Movies by keyword reporter
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Godzilla
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 1998, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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Following the French atomic bomb tests in the South Pacific, an unknown creature is spotted passing eastward through the Panama Canal. Scientist Niko Tatopolous is called in to investigate the matter, and he quickly arrives at the conclusion that a giant, irradiated lizard has been created by the explosions. Godzilla then makes its way north, landing at Manhattan to begin wreaking havoc in the big city. Even with the combined forces of the U.S. military to fight the monster, will it be enough to save the people of New York?
Die Hard
Action / Crime / Thriller , produced in 1988, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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John McClane (Willis) is a cop from New York City who is on his way to Los Angeles to see his kids and his wife Holly (Bedelia), who moved to LA because of a job at the Nakatomi Corporation. When he arrives at Nakatomi Plaza, he meets Holly's boss Joe Takagi and her co-worker Harry Ellis. He and Holly go into a private bathroom and get into an argument. When Holly leaves to give a speech, thirteen armed terrorists lead by Hans Gruber (Rickman) seize control of the building and take the occupants of the 30th floor, who are the only ones left in the building, hostage. Luckily, they missed John since he was in the bathroom. He sneaks out and witnesses Gruber kill Takagi. He goes to floor 32 and pulls the fire alarm, but the terrorists cancel the alarm and send someone up to kill John. However, he kills the terrorist and steals his machine gun. Now he has to kill the rest of the terrorists and save the hostages before the terrorists get their way.
Once Upon a Time in America
Crime / Drama , produced in 1984, Italy, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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Epic, episodic, tale of the lives of a small group of New York City Jewish gangsters spanning over 40 years. Told mostly in flashbacks and flash-forwards, the movie centers on small-time hood David 'Noodles' Aaronson and his lifelong partners in crime; Max, Cockeye and Patsy and their friends from growing up in the rough Jewish neighborhood of New York's Lower East Side in the 1920s, to the last years of Prohibition in the early 1930s, and then to the late 1960s where an elderly Noodles returns to New York after many years in hiding to look into the past.
Hitch
Comedy / Romance , produced in 2005, USA , added: 30 Jun 2005
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Alex Hitchens (Will Smith) is a clandestine specialist of an unusual and delicate profession. He helps shy men to date their dream's women, and now he works to help clumsy Albert, who is exactly a very shy person craving for the attention of wealthy and smooth Allegra Cole (Amber Valletta). Ambitious and charismatic Hitch is pretty sure that only three dates should be always enough to win over the every girl's heart. Suddenly Hitch falls for the gossip journalist Sara (Eva Mendes), who was recently assigned to write a story about Allegra. Sara is close to uncover the date machinations and to back the mysterious pander against the wall. This luminous romantic comedy will help you to take a new look at the sexes' relationships.
Deep Impact
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 1998, USA , added: 04 Sep 2006
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What would you do if you knew that a gigantic comet was about to slam into the earth and wipe out all life? President of the United States, Tom Beck (Morgan Freeman), announces to the world that there is only one year left before the fatal collision. He gives an order to a team of astronauts to travel to the comet and use nuclear bombs to blow it to bits. Unfortunately, the explosion only splits the comet into two halves. Then the president declares martial law and informs that one million Americans can take shelter in underground caverns. Two hundred people will be chosen for their intellectual value, others will be selected by a national lottery.
Spider-Man 2
Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2004, USA , added: 18 Dec 2006
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Peter Parker's double life annoys him. Being Spiderman has brought nothing but problems with his personal life. He walked away from his longtime love Mary Jane Watson and balancing his dual identities as the mysterious superhero Spider-Man being and a college student's life. He even wants to cease his Spiderman practice, until a scientific accident transforms Dr. Otto Octavius into Dr. Octopus, a super-villain with four metal tentacles. Peter, at times noticing he's losing some of his powers, learns to accept his fate and realizes he must decide between being who he once was or retaining his secret identity to stop diabolical Dr. Octopus and save New York City.
