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The Best Movies of 2005
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Movie: Batman Begins ( 2005 )
After training with his mentor, Batman begins his fight to free crime-ridden Gotham City from corruption.
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Movie: Constantine ( 2005 )
Supernatural exorcist and demonologist John Constantine helps a policewoman prove her sister's death was not a suicide, but something more.
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Movie: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire ( 2005 )
A young wizard finds himself competing in a hazardous tournament between rival schools of magic, but he is distracted by recurring nightmares.
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Movie: Sin City ( 2005 )
An exploration of the dark and miserable Basin City and three of its residents, all of whom are caught up in violent corruption.
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Movie: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ( 2005 )
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
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Movie: Pride & Prejudice ( 2005 )
Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice?
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Movie: War of the Worlds ( 2005 )
An alien invasion threatens the future of humanity. The catastrophic nightmare is depicted through the eyes of one American family fighting for survival.
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Movie: Wedding Crashers ( 2005 )
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.
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Movie: Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 )
The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys, and their lives over the years.
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Movie: King Kong ( 2005 )
A greedy film producer assembles a team of moviemakers and sets out for the infamous Skull Island, where they find more than just cannibalistic natives.
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Movie: Waiting... ( 2005 )
It's the dinner shift at Shenanigan's. Dan, the clueless boss, assigns Mitch, 22, a trainee, to Monty, the smooth talker who chases girls for one-night stands. Dean, a waiter, also 22, feels that life is passing him by. Dan offers him the assistant manager job and gives him until midnight to decide. Other waiters, cooks, and bus boys have their issues and personalities. Bishop, the dishwasher, is their counselor. During this shift, Monty may learn something, Dean makes his decision, Dan makes a play for the not-yet-18 hostess, customers get their comeuppance, the guys all play the in-house homophobic flashing game, the gals demonstrate why they won't, and Mitch gets the last word.
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Movie: V for Vendetta ( 2006 )
In a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman.
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Movie: The 40-Year-Old Virgin ( 2005 )
Goaded by his buddies, a nerdy guy who's never "done the deed" only finds the pressure mounting when he meets a single mother.
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Movie: Serenity ( 2005 )
The crew of the ship Serenity try to evade an assassin sent to recapture one of their members who is telepathic.
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Movie: Lie with Me ( 2006 )
An outgoing, sexually aggressive young woman meets and begins a torrid affair with an equally aggressive young man in which their affair begins to bring a strain on their personal lives.
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Movie: Kingdom of Heaven ( 2005 )
Balian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the Crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people.
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Movie: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe ( 2005 )
Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion.
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Movie: Fantastic Four ( 2005 )
A group of astronauts gain superpowers after a cosmic radiation exposure and must use them to oppose the plans of their enemy, Doctor Victor Von Doom.
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Movie: The Devil's Rejects ( 2005 )
The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who is not afraid of being as ruthless as his target.
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Movie: Hostel ( 2006 )
Three backpackers head to a Slovak city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
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Movie: Mr. & Mrs. Smith ( 2005 )
A bored married couple is surprised to learn that they are both assassins hired by competing agencies to kill each other.
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Movie: Just Friends ( 2005 )
While visiting his hometown during Christmas, a man comes face-to-face with his old high school crush whom he was best friends with -- a woman whose rejection of him turned him into a ferocious womanizer.
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Movie: Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith ( 2005 )
Three years into the Clone Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi pursues a new threat, while Anakin Skywalker is lured by Chancellor Palpatine into a sinister plot to rule the galaxy.
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Movie: Walk the Line ( 2005 )
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.
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Movie: The Descent ( 2006 )
A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.
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Movie: Madagascar ( 2005 )
A group of animals who have spent all their life in a New York zoo end up in the jungles of Madagascar, and must adjust to living in the wild.
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Movie: Hitch ( 2005 )
While helping his latest client woo the woman of his dreams, a professional "date doctor" finds that his game doesn't quite work on the gossip columnist with whom he's smitten.
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Movie: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ( 2005 )
Everyone has bad mornings. You wake up late, you stub your toe, you burn the toast, but for a man named Arthur Dent, this goes far beyond a bad day. When he learns that a friend of his is actually an alien with advanced knowledge of Earth's impending destruction, he is transported off the Earth seconds before it is blown up to make way for a new hyperspace motorway. And as if that's not enough, throw in being wanted by the Police, Earth II, an insane electronic encyclopedia, no tea whatsoever, a chronically depressed robot and the search for the meaning of life, and you've got the greatest adventure off Earth.
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Movie: Good Night, and Good Luck. ( 2005 )
Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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Movie: Four Brothers ( 2005 )
When their adoptive mother is gunned down in a store robbery, four brothers decide to investigate the murder and find the killers themselves, but not all is what it seems.
