter based in Los Angeles. His boss wants him to find, Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas, an accountant, who was working for Las Vegas mobster, who stole millions of dollars from him and gave it away. His boss was the one who bailed him out, and now unless he can get him back in L.A. in the next 5 days, he will forfeit the bond and be placed out of business. So he sends Jack to get him, which is Midnight Run or easy job in the bail bond business. Except for the fact that the man The Duke stole the money from, wants to get him, and he is also the same man who framed Jack. And also the FBI wants to get Mardukas so that they can use him to get his boss, so they warn Walsh not to get in their way. But Walsh nevertheless finds The Duke and is about bring him back but when Mardukas claims that he has difficulty with flying the airline throws them out of the plane, so they have to go back on the road. When Walsh's boss, learns that he didn't arrive when he was suppose to, he sends another bounty hunter, Marvin, who is Jack's greatest adversary, to get Mardukas. And when Marvin cancels Walsh's card, they don't have enough funds to make it all the way, so they have to scrape everything they have. And it doesn't help that Mardukas is doing everything he can to escape, cause he says that his former boss can get him even in jail. |
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Lenny and Amanda have an adopted son Max who turns out to be brilliant. Lenny becomes obsessed with finding Max's real parents because he believes that they too must be brilliant. When he finds that Linda Ash is Max' real mother, Lenny is disappointed. Linda is a prostitute and porn star. On top of that, she is quite possibly the dumbest person Lenny has ever met. Interwoven is a Greek chorus linking the story with the story of Oedipus. |
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This biopic drama follows the life and death of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (Dan Futterman) who went missing while researching a story about the infamous shoe bomber Richard Reid in Karachi, Pakistan. Six months gone with child, his wife Mariane (Angelina Jolie) embarked on a desperate quest to find him, calling on the FBI, Pakistani police, and American embassy personnel to help. However, she soon got the shattering news that Daniel was captured by terrorists, denounced as an Israeli spy and beheaded. Afterwards the kidnappers made the videotape of Daniel's execution public through the media... |
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Long ago in Central Africa, a little girl and a baby gorilla were left orphans after their respective mothers had been killed by ruthless poachers. Twenty years later zoologist Gregg O'Hara (Bill Paxton), who was leading a safari expedition in the Pangani Mountains, came upon beautiful jungle girl Jill Young (Charlize Theron) and Joe, a gigantic awesome gorilla that was actually an innocent and good-natured creature. Aware of threats from ferocious and greedy trophy-hunters, Gregg was able to convince Jill of the need for moving the endangered gorilla to a California animal conservancy. But Joe wasn’t safe at the facility for long as the very same hunter, Andrei Strasser (Rade Serbedzija), appeared with the nefarious intention of stealing and selling Joe on the black market.
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Major Nick Reed is an intrepid analyst for Army Intelligence. It's his job to locate a secret enemy base whose fighters - the dreaded Ghost Squadron - attack our bombers. Complicating his efforts is a chance meeting with his former love, Lt. Monica Tasty, and her current beau, Major Mitch Dunning. Can Reed find the fighter base in time for the 4th Armoured to attack? Will the Nazi learn our next target and send the Ghost Squadron to attack our bombers? Why do some women fall for the bad boys, completely ignoring the good responsible men right in front of them? Learn the answers in 'At War With Intelligence.' |
| Million Dollar Baby
[2004,
USA]
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| Beyond his silence, there is a past. Beyond her dreams, there is a feeling. Beyond hope, there is a memory. Beyond their journey, there is a love. |
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Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) is a veteran boxing trainer who has devoted his life to the ring and has precious little to show for it. His daughter is estranged from him, and he spends the twilight years of his life running a small, ramshackle gym in downtown Los Angeles. When Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) walks into his gym, things get changed. In a life of constant struggle, Maggie made herself this far on raw talent, unshakable focus and a tremendous force of will. Initially refusing to train Maggie due to her gender and age, Frankie relents when faced with her tenacity, spirit, and burning ambition. They form a sport tandem of great tutelage, and a talent. "Million Dollar Baby" also stars Morgan Freeman, Anthony Mackie, and Mike Colter. The movie is adapted from a short story by F.X. Toole, a former corner man with years of experience in the fight game. |
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When UK economics is to switch from pounds to euro, a poorly-secured train crammed full with respective pounds is being robbed. Seven-years old Damien and his brother unexpectedly get a money-filled sack voyage literally fallen from the sky. This visually sophisticated, ethically loaded and emotionally nuanced movie follows Damien as he discovers the human nature being a kind of a visionary in the mystic sense of this word. Damian is anxious to share the wealth with those less fortunate while his fun-loving brother Anthony would rather spend it like there's no tomorrow! Anyway, the 265,000 British pounds should be spent before the UK nation switches over to the Euro. |
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In the midst of the XXI century, new psychological technologies have made the crime prevention almost absolutely effective in this movie set in Washington DC. All crimes are being interrupted even before its commission, all future offenders get jailed before the coming victim will suffer. John Anderton (Tom Cruise) works for the Pre-crime Division, which obtains future crime data from three genetically altered humans (Pre-Cogs), a kind of extrasensory individuals who are maintained by the chemicals. John had lost his child, a little girl several years ago. Suddenly it becomes known that Anderton is soon-to-kill somebody, a man he don't even know. John can't believe this, and now he is outlawed trying to find the truth about himself, he gets to know that the minority report exists: Agatha, one of the Pre-Cogs, is having her separate opinion on the difficult situation... |
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As the Greece mythology tells, the Minotaur was an half-man, half-bull creature which was locked inside the labyrinth until Theseus killed it. This movie is a brand new interpretation of an ancient monster story, in which a village is regularly plundered for its youths to feed the monster that lives below the castle. A young man sets out to slay the title creature after the man's love was sacrificed to the half-man, half-bull. A leper seer tells him that his beloved is alive, and that Theo (Tom Hardy) must go to the island castle to kill the beast and save his love. There he discloses the truth about the Minotaur facing the king Deucalion and the Minotaur, supported by Deucalion's sister, the queen Raphaella. |
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Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother's major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it's up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she's in a dream, or something far more sinister. |
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Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France. |
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Roslyn is a very beautiful woman who just got divorced. She meets two friends, Guido and Gay, who take her to Guido's house in the country to relax and forget the difficulties of the past few weeks. Everything is fine at first, but soon the two men fall in love with Roslyn and start showing some bad aspects of their characters. Soon they meet another friend of Gay's, and the four of them go to hunt some wild horses. This is when things just... explode! |
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Georgina is an ambitious young London professional who learns she has only one month left in which to conceive a child. After exhausting all possibilities with her baby-phobic boyfriend, Georgina turns to her wildly optimistic friend Clem, with whom she sets out to identify and "land" the perfect father for her child. |
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When men meet Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) in the street, they never follow her with their eyes, except for those situations, when she is armed and pursues a criminal. Gracie is an experienced FBI agent, and the lack of good manners and charm is more than compensated for by her marksmanship and martial arts skills. But her life takes an unexpected twist when she is assigned to go undercover as a contestant in the Miss America pageant in order to prevent one of the most dangerous criminals from bombing the competition. The bumbling Gracie wears neither a dress nor high heels. She doesn't wear make-up either. In her cosmetics bag there is nothing but a pair of handcuffs. An image consultant, Victor Melling (Michael Caine), will have a hard time beautifying Gracie and teaching her poise, gracefulness and perfect smile. |
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