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Jackass: The Movie [2002] Genre: Action / Comedy
Tagline: Do not attempt this at home.
Plot Outline: Johnny Knoxville and his band of maniacs perform a variety of stunts and gross-out gags on the big screen for the first time.
Jackass: Number Two [2006] Genre: Documentary / Comedy
Tagline: When is the last time a movie made you beg for mercy?
Plot Outline: Chris Pontius, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, and the whole crew return to the screen to raise the stakes higher than ever before.
Jan Dara [2001]Genre: Drama
Plot Outline: Jan Dara grows up in a house lacking in love but abundant in lust. He quickly picks up the sinful way.
Jarhead [2005] Genre: Action / Biography / Drama / War
Plot Outline: Based on former Marine Anthony Swofford's best-selling 2003 book about his pre-Desert Storm experiences in Saudi Arabia and about his experiences fighting in Kuwait.
Jeepers Creepers [2001]Genre: Adventure / Drama / Horror / Thriller
Tagline: WhAT's eating you?
Plot Outline: A brother and sister driving home for spring break encounter a flesh-eating creature in the isolated countryside that is on it's last day of it's ritualistic eating spree.
Jeepers Creepers 2 [2003]Genre: Horror / Thriller
Tagline: He can taste your fear.
Plot Outline: Set a few days after the original, a championship basketball team's bus is attacked by The Creeper, the winged, flesh-eating terror, on the last day of his 23-day feeding frenzy.
Jerry Lewis: Cinderfella [1960]Genre: Comedy / Musical / Fantasy
Plot Summary:
This was Jerry Lewis' answer to the classic Cinderella story. When his father dies, poor Fella (Lewis).
Jerry Lewis: The Delicate Delinquent [1957]Genre: Comedy
Tagline: Jerry Lewis Rockin' and Rollin' the world with laffs!
Plot Summary:
Sidney Pythias (Jerry Lewis) is the a bumbling janitor picked up by cop Darren McGavin as a teenage gang member worth saving from delinquency.
Jerry Lewis: The Geisha Boy [1958]Genre: Comedy
Tagline: No. 1 FUN Boy Goes Oriental!
Plot Summary:
Gilbert Wooley is a second-rate magician who is sent to entertain the troops in the pacific.
Jerry Maguire [1996] Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sport
Tagline: Everybody loved him... Everybody disappeared.
Plot Outline: When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent with the only athlete who stays with him.
Jesus Camp [2006]Genre: Documentary
Tagline: America is being born again.
Plot Outline: A documentary on kids who attend a summer camp hoping to become the next Billy Graham.
Jesus Christ Superstar [1973]Genre: History / Musical
Tagline: and now the film...
Plot Outline: Film version of the musical stage play, presenting the last few weeks of Christ's life, told in an anachronistic manner.
Joan of Arc, The Messenger [1999]Genre: Biography / Drama / History / War
Plot Outline: A young girl receives a vision that drives her to rid France of its oppressors.
Joe Dirt [2001]Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Romance
Tagline: Keep on Moppin' in the Free world.
Plot Outline: David Spade stars as Joe Dirt, an idiot who works as an oil weller who is on the search for his parents who abandoned him when he was a baby at the grand canyon.
Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten [2007]Genre: Documentary / Music
Plot Summary:
As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever.
Four years after his death.
Journey to the End of the Night [2006]Genre: Drama / Thriller
Tagline: You can escape anything but your destiny.
Plot Outline: The tale of a son and his father separately plotting to escape the desolation of their lives in the lurid underworld of Brazil's sex industry.
The Joy Luck Club [1993]Genre: Drama / Romance
Plot Outline:
The life histories of four Asian women and their daughters reflect and guide each other.
Joyeux Noel [2005]Genre: War / Drama
Tagline: France 1914. A moment of humanity that made history.
Plot Outline: On Christmas Eve during world War I, the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace, so they bury their dead and play football.
Jumanji [1995]Genre: Action / Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy
Tagline: Roll the dice and unleash the excitement!
Plot Outline: When two kids play an old magic board-game they found, they release a man trapped for decades in it and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game.
