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2007 full length movies
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| Rating: 9.0 |
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After a young, middle class couple moves into a suburban 'starter' tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially when they sleep. Or try to. |
| Heima
[2007,
Iceland]
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| Heima. A tribute to the people and places that make up 'home.' |
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| Rating: 8.8 |
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In the summer of 2006, Sigur Rós returned home to play a series of free, unannounced concerts for the people of Iceland. This film documents their already legendary tour with intimate reflections from the band and a handful of new acoustic performances. |
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| Rating: 8.7 |
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Hitchcockian film noir/thriller set in the exclusive resort community of The Hamptons. Trophy husband Davis Meyers meets local investigator Linus. Davis Meyers' ill-fated attempt to produce an heir leads to infidelity, murder and tragic consequences. Classic film noir in the style of the '40s and '50s. |
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| Rating: 8.6 |
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"The Indian" is a touching drama about a negligent father who must face the son he abandoned years earlier, and the emotional wreckage he caused, in order to obtain a life-saving transplant. The father hires a beautiful young mechanic to help restore an old Indian motorbike and uses her and the restoration process to manipulate his troubled teenage son's emotions. Complications arise when the father has difficulty maintaining the lie to both his son and himself. |
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| Rating: 8.4 |
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Paul Thomas Anderson directed this drama that follows Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis honored the best actor Oscar for the role), a man who buys up the lands in California in the beginning of the 20th century and becomes an oil baron. The town of Little Boston is supposed to be the new centre of Plainview's company and soon the locals inherit his obsession for money, but there is a young preacher (Paul Dano) who resists their greed. |
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| Rating: 8.4 |
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A documentary on The Who, featuring interviews with the band's two surviving members, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey. |
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| Rating: 8.3 |
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Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore investigates and compares the American health care system with that of other countries around the world, aiming to expose the shortcomings and corruption that flourishes in the system. |
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| Rating: 8.3 |
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Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 4 "skin jobs", a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious.
This is the special 2007 "final cut" edition of the famous 1982 movie. |
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| Rating: 8.3 |
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The story of a young ex-con Jack, newly released from serving a prison sentence for a murder he committed as a child. |
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| Rating: 8.2 |
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Bourne is once again brought out of hiding, this time inadvertently by London-based reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation BlackBriar—an upgrade to Project Treadstone—in a series of newspaper columns. Bourne (Damon) sets up a meeting with Ross (Considine) and realizes instantly they're being scanned. Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally, ultimately, uncover his dark past whilst dodging The Company's best efforts in trying to eradicate him. |
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| Rating: 8.2 |
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Paris, home to finest restaurants, best chefs and cooking, is a gourmand's paradise. Remy (Patton Oswalt) adores legendary French chef Auguste Gusteau (Brad Garrett) and dreams of captivating the world's culinary capital. Remy has an amazingly appropriate aptitude for being a cook. He has a wonderful sense of smell and taste, knowledge of delicious recipes and a genius for improvisation. There's just one little problem: Remy is a rat. As the fates decree, he finds himself in the kitchen of Gusteau's restaurant and forms an unexpected alliance with a new clumsy garbage boy, Linguini (Lou Romano). He is a nice fellow but has no talent for cooking and can't tell flambé from frappé. However, Linguini soon becomes a culinary superstar thanks to Remy, who conceals himself under his toque and controls his every move by pulling on his hair like a puppeteer's strings. One day a malicious food critic, Anton Ego (Peter O'Toole), whose critique seems to have brought Gusteau to his grave, shows up on the scene... |
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| Rating: 8.2 |
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When Professor John Oldman (David Lee Smith), a history scholar, makes his sudden decision to retire from the University, his associates invite themselves to a farewell party, seeking an explanation from him for his untimely resignation. In his cabin in the remote woods, John perplexes his colleagues by claiming that he is an immortal who has been living on the earth for 14,000 years. |
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| Rating: 8.2 |
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This thought-provoking movie is divided into three chapters concerning three different men whose lives intertwine in the most bizarre and mysterious ways.
"The Prisoner" tells the story of a popular Hollywood TV actor named Gary (Ryan Reynolds) who becomes distraught after being dumped by his girlfriend. To cope with the sharp pain of the breakup, he drinks and uses crack cocaine, then decides to burn her belongings but uses too much lighter fluid and burns down his house. After his escapade Gary ends up living under home arrest and the supervision of a cheery, serious publicist, Margaret (Melissa McCarthy), who moves him into the empty house of a television writer. He befriends an attractive next-door neighbor, Sarah (Hope Davis), and mysteriously becomes haunted by the number nine.
