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Movies produced in 2007
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A young Bangladeshi woman, Nazneem, arrives in 1980s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. Trapped within the four walls of her flat in East London, and in a loveless marriage with the middle aged Chanu, she fears her soul is quietly dying. Her sister Hasina, meanwhile, continues to live a carefree life back in Bangladesh, stumbling from one adventure to the next. Nazneen struggles to accept her lifestyle, and keeps her head down in spite of life's blows, but she soon discovers that life cannot be avoided - and is forced to confront it the day that the hotheaded young Karim comes knocking at her door. |
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The stiff British family reunites to morn their deceased patriarch. Deeply deploring the untimely death of the pure-minded kinsman, the members of the upper-crust family get shocked to learn about their father's little peccadilloes. A mysterious guest (Peter Dinklage) who tells them the deep, dark secrets is not about to keep his tongue between his teeth. But everyone has his price, and the blackmailer agrees to preserve the chariness of their reputation if he is paid a generous sum of money. |
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Japan, 2077: A female agent named Vexille is dispatched to Tokyo to investigate whether Japanese are developing robotic technology, which has been banned by the U.N. due to its potential threat to humankind. |
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The charming and smart criminal Danny Ocean (George Clooney) reassembles his crew. This time they are scheming to take vengeance on the ruthless and low-down casino owner Willie Bank (Al Pacino) who betrayed Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould), one of Ocean's team players, in their business arrangement. Danny is bent on bankrupting Willie by winning huge amounts of money on slot machines, at Black Jack and roulette simultaneously. |
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When a family falls victim to a vicious attack perpetrated as a gang initiation ritual, the vengeful father vows to track down each person involved in the crime in Saw director James Wan and screenwriter Ian Jeffers feature adaptation of author Brian Garfield's original novel. Aisha Tyler co-stars as the sympathetic homicide detective who questions her pledge to assist Bacon's character after suspecting that he may have turned to murder as a means of exacting his revenge. |
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Still grieving over her recently deceased boyfriend, a pregnant woman becomes haunted by a mysterious woman. |
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Angie gets the sack from a recruitment agency for bad behaviour in public. Seizing the chance, she teams up with her flatmate, Rose, to run a similar business from their kitchen. With immigrants desperate to work the opportunities are considerable, particularly for two girls so in tune with these times. |
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The hilarious comedy depicts the peripeteias of the fortune of two talented magicians, Harry (David Mitchell) and Karl (Robert Webb), who work together, performing various magic tricks in a variety of shows. The two become deadly enemies and go their separate ways after Harry finds out about the sexual affair between Karl and his wife, who is then accidentally killed during the guillotine trick. This mishap puts the kibosh on their brilliant careers. Four years later, their paths cross again when the penniless and depressed former partners decide to enter the "Magic shield" tournament and compete against one another, expecting to win a prize of £20,000. |
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The romantic comedy follows a misogynistic children's book author (Crudup) who is forced to work closely with a female illustrator (Moore) instead of his long-time collaborator and only friend (Wilkinson). Balaban is the book's publisher. |
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The touching comedy-drama concerns successful sci-fi novelist David Gordon (John Cusack) who suffers from writer's block after the two-years-ago death of his beautiful wife Mary. He tries to cope with his overwhelming grief and fill up the gap in his heart by adopting a young troubled boy named Dennis (Bobby Coleman) who believes he is from the planet Mars. Some time later, the 6-year-old kid begins acting in peculiar ways, thus making his foster father believe that his claim is true. |
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This black comedy stars Michael Douglas as Charlie, a man who is released from a mental institution after a stay of two years and returns home to live with his teenage daughter, Miranda (Evan Rachel Wood). Abandoned by her mother, the girl has had to grow up too quickly. She has been forced to drop out of school to work double shift at McDonald's in order to support herself and keep the old family house. Miranda's mentally dysfunctional father tries to persuade her to set out on a wild quest to find the lost Spanish treasure buried somewhere in California's San Fernando Valley. She reluctantly agrees to join her dad only to give him one last chance to pursue his dream. |
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The comedy chronicles the romance that develops between two misfits, Lily (Loren Horsley), a shy, quirky cashier at a fast-food restaurant, and Jarrod (Jemaine Clement), a self-assured, equally weird geek from the video game store across the way. Lily is lovesick for the nerdy Jarrod, who visits the fast-food joint every day at lunchtime, but he doesn't notice her as he is attracted to Jenny, a more beautiful cashier. One day Jarrod invites Jenny to his annual "come as your favorite animal" costume party but she refuses to attend it. So Lily ventures to crash the party. To her great joy, Jarrod, dressed as an eagle, becomes impressed by her shark costume as well as her video-game skills and discovers that they have much in common. |
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A deadly collision between a train and car lead to an unlikely bond between the train engineer and a young boy who escapes the carnage. |