Ju-on [2004] Genre: Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Plot Outline: A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
Just Friends [2005]Genre: Comedy / Romance
Tagline: Moments like this have been ruining friendships for centuries.
Plot Outline: A man comes face-to-face with old high school crush -- a woman whose rejection of him turned him into a ferocious womanizer.
Just Like Heaven [2005]Genre: Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
Tagline: It's a wonderful afterlife.
Plot Outline: A lonely landscape architect (Ruffalo) falls for the spirit of beautiful woman (Witherspoon) who used to live in his new apartment.
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Kalifornia [1993]Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller
Tagline: A state of fear and terror
Plot Outline: A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.
Kama Sutra [1997]
Kamikaze Girls [2004]Genre: Comedy
Japanese Audio / English Hardsub
Synopsis:
Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Desperate to make some money to pay for her expensive indulgence, Momoko tries selling bootleg Verace and Uniersal Studios clothes left over from her Dad’s yakuza (gangster) days. However, when punk girl and self-styled ‘Yanki’ Ichiko comes calling, her days as ‘ordinary’ are most certainly numbered… Road movie, buddy comedy, deeply insightful and surprisingly touching, the surreal world only further highlights the all too real friendship that brings these two unlikely girls together.
Keeping Mum [2006]Genre: Comedy
Tagline: Some family secrets are best kept...buried.
Plot Outline: A pastor (Atkinson) preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an affair and his children are up to no good.
Ken Park [2002]Genre: Drama
Plot Outline: It's about several Californian skateboarder's life and relationships with and without their parents.
Kidulthood [2006]Genre: Drama
Plot Outline: A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.
Kill Bill Vol. 1 [2003]Genre: Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Plot Outline: The Bride wakes up after a long coma. The baby that she carried before entering the coma is gone. The only thing on her mind is to have revenge on the assassination team that betrayed her - a team she was once part of.
Kill Bill Vol. 2 [2004]Genre: Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Tagline: Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Plot Outline: The murderous Bride continues her vengeance quest against her ex-boss, Bill, and his two remaining associates; his younger brother Budd, and Bill's latest flame Elle.
The Killing [1956][Stanley Kubrick]Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller / Film-Noir
Plot Outline: After getting out of prison, Johnny Clay masterminds a complex race-track heist, but his scheme is complicated.
The Killing Floor [2006]Genre: Thriller
Plot Outline:
A literary agent moves into a penthouse apartment. Soon after the move, he receives crime scene photographs that seem to have taken place in his new apartment. Next he receives a series of stalker videotapes that document his every move.
The Killing Fields [1984]Genre: Drama / History / War
Plot Outline: He was a reporter for the New York Times whose coverage of the Cambodian War would win him a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. But the friend who made it possible was half the world away with his life in great danger... This is the story of war and friendship, the anguish of a country and of one man's will to live.
King Kong [1976]Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Horror / Romance / Thriller
Tagline: The most exciting original motion picture event of all time.
Plot Outline:
A petroleum exploration expedition comes to an isolated island and encounters a colossal giant gorilla.
King Kong [2005]Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Tagline: The eighth wonder of the world.
Plot Outline: In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with leading lady Ann Darrow.
The King of Comedy [1983]Genre: Comedy / Drama / Crime
Tagline: It's no laughing matter.
Plot Outline: Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin wants to achieve success in showbiz, by resorting to stalking his idol, a late night talk show host who craves his own privacy.
The Kingdom [2007]Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Tagline: An elite FBI team sent to find a killer in a hostile country
Plot Outline:
Actor, writer, and director Peter Berg (FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS) delivers a fearless, action-packed political thriller with THE KINGDOM. Shot in the Middle East with unsettling immediacy, the hand-held cameras put viewers right inside the action, while the tension between American FBI agents and their Saudi counterparts maintains an interesting uncertainty about who’s "right" and who’s "wrong." The film opens with a brutal terrorist attack on an oil company compound in Saudi Arabia, where a visiting FBI agent is killed. Back home in Washington, fellow agents Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) and Janet Mayes (Jennifer Garner), want revenge, and will do whatever it takes to gain access to the investigation.
