Monday, November 20, 2006

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The Cable Guy [1996]
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Thriller

Tagline: "I can be your best friend, or your worst enemy..."

Plot Outline: A lonely and disturbed cable guy raised on television just wants a new friend, but his target, a designer, rejects him, with bad consequences.










Capote [2005]

Genre: Biography / Crime / Drama

Plot Outline: Truman Capote (Hoffman), during his research for his book In Cold Blood, an account of the murder of a Kansas family, the writer develops a close relationship with Perry Smith, one of the killers.









Carolina [2003]
Genre: Romance / Comedy

Plot Outline:
A young woman escapes her wildly eccentric family in search for a life of normalcy.















Cashback [2007]
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance

Tagline: Sometimes love is hiding between the seconds of your life

Plot Outline:
After a painful breakup, Ben develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket, where his artistic imagination runs wild.











Casino
[1995]
Genre: Crime / Drama

Tagline: No one stays at the top forever.

Plot Outline: Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two mobster best friends and a trophy wife over a gambling empire.








Castle Keep [1969]
Genre: War / Drama

Tagline: A 10th-Century castle...a 20th-Century war...and the outspoken novel come to life on the screen!

Plot Summary: Toward the end of World War II, a small company of American GI's occupy an ancient castle. Their commander has an affair with the countess in resident.








Casualties of War [1989]

Genre: Drama / War / Adventure

Tagline: Even in war... murder is murder.

Plot Outline: During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.








Catch Me if You Can [2002]
Genre: Biography / Comedy / Crime / Drama

Tagline: The true story of a real fake.

Plot Outline: A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor.









Catwoman [2004]
Genre: Action / Crime / Fantasy

Plot Outline: A shy woman, endowed with the speed, reflexes, and senses of a cat, walks a thin line between criminal and hero, even as a detective doggedly pursues her, fascinated by both of her personas.










The Cell [2000]
Genre: Crime / Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Tagline: This Summer... Enter The Mind Of A Killer

Plot Outline: A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.










The Center of the World [2001]

Genre: Drama

Plot Summary: A couple checks into a suite in Las Vegas. In flashbacks we see that he's a computer whiz on the verge of becoming a dot.com millionaire.









Central Station / Central do Brasil [1998]
Genre: Drama

Tagline: He was looking for the father he never knew. She was looking for a second chance.

Plot Outline: An emotive journey of a former school teacher, who write letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, in search for the father he never knew.







Chalk [2006] [Limited Release]
Genre: Comedy / Drama

Tagline: Real teaching leaves a mark.

Plot Outline:
An improvisational take on the high school experience, told from the educators' point-of-view.












Chaos [2006]
Genre: Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

Tagline: When the system breaks down... someone is about to get rich.

Plot Outline: Two cops, a rookie (Phillippe) and a grizzled vet (Statham), pursue an accomplished bank robber.









Chapter 27 [2007]
Genre: Crime / Drama

Tagline: No one can survive becoming a legend.

Plot Outline:
A film about Mark David Chapman in the days leading up to the infamous murder of Beatle John Lennon.











Charade [1963]
Genre: Comedy / Crime / Mystery / Romance / Thriller

Tagline: You can expect the unexpected when they play..."Charade"

Plot Outline: Romance and suspense in Paris, as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Who can she trust?









Charlie [2004]
Genre: Action / Crime / Drama

Plot Outline: Malcolm Needs follows up his 2003 gangster flick SHOREDITCH with another foray into the London underworld of gangster dealings and double-crossings, but this time it's the 1960s.










Charlie Wilson's War [2007]
Genre: Biography / Drama

Tagline: A stiff drink. A little mascara. A lot of nerve. Who said they couldn't bring down the Soviet empire.

Plot Outline:
Charlie Wilson's War is the true story of how a playboy congressman, a renegade CIA agent and a beautiful Houston socialite joined forces to lead the largest and most successful covert operation in history. Their efforts contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, with consequences that reverberate throughout the world today.






Charlotte's Web [2006]
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Family

Tagline: Pig Tales

Plot Outline: Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.









Chicago [2002]
Genre: Musical / Comedy / Crime / Drama

Tagline: With the right song and dance, you can get away with murder.

Plot Outline:
Murderesses Velma Kelly (a chanteuse and tease who killed her husband and sister after finding them in bed together)and Roxie Hart (Who killed her boyfriend when she discovered he wasn't going to make her a star) find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.