The Omen
Horror / Thriller , produced in 2006, USA , added: 22 Aug 2007
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American diplomat Robert Thorn (Liev Schreiber) and his young wife Katherine (Julia Stiles) wait expectantly for the birth of their first kid. But events take a tragic turn in the delivery room: Katherine loses a baby, and worst of all, she will not have another pregnancy due to womb damage. In order to avoid traumatizing his wife, Robert takes a baby boy whose mother died in childbirth and presents him as his own. The local priest who encouraged Robert to make a substitution convinces him that it is a pious fraud and so the lord will forgive him for his sin. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions: Damien (Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick) might be the little Antichrist who grows older and stronger under the ideal nanny’s supervision...
Superman Returns
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi , produced in 2006, Australia, USA , added: 04 Dec 2006
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After a long period in the space, looking for the remains of planet Krypton, Superman returns to Earth. He misses Lois Lane, who lives with Richard White and has a son. Meanwhile, Lex Luthor plots an evil plan, using crystals he stole from the Fortress of Solitude, to create a new land and submerge the USA.
Cars
Animation / Comedy / Family / Sport , produced in 2006, USA , added: 22 Aug 2007
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The animated movie revolves around a successful but arrogant race car, Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson), who is used to fame, floodlights, crowds of groupies and a high-speed life. En route to California for the tie-break of the Piston Cup against two skilled opponents, Chick Hicks (Michael Keaton) and The King (Richard Petty), the indomitable McQueen unexpectedly runs astray in the small remote town of Radiator Springs on Route 66. After destroying the town’s main road, Lightning is sentenced to community service by the local judge Doc Hudson (Paul Newman). Stuck in the godforsaken town, he eventually makes friends with its nice inhabitants, an attractive Porsche attorney, Sally Carerra (Bonnie Hunt); a rusty wrecker tow truck, Mater (Larry the Cable Guy); a tire shop owner, Luigi (Tony Shalhoub), and many others. They open his eyes to a whole new world and help him understand the true meaning of life that there are more important and worthier things than fame and fortune.
The Hunting Party
Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Thriller , produced in 2007, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, USA , added: 17 Jan 2008
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In this spectacular political thriller, ace journalist Simon Hunt (Richard Gere) and his cameraman Duck (Terrence Howard) have worked together in many hot spots on the planet, covering war atrocities in Iraq, Somalia, El Salvador, etc. But Hunt's career spirals downhill after he suffers a breakdown during a live report from Bosnia. Five years later, Hunt happens to meet Duck in Sarajevo and convinces him to shoot an interview with Radovan "The Fox" Karadzic (Liubomir Kerekes), the no. 1 Bosnian war criminal. Wanting actually revenge on The Fox for his girlfriend's murder, Simon leads Duck and fresh young journalist Benjamin (Jesse Eisenberg) deep into Serb territory to capture the elusive criminal. The three unexpectedly quickly track him down. However, things go horribly awry...
In Cold Blood
Crime / Drama , produced in 1967, USA , added: 31 Jan 2008
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Based on Truman Capote's novel, the powerful crime drama relates a true story of the gruesome murder of an entire family in the rural town of Holcomb, Kansas. Ex-cons and homeless drifters, Perry Smith (Robert Blake) and Richard Hickock (Scott Wilson) learn from their inmate that the Clutters keep $10,000 in a safe in their farmhouse. After breaking in the house and finding no money, the criminals torture and brutally kill Mr. (John McLiam) and Ms. Clutter (Ruth Storey) and their two teenage kids. Perry and Dick leave the crime scene with only $43 and flee to Mexico, but they eventually return to the United States. The murderers make the mistake of cashing bad checks and end up arrested and sentenced to death.
Man on Fire
Action / Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller , produced in 2004, Mexico, UK, USA , added: 24 Dec 2007
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Wealthy residents of Mexico City are seized with panic as there were twenty-four cases of kidnapping in a six-day period. Terrified to death, many parents hire bodyguards for their offsprings. Former government operative John Creasy (Denzel Washington) reluctantly agrees to take a job as a bodyguard for Pita (Dakota Fanning), a nine-year-old daughter of industrialist Samuel Ramos (Marc Anthony). At first the cold Creasy can hardly tolerate the precocious kid but Pita gradually warms up his heart toward her and they become friends. When the girl is kidnapped, Creasy starts to take vengeance on each one involved in the abduction.
