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Movies produced in 2006
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Five unshaven men come to their senses in a dusty warehouse. One (Joe Pantoliano) is bound to a chair, while another (Greg Kinnear) is lying on the floor with a broken nose. The third (Jeremy Sisto) is handcuffed to a pipe and dying from a gunshot injury. A man in a jean jacket (Jim Caviezel) and a man in a rancher shirt (Barry Pepper) are roughed up but alive. A broken cellular phone, a spade and a gun are kicking about on the floor. No one remembers who they are and what they are doing there. But soon the five unknown men deductively derive a conclusion that they are all part of a kidnapping. The problem is that they can’t tell the hostages from the kidnappers. |
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Aspiring artist Jerome Platz (Max Minghella) arrives at the Strathmore Institute, a prestigious art school in New York City, hoping to hone his skills and dazzle the world with his talent. But he soon discovers the sad truth that it takes more than just a flair and great zeal to be recognized. Therefore he concocts a scheme which is supposed to help him become the world's greatest artist and win the heart of the most beautiful girl in school, Audrey (Sophia Myles).
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The offbeat comedy focuses on two average persons, Army soldier Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson) and prostitute Rita (Maya Rudolph), who are selected as guinea pigs for a government-run hibernation program. The cryo-freezing experiment which was supposed to last only a year goes afoul, and Joe and Rita wake up in the year 2505. They find themselves living in a society where people have become degraded and the world is now ruled by the stupid. As a result, Joe and Rita prove to be the smartest people on the planet.
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Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) lives small life having big dreams, despite her perfect skills in the kitchen, she lives frugally and doesn't put her talent to use. Suddenly she finds out she's to be gone in three weeks to live. There, thinking she has nothing to lose, Georgia cashes her savings and throws all cautions to the wind. She heads to Europe to have fun for the last time. She has nothing to lose, so Georgia tells what she thinks and do everything she wants. What will be an ending? |
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Two orphans, Prosper and Bo, are escaped from their cruel aunt and uncle. In Venice they meet a mysterious boy who calls himself "the Thief Lord." From their home base of an old cinema theater, the children steal from the rich to support themselves and soon capture the interest of an awkward detective. When a detective assigned the task of bringing the youngsters in becomes privy to their impoverished plight, he joins them in solving the mystery of a powerful merry-go-round that appears to have special powers. The Thief Lord invites them on a magical adventure to a land of forgotten mysteries that will change their lives forever. |
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A group of young offenders, sent to an island for some character building exercises, suddenly looses one of their fellow inmates and being hunted by some merciless slayer armed with the crossbow, who keeps a pack of blood-thirsty dogs. Guys should be united in order to survive. |
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Some years after U.S. President George W. Bush has been assassinated following an economic speech and massive demonstration of antiwar protesters in Chicago, an investigative documentary recounts the events of the fateful day, presenting interviews with all the people somehow involved in the case. They include various government officials, journalists, witnesses and suspects who comment on their association with the tragic event and the disturbing implications of what occurred. |
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A dramatization of Mark Champman's plan to murder John Lennon. |
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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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Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas), a special agent, suggests there is a neo-Nazi plot in the White House. Suddenly he finds himself framed, blackmailed and relieved of his duties. He goes on the run, and in spite of chased by the own colleagues from secret service, he conducts his own investigation trying to find the responsible. Garrison keeps trying to prove his innocence and to protect President's life from mortal danger. Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland and Kim Basinger are starring. |
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This suspence drama begins when two ordinary women falls on evil times when the car wreckage happens. One is a single mother of a handicapped son; another is a careerist trying to combine her high-pressure career and her family demands. When the police is involved, it becomes clear that the car crash was not a simple coincidence after all. But however it may be, each woman's life spirals out of control. |
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Hollywood send-up. No-name actors are making a low-budget period drama called "Home for Purim," when an anonymous post on the Internet suggests that one performance is Oscar-worthy. Then, two more cast members get Oscar-related press: buzz in "Variety" and appearances on TV prompt the studio executives to insist on changes in the script in anticipation of a blockbuster. Jump ahead a few months to the days before Oscar nominees are announced: just the possibility of a nomination has changed the actors' lives. Agents, publicists, make-up artists, local celebrity reporters, and other bit players round out the backstage ensemble. Hooray for Hollywood! |
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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 outrageous hilarious comedy chronicles the everyday wild pranks of four childhood friends who enjoy risking their lives for the sake of fun. Jarno "Mastermind", Jarppi "Daredevil", Jukka "Showman", Jarno "Mastermind", HP "Bonebreaker" are totally anarchistic guys who know neither bounds nor rules. From dawn to dusk the fearless Dudesons, along with their 500-lb pet pig named Britney, live their lives to the fullest by making indoor bonfires and performing dangerous motorcycle jumps. |
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A single woman in her mid-thirties, Jennifer Aniston's heroine Olivia quits teaching for a maid work and to think her life over. She feels she's reached a turning point in her life. She wants to feel the support of her married friends – Christine, Jane and Franny. Their material and matrimonial basis seems to be so solid and stable, but some of them find collaborating with own husband boring, another one became unconcerned to one another with her man as lovers and friends, and the other couple got emotionally exhausted as well. And nothing more? This comedy drama was created by Nicole Holofcener (director, writer), who previously made the welcomed independent films Walking and Talking and Lovely & Amazing. |
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An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into blood-thirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm. |
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"KOKODA!" is an action-adventure drama set in modern day Papua New Guinea. It is about the head to head clash of two veterans of the WWII campaign, who find themselves on Kokoda once again, some 50 years later.
Their younger charges, an injured pilot and two reluctant locals accompany them. The audience and our characters, are all taken on a roller coaster journey over the old battleground. Confronted by nature's fury and demons from the past, we have a cross cultural, cross generational conflict with their environment, themselves and each other. |
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This is a comedy that shows us that love has nothing to do with perfection. After losing the woman of his dreams, Anderson is convinced he'll never fall in love again. But at the urging of his best friend, he spontaneously proposes to a dissatisfied waitress named Katie and an innocent dare evolves into the kind of love that both have been looking for all along. |
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A beautiful, wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on reality... |
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Berlin, July, 1945. Journalist Jake Geismer arrives to cover the Potsdam conference, issued a captain's uniform for easier passage. He also wants to find Lena, an old flame who's now a prostitute desperate to get out of Berlin. He discovers that the driver he's assigned, a cheerful down-home sadist named Corporal Tully, is Lena's keeper. When the body of a murdered man washes up in Potsdam (within the Russian sector), Jake may be the only person who wants to solve the crime: U.S. personnel are busy finding Nazis to bring to trial, the Russians and the Americans are looking for German rocket scientists, and Lena has her own secrets. |
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