Kingdom of Heaven [2005]Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / History / War
Plot Outline: Balian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people.
Kingpin [1996]Genre: Comedy / Sport
Tagline:
A comedy right up your alley.
Plot Outline:
A star bowler whose career was prematurely "cut off" hopes to ride a new prodigy to success and riches.
Kinsey [2004]Genre: Biography / Drama
Plot Outline: A look at the life of Alfred Kinsey (Neeson), a pioneer in the area of human sexuality research, whose 1948 publication "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" was one of the first recorded works that saw science address sexual behavior.
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang [2005]Genre: Action / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller
Tagline: SeX. MurdEr. MyStery. Welcome to the party.
Plot Outline: A murder mystery brings together a private eye, a struggling actress, and a thief masquerading as an actor.
Kissing Jessica Stein [2002]Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Tagline: When it comes to love, sometimes she just can't think straight.
Plot Outline: Jessica Stein is a single, straight, sucessful, journalist, part of a bonded Jewish family living in New York City.
Kung Fu Hustle [2005]Genre: Action / Comedy / Crime / Fantasy
In Shanghai, China in the 1940s, a wannabe gangster aspires to join the
notorious "Axe Gang" while residents of a housing complex exhibit extraordinary powers in defending their turf.
Kurosawa: Akahige / Barbe Rousse [1965]Genre: Drama
Plot Outline: In a charity hospital, a hard-bitten but honorable older doctor, Dr. Niide, takes a young intern under.
Kurosawa: Dersu Uzala [1975]Genre: Adventure / Drama
Plot Outline: The Russian officer who befriends Dersu must bear some responsibility for
the tragedy - taking Dersu to the town and the gift of the rifle significantly impact on the ending of the film.
Kurosawa: Ikiru [1952]Genre: Drama
Plot Outline: Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat in a city office who, along with the rest of the office, spends his entire working life doing nothing.
Kurosawa: Hachi-gatsu no kyôshikyoku [1991]Genre: Drama
Plot Outline: An elderly woman living in Nagasaki Japan takes care of her four
grandchildren for their summer vacation.
Kurosawa: Kagemusha [1980]Genre: Drama / History / War
Plot Outline: When a powerful warlord in medieval Japan dies, a poor thief recruited to impersonate him finds difficulty living up to his role and clashes with the spirit of the warlord during turbulent times in the kingdom.
Kurosawa: Kumonosu jô [Throne of Blood] [1957]Genre: War / Drama / Action / Thriller
Plot Outline: A ruthlessly ambitious lord, egged on by his wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become Emperor.
Kurosawa: Madadayo [1993]Genre: Drama
Tagline: The final film by Japan's master filmmaker.
Plot Outline: This film tells the story of professor Uehida Hyakken-sama (1889-1971), in Gotemba, around the forties.
Kurosawa: Nora inu / Stray Dog [1949]Genre: Crime / Drama
Plot Outline: When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime.
Kurosawa: Ran [1985]Genre: Action / Drama
Plot Outline: An elderly lord abdicates to his three sons, and the two corrupt ones turn against him.
Kurosawa: Rashômon [1950]Genre: Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Tagline: The husband, the wife...or the bandit?
Plot Outline: A heinous crime and its aftermath are recalled from differing points of view.
Kurosawa : Sanjuro / Tsubaki Sanjûrô [1962]Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama
Plot Outline:
A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.
Kurosawa: Shizukanaru ketto / The Quiet Duel [1949]
Genre: Drama
Plot Outline: Kyoji Fujisaki, a young doctor, contracts syphilis from a patient during wartime surgery. After the war.
Kurosawa: Shichinin no samurai / Seven Samurai [1954]
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama
Tagline: The Mighty Warriors Who Became the Seven National Heroes of a Small Town.
Plot Outline: A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.
Kurosawa: Shubun / Scandal [1950]Genre: Drama
Plot Outline: Ichiro Aoye, a young painter, encounters a famous singer, Miyako Saijo, while on holiday in the mountains.
