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The Comebacks (2007)
Comedy | Sport
Lambeau Fields lives a middle-class lifestyle in America along with his wife, Barb, and a gorgeous daughter, Michelle, who he has brought up as a son. Lambeau is a failure and has virtually given up on his career as a football coach. Then his friend, Freddie Wiseman, encourages him to re-enter this field, and he does so by re-locating to Plainfolk in Texas and joins the Heartland State University. It is here he will meet some of the most pathetic players, and quite disillusioned he goes about to find new-comers. He finds a kicker in Jasminder Featherfoot, provided of course, he keeps her involvement secret from the rest of her family. Then he finds Lance Truman, whose drag queen dad has brought him up more like a tom-girl. With these additions and others Lambeau sets forth to include his team in the next Super…Er…Toilet Bowl 2 series, and it is here that he will find that Lance fumbles…
Starring: David Koechner, Robert Ri'chard, Carl Weathers, Melora Hardin, Matthew Lawrence, Brooke Nevin, Nick Searcy
Director: Tom Brady
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Tags: Brooke Nevin, Carl Weathers, David Koechner, Matthew Lawrence, Melora Hardin, Nick Searcy, Robert Ri'chard, Tom Brady
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Reno 911!: Miami (2007)
Comedy | Crime
A rag-tag team of Reno cops are called in to save the day after a terrorist attack disrupts a national police convention in Miami Beach during spring break. Based on the Comedy Central series.
Starring: Carlos Alazraqui, Mary Birdsong, Robert Ben Garant, Kerri Kenney, Thomas Lennon, Niecy Nash, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Cedric Yarbrough
Director: Robert Ben Garant
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The Mighty (1998)
Comedy | Drama
This tells the story of a strong friendship between a young boy with Morquio's syndrome and an older boy who is always bullied because of his size. Adapted from the novel, Freak the Mighty, the film explores a building of trust and friendship. Kevin, an intelligent guy helps out Maxwell to improve his reading skills. In return, Kevin wants Maxwell to take him out places since he is not allowed out unauthorized. Being the social outcasts of the town, Kevin and Maxwell come to realize that they are similar to each other and accept that they are "freaks" and nothing will stop them.
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Harry Dean Stanton, Gillian Anderson, Kieran Culkin, Sharon Stone, Elden Henson, Meat Loaf
Director: Peter Chelsom
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Tags: Elden Henson, Gena Rowlands, Gillian Anderson, Harry Dean Stanton, Kieran Culkin, Meat Loaf, Peter Chelsom, Sharon Stone
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Coming Soon (1999)
Comedy | Romance
Three young women come together in college and quickly determine that one has never had an orgasm, they quickly decide that they are going to make sure she has one (thus the not too subtle film title). The three then set out a sexual adventures. One takes up with a popular, arrogant boy who is of course more interested in his own pleasure than hers. Waiting in the wings is a sensitive outsider, who everyone immediately knows is the one who will float her boat.
Starring: Bonnie Root, Gaby Hoffmann, Tricia Vessey, Mia Farrow, Ryan Reynolds, Yasmine Bleeth
Director: Colette Burson
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Tags: Bonnie Root, Colette Burson, Gaby Hoffmann, Mia Farrow, Ryan Reynolds, Tricia Vessey, Yasmine Bleeth
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Weird Science (1985)
Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, whose purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men. On their road to becoming accepted, they encounter many hilarious obstacles, which gives the movie an overall sense of silliness.
Starring: Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Bill Paxton
Director: John Hughes
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Unicorn City (2012)
Comedy | Romance
Voss entices local gamers to create a Utopian society in an attempt to impress a potential employer, but paradise is disrupted when his nemesis lays claim to the city and Voss's true love.
Starring: Jon Gries, Matt Mattson, Clint Vanderlinden, Steve Berg, Missy Hill
Director: Bryan Lefler
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Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2012)
Comedy | Drama
Felicity Jones stars in this 1930s-set comedy drama as a vacillating bride-to-be, unable to make her mind up between her dull but worthy future husband and the handsome, charming boy who had previously swept her off her feet. As the guests begin arriving at the English country manse where she is to be wed, Dolly (Jones) hides out in an upstairs room, mulling over the day ahead with the help of a bottle of rum. While her agitated mother, Hetty (Elizabeth McGovern), tries to hide her panic and reassure her relatives that all is well, the arrival on the scene of Dolly's former flame, Joseph (Luke Treadaway), threatens to upset the well-laid plans.