"Reality Television" focuses on Gavin (Ryan Reynolds), the house's owner who is away in Canada. He is shooting a supernatural network television drama starring his best friend Melissa McCarthy. When the network boss and studio executive Susan (Hope Davis) decide to replace Melissa with another actress, Gavin must tell her bad news.
"Knowing" finds a videogame designer, Gabriel (Ryan Reynolds), facing car trouble on an outing in the Hollywood Hills. Leaving his wife Mary (Melissa McCarthy) and child (Elle Fanning) in the car, he goes to seek help and encounters Sierra (Hope Davis), a strangely wary woman.
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| Rating: 8.2 |
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Based on Ian McEwan's popular novel, the romantic drama follows Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan), a precocious preteen from an upper-class English family and fledgling writer with a great power of imagination. She knows about the mutual love between her elder sister Cecilia (Keira Knightley) and housekeeper's son Robby Turner (James McEvoy) and feels hurt as she has a fancy for Robbie too. So, when her 15-year-old cousin Lola Quincey (Juno Temple) becomes the victim of a rape, a string of misinterpretations, fueled by her vivid imagination and her jealousy, drives her to finger Robby as a rapist. He is arrested and sent to jail but Cecillia strongly refuses to believe her sister and becomes hostile towards her. Many years later, Briony (Romola Garai) writes a novel to expiate her guilt for her childish misdeed that irreversibly changed the course of all their lives. |
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| Rating: 8.2 |
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This fact-based drama concerns Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch), a bright 22-year-old man with a promising future. But shortly after graduating from Atlanta's Emory University, the freedom-loving adventure seeker decides to give up his privileged life and go to live in the wilderness. He donates his $24,000 savings account to charity, changes his name to Alexander Supertramp and hitchhikes to Alaska, wearing only a thin coat and having neither compass nor map. Four months later, the man is found dead... |
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| Rating: 8.2 |
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A biographic film. Based on the memoir Touching From A Distance by Deborah Curtis, Control is a cinematographic story telling us of the Joy Division band and its leader Ian Curtis (Sam Riley). It is also a skillfully and beautifully featured film about ravaging effects of love, fame and repentance, and the salvation we turn to art for. Formed as a rock band in 1976 in salford, Greater Manchester, originally named Warsaw, Joy Division quickly went off their initial punk rock influences and created a sound and style that shaped the tendencies of the post-punk movement of the late 1970s. Control, however, is virtually about Curtis’s difficult relationships with his wife Deborah (Samantha Morton) and the way his personal pain, epileptic sufferings, guilt and depression got manifested through Joy Division’s music. Playing all the instruments themselves, the actors must be given credit.
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| Rating: 8.2 |
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Princess Giselle (Amy Adams) becomes a victim of dark Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon) who has pushed her out of the magic kingdom. Giselle finds herself in the middle of a busy street of modern New York City. She must return back to her realm as quickly as possible to marry Prince Edward (James Marsden) but for the present she needs some help to orient herself in the real world with its lack of magic. Robert (Patrick Dempsey), a divorced lawyer, comes to the pretty stranger's aid. |
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| Rating: 8.2 |
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A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father. |
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| Rating: 8.2 |
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Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind. |
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| Rating: 8.2 |
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Robot Chicken's finest half hour is more savvy than Spaceballs, more inside than Family Guy: Blue Harvest, and funnier, even, than The Star Wars Holiday Special. This Very Special Episode of Comedy Central's stop-motion animated series parodies and goofs on all things Star Wars, from a disgruntled Empire janitor to an ad for Admiral Ackbar Cereal ("Your tongues can't repel flavor of that magnitude"). Twenty three minutes goes by like the jump to hyperspace with such priceless bits as the collect phone call to Emperor Palpatine from Darth Vadar to inform him of the Death Star's destruction, awkward morning-after pillow talk between Luke and Leia ("That was so wrong"), and George Bush's newfound Jedi powers. Co-creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich and company immerse viewers in the Robot Chicken universe with generous bonus features, including storyboarded deleted scenes (with self-deprecating commentary), behind the scenes footage of animation meetings, and alternate audio takes. Good sport George Lucas, who gave his blessing to this episode, boldly goes where William Shatner went before by voicing himself in a Star Wars convention sketch that concludes with a Lucas-worshiping geek telling his son that meeting his idol was the best day of his life. What about his son's birth? "Not even close," dad replies. But you don't have to have that kind of devotion to Star Wars to be amused by this weather forecast for Cloud City: "Cloudy, followed by clouds." |
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