Kurosawa: Subarashiki nichiyobi / One Wonderful Sunday [1947]
Genre: Drama / Romance
Plot Outline: Yuzo and his fiancée Masako spend their Sunday afternoon together, trying to have a good time on just thirty-five yen.
Kurosawa: Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi / The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail [1945]
Genre: Drama / Adventure / Thriller
Plot Outline: A fugitive lord and his bodyguards and followers, all disguised as monks, traverse a forest, where they must avoid capture and outsmart the border guards.
Kurosawa: Waga seishun ni kuinashi [1946]Genre: Drama
Plot Outline: Yukie, the well-bred daughter of a university professor, is shocked when her father is relieved of his post for his political teachings.
Kurosawa: Warui Yatsu Hodo Yoku Nemuru / The Bad Sleep Well [1960]
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Plot Outline: In Kurosawa's HAMLET-like story of corporate scandal in post-war Japan, a young man attempts to use.
Kurosawa: Yoidore tenshi / Drunken Angel [1948]
Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller
Plot Outline: After a battle with rival criminals, a small-time gangster is treated by an alcoholic doctor in post-war Japan.
Kurosawa: Yume / Dreams [1990]Genre: Fantasy / Drama
Tagline: The past, present, and future. The thoughts and images of one man... for all men. One man's dreams... for every dreamer.
Plot Outline: A collection of tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa.
Kurosawa: Zoku Sugata Sanshiro / Judo Story 2 [1945]
Genre: Action / Adventure
Plot Outline: In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the foreign warrior.
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L’ Ennui [1998]Genre: Drama / Short
Plot Outline: One man's struggle to deal with the boredom of his daily routine.
La Fidelite [2000]Genre: Drama
Plot Outline: Andrzej Zulawski has an obsession : Passion for understand love and how feeling could affect everything beyond reason.
La Meglio Gioventu / The Best of Youth [2003]Genre: Drama / History / Romance
Tagline: The possibilities were endless...
Movie Synopsis:
Spanning four decades, from the chaotic 1960s to the present, director Marco Tullio Giordana’s passionate epic THE BEST OF YOUTH follows two Italian brothers through some of the most tumultuous events of recent Italian history.
Movie Consensus:
Earns its 6 hours running time by telling an engrossing story with compelling characters.
The Lake House [2006]Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Romance
Tagline: How do you hold on to someone you've never met?
Plot Outline: A lonely doctor (Bullock) who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect (Reeves).
They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
Land of the Dead [2005]Genre: Action / Horror / Thriller
Tagline: The dead shall inherit the Earth.
Plot Outline: The living dead have taken over the world, and the last humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they come to grips with the situation.
The Last King of Scotland [2006]Genre: Drama / History / Thriller
Tagline: Charming. Magnetic. Murderous.
Plot Outline: Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s
The Last Kiss [2006]Genre: Drama
Tagline: We all make choices. What's yours?
Plot Outline: Anxieties threaten the future of a domesticated couple.
The Last Legion [2007]Genre: Action / Adventure / War
Tagline: The Roman world is in the throes of death, but a new myth, destined to span the centuries, is waiting to be born.
Plot Outline:
As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.
Last Life in the Universe / Ruang rak noi nid mahasan [2003] [Thailand]Genre: Drama / Romance / Foreign Films
Plot Outline:
A suicidal, obsessive-compulsive Japanese librarian is forced to hide out with a pot-smoking Thai woman at her shabby beachside home.
Movie Sunopsis:
A magic-realist romance about the culture bridges we build - sometimes wish we could jump off of. Last Life in the Universe brings together three of the most exciting talents in current world cinema: director Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Japanese superstar Asano Tadanobu, and Hong Kong-based cinematographer Christopher Doyle
The Last Mimzy [2007]Genre: Adventure / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Tagline: The future is trying to tell us something.
Plot Outline:
Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys. Soon the kids, their parents, and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world and find a task ahead of them that is far more important than any of them could imagine!
The Last Run [2004]Genre: Comedy / Drama
Tagline: Addiction comes in all shapes and sizes.
Plot Summary:
When a young accountant is devastated after discovering his inspiringly beautiful girlfriend is cheating on him.
