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Titles starting from letter "N"
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Chased by school bullies, reprimanded by his father for daydreaming too much Bastian is lost in his own world. Bastian escapes school bullies one rainy day by hiding in an old used book store. After explaining his predicament to the old clerk Bastian notices a large leather bound book with a symbol of two snakes intertwined into an emblem. Soon after the clerk warns Bastian that this book is not for him Bastian, rushes away with it "borrowing" it, while the clerk is in another room. Taking refuge in the attic of his school Bastian opens the book, and a world of fantasy. Learning that the wonderous, beautiful land of Fantasia is being destroyed by a terrible "Nothing" Bastian is taken deeper into the story. Soon discovering the ChildLike Empress is deathly ill, the cause; she needs a new name. A young warrior named Atreyu is called and Bastian follows his adventures, unknowing that he, himself is slowly being written into the mysterious book. Soon realizing that he is now written in the book Bastian realizes that the only one who can save Fantasia is him. |
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Dizzy Harrison is an unpopular, high school geek going through a hellish senior year. In an attempt to make a new identity for himself, Dizzy gets himself expelled from his high school, learns the technics of being cool from a prison inmate, and enrolls at a new high school under the alias Gil Harris, to make new friends where he soon gains respect from the jocks and geeks alike. Dizzy then gets noticed by the head cheerleader, Danielle, and helps the school football team gain self-respect to win games. But things unknowingly begin to turn sour when Danielle's disgruntled boyfriend begins investigating into "Gil Harris'" past to uncover any dirt on him. |
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In 1989, Nino Brown, a small time drug dealer, is convinced by one of his fellow thugs that the wave of the future is in the cocaine derivative, crack. Brown sees potential in crack and sets out to establish himself as chief kingpin by killing off his rivals and even going as far as to take over a whole apartment complex. Out to stop him are undercover cops Scottie Appleton and Nick Paretti. Appleton especially wants to get Nino because of the fact that he murdered Scottie's mother as part of a gang initiaton. Also involved is Pookie, a former crackhead who wants to bring down Nino as well. |
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In the not-too-distant future, brilliant Japanese geneticist Hiroshi (Yoshitaka Amano) becomes a bone of contention between two multinational rival corporations. Hiroshi works for a German company, Maas, to which he is devoted body and soul. His microbiological inventions can turn the world upside down and bring profits running into billions. Therefore a Japanese zaibatsu, Hosaka, enlists help from two cynical head-hunters, Fox (Christopher Walken) and X (Willem Dafoe), in persuading the top scientist to defect from Maas. If they succeed in getting him, they will be paid $100 million. In order to seduce Hiroshi, they hire a young sexy girl, Sandii (Asia Argento), promising $1 million. But things go haywire when X has a huge crush on the gorgeous girl... |
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USA]
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Cris Johnson (Nicolas Cage) was born with a special gift to see two minutes into the future and change it to suit himself. Unwilling to attract attention to his ability, he works as a magician with the stage name of Frank Cadillac, performing third-rate shows in Las Vegas and living off "winnings" on slot machines. Unfortunately for Cris, both casino security and the FBI somehow learn of his power and want to take advantage of it. The casino bosses want him to rob the house. FBI agent Callie Ferris (Julianne Moore) wants him to thwart the detonation of a nuclear device in Los Angeles. Cris, however, wants nothing to do with the former and the latter. The reason is that his love interest is Liz Cooper (Jessica Biel), a seductive schoolteacher, who is inexplicably linked to this bomb scheme, and he is not about to jeopardize a promising affair with the girl of his dreams. |
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Abbie Reynolds (Madonna) is a 30-year-old yoga instructor whose years go never to return. All her efforts to succeed in business and find her significant other are still in vain. The only soul mate with a shoulder to cry on is her best childhood friend, Robert Whittaker (Rupert Everett). He is a successful landscaper and a bright, witty, responsive person who can always help by word and deed. He would be a perfect match for Abbie if he weren't a gay. However, their friendly relations take a different twist when, after drinking too many cocktails one night, they black out and can't remember what happened between them, but Abbie soon turns up pregnant. Will they find a way out of this delicate situation? |
