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Comedy / Romance
110 Minutes |
The Girl Next Door |
| A straight-arrow high-school senior falls in love with the perfect 'girl-next-door', only to discover she is a former porn star. He comes to realize that if he wants this very special woman, he better be willing to risk it all and experience a journey for which he never could have prepared. |
| Cast: Emile Hirsch; Elisha Cuthbert; Timothy Olyphant; James Remar; Chris Marquette; Paul Dano; Timothy Bottoms; Donna Bullock; Jacob Young; Brian Kolodziej; Brandon Irons; Amanda Swisten; Sung Hi Lee; Ulysses Lee; Harris Laskaway |
| Directed by: Luke Greenfield |
Written by: David Wagner; Brent Goldberg |
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Drama / Romance / War
238 Minutes |
Gone With the Wind |
| Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie. |
| Cast: Thomas Mitchell; Barbara O'Neil; Vivien Leigh; Evelyn Keyes; Ann Rutherford; George Reeves; Fred Crane; Hattie McDaniel; Oscar Polk; Butterfly McQueen; Victor Jory; Everett Brown; Howard C. Hickman; Alicia Rhett; Leslie Howard |
| Directed by: Victor Fleming; George Cukor |
Written by: Margaret Mitchell; Sidney Howard |
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Comedy / Musical / Romance
110 Minutes |
Grease |
| During a visit to America, Australian Sandy meets Danny Zuko at the beach and falls in love. She is heartbroken when Summer ends and she has to return home and their last kiss on the beach is a very emotional one. But fate lends a hand - her parents decide to stay in America and she finds herself attending the same school as Danny. But Danny at school is different from Danny at the beach. He is the leader of the T-Birds, a leather clad gang, and has a reputation to keep up. He can't be seen to fall in love with just one chick! Sandy is upset and seeks solace with some new friends she has made - a female gang called The Pink Ladies. But her prim and proper virginal ways do not fit in and she soon finds herself almost alone. A change must be made. Does she attempt to get her man by turning him into a jock? Or must she get rid of her "Sandra Dee" image? |
| Cast: John Travolta; Olivia Newton-John; Stockard Channing; Jeff Conaway; Barry Pearl; Michael Tucci; Kelly Ward; Didi Conn; Jamie Donnelly; Dinah Manoff; Eve Arden; Frankie Avalon; Joan Blondell; Edd Byrnes; Sid Caesar |
| Directed by: Randal Kleiser |
Written by: Jim Jacobs; Warren Casey |
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Drama / Romance
111 Minutes |
Great Expectations |
| Based on Charles Dickens' timeless tale, this is a story of the love of a man for an unreachable woman. Updated to modern day New York City, the story concerns a man of modest background who falls in love with a rich girl. But when a mysterious benefactor greenlights the man to make his dreams come true, everything done has the ultimate goal of making Estella fall in love with him... |
| Cast: Ethan Hawke; Gwyneth Paltrow; Hank Azaria; Chris Cooper (I); Anne Bancroft; Robert De Niro; Josh Mostel; Kim Dickens; Nell Campbell; Gabriel Mann; Jeremy James Kissner; Raquel Beaudene; Stephen Spinella; Marla Sucharetza; Isabelle Anderson (I) |
| Directed by: Alfonso Cuaron |
Written by: Charles Dickens; Mitch Glazer |
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Comedy
91 Minutes |
The Great Outdoors |
| Big-hearted Chicago family man Chet has brought his family to a lakeside resort area, and although his wife and kids aren't quite as excited as he is, Chet has high hopes for the vacation. However, his optimism is sabotaged when his obnoxious brother-in-law Roman drops in unexpectedly, along with his snooty, strange family. Chet and his family try to stay open-minded, but they find it difficult to relax and enjoy themselves because of the constant annoyance of Roman's presence. |
| Cast: Dan Aykroyd; John Candy; Stephanie Faracy; Annette Bening; Chris Young; Ian Giatti; Hilary Gordon; Rebecca Gordon; Robert Prosky; Zoaunne LeRoy; Lucy Deakins; Nancy Lenehan; John Bloom; Lewis Arquette; Britt Leach |
| Directed by: Howard Deutch |
Written by: John Hughes |
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Comedy / Drama / Romance
103 Minutes |
Green Card |
| George Faure is a Frenchman who has been offered a job in the U.S. But in order to get the job he must obtain a work permit - green card, and the easiest way is to marry an America. Bronte Parrish is a New Yorker who is a keen horticulturalist and just found the perfect flat with its own greenhouse. Unfortunately the flat is for married couples only. A marriage of convenience seems the ideal solution to both problems. To convince the immigration officers they are married for love, they must move in with each other. As the mismatched couple attempt to cope with life together, they start to fall in love. |
| Cast: Gerard Depardieu; Andie MacDowell; Bebe Neuwirth; Gregg Edelman; Robert Prosky; Jessie Keosian; Ethan Phillips; Mary Louise Wilson; Lois Smith; Conrad McLaren; Ronald Guttman; Danny Dennis; Stephen Pearlman; Victoria Boothby; Ann Wedgeworth |
| Directed by: Peter Weir |
Written by: Peter Weir |
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Drama
188 Minutes |
The Green Mile |
