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Lonely Hearts

Lonely Hearts

📅 Release: April 13, 2007
🎭 Genre: DramaThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: John Travolta, James Gandolfini, Jared Leto, Salma Hayek, Scott Caan, Alice Krige, Laura Dern, Dan Byrd, Dagmara Dominczyk, Jason Gray-Stanford
📖 Synopsis: An absorbing true story about serial killers on the lam, "Lonely Hearts" is based on the murder spree of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez during the late 1940s and Detective Elmer C. Robinson's par...
Curse Of The Golden Flower

Curse Of The Golden Flower

📅 Release: December 21, 2006
🎭 Genre: ActionAdventureDrama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li, Jay Chou, Ye Liu, Man Li, Qin Junjie
📖 Synopsis: China, Later Tang Dynasty, 10th Century.On the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace. The Emperor (Chow Yun Fat) returns unexpectedly with his second son, Prince Jai ...
Wild Hogs

Wild Hogs

📅 Release: March 2, 2007
🎭 Genre: ComedyAdventure
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy, Marisa Tomei, Jill Hennessy, Ray Liotta, Tichina Arnold, M.C. Gainey
📖 Synopsis: Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence and William H. Macy hit the road in this rollicking comedy-adventure about a group of middle-aged friends who decide to rev up their routine suburban lives ...
Shooter

Shooter

📅 Release: March 23, 2007
🎭 Genre: ActionDramaThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Pena, Danny Glover, Kate Mara, Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra, Rade Sherbedgia, Ned Beatty, Wesley Snipes, Lena Headey
📖 Synopsis: In the high-stakes world of covert operations, former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, portrayed by [c=Mark Wahlberg], finds himself at the center of a deadly conspiracy. After being framed for an assa...
Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King, The

Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King, The

📅 Release: December 17, 2003
🎭 Genre: Adventure
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, Liv Tyler, Christopher Lee, Andy Serkis, Sean Bean
📖 Synopsis: In the epic conclusion to Peter Jackson's monumental trilogy, the fate of Middle-earth hangs in the balance as the final battle against the Dark Lord Sauron unfolds. Frodo Baggins ([c=Elijah Wood]) a...
Lookout, The

Lookout, The

📅 Release: March 30, 2007
🎭 Genre: DramaThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Isla Fisher, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Aaron Berg, Kalyn Bomback, Alex Borstein, Paul Christie, Sergio Di Zio
📖 Synopsis: A promising young athlete's life shatters in an instant, leaving [c=Joseph Gordon-Levitt]'s Chris with a traumatic brain injury that fractures his memory and future. Struggling to piece together a ne...
Meet The Robinsons

Meet The Robinsons

📅 Release: March 30, 2007
🎭 Genre: AnimationAdventure
⭐ Rating: G
🎬 Starring: Angela Bassett, Tom Selleck, Harland Williams, Laurie Metcalf, Adam West, Ethan Sandler, Tom Kenny
📖 Synopsis: Lewis is a brilliant inventor with a surprising number of clever inventions to his credit. His latest and most ambitious project is the Memory Scanner, a machine that will help him find his birth moth...
Blades Of Glory

Blades Of Glory

📅 Release: March 30, 2007
🎭 Genre: Comedy
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Will Ferrell, Jon Heder, Will Arnett, Amy Poehler, William Fichtner, Jenna Fischer, Romany Malco, Nick Swardson, Rob Corddry, Craig T. Nelson, Kyle Bornheimer
📖 Synopsis: In the fiercely competitive world of figure skating, two champions become the sport's most infamous outcasts. After a violent on-ice brawl at the World Championships, the arrogant, flamboyant Chazz M...
TV Set, The

TV Set, The

📅 Release: April 6, 2007
🎭 Genre: DramaComedy
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: David Duchovny, Sigourney Weaver, Ioan Gruffudd, Judy Greer, Justine Bateman, Lindsay Sloane, Fran Kranz, Willie Garson, M.C. Gainey
📖 Synopsis: A hair-raising comedy of art and compromise, "The TV Set" follows an idealistic writer (Duchovny) as he tries to navigate his TV pilot down the mine-laden path from script through production to the ...
Grindhouse

Grindhouse

📅 Release: April 6, 2007
🎭 Genre: Horror
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Kurt Russell, Zoe Bell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Jordan Ladd, Rose McGowan, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Stacy Ferguson
📖 Synopsis: "Grindhouse" - noun - A downtown movie theater - in disrepair since its glory days as a movie palace of the '30s and '40s - known for "grinding out" non-stop double-bill programs of B-movies. From g...
Messengers, The

