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Christopher Plummer
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Up (2009)
Summary: By tying thousands of balloons to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Right after lifting off, however, he learns he isn't alone on his journey, since Russell, a wilderness explorer 70 years his junior, has inadvertently become a stowaway on the trip.
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Last Station, The (2009)
Summary: Leo Tolstoy's struggle to balance fame and wealth with his commitment to a life devoid of material things.
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9 (2009)
Summary: When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world where all humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction.
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Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The (2009)
Summary: A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.
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Man in the Chair (2007)
Summary: CAMERON KINCAID, a rebellious 17 year old from a broken home is in trouble at school, with the law, and at odds with his mother and his constantly deriding harsh stepfather. Cameron's a fanatical film buff who longs to be an important cutting edge filmmaker, but so far it seems as if he is more likely to end up in prison than in Hollywood... (imdb)
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Closing the Ring (2007)
Summary: In 1943, A dying gunner, who was in a crash involving a United States B-17, gives a ring to a local to return to his girlfriend in the USA. Fifty years later, a man finds the ring and tracks down the girlfriend and the history of this ring. Set in Belfast and North Carolina. (imdb)
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Inside Man (2006)
Summary: Acclaimed actors Denzel Washington, Clive Owen and Jodie Foster come together to explore the lure of power, the ugliness of greed and the mystery of a perfect robbery in this combustible new crime drama. The powerhouse actors play tough New Yorkers who must outwit one another to protect competing interests in this skillfully penned and tightly helmed thriller.
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Lake House, The (2006)
Summary: When two people "connect" the bond between them can be so pure and simple as to stir hearts in heaven. When they connect in all the right places at all the wrong times, heaven weeps for broken hearts. To heal these broken hearts, heaven breaks time. (imdb)
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Syriana (2005)
Summary: A political thriller that unfolds against the intrigues and corruption of the global oil industry. From the players brokering back-room deals in Washington to the men toiling in the oil fields of the Persian Gulf, the film's multiple storylines weave together to illuminate the human consequences of the fierce pursuit of wealth and power.
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Four Minutes (2005)
Summary: The story of the four minute mile-breaker Roger Bannister. (imdb)
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New World, The (2005)
Summary: A sweeping adventure set amidst the first encounter of European and Native American cultures during the founding of the Jamestown Virginia settlement in 1607.
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Must Love Dogs (2005)
Summary: As thirty-something divorced pre-school teacher Sarah Nolan (Lane) braves a series of hilariously disastrous mismatches and first dates, she begins to trust her own instincts again and learns that, no matter what, it's never a good idea to give up on love. (Warner Bros.)
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National Treasure (2004)
Summary: Nicholas Cage stars as the brilliant treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates in who discovers a secret from our nation's past that will lead to the greatest adventure in history. (Disney)
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Alexander (2004)
Summary: Based on the true story of one of history's most luminous and influential leaders, Alexander takes a bold, honest look at Alexander's life and his relationships. (Warner Bros.)
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Cold Creek Manor (2003)
Summary: Escaping from the hustle-and-bustle of city life, the Tilsons (Quaid, Stone) pack up their kids and all of their possessions and move into a recently repossessed mansion in the sticks of New York State. All's well until a series of terrifying incidents at the house lead the Tilsons to wonder who used to live in their new home -- and to discover what dark secrets are hidden inside. (Touchstone Pictures)
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Gospel of John, The (2003)
Summary: The story of Jesus' life as recounted by His disciple John, this three-hour epic feature film draws its audience into antiquity by way of meticulous recreation, including an original musical score complete with instrumental sounds of the time. (ThinkFilm)
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Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
Summary: Young Nicholas and his family enjoy a comfortable life, until Nicholas' father dies and the family is left penniless. Nicholas, his sister and mother venture to London to seek help from their Uncle Ralph, but Ralph's only intentions are to separate the family and exploit them. Nicholas is sent to a school run by the cruel, abusive and horridly entertaining Wackford Squeers. Eventually, Nicholas runs away with schoolmate Smike, and the two set off to reunite the Nickleby family. (imdb)
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Ararat (2002)
Summary: The estranged members of a contemporary Armenian family are faced both with Turkey's denial of their catastrophic past and with their own complicated present. (Miramax)
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Beautiful Mind, A (2001)
Summary: A human drama about the struggle of a true genius, inspired by events in the life of John Forbes Nash, Jr.
