Monday, November 20, 2006

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Back To The Future [1985]
Genre: Action / Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi

In 1985, Doc Brown invented time travel, in 1955, Marty McFly accidentally prevented his parents from meeting, putting his own existence at stake.









Back To The Future Part 2 [1989]
Genre: Action / Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi

Tagline: Getting back was only the beginning.

Plot Outline: After visiting 2015, Marty must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985... without interfering with his first trip.






Back To The Future Part 3 [1990]
Genre: Action / Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi / Western

Tagline: They've saved the best trip for last... But this time they may have gone too far.

Plot Outline: Doctor Emmet Brown was living in peace in 1885 until he was killed by Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen. Marty McFly travels back in time to save his friend.






Bad Boys 2 [2003]
Genre: Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller

Plot Outline:
The boys are back and badder than ever. Martin Lawrence and Will Smith reunite with producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay for another exhilarating and high-intensity action adventure in Bad Boys II. The danger quotient is heightened and so are the laughs in this new installment as Miami narcotics detectives Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Lawrence) become part of a high-tech task force assigned to stem the flood of designer ecstasy into Miami.






Band of Brothers [2001]
Genre: Adventure / Drama / History / War

The story of Easy Company of the US Army Airbourne Paratrooper division and their mission in WWII France during Operation Overlord.









The Band's Visit / Bikur Ha-Tizmoret [2007] [Israel] LiMiTED
Genre: Comedy / Drama

Tagline: Once-not long ago-a small Egyptian police band arrived in Israel. Not many remember this...It wasn't that important.

Plot Outline:
A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.




The Banquet / Ye yan [2006]
Genre: Action / Drama


Plot Outline: A loose adaptation of Hamlet, "The Night Banquet" is set in an empire in chaos. The Emperor, the Empress, the Crown Prince, the Minister and the General all have their own enemies they would like to finish off at a night banquet.








Barbarella [1968]
Genre: Adventure / Sci-Fi / Fantasy

Tagline: Who seduces an angel? Who strips in space? Who conveys love by hand? Who gives up the pill? Who takes sex to outer space? Who's the girl of the 21st century? Who nearly dies of pleasure?

Plot Outline:
In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Duran-Duran. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.








Barfly [1987]
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance

Tagline: Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Plot Summary:
Mickey Rourke plays Henry Chinaski, a poet and alcoholic. He spends his life in bars in Los Angeles, drinking every night. One day he meets Wanda, also a alcoholic and falls in love with her. Wanda is not like his former girlfriends, one is still able to see the beauty she once was before she started to drink. Together they meet Tully Sorenson, who wants to publish some of Henry's poems. For a short time he becomes famous but in the end it is clear that Henry and Wanda have only one goal in life: drinking to forget the lousy life they live outside the bars of Los Angeles.






Barry Lyndon [1975]
Genre: Drama / Romance / War

Plot Outline:
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's position in 18th Century aristocracy.

Movie Synopsis:
BARRY LYNDON is Stanley Kubrick's epic costume drama based on William Makepeace Thackeray's picaresque novel.















Battle Royale / Batoru Rowaiaru [2000]

Genre: Action / Drama / Horror / Thriller

Tagline: Could you kill your best friend?
Plot Outline: 42 ninth grade students have to fight for survival on a deserted island, while being watched by a bitter ex-teacher who's back with a vengeance.






Battle Royale 2: Batoru rowaiaru II: Chinkonka [2003]
Genre: Action / Drama / Horror / Thriller

Tagline: This time it's war.

Plot Outline: Three years after the failure of the last BR program, a second act is forged and a class of students are sent to an island with one objective: kill international terrorist Shuya Nanahara.







Be Cool [2005]
Genre: Comedy / Crime / Music

Tagline: Everyone is looking for the next big hit

Plot Outline: Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer (John Travolta) tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music exec (Uma Thurman) on the way.








Before Sunrise [1995]
Genre: Drama / Romance

Tagline: ... When love can come as a complete surprise

Plot Outline: A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one romantic evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together.






Before Sunset [2004]
Genre: Drama / Romance

Tagline: What if you had a second chance with the one that got away?

Plot Outline: It's nine years after Jesse and Celine first met; now, they encounter one another on the French leg of Jesse's book tour.








Behind Enemy LInes [2001]
Genre: Action / War / Drama / Thriller

Tagline: In War There Are Some Lines You Should Never Cross.

Plot Outline: A Navy navigator is shot down over enemy territory and is ruthlessly pursued by a secret police enforcer and the opposing troops. Meanwhile his commanding officer goes against orders in an attempt to rescue him.







Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon [2006]
Genre: Comedy / Horror / Thriller

Tagline: Jason, Freddy, Myers. We All Need Someone To Look Up To.

