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V For Vendetta [2005]
Genre: Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Tagline: Remember, remember the 5th of November.
Plot Outline: A shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" uses terrorist tactics to fight against his totalitarian society. Upon rescuing a girl from the secret police, he also finds his best chance at having an ally.
Vampires [John Carpenter] [1998]
Genre: Horror / Action / Thriller
Tagline: From the master of terror comes a new breed of evil.
Plot Outline: A vengeful vampire hunter must retrieve a cross before it falls into the hands of the undead, that could produce dire consequences for humanity.
Vanilla Sky [2001]
Genre: Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Mystery
Tagline: What is happiness to you?
Plot Outline: A successful publisher finds his life taking a turn for the surreal after a car accident with a jaded lover.
Velvet Goldmine [1998]
Genre: Drama / Music
Tagline: The Rise Of A Star... The Fall Of A Legend!
Plot Outline: In 1984, British newspaper reporter Arthur Stuart is investigating the career of 1970s glam rock star Brian Slade
Vertical Limit [2000]
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller
Tagline: Hold Your Breath
Plot Outline: A climber must rescue his sister on top of K2, one of the world's biggest mountains.
Very Bad Things [1998]
Genre: Comedy / Thriller
Tagline: A very savage comedy. This fall. Tell no one.
Plot Outline:
A prostitute is killed during a bachelor party and the attendees turn on each other as the wedding approaches.
The Virgin Suicides [Sofia Coppola] [2000]
Genre: Drama / Mystery
Tagline: Love Sex Passion Fear Obsession
Plot Outline: A group of male friends become obsessed with a group of mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents after one of them commits suicide.
Volver [2006]
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Plot Outline: After her "death", a mother (Maura) returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.
The Voyeur / L' Uomo che Guarda [1994] [Tinto Brass]
Genre: Drama
Plot Summary: At a college in Rome, a professor, nicknamed "Dodo"
is in a deep depression. His stunningly beautiful wife has just
left him for another man...
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Waiting [2005]
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Plot Outline: Young employees at Shenaniganz restaurant collectively stave off boredom and adulthood with their antics.
Waitress [2007]
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Tagline: If only life were as easy as pie.
Plot Outline:
Jenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness
Walk The Line [2005]
Genre: Biography / Drama / Music / Romance
Plot Outline: A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
War / Rogue Assassin [2007]
Genre: Action / Thriller
Tagline: Vengence is the ultimate weapon.
Plot Outline:
An FBI Agent seeks vengeance on a mysterious assassin known as "Rogue" who murdered his partner.
War of the Worlds [2005]
Genre: Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Tagline: They're already here.
Plot Outline: As Earth is invaded by alien tripod fighting machines, one family fights for survival.
The War Tapes [2005]
Genre: Documentary
Plot Outline: Called up for service in Iraq, several members of the National Guard were given digital video cameras. This film, edited from their footage, provides a perspective on a complex and troubled conflict.
Wassup Rockers [2005]
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Plot Summary: Instead of adhering to the norms of their South Central neighborhood, a group of skater boys opt to bus into Hollywood and Beverly Hills..
Water [2005]
Genre: Drama / Romance
Plot Outline: The film examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi. It focuses on a relationship between one of the widows, who wants to escape the social restrictions imposed on widows, and a man who is from a lower caste and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.
Waterboy, The [1998]
Genre: Comedy / Sport
Plot Outline: A football team water boy discovers he has a unique tackling ability and becomes a member of the team.
Wayne's World [1992]
Genre: Comedy / Music
Tagline: You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll hurl.
Plot Outline: Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show.
We Are Marshall [2006]
Genre: Drama / Sport
Tagline: From the ashes we rose
Plot Outline: When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach (McConaughey) and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
We Were Soldiers [2002]
Genre: Action / Drama / History / War
Tagline: Fathers, Brothers, Husbands & Sons.
