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Titles starting from letter "S"
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When Hank, Jacob and Lou find $4.4 million inside a crashed plane in a nature preserve, they quickly come up with the plan to keep the money safe until the plane has been found by others and the dust has settled. But Jacob, Hank's brother, and Lou, a friend, do not behave the way they decided to. Lou, constantly in financial debt, wants his share soon and Jacob wishes to renovate their parents' farm. The trusty atmosphere between the unequal partners dissolves slowly, and intrigues are spun. Also, accidents start happening and when an FBI agent comes into town, looking for a crashed plane, Hank and his partners get into very deep water... |
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When beautiful and kind-hearted Amanda Shelton (Sarah Michelle Gellar) inherited a small restaurant from her late mother, she has a hard time as she lacked her mother's ability to cook. She would have had to close down the restaurant if she hadn't met a mysterious cabman, Gene O'Reilly (Christopher Durang), who unexpectedly gave her magical help with her cooking. While buying food for her restaurant, Amanda had a chance encounter with Tom Bartlett (Sean Patrick Flanery), a handsome and successful businessman whose relationship with his new girlfriend was in a crisis as she became too demanding. Tom and his girlfriend visited Amanda's restaurant in that very evening. The crab cooked by Amanda was finger-licking good and Tom immediately fell under her spells. His girlfriend, who ordered roast chicken, picked a quarrel with him and broke a lot of dishes. Delighted with the delicious meal, Tom gave Amanda his business card and promised to pay for the broken dishes. Afterwards they began a bubbly romance... |
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For many years the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, along with the town dwellers, has got rid of its toxic waste and garbage by discharging them into the lake. After the sinking of the barge the band "Green Day" (Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool and Mike Dirnt) was performing on, Lisa Simpson (Yeardley Smith) convinces the locals to clean up the polluted lake. But when her muddle-headed father Homer (Dan Castellaneta) dumps an overflowing silo of "Pig Crap" in it, he involuntarily causes ecological catastrophe. Induced by the treacherous adviser from the EPA, Russ Cargill (Albert Brooks), President Arnold Schwarzenegger (Harry Shearer) orders to put a giant glass dome over Springfield. The Simpsons, however, manage to escape with a whole skin through a sinkhole in their baby Maggie's sandbox and they flee to Alaska. Having heard of the president’s villainous plan to destroy Springfield, Homer’s wife Marge (Julie Kavner) and his kids try to persuade him to return to the town but all to no avail. Therefore Marge, along with the kids, leaves Homer. But a meeting with a medicine woman (Tress MacNeille) drastically changes his outlook and Homer comes to the conclusion that he must defy the president, once known as Terminator, so as to save the home town, which is on a razor's edge, and reunite with his family.
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Set, of course, in the grimiest, toughest city in the world - Las Vegas, this drama by Robert Rodriguez follows a tough guy Marv (Mickey Rourke), who meets the girl of his dreams, Goldie, only to see her murdered on that same night. Marv then searches every bar and shady hide-out in Vegas looking for the killer. Sin City is a series of stories of vengeance and redemption, set in this hellish abyss of crime in the company of strip-dancers, cops and hitmans. The film incorporates storylines from three of Frank Miller's graphic novels. Quentin Tarantino was brought in and reportedly paid one dollar to direct an extended scene between Del Toro and Owen that amounts to one issue of The Big Fat Kill miniseries. |
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Get ready for a fantastical round-the-world voyage and perilous adventures along the way. This time, Sinbad (Brad Pitt), the daredevil seafarer and adventure-seeker, is framed for stealing the precious and powerful Book of Peace. The infuriated Eris (Michelle Pfeiffer), the Goddess of Chaos, gives Sinbad the last chance to go over the hills and far away to find and recover the missing book or his former childhood friend Prince Proteus of Syracuse (Joseph Fiennes) will perish. Our hero makes a wise decision not to tempt fate and instantly sets off on a dangerous odyssey, along with his loyal dog Spike and Proteus' betrothed, Marina (Catherine Zeta-Jones). |
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Glorious classic film musical. 1927: Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are the darlings of the silent silver screen. Offscreen, Don, aided by his happy-go-lucky friend and piano accompanist, Cosmo Brown, has to dodge Lina's romantic overtures, especially when he falls for chorus girl Kathy Selden. With the advent of sound in motion pictures, it is decided to turn Don and Lina's new film into a "talkie" and a musical at that. The only problem is Lina's voice, which mere words cannot describe. Thus, Kathy is brought on to dub her speaking and singing voice in secret, and Don's on top of the world. But then Lina finds out... |
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A usual ad in a newspaper can become the beginning of the true nightmare. Elli Jones (Bridget Fonda), a modeler, had found not only a shy lodger, but a woman, who began to imitate her style, manners and even the life. This suspense drama tells that still waters run deep: who seemed a shy, timid person, in reality is... you'd better watch yourself, who she is.