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Movie: Lords of Dogtown ( 2005 )
The film follows the surf and skateboarding trends that originated in Venice, California during the 1970's.
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Movie: The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D ( 2005 )
A young boy is recruited by his imaginary friends Sharkboy and Lavagirl to help save their planet.
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Movie: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants ( 2005 )
The movie is based on the young adult book, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Anne Brashares. As four best friends spend their first summer apart from one another, they share a magical pair of jeans. Despite being of various shapes and sizes, each one of them fits perfectly into the pants. To keep in touch they pass these pants to each other as well as the adventures they are going through while apart.
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Movie: Into the Blue ( 2005 )
Down on his luck and perpetually impecunious, the experienced deep-sea diver, Jared, and his theme-park guide girlfriend, Sam, lead an idyllic and simple life in the sun-drenched Bahamas. Dreaming of striking gold, the couple along with Jared's solicitor friend, Bryce, and his new lover, Amanda, set sails for the vast ocean on a rickety boat, to claim ownership of a sunken pirate treasure of inestimable value lying next to a wrecked fuselage crammed with watertight cocaine bricks. Before long, the temptation to get their hands on easy money will lead to a dangerous head-on collision with the murderous local drug lords, as the team gets sucked deeper and deeper into an unexpected adventure amid the blue and shark-infested Bahamian waters. But, will the sea give away its riches so easily?
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Movie: The Longest Yard ( 2005 )
Prison inmates form a football team to challenge the prison guards.
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Movie: The Dukes of Hazzard ( 2005 )
Cousins Bo, Luke, and Daisy Duke, and their uncle Jesse, egg on the authorities of Hazzard County, Boss Hogg and Sheriff Coltrane.
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Movie: The Wedding Date ( 2005 )
Single-girl anxiety causes Kat Ellis to hire a male escort to pose as her boyfriend at her sister's wedding. Her plan, an attempt to dupe her ex-fiancé, who dumped her a couple years prior, proves to be her undoing.
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Movie: Rent ( 2005 )
This is the film version of the Pulitzer and Tony Award winning musical about Bohemians in the East Village of New York City struggling with life, love and AIDS, and the impacts they have on America.
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Movie: The Amityville Horror ( 2005 )
In December 1975, George and Kathy Lutz along with their three children move into an elegant Long Island house. What they don't know is that the house was the site of a horrific mass murder a year before. They decide to keep the house and attempt to keep the horror in the past, but are now haunted by a murderous presence. This is until, George starts to behave weirdly and their daughter, Chelsea starts to see people. What follows is 28 days of sheer, unbridled terror for the family with demonic visions of the dead. Based on the true story of George and Kathy Lutz, The Amityville Horror remains one of the most horrifying haunted house stories ever told - because it actually happened.
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Movie: The Island ( 2005 )
A man living in a futuristic sterile colony begins to question his circumscribed existence when his friend is chosen to go to the Island, the last uncontaminated place on earth.
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Movie: Munich ( 2006 )
Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day.
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Movie: Broken Flowers ( 2005 )
As the extremely withdrawn Don Johnston is dumped by his latest woman, he receives an anonymous letter from a former lover informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him. A freelance sleuth neighbor moves Don to embark on a cross-country search for his old flames in search of answers.
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Movie: Nanny McPhee ( 2005 )
A governess uses magic to rein in the behavior of seven ne'er-do-well children in her charge.
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Movie: Coach Carter ( 2005 )
Controversy surrounds high school basketball coach Ken Carter after he benches his entire team for breaking their academic contract with him.
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Movie: Sky High ( 2005 )
Set in an era where superheroes are commonly known and accepted, young William Stronghold, the son of the Commander and Jetstream, tries to find a balance between being a normal teenager and an extraordinary being.
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Movie: Lord of War ( 2005 )
An arms dealer confronts the morality of his work as he is being chased by an INTERPOL Agent.
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Movie: Wolf Creek ( 2005 )
Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are plunged in a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture by a sadistic psychopathic local.
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Movie: Memoirs of a Geisha ( 2005 )
Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.
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Movie: Match Point ( 2005 )
At a turning point in his life, a former tennis pro falls for an actress who happens to be dating his friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law.
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Movie: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang ( 2005 )
A murder mystery brings together a private eye, a struggling actress, and a thief masquerading as an actor.
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Movie: A History of Violence ( 2005 )
A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.
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Movie: House of Wax ( 2005 )
Six friends are on their way to a football game. They decide to camp out for the night and continue driving the next day. The next day the friends find that they're having car troubles, so two of the friends accept a stranger's ride into a small town named Ambrose. The main attraction in Ambrose is the House of Wax. Except something is not right in this town, the wax figures are so realistic and the whole town is deserted - except for two murderous twin brothers. The six friends must fight to survive and escape from being the next exhibits in the House of Wax.