Messengers, The

📅 Release: February 2, 2007
🎭 Genre: HorrorThriller
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Kristen Stewart, Dylan McDermott, Penelope Ann Miller, John Corbett, Dustin Milligan, William B. Davis
📖 Synopsis: There is evidence to suggest that children are highly susceptible to paranormal phenomenon. They can see what adults cannot, they believe what adults deny. And they are trying to warn us. In "The Me...
Last Mimzy, The

Last Mimzy, The

📅 Release: March 23, 2007
🎭 Genre: DramaAdventure
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Joely Richardson, Timothy Hutton, Michael Clarke Duncan, Rainn Wilson, Chris O'Neil, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Kathryn Hahn, Marc Musso
📖 Synopsis: Based on the acclaimed sci-fi short story by Lewis Padgett, "The Last Mimzy" tells the story of two children who discover a mysterious box that contains some strange devices they think are toys. As ...
Hills Have Eyes II, The

Hills Have Eyes II, The

📅 Release: March 23, 2007
🎭 Genre: Horror
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Jessica Stroup, Reshad Strik, Michael McMillian, Daniella Alonso, Lee Thompson Young, Ben Crowley, Eric Edelstein, Michael Bailey Smith
📖 Synopsis: In this harrowing sequel directed by [c=Martin Weisz], a new group of victims finds themselves prey to the savage cannibal clan in the desert wasteland. The film stars [c=Jessica Stroup], [c=Reshad S...
300

300

📅 Release: March 9, 2007
🎭 Genre: ActionAdventureDrama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Vincent Regan, Rodrigo Santoro, Dominic West
📖 Synopsis: In a visually stunning reimagining of history, "300" transports viewers to ancient Greece, where the valiant King Leonidas, portrayed by [c=Gerard Butler], leads a small but fiercely loyal band of Sp...
Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace

📅 Release: February 23, 2007
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai, Ciaran Hinds, Rufus Sewell, Youssou N'Dour, Michael Gambon, Albert Finney, Benedict Cumberbatch
📖 Synopsis: In the turbulent political landscape of 18th century Britain, a passionate young parliamentarian, William Wilberforce, wages the defining battle of his life. Portrayed with fervent conviction by [c=I...
TMNT

TMNT

📅 Release: March 23, 2007
🎭 Genre: AnimationActionFamily
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: James Arnold Taylor, Mikey Kelley, Mitchell Whitfield, Patrick Stewart, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Chris Evans, Zhang Ziyi, Kevin Smith, Mako
📖 Synopsis: After the defeat of their old arch nemesis, The Shredder, the Turtles have grown apart as a family. Struggling to keep them together, their rat sensei, Master Splinter, becomes worried when strange th...
Letters From Iwo Jima

Letters From Iwo Jima

📅 Release: December 20, 2006
🎭 Genre: DramaAction
🎬 Starring: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shido Nakamura, Nicholas Garren, Yoshio Iizuka, Nae Yuuki, James D. Dever
📖 Synopsis: Sixty-one years ago, U.S. and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, several hundred letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fo...
Comeback Season

Comeback Season

📅 Release: March 27, 2007
🎭 Genre: Comedy
🎬 Starring: Ray Liotta, Shaun Sipos, Rachel Blanchard, Glenne Headly, Brooke Nevin, Brendan Fehr
📖 Synopsis: Deep in the heart of football country, Skylar Eckerman (Sipos) is a star. As quarterback of his high school football team, he's got the skills, the looks, and the girls. But he loses it all in one m...
Hawk Is Dying, The

Hawk Is Dying, The

📅 Release: March 30, 2007
🎭 Genre: Drama
🎬 Starring: Michelle Williams, Michael Pitt, Paul Giamatti, Rusty Schwimmer, Robert Wisdom, Ann Wedgeworth
📖 Synopsis: It's about a Florida auto upholsterer (Giamatti) who attempts to liven up his humdrum life by taming a wild hawk. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he lives with an overweight sister (Ann Wedgewo...
First Snow

First Snow

📅 Release: March 23, 2007
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Guy Pearce, Piper Perabo, William Fichtner, J.K. Simmons, Shea Whigham, Rick Gonzalez, Jackie Burroughs, Adam Scott, Portia Dawson
📖 Synopsis: Wound tight and cocky, Jimmy Starks (Guy Pearce) is a smooth-talking salesman certain he's on the verge of a big break. Even when his car stalls in the middle of nowhere, a roadside soothsayer (J.K....
Reign Over Me