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Craig Jones (Ice Cube) is a street-smart all right. Raised in the ghetto in South Central Los Angeles, he faces up to any difficulties in life. Last Friday Craig confronted a neighborhood bully, Debo (Tommy 'Tiny' Lister), and beat him to a pulp. There are rumors that Debo is bent on escaping from prison to wreak vengeance upon Craig. So Craig's father decides to send his offspring to the suburbs to live with his cousin Day-Day (Mike Epps) and unemployed Uncle Elroy (Don "DC" Curry) who has won the lottery and lost his sense of reality. While a Latin American bombshell, Karla Joker (Lisa Rodríguez), who lives across the street, gets attracted to Craig and is desperate to capture his attention, her bloodthirsty, armed gangster brothers, Joker (Jacob Vargas), Little Joker (Lobo Sebastian) and Baby Joker (Rolando Molina), seethe with wrath. In short, there is never a dull moment for him. The main thing is to smoke dope and not to take it too seriously. |
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Gene Watson (Johnny Depp) is an ordinary public accountant returning home from his ex-wife's funeral and is met by Mr Smith (Christopher Walken) and Ms. Jones (Roma Maffia) who kidnap his daughter (Courtney Chase) and give him a gun, six bullets, a name-tag that will give him access to anywhere in a specific hotel, and the itinerary of Governor Grant (Marsha Mason) and is informed that he must kill the Governor in 1 hour and 15 minutes or his daughter will die. The rest of the movie follows Mr. Watson as he desperately attempts to warn the Governor without the knowledge of the two and finds out that the conspiracy against her reaches all the way to those she trusts most. |
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DeNiro plays Garry Fabian, a lawyer who is obsessed with a certain quantity of adventurism; he decides to be a boxing promoter despite the fact that his talent to acquire foes between the tough guys is irrefutable. He borrows some money and begins to bustle about. His lover, Helen (Jessica Lang) advices him to leave for California, but he stands his ground. This good, solid, but some sad drama includes few of comedy. |
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Meet Larry Daley (Ben Stiller), an unemployed single father and a born loser. In an attempt to regain authority with his son Nicky (Jake Cherry), Larry takes a job as a graveyard-shift security guard at the Museum of Natural History. In his first nightshift, he sees extraordinary things occurring: all the exhibits come to life (due to an old Egyptian stone). When Larry takes his son to work with him, three former guards break into the museum to steal the magic stone, and Larry proves to Nicky that he is, indeed, a great man. He shows his savvy and bravery by organizing the historic characters to help him arrest the criminals and save the museum.
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The Butabi Brothers, Steve (Will Ferrell) and Doug (Chris Kattan), are not exactly the smartest and the most charismatic, but they sure are energetic and cheerful. Their dearest dream is to set up their own club as hip as The Roxbury, one of Hollywood's best night spots. However, the problem is that they have never been there as it is not easy to get on the Roxbury guest list. One night they arrive at a decision to try to enter the club at all hazards... |
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The suspenseful drama revolves around Gabriel Noone (Robin Williams), an aging gay who works as a late-night radio show host. When his program is on the air, Gabriel receives a phone call from a 14-year-old listener, Pete (Rory Culkin), who tells him the sad story of his hard life. As a child, Pete suffered sexual abuse at the hands of his parents who are serving time in federal prison now. After his parents' arrest his life, however, didn't become easier. Pete was adopted by a kind-hearted blind woman, Donna D. Logand (Toni Collette), but shortly afterwards doctors found that he had a terminal case of AIDS. The story of the little martyr evokes strong emotions in Gabriel, and he develops a friendly phone relationship with the boy. Eventually, Gabriel begins to have paternal feelings for the poor boy. But he soon discovers the bitter truth... |
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This movie consists of 5 different novels dedicated to taxi drivers who live in five different cities, every novel has its specific theme, which is peculiar to each action scene. LA and NY, Paris and Rome are the scenes where the stories about cities, culture, blind and seeing, life and death unroll. And the theme of man's abandonment develops in the snow-covered Helsinki. |
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Welcome to the far future when the Earth lies in ruins, including City 2035. In order to keep power over people, the city's corrupt government decides to implant chips into their heads. Due to the chips creating a false reality, the people think they live in a dream city and are as happy as happy can be. There is only a handful of citizens with disabled chips who see reality the way it really is and plot to foment a revolution. |