| Paul Edgecomb is a slightly cynical veteran prison guard on Death row in the 1930's. His faith, and sanity, deteriorated by watching men live and die, Edgecomb is about to have a complete turn around in attitude. Enter John Coffey, He's eight feet tall. He has hands the size of waffle irons. He's been accused of the murder of two children... and he's afraid to sleep in a cell without a night-light. And Edgecomb, as well as the other prison guards - Brutus, a sympathetic guard, and Percy, a stuck up, perverse, and violent person, are in for a strange experience that involves intelligent mice, brutal executions, and the revelation about Coffey's innocence and his true identity. |
| Cast: Tom Hanks; David Morse; Bonnie Hunt; Michael Clarke Duncan; James Cromwell; Michael Jeter; Graham Greene (II); Doug Hutchison; Sam Rockwell; Barry Pepper; Jeffrey DeMunn; Patricia Clarkson; Harry Dean Stanton; Dabbs Greer; Eve Brent |
| Directed by: Frank Darabont |
Written by: Stephen King; Frank Darabont |
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Crime / Comedy / Romance / Thriller
107 Minutes |
Grosse Pointe Blank |
| Martin Blank is a professional assassin. He is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe, and, by coincidence, his ten-year high school reunion party is taking place there at the same time. |
| Cast: John Cusack; Minnie Driver; Alan Arkin; Dan Aykroyd; Joan Cusack; Hank Azaria; K. Todd Freeman; Jeremy Piven; Mitch Ryan; Michael Cudlitz; Benny Urquidez; Duffy Taylor; Audrey Kissel; Carlos Jacott; Brian Powell |
| Directed by: George Armitage |
Written by: Tom Jankiewicz |
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Adventure / Family / Fantasy
152 Minutes |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
| Young Harry Potter has to lead a hard life: His parents have died in a car crash when he was still a baby, and he is being brought up by his Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia. For some reason unbeknownst to the bespectacled ten-year-old, the Dursleys let him live in the small chamber under the stairs, and treat him more like vermin than like a family member. His fat cousin Dudley, the Dursley's real son, keeps bothering Harry all the time. On his eleventh birthday, Harry Potter finally receives a mysterious letter from a certain Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, telling him that he is chosen as one of the future students of that supposedly renowned school. Hagrid, the gigantic man who brought the letter, finally introduces Harry into the real circumstances of his life: His parents were a wizard and a witch, they were killed by the evil wizard Voldemort protecting him. Harry still has a lightning-shaped scar on his forehead from that event. Since he survived the attack as a baby, and also somehow deprived Voldemort from his powers, he has been famous in the wizarding world ever since. The Dursleys, strong disbelievers in that magical crap, never told Harry anything about his true self. So, Harry is strongly surprised, yet absolutely happy to start his training. At Hogwarts, Harry meets his teachers, and becomes friends with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. The three of them accidentally find out that the potions master, Severus Snape, seems to plot on stealing something that is guarded by a three-headed dog. Since nobody would believe some first years to have found out such important things that even would incriminate a Hogwarts teacher, they take it on themselves to find out what Snape is up to. Their quest for the truth leads across many obstacles, from keeping up the everyday school life, a bewitched Quidditch match (Quidditch is a popular wizard sport), Fluffy, the three-headed monster dog and quite some tasks one has to overcome to get to the guarded object. |
| Cast: Daniel Radcliffe; Rupert Grint; Emma Watson (II); Richard Harris; Maggie Smith; Robbie Coltrane; Saunders Triplets; Fiona Shaw; Harry Melling; Richard Griffiths (I); Derek Deadman; Ian Hart; Ben Borowiecki; Warwick Davis; Verne Troyer |
| Directed by: Chris Columbus |
Written by: J.K. Rowling; Steven Kloves |
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Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Mystery
161 Minutes |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
| Harry Potter is in his second year of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He is visited by a house-elf named Dobby and warned not to go back to Hogwarts. Harry ignores his warning, and returns. He is still famous, although still disliked by Snape, Malfoy, and the rest of the Slytherins. But then, strange things start to happen. People are becoming petrified, and no-one knows what is doing it. Harry keeps hearing a voice.. a voice which seems to be coming from within the walls. They are told the story of the Chamber of Secrets. It is said that only Salazar Slytherin's true descendent will be able to open it. Harry, it turns out, is a Parsel-tongue. This means that he is able to speak/understand snakes. Everyone thinks that it's him that has opened the Chamber of Secrets because that is what Slytherin was famous for. |
| Cast: Daniel Radcliffe; Emma Watson (II); Rupert Grint; Richard Griffiths (I); Fiona Shaw; Harry Melling; Toby Jones; Veronica Clifford (I); James Phelps (I); Oliver Phelps; Julie Walters; Bonnie Wright; Mark Williams (I); Chris Rankin; Tom Felton |
| Directed by: Chris Columbus |
Written by: J.K. Rowling; Steven Kloves |
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