Reign Over Me

📅 Release: March 23, 2007
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Safforn Burrows, Cicely Tyson, Robert Klein, Melinda Dillon, Mike Binder, Ted Raimi
📖 Synopsis: In the wake of an unimaginable tragedy, [c=Adam Sandler] delivers a powerful dramatic performance as Charlie Fineman, a man who has completely withdrawn from the world after losing his family in the ...
Pride

Pride

📅 Release: March 23, 2007
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: PG
🎬 Starring: Terrence Howard, Bernie Mac, Tom Arnold, Regine Nehy, Kevin Phillips, Evan Ross, Scott Reeves, Trevor Morgan, Kimberly Elise
📖 Synopsis: In 1970s Philadelphia, a determined swim coach sees potential where others see only a dead end. [c=Terrence Howard] stars as Jim Ellis, a college-educated African-American man who takes a job closing...
Dead Silence

Dead Silence

📅 Release: March 16, 2007
🎭 Genre: HorrorThriller
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Ryan Kwanten, Amber Valletta, Donnie Wahlberg, Bob Gunton, Michael Fairman
📖 Synopsis: From the team responsible for the international sleeper hit "Saw"-writer/actor Leigh Whannell, writer/director James Wan and producers Gregg Hoffman, Mark Burg and Oren Koules-comes the supernatural...
Factory Girl

Factory Girl

📅 Release: December 29, 2006
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Sienna Miller, Hayden Christensen, Guy Pearce, Mena Suvari, Jimmy Fallon, Gavin Rossdale, Peter Bogdanovich, Meredith Ostrom
📖 Synopsis: "Factory Girl" imaginatively unfolds the comet-like rise and fall of 60s "it girl" Edie Sedgwick, the blazing superstar who came to define both the glamour and the tragedy of our celebrity-obsessed cu...
Stomp The Yard

Stomp The Yard

📅 Release: January 12, 2007
🎭 Genre: DramaMusical
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Columbus Short, Meagan Good, Ne-Yo, Darrin DeWitt Henson, Brian J. White, Laz Alonso, Valarie Pettiford, Harry Lennix, Chris Brown
📖 Synopsis: When DJ (Columbus Short), a troubled youth from Los Angeles, moves to Atlanta to attend Truth University, he discovers "stepping," the age-old style of dance traditionally done in African-American F...
Premonition

Premonition

📅 Release: March 16, 2007
🎭 Genre: DramaThriller
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon, Jeff Galpin, Kate Nelligan, Nia Long, Amber Valletta, Mark Famiglietti, Marcus Lyle Brown, Courtney Taylor Burness
📖 Synopsis: Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock) has a beautiful house, a loving husband and two adorable daughters. Her life is perfect, until the day she receives the devastating news that her husband Jim (Julian Mc...
Norbit

Norbit

📅 Release: February 9, 2007
🎭 Genre: ComedyRomance
⭐ Rating: PG-13
🎬 Starring: Eddie Murphy, Thandie Newton, Eddie Griffin, Terry Crews, Clifton Powell, Cuba Gooding Jr.
📖 Synopsis: In the comedy "Norbit," directed by [c=Brian Robbins], [c=Eddie Murphy] stars in multiple roles, most notably as the meek and kind-hearted Norbit, who has been dominated his entire life. His tumultuo...
Good German, The

Good German, The

📅 Release: December 15, 2006
🎭 Genre: DramaThrillerRomance
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire, Leland Orser, Beau Bridges, Tony Curran, Robin Weigert, Jack Thompson, Christian Oliver
📖 Synopsis: Based on the novel by Joseph Kanon, "The Good German" takes place in the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, where U.S. Army war correspondent Jake Geismar (George Clooney) becomes embroiled with Lena Brandt...
Nomad

Nomad

📅 Release: March 16, 2007
🎭 Genre: Drama
⭐ Rating: R
🎬 Starring: Kuno Becker, Jay Hernandez, Jason Scott Lee, Mark Dacascos, Doskhan Zholzhaksynov, Ayana Yesmagambetova
📖 Synopsis: 18th century Kazakhstan, a vast, pitiless region of austere and terrible beauty, bordered by China, Russia and Tibet. Here the proud and warlike Kazakh tribes have survived and fought for centuries ...
Caffeine

Caffeine

📅 Release: March 16, 2007
🎭 Genre: Comedy
🎬 Starring: Katherine Heigl, Mena Suvari, Mike Vogel, Breckin Meyer, Callum Blue, Marsha Thomason, Mark Pellegrino
📖 Synopsis: There's always something strange brewing at the Black Cat Café. A neurotic young commitment-phobe runs into his ex-girlfriend while he's whacked out on killer dope; a high strung control freak fin...