The Last Samurai / Bushido [2003]Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / War
Tagline: In the face on an enemy, in the Heart of One Man, Lies the Soul of a Warrior.
Plot Outline: An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle.
The Last Sin Eater [2007]Genre: Drama
Tagline: A little girl's quest for redemption uncovers a dark secret... and the truth shall set her free.
Plot Outline:
In seeking her own redemption from the one man of whom she is most afraid, 10-year-old Cadi Forbes discovers a secret sin haunting her community of Welsh immigrants in 1850s Appalachia.
Last Tango in Paris / Ultimo tango a Parigi [1972]Genre: Drama / Romance
Plot Outline:
A young Parisian woman begins a sordid affair with a middled-aged American businessman whom lays out ground rules that their clandestine relationship will be based only on sex.
Layer Cake [2004]Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller
Plot Outline: A successful cocaine dealer gets two tough assignments from his boss on the eve of his planned early retirement.
Le Grande Vadrouille [1966]Genre: Comedy / War
Plot Outline: An allied bomberplane is shot down over Paris by the Germans. Its crew (Terry Thomas as a flight captain) land there by parachute...
One of the best comedies ever, the best French.
Le Samorai - The Godson [1967]Genre: Thriller / Crime / Drama
Plot Outline: Hitman Jeff Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen [2003]Genre: Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Tagline: Prepare for the Extraordinary
Plot Outline: In an alternate Victorian Age world, a group of famous contemporary fantasy, SF and adventure characters team up on a secret mission.
Leaving Las Vegas [1995]Genre: Drama / Romance
Plot Outline: Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter whom lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Legally Blonde [2001]Genre: Comedy
Plot Outline: When a blonde sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend, she decides to follow him to law school to get him back and, once there, learns she has more legal savvy than she ever imagined.
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde [2003]Genre: Comedy
Tagline: justice is blonde.
Plot Outline: Elle Woods heads to Washington D.C. to join the staff of a
congresswoman in order to pass a bill to ban animal testing.
Legends of the Fall [1994]Genre: Drama / Romance / War / Western
Plot Outline: Epic tale of three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of 1900s USA and how their lives are affected by nature, history, war, and love.
Lemony Snicket, Series of Unfortunate Events [2004]Genre: Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy
Plot Outline: Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.
Lethal Weapon [1987]Genre: Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Tagline: Two Cops. Glover carries a weapon..... Gibson is one. He's the only L.A cop registered as a Lethal Weapon.
Plot Outline: A veteran detective is partnered with a young detective with a suicidal death wish.
Lethal Weapon 2 [1989]Genre: Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Tagline: The magic is back!
Plot Outline: Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.
Lethal Weapon 3 [1992]Genre: Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller
Tagline: The magic is back again!
Plot Outline: Martin Riggs finally meets his match in the form of Lorna Cole, a beautiful but tough policewoman. Together with Roger Murtaugh, his partner, the three attempt to expose a crooked formed policeman and his huge arms racket.
Lethal Weapon 4 [1998]Genre: Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller
Tagline: The Gang's All Here.
Plot Outline: With personal crises and age weighing in on them, LAPD officers Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with a deadly Chinese crimelord trying to get his brother out of prison.
Letters from Iwo Jima [2006]Genre: Drama / History / War
Plot Outline: The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
Liar, Liar [1997]Genre: Comedy / Fantasy
Plot Outline: A fast track lawyer can't lie for 24 hours due to his son's birthday wish after the lawyer turns his son down for the last time.
The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines [2006]Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy
Plot Outline: Librarian-turned-adventurer Flynn Carsen (Wyle) endeavors to find King Solomon's mines.
License to Wed [2007]Genre: Comedy / Romance
Tagline: First came love... then came Reverend Frank.
Plot Outline:
A reverend (Williams) puts an engaged couple (Moore and Krasinski) through a grueling marriage preparation course to see if they are meant to be married in his church.
Lie With Me [2005]Genre: Drama / Romance
Plot Outline: An outgoing, sexually aggressive young woman meets and begins a torrid affair with an equally aggressive young man in which their affair begins to bring a strain on their personal lives.
