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Titles starting from letter "N"
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This thought-provoking movie is divided into three chapters concerning three different men whose lives intertwine in the most bizarre and mysterious ways.
"The Prisoner" tells the story of a popular Hollywood TV actor named Gary (Ryan Reynolds) who becomes distraught after being dumped by his girlfriend. To cope with the sharp pain of the breakup, he drinks and uses crack cocaine, then decides to burn her belongings but uses too much lighter fluid and burns down his house. After his escapade Gary ends up living under home arrest and the supervision of a cheery, serious publicist, Margaret (Melissa McCarthy), who moves him into the empty house of a television writer. He befriends an attractive next-door neighbor, Sarah (Hope Davis), and mysteriously becomes haunted by the number nine.
"Reality Television" focuses on Gavin (Ryan Reynolds), the house's owner who is away in Canada. He is shooting a supernatural network television drama starring his best friend Melissa McCarthy. When the network boss and studio executive Susan (Hope Davis) decide to replace Melissa with another actress, Gavin must tell her bad news.
"Knowing" finds a videogame designer, Gabriel (Ryan Reynolds), facing car trouble on an outing in the Hollywood Hills. Leaving his wife Mary (Melissa McCarthy) and child (Elle Fanning) in the car, he goes to seek help and encounters Sierra (Hope Davis), a strangely wary woman.
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Based on the book The Club Dumas, written by Arturo Perez-Reverte. Dean Corso, a somewhat sleazy rare book dealer, is hired by a mysterious patron who has just come into possession of one of the only three copies of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows (a 17th century occult text said to give its owner unimaginable power). The man hires Corso to track down the other two copies and compare them to his, but complications - both natural and supernatural - arise at every turn. |
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Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande. |
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The year is 2022, prison systems from all over the world are now run by private corporations and have become business. After being sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his commanding officer who ordered him to wipe out innocent people. Convicted soldier John Robbins is dumped on the prison island Absolom (after he refused to execute his cell-mate and assaulted the Warden). On Absolom, convicts are put there to either survive or die. Robbins finds the prison island is inhabited by two camps, The Outsiders, tribes of savage prisoners led by the evil Walter Merrick and The Insiders, a community of prisoners living in a fortified village "The Compound" led by The Father. Robbins finds escape from Absolom is impossible, surveillance satellites monitor Absolom and gunships prevent all convicts from escaping from the prison island and The Warden has secretly put a spy on Absolom. Caught up in a feud between the two camps, Robbins is determined to escape from the prison island and finds it is his ultimate challenge as nobody has ever escaped and he agrees to help The Insiders defend "The Compound" from The Outsiders. |
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After various skirmishes, two wounded soldiers, one Bosnian and one Serb, confront each other in a trench in the no man's land between their lines. They wait for dark, trading insults and even finding some common ground; sometimes one has the gun, sometimes the other, sometimes both. Things get complicated when another wounded Bosnian comes to, but can't move because a bouncing mine is beneath him. The two men cooperate to wave white flags, their lines call the UN (whose high command tries not to help), an English reporter shows up, a French sergeant shows courage, and the three men in no man's land may or may not find a way to all get along. |
| No Mercy
[1986,
USA]
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| When passion and hatred know no limits, expect no mercy. |
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Maverick Chicago cop Eddie Jillette poses as a hit man to meet with someone in from New Orleans looking to have a job done. The result is that both the guy and Jillette's partner wind up very dead, while a stunning blonde in on the setup disappears. He heads south to settle the score and soon finds himself being hunted, with the girl in tow and the local police anything but happy. New Orleans may never be the same again. |
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Master chef Kate Armstrong (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is so addicted to her work that her whole life revolves around pans and pots. But her existence is drastically changed when she becomes the sole caregiver for her ten-year-old grief-stricken niece Zoe (Abigail Breslin) after the death of her sister in a car accident. As is known, misfortunes never come alone. Kate also must contend with a self-assured, free-wheeling sous-chef named Nick Palmer (Aaron Eckhart) who is hired without her prior approval and whom she perceives as a serious rival. As their rivalry grows into a romance, Kate has to learn to express herself outside the sanctuary of her kitchen. |
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Teenager Jason Stillwell (Kurt McKinney) is fed up with being beaten by local bullies. As a Bruce Lee fan, he dreams of being trained by his idol, a martial arts expert. Fortunately for him, Jason is visited by the ghost of Bruce Lee who teaches him how to defeat even a formidable adversary. After several weeks of training Jason is forced to use his newly acquired karate skills to withstand an organized crime syndicate whose leader is the invincible Ivan Kraschinsky (Jean-Claude Van Damme). |
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A lonely orphan sheds his fear of the dark by taking an illuminating journey into the realm where nighttime truly comes alive in co-directors Adrià García and Victor Maldonado's imaginative animated lullaby. |
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A story of several intertwined characters unfolds in this comedy drama when their paths cross in unexpected ways during the holiday season. Rose Harrison's (Susan Sarandon) mother is interned in a hospital with Alzheimer's disease, Rose is a middle-aged divorcee who use to visit her mother often. Robin Williams plays the mysterious fellow who later prevents her from possibly jumping in the East River. Mike is engaged to marry the beautiful Nina (Penélope Cruz), but he's so consumed with jealousy and suspicion that she's not sure if she can go through with the wedding. Meantime, Mike (Paul Walker) portrays a police officer who has become the obsessive focus of an elderly waiter, Artie (Alan Arkin), who is convinced Mike is the reincarnation of his late wife. Paul Walker's character reveals great depths of painful feeling as the cop struggling to save his future family. Chazz Palminteri, well-known as an actor, directed this, his first feature film. Though set in New York, the movie was filmed in Montreal. |