Plot Summary:
The next great psycho horror slasher has given a documentary crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the sleepy town of Glen Echo, all the while deconstructing the conventions and archetypes of the horror genre for them.




Being John Malkovich [1999]

Genre: Comedy / Drama / Fantasy

Tagline: Ever wanted to be someone else? Now you can.

Plot Outline:
A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of the movie star, John Malkovich.




Bells are Ringing [1960]
Genre: Comedy / Musical / Romance

Plot Summary:
Ella Peterson is a Brooklyn telephone answering service operator who tries to improve the lives of her clients by passing along bits of information she hears from other clients. She falls in love with one of her clients, the playwright Jeffrey Moss, and is determined to meet him. The trouble is, on the phone to him, she always pretends to be an old woman whom he calls "Mom."









Ben – Hur [1959]
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance

Tagline: A Tale of the Christ

Plot Outline: When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.






The Benchwarmers [2006]
Genre: Comedy / Sport

Tagline: Get off the bench and get into the game.

Plot Outline: A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard little league squads.







Beowulf [1999]
Genre: Horror / Action / Sci-Fi

Tagline: Unleash your dark side.

Plot Outline: A sci-fi update of the famous 6th Century poem. In a beseiged land, Beowulf must battle against the hideous creature the Grendel and his vengeance seeking mother.






Beowulf [2007]
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy

Tagline: Pride is the curse.

Plot Outline:
The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel's mother, who begins killing out of revenge.





The Best 2 Years [2004]
Genre: Comedy

Tagline: Every moment counts.

Plot Summary: Two pairs of Mormon missionaries from America live in a beaten-up apartment in the Dutch city of Haarlem.







The Best Thief in the World [2004]
Genre: Comedy / Drama

Plot Outline: Izzy, the youngest son of a troubled New York family, takes a shine to breaking into people's apartments as a way to get attention.









Bicentennial Man [1999]
Genre: Sci-Fi / Drama / Romance

Tagline: One robot's 200 year journey to become an ordinary man.

Plot Outline: A robot wants to become human as he gains human emotions more and more.








The Bicycle Thief / Ladri di biciclette [1948]
Genre: Drama

Plot Outline: A man and his son search for a stolen bicycle vital for his job.









Big Fish [2003]
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Comedy / Adventure

Tagline: An adventure as big as life itself.

Plot Outline:
A story about a son trying to learn more about his dying father by reliving stories and myths his father told him about himself.









Big Nothing [2006]
Genre: Comedy / Crime / Thriller

Tagline: A comedy that gets away with murder.

Plot Outline: A frustrated, unemployed teacher joining forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing scheme.









The Big One [1997]
Genre: Comedy / Documentary

Tagline: Protecting the earth from the scum of corporate America.

Plot Outline:
On his book tour, Michael Moore exposes more wrongdoing by greedy big businesses and callous politicians around America.
Another of Moore's subversive journeys in search of an answer to this question: at a time when corporations are posting record profits, why are so many Americans still in danger of losing their jobs?







The Big Red One [1980]
Genre: Action / Drama / War

Tagline: The real glory of war is surviving.

Plot Outline: The story of a sergeant and the inner core members of his unit as they try to serve in and survive World War II.





The Birdcage [1996]
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Music

Tagline: Come as you are.

Plot Outline:
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé's right-wing moralistic parents.







Birth [2004]
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Romance

Tagline: Be careful what you wish for.

Plot Outline: A woman (Nicole Kidman) becomes convinced that a ten year old boy is the reincarnation of her dead husband.







Black Book / Zwartboek [2006]
Genre: Thriller / War

Set during the end of WWII, Black Book is the story of a Dutch Jewish girl who narrowly survives the war in Holland. She joins the resistance to find out who betrayed her family after all of them were killed in an attempt to reach the liberated south.








The Black Dahlia [2006]
Genre: Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

Tagline: Inspired by the most notorious unsolved murder in California history.

Plot Outline: An adaptation of James Ellroy's novel about two 1940s L.A. cops who head up the hunt for the killer of starlet Elizabeth Short.







Black Hawk Down [2001]
Genre: Action / Drama / History / War

Tagline: Leave No Man Behind

Plot Outline: 123 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.






Black Irish [2007]
Genre: Drama

Tagline: You can't choose family.

Plot Outline:
A gripping coming-of-age drama, which chronicles the trials and tribulations of 15 year-old Cole McKay (Michael Angarano), an obedient son who yearns for the attentions of his emotionally remote father (Brendan Gleeson). The tale unfolds in a skillful interweaving of character arcs that builds towards a heart-wrenching climax.




Black Sheep [2006][LiMiTED]
Genre: Comedy / Horror

Tagline: Get ready for the Violence of the Lambs!

