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Movies produced in 2006
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Anna Faris returns as the caring yet dumb witted Cindy Campbell in the latest installment of the Scary Movie Franchise. Cindy has taken up a job as a house caretaker for a nice old lady that is said to be cursed. Cindy moves right in and the house is located right next to Craig Bierko as Tom Ryan, a down on his luck father. Cindy soon discovers a dreaded secret about the house and she is comforted by Tom who is watching his children for the weekend. As soon as the two become more then just friends, a huge storm rolls on in and hits the town. Tom discovers a giant hole in the ground and an alien TrIpod emerges from it's depth's. Meanwhile, Cindy finds the soul of a tortured boy living inside the house who tells her he knows the secret on how to defeat the aliens. But before he gives it too her, he vanishes. The only way to figure out the mystery is to find the boy's father. Cindy and Tom split away from each other and Tom, with his children, seek refuge in a torn up basement owned by shotgun wielding man named Oliver. Cindy, while trying to figure out her own mystery, bumps into her old friend Brenda Meeks. Teogether, they decide to defeat the aliens. Brenda then discovers a hidden village outside of town and Cindy figure's out the boys father is somewhere inside. Now it's up to Cindy and Brenda to find the boys father and unfold the mystery on how to defeat the aliens, who in fact have their own plans on how to torture such people like Shaq and Dr. Phil. |
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Set against the backdrop of civil war and chaos in 1990's Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) - an ex Mercenary from Zimbabwe - and Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) - a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories as different as any can be, until their fates become joined in a common quest to recover a rare pink diamond that can transform their lives. While in prison for smuggling, Archer learns that Solomon - who was taken from his family and forced to work in the diamond fields - has found and hidden the extraordinary rough stone. With the help of Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly), an American journalist whose idealism is tempered by a deepening connection with Archer, the two men embark on a trek through rebel territory, a journey that could save Solomon's family and give Archer the second chance he thought he would never have. |
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American diplomat Robert Thorn (Liev Schreiber) and his young wife Katherine (Julia Stiles) wait expectantly for the birth of their first kid. But events take a tragic turn in the delivery room: Katherine loses a baby, and worst of all, she will not have another pregnancy due to womb damage. In order to avoid traumatizing his wife, Robert takes a baby boy whose mother died in childbirth and presents him as his own. The local priest who encouraged Robert to make a substitution convinces him that it is a pious fraud and so the lord will forgive him for his sin. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions: Damien (Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick) might be the little Antichrist who grows older and stronger under the ideal nanny’s supervision...
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The animated movie revolves around a successful but arrogant race car, Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson), who is used to fame, floodlights, crowds of groupies and a high-speed life. En route to California for the tie-break of the Piston Cup against two skilled opponents, Chick Hicks (Michael Keaton) and The King (Richard Petty), the indomitable McQueen unexpectedly runs astray in the small remote town of Radiator Springs on Route 66. After destroying the town’s main road, Lightning is sentenced to community service by the local judge Doc Hudson (Paul Newman). Stuck in the godforsaken town, he eventually makes friends with its nice inhabitants, an attractive Porsche attorney, Sally Carerra (Bonnie Hunt); a rusty wrecker tow truck, Mater (Larry the Cable Guy); a tire shop owner, Luigi (Tony Shalhoub), and many others. They open his eyes to a whole new world and help him understand the true meaning of life that there are more important and worthier things than fame and fortune.
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After the untimely death of their granddad (Donald Sutherland), German-American brothers Jan (Paul Soter) and Todd Wolfhouse (Erik Stolhanske) travel to the Old Country to spread his ashes. On arrival in Munich they discover that it’s Oktoberfest, an autumn festival that is famous for the consumption of beer. The brothers, who remember their roots and, like all Germans, are big beer drinkers, are eager to compete in Beerfest, the so-called Beer Olympic Games which take place during several days. Although their German cousins shoot their desire down in flames, Tod and Jan are not in the least embarrassed to enter the contest but are soon beaten. Determined to get their revenge, the guys return home and assemble a team of inveterate beer guzzlers to train strenuously for next year’s competition. All they need to receive the Beerfest honors is healthy liver and strong will to win.
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The riveting adventure story takes place in Santa Rita, Durango, in 1888 when a New York bank, aimed to put a railroad across Mexico, buys up all banks around this small town. Farmers who live on the soon-to-be-built rail line and owe money to the banks are terrorized by a merciless, uncompunctious, gun-wielding enforcer, Tyler Jackson (Dwight Yoakam), who evict them from their lands and kill them for resistance activities. Two charming women from different walks of life - the refined wealthy Spaniard Sara Sandoval (Salma Hayek) and the rough Mexican peasant Marнa Бlvarez (Penйlope Cruz) – join forces as bank robbers in order to seek revenge upon their common enemy.
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The comedy recalls the 1995 scandal connected with "The Roswell Incident", flying saucer wreckage near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. The two British chancers Ray Santilli (Ant McPartlin) and Gary Shoefield (Declan Donnelly) produce a documentary hoax, claiming the black and white film footage shows an actual alien autopsy. The release of the film creates a sensation around the world.
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Senior high school student Bartleby "B" Gaines (Justin Long) is a fun loving, carefree loafer who gets his bitters: he is rejected by all eight colleges he has applied for. His overly expectant parents will surely feel chagrined at hearing the news. But B is not alone to meet with a reverse – several of his outcast buddies are in the same boat. It is as clear as noonday that crying will not mend matters. At first he has no idea how to get away with it, and then he has a brainstorm - he can create his own fake college! B's fellows unanimously welcome the idea and open the South Harmon Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T.) to outsmart their parents and peers.
