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Peter Parker's double life annoys him. Being Spiderman has brought nothing but problems with his personal life. He walked away from his longtime love Mary Jane Watson and balancing his dual identities as the mysterious superhero Spider-Man being and a college student's life. He even wants to cease his Spiderman practice, until a scientific accident transforms Dr. Otto Octavius into Dr. Octopus, a super-villain with four metal tentacles. Peter, at times noticing he's losing some of his powers, learns to accept his fate and realizes he must decide between being who he once was or retaining his secret identity to stop diabolical Dr. Octopus and save New York City. |
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As an inmate at Leavenworth prison, Robert Stroud has a series of confrontations with the guards and with the other convicts. When Stroud kills a guard, he is sentenced to be executed, and only his mother's impassioned intervention gets his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, which he must serve in solitary confinement. As he serves out his sentence in boredom and despair, one day he finds a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard. Stroud soon takes a deep interest in caring for birds, which gives him a new purpose in life, but which also brings new conflicts with prison authorities. |
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The movie tells the story of a love affair between two lonely Americans – Bob Harris (Bill Murray), a middle-aged movie actor burdened with his unloved wife and kids, and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a young woman bored of her unloving husband. They meet in the Tokyo hotel and spend together an unforgettable weekend. Their love is not one of passion but rather one of emotional need. The relation is motivated by loneliness and melancholy. It’s probably a passing infatuation that provides long hoped-for comfort and companionship... |
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This action-packed suspense thriller chronicles four very pivotal days in the life of Michael Clayton (George Clooney), an attorney who works as a fixer at one of the largest and most powerful New York City law firms. For 13 years he has been cleaning up messy situations for substantial clientele of the firm. Despite being burned-out and disgusted with his depraved clients, Clayton keeps doing his job to pay off his addicted brother's immense debt and his own one. Moreover, he experiences midlife crisis caused by his divorce and a failed personal business. To make matters worse, he is assigned to track down his former mentor, Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson), the firm's top litigator who has a nervous breakdown while defending a shady agrochemical company from a complicated multi-million dollar class action suit. Clayton is faced with a moral dilemma of whether to help his partner or to capture him. |
| Fugitive, The
[1993,
USA]
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| A murdered wife. A one-armed man. An obsessed detective. The chase begins. |
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This double-Oscar-nominated movie is a detective story where a woman, Helen Kimble (Sela Ward), is killed, she was the wife of a well-known surgeon named Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford). The doctor gets arrested being accused of murder, but he escapes from the judgment and tries to find the real murderer being persecuted by Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones), a detective. |
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When New York dentist Charlie Fineman (Adam Sandler) loses his wife and three daughters in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he comes to realize that life is not worth having. Charlie gives up his job and seeks oblivion in videogames, record collecting, and roaming the city streets on his scooter. Five years later, things change when he has a chance encounter with his former college roommate Alan Johnson (Don Cheadle) who feels compassion for his grief-stricken old pal and does his utmost to breathe new life into him. Their rekindled friendship helps Charlie cope with his profound sense of sadness and thus patches a gaping hole in his heart. |
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While visiting the Earth at Night, a group of alien botanists is discovered and disturbed by an approaching human task force. Because of the more than hasty take-off, one of the visitors is left behind. The little alien finds himself all alone on a very strange planet. Fortunately, the extra-terrestrial soon finds a friend and emotional companion in 10-year-old Elliot, who discovered him looking for food in his family's garden shed. While E.T. slowly gets acquainted with Elliot's brother Michael, his sister Gertie as well as with Earth customs, members of the task force work day and night to track down the whereabouts of Earth's first visitor from Outer Space. The wish to go home again is strong in E.T., and after being able to communicate with Elliot and the others, E.T. starts building an improvised device to send a message home for his folks to come and pick him up. But before long, E.T. gets seriously sick, and because of his special connection to Elliot, the young boy suffers, too. The situation gets critical when the task force finally intervenes. By then, all help may already be too late, and there's no alien spaceship in sight. |
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In 1958 residents of a small town in Maine witness a blinding flash and a huge flying object falling into the sea. A few days later a nine-year-old boy, Hogarth Hughes (Eli Marienthal), finds an enormous robot (Vin Diesel) sent from a distant galaxy to destroy Earth. The alien visitor loses its memory due to serious damage and proves to be a gentle, ingenuous, amiable guy who makes friends with Hogarth. Hearing about the Iron Giant, Kent Mansley (Christopher McDonald), an ambitious government agent wishing to distinguish himself, arrives in Rockwell to mouse out and destroy the robot. But the fearless little boy is ready to take any risk in order to protect his metal pal against the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines and hides him in the junkyard.