Plot Outline:
An experiment in genetic engineering turns harmless sheep into blood-thirsty killers that terrorize a sprawling New Zealand farm.








Blade 1 [1998]
Genre: Action / Horror / Thriller

Tagline: The power of an immortal. The soul of a human. The heart of a hero.

Plot Outline: A half-vampire, half-mortal man becomes a protector of the mortal race, while slaying evil vampires.








Blade 2 [2002]
Genre: Action / Thriller / Horror

Tagline: Know The Mark

Plot Outline: Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reaper vampires who feed on vampires.








Blade 3: Trinity [2004]
Genre: Action / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller

Tagline: The final hunt begins.

Plot Outline: Blade, now a wanted man by the FBI, must join forces with the Nightstalkers to face his most challenging enemy yet: Dracula








Blade Runner [Dirctor’s Cut] [1982]
Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Tagline: Man Has Made His Match... Now It's His Problem

Plot Outline: Deckard, a blade runner, has to track down and terminate 4 replicants who hijacked a ship in space and have returned to earth seeking their maker.





Blades of Glory [2007]
Genre: Comedy / Romance / Sport

Tagline: Kick Some Ice

Plot Outline:
In 2002, two rival Olympic ice skaters were stripped of their gold medals and permanently banned from men's single competition. Presently, however, they've found a loophole that will allow them to qualify as a pairs team.





Blood Diamond [2006]
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Thriller

Tagline: Fortune

Plot Outline: A farmer, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond.









Blood In, Blood Out / Bound by Honor [1993]
Genre: Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

Tagline: An epic story of three brothers. Bound by blood. Divided by fate. Driven by destiny.

Plot Summary: Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo.






Blood Stains / Murder in My House [2006]




Blood Tea and Red String [2006]
Genre: Animation / Fantasy

Plot Outline: A handmade stop-motion fairy tale for adults that tells the tale of the struggle between the aristocratic White Mice and the rustic Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak over the doll of their heart's desire.









Blow [2001]
Genre: Biography / Crime / Drama

Tagline: Based on a True Story.

Plot Outline: The story of George Jung, the man who established the American cocaine market in the 1970's.








Blue Velvet [1987]
Genre: Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

Tagline: It's a strange world.

Plot Outline: After finding a severed human ear in a field, a young man soon discovers a sinister underworld lying just beneath his idyllic suburban home town.






Boarding Gate [2007]
Genre: Thriller

Plot Summary:
An Italian woman [Argento] who lives in London [and] has a passionate affair with a former financial big gun [Madsen]. She also had a second lover [a Leung], a contract killer who has to kill the big gun. Her second lover's wife [Yeoh] is behind the scenes, pulling the strings.








Bobby [2006]
Genre: Drama

Tagline: He saw wrong and tried to right it. He saw suffering and tried to heal it. He saw war and tried to stop it.

Plot Outline:
The story of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy who was shot in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, and 22 people in the hotel whose lives were never the same.






Boogie Nights [1997]
Genre: Drama

Tagline: Everyone has one special thing

Plot Outline: The story of a young man's adventures in the Californian pornography industry of the 1970s and 1980s.







Bookies [2003]
Genre: Comedy / Thriller / Drama

Plot Outline: Centers on four college friends who become small-time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the attention of organized crime.








Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan [2006]
Genre: Comedy

Plot Outline: Kazakhstani TV talking head Borat (Cohen) is dispatched to the United States to report on the greatest country in the world. With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying Pamela Anderson.







Born On The Fourth of July [1989]
Genre: Biography / Drama / War

Tagline: A story of innocence lost and courage found.

Plot Outline:
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.














Bourne Identity [2002]
Genre: Action / Thriller / Mystery / Drama / Adventure

Tagline: He was the perfect weapon until he became the target.

Plot Outline: A man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and without memory, then races to elude assassins and recover from amnesia.







Bourne Supremacy [2004]
Genre: Adventure / Mystery / Thriller / Action / Drama

Tagline: They should have left him alone.

Plot Outline: When Jason Bourne is framed for a botched CIA operation he is forced to take up his former life as a trained assassin to survive.








The Bourne Ultimatum [2007]
Genre: Action / Adventure / Mystery / Thriller

Tagline: This Summer Jason Bourne Comes Home

Plot Outline:
Bourne dodges new, superior assassins as he searches for his unknown past while a government agent tries to track him down.








Bowling For Columbine [2002]

Genre: Documentary / Drama

Tagline: Are we a nation of gun nuts or are we just nuts?

Plot Outline:
Filmmaker and leftist activist Michael Moore asks some serious questions as he probes the depths of America's trigger-happy gun culture in the insightful and amusing documentary, BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE.



Braveheart [1995]
Genre: Action / Biography / Drama / History / War

Tagline: What kind of man would defy a king?

