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Le Divorce

IMDB Rating: 4.80
3932 votes

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Isabel WalkerKate Hudson
Immigration OfficerJean-Marie Lhomme
Roxeanne de PersandNaomi Watts
Also posted in 2003, Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comments (0)

House of Sand and Fog

IMDB Rating: 7.70
15956 votes

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Massoud Amir Behrani, an Iranian immigrant, has spent most of his savings trying to enhance his daughter's chances of a good marriage. Once she is married, he spends the remaining funds on a house at an auction, unwittingly putting himself and his family in the middle of a legal tussle with the house's former owner. What begins as a legal struggle turns into a personal confrontation, with tragic results.
Actors
KathyJennifer Connelly
BehraniBen Kingsley
LesterRon Eldard
Also posted in 2003, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Bad Santa

IMDB Rating: 7.20
22700 votes

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"Bad Santa" is the story of two conmen who go on a road trip to malls dressed as Santa and his elf. Rather than spreading good cheer, the duo's motive is to rob each establishment, a strategy that becomes complicated when they encounter an 8-year-old who teaches them the true meaning of Christmas.
Actors
WillieBilly Bob Thornton
MarcusTony Cox
The KidBrett Kelly
Also posted in 2003, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating | Comments (3)

About a Boy

IMDB Rating: 7.40
29117 votes

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Will Freeman is a hip Londoner who one day realizes that his friends are all involved with the responsibilities of married life and that leaves him alone in the cold. Passing himself as a single father, he starts to meet a string of single mums, confident in his ability to leave them behind when they start to ask for a commitment. But Will's hope of a continued bachelorhood is interrupted when he meets 12-year old Marcus, in many ways his complete opposite.
Actors
WillHugh Grant
Marcus BrewerNicholas Hoult
Fiona BrewerToni Collette
Also posted in 2002, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (8)

The Count of Monte Cristo

IMDB Rating: 7.40
22633 votes

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'The Count of Monte Cristo' is a remake of the Alexander Dumas tale by the same name. Dantes, a sailor who is falsely accused of treason by his best friend Fernand, who wants Dantes' girlfriend Mercedes for himself. Dantes is imprisoned on the island prison of Chateau d'If for 13 years, where he plots revenge against those who betrayed him. With the help of another prisoner, he escapes the island and proceeds to transform himself into the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo as part of his plan to exact revenge.
Actors
Edmond Dantes/Count of Monte CristoJames Caviezel
Fernand Mondego, Count of MorcerfGuy Pearce
Abbé Faria, Edmond's d'If MentorRichard Harris
Also posted in 2002, Action, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (15)

John Q

IMDB Rating: 6.40
15343 votes

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John Quincy Archibald's son Michael collapses while playing baseball as a result of heart failure. John rushes Michael to a hospital emergency room where he is informed that Michael's only hope is a transplant. Unfortunately, John's insurance won't cover his son's transplant. Out of options, John Q. takes the emergency room staff and patients hostage until hospital doctors agree to do the transplant.
Actors
John Quincy ArchibaldDenzel Washington
Beautiful WomanGabriela Oltean
Lt. Frank GrimesRobert Duvall
Also posted in 2002, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (4)

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

IMDB Rating: 6.70
9129 votes

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CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them, in order to use them for his dirty schemes. The next evening already, Briggs makes his first robbery, and when he wakes up in the morning he has no memory of it. Things get really complicated when he starts investigating the case. Will he be able to uncover... himself?
Actors
SamJohn Tormey
MizeJohn Schuck
C.W. BriggsWoody Allen
Also posted in 2001, Comedy, Crime, High IMDB rating, Mystery | Comments (6)

Cast Away

IMDB Rating: 7.30
40285 votes

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Hanks stars as Chuck Noland, a FedEx systems engineer whose personal and professional life are ruled by the clock. His fast-paced career takes him, often at a moment's notice, to far-flung locales - and away from his girlfriend Kelly, played by Helen Hunt. Chuck's manic existence abruptly ends when, after a plane crash, he becomes isolated on a remote island - cast away into the most desolate environment imaginable. Stripped of the conveniences of everyday life, he first must meet the basic needs of survival, including water, food and shelter. Chuck, the consummate problem solver, eventually figures out how to sustain himself physically. But then what? Chuck begins his true personal journey. After four years, fate gives Chuck a chance to fight his way back to civilization, only to find an unexpected emotional challenge greater than all the earlier physical ones. His ability to persevere and to hope are a product of his life-changing experience.
Actors
RamonPaul Sanchez
Bettina PetersonLari White
FyodorLeonid Citer
Also posted in 2000, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (47)

What Women Want

IMDB Rating: 6.30
30234 votes

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Nick, a somewhat chauvanistic advertising exec hot shot, has his life turned haywire when a fluke accident enables him to hear what women think. At first all he wants to do is rid himself of this curse, until a wacky psycologist (played to perfection by Bette Midler) shows him that this could be used to his advantage! His first target is Darcy McGuire, the very woman that got the promotion he wanted. But just as his plan is beginning to work, love gets in the way...
Actors
Nick MarshallMel Gibson
Darcy McGuireHelen Hunt
LolaMarisa Tomei
Also posted in 2000, Comedy, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (25)

Angel’s Dance

IMDB Rating: 5.80
515 votes

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Tony wants to be a hitman for the Mafia, but first he has to learn from a master. Enter Stevie California-cool, eats veggie burgers and quotes Neitzche. Tony may not agree with Stevie's style, but he has to complete his training so he can go back and kill the Mafia's accountant, who's about to turn state's evidence. His final test: kill whoever is randomly picked out of the yellow pages. His target: Angel Chaste. Angel works the graveyard shift at a mortuary. She thinks a doll is her baby. Her mother left when she was little. Basically, Angel has PROBLEMS. When Tony, Angel and Stevie collide, it will change all of their lives.
Actors
Stevie 'The Rose' RoselliniJames Belushi
Angelica ChasteSheryl Lee
Tony GrecoKyle Chandler
Also posted in 1999, Action, Comedy | Comments (0)
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