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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 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: Peaceful Warrior ( 2006 )
A chance encounter with a stranger changes the life of a college gymnast.
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Movie: Click ( 2006 )
A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to overrule his choices.
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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: Hollow Man II ( 2006 )
A Seattle detective and a biologist are on the run from a dangerous invisible assassin gone rogue.
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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.
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Movie: Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior ( 2006 )
A Californian teenager learns that she is the reincarnation of a legendary female warrior destined to protect the world.
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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: The Lake House ( 2006 )
A lonely doctor, who once occupied an unusual lakeside house, begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.
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Movie: Garfield 2 ( 2006 )
Jon and Garfield visit the United Kingdom, where a case of mistaken cat identity finds Garfield ruling over a castle. His reign is soon jeopardized by the nefarious Lord Dargis, who has designs on the estate.
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Movie: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift ( 2006 )
A teenager becomes a major competitor in the world of drift racing after moving in with his father in Tokyo to avoid a jail sentence in America.
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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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Movie: Man About Town ( 2006 )
A top Hollywood talent agent finds his cushy existence threatened when he discovers that his wife is cheating on him and that his journal has been swiped by a reporter out to bring him down.
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Movie: Cars ( 2006 )
A hot-shot race-car named Lightning McQueen gets waylaid in Radiator Springs, where he finds the true meaning of friendship and family.
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Movie: The Omen ( 2006 )
When the Vatican observatory Priest sees the appearance of a comet, the Church is sure that it confirms the eve of the Armageddon. Meanwhile, the U.S. President's godson Robert Thorn (Liev Schreiber) is informed in the maternity ward in Rome by Father Spiletto (Giovanni Lombardo Radice) that his wife Katherine (Julia Stiles) has just lost her baby and she had troubles with her uterus and would not have another pregnancy. Spiletto suggests to Robert that another just-born child that lost his mother could be the substituted for his son, and Robert accepts the child and gives him the name of "Damien". Robert is promoted to ambassador in London after a tragic accident. When Damien's nanny (Amy Huck) commits suicide during his birthday party, a substitute, Mrs. Baylock (Mia Farrow), comes to work and live with the family. Through the years, Katherine realizes that Damien is evil, while Robert is contacted by Father Brennan (Pete Postlethwaite), who tells him that Damien is the son of devil. When the Priest dies in a bizarre accident, photographer Keith Jennings (David Thewlis) shows evidence to Robert that the boy is the Antichrist. They travel to the town of Megiddo to learn how the boy can be stopped.
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Movie: The Break-Up ( 2006 )
In a bid to keep their luxurious condo from their significant other, a couple's break-up proceeds to get uglier and nastier by the moment.
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Movie: The Breed ( 2006 )
A group of five college kids are forced to match wits with unwelcoming residents when they fly to a "deserted" island for a party weekend.
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Movie: X-Men: The Last Stand ( 2006 )
The human government develops a cure for mutations, and Jean Gray becomes a darker uncontrollable persona called the Phoenix who allies with Magneto, causing escalation into an all-out battle for the X-Men.
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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: 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: The Da Vinci Code ( 2006 )
A murder inside the Louvre, and clues in Da Vinci paintings, lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years, which could shake the foundations of Christianity.
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Movie: Over the Hedge ( 2006 )
A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating...and learns a lesson about family himself.
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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: Art School Confidential ( 2006 )
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.
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Movie: Poseidon ( 2006 )
On New Year's Eve, the luxury ocean liner Poseidon capsizes after being swamped by a rogue wave. The survivors are left to fight for their lives as they attempt to escape the sinking ship.
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Movie: Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America ( 2006 )
A highly contagious, rapidly killing hemorrhagic mutation of bird flu slaughters people in Hongkong. Preventing its spread is virtually hopeless, as soon is proved in a US country village, which is strictly quarantined by the military. The White House prefers to 'prevent panic', even overrules zealous governor Mike Newsome and reneges earlier emergency plans.
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Movie: Hoot ( 2006 )
The story of a young man moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls, and that a tough girl at his school named Beatrice has some connection with the barefoot boy, who has some connection with vandalism at the construction site. When they realize that a population of endangered burrowing owls is threatened by new construction the kids decide to take on crooked politicians and bumbling cops in the hope of saving their new friends.
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Movie: Mission: Impossible III ( 2006 )
IMF Agent Ethan Hunt comes into conflict with a dangerous and sadistic arms dealer who threatens his life and his fiancee in response.
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Movie: I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With ( 2006 )
About a man who has trouble with his job, trouble with women, and uses food to deal with it all.
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Movie: Waist Deep ( 2006 )
An ex-convict (Tyrese) gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside.
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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: United 93 ( 2006 )
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
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Movie: RV ( 2006 )
Bob Munro and his dysfunctional family rent an RV for a road trip to the Colorado Rockies, where they ultimately have to contend with a bizarre community of campers.