Children of Men [2006]
Genre: Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Tagline: No children. No future. No hope.

Plot Outline: In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.





The Chorus / Les Choristes [2004]
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Music / Romance

Plot Outline: The
new teacher at a severely administered boys' boarding school works to positively effect the students' lives through music.











ChungKing Express / Chung hing sam lam [1994]
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Romance

Tagline: If my memory of her has an expiration date, let it be 10,000 years...

Plot Summary: Wong Kar-Wai's movie about two love-struck cops is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color.







Cinderella Man [2005]
One man's extraordinary fight to save the family he loved.

The story of James Braddock, a supposedly washed up boxer who came back to become a champion and an inspiration in the 1930s.












Cinema Paradiso / Nuovo cinema Paradiso [1990]
Genre: Drama

Tagline: A celebration of youth, friendship, and the everlasting magic of the movies.

Plot Outline: A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.







Citizen Kane [1941]
Genre: Drama / Mystery

Tagline: Radio's Most Dynamic Artist . . The Man At Whose Voice A Nation Trembled . . . Now the screen's most exciting NEW star ! ORSON WELLES in the picture Hollywood said he'd never make.

Plot Outline:
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.










City of Angels [1998]
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Romance

Tagline: She didn't believe in angels until she fell in love with one.

Plot Outline: Inspired by the modern classic, Wings of Desire, City involves an angel (Cage) who is spotted by a doctor in an operating room. Franz plays Cage's buddy who somehow knows a lot about angels.








City of God / Cidade de Deus [2003]
Genre: Crime / Drama

Tagline: Fight and you'll never survive..... Run and you'll never escape.

Plot Outline: Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.








City of Lost Children / Cité des enfants perdus, La [1995]
Genre: Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Drama

Tagline: Where happily ever after is just a dream.

Plot Outline: A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.








City of Rott [2006]
Genre: Animation / Action / Adventure / Comedy / Horror

Tagline: Think, while you still can...

Plot Outline:
Desperately losing his mind while searching for a new pair of shoes, an old man and his trusty Walker wander the City of Rott, saturated with thousands of rotting zombies, driven to feed the blood-hungry worms residing in their skulls.








Civic Duty [2006]
Genre: Thriller

Tagline: The War On Terror Just Came Home

Plot Outline:
An American accountant bombarded with cable news and the media's obsession with terrorist plots in the post 9-11 world, receives a jolt when an unattached Islamic graduate student moves in next door.









Claire's Knee / Le Genou de Claire [1970]
Genre: Drama / Romance

Plot Outline: Jérôme, a 35-year-old diplomat, is struck by teenage girl Claire and harbours an unquenchable desire to touch her knee










Clash of the Titans [1981]
Genre: Adventure / Action / Fantasy / Family / Romance

Tagline: An Epic Entertainment Spectacular!

Plot Outline:
A film adaption of the myth of Perseus and his quest to battle both Medusa and the Kraken monster to save the Princess Andromeda.














Cleopatra [1963]
Genre: Biography / Drama / History / Romance

Tagline: The motion picture the world has been waiting for!

Plot Outline: Historical epic. The triumphs and tragedy of the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra.








Clerks 2 [2006]
Genre: Comedy

Tagline: No Experience Necessary

Plot Outline: A calamity at Dante and Randall's shops sends them looking for new horizons - but they ultimately settle at Mooby's, a fictional Disney-McDonald's-style fast-food empire.









Click [2006]
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Fantasy

Tagline: What If You Had A Universal Remote... That Controlled Your Universe?

Plot Outline: "Click" focuses on a workaholic architect who finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.








Coach Carter [2005]
Genre: Drama / Sport

Tagline: It begins on the street. It ends here.

Plot Outline: Samuel L. Jackson plays the controversial high school basketball coach who benched his undefeated team due to their collective poor academic record in 1999.









Cocoon [1985]
Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Sci-Fi

Tagline: It is everything you've dreamed of. It is nothing you expect.

Plot Outline:
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigour.










Code 46 [2004]
Genre: Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Tagline: How do you solve a crime when the last thing you want to know is the truth?

Plot Outline: A futuristic 'Brief Encounter', a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.









Code Name: The Cleaner [2007]
Genre: Action / Comedy / Crime

Tagline: In a dirty world, he's our only hope.