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Japanese detective Keiko Kirishima discovers that two suicide cases were in fact murders after the evidence reveals that both victims were attacked in their dreams. This supernatural thriller follows Keiko as she tries to enlist the help of the NIGHTMARE DETECTIVE her only hope against a paranormal serial killer. |
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After receiving an African fertility mask as a gift Ellen (Blythe Metz) tells her husband William (Luciano Szafir) that she's been attacked by masked phantom called 'the Nightmare Man'. As Ellen's paranoia increases, William takes Ellen for a road trip to a clinic, only to have their car break down, and when William goes off, Ellen is attacked for real by the Nightmare Man. Fleeing through the dense woods, Ellen seeks shelter in the remote cabin home of Mia (Tiffany Shepis), with her friends Jack (James Ferris), Ed (Jack Sway), and Trinity (Hanna Putnam), who give her shelter, but are soon besieges in their home by Nightmare Man. But the real horror comes when Ellen slowly reveals to harbor a MORE evil and deadly thing within her which could spell death for everyone involved. |
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17-year old Jesse Walsh and his family have moved into Nancy Thompson's old house on Elm Street. No sooner are they moved in than Jesse begins to have horrific nightmares - ones that feature a burned man in a dirty red & green sweater, with knives on the fingers of his right hand. His neighbor & new sweetheart, Lisa, discovers the truth behind Fred Krueger and his horrible murder spree. Freddy vows to take over Jesse's body to continue his vile crimes against the Elm Street residents. Soon, people close to Jesse start dying violently - his ex-Marine coach, one of his classmates, many others at a pool party Lisa throws. Will Lisa's love for Jesse be enough to help him overpower the demonic presence inside him? |
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Nancy (Langenkamp) is having nightmares, violent nightmares about a mysterious badly burned man with a razor fingered glove on his right hand that calls himself Freddy (Englund). When she realizes that her friends are having the same nightmares and that one by one they are being brutaly murdered in their sleep she turns to her father (Saxton) who does not believe her and thinks her to be crazy. After she finds out the horrible truth behind Freddy's rampage she decides to take action and bring this dream murderer out of dreamland and into the real world where she can send him straight to where he belongs. |
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With the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt's birth in 2006, NIGHTWATCHING is truly a feast for the senses. Extravagant, suspenseful and sensuously beautiful, the mystery behind the extraordinary artist's infamous painting is perfectly explored by one of the most iconic Directors of our time - Peter Greenaway. The year 1642 marks the turning point in the life of the famous Dutch painter, Rembrandt, turning him from a wealthy respected celebrity into a discredited pauper. At the insistence of his pregnant wife Saskia, Rembrandt has reluctantly agreed to paint the Amsterdam Musketeer Militia in a group portrait that will later become to be known as The Nightwatch. He soon discovers that there is a conspiracy afoot with the Amsterdam merchants playing at soldiers maneuvering for financial advantage and personal power in, that time, the richest city in the Western World. Rembrandt stumbles on a foul murder. Confident in the birth of a longed-for son and heir, Rembrandt is determined to expose the conspiring murderers and builds his accusation meticulously in the form of the commissioned painting, uncovering the seamy and hypocritical side to Dutch Society in the Golden Age. Rembrandt's great good fortune turns. Saskia dies. Rembrandt reveals the accusation of murder in the painting and the conspirators plan revenge. They set out to discredit him at home and abroad. They plant a treacherous mistress, Geertje, to seduce him. They try to blind him. They plan his social and financial ruin, and to create the circumstances for his slide into penury, insult his young mistress Hendrickje, conspire to destroy his son, and bring Rembrandt to his knees. The bold and courageous painting of the Nightwatch, exceptional in aesthetics and content, is Rembrandt's most celebrated painting, it consolidated his reputation as a master-painter but it also destroyed him socially and financially. |
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A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading. It is an existence that mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's father goes missing from their island, a twist of fate brings her together with Alexandra. Now they must draw courage from their fictional hero, Alex Rover, and find strength in one another to conquer Nim's Island. |
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