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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)

Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Cleese, John | Rickman, Alan | Grint, Rupert | Watson, Emma | Radcliffe, Daniel | Smith, Maggie | Coltrane, Robbie | Triplets, Saunders | Harris, Richard | Shaw, Fiona | Melling, Harry | Griffiths, Richard | Deadman, Derek | Hart, Ian | Borowiecki, Ben | Davis, Warwick | Troyer, Verne | Hurt, John | Bremmer, Richard
Directors: Columbus, Chris
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is the first film in the Harry Potter series based off the novels by J.K. Rowling. It is the tale of Harry Potter, an ordinary 11-year-old boy serving as a sort of slave for his aunt and uncle who learns that he is actually a wizard and has been invited to attend the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is snatched away from his mundane existence by Hagrid, the grounds keeper for Hogwarts, and quickly thrown into a world completely foreign to both him and the viewer. Famous for an incident that happened at his birth, Harry makes friends easily at his new school. He soon finds, however, that the wizarding world is far more dangerous for him than he would have imagined, and he quickly learns that not all wizards are ones to be trusted.

Dead Poets Society (1989)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Williams, Robin | Leonard, Robert Sean | Hawke, Ethan | Charles, Josh | Hansen, Gale | Kussman, Dylan | Ruggiero, Allelon | Waterston, James | Lloyd, Norman | Smith, Kurtwood | Belver, Carla | Pownall, Leon | Martin, George | Aufiery, Joe | Carey, Matt
Directors: Weir, Peter
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Painfully shy Todd Anderson has been sent to the school where his popular older brother was valedictorian. His room-mate, Neil, although exceedingly bright and popular, is very much under the thumb of his overbearing father. The two, along with their other friends, meet Professor Keating, their new English teacher, who tells them of the Dead Poets Society, and encourages them to go against the status quo. Each, in their own way, does this, and are changed for life.

Carry on Camping (1969)

Monday, March 31st, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: James, Sid | Hawtrey, Charles | Sims, Joan | Williams, Kenneth | Scott, Terry | Windsor, Barbara | Jacques, Hattie | Bresslaw, Bernard | Holloway, Julian | Laye, Dilys | Butterworth, Peter | Marsden, Betty | Noble, Trisha | Oulton, Brian | Bayntun, Amelia
Directors: Thomas, Gerald
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Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their girlfriends Joan and Anthea. The boys suggest a camping holiday, secretly intending to take them to a nudist camp. Of course they end up in the wrong place, and meet up with the weirdest bunch of campers you can imagine! Coach loads of sex-starved schoolgirls and bands of hippies all add to the laughs.

Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)

Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Myers, Mike | Knowles, Beyoncé | Green, Seth | York, Michael | Wagner, Robert | Sterling, Mindy | Troyer, Verne | Caine, Michael | Savage, Fred | Mizota, Diane | Inaba, Carrie Ann | Matsuhisa, Nobu | Himelstein, Aaron | Zuckerman, Josh | Adams, Eddie
Directors: Roach, Jay
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He’s found his mojo, baby, and now Austin Powers (Mike Myers) is back again in this shagadelic comedy-adventure! The “sshhh!” hits the fan when Dr. Evil and Mini-Me escape from prison. Joining forces with the superfreaky Goldmember, they kidnap Austin’s father, master spy Nigel Powers (Michael Caine), in a dastardly time-travel scheme to take over the world. Before you can say “Shake Your Booty,” Austin cruises to 1975 and teams up with sexy Foxxy Cleopatra (Beyonce Knowles) to stop Dr. Evil and Goldmember from their mischievous mayhem. With Michael York, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, Mindy Sterling and Verne J. Troyer.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

Monday, November 12th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Radcliffe, Daniel | Grint, Rupert | Watson, Emma | Bonham Carter, Helena | Coltrane, Robbie | Fiennes, Ralph | Gambon, Michael | Gleeson, Brendan | Griffiths, Richard | Isaacs, Jason | Oldman, Gary | Rickman, Alan | Shaw, Fiona | Smith, Maggie | Staunton, Imelda
Directors: Yates, David
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Harry is about to start his fifth year at Hogwarts. He’s desperate to get back to school and find out why his friends Ron and Hermoine have been so secretive all summer. However, what Harry is about to discover in his new year at Hogwarts will turn his world upside down….