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GOODBYE BAFANA is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela. |
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1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man, the chicken man, and the landlord, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint, away from Touissant's, the rival joint across the way. After laying off his regular talent, blues singer Bertha Mae, Tyrone announces to his sidekick Maceo that he has hired the famous electric guitar player, Guitar Sam, for a special one night only gig: pack em in and save the club. On the day of the show, the train arrives and Guitar Sam is no where to be found. Tyrone is forced to take drastic action. He makes a deal with Sheriff Pugh to release Sonny, the kid who hopped off a freight car here in Harmony, and turned up in the club claiming he could play the guitar as well as any Guitar Sam. Tyrone cleans Sonny up and launches a last ditch scheme to pass off the young guitar picker as Guitar Sam just long enough to cut the lights and run off with cash box. When Sonny takes the stage and launches into his first scalding electric licks, Tyrone will learn if it's lights out for the Honeydripper or if his luck has changed: he might just be another man saved by rock n' roll. Honeydripper features an all-star cast including Danny Glover, Charles S. Dutton, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Stacy Keach, Mary Steenburgen,Yaya DaCosta and Sean Patrick Thomas; as well as such notable musicians as Keb' Mo' and Dr. Mable John. It also introduces a major new talent, Gary Clark Jr. who makes his electrifying film debut as Sonny. |
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Nearly a decade after Cate Blanchett drew the attention of audiences and critics alike with ELIZABETH, the Oscar-winning actress returns to the role of the Virgin Queen. Though the protestant ruler has been on the throne for decades in 1585, Elizabeth I's reign is still under attack from both inside her country and from the continent. Her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots (Samantha Morton), carries the favour of the nation's Catholics as she schemes for the throne from prison, while Spain's King Philip II (Jordi Molla) plots an invasion with the power of his famous armada. But Elizabeth is also concerned with the arrival of Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen), a charming pirate and adventurer. Unable to reconcile her feelings with her crown, she encourages Bess (Abbie Cornish), her beloved lady-in-waiting, to pursue a relationship with Raleigh.
Nine years haven't dulled Blanchett's ability to play this—or any other—character with an impressive range of fire and tenderness. Her chemistry with the infinitely watchable Owen is one of the film's highlights. As in ELIZABETH, director Shekhar Kapur doesn't restrict himself from using artfully constructed shots that aren't normally used in period dramas. It's a modern retelling of history, and Kapur and his director of photograpy, Remi Adefarasin, aren't content to let the film have the standard look of many films in the genre. Costume designer Alexandra Byrne follows the same logic, creating stunning dresses for Elizabeth that draw inspiration both from modernity and the time period. If Blanchett weren't such a gifted actress, the gorgeous costumes might threaten to overtake her as the star of the film. |
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In 2057 people are extremely anxious that the Sun is dying, and thus Mankind faces the threat of extinction. In this situation their only plank is the Icarus II spacecraft, the crew of which includes eight valiant male and female astronauts, led by Captain Kaneda (Hiroyuki Sanada). Their mission is to deliver a nuclear device and reignite the dimming star. Deep into the voyage, the crew members receive a muted distress signal from Icarus I that went missing en route toward the Sun seven years earlier. They decide to change course for the lost spaceship, but navigator Trey (Benny Wong) makes a miscalculation that leads to a terrible disaster. From that point on, the crew must fight not only for their lives and sanity but the future of humanity. |
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This nail-biting thriller is set in Barrow, an isolated small Alaskan town that is plunged into almost total darkness for a month each winter. The residents consider thirty days of night as a natural phenomenon. But this winter the entire town is thrown into chaos and panic by the unexpected arrival of a gang of bloodthirsty vampires. The only hope is in the hands of Sheriff Eben Oleson (Josh Hartnett) and his estranged wife, Stella (Melissa George). |
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After his father's death, Kale Brecht (LaBeouf) becomes sullen, withdrawn, and troubled — so much so that he finds himself under a court-ordered sentence of house arrest after a run in with the law. His mother, Julie (Moss), works night and day to support herself and her son, only to be met with indifference and lethargy. The walls of his house begin to close in on Kale. He becomes a voyeur as his interests turn outside the windows of his suburban home towards those of his neighbors, one of which Kale begins to suspect is a serial killer. But, are his suspicions merely the product of cabin fever and his overactive imagination? |
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The Scandinavian mighty warrior Beowulf (Ray Winstone) has got orders from King Hrothgar (Anthony Hopkins) to protect his realm from a marauding ferocious beast named Grendel (Crispin Glover). Beowulf leads his brave crew of soldiers into a fierce battle with the monstrous troll. After defeating the evil creature, Beowulf incurs the wrath of Grendel's mother (Angelina Jolie) who slays his men in revenge. The courageous warrior sets out to kill the monster's mother who takes the form of a beautiful, extremely sexy woman and promises him wealth and power if he makes love with her. Beowulf succumbs to temptation and sleeps with her but in doing so he procreates a new curse, a dragon that is far fiercer, far more powerful than Grendel... |
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