Plot Outline: The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
The Weather Man [2005]
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Tagline: In life, accuracy counts.
Plot Outline: A Chicago weather man (Cage), separated from his wife and children, debates whether professional and personal success are mutually exclusive.
The Wedding Crashers [2005]
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Tagline: They're just a couple of guys who just wanna have fun.
Plot Outline: John Beckwith and Jeremy Grey, a pair of committed womanizers who sneak into weddings to take advantage of the romantic tinge in the air, find themselves at odds with one another when John meets and falls for Claire Cleary.
Weird Science [1985]
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Tagline: It's all in the name of science. Weird Science.
Plot Outline:
Teenage geeks Gary (Anthony Michael Hall) and Wyatt (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) are sick of being ignored by girls, abused by cool guys, and forced to spend their weekend nights watching nerdy old sci-fi movies.
Wet Dreams [2002]
Genre: Comedy
Plot Outline: Junior High that wonderful time in a boy's life when he first discovers girls and decides to stick his weenie into pieces of fruit and bowls up cup ramen. A wonderful time in which boys pretend to stumble to "accidentally" grope the behinds of shapely women and to intentionally slip and look up the dresses of young teacher trainees. At least this is the world of Dong-hyun and his friends.
Wet Dreams 2 / Mongjunggi 2 [2005]
Genre: Comedy
Plot Outline: Wet Dreams 2 focuses on the sexual curiosities of three 17 year-old high school girls. One of the girls, Oh Sung-Eun, believes she's found her dream lover in young new teacher Kang Bong-Gu, who farts uncontrollably when aroused. In order to overcome his weakness, Kang Bong-Gu tries to get many practice with girls as possible.
What Dreams May Come [1998]
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Romance
Tagline: After life there is more. The end is just the beginning.
Plot Summary:
Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife..
What Lies Beneath [2000]
Genre: Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Drama
Tagline: He was the perfect husband until his one mistake followed them home.
Plot Outline: The wife of a professor investigates the murder of a beautiful college student who has been appearing to her.
What Women Want [2000]
Genre: Comedy / Fantasy / Romance
Tagline: He has the power to hear everything women are thinking. Finally... a man is listening.
Plot Outline: After an accident, a chauvenistic executive gains the ability to hear what women are really thinking.
When Harry Met Sally [1989]
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Tagline: Can two friends sleep together and still love each other in the morning?
Plot Outline: Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship.
When Worlds Collide [1951]
Genre: Sci-Fi / Thriller
Tagline: Planets destroy earth!
Plot Summary: What would happen if a rogue planet flew into our solar system and slammed into the Earth? That question is answered in this classic sci-fi tale.
Where the Truth Lies [2005]
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Plot Outline: K. O'Connor, a young journalist known for her celebrity profiles, is consumed with discovering the truth behind a long-buried incident that affected the lives and careers of showbiz team Vince Collins and Lanny Morris.
Whispers and Moans / Sing Kung Chok Tse Sup Yut Tam [2007] [China]
Genre: Drama
Chinese audio, English Subs
Movie Synopsis:
Based on a book of interviews by Yang Yee-Shan, Whispers details a cross-section of sex industry workers in modern Hong Kong, all facing difficult change in the rapidly evolving sex trade. Chief among them is Coco (Athena Chu), a veteran mama-san, whose girls engage in a higher-regarded form of prostitution than your Temple Street-treading streetwalkers. Coco handles the girls’ club assignments and eventual “take out” orders. While tawdry sounding, this is supposedly the higher end of the sex trade, though you wouldn’t know it from the way the girls get treated. Work is hell, and these girls do quite a bit of it…
White Chicks [2004]
Genre: Crime / Comedy
Tagline: Absurd + Unbelievable= HILARIOUS!
Plot Outline: Two disgraced FBI agents go way undercover in an effort to protect hotel heiresses the Wilson Sisters from a kidnapping plot.