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Lucky Break (2001)
Summary: A comedy about a prison escape with a musical twist. (Paramount Pictures)
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Possessed (2000)
Summary: An 11 year old boy starts throwing temper tantrums, vomiting on and attacking people, and swearing uncontrollably. Furnature begin to move on its own when he is around, and he doesnt remember any of it. After giving up on the protestants, the boys parents turn to the catholic church for help. Father Bowden is a WWII veteran who is experiencing nightmares, flashbacks and other personal problems, including alcoholism. He is recruited by the archbishop to perform a series of exorcisms. (imdb)
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Nuremberg (2000)
Summary: Following the defeat of Germany in WWII, the Allies determine that there must be an accounting of German war crimes. Twenty-four Nazis, representative of all sections of military and civilian life are chosen to stand trial for the crimes of conspiracy to commit aggression, commission of aggression, crimes during war and crimes against humanity... (imdb)
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Dracula 2000 (2000)
Summary: Dracula, freed at last from a century in confinement, finds himself in a 21st century of chaos and temptation. (Dimension Films)
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Insider, The (1999)
Summary: Balls-out "60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown & Williamson, Jeff Wigand, won't talk to him. When the company leans hard on Wigand to honor a confidentiality agreement, he gets his back up. Trusting Bergman and despite a crumbling marriage, he goes on camera for a Mike Wallace interview and risks arrest for contempt of court... (imdb)
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Madeline: Lost in Paris (1999)
Summary: Madeline gets lost in Paris.
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Hidden Agenda (1998)
Summary: A young medical student travels to Berlin to investigate the apparent death of his brother and discovers a secret life of espionage, betrayal and murder at the highest levels. (imdb)
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Clown at Midnight, The (1998)
Summary: After Kate's friend Monica invites her to help clean up an old opera house where her mother was killed in a play she starred in, she is skeptical. But when the doors suddenly get locked from the outside, she has good reason to be. She starts having visions of her dead mother getting killed down in the basement and everyone starts to see a mysterious clown. When people start dying they decide that they have to get out quick. (imdb)
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Skeletons (1997)
Summary: A heart attack moves a Pulitzer winning journalist to leave NY for the peace of a small New England town, but he soon finds himself pulled into a case of a man accused of killing his gay lover with the blade of a shovel. Wanting to keep the case quiet, the town turns against the journalist and his family when he begins digging into its secrets, until finally the accused man is found hanging in his cell and the truth comes out about more than just the killing. (imdb)
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Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Summary: A big-city reporter travels to the small town where her mother has been arrested for the murder of an elderly woman that she works for as a maid. (imdb)
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12 Monkeys (1995)
Summary: Between sanity and madness, fantasy and reality, the past and the future, comes an adventure beyond imagination from Terry Gilliam, the acclaimed director of "The Fisher King." Penal colony prisoner James Cole (Willis) must travel back in time from the year 2035 to find the cause of a virus that killed five billion people in 1997. (Universal)
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Harrison Bergeron (1995)
Summary: In the United States of the future, everyone is made equally dumb through electronic headbands, and equally skilled at sports and ballet by handicapping the better players and performers with weights, on order of the Handicapper General. Art is banished, so noone can be jealous of anyone, and everyone is a happy consumer. Harrison Bergeron is however too smart to be limited by a headband, and so is inducted into the secret government that keeps things running.
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Wolf (1994)
Summary: Publisher Will Randall becomes a werewolf and has to fight to keep his job. (imdb)
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Ben-Hur: The Making of an Epic (1993)
Summary: This made-for-video documentary treats film fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Ben-Hur, a classic which has seen many incarnations on the silver screen, but perhaps most notably as William Wyler's 1959 epic. Includes footage from all three film versions of the tale, as well as discussion of the impact they had on later filmmakers. (imdb)
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Madeline in London (1991)
Summary: Madeline goes to London.
