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Trade
2007-10-01 15:01:00
R | 1 hr 59 mins | Drama, Thriller, Adaptation MovieAfter 13-year-old Adriana is kidnapped by sex traffickers, her 17-year-old brother sets out to save her.Synopsis: When 13-year-old Adriana is kidnapped by sex traffickers in Mexico City, her 17-year-old brother, Jorge, sets off on a desperate mission to save her. Trapped by an underground network of international thugs who earn millions exploiting their human cargo, Adriana''s only friend throughout her ordeal is Veronica, a young Polish woman captured by the same criminal gang. As Jorge dodges overwhelming obstacles to track the girl''s abductors, he meets Ray, a Texas cop whose own family loss leads him to become an ally. From the barrios of Mexico City and the treacherous Rio Grande border, to a secret internet sex slave auction and a tense confrontation at a stash house in suburban New Jersey, Ray and Jorge forge a close bond as they frantically pursue Adriana''s kidnappers before she is sold and disappears into a brutal ...
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The Darjeeling Limited
2007-10-01 14:50:00
R | 1 hr 31 mins | Comedy, Drama, Adventure MovieThree brothers trying to bond and find themselves on a trip through India end up stranded and alone in the desert.Synopsis: Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other--to become brothers again like they used to be. Their "spiritual quest," however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray), and they eventually find themselves stranded alone in the middle of the desert with eleven suitcases, a printer, and a laminating machine. At this moment, a new, unplanned journey suddenly begins.Director: Wes AndersonStarring: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason SchwartzmanTrailer The Darjeeling Limited
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Lust, Caution (2007)
2007-10-01 14:10:00
NC-17 | 2 hr 38 mins | Thriller, Period, Adaptation, Spya beautiful young woman gets involved with a very powerful political figure.Synopsis: Shanghai, 1942. The World War II Japanese occupation of this Chinese city continues in force. Mrs. Mak, a woman of sophistication and means, waits for a call at a café, as she remembers how her story began several years earlier, in 1938 China: she is not in fact Mrs. Mak, but shy Wong Chia Chi. With WWII underway, Wong has been left behind by her father, who has escaped to England. As a freshman at university, she meets fellow student Kuang Yu Min Kuang who has started a drama society to shore up patriotism. As the theater troupe''s new leading lady, Wong realizes that she has found her calling, able to move and inspire audiences--and Kuang. He convenes a core group of students to carry out a radical and ambitious plan to assassinate a top Japanese collaborator, Mr. Yee. And each student has a part to play; Wong will be Mrs. Mak, who will g...
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Get Married - Film Indonesia
2007-09-29 18:47:00
DRAMA |COMEDY |TEEN Movie3 young man and a young girl who were born at the same day in their village has develop a strong bond that lasted to their adult lifeMae (Nirina Zubir) the young girl, now living only a burden to her parent, Mr. Mardi (Jaja Mihardja) dan Mrs. Mardi (Meriam Bellina). To make light their responsibilities both her parent seeking a husband for Mae. Unfortunately every candidates who came ended up chased out by Guntoro (Desta ‘Clubeighties’), Eman (Aming), dan Beni (Ringgo Agus Rahman) her 3 friends which obviously ordered by MaeRendy (Richard Kevin) a rich good looking young man who is bored with the typical city girl which to his point of view they are looked all the same and nothing there to challenge for, came to know about Mae, and interested to participate. So he went to Mae’s house and found love at the first sight. In fact Mae also have the same feelong toward Rendy. But a miscommunication caused her three friends to think that Mae disliked Rendy an...
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Feast of Love
2007-09-29 18:39:00
R | 1 hr 42 mins | Drama, Romance, Adaptation MovieA meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon.Synopsis: In a coffee shop in a tight-knit Oregon community a local professor and writer Harry Stevenson witnesses love whipping up mischief among the town’s residents. Among young and old, among both parents and lovers, among the sweet and the savage, among humans and even animals, Harry watches in awe as love mystifies, wounds, devastates, inspires, makes unreasonable demands and profoundly shapes the lives of everyone around him--including himself. From the die-hard romantic coffee shop owner Bradley who has a serial habit of looking for love in all the wrong places, including with his current wife Kathyrn; to the edgy real estate agent Diana who is caught up in an affair with a married man with whom she shares an ineffable connection; to the beautiful young newcomer Chloe who defies fate in romancing the troubled Oscar; to Harry hims...
