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Titles starting from letter "P"
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Michael Jennings (Ben Afleck) is a brilliant computer engineer who works for high-tech companies. As soon as the job is done, all memory of what he has been working on is erased from his mind so that he can’t let out any secrets to competitor companies. For his most recent top-secret project that has taken him 5 years, Jennings expects to receive a huge sum of money. When he awakens one day, he, however, receives not his paycheck of four billion dollars, but an envelope filled with 19 random objects he has sent himself before the procedure. Having no opportunity to claim his rights due to his wiped memory, Michael suddenly realizes that the envelope contains the clues to his own past. With the help of his old flame, Dr. Rachel Porter (Uma Thurman), Michael must somehow solve a puzzle until his ex-employers who want him dead find him. |
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The humour-packed, heartwarming drama tells the story of Dan Millan (Scott Mechlowicz), a gifted college gymnast with aspirations of winning the Olympic Games. He seems to have it all: plenty of money, good grades, trophies, fast motorcycles, fast women and wild parties. Despite his many successes, Dan feels restless and empty inside. Haunted by terrifying nightmares, he is forced to run along streets in the early hours of the morning. One night, awakened by another nightmare, he wanders into a service station and encounters an eccentric old man called Socrates (Nick Nolte) who becomes his mentor. Guided by Socrates, Millan embarks on a spiritual odyssey in search of his inner peace and enlightenment. |
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This political thriller tells about how the train which was to transport the russian nuclear missils was blown up by terrorists to steal the arms from aboard. When the information about what was happen reached the White House of US, now is to nuclear physics specialist (Nicole Kidman) and the US Army colonel (George Clooney) to take control over the situation. The missils are in hands of the terrorists, and these guys should be stopped at any cost.
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Rafe McCawley (Ben Affleck) and Danny Walker (Josh Hartnett) are best friends who grew up like brothers in Tennessee. Now they both are pilots of the U.S. Army Air Corps. When Rafe meets a beautiful and valiant nurse, Evelyn Johnson (Kate Beckinsale), the two fall in love. But before they had time to start a romance, Rafe is forced to join the British Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Meanwhile, Danny and Evelyn are relocated to the naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. When they hear that Rafe has been killed, they become close friends and find comfort in each other; the romantic sparks eventually start to fly between them. But when Rafe comes back alive, the childhood friends become enemies. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Government plans to take retaliatory measures and assigns Rafe and Danny for a top-secret mission to bomb Tokyo. Can this highly dangerous task help them to reconcile their conflict? |
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Based on a Conan Doyle's story "The Six Napoleons," this enigmatic crime thriller follows the investigation of master detective Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and his faithful assistant Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) when the priceless "Borgia Pearl", a jewel with a sinister reputation for bringing murder to its owner, is stolen from the British Museum in London by master criminal Giles Conover (Miles Mander). The investigation takes a weird turn when a series of ghastly murders begins, and Holmes discovers the link between the two cases. |
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This is the story of a named Penelope, who is the victim of a curse placed on a wealthy family by a witch. After generations ago, a witch placed a curse on the Wilhern family that would result in the next girl being born into the clan having the face of a pig. The otherwise-normal girl Penelope is forced to endure life with a pig's snout instead of a conventional nose, which has sent many a potential suitor running off into the streets, shouting in terror. Eventually, she runs away from her sheltered existence and overprotective parents, to explore the world on her own. As she meets new friends and a potential lover who doesn't run away, she begins to discover happiness - while all the while her parents believe the only way she can be happy is through an arranged marriage, which will hopefully break her curse. |
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A young couple on the run take a family father as a hostage and are shocked to realize that he actually is a killer... |
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What would you do if you knew about your spouse's adultery? When successful businessman Steven Taylor (Michael Douglas) becomes aware of his wife Emily's (Gwyneth Paltrow) infidelity, he makes inquiries about her lover, David Shaw (Viggo Mortensen). He discovers that David is a marriage swindler with several jail sentences and various scams directed at wealthy women. Steve pays a visit to the lover and makes him a surprise offer: $500,000 in cash for the death of Emily. No less surprising is the fact that David agrees. On the appointed day a masked killer breaks into the Taylors' house. But Emily kills the intruder while defending herself. When the mask is removed, the killer turns out to be a total stranger...
