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The Best Movies of 2006
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I realize a lot of these say 2007, but I checked different sources that say 2006.


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Movie: The Painted Veil ( 2006 )
A British medical doctor fights a cholera epidemic in a small Chinese village, while being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
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Movie: Brother Bear 2 ( 2006 )
An old female friend of Kenai needs his help on a quest, much to Koda's growing consternation.
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Movie: DOA: Dead or Alive ( 2006 )
The world's best fighters are invited to DOA, an invitational martial arts contest. There, four female rival fighters will have to work together to uncover the secret that the organizer of the tournament is trying to hide.
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Movie: The Hills Have Eyes ( 2006 )
A family falls victim to a group of mutated cannibals in a desert far away from civilization.
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Movie: Lady in the Water ( 2006 )
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.
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Movie: 16 Blocks ( 2006 )
An aging alcoholic cop is assigned the task of escorting a witness from police custody to a courthouse 16 blocks away. There are, however, chaotic forces at work that prevent them from making it in one piece.
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Movie: Black Snake Moan ( 2007 )
A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, looks everywhere for love, never quite finding it.
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Movie: Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus ( 2006 )
Turning her back on her wealthy, established family, Diane Arbus falls in love with Lionel Sweeney, an enigmatic mentor who introduces Arbus to the marginalized people who help her become one of the most revered photographers of the twentieth century.
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Movie: The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines ( 2006 )
Librarian-turned-adventurer Flynn Carsen endeavors to find King Solomon's mines.
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Movie: Letters from Iwo Jima ( 2006 )
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.
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Movie: Monster House ( 2006 )
Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster.
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Movie: Jackass Number Two ( 2006 )
Chris Pontius, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, and the whole crew return to the screen to raise the stakes higher than ever before.
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Movie: The Covenant ( 2006 )
Four young men who belong to a New England supernatural legacy are forced to battle a fifth power long thought to have died out. Meanwhile, jealousy and suspicion threaten to tear them apart.
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Movie: Half Nelson ( 2006 )
An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.
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Movie: Bobby ( 2006 )
The story of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was shot in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and twenty-two people in the hotel, whose lives were never the same.
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Movie: American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile ( 2006 )
When Erik Stifler gets a free pass to do whatever he wants from his girlfriend, he and his two best friends head to see his cousin Dwight for the Naked Mile and a weekend they will never forget.
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Movie: The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause ( 2006 )
Santa, aka Scott Calvin, is faced with double-duty: how to keep his new family happy, and how to stop Jack Frost from taking over Christmas.
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Movie: Unknown ( 2006 )
Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.
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Movie: See No Evil ( 2006 )
A group of delinquents are sent to clean the Blackwell Hotel. Little do they know reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight has holed away in the rotting hotel. When one of the teens is captured, those who remain - a group that includes the cop who put a bullet in Goodnight's head four years ago - band together to survive against the brutal killer.
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Movie: Beerfest ( 2006 )
Two brothers travel to Germany for Oktoberfest, only to stumble upon a secret, centuries-old competition described as a "Fight Club" with beer games.
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Movie: Man of the Year ( 2006 )
A comedian who hosts a news satire program decides to run for president, and a computerized voting machine malfunction gets him elected.
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Movie: Running with Scissors ( 2006 )
Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of Finch's bizarre extended family.
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Movie: You, Me and Dupree ( 2006 )
A best man (Wilson) stays on as a houseguest with the newlyweds, much to the couple's annoyance.
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Movie: The Dead Girl ( 2007 )
The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.
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Movie: Wedding Daze ( 2007 )
A guy proposes to his girlfriend, who drops dead. His BFF tries to get him to date other women but he only talks about his dead big love. At a diner he proposes to a cute waitress just to get his BFF off his back. She says yes.
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Movie: Funny Money ( 2006 )
Henry Perkins, a mild-mannered accountant, accidentally trades briefcases with another man, to find out that there's five million dollars inside. Henry tells his unsuspecting wife of their new-found fortune, but she doesn't embrace it as well as he does. Soon they're joined by their best friends, a cop on the take, a cop on the hunt, and the dreaded Mr. Big, who has come to claim his million dollars.
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Movie: Superman Returns ( 2006 )
Superman returns to Earth after spending five years in space examining his homeworld Krypton. But he finds things have changed while he was gone, and he must once again prove himself important to the world.
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Movie: John Tucker Must Die ( 2006 )
Three ex-girlfriends of a serial cheater set up their former lover to fall for the new girl in town so they can watch him get his heart broken.
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Movie: Lonely Hearts ( 2006 )
Based on the true story, two homicide detectives track Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez, a murderous pair known as the "Lonely Hearts Killers" who lured their victims through the personals.