Life is Beautiful / Vita è bella, La [1998]Genre: Comedy / Drama / War
Plot Outline: An unforgettable fable that proves love, family and imagination conquer all.
A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humour, but
must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp.
The Life of David Gale [2003]Genre: Drama / Crime / Thriller
Tagline: The crime is clear. The truth is not.
Plot Outline: A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
The Life of Emily Zola [1937]Genre: Biography / Drama
Tagline: He'll Hold You In Silence As Deep As Your Emotions !
Plot Outline: The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair.
Lions For Lambs [2007]Genre: Drama / Thriller / War
Tagline: If you don't STAND for something, you might FALL for anything
Plot Outline:
Injuries sustained by two Army ranger behind enemy lines in Afghanistan set off a sequence of events involving a congressman (Cruise), a journalist (Streep) and a professor (Redford).
Little Black Book [2004]Genre: Comedy / Romance / Drama
Tagline: Have you ever been tempted to look inside his...
Plot Outline: A woman snoops through her boyfriend's palm pilot and reveals his former girlfriends, which causes her to question why they're still listed in his little black book.
Little Children [2006]Genre: Crime / Drama / Romance
Plot Outline: Little Children centers on a group of young marrieds, whose lives intersect on the playgrounds, town pools and streets of their small community in surprising and potentially dangerous ways.
Little Fish [2005]Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller
Tagline: Everyone is hiding something.
Plot Outline: Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman (Blanchett) trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.
Little Man [2006]Genre: Comedy / Crime
Plot Outline: A wannabe dad (Shawn Wayans) mistakes a vertically challenged criminal on the lam (Marlon Wayans) as his newly adopted son.
Little Manhattan [2005]Genre: Comedy / Family / Romance
Tagline: Nothing's as big as your first love.
Plot Outline: Two 11-year-olds find love in New York City.
Little Miss Sunshine [2006]Genre: Comedy / Drama
Tagline: Where's Olive?
Plot Outline: A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.
Little Otik / Otesanek [2000]Genre: Comedy / Fantasy
Plot Outline: When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child.
However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real. When the root takes life they seem to have gained a child; but it's appetite is much greater than a normal child.
Live Flesh / Carne trémula [1997]Genre: Drama / Romance / Thriller
Tagline: Life, love, desire...and everything in between.
Outline: After leaving jail, Víctor is still in love with Elena, but she's married to the former cop who became paralysed by a shot from Víctor's gun.
Live Free or Die [2006]Genre: Comedy / Crime
Tagline: The criminal mind is a terrible thing to waste
Plot Outline:
Lackluster criminals look to pull a job in the Granite State.
Live Free or Die hard 4.0 [2007]Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller
Tagline: Yippee Ki Yay Mo - John 6:27
Plot Outline:
John McClane takes on an Internet-based terrorist organization who is systematically shutting down the United States.
The Lives of Others / Das Leben der Anderen [2006]Genre: Drama
Tagline: Before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany's Secret Police Listened to Your Secrets
Plot Summary: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's movie debut focuses on the horrifying, sometimes unintentionally funny system of observation in the former East Germany.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels [1998]Genre: Comedy / Crime / Thriller
Tagline: A Disgrace to Criminals Everywhere.
Plot Outline: Four London working class stiffs pool their money to put one in a high stakes card game, but things go wrong and they end up owing half a million pounds and having one week to come up with the cash.
Lolita [1962]Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Tagline: How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?
Plot Outline: A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old nymphet.
London [2005]Genre: Biography / Drama / Romance
Tagline: One young man's incredible journey of self-discovery
Plot Outline: London is a drug laden adventure that centers on a party in a New York loft where a young man is trying to win back his ex-girlfriend.
London to Brighton [2007]Genre: Crime / Thriller
Plot Summary:
It's 3:07am and two girls burst into a run down London toilet. Joanne is crying her eyes out and her clothing is ripped. Kelly's face is bruised and starting to swell. Duncan Allen lies in his bathroom bleeding to death. Duncan's son, Stuart, has found his father and wants answers. Derek, Kelly's pimp, needs to find Kelly or it will be him who pays. Kelly and Joanne need to get through the next 24 hours alive.