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In the Midwest of USA, the sweethearts Drew (Martin Henderson) and Julia (Piper Perabo) are graduating in the college. Drew convinces Julia to move with him to Los Angeles, where his sister Terri (Kathleen Wilhoite) lives and got a job for him. The young couple become close friends of their neighbors Elyse (Jennifer Tilly) and Lenny Steinberg (Artie Lange ), who owns a small real estate business. However, the immature Drew breaks the relationship with Julia, afraid of the consequences of their commitment. |
| Perfect Storm, The
[2000,
USA, Germany]
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| In the Fall of 1991, the "Andrea Gail" left Gloucester, Mass. and headed for the fishing grounds of the North Atlantic. Two weeks later, an event took place that had never occurred in recorded history. (4 more taglines...) |
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Billy Tyne is a sword-fishing-boat captain out of Gloucester, highly competitive and stung by a string of poor outings. His crew is hardly back in port when he tells them he's going out again, even though it's October and the weather can turn ugly. Five join him: the young Bobby, newly in love; Murph, a devoted father recently divorced; Sully, a guy Murph despises; Bugsy, who's finally met a woman who likes him; and Alfred, a quiet Jamaican. They catch little, so they sail east, with Tyne ignoring storm warnings behind him. Finally, the fish bite, but the ice machine fails. Should they head home through the storm of the century, or wait it out and lose their catch? Fearful, the women wait. |
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When Rowena Price (Halle Berry), a reporter for a major New York paper, launches an investigation into murdering her childhood friend Grace (Nicki Aycox), the trail leads her to Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis), a powerful chief executive officer of a large advertising agency. What she needs to bring the supposed killer to justice is to get the goods on him. With the support of her associate Miles Haley (Giovanni Ribisi), she starts playing the bitter perilous game, posing as Katherine, a temp secretary at Hill's company, and Veronica, a girl the concupiscent Hill flirts with in an Internet chat room. Weaving an intricate web for her prey to get caught, she unwittingly becomes entrapped in a web of deceit, betrayal, manipulation and false truths.
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Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of eighteenth century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume. |
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"Phantom Force" screenplay is seems to have something in common with the one of Lowecraft's novels; submarines, deep sea and an ominous mystic artifact make this supposition believable. Phantom Force is the unique group struggling against the paranormal activity in the depths of the Aegean Sea where the ghostly sub dwells. An ancient and powerful artifact, the Hades Stones, is raised off the ocean floor and brought onboard. The stones are a portal, which connects our world and the spirits realm allowing demons and other terrific beings to creep aboard the mysterious submarine. These gates of Hell can be the devastating weapon of the Judgment day if fallen into the wrong hands. |
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The main character (John Travolta) observes a strange light on his birthday at a bar. The following days he becomes very intell-i-gent and puts the intell-i-gence to good use in his community. When word gets around he becomes known as a freak and everyone wants to figure out why this happened to a car mechanic. The government also wants to get their hands on it to put it to other uses. |
| Philadelphia
[1993,
USA]
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| No one would take on his case... until one man was willing to take on the system. |
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Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) is a young lawyer who is making a career in Philadelphia, in a well-known firm. But one day he finds himself fired - at the first glance, for a minor error, but the real reason is that he is gay and more to say he is AIDS-infected person. Andrew hires an attorney, Joe Miller (Denzel Washington), to defend his interests in the law-court, and the pair tries to fight for the truth. |
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Even a telephone kiosk can become a deadly trap when you have something to hide in connection with your dubious reputation, if you have such. A New-Yorker, journalist Steven Shepard (Colin Farrell) who used to lie to everybody from his boss to his wife and lover, picks up a receiver at a phone booth and becomes the hostage of a maniac sniper who targets him with a laser sight. This guy draws Steve out demanding a forced confession in all his lies, a confession which can cost him his job and relations with his wife. In other hand, denial will cost him his life as well as if he'd hang up the phone. Meanwhile, police forces which gathered around the booth as a passing pedestrian is injured by a maniacal shooter, consider Steve himself as a maniac, being unaware of sniper existence. For liars to notice: one should never pick up a phone ringing in a telephone booth... |
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One of the most accomplished piano players in Poland, Wladyslaw Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans in the 1930s. At last deciding to escape, suffering the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw City Revolt in August/October 1944.
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| Pigs
[2007,
Canada]
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| 26 girls. 26 letters in the alphabet. 1 campus legend. |
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A college ladies man accepts a challenge from his dorm buddies - sleep with the entire alphabet, A through Z, before graduation. The rules are simple: the rarer the first letter of the girl's last name, the higher the payout. All goes well until he falls for the "X". Now he's torn between his feelings for the girl and winning the bet for his friends. |
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The life of Miguel Piñero (Benjamin Bratt), a cult Puerto Rican playwright, poet and actor, is portrayed in the movie. Born in Gurabo, Puerto Rico, he grew up in the slums of New York City. Before he reached the age of 20, he had been sunk in vice. He was a drug addict with a long criminal record but his talent gave him a chance to give up a reckless way of life. He achieved fame by writing his first play "Short Eyes" which was nominated for six Tony Awards and won two of them. He co-founded the Nuyorican Poets Café, created the spoken-word poetry, wrote five plays and played some small movie roles. However, he continued to be a drug addict and was in love with a woman of pleasure. Bohemian lifestyle was his passion; risk was second nature to him. He was a New York idol who preferred walking on the razor's edge. |
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Former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus is nearly set to be released from a mental hospital after being cleared. However, a visit from current Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau resurrects his insanity, and he is denied leaving. Determined to take out Clouseau once and for all, he escapes and blows up Clouseau's apartment, but fails to kill Clouseau. As a back-up plan, he abducts a famous scientist in order to build a Doomsday Machine which vaporizes whatever it shoots. Dreyfus threatens to use it unless Clouseau is exterminated, so reluctantly, 26 countries send their top assassin to kill the Chief Inspector. His clumsiness saves him again, and the assassin's attempts kill each other. In a conquest to save the world, Clouseau heads out to put an end to Dreyfus's terror once and for all. |
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