Family Plot
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Lighthearted suspense film about a phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend who encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
Movies February 2008 archive
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Down in the Valley
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Set in the present-day San Fernando Valley, the project revolves around a delusional man who believes he’s a cowboy and the relationship that he starts with a rebellious young woman.
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Romance & Cigarettes
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A down-and-dirty musical set in the world of working-class New York, tells a story of a husband’s journey into infidelity and redemption when he must choose between his seductive mistress and his beleaguered wife.
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Be Kind Rewind
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A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend’s video store. In order to satisfy the store’s most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films, which include Ghost Busters, The Lion King, and Robocop.
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Waz
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A calculating killer coerces a detective to pay for his previous mistakes.
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The Bucket List
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Two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.
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Saboteur
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Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane goes on the run across the United States when he is wrongly accused of starting a fire that killed his best friend.
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Stage Fright
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A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he’s accused of murdering the husband of a high society entertainer.
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Pulse
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Japanese teens investigate a series of suicides linked to an internet webcam that promises visitors the chance to interact with the dead.
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Dial 'M' for Murder
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An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B.
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Shadow of a Doubt
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Young Charlie Newton not only shares a name with her favorite uncle, but a special bond. At times she feels the charming man is the only one who understands her need to be extraordinary and that she is better than the tiny town she lives in. So, when life is too dull she calls on him to visit. However, upon the arrival of two detectives, one of whom becomes very close to young Charlie, and a series of unusual clues concerning the mysterious ‘Merry Widow Murderer’, her Uncle Charlie’s behavior begins to change. Young Charlie starts to suspect that the man she once idolised is not what he seems and as her world shatters, she realizes that her life may be in danger.
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I Confess
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Refusing to give into police investigators’ questions of suspicion, due to the seal of confession, a priest becomes the prime suspect in a murder.
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You Kill Me
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While drying out on the west coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tounged woman who might just come in handy when it’s time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.
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Juno
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Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.
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Jumper
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A genetic anomaly allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between “Jumpers” and those who have sworn to kill them.
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All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
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A group of high schoolers invite Mandy Lane (Amber Heard), a good girl who became quite hot over the summer, to a weekend party on a secluded ranch. While the festivities rage on, the number of revelers begins to drop quite mysteriously.
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North by Northwest
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A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.
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Marnie
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Mark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
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A family vacationing in Morocco accidentally stumble on to an assassination plot and the conspirators are determined to prevent them from interfering.
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Strangers on a Train
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A psychotic socialite confronts a pro tennis star with a theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder… a theory which he plans to implement.
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Frenzy
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A serial killer is murdering London women with a necktie. The police have a suspect… but he’s the wrong man.
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The Birds
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A wealthy San Francisco playgirl pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people there in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness.
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Rear Window
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A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
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Rope
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Two young men strangle their “inferior” classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the “perfection” of their crime.
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Vertigo
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A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend’s wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
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Psycho
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A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer’s client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother.
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Tsotsi
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In Johannesburg, the small time criminal Tsotsi is a teenager without feelings, hardened by his tough life. After killing a man with his gang in a robbery; hitting the gangster Boston of his gang; humiliating a crippled beggar along one night, Tsotsi hijacks a car and under the despair of a woman, he shots her in the stomach. While driving the car, Tsotsi finds that there is a baby on the back seat and the woman was a desperate mother. He brings the baby to his house in the slum and becomes attached to him. For six days, the baby changes his behavior, arousing and developing the sense of empathy and humanity in the cold blood killer.
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2046
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He was a writer. He thought he wrote about the future but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a while. Everyone who went there had the same intention to recapture their lost memories. It was said that in 2046, nothing ever changed. Nobody knew for sure if it was true, because nobody who went there had ever come back - except for one. He was there. He chose to leave. He wanted to change.
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Cloverfield
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Revolves around a monster attack in New York as told from the point of view of a small group of people.
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Once Upon a Time in Mexico
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Hitman “El Mariachi” becomes involved in international espionage involving a psychotic CIA agent and a corrupt Mexican general.
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The Sea Inside
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The real-life story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 30 year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.
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No Country for Old Men
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In rural Texas, welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss discovers the remains of several drug runners who have all killed each other in an exchange gone violently wrong. Rather than report the discovery to the police, Moss decides to simply take the two million dollars present for himself. This puts the psychopathic killer, Anton Chigurh, on his trail as he dispassionately murders nearly every rival, bystander and even employer in his pursuit of his quarry and the money. As Moss desperately attempts to keep one step ahead, the blood from this hunt begins to flow behind him with relentlessly growing intensity as Chigurh closes in. Meanwhile, the laconic Sherrif Ed Tom Bell blithely oversees the investigation even as he struggles to face the sheer enormity of the crimes he is attempting to thwart.
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Juno
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Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.