Starring: Elizabeth McGovern, Felicity Jones, Mackenzie Crook, Ellie Kendrick, Barbara Flynn, John Standing, Luke Treadaway
Director: Donald Rice
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The Hypnotist / Hypnotisören (2012)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
After a young woman and her parents are murdered by a killer determined to wipe out the entire family, Detective Inspector Joona Linna works with a psychiatrist to hypnotize the son who narrowly escaped death in order to find the one surviving daughter before the murderer does.
Starring: Tobias Zilliacus, Mikael Persbrandt, Lena Olin, Helena af Sandeberg
Director: Lasse Hallström
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Turistas (2006)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
A group of young backpackers find themselves stranded on a remote Brazilian beach; an exotic paradise, with warm sunshine, cool ocean breezes, and plenty of hot bodies. But, after a night of partying, the wayward "turistas" are drugged and robbed, and their dream vacation becomes a gruesome nightmare from which there is no awakening. Trapped and desperate, the vulnerable travelers are lured deep into the menacing jungle and beyond, where a dark and twisted fate too terrifying to imagine awaits.
Starring: Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Olivia Wilde, Desmond Askew, Beau Garrett
Director: John Stockwell
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Marvin's Room (1996)
Drama
Years ago, the fiercely independent Lee took off for Ohio, while her older sister Bessie returned to the family's Florida home to look after their bedridden father Marvin and his lovably child-like sister Ruth. In Bessie's words, Marvin has been dying slowly for the past twenty years… just to make sure she doesn't miss anything. But after a talk with Dr. Wally, Bessie realizes that the family caregiver needs a little loving herself. Lee, on the other hand, has troubles of her own–starting with her mischievous son Hank, who has a knack for burning down the neighborhood when she's not looking. Seventeen years since her last visit, but after an unexpected call from Bessie, Lee's packs up Hank and his younger brother Charlie for the trip home.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Hume Cronyn
Director: Jerry Zaks
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The Nun's Story (1959)
Drama
In 1930, in Belgium, Gabrielle van der Mal is the stubborn daughter of the prominent surgeon Dr. Pascin Van Der Mal that decides to leave her the upper-class family to enter to a convent, expecting to work as nun in Congo with tropical diseases. She says good-bye to her sisters Louise and Marie; to her brother Pierre; and to her beloved father, and subjects herself to the stringent rules of the retrograde institution, including interior silent and excessive humbleness and humiliation. After a long period working in a mental institution, Gaby is finally assigned to go to Congo, where she works with the Atheist and cynical, but brilliant, Dr. Fortunati. Sister Luke proves to be very efficient nurse and assistant, and Dr. Fortunati miraculous heals her tuberculosis. Years later, she is ordered to return to Belgium and when her motherland is invaded by the Germans, she learns that her beloved father was murdered by the enemy while he was helping wounded members of the resistance. Sister…
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Dean Jagger, Mildred Dunnock, Beatrice Straight
Director: Fred Zinnemann
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Tags: Audrey Hepburn, Beatrice Straight, Dean Jagger, Edith Evans, Fred Zinnemann, Mildred Dunnock, Peggy Ashcroft, Peter Finch
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How to Be (2008)
Comedy | Drama
At first fancying himself an "enigmatic poet," twentysomething Art gradually realizes that he must take action if he's going to escape his depressed life as a struggling musician in London. A solution comes in the shape of a book titled "It's Not Your Fault." Not content to just draw inspiration from its pages, however, Art invites the elderly author of the book to come live with him and his parents, which quickly becomes a painfully funny journey about dysfunction and growing up.
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Rebecca Pidgeon, Powell Jones, Jeremy Hardy, Michael Irving
Director: Oliver Irving
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Strings (2004)
Adventure | Animation | Drama | Fantasy
Hal Tara is the son of The Kahro of the city of Hebalon and heir to the throne. When The Kahro kills himself, Hal is chosen to taken his place to rule Hebalon. But the discovery of The Kahro's suicide letter, that his father's death was no suicide, and was conducted by rivals of the city known as The Zeriths, Hal disguising himself as a commoner leaves the city and sets out to find the Zeriths and avenge his father. But Nezo, The Kahro's evil advisor who discovered the Kahro's body sends a warrior known as Erito to join Hal and to kill him. Entering the Zerith's camp, unaware of his identity, Hal falls in love with Zita, a Zerith female warrior, unaware Nezo has evil schemes to take over ruler ship of the city and Erito's wife Eike and Hal's sister Jhinna have uncovered his evil plot.