Hot Fuzz
Action / Comedy / Crime / Mystery , produced in 2007, France, UK , added: 25 Dec 2007
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When jealous superior officers transfer London's successful constable Nicholas Angel (Simon Pegg) to the remote sleepy town of Sandford, he tries to accommodate himself to a seemingly crime-free life in the village as well as to his oafish partner, Danny Butterman(Nick Frost). However, a series of ghastly crimes that rocks the town make Nicholas realize that Sandford is not what it seems at first glance. Angel and the overzealous Butterman set out to solve the murder cases.
Lions for Lambs
Drama / Thriller / War , produced in 2007, USA , added: 26 Feb 2008
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Two students inspired by their professor Dr Malley (Robert Redford) join the war in Afghanistan to change their lives while Malley tries to reach another enlightened but apathetic student. Meanwhile, Senator Jasper Irving (Tom Cruise), the Republican presidential hopeful, meets Janine Roth (Meryl Streep), a TV journalist, to announce the new war strategy in Afghanistan. All the characters, their actions and decisions turn out to be closely connected.
The Dead Pool
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller , produced in 1988, USA , added: 26 Jun 2008
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After Harry's arrest of a gambling kingpin results in a conviction for murder, a group of thugs shoot up Harry's car and try to kill him. Harry overpowers them and is paired with a new partner, Insp. Al Quan (Evan Kim). Within days of this assignment Harry and Al find themselves working on a mysterious death of a rock star, who was on location filming a movie directed by Peter Swan (Liam Neeson). After one of Swan's crew is killed in a Chinatown robbery that is foiled by Al & Harry, Al discovers a list of celebrities on the dead man that includes the dead rock star and one Inspector Harry Callahan. They soon discover that this is part of a strange game called the Dead Pool, and it isn't long before other people on the list turn up dead...and someone starts making attempts on Harry's life...
Leatherheads
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Sport , produced in 2008, USA , added: 04 Aug 2008
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A romantic comedy set against the backdrop of America's nascent pro-football league in 1925. Dodge Connolly, a charming, brash football hero, is determined to guide his team from bar brawls to packed stadiums. But after the players lose their sponsor and the entire league faces certain collapse, Dodge convinces a college football star to join his ragtag ranks. The captain hopes his latest move will help the struggling sport finally capture the country's attention. Welcome to the team Carter Rutherford, America's favorite son. A golden-boy war hero who single-handedly forced multiple German soldiers to surrender in WWI, Carter has dashing good looks and unparalleled speed on the field. This new champ is almost too good to be true, and Lexie Littleton aims to prove that's the case. A cub journalist playing in the big leagues, Lexie is a spitfire newswoman who suspects there are holes in Carter's war story. But while she digs, the two teammates start to become serious off-field rivals for her fickle affections. As the new game of pro-football becomes less like the freewheeling sport he knew and loved, Dodge must both fight to keep his guys together and to get the girl of his dreams. Finding that love and football have a surprisingly similar playbook, however, he has one maneuver he will save just for the fourth quarter...
Chicago
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Musical , produced in 2002, Germany, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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Roxie Hart is a married chorus girl with hopes of being a headliner in Vaudeville. Velma Kelly is a former headliner. What do these two have in common? They both are murderesses. Roxie killed her lover when he walked out on her, and Velma killed her husband and sister, who were having an affair. Chicago's newspapers love the nitty-gritty and Velma is at the top of the headlines. But then Roxie comes along and Velma is old news. They find themselves competing for not only the press' attention, but also the focus of their shared lawyer, the suave Billy Flynn. Add to the mix a sob sister, Roxie's hapless husband Amos, and a warm prison matron who watches out for her girls (if there's something in it for her), and you have Chicago.
