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The Duchess
Set at the end of the eighteenth century, The Duchess is the story of the beautiful and, glamorous Georgiana Spencer, the most fascinating woman of the age. While her beauty and charisma made her name, her extravagant tastes and appetite for gambling and love made her infamous. Married young to the older, distant Duke of Devonshire, intimate of ministers and princes, Georgiana became a fashion icon, a doting mother, a shrewd political operator and darling of the common people. But at the core of her story is a desperate search for love. From Georgiana's passionate and doomed affair with Earl Grey to the complex ménage à trois with her husband and her best friend, Lady Bess Foster, The Duchess is a very contemporary tale of fame, notoriety and the search for love.
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RocknRolla
When a Russian mobster orchestrates a crooked land deal, millions of dollars are up for grabs, and all of London's criminal underworld wants in on the action. Everyone from a dangerous crime lord to a sexy accountant, a corrupt politician and down-on-their-luck petty thieves conspire, collude and collide with one another in an effort to get rich quick.
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Disaster Movie
Over the course of one evening, an unsuspecting group of twenty-somethings find themselves bombarded by a series of natural disasters and catastrophic events.
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Bangkok Dangerous
Hitman Joe travels to Bangkok on a mission to take out four targets. When he arrives, he hires Kong, a young pickpocket, as his assistant, and meets a beautiful, albeit deaf and dumb girl. Initially he carries out his work without any trace of emotion, but Kong's constant questions about whether the victims are bad people pricks his conscience, which leads to him hestitating about shooting his fourth target - a popular politician - and brings down the wrath of his bosses.
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Mamma Mia!
An independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on an idyllic Greek island, Donna is about to let go of Sophie, the spirited daughter she's raised alone. For Sophie's wedding, Donna has invited her two lifelong best girlfriends - practical and no-nonsense Rosie and wealthy, multi-divorcee Tanya - from her one-time backing band, Donna and the Dynamos. But Sophie has secretly invited three guests of her own. On a quest to find the identity of her father to walk her down the aisle, she brings back three men from Donna's past to the Mediterranean paradise they visited 20 years earlier. Over 24 chaotic, magical hours, new love will bloom and old romances will be rekindled on this lush island full of possibilities.
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Hellboy II : The Golden Army
When a truce between the human and magical worlds are broken, the elfin Prince Nuada begins to gather an army of horrific and fantastical creatures to rise up from the underworld to lay waste to human race. Man's only hope is the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defence, a team of mutant and alien beings led by the fearsome Hellboy, a huge demon summonded by the Nazis near the end of the Second World War, and raised by the Bureau. Along with the fiery Liz Sherman, the merman Abe Sapien, and Johann Krauss, a disembodied ectoplasmic spirit contained in a containment suit, Hellboy travels between Earth and the Underworld to fight the his fearsome opponents. But his phsyical battles are no match for his inner struggles, as he agonises over whether to remain the the human world or return to the world of the supernatural, leaving all he knows behind.
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Get Smart
Maxwell Smart is the top analyst of the USA's most important and most secret security organisation CONTROL, but while he dreams of becoming a field agent, going as far as passing all the entrance exams, his boss The Chief refuses, believing him to be too valuable as an analyst. The CONTROL base is suddenly attacked by their arch-nemesis, evil organisation KAOS and all the field operatives are either exposed or killed.In the wake of the attack, the depleted security force find out that their enemies, run by a man known as Siegfried, have been gathering nuclear weapons, planning to sell them to unstable dictators and throw the world into chaos, and Max's dreams finally come true when he is made Agent 86. The new operative is partnered with the beautiful Agent 99, whose plastic surgery has protected her identity while her fellow agents were killed. As the pair begin their investigations, they soon come to realise that there may be an even bigger conspiracy going on which keeps KAOS one step ahead of them all the time. And it's going in within CONTROL headquarters itself...
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Step Brothers
Brennan Huff is a 39 year-old who lives with his mother, while Dale Doback, having hit 40, has yet to move out of his father's home. Fate conspires to throw the pair together when their parents meet and get married. The unemployed, spoilt, immature pair are forced to share a room and immediately begin to hate each other, bickering, fighting and generally behaving like brats. Suddenly they realise that they have a lot in common and become close friends. But for their parents, this is even worse than the pair being enemies...
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The Dark Knight
After defeating the Order of Shadows and thwarting the mob boss, Carmine Falcone, in 'Batman Begins', Bruce Wayne continues to fight crime in Gotham City. With Falcone gone, a new mafioso, Salvatore Maroni, has taken over the organised crime syndicates and it seems Batman's quest to wrestle Gotham free from the criminals will be never-ending. Luckily, the city's new District Attorney Harvey Dent's strong-arm stance against crime gives Wayne hope. Maybe his new ally will take over his battles, allowing him to settle down with the love of his life Rachel Dawes - the only person who knows his true identity. The arrival of a new criminal destroys Batman's plans of a quiet life. A twisted, sadistic sociopath, with a morbid fascination for the caped crusader, known only as the Joker, descends upon the city. With no conscience or pain threshold, this nightmarish nemesis wreaks havoc upon Gotham, while Dent, (the White Knight to Batman's Dark Knight) undergoes a horrific transformation into the schizophrenic Two Face.
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Wild Child
Sixteen-year-old Poppy is a self-obsessed, incorrigible brat who lives a pampered life in her L.A. world. Though she's handed credit cards with unlimited balances and surrounded by countless hangers on, Poppy can't escape the mounting frustration she feels with her family situation. And she makes sure that everyone knows it. After an over-the-top prank pushes her father one step too far, Poppy is shipped off to an English boarding school. Finding herself in a foreign world of early curfews, stern matrons and mandatory lacrosse, the American princess has finally met her match: a school of British girls who won't tolerate her spoiled ways. Under the watchful eye of the school's headmistress and surrounded by a new circle of friends, Poppy begrudgingly realizes her bad-girl behavior will only get her so far. But just because she must grow into a fine young lady doesn't mean this Wild Child won't be spending every waking hour shaking up a very proper system...
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