The White Countess [2005]
Genre: Drama / History / Romance
Plot Outline: Set in 1930s Shanghai, where a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd -- and sometimes illicit -- jobs to support members of her dead husband's aristocratic family.
Who Killed the Electric Car..? [2006]
Genre: Documentary
Tagline: Who Killed the Electric Car ?
Plot Outline: A documentary that investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? [1966]
Genre: Drama
Tagline: You are cordially invited to George and Martha's for an evening of fun and games.
Plot Outline:
A bitter aging couple with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other.
Why We Fight [2005]
Genre: Documentary / History
Tagline: It is nowhere written that the American empire goes on forever.
Plot Outline: Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.
The Wicker Man [1973]
Genre: Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Tagline: From the writer of 'Frenzy & Sleuth' Anthony Shaffer's incredible occult thriller
Plot Outline: A police sergeant is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
The Wicker Man [2006]
Genre: Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Tagline: Some Sacrifices Must Be Made
Plot Outline: A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community.
Wild at Heart [1990]
Genre: Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Comedy
Plot Outline: Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.
Wild Things [1998]
Genre: Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Tagline: They're dying to play with you.
Plot Outline:
A high school guidance counselor is framed for raping two of his students...or is he?
Wild Things 2 [2004]
Genre: Thriller
Movie Synopsis:
In this sequel to the 1998 film, Susan Ward (THE IN CROWD) and Leila Arcieri (DADDY DAY CARE) star as two sultry Florida high school girls who orchestrate a murderous plan to win an inheritance, only to find themselves embroiled in a deadly whirlpool of blackmail and sex with a sleazy insurance investigator.
Wild Things 3: Diamonds in the Rough [2005]
Genre: Action / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Tagline: Bad girls just want to have fun.
Plot Outline:
Two young women will stop at nothing for one to gain a $4 million inheritance of two priceless diamonds, while two detectives try to tho wart their plans, but find complications abound.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory [1971]
Genre: Family / Musical / Fantasy / Comedy
Tagline: It's everybody's non-pollutionary, anti-institutionary, pro-confectionery factory of fun!
Plot Outline: A poor boy wins the oppurtunity to tour the most eccentric and wonderful candy factory of all.
The Wind That Shakes The Barley [2006]
Genre: Drama / War
Plot Outline: A sympathetic look at Republicans in early 20th century Ireland, and two brothers who are torn apart by anti-Brit rebellion.
Window Theory [2005]
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Tagline: He's got a formula, but hasn't got a clue.
Plot Outline: An aimless playboy returns to his hometown for his best friend's wedding, only to find that the bride is his high school sweetheart.
Winter Passing [2006]
Genre: Drama
Tagline: Sometimes you go looking for something you want. . . and find what you need.
Plot Summary: Actress Reese Holden (Deschanel) has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure.
The Wizard of Oz [1939]
Genre: Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Musical
Tagline: "The Wizard" Musical Returns By Unprecedented Demand! [UK re-release]
Plot Outline: Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home.
The Wolfman [1966]
Horror / Short
Plot Outline: An eight minute abridgment of the 1941 feature, The Wolf Man, released in the 1960's to the 16mm home movie market.
Wonderland [2003]
Crime / Drama / Thriller
Tagline: The 80's - unplugged. The murders - unveiled. The legend - unzipped.
Plot Outline: In the police investigation of a brutal crime scene, one man was at the center of it all: legendary porn star John Holmes.
The Woods [2006]
Genre: Horror / Mystery
Tagline: Every high school has its secrets...
Plot Outline: Set in 1965 New England, a troubled girl encounters mysterious happenings in the woods surrounding an isolated girls school that she was sent to by her estranged parents.
Wordplay [2006]
Genre: Documentary
Plot Outline: An in-depth look at The New York Times' long-time crossword puzzle editor Will Shortz and his loyal fan base.
World Trade Center [2006]
Drama / History
Tagline: The World Saw Evil That Day. Two Men Saw Something Else.
