Australia
In epic adventure set in Northern Australia before World War II, it concentrates on an English aristocrat who inherits a massive cattle station. When cattle barons from England conspire to take her land, she teams up with a country stock-man to drive her herd of 2,000 cattle across the vast unforgiving country... only to experience the Japanese bombing of Darwin.
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Big Stan A weak con man panics when he learns he's going to prison for fraud. He hires a mysterious martial arts guru who helps transform him into a martial arts expert who can fight off inmates who want to hurt or love him.
Burn After Reading
CIA agent Osbourne Cox is writing his memoirs after getting fired from the CIA. The disc containing the memoirs is discovered in the female locker room at the gym, where it was left by mistake by the secretary of Katie Cox's divorce lawyer. Katie had downloaded the information secretly so her divorce lawyer would have ammunition for their case. Assuming that the disc contains vital classified information, gym employee Linda Litzke and her co-worker Chad Feldheimer decide to sell the info to the highest bidder.
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Frost/Nixon
Based on the massively acclaimed stage-play by Peter Morgan, the writer of the hit films 'The Queen' and 'The Last King of Scotland', this movie is the story of the battle of wills between the world's most powerful man and the journalist who attempted to extract the truth behind the most famous political scandal of all time.
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
The sequel of the first movie, the New York Zoo Animals, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo, still stranded on Madagascar, started to leave the island. All of a sudden, they landed in the wilderness of Africa. There, Alex soon meets the rest of his family and starting to have trouble communicating with them after much of his time at the Central Park Zoo.
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Quantum of Solace
Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr White who reveals the organisation which blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.
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Slumdog Millionaire
A penniless, eighteen-year old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, Jamal Malik, is one question away from winning the staggering 20 million rupees on India's "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" But when the show breaks for the night, suddenly he is arrested on suspicion of cheating. After all, how could an uneducated street kid possibly know so much? Determined to get to the bottom of Jamal's story, the jaded Police Inspector spends the night probing Jamal's incredible past.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald story, the film centres on an elderly man who gets younger as time passes and encounters complications when, at age 50, he falls in love with a woman who is 30.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
A contemporary reinvention of the 1951 classic. Keanu Reeves portrays Klaatu, an alien whose arrival on our planet triggers a global upheaval. As governments and scientists race to unravel the mystery behind the visitor's appearance, a woman and her young stepson get caught up in his mission - and come to understand the ramifications of his being a self-described "friend to the Earth".
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Two young Americans spend a summer in Spain, amidst the luscious Mediterranean sensuality of Barcelona where they meet a flamboyant artist and his beautiful but insane ex-wife. Vicky is straight-laced and about to be married. Cristina is a sexually adventurous free spirit. When they all become amorously entangled, the results are both hilarious and chaotic. Vicky and Cristina learn some hard lessons about love – and about themselves.
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