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Firehead (1991)
Summary: A government agent assigns a scientist to help one of his agents track down a Russian defector who is a cyborg. Meanwhile, an organization known as The Upper Order is plotting to take over the world by using the cyborg's powers. (imdb)
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Summary: The crews of the Enterprise and the Excelsior must stop a plot to prevent a peace treaty between the Klingon Empire and the Federation.
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Red Blooded American Girl (1990)
Summary: A young woman is transformed into a vampire by a virus. (imdb)
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Madeline's Christmas (1990)
Summary: Faced with a Christmas without Santa Claus or presents, Madeline finds the true spirit of Christmas - love and friendship - while reminding us to never give up on our wishes. Delightfully animated and filled with original songs, Madeline's Christmas will warm your heart on a cold winter's night. (VHS)
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Where the Heart Is (1990)
Summary: Stewart McBain (Coleman) is a real-estate mogul who spends his living blowing up old buildings to make room to erect new buildings. All goes as planned for a new subdivision, until a group of protesters object to the destruction of one lonely, ugly building, called the Dutch House. Typically, the media is sent to the scene of the protest, and McBain appears on TV in a bad way. (imdb)
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Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind, The (1988)
Summary: This is a documentary that revisits the making of Gone with the Wind with Archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage. (imdb)
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Nosferatu in Venice (1988)
Summary: A vampire hunter (Plummer) sails into Venice on a gondola seeking the undead one. He has been tracking him across the globe and is very close now to staking him where he lies before he is reawakened. Unfortunately he is revived by a seance and floats about the city, preying on aristocratic women and flamenco dancers looking for the look-alike descendant of a woman he once contaminated.
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Homme qui plantait des arbres, L' (1987)
Summary: This film tells the story of a shepard who repairs the ruined ecosystem of a secluded valley by singlehandedly cultivating a forest over a thirty year period. (imdb)
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Dragnet (1987)
Summary: The equally-straight-laced and "by the book" nephew of Joe Friday must work with his more laid-back partner to solve a mystery. (imdb)
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Boy in Blue, The (1986)
Summary: Based on the life of Ned Hanlan, the late-19th century Canadian sculler and world champion. Hanlan was one of the first scullers to successfully utilize the "sliding seat." (imdb)
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Dreamscape (1984)
Summary: A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some mechanical help... (imdb)
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Prototype (1983)
Summary: An intelligent android (Michael) constructed by a research team is taken outdoors and successfully passed off as human in a trial run. When the government hears of this, they order their own set of tests in Washington. When the project leader realizes the military want the android for a soldier, he can't accept it, and he and Michael go into hiding to avoid their clutches. (imdb)
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Scarlet and the Black, The (1983)
Summary: The true story of Vatican efforts, lead by Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, to save Allied POWs and downed Allied airman from Nazi imprisonment. Set in 1940's Rome, the film also explores the SS effort, lead by SS-Lieutenant Colonel Kapplar, to stop the Vatican's attempts. (imdb)
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The Thorn Birds (1983)
Summary: This mini series covers 60 years in the lives of the Cleary family, brought from New Zealand to Australia to run their aunt Mary Carson's ranch. The story centers on their daughter, Meggie, and her love for the family's priest, Father Ralph de Bricassart. Meggie tries to forget Ralph by marrying dashing stockman Luke O'Neill, but she and Ralph are soon reunited, with tragic consequences for them both.
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Eyewitness (1981)
Summary: Manhattan janitor Daryll Deever is fixated on hard-charging TV commentator, Tony Sokolow; he tapes her commentary daily to watch after work. When a wealthy Vietnamese man, with many shady connections, is murdered in the office building where Daryll works, Tony shows up to cover the story and Daryll introduce himself. She thinks he may know something, so she pursues him; he pretends he might to keep her interested... (imdb)
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Dial M for Murder (1981)
Summary: A London businessman concocts an intricate plan to murder his unfaithful wife for her money. (imdb)
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Amateur, The (1981)
Summary: A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath his wife's death. (imdb)
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Somewhere in Time (1980)
Summary: A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to find the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel. (imdb)
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Hanover Street (1979)
Summary: Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot. (imdb)
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Murder by Decree (1979)
Summary: Sherlock Holmes investigates London's most infamous case, Jack the Ripper. As he investigates, he finds that the Ripper has friends in high places. (imdb)
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Starcrash (1979)
Summary: Epic action in outer space when the good guys set out to track the evil Count's secret weapon. (imdb)
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Silent Partner, The (1978)
Summary: This is an imaginative plot, yet one with which the viewer can readily identify. A bank teller is held up at gun point in his bank. Luckily for him he receives a clue that this is going to occur and diverts most of the cash into his own safety deposit box, leaving only a nominal amount for the crook. The ruse works well, but for the fact that the crook resents the fact that he has been outsmarted...
