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Closer (film) In the opening scene, twenty-four-year-old Alice Ayres ( Natalie Portman) and Dan Woolf (Jude Law) see each other for the first time from opposite sides of a street as they are walking toward each other among many other rush hour pedestrians.

Closer (film)

Alice is a young American stripper who just arrived in London and Dan is an unsuccessful British author who is on his way to work where he writes obituaries for a newspaper. Alice looks in the wrong direction as she crosses the street and is hit by a taxi cab right in front of Dan's eyes. He rushes over. She smiles to him and says, "Hello, stranger. " He takes her to hospital where Alice is treated and released. A year later, though the two are in a relationship, Dan is straying. A year later, Dan enters an Internet cybersex chat room and randomly meets Larry Gray (Clive Owen), a British dermatologist.

Alice goes back to being a stripper, heartbroken by her loss. Alice takes Dan back. In the end, Alice returns to New York. Panic! A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story. A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story is a 2006 LGBT biography television film directed by award-winning director Agnieszka Holland and aired on Lifetime Television.

A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story

The story documents the real life of Gwen Araujo, born Edward Araujo, Jr., a transgender teenager who was murdered after she was discovered by acquaintances that she had male genitalia. Scenes depicting the murder trial are shown alternating with the story of Gwen's life. The movie stars J. D. Scenes from a Marriage. Episodes[edit] This plot summary is for the 281-minute[1] TV miniseries version of the work (the feature film retains the episode names as chapter titles).

Scenes from a Marriage

Each episode concludes with long, quiet, comforting shots of Fårö landscapes, as a "relief" from the up-close, tense and claustrophobic episodes. Each episode is structured around one critical scene, described below, with the rest of the episode dedicated to discussion and aftereffects. Some of the episodes occur months or years apart. Cast[edit] The Little Soldier. The Little Soldier (French: Le Petit Soldat) is a 1960 French film, written and directed by French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, but not released until 1963.

The Little Soldier

It was Godard's first film with Anna Karina, who starred as Véronica Dreyer alongside Michel Subor (as Bruno Forestier). Plot[edit] Meanwhile, he meets and falls in love with Véronica Dreyer, who helped the FLN. Bruno plans to leave with her for Brazil, but is captured and tortured by Algerian revolutionaries. He escapes, and agrees to kill Palivoda for the French in exchange for passage to Brazil for himself and Veronica.

Coffee and Cigarettes. Coffee and Cigarettes is the title of three short films and a 2003 feature film by independent director Jim Jarmusch.

Coffee and Cigarettes

The film consists of 11 short stories which share coffee and cigarettes as a common thread, and includes the earlier three films. Themes[edit] The film is composed of a comic series of short vignettes shot in black and white built on one another to create a cumulative effect, as the characters discuss things such as caffeine popsicles, Paris in the 1920s, and the use of nicotine as an insecticide – all the while sitting around drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.

Plot segments[edit] Like Crazy. Like Crazy is a 2011 American romantic drama film directed by Drake Doremus and starring Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, and Alex Kingston.

Like Crazy

Written by Drake Doremus and Ben York Jones, the film is about a British exchange student who falls in love with an American student, only to be separated from him when she's denied re-entry into the United States after overstaying her student visa. The film, which featured fully improvised dialogue, won the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize.[3][4] Plot[edit] Anna Gardner (Felicity Jones), a British exchange student attending college in Los Angeles, meets and falls in love with Jacob Helm (Anton Yelchin), an American fellow student who returns her affections. After graduation, Anna decides to spend the summer with Jacob rather than return to England, unaware of the consequences of overstaying her student visa, which expired at graduation. Sometime later, Anna finally receives her visa. Cast[edit] Inspiration[edit] Theeviravaathi 1998: Full Length Tamil Movie.

Deep End (film) Deep End is a 1970 British-West German drama film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski and starring Jane Asher, John Moulder Brown and Diana Dors.