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Continuing the story of the original film, Sara (Izabella Miko) follows her dream and becomes a student at Juilliard. As she is excels and becomes a star pupil, Sara becomes torn between her love for traditional ballet and her passion for the urban street rhythms of hip-hop, complicated further by her new love, hip-hop musician Miles (Columbus Short). When pushed to make a choice, will she follow the path of the tried and true or will she take a risk and dance into uncharted territory? |
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In 1999, in Claremont, California, the violent Jake Mazursky owes US$ 1,200.00 to the coward drug dealer Johnny Truelove, who is son of the powerful criminal Sonny Truelove. They fight and start a personal war, with Jake breaking into the house of Johnny with his friends, stealing the TV and leaving excrement in the living room. Johnny kidnaps Jake's fifteen year old brother Zach Mazurka, who has just had an argument with his parents, and brings him to the upper class house of his friend Frankie Ballenbacher. Along a couple of days, Zach meets the friends of Frankie, goes to parties, drinks boozes, smokes pot and has sex with other teenagers. When Johnny realizes that kidnapping means life sentence, he asks the servile scum Elvis Schmidt to kill the boy. |
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The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning. |
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The Hoover family is the dictionary definition for the word "dysfunctional". The dad Richard is a man who gives lectures on winners and losers, the wife is Sheryl, a chain-smoking, frazzled wife and working mother whose idea of a home cooked meal frequently consists of a bucket of chicken. Her gay brother Frank recently attempted suicide. The grandpa is Edwin, a drug addict. The son is Dwayne a rebel who has vowed not to talk until he gets into the Air Force. And then there is Olive, a seven-year old girl who dreams of going to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. So what happens when they do? |
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It must be very scary to live in a zombie infested city if you are left alone and have no guns to defend yourself against flesh-eating rotting zombies, driven by creepy parasitic worms. It seems to be very hard lines on Fred (voiced by Frank Sudol), a miserable old man who must find a way out before he becomes a zombie viand.
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It's generally known that video games have a negative influence on the younger generation. A few American fellow teenagers may not know this but must guess about a deleterious effect of violent video games. Their guess is confirmed when it becomes apparent that a seemingly harmless video game called "Stay Alive" has a bloodcurdling connection with reality. The idea of the game is to play some spine-chilling situations from the life of a 17th century vicious and brutal noblewoman, Elizabeth Bathory, known as the Blood Countess. When the buddies start dying in the same way in life as they do in the game, the remaining gamers realize that they must find a way to stay alive before it's too late...
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Sarah (Jill Small) was traumatized by witnessing the atrocious murder of her mother as a kid. Many years later the girl, haunted by her mom's memory, begins to see and come in contact with the spirits of innocent murder victims. Driven by one of the vindictive spirits, Sarah must save a small-time car thief named Cal (Donald Turner) from a killing. While risking her own life, Sara hastens to help a total stranger and discovers that men with guns are not so horrific compared to the powerful dark forces involved in the case.
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There seems to be nothing worse than death. But it appears that there are far more fearsome things. Imagine a young woman, Ami (Christine Taylor), who fears hospitals like death. Poor woman! That shouldn’t happen to her! When Ami and her fiancй Nick (Shane Brolly) meet with a horrific car accident, the seriously injured Nick is taken to a mysterious hospital by ambulance. Gripped by fear of the unknown, Ami goes in search of her beloved and gets to know that the medical center he has been taken to is supposed to exist no longer. Anxious to bring Nick back home, she has really nothing to do but conquer fear and visit the sinister hospital to find out the truth. But what she discovers is more terrific than she could ever imagine — rampant demons wearing scrub suits and villainous nurses bathing in the blood of their patients.
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This pulse-pounding thriller is about former covert agent and widower Jack Foster (Steven Seagal) who takes his 8-year-old daughter (Eva Pope) on a trip to the birthplace of her mother. Little does he know what fate has in store for him. When they arrive in Bucharest, Romania, he is shocked to discover that his beloved little girl is kidnapped from under his nose. Meantime, his father-in-law, who still works for the CIA, plants some sort of lethal virus on Foster, who is totally unaware of becoming a courier for the package. Foster scours the city streets, trying to retrieve his daughter and take down her captors, while the American Embassy, Romanian cops, and Russian officials all pursue him so as to get a virus formula. |
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Living a secluded life in an abandoned hotel, Jacob Goodnight (Glen Jacobs), a monstrous maniacal killer with corroded steel plate screwed into his skull and razor-sharp fingernails, doesn’t expect any company. Contrary to his expectations eight juvenile delinquents dare disturb him. The unsuspecting boys and girls, who are actually sent to clear up the rotting hotel in exchange for lighter sentences, are escorted by the very same officer who shot a misguided bullet in Goodnight's head four years ago. The intruders arouse violent bloodthirsty instincts in Goodnight, so none of them will be able to escape from the slaughterhouse...
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After the U.S. has installed a new democratic government in a small East European country, a group of well-armed communist rebels makes a coup attempt. In order to escape from the enraged insurgents, newly-elected president Yuri Amirev (Serban Celea) flees to the U.S. embassy, hoping to seek refuge there. Then the unrelenting insurgents assault the embassy and open fire, demanding Amirev's head. When Ambassador George Norland (Colin Stinton) is killed, it falls to his second-in-command, Sam Keenan (Jean-Claude Van Damme), to defend the besieged embassy and prevent the attackers from realizing their nefarious plans.
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