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Movie: Red Eye ( 2005 )
A woman is kidnapped by a stranger on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father, she is pulled into a plot to assist her captor in a political assassination.
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Movie: Zathura: A Space Adventure ( 2005 )
Two young brothers are drawn into an intergalactic adventure when their house is hurled through the depths of space by the magical board game they are playing.
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Movie: Sahara ( 2005 )
Master explorer Dirk Pitt goes on the adventure of a lifetime of seeking out a lost Civil War battleship known as the "Ship of Death" in the deserts of West Africa while helping a WHO doctor being hounded by a ruthless dictator.
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Movie: The Exorcism of Emily Rose ( 2005 )
A lawyer takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest who performed an exorcism on a young girl.
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Movie: Robots ( 2005 )
In a robot world, a young idealistic inventor travels to the big city to join his inspiration's company, only to find himself opposing its sinister new management.
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Movie: Elektra ( 2005 )
In the ultimate battle between good and evil stands a warrior who makes the choice that tips the balance. A strong, mysterious and a deadly sexy action heroine - a lethal synthesis of grace and power. Not long after recovering from seemingly mortal wounds, Elektra has severed all ties with the world, living only for her next assignment. But in an unexpected turn of events, she is forced to make a decision that can take her life in a new direction - or destroy her. Key players in Elektra's journey are Stick, a blind martial arts master responsible for Elektra's "resurrection," and Mark Miller and Abby Miller, a father and daughter on the run from The Hand, a powerful syndicate whose members practice the dark version of the martial art Kimagure.
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Movie: Brick ( 2006 )
A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
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Movie: Flightplan ( 2005 )
A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet, the child vanishes, and nobody will admit she was ever on the plane.
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Movie: Doom ( 2005 )
Space Marines are sent to investigate strange events at a research facility on Mars but find themselves at the mercy of genetically enhanced killing machines.
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Movie: Imagine Me & You ( 2006 )
Rachel is a nice girl who is going to marry Hector ('Heck'), her longtime boyfriend. While she is working on the wedding preparations she meets wedding-florist Luce and unexpectedly falls in love with her and discovers what having love feelings for another woman is like. Rachel meets Luce a few times, hiding it from her family, especially her mother Tessa who contracted Luce. At the same time Heck tries to win his in-laws' affections, especially father-in-law Ned, Rachel embarks on marriage and daily life with her husband, but her love and passion for Luce causes a secret affair between them and doubts in Rachel about the life she wants for herself.
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Movie: Cheaper by the Dozen 2 ( 2005 )
The Bakers, while on vacation, find themselves competing with a rival family of eight children.
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Movie: Survival Island ( 2006 )
Three people - a rich couple and a crew member - are shipwrecked on a tropical island and their subsequent fight for survival becomes even tougher when they begin to turn on each other.
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Movie: Jarhead ( 2005 )
A psychological study of Marine's state of mind during the Gulf War. Told through the eyes of a U.S. Marine sniper who struggles to cope with boredom, a sense of isolation, and other issues back home.
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Movie: Hard Candy ( 2006 )
A teenage girl raids a man's home in order to expose him under suspicion that he is a pedophile.
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Movie: Chicken Little ( 2005 )
After ruining his reputation with the town, a courageous chicken must come to the rescue of his fellow citizens when aliens start an invasion.
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Movie: Cinderella Man ( 2005 )
The story of James Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer who came back to become a champion and an inspiration in the 1930s.
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Movie: Æon Flux ( 2005 )
Aeon Flux is a mysterious assassin working for the Monicans, a group of rebels trying to overthrow the government. When she is sent on a mission to kill the Chairman, a whole new mystery is found.
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Movie: Revolver ( 2005 )
Gambler Jake Green enters into a game with potentially deadly consequences.
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Movie: The Pacifier ( 2005 )
Having recovered from wounds received in a failed rescue operation, Navy SEAL Shane Wolfe is handed a new assignment: Protect the five Plummer kids from enemies of their recently deceased father -- a government scientist whose top-secret experiment remains in the kids' house.
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Movie: Kinky Boots ( 2006 )
A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father's shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat.
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Movie: The Constant Gardener ( 2005 )
A widower is determined to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive secret involving his wife's murder, big business, and corporate corruption.
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Movie: Be Cool ( 2005 )
Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive on the way.
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Movie: Green Street Hooligans ( 2005 )
A wrongfully expelled Harvard undergrad moves to London, where he is introduced to the violent underworld of football hooliganism.
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Movie: Corpse Bride ( 2005 )
When a shy groom practices his wedding vows in the inadvertent presence of a deceased young woman, she rises from the grave assuming he has married her.
