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Blood Diamond

IMDB Rating: 7.80
32874 votes

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Set against the backdrop of civil war and chaos in 1990's Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) - an ex Mercenary from Zimbabwe - and Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) - a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories as different as any can be, until their fates become joined in a common quest to recover a rare pink diamond that can transform their lives. While in prison for smuggling, Archer learns that Solomon - who was taken from his family and forced to work in the diamond fields - has found and hidden the extraordinary rough stone. With the help of Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connelly), an American journalist whose idealism is tempered by a deepening connection with Archer, the two men embark on a trek through rebel territory, a journey that could save Solomon's family and give Archer the second chance he thought he would never have.
Actors
Danny ArcherLeonardo DiCaprio
Solomon VandyDjimon Hounsou
Maddy BowenJennifer Connelly
Also posted in 2006, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

United 93

IMDB Rating: 7.90
26730 votes

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September 11, 2001. The nation was under attack by suicide hijackers, who hit Three famous buildings. The fourth plane United 93 was a story of 40 passengers who were strangers. Who sat through terrifying event. But found courage, rebelled and become hero's. And stood united.
Actors
Captain Jason DahlJ.J. Johnson
First Officer LeRoy HomerGary Commock
CeeCee LylesOpal Alladin
Also posted in 2006, Drama, High IMDB rating, History | Comments (0)

Silent Hill

IMDB Rating: 6.50
32701 votes

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After the continuous sleep walking episodes of Sharon, the young daughter of Rose Da Silva, the decision is made to take Sharon to the place only mentioned in her restless dreams- Silent Hill. However, the road to Silent Hill is anything but easy to access, and Rose creates a high speed chase between herself and a police officer only to end in a crash for them both. When she wakes up, Sharon has disappeared and Rose is at the entrance to the deserted, dream-like town of Silent Hill. As Rose begins the search for her daughter, she does not realize the terror and mystery surrounding her. Rose is led on a blind search for her beloved daughter, finding herself getting more and more entwined into disturbing past of Silent Hill.
Actors
Rose Da SilvaRadha Mitchell
Christopher Da SilvaSean Bean
Cybil BennettLaurie Holden
Also posted in 2006, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

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)

Last Holiday

IMDB Rating: 6.40
3328 votes

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In morte veritas. Georgia Byrd clerks at a New Orleans department store. She defers pleasure: cooks gourmet meals, eats Lean Cuisine; likes a co-worker in silence; has savings, but hasn't left Louisiana. All that changes when an MRI discloses she has three weeks to live. She cashes her savings and heads to Europe's Grandhotel Pupp, where Chef Didier presides. She checks into the Presidential Suite, orders everything on the menu, snowboards, and comes to the attention of the chef and the hotel's powerful American guests: a Congressman, a Senator, a retail magnate, and his mistress. She has nothing to lose, so she tells them what she thinks. Will the truth set them free?
Actors
Georgia ByrdQueen Latifah
Sean MatthewsLL Cool J
Matthew KragenTimothy Hutton
Also posted in 2006, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Thank You for Smoking

IMDB Rating: 7.90
24553 votes

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Tobacco industry lobbyist Nick Naylor has a seemingly impossible task: promoting cigarette smoking in a time when the health hazards of the activity have become too plain to ignore. Nick, however, revels in his job, using argument and twisted logic to place, as often as not, his clients in the positions of either altruistic do-gooders or victims. Nick's son Joey needs to understand and respect his dad's philosophy, and Nick works hard to respond to that need without compromising his lack of values. When a beautiful news reporter betrays Nick's sexually-achieved trust, his world seems in danger of collapsing. But there's always one more coffin nail in Nick's pack.
Actors
Nick NaylorAaron Eckhart
Polly BaileyMaria Bello
Joey NaylorCameron Bright
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Game of Their Lives

IMDB Rating: 6.10
674 votes

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In 1950, few soccer players in the United States played the game with any particular degree of expertise. Most Americans had heard about the soccer only by hearsay, even though it was the world's most popular sport, and when the United States was invited to compete in the World Cup in Brazil, the country turned out to have no soccer team to call their own. The U.S. set out to recruit players in the soccer breeding ground of St. Louis, Missouri, where they found a group of young friends with almost absolute lack of an appropriate experience, only an unabashed love of the game.
Actors
Frank BorghiGerard Butler
Walter BahrWes Bentley
Joe MacaRichard Jenik
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating, History, Sport | Comments (0)

Bee Season

IMDB Rating: 5.50
1879 votes

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11-year-old Eliza Naumann comes from an odd family; they all divert their emotional frustrations into secret channels. When Eliza unexpectedly begins winning spelling bees, what had been a stable dynamic within the family becomes disrupted; long held secrets emerge, and a latent spiritual yearning is awakened in her withdrawn father Saul and compulsive mother Miriam. As Eliza moves closer and closer to the national spelling bee, the Naumann family finds itself in a spiral of surprising discovery and jarring uncertainty...
Actors
SaulRichard Gere
MiriamJuliette Binoche
ElizaFlora Cross
Also posted in 2005, Drama | Comments (0)

Wedding Crashers

IMDB Rating: 7.20
43726 votes

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Divorce mediators John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey are business partners and lifelong friends who share one truly unique springtime hobby—crashing weddings! Whatever the ethnicity of the wedding party—Jewish, Italian, Irish, Chinese, Hindu—the charismatic and charming duo always have clever back stories for inquisitive guests and inevitably become the hit of every reception, where they strictly adhere to their proven rules of wedding crashing to meet and pick up women aroused by the very thought of marriage. At the tail end of another successful season of toasting brides and grooms, Jeremy learns that the daughter of Treasury Secretary William Cleary and his wife, Kathleen, is getting married in what is sure to be the Washington D.C. social event of the year. After infiltrating the lavish affair, John and Jeremy quickly set their sights on two bridesmaids, Claire and Gloria Cleary. With the lavish reception in full swing, Jeremy works his game plan to perfection in seducing Gloria, but John's flirtation banter with Claire is unexpectedly impeded by her pompous, Ivy League boyfriend Sack. Having uncharacteristically fallen hard and fast for Claire, John convinces a resistant Jeremy to bend the crashing rules and accept an invitation to an extended weekend party at the Cleary family compound. Once at the palatial waterfront estate, John and Jeremy endure a multitude of comical mishaps at the hands of the dysfunctional members of the Cleary family, but also learn a few unexpected lessons about love and relationships.
Actors
John BeckwithOwen Wilson
Jeremy GreyVince Vaughn
Treasury Secretary William ClearyChristopher Walken
Also posted in 2005, Comedy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

One Last Thing…

IMDB Rating: 7.20
898 votes

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A boy, Dylan (Michael Angarano), in grade ten with terminal cancer gets a last wish from the Wish Givers Foundation. His makes a new wish which seems a little inappropriate. As his last wish he wants to be with a super model (Sunny Mabrey) for a week alone. At first Nikki (Mabrey) has pity for him but soon it turns into love.
Actors
Carol JameisonCynthia Nixon
ArleneGina Gershon
PattiDana Eskelson
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)
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