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An historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan, where a young man is destined to unite the country's three warring tribes. |
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It falls to Norbit's lot to undergo many severe trials. As a kid, he (Eddie Murphy) is abandoned at the door of a Chinese restaurant and reared by Mr. Wong (Eddie Murphy). During his schooldays the spineless Norbit is forced to pay court to an aggressive masterful obese girl, Rasputia (also Eddie Murphy), because she protects him from bullies. Some years later, he dares not protest and leads his 'protector' to the altar. Rasputia's aim in life is to eat to satiety and humble her weak-willed henpecked husband. When Norbit's childhood flame, Kate Thomas (Thandie Newton), comes back to town, he ventures to resort to various tricks in order to get rid of his tyrannical, monstrous, unfaithful spouse and win the heart of Kate who is engaged to Deion Hughes (Cuba Gooding Jr.). |
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Devastated by the abuse from her husband, Josey Aimes (Charlize Theron) gets a divorce and returns to her hometown in North Minnesota. With two kids to take care of, Josey takes a back-breaking job at the iron mine where she becomes one of only a handful of female employees and faces harsh reality. Along with the other women, she endures humiliation and sexual harassment from the male miners who brook no competition from womanhood. Despite the risk of losing her good-paying job, Josey finds the courage to take legal action against the company in order to stand up for herself and her fellow female coworkers. As a result, the case becomes the first sexual harassment lawsuit in the history of the United States to be won. |
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Sam (John Wayne) and George (Stewart Granger) strike gold in Alaska. George sends Sam to Seattle to bring George's fiance back to Alaska. Sam finds she is already married, and returns instead with Angel (Capucine). Sam, after trying to get George and Angel together, finally romances Angel, who, in the meantime, is busy fighting off the advances of George's younger brother, Billy (Fabian). Frankie (Ernie Kovacs) is a con man trying to steal the partner's gold claim. |
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In a near-empty Northfork orphanage, Father Harlan gently tends to Irwin, a eight-year-old who lies between a dreamstate and death. As orphanage caretaker Harlan reads aloud about Northfork's years-ago forced evacuation to make way for a hydro-electric dam, Irwin's imagination takes flight. While a team of six men evacuate the last remaining citizens of the town, Irwin, too, invents a cast of characters to prepare himself for his own evacuation. |
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After breaking up with his girlfriend, Priscilla (Pressly), a popular jock, Jake Wyler (Evans) makes a bet with his friends, that he can't make 'ugly girl' Janey Briggs (Leigh) into prom queen. After spending more and more time with Janey, Jake really starts to think whether he wants to keep the bet on or not. |
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The compelling drama opens in a nursing home where an elderly man named Duke (James Garner) regularly visits an invalid woman (Gena Rowlands) whom he reads a touching story of enduring love from a tattered old notebook. The story follows two young sweethearts, socialite Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) and poor country boy Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling), who were separated by Allie's snobbish parents and World War II. Noah wrote 365 letters to his beloved but Allie's mom (Joan Allen) kept them from reaching her. After waiting to hear from Noah for seven years, Allie decided to marry a wealthy war veteran, Lon Hammond (James Marsden). But when fate once again threw them together, Allie and Noah became seized by overwhelming passion. Allie had to make a difficult choice between her first love and her prosperous fiancé... |
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Barbara Covett (Judi Dench) is a 65-year-old cynical, disdainful woman with a lot of experience under her belt. She is a formidable long-tenured history teacher at a London comprehensive school who is feared but respected by both her students and colleagues. A lonely old maid, Barbara unburdens herself to a diary, her only companion. The habitual course of events is changed by the appearance of a young art teacher, Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett), who charms both the faculty and her pupils, including the acerbate Barbara. She instantly takes the new teacher under her wing. For Covett, Sheba is more than a friend; she is the object of her sexual interest. Later, Barbara discovers that she is not the only one attracted to the beautiful Sheba. As it turns out, Sheba cheats on her older husband Richard (Bill Nighy) by having illicit amorous encounters with a 15-year-old student, Steven Connolly (Andrew Simpson), who is deeply infatuated with her. However, Barbara isn't going to take it lying down. She knows how to take advantage of it. |
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William Thacker (Hugh Grant) was a shy, kind, attractive Englishman who kept a small travel bookstore in the Notting Hill district in West London and shared an apartment with a whimsical Welsh pal, Spike (Rhys Ifans). The chance meeting with a celebrated American movie star, Anna Scott (Julia Roberts), who one day dropped into his store, could have ended in nothing if William hadn't run out a few minutes later to buy some coffee. On his way back to the shop, he accidentally rammed into Anna in the street, spilling the coffee onto her blouse. The gentlemanlike William kindly offered to remove a spot at his nearby house and Anna agreed. They began dating and love blossomed between the ordinary guy and the famous actress was ardent and romantic. Nevertheless the idyl came to an end when Anna's actor boyfriend Jeff King (Alec Baldwin) arrived in London to see her... |
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Screenwriter Hudson Milbank suffers from acute depersonalization disorder. So alienated from his own life that he makes the chronically depressed look perky, Hudson lives alone, watches The Golf Channel all day, can't hang on to a relationship, shoplifts in order to get his adrenalin up off the floor, fears that thinking about his dad's death will bring it to pass, loathes his mother, and in general, is as nutty as a crapshack in a peanut farm. Obsessed with the underlying sadness that infuses his wretched existence, Hudson is a man in hell, but he thinks that his long catalogue of dismally unsatisfying and mutually self-destructive relationships is over when SARA stumbles into his life. He knows she can save him. She knows he has to save himself. Together they save each other. And it's funny too. |
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