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Movie: Rumor Has It... ( 2005 )
Sarah Huttinger is a woman who learns that her family was the inspiration for the book and film "The Graduate" -- and that she just might be the offspring of the well-documented event.
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Movie: In Her Shoes ( 2005 )
Strait-laced Rose breaks off relations with her party girl sister, Maggie, over an indiscretion involving Rose's boyfriend. The chilly atmosphere is broken with the arrival of Ella, the grandmother neither sister knew existed.
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Movie: Saw II ( 2005 )
A detective and his team must rescue 8 people trapped in a factory by the twisted serial killer known as Jigsaw.
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Movie: Yours, Mine & Ours ( 2005 )
A widowed Coast Guard Admiral and a widow handbag designer fall in love and marry, much to the dismay of her 10 and his 8 children.
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Movie: The Notorious Bettie Page ( 2006 )
The life of Bettie Page, a 1950s pin-up model and one of the first sex icons in America, who became the target of a Senate investigation due to her risqué bondage photos.
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Movie: Transporter 2 ( 2005 )
Mercenary Frank Martin, who specializes moving goods of all kinds, surfaces again this time in Miami, Florida when he's implicated in the kidnapping of the young son of a powerful USA official.
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Movie: Syriana ( 2005 )
A politically charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved in and affected by it.
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Movie: An Unfinished Life ( 2005 )
Desperate to provide care for her daughter, down-on-her-luck Jean moves in with her father in-law from whom she is estranged. Through time, they learn to forgive each other and heal old wounds.
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Movie: The Brothers Grimm ( 2005 )
Will and Jake Grimm are traveling con-artists who encounter a genuine fairy-tale curse which requires true courage instead of their usual bogus exorcisms.
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Movie: Casanova ( 2006 )
The fabled romantic Giacomo Casanova, after failing to win the affection of the Venetian woman Francesca Bruni, strives to discover the real meaning of love.
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Movie: Hide and Seek ( 2005 )
As a widower tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide, his daughter finds solace, at first, in her imaginary friend.
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Movie: Capote ( 2006 )
In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.
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Movie: Hostage ( 2005 )
When a family is held hostage, former hostage negotiator Jeff Talley arrives at the scene. Talley's own family is kidnapped and Talley must decide which is more important: saving a family he doesn't even know or saving his own family.
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Movie: Son of the Mask ( 2005 )
Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist, finds himself in a predicament when his dog stumbles upon the mask of Loki. Then after conceiving an infant son "born of the mask", he discovers just how looney child raising can be.
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Movie: Hustle & Flow ( 2005 )
With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.
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Movie: Land of the Dead ( 2005 )
The living dead have taken over the world, and the last humans live in a walled city to protect themselves as they come to grips with the situation.
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Movie: The Quiet ( 2021 )
Following the death of her father, a teenage Dot moves into the home of her godparents and their teenage daughter Nina. Dot arrives wrapped up in the silence of being deaf. She finds a different kind of silence waiting for her in her new home, for this home is a place with a dark secret involving Nina and her father. At first, Dot and Nina seem to be polar opposites. However, they gradually realize how much they have in common. Bringing them together catalyzes a series of events in which both reveal their secrets and shed their double lives. A violent consummation almost destroys them. Yet they find hope for the future in the quiet after the storm.
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Movie: The Producers ( 2005 )
After putting together another Broadway flop, down-on-his-luck Producer Max Bialystock teams up with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick scheme to put on the world's worst show.
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Movie: The Squid and the Whale ( 2005 )
Follows two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.
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Movie: Thank You for Smoking ( 2006 )
Satirical comedy follows the machinations of Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who spins on behalf of cigarettes while trying to remain a role model for his twelve-year-old son.
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Movie: Derailed ( 2005 )
When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, the two must turn the tables on him to save their families.
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Movie: The Legend of Zorro ( 2005 )
Despite trying to keep his swashbuckling to a minimum, a threat to California's pending statehood causes the adventure-loving Don Alejandro de la Vega (Antonio Banderas) and his wife, Elena (Catherine Zeta-Jones), to take action.
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Movie: Domino ( 2005 )
A recounting of Domino Harvey's life story. The daughter of actor Laurence Harvey turned away from her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter.
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Movie: The Greatest Game Ever Played ( 2005 )
Near the turn of the twentieth century, young Harry Vardon becomes a champion golfer but learns that his amazing skill is no match for the class boundaries that exclude him from "gentlemanly" English society. A dozen years later, a young American, Francis Ouimet, fights against the same prejudice, as well as his own father's disdain, for a chance to participate in the U.S. Open against his idol -- Harry Vardon. The struggles of both men for acceptance provides the background for an amazing contest of skills.