Jennifer Jason Lee plays Hedra 'Hedy' Carlson here. |
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In a desolate place called the Badlands four men stand off with guns drawn their fingers ready at the trigger. Among them are a fugitive seeking redemption a son out to avenge his father's murder a loyal servant with a secret and a murderous criminal hired to kill with a vengeance. This is their story...in a place where revenge deception and cruelty are a way of life. |
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On her sixteenth birthday, Samantha Baker (Molly Ringwald) feels that she is the unhappiest girl in the world because he parents, who are preoccupied with her older sister's wedding, completely forget the momentous occasion. To add insult to injury, her irksome grandparents bring along an odd Japanese exchange student, Long Duk Dong (Gedde Watanabe), and force her to take him with her to the school dance. On top of it all, Sam can hardly get rid of an obnoxious freshman named Ted (Anthony Michael Hall) who has a crush on her and insistently tries to bed her. Nevertheless, she nourishes hope that she will capture the attention of the boy of her dreams, Jake Ryan (Michael Schoeffling)... |
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Few months ago an experienced child psychologist Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) has been wounded by an ex-patient of him who committed suicide after the assault. Doctor starts to study a new interesting case: young boy Cole contacting with ghosts, asking for help. The boy sees people who don't know they are dead. Cole (Heily Joe Osment) is afraid of the haunting shadows, Dr Crowe finds out that the boy is sane and phantoms really exist. Moreover, the doctor discovers his own part in the whole breathtaking story… Picture is nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. (M. Night Shyamalan) |
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Young energetic woman Caroline Ellis (Kate Hudson) takes a job as a live-in caretaker for Ben Devereaux (John Hurt), an elderly stroke victim who is speechless and wheelchair bound. To make maneuvering throughout the mansion an easier task, Ben’s wife Violet (Gena Rowlands) gives the nurse a skeleton key that unlocks every door in the house. One day, while exploring the rambling old house, Caroline discovers a secret room at the back of the attic. Curiosity prevails and she opens the room containing an intriguing mix of mystical items, hair, bones, blood, and spells, to name a few. Caroline soon realizes that odd, and sometimes inexplicable, things start occurring around her. The more time she spends in the hidden room, the more convinced she is that something ominous may be lurking in the mansion...
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Werewolves, divided into two rival clans, wage a relentless war against each other: one, gripped with the blood lust, goes in search of victims under the full red moon; the other resists the animal instinct of the beast within and wants to become human again. The endpoint in the longtime war is expected to be the13th birthday of Timothy (Matthew Knight), the child of a werewolf father and a human mother. If the boy reaches the predicted age, he will put an end to the curse of lycanthropy. Skinwalkers, the evil tribe of werewolves, have only a few days to prevent the ancient prophecy. |
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Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow), Chronicle reporter along with ace aviator Sky Captain are on the investigation as the many famous scientists around the world have mysteriously disappeared in 1930s. As they travel to a variety of exotic places around the globe and risking their lives, the fearless duo attempts to stop Dr. Totenkopf, the evil mastermind laying a plot to destroy the Earth. It begins when New York is under attack by robots and alien-looking space craft. Angelina Jolie co-stars as the charming Captain Franky Cook, commander of an all-female amphibious squadron, in this action-packed blockbuster abundant with plenty of innovative special effects. Giovanni Ribisi appears as Dex, an extraordinary technical genius, who have joined the duo in hopes of saving the planet before it's too late. |
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Will Stronghold (Michael Angaran) is a typical teenager from an untypical family. His parents, the Commander (Kurt Russell) and Jetstream (Kelly Preston), are legendary superheroes. To follow in his successful parents' footsteps, Will must enter Sky High, an elite high school where teachers mould power-gifted kids into superheroes. However, there is just one little problem: Will lacks super-human powers. What will the normal boy do among extraordinary human beings?! |
| Sleeper, The
[2005,
USA]
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| One man must stop the ultimate assassin capable of entering peoples minds and killing them from within. |