Damien: Omen II
Drama / Horror / Thriller , produced in 1978, USA , added: 25 Mar 2005
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Seven years later, 13-year-old Damien is just discovering who he really is, and what he is destined to do. Now living with his Aunt, Uncle, and cousin in a wealthy suburb of Chicago, Damien is anxious to inherit everything. Can Richard Thorn finish the job that Damien's father (Ambassador Thorn) started?
Daredevil
Action / Crime / Fantasy / Thriller , produced in 2003, USA , added: 23 Jun 2006
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By day, Matt Murdock (Ben Affleck) represents as a Hell's Kitchen defense attorney. By night Matt becomes Daredevil, a man with no fear, fighting for justice in the dark streets of the city. Wearing a red leather suit and mask, Daredevil skips from high skyscrapers to pursue his enemies with his radar-like vision. The radioactive chemical accident left Matt blind but also granted him a "radar sense" which, combined with his superhuman senses of hearing, smell, taste and touch, allows him to perceive his environment far better than a sighted person. He is able to distinguish individuals by their natural odors, to sense a human body at a long distance, his heartbeat, blood circulation, to react to physical movements, etc. Daredevil’s enemies include Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, the biggest crime lord in New York, involved in extensive illegal activities such as drug running, smuggling, murder and dozens of other crimes. "Kingpin" is determined to hold the post of Mayor of New York but there is just one hitch. It is Daredevil who attempts to hamper him. Wanting to kill Daredevil standing in his way, Kingpin recruits psychotic killer Bullseye (Colin Farrell) who is famous for his targeting skills. Daredevil fights their powerful forces alone, until he meets Elektra Natchios (Jennifer Garner), a skilled martial artist and sexy superheroine who believes Daredevil to be responsible for her father's death and wants to take revenge on him. Sparks fly between the two heroes in this action-packed adventure fantasy.
D-War
Action / Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller , produced in 2007, South Korea , added: 04 Feb 2008
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According to an old Korean legend, monstrous snake-like creatures called Imoogi will return and lay waste the Earth. Ethan Kendrick (Jason Behr), a TV reporter assigned to investigate the case, discovers that a Los Angeles-based young woman named Sarah Daniels (Amanda Brooks), who bears a red dragon-shaped mark on her shoulder and possesses mystical power, may hold the key to saving the world from destruction. He sets out to seek the girl before it is too late...
Iron Man
Action / Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2008, USA , added: 08 Sep 2008
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Tony Stark is the complete playboy who also happens to be an engineering genius. While in Afghanistan demonstrating a new missile he's captured and wounded. His captors want him to assemble a missile for them but instead he creates an armored suit and a means to prevent his death from the shrapnel left in his chest by the attack. He uses the armored suit to escape. Back in the U.S. he announces his company will cease making weapons and he begins work on an updated armored suit only to find that Obadiah Stane, his second in command at Stark industries has been selling Stark weapons to the insurgents. He uses his new suit to return to Afghanistan to destroy the arms and then to stop Shane from misusing his research.
The Godfather: Part III
Action / Drama / Thriller , produced in 1990, USA , added: 13 Sep 2006
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In the final instalment of the Godfather Trilogy, an aging Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimize his crime family's interests and remove himself from the violent underworld but is kept back by the ambitions of the young. While he attempts to link the Corleone's finances with the Vatican, Michael must deal with the machinations of a hungrier gangster seeking to upset the existing Mafioso order and a young protoge's love affair with his daughter.