Leon (Professional, The) (1994)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France
Actors: Reno, Jean | Oldman, Gary | Portman, Natalie | Aiello, Danny | Appel, Peter | Blood, Willi One | Creech, Don | Glascoe, Keith A. | Scott, Alan Randolph | Badalucco, Michael | Greene, Ellen | Regen, Elizabeth | Matusovich, Carl J. | Senger, Frank | Cherokee, Lucius Wyatt
Directors: Besson, Luc
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Mathilda, a twelve-year old New York girl, is living an undesirable life among her half-family. Her father stores drugs for two-faced cop Norman Stansfield. Only her little brother keeps Mathilda from breaking apart. One day, Stansfield and his team take cruel revenge on her father for stretching the drugs a little, thus killing the whole family. Only Mathilda, who was out shopping, survives by finding shelter in Léon’s apartment in the moment of highest need. Soon, she finds out about the strange neighbour’s unusual profession - killing - and desperately seeks his help in taking revenge for her little brother. Léon, who is completely unexperienced in fatherly tasks, and in friendships, does his best to keep Mathilda out of trouble - unsuccessfully. Now, the conflict between a killer, who slowly discovers his abilities to live, to feel, to love and a corrupt police officer, who does anything in his might to get rid of an eye witness, arises to unmeasurable proportions - all for the sake of a little twelve-year old girl, who has nearly nothing to lose.

Epic Movie (2007)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Penn, Kal | Campbell, Adam | Coolidge, Jennifer | Mays, Jayma | Chambers, Faune A. | Glover, Crispin | Cox, Tony | Jiménez, Héctor | Hammond, Darrell | Electra, Carmen | Willard, Fred | Carradine, David | Lehre, David | McDonald, Kevin | Alvarez, George
Directors: Friedberg, Jason
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The twisted minds of two of the six writers of “Scary Movie” tackle the biggest mega-blockbusters of all time in “Epic Movie.” The story centers on four not-so-young orphans: one raised by a curator at the Louvre (where an albino assassin lurks), another a refugee from Mexican “libre” wrestling, the third a recent victim of snakes on her plane, and the fourth a “normal” resident of a mutant “X”-community. The hapless quartet visits a chocolate factory, where they stumble into an enchanted wardrobe that transports them to the land of Gnarnia (with a “G”). There they meet a flamboyant pirate captain and earnest students of wizardry - and join forces with, among others, a wise-but-horny lion to defeat the evil White Bitch of Gnarnia.

Evelyn (2002)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: Germany | Ireland | UK | USA
Actors: Vavasseur, Sophie | Beagan, Niall | McDonagh, Hugh | Brosnan, Pierce | Devlin, Mairead | Kelly, Frank | Mullan, Claire | Lucchesi, Alvaro | Keogh, Garrett | O'Suilleabhain, Daithi | Irvine, Andrea | Quinn, Marian | Ardiff, Karen | Margulies, Julianna | Hogan, Bosco
Directors: Beresford, Bruce
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Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that his is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages. Although a sympathetic judge assures Desmond that when his financial situation reverses, he will be able to get his children back; money is hard to come by. During that time, Evelyn and her brothers suffer the abuses of living in orphanages while Desmond struggles to secure finances. Now he must battle the courts to get his children back.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Sykes, Eric | Spall, Timothy | Tennant, David | Radcliffe, Daniel | Watson, Emma | Grint, Rupert | Williams, Mark | Phelps, James | Phelps, Oliver | Wright, Bonnie | Rawle, Jeff | Pattinson, Robert | Isaacs, Jason | Felton, Tom | Ianevski, Stanislav
Directors: Newell, Mike
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Harry’s fourth summer and the following year at Hogwarts are marked by the Quidditch World Cup and the Triwizard Tournament, in which student representatives from three different wizarding schools compete in a series of increasingly challenging contests. However, Voldemort’s Death Eaters are gaining strength and even creating the Dark Mark giving evidence that the Dark Lord is ready to rise again. In the unsuspecting lives of the young wizard and witches at Hogwarts the competitors are selected by the goblet of fire, which this year makes a very surprising announcement: Hogwarts will have two representatives in the tournament, including Harry Potter! Will Harry be able to rise to the challenge for the Tri Wizard Tournament while keeping up with school or will the challenges along with Voldemort’s rebirth be too much for the young hero?

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Radcliffe, Daniel | Griffiths, Richard | Ferris, Pam | Shaw, Fiona | Melling, Harry | Rawlins, Adrian | Somerville, Geraldine | Ingleby, Lee | Henry, Lenny | Gardner, Jimmy | Oldman, Gary | Tavaré, Jim | Hardy, Robert | Ford, Abby | Grint, Rupert
Directors: Columbus, Chris | Cuarón, Alfonso
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It’s Harry’s 3rd Year at Hogwarts, not only does he have a new “Defense against the Dark-Arts” teacher, but there is also trouble brewing. Convicted murderer Sirius Black has escaped the Wizards Prison, is coming after Harry.