Plot Summary:
Cedric the Entertainer plays Jake, a seemingly regular guy who has no idea who he is after being hit over the head by mysterious assailants; when he finds himself entangled in a government conspiracy, Jake and his pursuers become convinced that he is an undercover agent.









Cold Mountain [2003]
Genre: Drama / Romance / War

Tagline: Find your way home

Plot Outline: In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier (Law) embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart (Kidman). Based on the novel by Charles Frazier.







Collateral [2004]
Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller

Tagline: It started like any other night.

Plot Outline: A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in LA. He must find a way to save both himself and one last victim.











Color Blind [2003]

Plot Outline: Three friends from different backgrounds go through the trials and tribulations of urban life, racial issues, abusive relationships, and love. This coming of age story follows the three boys as they grow into manhood within the confines of family dysfunction and the often downsides that the inner city brings to daily living.










Color of Night [1994]
Genre: Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Drama

Tagline: Five Suspects. Two Lovers. One Killer. Nothing is what it seems... except murder.

Plot Outline: A color-blind psychiatrist Bill Capa is stalked by an unknown killer after taking over his murdered friend's therapy group, all of whom have a connection to a mysterious young woman that Capa begins having intense sexual encounters with.









Color of the Cross [2006]
Genre: Drama

Plot Outline: A retelling of the events leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, based on the idea that he was a black man whose death was a racially motivated hate crime.













Genre: Drama / Romance

Plot Outline:
A 30-something southern woman searches for love, despite the burdens she carries with her.














Con Air [1997]
Genre: Action / Crime / Thriller

Tagline: Get Ready To Fly

Plot Outline:
A newly released ex con and former US Ranger finds himself trapped in a prisoner transport plane when the other prisoners sieze control.













Coneheads [1993]
Genre: Comedy / Sci-Fi

Tagline: Heading your way

Plot Summary:
An alien couple known as Beldar and Prymatt with cone-shaped heads from the planet called Remulak is mistakingly ditched on earth...










Confessions of a Dangerous Mind [2002]
Genre: Biography / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller

Tagline: Some things are better left top secret

Plot Outline: An adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impresario Chuck Barris, in which he purports to have been a CIA hitman.









Confetti [2006]
Genre: Comedy / Romance

Tagline: The search for the most original wedding of the year is on !

Plot Outline: A mockumentary that follows three couples as they battle it out to win the coveted title of 'Most Original Wedding of the Year'.











The Constant Gardener [2005]
Genre: Drama / Thriller

Tagline: Love. At any cost.

Plot Outline: A widower is determined to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive secret involving his wife's murder, big business, and corporate corruption.









The Contractor [2006]
Genre: Action

Tagline:
The world's greatest marksman is now a marked man...

Plot Outline:
An ex-CIA agent (Snipes) is asked to take out a terrorist, only to realize he's been set up by his former employer.








Control - The Ian Curtis Story [2007]
Genre: Biography / Drama / Music

Plot Outline:
A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23.





The Conversation [1974]
Genre: Crime / Thriller / Drama / Mystery

Tagline: Harry Caul is an invader of privacy. The best in the business. He can record any conversation between two people anywhere. So far, three people are dead because of him.

Plot Outline: A paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.








Cool Hand Luke [1967]
Genre: Drama

Tagline: "What we've got here is failure to communicate."

Plot Outline: A man refuses to conform to life in a rural prison.












The Cooler [2003]
Genre: Drama / Romance / Comedy

Tagline: When your life depends on losing... the last thing you need is lady luck.

Plot Outline: In an old school Las Vegas casino, its top gambling jinx breaks his curse when he falls in love, much to his boss' consternation.










The Covenant [2006]
Genre: Action / Horror / Thriller

Tagline: Four have the power. One will stop at nothing to possess it.

Plot Outline: Four young men who belong to a supernatural legacy are charged with stopping the evil force they released into the world years earlier. Another great force they must contend with is the jealousy and suspicion that threatens to tear them apart.











Crash [2005]
Genre: Crime / Drama

Tagline: You think you know who you are. You have no idea.

Plot Summary: Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters.








Creature From the Black Lagoon [1954]
Genre: Adventure / Horror / Sci-Fi

Tagline: Not since the beginning of time has the world beheld terror like this!