Starring: James McAvoy, Catherine McCormack, Julian Glover, Derek Jacobi, Ian Hart, Claire Skinner, David Harewood, Samantha Bond
Director: Anders Rønnow Klarlund
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Student of the Year (2012)
Comedy | Romance
Dean Yoginder Vashisht (Rishi Kapoor), retired, has fallen gravely ill. Several students from his final year at St. Theresa's College rush to his side. In flashbacks, they all recall the events that none of them have gotten over yet, including the dean, and how the "Student of the Year" competition shaped who they were, how they related, and what they've become.
Starring: Sidharth Malhotra, Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan
Director: Karan Johar
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Night of the Living Dead: Re-Animation (2012)
Horror
After inheriting the family mortuary, a pyrophobic mortician accidentally exposes hundreds of un-cremated bodies to toxic medical waste. As the corpses re-animate, the mortician's inheritance-seeking younger brother unexpectantly shows up, stumbling upon a full zombie outbreak!
Starring: Andrew Divoff, Jeffrey Combs, Sarah Lieving, Robin Sydney, Adam Chambers, Scott Thomson
Director: Jeff Broadstreet
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90 Minutes / 90 minutter (2012)
Drama
What happens in the last 90 minutes of a human life before they commit murder? In 90 Minutes we follow Johan who is making a lavish last meal for his wife, Fred who is on his weekly visit with the kids and Trond who completely has lost control of his use of violence towards his young wife who just gave birth to a child. Before the irretrievable act of murder happens, these men are still considered as human beings. 90 Minutes don’t try to give any answers or to find psychological explanations, but simply to follow these men’s perspective and stay with them and share the minutes just before it’s too late.
Starring: Bjørn Floberg, Fred Heggland, Aksel Hennie, Annmari Kastrup, Mads Ousdal, Pia Tjelta, Kaia Varjord
Director: Eva Sørhaug
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Tags: Aksel Hennie, Annmari Kastrup, Bjørn Floberg, Eva Sørhaug, Fred Heggland, Kaia Varjord, Mads Ousdal, Pia Tjelta
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Young Guns (1988)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller | Western
The year is 1878, Lincoln County. John Tunstall, a British ranchowner, hires six rebellious boys as "regulators" to protect his ranch against the ruthless Santa Fe Ring. When Tunstall is killed in an ambush, the Regulators, led by the wild-tempered Billy the Kid (Estevez), declare war on the Ring. As their vendetta turns into a bloody rampage, they are branded outlaws, becoming the objects of the largest manhunt in Western history.
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, Jack Palance
Director: Christopher Cain
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Tags: Charlie Sheen, Christopher Cain, Dermot Mulroney, Emilio Estevez, Jack Palance, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips
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The Secret Life of Words (2005)
Drama | Romance
Hannah, who wears a hearing aid, is forced to go on holiday. On holiday she manages to find a job: caring for Josef, a burn victim on an oil rig who temporarily lost his sight, until he's stable enough to be transferred. There is almost no one on the rig, except a cook, an oceanographer and a few others out at sea. Hannah tends to Josef and he slowly breaks her shell of silence.
Starring: Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Javier Cámara, Danny Cunningham
Director: Isabel Coixet
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Spooky Encounters / Gui da gui (1980)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
It is a tale about Cheung, a cuckolded husband, sent on a wild roller coaster ride of spooky encounters when his wife's wealthy lover tries to do away with him with the help of black magic by a Taoist monk. How Cheung defiles his enemies is an uproarious comedy featuring hopping vampires, supernatural possession, copious splashings of chicken blood and relentless chanting, all mixed with an exhilarating dose of kung fu and slapstick humour.
Starring: Sammo Hung, Ha Huang, Dick Wei, Fat Chung, Lung Chan
Director: Sammo Hung
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Tags: Dick Wei, Fat Chung, Ha Huang, Lung Chan, Sammo Hung
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Candy (2006)
Drama | Romance
Dan, a charming but reckless young poet who has fallen in love with Candy, a beautiful young art student from a comfortable middle-class family who is attracted to the bohemian lifestyle that Dan has long since embraced. In order to get closer to Dan, Candy, whose previous drug use has been casually experimental, starts shooting up. Their passionate relationship then alternates between bursts of ecstatic oblivion and bouts of despair and self-destruction. Hooked as much on heroin as one another, their story becomes a love triangle — a boy, a girl, and a drug.
Starring: Abbie Cornish, Heath Ledger, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Budge, Roberto Meza Mont
Director: Neil Armfield
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