Deep End (film)

Set in London, the film focuses on the relationship between two young co-workers at a suburban bath house and swimming pool. In 2009, Bavaria Media, a subsidiary of Bavaria Film, which co-produced the film in 1970 through its subsidiary Maran Film, began a digital restoration as part of the film's 40th anniversary, in cooperation with the British Film Institute.[1] The restored film was re-released in UK cinemas on 6 May 2011 and was released on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on 18 July 2011 in BFI's BFI Flipside series.[2] In March 2012 it was first shown on TV by Film4. Kiki's Delivery Service. According to Miyazaki, the movie touches on the gulf that exists between independence and reliance in Japanese teenage girls.[1] Plot[edit] Kiki settles in Koriko, a port city.

Kiki's Delivery Service

After a hard start, mostly due to her own insecurity, Kiki makes friends and finds a place to stay. However, Kiki discovers that her only skill as a witch is her ability to fly a broom, at which she is still not fully proficient. To support herself, she begins a delivery service at Gütiokipänja Bakery, a bakery owned by Osono and her husband Fukuo. During her time in Koriko, Kiki experiences setbacks and must contend with adolescent worries. Le Château dans le ciel. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.

Le Château dans le ciel

Le Château dans le ciel. Howl's Moving Castle (film) The film had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 5, 2004, and was released in Japanese theaters on November 20, 2004.

Howl's Moving Castle (film)

The film is one of only three (out of a current 18) Studio Ghibli films which were not released in July, and the last since 2004. It went on to gross $190 million in Japan and $235 million worldwide,[1] making it one of the most financially successful Japanese films in history. The film was later dubbed into English by Pixar's Peter Docter and distributed in North America by Walt Disney Pictures. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film) The film tells the story of Nausicaä (Shimamoto), a young princess of the Valley of the Wind who gets involved in a struggle with Tolmekia, a kingdom that tries to use an ancient weapon to eradicate a jungle of mutant giant insects.

Nausicaä must stop the Tolmekians from enraging these creatures. 21 Grams. 21 Grams is a 2003 American drama film directed by Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It stars Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Danny Huston, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Benicio del Toro. Alias - 1x01 - Truth Be Told - Part One. Petits suicides entre amis. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Petits suicides entre amis (Wristcutters: A Love Story) est un film américano-britannique réalisé par Goran Dukić, sorti en 2006 et en 2010 en France.

Basé sur une nouvelle de Etgar Keret, Kneller's Happy Campers (La Colo de Kneller en français), il existe également une adaptation en bande dessinée par Asaf Hanuka et intitulée Pizzeria Kamikaze. Synopsis[modifier | modifier le code] Dans un au-delà où ne parviennent que les suicidés, Zia (Patrick Fugit) part à la recherche de son ex-copine Desiree (Leslie Bibb). Il rencontre Eugene (Shea Whigham), un ancien rockeur ukrainien, et Mikal (Shannyn Sossamon), qui assure être là par erreur et cherche les dirigeants de ce monde. Sin City (film) The film is primarily based on the first, third, and fourth books in Miller's original comic series. The Hard Goodbye: About a man who embarks on a brutal rampage in search of his one-time sweetheart's killer, killing anyone, even the police, that gets in his way of finding and killing her murderer; The Big Fat Kill: Focuses on a street war between a group of prostitutes and a group of mercenaries, the police, and the mob; and That Yellow Bastard: Follows an aging police officer who protects a young woman from a grotesquely disfigured serial killer.

The intro and outro of the film are based on the short story "The Customer is Always Right", which is collected in Booze, Broads & Bullets, the fifth book in the comic series. The Darjeeling Limited. The Darjeeling Limited is a 2007 comedy-drama film directed by Wes Anderson, and starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Jason Schwartzman. It was written by Anderson, Schwartzman, and Roman Coppola.