Plot Outline: A scientific expedition traveling up the Amazon River encounter a dangerous humanoid amphibious fish creature.











Criminal [2004]
Genre: Drama / Comedy / Crime

Tagline: Ever get the feeling you're being played?

Plot Outline: Two con artists try to swindle a currency collector by selling him a counterfeit copy of an extremely rare currency bill.






Cronicas [2005]
Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller

Tagline: If It's On TV, It Must Be The Truth.

Plot Outline:
A suspense thriller about a reporter from Miami who travels to Ecuador in pursuit of a serial killer known as the "Monster of Babahoyo."











Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon / Wo hu cang long [2000]
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy

Plot Outline: Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are lead to an impetuous, physically-skilled, teenage nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.












The Crow 1 [1994]
Genre: Action / Crime / Fantasy / Thriller

Tagline: Believe in angels.

Plot Outline: A man brutally murdered comes back to life as an undead avenger of his and his fiancée's murder.









The Crow 2, City of Angels [1996]
Genre: Action / Fantasy / Thriller / Crime

Tagline: There will be another.

Plot Outline: The second film based in James O'Barr's cult comic, talks about another Crow. After Ashe and his little son are murdered violently for no reason by Judah's men, he returns from the dead to take his revenge. One after one, Judah's people face the power of the dark angel.








The Crow 3, Salvation [ 2000]
Genre: Action / Crime / Horror / Drama / Thriller

Tagline: For Vengeance, For Justice, For Love.

Plot Outline: Alex Corvis returns to the world of the living to solve the murder of a young woman that he was wrongly accused of.








The Crow 4, Wicked Prayer [2005]
Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Tagline: He will not rest until he gets his vengeance.

Plot Outline: On his way to becoming an immortal demon, gangleader Luc Crash (Boreanaz) orchestrates the murder of Jimmy Cuervo (Furlong) and his girlfriend, Lily (Chriqui).










Cuban Blood / Dreaming of Julia [2003]
Genre: Drama / Comedy

Plot Outline: The year is 1958, and in Holguín, Cuba, a boy's world is about to change forever.













Cult [2007]
Genre: Horror

Plot Outline: While researching a local cult, four college students uncover the existence of a supernatural power that may take their lives...and their souls.












The Cult of the Suicide Bomber [2006]
Genre: Documentary
Movie Synopsis:
This documentary by terrorism expert Bob Baer explores the origins of suicide bombing, and the virus-like spread of its use as a tactic in guerilla warfare.











Curse of the Golden Flower / Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia [2006]
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance

Tagline: Unspeakable secrets are hidden within the Forbidden City.

Plot Outline: The ill-fated romance between an imperial bodyguard and a prince takes the lovers on a dangerous journey where royal family secrets are revealed.








The Customer is always right / Son-nim-eun Wang-i-da [2006] [Korea] [EngSub]
Film Director: Oh Ki-hyeon
Cast: Seong Ji-roo, Myeong Kye-nam, Seong Hyeon-ah, Lee Seon-gyoon, Lee Myeong-jin
Genre: Comedy, Drama

Synopsis:
An Chang-jin is a barber, a third-generation barber, in fact. He chats with customers, cuts their hair, shaves them. His everyday life is so ordinary and dull at the peaceful barbershop, except that his wife is young and beautiful. Then, one day a strange customer, Kim Yang-gil, visits the barbershop. He has “HATE” tattooed upon each finger joint. He gets a shave, a haircut and demands money three times a week. The intimidator takes double money each time he visits. The barber gradually is driven into a corner and he wants to escape from the bully but it is beyond his capacity because he is smart, minute, violent, mean and sly. Moreover, the intimidator casts an amorous glance at the barber’s wife and the barber, who can’t bear this anymore, hires a detective. The appearance of the detective seems to bring him peace but it’s just for a while. On the contrary, the curious detective watches for a chance to catch the barber unawares plus his riddling wife complicates this affair. The odd encounter with the barber, the stranger, the detective and the barber’s wife comes to an unexpected end.





Cyclo / Xich lo [1995]
Genre: Crime / Drama

Tagline: From the director of the Academy Award Nominated film "The Scent of Green Papaya" comes a shocking new vision of beauty, passion and power.

Plot Summary:
A young man who struggles through life by earning some money with his bicycle-taxi in Saigon (Ho-Chi-Min-City) gets contact to a group of criminals.