Plot Outline: William Wallace, a commoner, unites the 13th Century Scots in their battle to overthrow English rule.







Breach [2007]
Genre: Drama / Thriller

Tagline: Inspired by the true story of the greatest security breach in U.S. history

Plot Outline:
Based on the true story, FBI upstart Eric O'Neill enters into a power game with his boss, Robert Hanssen, an agent who was ultimately convicted of selling secrets to the Soviet Union.






Breakfast at Tiffany’s [1961]
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance

Tagline: Audrey Hepburn plays that daring, darling Holly Golightly to a new high in entertainment delight!

Plot Outline: A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building.






Breaking and Entering [2007]
Genre: Drama / Romance / Thriller

Tagline: Love is no ordinary crime.

Plot Outline:
A Landscape Architect's dealings with a young thief cause him to re-evaluate his life.









Brick [2005]
Genre: Crime / Drama / Mystery

Tagline: A detective story.

Plot Outline: A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.






Brick Lane [2007]
Genre: Drama

Plot Summary:
A young Bangladeshi woman, Nazneem, arrives in 1980s London, leaving behind her beloved sister and home, for an arranged marriage and a new life. Trapped within the four walls of her flat in East London, and in a loveless marriage with the middle aged Chanu, she fears her soul is quietly dying.




The Bride of Frankenstein [1935]
Genre: Drama / Horror / Romance / Sci-Fi
WHO will be The Bride of Frakenstein WHO will dare ?

Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Dr. Frankenstein (goaded by an even madder scientist) builds his monster a mate.








The Bridge [2006]
Genre: Documentary

Tagline: Be afraid of what lies beneath...

Plot Summary:
Shot over an entire year in 2004, THE BRIDGE is a startling documentary about San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and the people who go there to end their lives.








The Bridge On The River Kwai [1957]
Genre: Adventure / Drama / War

After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.








The Bridges of Madison County [1995]
Genre: Drama / Romance

Plot Outline: Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson, for four days in the 1960s.










Bridget Jone’s Diary [2001]
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
It's Monday morning, Bridget has woken up with a headache, a hangover and her boss.

A British woman is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.






Bridget Jone’s Diary: Edge of Reason [2004]
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Romance
Same Bridget. Brand new diary.

The story picks up four weeks after the first film, and already Bridget Jones is becoming uncomfortable in her relationship with Mark Darcy.








Brokeback Mountain [2005]
Genre: Drama / Romance

Tagline: Love Is A Force Of Nature

Plot Outline: Based on the E. Annie Proulx story about a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys and their lives over the years.







Broken Flowers [2005]
Genre: Comedy / Drama

Tagline: Sometimes life brings some strange surprises.

Plot Outline: As the devoutly single Don Johnston (Murray) is dumped by his latest girlfriend (Delpy), he receives a anonymous pink letter informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him. The situation causes Don to examine his relationships with women instead of moving on to the next one, and he embarks on a cross-country search for his old flames who might possess clues to the mystery at hand.






Brothers Grimm [2005]
Genre: Action / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
Eliminating Evil Since 1812

Will and Jake Grimm are travelling con-artists who encounter a genuine fairy-tale curse which requires genuine courage instead of their usual bogus exorcisms.








Bruce Almighty [2003]
Genre: Comedy / Fantasy / Romance

Tagline: How would you handle the most awesome responsibility in the universe?

Plot Outline: A guy who complains about God too often is given almighty powers to teach him how difficult it is to run the world.







Bulletproof Monk [2003]
Genre: Action / Adventure / Comedy

Tagline: A power beyond measure requires a protector without equal.

Plot Outline: Based on the very underground comic book, a Tibetan monk (Chow) becomes a mentor to a young street kid (Scott) whom he can teach to protect a scroll.





The Bunker [2001]
Genre: Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / War

The evil is within.

Seven German soldiers are enclosed in one bunker during the Second World War. They soon feel surrounded by enemies.








The Business / Bound [2005]
Genre: Thriller / Drama (more)

Tagline: This firm will blow you away

Plot Summary: Set in the Thatcher era with the cool sounds of the 80's, THE BUSINESS is an action packed gangster flick set in Spain's sun drenched Costa Del crime.






The Butterfly Effect [2004]
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Change one thing, change everything.

A young man (Kutcher) blocks out harmful memories of significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life.







The Butterfly Effect 2 [2006]
Genre: Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Tagline: Can you change your past without destroying your future?

Plot Outline: Sequel to the 2003 cult movie in which a person can change the past via remembering their forgotten memories due to blackouts.







Butterfly on a Wheel [2007]

Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller

Tagline: Lives will be broken

Plot Outline:
A perfect family's dynamic is ruined by a kidnapper's brutally efficient plot.