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Movie: Farce of the Penguins ( 2007 )
A mockumentary that illuminates penguin survival and mating rituals, as well as one bird's search for love while on a seventy-mile trek with his hedonistic buddies.
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Movie: Southland Tales ( 2007 )
During a three day heat wave just before a huge 4th of July celebration, an action star stricken with amnesia meets up with a porn star who is developing her own reality TV project, and a policeman who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.
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Movie: The Benchwarmers ( 2006 )
A trio of guys try and make up for missed opportunities in childhood by forming a three-player baseball team to compete against standard children's Little League squads.
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Movie: Infamous ( 2006 )
While researching his novel "In Cold Blood", Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
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Movie: Bug ( 2007 )
An unhinged war veteran holes up with a lonely woman in a spooky Oklahoma motel room. The line between reality and delusion is blurred as they discover a bug infestation.
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Movie: The Wind that Shakes the Barley ( 2006 )
Against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces.
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Movie: Nacho Libre ( 2006 )
Berated all his life by those around him, a monk follows his dream and dons a mask to moonlight as a Luchador (Mexican wrestler).
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Movie: Take the Lead ( 2006 )
A dance teacher offers to conduct detention for a group of misfit students by teaching them ballroom dancing. He overcomes their insecurities and prejudices, to enter them in a dance competition.
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Movie: Big Nothing ( 2006 )
A frustrated, unemployed professor joins forces with a scammer and a friend of his in a blackmailing scheme.
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Movie: The Pink Panther ( 2006 )
Bumbling Inspector Clouseau must solve the murder of a famous soccer coach and find out who stole the infamous Pink Panther diamond.
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Movie: Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj ( 2006 )
Taj Mahal Badalandabad leaves Coolidge College behind for the halls of Camford University in England, where he looks to continue his education, and teach an uptight student how to make the most out of her academic career.
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Movie: Little Man ( 2006 )
A wannabe dad mistakes a vertically challenged criminal on the lam as his newly adopted son.
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Movie: The Wild ( 2006 )
An adolescent lion is accidentally shipped from the New York Zoo to Africa. Now running free, his zoo pals must put aside their differences to help bring him back.
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Movie: Stay Alive ( 2006 )
For a group of teens, the answer to the mysterious death of their old friend lies within the world of an online video game based on the true story of an ancient noblewoman known as the Blood Countess.
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Movie: Undisputed 2: Last Man Standing ( 2007 )
Sequel to the 2002 film. This time, Heavyweight Champ George "Iceman" Chambers is sent to a Russian Jail on trumped-up drug charges.
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Movie: Factory Girl ( 2007 )
Based on the rise and fall of socialite Edie Sedgwick, concentrating on her relationships with Andy Warhol and a folk singer.
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Movie: Big Momma's House 2 ( 2006 )
An FBI agent reprises his disguise as a corpulent old lady and takes a job as a nanny in a crime suspect's house.
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Movie: Hollywoodland ( 2006 )
A detective examines the mysterious death of George Reeves, the star of the television series Adventures of Superman (1952).
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Movie: Peaceful Warrior ( 2006 )
A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of a college gymnast.
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Movie: All the King's Men ( 2006 )
Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana.
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Movie: Just My Luck ( 2006 )
In Manhattan, Ashley Albright is a lucky woman and very successful in the agency where she works. The clumsy Jake Hardin is an unlucky aspirant manager of the rock band McFly, who is unsuccessfully trying to contact the entrepreneur Damon Phillips to promote his band. When Ashley meets Jake in a masquerade party, they kiss each other, swapping her fortune with his bad luck.
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Movie: A Prairie Home Companion ( 2006 )
A final live variety show broadcast via radio becomes a metaphor for the natural order of life. A concept and script by Garrison Keilor uses every natural and technical element of working with a tight and close ensemble producing a weekly show to sooth us and guide us through the natural but difficult transitions of aging, becoming less relevant and then dying as new, young life develops and strengthens during our final "performances." This is a rare film for it's remarkable cast and crew and one wonders how the great Robert Altman was able to gather them all at the same place and time to shoot this film.
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TV Show: Broken Trail ( 2006 )
Veteran cowboy Print Ritter and his estranged nephew Tom Harte must run 500 horses from Oregon to Wyoming. When they cross paths with a low-life trafficker and five innocent Chinese girls, a twist of fate makes the girls Print and Tom's responsibility.
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Movie: Open Water 2: Adrift ( 2006 )
When a group of friends fail to lower the ladder of their boat, they find themselves stranded in the surrounding waters and struggle to survive.
