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The Pink Panther

IMDB Rating: 4.90
11747 votes

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When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the diamond Pink Panther disappears, the ambitious Chief Insp. Dreyfus (Kevin Kline) assigns the worst police inspector Jacques Clouseau (Steve Martin) to the case. His intention is to give a diversion to the press, while he uses his best men to chase the killer and thief. He assigns Gendarme Gilbert Ponton (Jean Reno) to work with Closeau and inform each step of the investigation. When Clouseau is nominated with honor to the highest prize in France, Dreyfus decides to humiliate Clouseau and take him out of the case. However Clouseau has already solved the mystery.
Actors
ClouseauSteve Martin
DreyfusKevin Kline
PontonJean Reno
Also posted in 2006, Comedy, Crime, Mystery | Comments (1)

Cursed

IMDB Rating: 4.70
7763 votes

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Ellie has been taking care of her younger brother Jimmy since their parents death. One night after picking him up from a party they are involved in a car accident on Mullholland Drive. While trying to rescue a woman from the other car a creature attacks and kills her, also injuring both Ellie and Jimmy. After some research Jimmy realizes the creature could only have been a werewolf.
Actors
ZelaPortia de Rossi
JennyMya
BeckyShannon Elizabeth
Also posted in 2005, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | Comments (1)

Prime

IMDB Rating: 6.30
8323 votes

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Prime is a sophisticated, character comedy set in New York City about Rafi, a recently divorced 37-year-old career woman from Manhattan and what happens when Dave, a talented 23-year-old painter from the upper West Side of Manhattan falls in love with her. The film looks at love from everyone's point-of-view friends, relatives and in this case, Rafi's therapist Lisa, and follows all who comes apart and some who pull it together, when two people fall in love.
Actors
Lisa MetzgerMeryl Streep
Rafi GardetUma Thurman
David BloombergBryan Greenberg
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Zathura: A Space Adventure

IMDB Rating: 6.30
6346 votes

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Danny and Walter are two brothers who barely get along even while driving their parents to distraction as their older sister tries to ignore them. Despite their squabbling, the brothers manage cooperate enough to play an old mechanical board game named Zathura. However, after their first move, they find that the game has apparently flung them, their sister and their entire house into outer space. Furthermore, the brothers surmise the only way to return home is to finish the game. However with almost every move, new dangers arise as the siblings find themselves learning to cooperate in ways they never expected as they realize what they mean to each other.
Actors
DannyJonah Bobo
WalterJosh Hutcherson
AstronautDax Shepard
Also posted in 2005, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

IMDB Rating: 7.40
31254 votes

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Charlie Bucket comes from a poor family, and spends most of his time dreaming about the chocolate that he loves but usually can't afford. Things change when Willy Wonka, head of the very popular Wonka Chocolate empire, announces a contest in which five gold tickets have been hidden in chocolate bars and sent throughout the country. The kids who find the tickets will be taken on a tour of Wonka's chocolate factory and get a special glimpse of the wonders within. Charlie miraculously finds a ticket, along with four other children much naughtier than him. The tour of the factory will hold more than a few surprises for this bunch...
Actors
Willy WonkaJohnny Depp
Charlie BucketFreddie Highmore
Grandpa JoeDavid Patrick Kelly
Also posted in 2005, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, High IMDB rating | Comments (37)

Batman Begins

IMDB Rating: 8.30
116254 votes

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In tone with the early "Batman: Year One" style comics. As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes, a trauma which led him to become obsessed with revenge but his chance is cruelly taken away from him by fate. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra's Al-Ghul, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system whilst the company he inherited is slowly being pulled out from under him. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armored suit leads him to take on a new persona, one which will strike fear into the hearts of men who do wrong - he becomes, Batman. In the new guise, and with the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various nefarious schemes in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan 'The Scarecrow' Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right.
Actors
Bruce Wayne/BatmanChristian Bale
AlfredMichael Caine
Henri DucardLiam Neeson
Also posted in 2005, Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

IMDB Rating: 7.90
109442 votes

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A maturing Anakin Skywalker goes to the dark side of The Force and becomes Sith Lord Darth Vader. We experience the transformation in a dark, scary yet thrilling climax. The story here logically sets up the events of Episode IV, the original 1977 Star Wars movie in which Darth Vader goes to war against his own children, Luke and Leia.
Actors
Obi-Wan KenobiEwan McGregor
PadméNatalie Portman
Anakin SkywalkerHayden Christensen
Also posted in 2005, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

One Point O

IMDB Rating: 5.90
1227 votes

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After receiving mysterious empty packages inside his apartment, a young computer-programmer (named Simon) begins a personal investigation into their origins. This leads him to discover his odd and eccentric neighbors; an artificially intelligent robot-head, named Adam; a virtual-reality sex game; and a possible corporate conspiracy. As the story progresses, Simon's grip on reality becomes more and more tenuous, while his craving for Nature Fresh milk becomes almost unbearable. Is it all just in his mind, or is something more sinister happening here?
Actors
Simon J.Jeremy Sisto
TrishDeborah Kara Unger
HowardLance Henriksen
Also posted in 2004, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (0)

Collateral

IMDB Rating: 7.70
52558 votes

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Max has lived a mundane life as a cab driver for twelve years. The faces have come and gone from his rear-view mirror: people and places he's long since forgotten—until tonight. Vincent is a contract killer. When an off-shore narco-trafficking cartel learns that they're about to be indicted by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill the key witness, and the last stage is tonight. It is on this very night that Vincent has arrived—and five bodies are supposed to fall. Circumstances cause Vincent to hijack Max' taxicab, and Max becomes collateral—an expendable person who's in the wrong place at the wrong time. Through the night, Vincent forces Max to drive him to each assigned destination. And as the L.A.P.D. and F.B.I. race to intercept them, Max and Vincent's survival become dependent on each other, in ways neither would have imagined.
Actors
VincentTom Cruise
MaxJamie Foxx
AnnieJada Pinkett Smith
Also posted in 2004, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

IMDB Rating: 7.20
30608 votes

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Steve Zissou, sea-film auteur a la Jacques Cousteau, has reason to be melancholy: his partner has been eaten, perhaps by a mythic jaguar shark, his wife may be taking up with her ex-husband, a young man appears claiming Steve is his father (Steve hates fathers), his most recent films have tanked, he's having trouble raising money for his venture to revenge his partner, and he's attracted to a pregnant reporter who prefers the pretender. At sea, in pursuit of the shark, will he escape pirates and mutiny, forge the bonds of fatherhood, place his arm around his wife, find the monster of the deep, re-establish box office hegemony, and discover a reason to smile?
Actors
Steve ZissouBill Murray
Ned PlimptonOwen Wilson
Jane Winslett-RichardsonCate Blanchett
Also posted in 2004, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (1)
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