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Disappearance, The (1977)
Summary: Thriller about a contract killer whose wife has disappeared. When he is hired by an international organization to carry out a "shy" or hit, he suspects they are connected with her disappearance. (imdb)
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Aces High (1976)
Summary: A naive young officer straight from school arrives on the Western front to fight the air war against the Germans. However, the life expectancy of green pilots is not very good. (imdb)
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Return of the Pink Panther, The (1975)
Summary: Inspector Clouseau is put on the case when the Pink Panther diamond is stolen, with the Phantom's trademark glove the only clue. (imdb)
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Man Who Would Be King, The (1975)
Summary: Two British soldiers in India are mistaken for gods. (imdb)
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Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
Summary: A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero is assaulted. A young officer must defend a fellow lieutenant from the charges in an unusual court-martial, while investigating the deepening mystery behind the attack. (imdb)
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Happy Prince, The (1974)
Summary: A statue of a prince sees all the bad things happening in his city. It makes friends with a swallow and together they try to help the poor and weak.
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Pyx, The (1973)
Summary: A detective investigating the death of a heroin-addicted prostitute uncovers evidence pointing to the existence of a murderous devil cult. (imdb)
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Waterloo (1970)
Summary: After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him... (imdb)
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Royal Hunt of the Sun, The (1969)
Summary: The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. But Pizarro finds himself torn between his desire for conquest and his sense of honor after friendship and respect develops between captive and captor. (imdb)
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High Commissioner, The (1968)
Summary: Rod Taylor plays a policeman sent to return a sensitive case; An Australian citizen, currently acting as high commissioner for peace talks who is wanted for an old charge -- of murder. The talks are too sensitive to be disturbed, so Taylor ends up watching Christopher Plummer as he conducts his talks, and discovers that some want the talks to fail enough to think that killing Plummer is an obvious way to stop them. (imdb)
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Night of the Generals, The (1967)
Summary: The murder of a prostitute in Nazi occupied Warsaw draws Wehrmacht Major Grau into an investigation where the evidence points to one of three high ranking Generals. The trail leads Grau from Warsaw to Paris and straight into the 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, of which two of the Generals are deeply involved. Grau's case goes unfinished and it is not until 1965 when the true killer is brought to justice. (imdb)
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Triple Cross (1966)
Summary: Loosely based on a true story, Christopher Plummer plays British bank robber Eddie Chapman who finds himself caught between the warring parties in WW2... (imdb)
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Sound of Music, The (1965)
Summary: A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to a Naval officer widower. (imdb)
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Inside Daisy Clover (1965)
Summary: Daisy Clover is a 15 year old Tomboy who dreams of being a Hollywood star. After auditioning for producer Raymond Swan of Swan studios she becomes the toast of Hollywood. Daisy must then come to terms with her new found fame and the 1930's Hollywood star treatment. (imdb)
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Fall of the Roman Empire, The (1964)
Summary: Action-packed look at the beginnings of the fall of the Roman Empire. Here is the glory, the greed and grandeur that was Rome. Here is the story of personal lust for power, and the shattering effects of that power's loss. Here is the tale of the plight of a people living on the brink of a political abyss.
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Wind Across the Everglades (1958)
Summary: In Florida at the end of the 1890s, teacher-turned-game warden Plummer takes on a gang of unruly, primitive poachers led by the Burl Ives, who are killing off the local rare birds for their fashionable, valuable plumage. (TimeOut London)
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Stage Struck (1958)
Summary: The movie tells the story of Eva, a girl who comes to New York in order to become a great actress. With hard work she succeeds in working at a theater and finally gets her chance on stage after a lot of changes and difficulties. (imdb)
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