Plot Outline: Two Port Authority police officers become trapped under the rubble of the World Trade Center.
The World's Fastest Indian [2005]
Genre: Adventure / Biography / Drama / Sport
Tagline: Based On One Hell Of A True Story
Plot Outline: The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle -- a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.
WTC View [2005]
Genre: Drama
Tagline: A story of New York after 9/11
Plot Outline: After placing an ad on September 10th, a young man living in SoHo struggles to find a new roommate and keep his emotional balance in the weeks following 9/11
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X 2000 - The Collected Shorts of Francois Ozon [2001]
Plot Outline: Morning has broken on January 1, 2000. A man rises from his bed, leaving a woman asleep. He walks through an apartment littered with the detritus of last night's party. Twin men are asleep in a single sleeping bag on the floor. He sees a couple making love in an apartment across the way. The woman rises, sees him staring out the window, and runs a bath. As she soaks and the twins sleep, he makes a discovery beneath a wastebasket. Quiet morning-after ruminations continue.
X-Men [2000]
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Tagline: Join the Evolution.
Plot Outline: Two mutants come to a private academy for mutants whose resident superhero team must oppose a powerful mutant terrorist organization.
X-Men 2 [2003]
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Tagline: The time has come for those who are different to stand united.
Plot Outline: The X-Men band together to find a mutant assassin who has made an attempt on the President's life, while the Mutant Academy is attacked by military forces.
X-men 3: The Last Stand [2006]
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller
Tagline: Take a Stand
Plot Outline: When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men, led by Professor Charles Xavier (Stewart), and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organized under Xavier's former ally, Magneto (McKellen).
XX/XY [2003]
Genre: Drama / Romance
Tagline: There's no room for honesty in a healthy relationship...
Plot Outline: Three friends begin a dangerous three-way relationship that spirals out of control, leading to dire consequences that haunt them ten years later.
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Y tu mamá también [2001]
Genre: Drama
Plot Outline: In Mexico, two teenage boys, Julio and Tenoch, like those of seventeen-year old boys everywhere, ruled by raging hormones, intense friendships, and a headlong rush into adulthood, embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Yamakasi - Les Samouraïs Des Temps Modernes [2001]
Action / Drama / Crime
Tagline: Shichinin no chôjin ga tobu!!
Plot Outline: Gravity or Police, these guys don't believe in any law. Idolised by the youth of Paris as much as they're hated by the police.
Ying Hung Bunsik / A Better Tomorrow [1986]
Genre: Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Tagline: The movie that began it all.........
Plot Outline: A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.
Ying Hung Bunsik 2 / A Better Tomorrow 2 [1987]
Genre: Crime / Drama / Thriller
Plot Outline: A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.
You Can’t Take it With You [1938] – Frank Capra
Comedy / Romance
Tagline: The Great Pulitzer Prize Play...Becomes the Year's Outstanding Picture!
Plot Outline: A good-natured but decidedly eccentric family meets a new friend.
You, Me and Dupree [2006]
Genre: Comedy
Tagline: Two's company. Dupree's a crowd.
Plot Outline: A best man (Wilson) stays on as a houseguest with the newlyweds, much to the couple's annoyance.
You've Got Mail [1998]
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Tagline: Someone you pass on the street may already be the love of your life.
Plot Outline: Two business rivals hate each other at the office but fall in love over the internet.
The Young Poisoner's Handbook [1995]
Genre:Crime / Drama
Plot: Based on a true story about a British teenager who allegedly poisoned family, friends, and co-workers. Graham is highly intelligent, is interested in chemistry and is fascinated by morbid subjects. He decides to poison those who annoy him and smugly thinks himself cleverer than all those around him.
Zoom [2006]
Genre: Action / Adventure / Family / Sci-Fi
Tagline: They're going to save the world . . . as long as they're home for dinner
Plot Outline:
Former superhero Jack is called back to work to transform an unlikely group of ragtag kids into superheroes at a private Academy.