Gothika
Horror / Mystery / Thriller , produced in 2003, USA , added: 09 Dec 2004
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A prominent criminal psychiatrist, Dr. Miranda Grey (Hale Berry), awakens to find herself a patient in her own asylum for the criminally insane. With no recollection of how and why she was locked there, the woman is shocked to learn that she murdered her husband, Dr. Douglas Grey (Charles S. Dutton), the hospital's administrator, in a fit of madness. Miranda begins reconstructing the fateful night bit by bit, and comes to remember that she had a horrific car accident after trying to avoid running into an enigmatic young woman in the middle of the road in the dead of night. The girl named Rachel Parsons (Kathleen Mackey) is in fact dead for several years. Struggling to regain her freedom and her memory, Miranda comes to realize that she is a victim to the vengeful ghost of the girl who insidiously uses her body and manipulates her.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Action / Adventure / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller , produced in 2004, Italy, UK, USA , added: 18 Jul 2005
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Polly Perkins (Gwyneth Paltrow), Chronicle reporter along with ace aviator Sky Captain are on the investigation as the many famous scientists around the world have mysteriously disappeared in 1930s. As they travel to a variety of exotic places around the globe and risking their lives, the fearless duo attempts to stop Dr. Totenkopf, the evil mastermind laying a plot to destroy the Earth. It begins when New York is under attack by robots and alien-looking space craft. Angelina Jolie co-stars as the charming Captain Franky Cook, commander of an all-female amphibious squadron, in this action-packed blockbuster abundant with plenty of innovative special effects. Giovanni Ribisi appears as Dex, an extraordinary technical genius, who have joined the duo in hopes of saving the planet before it's too late.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Adventure / Comedy / Family / Fantasy , produced in 2005, USA , added: 14 Jul 2006
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Charlie loves chocolate, but he comes from a needy family and can’t afford even a little bit of the desired sweet. His penniless, but loving family lives by the walls of the mysterious Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, and the last thing Charlie sees falling asleep is the magic building. He is dreaming about the secrets, hidden inside this amazing building of the most celebrating candy company. Eventually, he gets a chance to take there. While the Wonka's confectionery plant is usually closed to any visitors, the candy man who is famously living in seclusion decides to let the only five pleased children in to see the inside of his manufacture by placing five desired "golden tickets" in five different chocolate bars. Along with four other children, Charlie explores the astonishing world of the eccentric Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp). A really amazing movie, for Johnny Depp it’s just another film of a chocolate theme and another perfect role.
The Killing Fields
Drama / History / War , produced in 1984, UK , added: 12 Sep 2006
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Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist convering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the Americans forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Schanberg cover the event. As an American, Schanberg won't have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran; he's a local, and the Khmer Rouge are moving in.
Lawrence of Arabia
Adventure / Biography / Drama / War , produced in 1962, UK , added: 12 Sep 2006
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T. E. Lawrence is a young maladjusted lieutenant in the British Army in North Africa during World War One. Unhappy with his current assignment coloring maps, he is ecstatic when he is offered a job as an observer in what is now Arabia. At this point, the story of his life becomes the stuff that legends are made of.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Adventure / Fantasy / Mystery / Thriller , produced in 2005, UK, USA , added: 30 Nov 2006
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At his fourth summer at the Hogwarts Harry has grown into a strapping teen, his legendary scar aches more and more. Everybody in the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry gets ready for the soon to be held Triwizard Tournament. The Goblet of Fire judges who will participate in the Tournament and who will not, three competitors should be selected. Suddenly the Goblet points at the fourth contestant – Harry Potter. Four magicians should stand three trials: the battle with the dragon, rescue a friend from the lake depths, and, finally, find the Goblet of fire hidden inside the labyrinth to win it. Meanwhile, Voldemort’s followers are preparing the reappear of the dark lord.
Quarantine
Horror / Mystery / Thriller , produced in 2008, USA , added: 10 Feb 2009
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A small apartment building in the middle of Los Angeles is cordoned off by police officers, firemen and sanitary inspectors. They hear wild screams coming from one of the apartments but nobody knows what is going on there. News reporter Angela Vidal (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman, Scott Percival (Steve Harris), find themselves inside the building making a usual video for TV. Danger and fear inscrease every minute and the news crew must escape the trap to show the world what has really happened inside the quarantine zone.
Bruce Almighty
Comedy / Fantasy / Romance , produced in 2003, USA , added: 24 Aug 2004
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Bruce is a down on his luck TV news reporter. In a fit of desperation he challenges God and vents that if only he had God's power, he could solve all his problems. God responds to his challenge and allows Bruce to take on his powers to prove himself. Bruce soon learns that being God is very challenging.
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