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Movie: Babel ( 2006 )
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
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Movie: The Wicker Man ( 2006 )
A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community.
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Movie: Severance ( 2006 )
During a team-building retreat in the mountains a group of sales representatives are hunted down one by one.
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Movie: Volver ( 2006 )
After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.
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Movie: The Butterfly Effect 2 ( 2006 )
Nick Larson and his best friends Trevor Eastman and Amanda are celebrating the twentieth-fourth birthday of his girlfriend Julie Miller in a beautiful lake on a Sunday morning. Nick is expecting to be promoted in the company where he works, and Julie is planning to move to his place instead of going to New York for her Master degree. However, Nick is called by his colleague Dave Bristol, who is disputing the promotion with Nick, for a meeting with a client. While on the road, Nick has an accident and Julie and his friends die. One year later, Nick finds that he can travel in time and tries to fix the past, with tragic consequences for the future.
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Movie: When a Stranger Calls ( 2006 )
During a babysitting gig, a high-school student is harassed by an increasingly threatening prank caller.
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Movie: Turistas ( 2006 )
A group of young backpackers' vacation turns sour when a bus accident leaves them marooned in a remote Brazilian rural area that holds an ominous secret.
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Movie: Happy Feet ( 2006 )
Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!
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Movie: The Marine ( 2006 )
A group of diamond thieves on the run kidnap the wife of a recently discharged marine who goes on a chase through the South Carolinian wilderness to retrieve her.
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Movie: Happily N'Ever After ( 2007 )
An alliance of evil-doers, led by Frieda, looks to take over Fairy Tale Land. But when Ella realizes her stepmother is out to ruin her storybook existence, she takes a dramatic turn and blossoms into the leader of the resistance effort.
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Movie: Arthur and the Invisibles ( 2007 )
Arthur is a spirited ten-year old whose parents are away looking for work, whose eccentric grandfather has been missing for several years, and who lives with his grandmother in a country house that, in two days, will be repossessed, torn down, and turned into a block of flats unless Arthur's grandfather returns to sign some papers and pay off the family debt. Arthur discovers that the key to success lies in his own descent into the land of the Minimoys, creatures no larger than a tooth, whom his grandfather helped relocate to their garden. Somewhere among them is hidden a pile of rubies, too. Can Arthur be of stout heart and save the day? Romance beckons as well, and a villain lurks.
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Movie: The Ant Bully ( 2006 )
This is the story of a ten-year-old boy named Lucas Nickle (Zach Tyler), who has just moved to a new neighborhood, has no friends, and is the target for the local bully and his gang. His parents, Fred (Larry Miller) and Doreen (Cheri Oteri), are leaving for a honeymoon in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, so they are too busy to attend to his problems. His sister, Tiffany (Allison Mack), is distracted by her cell phone, and grandmother Mommo (Lily Tomlin) is obsessed with U.F.O.s and aliens. Lucas is constantly being beat up by the neighborhood bully, Steve (Myles Jeffrey). Because he cannot fight back, he takes out his anger on an anthill in his front yard. He kicks it, stomps it, squirts it with his water gun, and floods it with a hose. This terrifies the ants, who call Lucas "The Destroyer". One wizard ant, known as Zoc (Nicolas Cage), being a hopeful and adventurous type, is trying to solve this dilemma. He tries to devise a magic potion that he believes will solve all their problems. As the plan to shrink Lucas down to their size with a magic potion and forcing him to live like an ant within the colony - an astonishing new world opens up to him. Lucas learns first-hand the value of friendship and teamwork, ultimately leading the ants in an effort to save their colony from annihilation. And in the process, Lucas obtains the things he wants most: friends, companionship, acceptance, and the courage to stand up for himself.
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Movie: Miss Potter ( 2007 )
The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness and success.
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Movie: Invincible ( 2006 )
Based on the story of Vince Papale, a 30-year-old bartender from South Philadelphia who overcame long odds to play for the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles in 1976.
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Movie: Candy ( 2006 )
A poet falls in love with an art student who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle -- and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.
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Movie: Open Season ( 2006 )
Boog, a domesticated 900lb. Grizzly bear, finds himself stranded in the woods 3 days before Open Season. Forced to rely on Elliot, a fast-talking mule deer, the two form an unlikely friendship and must quickly rally other forest animals if they are to form a rag-tag army against the hunters.
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Movie: Curse of the Golden Flower ( 2006 )
During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.
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Movie: Catch and Release ( 2007 )
A woman struggles to accept the death of her fiancé and the secrets he kept from her as she rebuilds her life.