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The CIA develops the clandestine group of the extrasensory agents in 1990s, referred to as Sleepers. These people have an ability to connect to other human' minds, when these are asleep in order to gather intelligence that is impossible to obtain in any other way. Only the few elite knew something about the clandestine group and the Dreamlink plan. But someone has learned about the Program and trained its own Sleeper agent to be the ultimate assassin. This called the security of political leaders, businessmen and scientists into question. |
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Four boys growing up in Hell's Kitchen play a prank that leads to an old man getting hurt. Sentenced to no less than one year in the Wilkenson Center in upstate New York, the four friends are changed by the beating, humiliation and sexual abuse by the guards sworn to protect them. Thirteen years later and a chance meeting lead to a chance for revenge against the Wilkenson Center and the guards. |
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When a new princess is born to King Stefan & his wife, the entire kingdom rejoices. At a ceremony, three good fairies - Flora, Fauna & Merryweather - bestow gifts of magic on the child. But an evil sorceress named Maleficent shows up, and because of a rude remark by Merryweather, she places a curse on the princess - that she will die on her 16th birthday after touching a poisoned spinning wheel. Merryweather tries to undo the damage by casting a spell that will allow the princess - named Aurora - to awake from an ageless sleep with a kiss from her true love. The fairies take Aurora to their cottage in the woods to keep her away from the eyes of Maleficent, and raise her as their own child, named Briar Rose. On her 16th birthday Aurora meets Prince Phillip, the son of a king whose own kingdom will soon merge with King Stefan's - and falls in love. Maleficent manages to kidnap the Prince and her horrible prophecy is fulfilled when she tricks Aurora into touching a spinning wheel created by Maleficent herself! Realizing that the Prince is in trouble, the 3 good fairies head to Maleficent's castle at the Forbidden Mountain, and spring the Prince loose. But the Prince soon finds himself up against Maleficent's army of brutes, and the power of Maleficent's evil spells - which include a thorn forest as thick as weeds around King Stefan's castle, and a fight against Maleficent when she turns herself into a dragon! Is the Prince strong enough to withstand the powers of the evil sorceress? |
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In 1936, the expatriated young and naive just-graduated British John Truscott (Hugh Dancy) arrives to the Sarawak, a British colony, to work in the Iban society. The beautiful Selima (Jessica Alba) is assigned to be his "sleeping dictionary", to live and sleep with him and teach him the language and habits of the locals. The reluctant John and Selima fall in love for each other in a forbidden romance. |
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BBC TV adaption of the Agatha Christie's novel. A young recently married woman, Gwenda Reed, comes back to England after living most of her life in New Zealand. While her husband, Giles, is out of the country she buys a house for them and starts recalling memories which make her start to think that perhaps she had lived in the house before. It's only then, while dining out with friends, that a chance remark triggered off a frightening memory, as a little girl, looking down at a woman's body and the murderer with "monkey paws" hands. Gwenda is determined to find out the sources of this memory. The killer, thought that he/she was safe after eighteen years and is prepared to kill to cover up the past. But Gwenda has help as one of her dining friends is Raymond West, who has a very special Aunt who is willing to help Gwenda - Miss Jane Marple... |
| Sleepless in Seattle
[1993,
USA]
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| What if someone you never met, someone you never saw, someone you never knew was the only someone for you? |
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After his wife died, Sam Baldwin did not think about other women. His 8-year old son Jonah thinks that his father needs a woman in order to get his life back in order and calls in on a nation-wide radio-show. The voice and story of Sam is heard by hundreds of women, including Annie Reed, who is about to marry her fiancé Walter soon. She can't find a rest until she really knows for sure that Sam Baldwin is not the one person for her. Thus, Annie travels to Seattle, where Sam and Jonah live, and there decides that Sam is not the one. The letter she never sent was posted by a friend of Annie, and therefore Jonah, who feels that she's the one for his dad, already booked a flight to New York in order to meet her on the roof of the Empire State building, just like in "An Affair to Remember". Of course, his father follows him instantly... |
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