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One of the greatest Hollywood adventure stories gets the Peter Jackson's newest interpretation in this high-budget block-buster. A group of documentary filmmakers headed by Carl Denham (Jack Black) explores mysterious relict jungle somewhere upon the lost island near Sumatra in 1930s to examine how truthful the legends of the great ape Kong are. Soon they found themselves in this forest surrounded by dangerous and huge prehistoric fauna which was hidden there for millions of years. Explorers had found that King Kong is really exists in form of the 25 feet tall gorilla which can outfight any creature on Earth, even the dinosaurs inhabiting the mysterious Skull Island. Meanwhile, an actress Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) strikes up a romance with Jack Driscoll (Adrian Brody), a respected playwright hired by Denham to write the script for his latest epic. Adventurers manage creature capture, and bringing him to New York City for display, where Kong escapes and runs amok, finally climbing the Empire State Building. Andy Sirkis (Gollum in the Lord of The Rings) was brought in to provide the body movements and mimic for King Kong digital animation. |
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At his fourth summer at the Hogwarts Harry has grown into a strapping teen, his legendary scar aches more and more. Everybody in the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry gets ready for the soon to be held Triwizard Tournament. The Goblet of Fire judges who will participate in the Tournament and who will not, three competitors should be selected. Suddenly the Goblet points at the fourth contestant – Harry Potter. Four magicians should stand three trials: the battle with the dragon, rescue a friend from the lake depths, and, finally, find the Goblet of fire hidden inside the labyrinth to win it. Meanwhile, Voldemort’s followers are preparing the reappear of the dark lord. |
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When five high school students, Andrew, John, Allison, Brian, and Claire, meet in detention one day. The principal wants them to write an essay, and they think they are in for a boring 8 hours of doing nothing. At first, they argue and hate each other, but after smoking some marijuana, they pour their hearts out to each other, and tell about their fears, secrets, and their deepest emotions, and problems. |
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This satiric Western comedy is regarded as one of the great American comedies of all time. The American Old West of 1874. The new railway is being constructed and it is to go through Rock Ridge, a small frontier town where everyone seems to be named Johnson. The sheriff of Rock Ridge gets killed and the new one, convict Bart (Cleavon Little) is appointed. The first black sheriff of this all-white town, he eventually changes his original plans and embarks on saving Rock Ridge.
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A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town. |
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Based on true events, the extraordinary movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2001. The movie tells the story of John Nash (Russell Crowe) who starts grad school at Princeton in 1947. Some people consider him to be mentally ill, others regard him as a math genius. He is very lonely as he doesn't much like people, and they don't like him either. John often misses classes and spends his time working on game theory. As a result, Nash gains a prestigious post at MIT's Wheeler House. Some time later he gets married to brilliant student Alicia (Jennifer Connelly) and is recruited by the CIA for top-secret code-breaking activities. Eventually, Nash's brilliance leads him to madness making him lose control of reality. Alicia wants to help her husband; drugs and shock therapy, however, turn Nash into a listless, crest-fallen person. But Nash starts struggling to gain some control over his mental state. After hard years of insanity John Nash ultimately manages to overcome his schizophrenia and win international recognition. |
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Guaranteed to make you want to stop bird-watching and put the old bird feeder to the ax—at least for a while. The whole thing starts when Melanie Daniels is crossing a lake and is nipped by a gull. Gradually, incidence of bird damage to humans by pecking increases. Glass windows splinter before diving birds, children are sent home from school to safety, townspeople take refuge in a lunchroom, Miss Daniels in a phone booth, and finally everyone hides in homes tightly boarded up against repeated attacks by the birds. It's enough to make you kick the next pigeon you come across. |
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Everrett Ullysus McGill, sick of breaking rocks in the heat of a Mississippi summer, escapes with his two dim accomplices, Delmar and Pete. Trying to reclaim a buried treasure before its lost forever underneath a lake, the three make their way to Everett's homestead. Along the way, they meet a conniving one-eyed Bible salesman, a blind prophet, a trio of sexy sirens, and a man who sold his soul to the devil. In their race to reach the treasure before it's flooded, they end up crashing a Ku Klux Klan lynch mob, help a sensitive Baby-Face Nelson rob three banks in two hours, and even have enough time to put out a best selling record as "The Soggy Bottom Boys." |
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The powerful tycoon Auric Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) has initiated "Operation Grand Slam," a cataclysmic scheme to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the world economy. James Bond, armed with his specially equipped Aston Martin (its accessory package includes built-in machine guns, a smoke screen and an ejector seat), must stop the plan by overcoming several outrageous adversaries. First there's Oddjob (Harold Sakata), the mute servant who kills at the toss of a lethal hat; next, the beautiful Jill Masterson (Shirley Eaton), who gives new meaning to the phrase "golden girl"; and finally, sexy pilot Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman), whose romantic feelings for Bond complicate her involvement in Goldfinger's high-flying scheme. |
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Fiona (Julie Christie) and Grant Anderson (Gordon Pinsent) have been happily married for over forty years. When Fiona is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, they come to realize that she must live in a nursing home as she requires medical treatment. For the first time in their lives, the spouses are forced to live apart from each other. According to the rules of the medical facility, visitors are not allowed during the first month so that patients can adapt to their new environment. When Grant finally comes to visit his wife, he is shocked to discover that Fiona not only has lost all memory of him but has given her heart to another man, Aubrey (Michael Murphy), a fellow patient. |
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A New York schoolteacher (Hunt) hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her real one, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she (April) begins a courtship with the father (Firth) of one of her students. |
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Ted Striker just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess at Trans American Airlines. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard the plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to contact her again and again, but as the crew and many passengers get seriously ill due to a bad fish meal, he has no chance to get to her. In fact, Ted Striker seems to be the only healthy person aboard that has piloting experience. Now, it is up to him to get the bird down in Chicago safely, before the poisoning starts causing casualties. But Ted Striker's aversion really is a serious psychosis, which breaks open and needs to be cured - right now. |
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