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Eight Below

IMDB Rating: 7.40
7684 votes

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In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren (Bruce Greenwood), the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd (Paul Walker) has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is called-off and the dogs are left alone at their own fortune. For six months, Jerry tries to find a sponsor for a rescue mission while his dogs fight for survival.
Actors
Jerry ShepardPaul Walker
Davis McClarenBruce Greenwood
KatieMoon Bloodgood
Also posted in 2006, Adventure, Drama, Family, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

Mission: Impossible III

IMDB Rating: 6.90
35461 votes

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Former spy Ethan Hunt is called back into action to recover a missing IMF Agent. But complications arise when his fiancée is captured and he must fight to get her back.
Actors
Ethan HuntTom Cruise
Luther StickellVing Rhames
Benji DunnSimon Pegg
Also posted in 2006, High IMDB rating, Thriller | 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)

Syriana

IMDB Rating: 7.20
27052 votes

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A missile disappears in Iran, but the CIA has other problems: the heir to an Emirate gives an oil contract to China, cutting out a US company that promptly fires its immigrant workers and merges with a small firm that has landed a Kazakhstani oil contract. The Department of Justice suspects bribery, and the oil company's law firm finds a scapegoat. The CIA also needs one when its plot to kill the Emir-apparent fails. Agent Bob Barnes, the fall guy, sorts out the double cross. An American economist parlays the death of his son into a contract to advise the sheik the CIA wants dead. The jobless Pakistanis join a fundamentalist group. All roads start and end in the oil fields.
Actors
ArashKayvan Novak
Bob BarnesGeorge Clooney
Mohammed Sheik AgizaAmr Waked
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | 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)

The Aviator

IMDB Rating: 7.60
41695 votes

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The script begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese's favorite films, Hell's Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that he waits forever for perfect conditions, right down to cloud formations. The Aviator ends in 1946, when Hughes was still a dashing young man and romancing actresses like Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn.
Actors
Howard HughesLeonardo DiCaprio
Katharine HepburnCate Blanchett
Ava GardnerKate Beckinsale
Also posted in 2004, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (4)

National Treasure

IMDB Rating: 6.80
35933 votes

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Benjamin Franklin Gates descends from a family of treasure-seekers who've all hunted for the same thing: a war chest hidden by the Founding Fathers after the Revolutionary War. Ben's close to discovering its whereabouts, as is his competition, but the FBI is also hip to the hunt.
Actors
Ben GatesNicolas Cage
Abigail ChaseDiane Kruger
Riley PooleJustin Bartha
Also posted in 2004, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating | Comments (5)

Head of State

IMDB Rating: 5.00
4751 votes

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Mays Gilliam, a Washington D.C. neighborhood Alderman, is about to be red-lined out of his job. But after the untimely death of the party frontrunner, Gilliam is plucked from obscurity, and thrust into the limelight as his party's nominee—for President of the United States. The players in Gilliam's life include: Mitch Gilliam, his unsophisticated older brother who becomes his running mate; Kim, his ex-girlfriend who had once dumped him, but who now has a sudden change of heart as she sees a chance at becoming First Lady; Martin Geller, his campaign manager; Lisa Clark, the woman who truly believes in Gilliam; and Debra Lassiter, the woman who doesn't have faith in his candidacy, and is serving as his reluctant advisor.
Actors
Mitch GilliamBernie Mac
Martin GellerDylan Baker
Brian LewisNick Searcy
Also posted in 2003, Comedy | Comments (2)