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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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WALL·E
After hundreds of lonely years doing what he was built for, WALL•E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks and looking after his pet cockroach), when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL•E has stumbled upon the key to the planet's future, and races back to space to report her findings to the humans who have been eagerly awaiting word that it is safe to return home. Meanwhile, WALL•E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets into motion one of the most exciting and imaginative comedy adventures ever brought to the big screen.
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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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Pineapple Express
Lazy stoner Dale Denton has only one reason to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver: to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the city's most dangerous drug lord, he panics and dumps his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale now has another reason to visit Saul: to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to him. And it is. As Dale and Saul run for their lives, they quickly discover that they're not suffering from weed-fueled paranoia; incredibly, the bad guys really are hot on their trail and trying to figure out the fastest way to kill them both. All aboard the Pineapple Express.
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The Strangers
When couple Kristen and James arrive at the remote vacation home of James' parents, they simply want to get some rest after a long and difficult night. Little do they know that this bad night is about to become the worst of their lives when three masked strangers appear outside their seemingly peaceful retreat. These deranged and mysterious strangers take a vicious delight in terrorizing the young couple, and the resulting showdown brings Kristen and James to the very brink of survival where only their own brutal impulses might be able to save them...
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Babylon A. D.
Thoorop is a mercenary charged with escorting a woman from Russia to China. Unbeknownst to him a cult wants to use her to produce a genetically modified messiah.
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You Don't Mess with the Zohan
The comedy follows the exploits of a Mossad agent who fakes his death so he can anonymously move to New York and become a hair stylist. The 'special services' which he gives his clients in the salon's back room soon attracts a large crowd of customers, who comment "Well, the sex is good, and the haircut isn't bad either." But things go awry when he is recognised by a former enemy, who soon becomes determined to kill him.
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Space Chimps
Ham III, the grandson of the first chimp astronaut, is blasted off into space by an opportunity-seeking senator. Soon, the fun-loving chimp is given a serious mission, to rid a far-away planet of their tyrannical leader. Fortunately for him, two of his simian peers are along for the ride.
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Explorer Rick O'Connell returns to combat the resurrected Han Emperor in an epic that races from the catacombs of ancient China high into the frigid Himalayas. Rick is joined in this all-new adventure by son Alex, wife Evelyn and her brother Jonathan. And this time, the O'Connells must stop a mummy awoken from a 2000-year-old curse who threatens to plunge the world into his merciless, unending service.
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Kung Fu Panda
Po the Panda, a lowly waiter in a noodle restaurant, is fanatic about kung fu but his shape doesn't really allow him to do that. In reality, Po's defining characteristic appears to be that he is the laziest of all the animals in ancient China. This is a problem because powerful enemies are at the gates and all hopes have been pinned on a prophesy naming Po as the 'Chosen One' to save the day. A group of martial arts masters are going to need black belts in patience if they are going to turn this slacker panda into a kung fu fighter before it's too late!
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars
The Clone Wars continue to rage between the separatists and the Republic, drawing all planets and star systems into the conflict. When Jabba the Hutt's son is kidnapped by a mysterious group of renegades, Anakin Skywalker and Obi Wan Kenobi are sent to investigate. They are joined by Ahsoka Tano, who is named Anakin's first apprentice by Yoda. In their investigations Obi Wan is forced to confront the Sith Jedi Asajj Ventress, while Anakin once again comes up against his old foe Count Dooku. The Jedis gradually come to realise that the renegades they are tracking are merely pawns, being manipulated by the Sith in order to expand the war even more, hoping to defeat the Republic and take control of the galaxy.
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College Road Trip
Choosing which college to attend can be the most exciting and thrilling time of a young womans life ... unless your overprotective father isnt quite ready to let you go. In this family comedy, Melanie (Raven-Symoné) is eagerly looking forward to her first big step towards independence when she plans a girls only road trip to check out prospective universities. But when her overbearing police chief father (Martin Lawrence) insists on escorting her instead, she soon finds her dream trip has turned into a nightmare adventure full of comical misfortune and turmoil.
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Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
Based on the International best-selling series of books by Louise Rennison, the film follows the eccentric and irresistible Georgia Nicolson as she overcomes the trauma of being a teenager and moves up the 'snogging scale'. Misunderstood by her ancient parents, but buoyed up by the love of her cat Angus and her best friends mates she struggles through life seeking out her two main desires: 1. To get a gorgeous sex-god as her boyfriend. 2. To throw the greatest 15th birthday party ever. Alongside her own romance problems Georgia's parents are going through a turbulent time, with the result that the young girl feels the responsibility for holding the family together rests on her shoulders.
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Flashbacks of a Fool
Daniel Craig stars as an fading british actor, who having had a good run in Hollywood, is now on his way out. The death of his childhood best friend prompts him to journey back home to his English seaside hometown. He begins to think about his life over the years, and more specifically his teenage years. The audienceare along for the ride as the character relives his experiences of this time including the tragedy that forces him to flee for a new life.
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The Spiderwick Chronicles
An adaptation of the beloved 5 part series of childrens' books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, “The Spiderwick Chronicles” is a fantasy adventure following the Grace family. The twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory move away from New York to a secluded house on the Spiderwick Estate, owned by the children's great great uncle Arthur Spiderwick. Before long things start to disappear and odd accidents around the house become more and more regular; the adventurous and short-tempered Jared gets the blame for the unexplained occurences. It is not until he explores further with his brother and sister that the truth begins to unfold; there is a fantastical whole other world of faeries living with the on the estate.
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Speed Racer
A live action adaptation of the hugley successful cartoon. Speed Racer continues to strive for glory against his mysterious rival Racer X. Luckily for Speed Racer his girlfriend Trixie and his parents are there to support him and not forgetting his amazing gadet-laden car, Mach 5.
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Ice Age 2 : The Meltdown
Manny the Mammoth, Sid the Sloth and Diego the Sabretooth Tiger are happy in a their tranquil valley until it becomes clear that the ice wall protecting it is melting. As escape becomes necessary the animals in that area learn that a boat is awaiting them at the other end of the valley. In the exodus, our trio bumps into Ellie, a mammoth who thinks that she is an opossum...
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