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The Game Plan
2007-09-29 18:26:00
PG | 1 hr 50 mins | Comedy, Family Movie A professional football player discovers he has a seven-year-old daughter.Synopsis: Quarterback Joe Kingman is known as one of the toughest players to ever take the field. Blessed with amazing strength and agility, he’s famed for being able to handle any hit, no matter how ferocious. Kingman’s Boston-based pro football team, The Rebels, is chasing their long-awaited championship and Joe has been living the ultimate bachelor fantasy: he’s cool, rich, famous and the life of every party--and there are a lot of parties. But his dream is suddenly sacked for a loss when he discovers Peyton, the 8-year-old daughter he never knew existed, on his doorstep. Now, just as his career is soaring, Joe must learn to juggle his old lifestyle of parties, practices and dates with supermodels while tackling the new challenges of ballet, bedtime stories and baby dolls--all without fumbling. Equally perplexed is his hard-edged mega-agent, Stella Peck, hersel...
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The Kingdom (2007)
2007-09-29 18:15:00
R | 1 hr 50 mins | Drama, Thriller, War MovieA team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.Synopsis: When a terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, an international incident is ignited. While diplomats slowly debate equations of territorialism, FBI Special Agent Ronald Fleury quickly assembles an elite team and negotiates a secret five-day trip into Saudi Arabia to locate the madman behind the bombing. Upon landing in the desert kingdom, however, Fleury and his team discover Saudi authorities suspicious and unwelcoming of American interlopers, into what they consider a local matter. Hamstrung by protocol--and with the clock ticking on their five days--the FBI agents find their expertise worthless without the trust of their Saudi counterparts, who want to locate the terrorist in their homeland on their own terms. Fleury''s crew finds a like-minded partner in Saudi Colonel Al...
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Suster N - Film Indonesia
2007-09-28 02:57:00
95 MIN | HORROR MOVIE Indonesia Synopsis: Newlyweds Sarah (Hasiholan) and Joe (Seven) wanted to reopen Villa Rose, Sarah’s inherited nursing home from a Dutch raised grandmother. Her gimmick to maintain the Dutch atmosphere in the Nursing Home has attracted some senior citizens, a beautiful young nurse, Wulan (Guritno), and also her mysterious own sister-in-law (Rasti), to come along. Death is a common thing in the nursing home but Sarah believed something went wrong in Villa Rose, she had a vision of a crawling ghost in a nurse uniform. Unfortunately nobody took her seriously, even she was accused of getting insane. Sarah was all alone to solve the mystery, before it was too late, and put a danger on her lifeDirected by : VIVA WESTIArtis Indonesia : TIQAH HASIHOLAN, WULAN GURITNO, BOB SEVEN, DOMINIQUE SANDA, ARDINA RASTI, RATNA RIANTIARNO, TITI QADARSIH, JAJANG C. NOERTrailer Suster N
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Sydney White
2007-09-28 02:49:00
PG-13 | 1 hr 30 mins | Comedy, Teen MovieA retelling of Snow White featuring college freshman as they make their way through the greek system.Synopsis: Gorgeous freshman Sydney White has come to Southern Atlantic University to pledge her late mom''s once-dignified sorority. But while surviving the pledging process wrought by evil campus witch Rachel, Syd finds out this version of sisterhood isn''t remotely what it''s cracked up to be. Banished to a condemned house on Greek Row, Syd finds her rightful place with a band of seven very socially challenged guys. With the help of one lovestruck frat boy named Tyler, she and the doofs campaign to take over student government. Fighting for the rights of misfits big and small, Syd organizes her gang to revolutionize the system, once and for all.Director: Joe NussbaumStarring: Amanda Bynes, Matthew LongTrailer Sydney White

In the Valley of Elah
2007-09-27 20:42:00
R | 2 hr 1 mins | Drama, Thriller, Adaptation, Mystery MovieA couple work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.Synopsis: On his first weekend back after serving in Iraq, Mike Deerfield goes missing and is reported AWOL. When Hank Deerfield, a former military MP and his wife Joan get the phone call with the disturbing news, Hank sets out to search for their son. Emily Sanders, a police detective in the jurisdiction where Mike was last seen, reluctantly helps him in his search. As the evidence grows, her missing person’s case begins to look more and more like foul play, and soon Sanders finds herself in a fight with the military brass as she and Hank struggle to keep control of the investigation. But when the truth about Mike’s time in Iraq finally begins to emerge, Hank’s entire world is challenged and he’s forced to reevaluate long-held beliefs to solve the mystery behind his son’s d...
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