Lone Wolf and Cub - Baby Cart in the Land of Demons / Kozure Ôkami: Meifumadô [1973]Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Tagline:
Once he agrees to kill, nothing can stand in his way.
Plot Summary:
Fifth film in the Lone Wolf & Cub Series. 5 warriors challenge Ogami to duels. Each has 1/5th of Ogami's assassin fee and 1/5 of the information he needs to complete his assassination. His mission is to kill a mad Daimyo before he destroys his clan!
Lone Wolf and Cub - Sword of Vengeance / Kozure Ôkami: Kowokashi udekashi tsukamatsuru [1972]Genre: Action / Drama
Plot Outline:
The story of a Ronin (i.e. a masterless samurai) who wanders the countryside of Japan with his small child, having various adventures.
The Longest Day [1962]Genre: Action / Drama / History / War
Plot Outline: The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
Impressive retelling on the grand scale of the path to D-Day
The Longest Yard [2005]Genre: Action / Comedy / Drama / Sport
Tagline: It was hard to put a team together... until they found out who they were playing.
Plot Outline: Prison inmates form a football team to challenge the prison guards.
The Lookout [2007]
Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller Tagline: Whoever has the money has the power Plot Outline: Chris (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.
Lord of the Flies [1963]Genre: Adventure / Drama / Thriller
Tagline: Evil is inherent in the human mind, whatever innocence may cloak it...
Plot Outline:
Shipwrecked on an island, the castaway boys eventually revert to savagery despite the few rational kids' attempts to prevent that.
The Lord of the Rings [Animation] [1978]
Genre: Animation / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy
Tagline: Come to Middle-earth, a world beyond the furthest reaches of your imagination.
Plot Outline: The Fellowship of the Ring embark on a journey to destroy the One Ring and end Sauron's reign over Middle Earth.
LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring [2001]Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy
Plot Outline: In a small village in the Shire a young Hobbit named Frodo has been entrusted with an ancient Ring. Now he must embark on an Epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it.
LOTR: The Return of the King [2003]Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy
Plot Outline: The former Fellowship of the Ring prepare for the final battle for Middle Earth, while Frodo & Sam approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring.
LOTR: The Two Towers [2002]Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy
Tagline: A New Power Is Rising.
Plot Outline: Frodo and Sam continue on to Mordor in their mission to destroy the One Ring. Whilst their former companions make new allies and launch an assault on Isengard.
Lord of War [2005]Genre: Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Plot Outline: The first and most important rule of gun-running is: never get shot with your own merchandise.
Lords of Dogtown [2005]Genre: Action / Biography / Drama / Sport
They came from nothing to change everything.
Plot Outline: The film follows the surf and skateboarding trends that originated in Venice, California during the 1970's.
Lost and Delirious [2001]Genre: Romance / Drama
Tagline: Friends. Roommates. Lovers.
Plot Outline:
A newcomer to a posh girls boarding school discovers that her two senior roommates are lovers.
Lost in Translation [2003]Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Everyone wants to be found.
Plot Outline: A movie star with a sense of emptiness, and a neglected newlywed meet up as strangers in Tokyo, Japan and form an unlikely bond.
Love, Actually [2003]Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Plot Outline: Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely and interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.
Love Affair [1994]Genre: Drama / Romance / Comedy
Plot Outline: Ex-football star Mike Gambril meets Terry McKay on a flight to Sydney, which is forced to land on a small atoll. Both engaged to others, they become romantic on board the ship sent to take the plane passengers to a larger island. They agree to meet in New York three months later to see if the attraction is real. One shows up, the other doesn't, but they run into each other afterwards.
Love Ludlow [2005]Genre: Comedy
A guy, A gal, her brother and twinkies
Plot Outline: When Myra agrees to date the charming but vulnerable Reggie, her eccentric brother Ludlow is threatened, forcing Myra to finally take charge of her own life.