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Movie: Akeelah and the Bee ( 2006 )
A young girl from South Los Angeles tries to make it to the National Spelling Bee.
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Movie: Gridiron Gang ( 2006 )
In the Kilpatrick juvenile detention center, the supervisor and former football player Sean Porter sees the lack of discipline, self-esteem, union and perspective in the teenage interns and proposes to prepare a football team to play in one league. He is supported by his superiors and his successful experience changes the lives of many young kids.
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Movie: Venus ( 2007 )
Life for a pair of veteran actors gets turned upside down after they meet a brash teenager.
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Movie: Fay Grim ( 2007 )
A ten-years-later continuation of Hal Hartley's "Henry Fool", where Fay Grim (Posey) is coerced by a CIA agent (Goldblum) to try and locate notebooks that belonged to her fugitive ex-husband (Ryan). Published in them is information that could compromises the security of the U.S., causing Fay to first head to Paris to fetch them ...
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Movie: The Darwin Awards ( 2006 )
To investigate bizarre insurance claims that transpired in either accidents, death or both, a former cop and an insurance investigator travel throughout the country to look at the cases up close.
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Movie: I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer ( 2006 )
A group of teenagers in Colorado find themselves being stalked and killed one by one by a mysterious figure with a hook, exactly one year after they covered up a friend's accidental death.
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Movie: School for Scoundrels ( 2006 )
A young guy short on luck, enrolls in a class to build confidence to help win over the girl of his dreams, which becomes complicated when his teacher has the same agenda.
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Movie: Karla ( 2006 )
Based on real events, Paul Bernardo and his wife, Karla Homolka, kidnap, sexually abuse, and murder three young girls.
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Movie: Skinwalkers ( 2007 )
A 12 year old boy and his mother become the targets of two warring werewolf packs, each with different intentions and motives.
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Movie: Tales from Earthsea ( 2006 )
In a mythical land, a man and a young boy investigate a series of unusual occurrences.
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Movie: Breaking and Entering ( 2006 )
A landscape architect's dealings with a young thief cause him to re-evaluate his life.
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Movie: End Game ( 2006 )
A secret Service agent and a news reporter investigate the conspiracy behind the assassination of the President.
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Movie: Scoop ( 2006 )
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
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Movie: Desperation ( 2006 )
When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.
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Movie: Them ( 2006 )
Lucas and Clementine live peacefully in their isolated country house, but one night they wake up to strange noise... they're not alone... and a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night.
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Movie: Mulberry St ( 2006 )
A deadly infection breaks out in Manhattan, causing humans to devolve into blood-thirsty rat creatures. Six recently evicted tenants must survive the night and protect their downtown apartment building as the city quickly spirals out of control.
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Movie: Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker ( 2006 )
After the death of his uncle, the 14-year-old schoolboy Alex Rider is forced by the Special Operations Division of the UK's secret intelligence service, MI6, into a mission which will save millions of lives.
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Movie: Firewall ( 2006 )
A security specialist is forced into robbing the bank that he's protecting, as a bid to pay off his family's ransom.
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Movie: Inland Empire ( 2007 )
As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.
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Movie: Idlewild ( 2006 )
A musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his piano player and partner Percival must choose between his love, Angel or his obligations to his father.
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Movie: The Grudge 2 ( 2006 )
Three interwoven stories about a terrible curse. A young woman encounters a malevolent supernatural force while searching for her missing sister in Tokyo; a mean high school prank goes horribly wrong; a woman with a deadly secret moves into a Chicago apartment building.
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Movie: Dr. Dolittle 3 ( 2006 )
Maya Doolittle can't fit in at school because of her special gift of being able to talk to animals, so her mother sends her to a ranch to find herself, but at first all she can find is lots of hard work.
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Movie: Mini's First Time ( 2007 )
A rebellious girl hooks up with an escort agency, where her stepfather is a client.
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Movie: She's the Man ( 2006 )
When her brother decides to ditch for a couple weeks, Viola heads over to his elite boarding school, disguised as him, and proceeds to fall for his school's star soccer player, and soon learns she's not the only one with romantic troubles.
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Movie: The Queen ( 2006 )
After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted.
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Movie: Ask the Dust ( 2006 )
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.
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Movie: Basic Instinct 2 ( 2006 )
Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, like Detective Nick Curran before him, Glass is entranced by Tramell and lured into a seductive game.
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Movie: TV: The Movie ( 2007 )
A celebration of the ever increasing depravity of television in our society, it's a channel surfing adventure through the most utterly ridiculous spoofed television programming and commercials.
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Movie: Death Note ( 2006 )
A battle between the world's two greatest minds begins when Light Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to rid the world of criminals.