The film also features Waris Ahluwalia, Amara Karan, Barbet Schroeder, and Anjelica Huston, with Natalie Portman, Camilla Rutherford, Irrfan Khan and Bill Murray in cameo roles. Plot[edit] Little Shop of Horrors (film) Little Shop of Horrors was filmed on the Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage at the Pinewood Studios in England, where a "downtown" set, complete with overhead train track, was constructed. The film was produced on a budget of $25 million, in contrast to the original 1960 film, which, according to Corman, only cost $30,000.[2] The film's original 23-minute finale, based on the musical's ending, was rewritten and reshot after receiving a strong negative reception from test audiences.

Before it was fully restored in 2012 by Warner Home Video, the ending was never available publicly other than in the form of black-and-white workprint footage. In September 1960, Seymour Krelborn and his colleague, Audrey, work at Mushnik's Flower Shop, lamenting they cannot escape the Skid Row slums in New York City ("Skid Row"). Struggling from a lack of customers, Mr. For Freedom, A documentary about the Iranian Revolution of 1979, English Subs. (A)sexual (2011. The Devil Wears Prada (film) The film was well received by both film critics and the public and became a surprise summer box-office hit following its June 30 North American release. The commercial success and critical praise for Streep's performance continued in foreign markets with the film leading the international box office for most of October.

Likewise, the U.S. DVD release was the top rental during December. The film finished in 2006's Top 20 both in the U.S. and overseas and grossed over $300 million, mostly from its international run. Andrea "Andy" Sachs (Anne Hathaway) is an aspiring journalist fresh out of Northwestern University. Annie Hall. Raising Arizona. I Am Sam. For his role as Sam, Penn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 74th Academy Awards in 2002.

The movie's title is derived from the line "Sam-I-Am" featured in the book Green Eggs and Ham, which is read in the movie. The Shining (film) Moonrise Kingdom. Moonrise Kingdom is a 2012 American film directed by Wes Anderson, written by Anderson and Roman Coppola. Described as an "eccentric pubescent love story", it features newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward in the film's main roles and an ensemble cast.[3][4][5] Welcome to the Rileys. Plot[edit] Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Match Point. Memento (film) Memento is presented as two different sequences of scenes: a series in black-and-white that is shown chronologically, and a series of color sequences shown in reverse order. Pieds nus sur les limaces. A Single Man. The NeverEnding Story (film) Kaboom (film) Les Autres (film, 2001) Mean Creek. The Dreamers (film) One Hundred and One Dalmatians.

Intolerable Cruelty. We Own the Night. The Last King of Scotland (film) V for Vendetta (film) Bellflower (film) Thank You for Smoking (film) Martha Marcy May Marlene. Le Roi et l'Oiseau. A Very Long Engagement. Buffalo 66. Showgirls. Blue Valentine (film) (500) jours ensemble. Scoop (2006 film) Mr. Nobody (film) Restless (2011 film) American Beauty (film) Bully (2001 film) Gone Baby Gone. Hard Candy (film) Pan's Labyrinth. Stand by Me (film) Paranoid Park (film) Match point. Lost in translation. Memento. My Blueberry Nights. 21 Grams. Léon: The Professional. Young Adult (film) Boys Don't Cry (film) Inception. American Gangster (film) Malcolm in the middle. Big Fish. Le Roi et l'oiseau. Fantastic Mr. Fox (film) Shortbus. Inside Man. Game On (UK TV series) Away We Go. God Bless America (film) The Paperboy (2012 film)

Freedom writers. The last king of scotland. Go (2001 film) My own private idaho. Juste une question d'amour. Patrik age 1.5. The adventures of priscilla queen of the desert. Trick (film) House of Pain - Word is bond. La rose de fer. La Femme d'à Côté 1/10. Weekend (2011) HD Movie Trailer. Last Days Of Left Eye (VH1 Full Movie HD) In Another Country (2012. Lilies (1996. Steam: The Turkish Bath (1997) - Plot Summary. Mysterious Skin. L.I.E. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975.