Love, Math and Sex / C'est la tangente que je préfère [1997][Eng.Subs]Tagline:A young girl who is a wizard in mathematics falls in love with her 40 year old maths teacher
Plot Outline:
Sabine, a young mathematics genius living in the poor part of Lille, discovers love and sex with an older man, a theater author who comes from Czekia. Sabine gets foolish, makes mistakes, is both cruel and innocent, disturbs all her life and gets out of her destiny.
Luc Besson: Crimson Rivers / Rivières pourpres II [producer] [2004]Genre: Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Evil rises to new heights.
Plot Outline: Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working.
Luc Besson: The Dancer [producer] [2000]Genre: Drama
Plot Outline: A mute dancer teaches movement to adoring kids and wins the dance contest every Saturday night at a cavernous Brooklyn disco.
Luc Besson: Le Dermier Combat [1983]Genre: Sci-Fi
Plot Outline: The sky is raining fish. Skyscrapers sit in mountains of sand. Bandits sleep in trunks of used cars. It's a world of the future. A world called Planet Earth. And he's one man just trying to survive.
Luc Besson: District B13 / Banlieue 13 [2006]Genre: Action / Comedy / Sci-Fi
Welcome to District B13 Welcome to the future
Plot Outline: Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.
Luc Besson: Fanfan La Tulipe [writer] [2003]Genre: Adventure
Plot Outline: In this 2003 remake of the classic 1952 French film, Fanfan la Tulipe (Perez) is a swashbuckling lover who is tricked into joining the army of King Louis XV by Adeline La Franchise (Cruz), who tells Fanfan that by doing so, he will eventually marry one of the king's daughters.
Luc Besson: The Fifth Element [1998]Genre: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Plot Outline: In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr Zorg at bay.
Luc Besson: Le Grand bleu / The Big Blue [1988]Genre: Drama / Romance
Plot Outline: Between what you know and what you wish, lies the secret of... [The Big Blue]
Luc Besson: Kiss of the Dragon [screenplay] [2001]Genre: Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Kiss Fear Goodbye
Plot Outline: A betrayed intelligence officer enlists the aid of a prostitute to prove his innocence from a deadly conspiracy while returning a favor to her.
Luc Besson: La Femme Nikita [1990]Genre: Thriller / Action / Crime / Drama / Romance
The Hit of Paris and London Has Come to America. [US Poster]
Plot Outline: Convicted felon Nikita, instead of going to jail, is given a new identity and trained, stylishly, as a top secret spy/assassin.
Luc Besson: Leon / The Professional [1994]Genre: Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Plot Outline: Professional assassin Leon reluctantly takes care of 12-year-old Mathilda, a neighbor whose parents are killed, and teaches her his trade.
Luc Besson: Michel Valliant [scenario] [2003]Genre: Action
No limit
Info: The Perfect Racing Film PERIOD
Luc Besson: Subway [1985]Genre: Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller
Plot Outline: An underground story where lives intertwine.
Luc Besson: Taxi [screenplay] [2004]Genre: Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller
He's armed, but she's dangerous.
Plot Outline: A mouthy and feisty taxicab driver (Latifah) has hot tips for a green and inept cop (Fallon) set on solving a string of New York City bank robberies commited by a quartet of female Brazilian bank robbers.
Luc Besson: Transporter [writer] [2002]Genre: Action / Crime / Thriller
Tagline: Rules are made to be broken
Plot Outline: This film is about a man (Statham) whose job is to deliver packages without asking any questions. Complications arise when he breaks those rules.
Luc Besson: Transporter 2 [writer] [2005]Genre: Action / Crime / Thriller
Plot Outline: Mercenary Frank Martin, who specializes moving goods of all kinds, surfaces again this time in Miami, Florida when he's implicated in the kidnapping of the young son of a powerful USA official.
Luc Besson: Wasabi [writer] [2002]Genre: Action / Drama / Comedy / Crime / Thriller
Info: Quite Possibly The Greatest French-Language, English-Subtitled, Japanese Action-Comedy Of All Time.
Lumiere and Company / Lumière Et Compagnie [1995]Genre: Documentary
Plot Outline: 40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers.