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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: Silent Hill ( 2006 )
A woman, Rose, goes in search for her adopted daughter within the confines of a strange, desolate town called Silent Hill.
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Movie: Stick It ( 2006 )
After a run-in with the law, Haley Graham (Missy Peregrym) is forced to return to the world from which she fled some years ago. Enrolled in an elite gymnastics program run by the legendary Burt Vickerman (Jeff Bridges), Haley's rebellious attitude gives way to something that just might be called team spirit.
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Movie: Friends with Money ( 2006 )
After she quits her lucrative job, Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends.
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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: American Dreamz ( 2006 )
The new season of "American Dreamz," the wildly popular television singing contest, has captured the country's attention, as the competition looks to be between a young Midwestern gal (Moore) and a showtunes-loving young man from Orange County (Golzari). Recently awakened President Staton (Quaid) even wants in on the craze, as he signs up for the potential explosive season finale.
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Movie: The Sentinel ( 2006 )
A Secret Service agent is framed as the mole in an assassination attempt on the President. He must clear his name and foil another assassination attempt while on the run from a Secret Service Protective Intelligence Division agent.
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Movie: Scary Movie 4 ( 2006 )
Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.
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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: 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: 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: 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: ATL ( 2006 )
As four friends prepare for life after high school, different challenges bring about turning points in each of their lives. The dramas unfold and resolve at their local rollerskating rink, Cascade.
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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: Slither ( 2006 )
A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.
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Movie: Ice Age: The Meltdown ( 2006 )
Manny, Sid, and Diego discover that the ice age is coming to an end, and join everybody for a journey to higher ground. On the trip, they discover that Manny, in fact, is not the last of the woolly mammoths.
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Movie: Inside Man ( 2006 )
A police detective, a bank robber, and a high-power broker enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal's brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation.
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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: Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector ( 2006 )
A slovenly cable repairman becomes a big city Health Inspector, and is tasked with uncovering the source of a food poisoning epidemic.
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Movie: Cow Belles ( 2006 )
The exasperated father of two wealthy teens forces them to work at the family business to learn how to be responsible. When company funds go missing, it's up to the girls to save the day.
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Movie: The Lives of Others ( 2006 )
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
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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: Find Me Guilty ( 2006 )
The mobster Jackie DiNorscio is shot by his own cousin at home while on probation but survives. Later he is arrested dealing drugs and sentenced to thirty years in prison. The prosecutor Sean Kierney proposes a deal to Jackie, immediately releasing him if he testifies against the Lucchese family and other mafia families but Jackie does not accept to rat out his friends that he loves. When the trial begins, he asks the judge Finestein to defend himself without the assistance of a lawyer.
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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 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: Failure to Launch ( 2006 )
A thirty-something is still living with his parents until they hire an interventionist to help him graduate out of the house. That's when the fun begins.
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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: The Shaggy Dog ( 2006 )
A man tries to live a normal life despite the fact that he sometimes turns into a sheepdog.
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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: Kidulthood ( 2006 )
A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.
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Movie: Ultraviolet ( 2006 )
A beautiful hæmophage infected with a virus that gives her superhuman powers has to protect a boy in a futuristic world, who is thought to be carrying antigens that would destroy all hæmophages.
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Movie: Aquamarine ( 2006 )
In a dreary Florida beach resort village, luscious-limbed lifeguard Raymond is the main attraction for girls. Teenage buddies Claire and Hailey become experts on him by observation, but never dare actually approach him, and after this closing summer season will be separated as one's parents move to Australia. Then they find a storm washes up a sassy mermaid in a swimming pool, who promises them a wish if they help her prove to Neptune love exists, and Raymond is the only creature resembling a love-god.
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Movie: Lucky Number Slevin ( 2006 )
A case of mistaken identity lands Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi and The Boss. Slevin is under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat and finds himself having to hatch his own ingenious plot to get them before they get him.
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Movie: Doogal ( 2006 )
This is the story of Doogal, an adorable candy-loving mutt who goes on a mission to save the world. Doogal must prevent the evil sorcerer Zeebad from freezing the Earth forever with the power of the three mysterious legendary diamonds. Joining Doogal on his big quest are pals Dylan, a guitar-playing rabbit, Ermintrude, an opera-singing cow, and Brian, a bashful snail. Hopping on a magic train, they travel over ice-capped mountains, navigate fiery pits of lava, and sail across vast oceans on the perilous journey of a lifetime. Along the way, they learn that the most powerful weapon of all is their friendship, which even Zeebad's magic cannot destroy.
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Movie: Madea's Family Reunion ( 2006 )
While planning her family reunion, a pistol-packing grandma must contend with the other dramas on her plate, including the runaway who has been placed under her care, and her love-troubled nieces.
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Movie: Eight Below ( 2006 )
In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren, the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is called-off and the dogs are left alone at their own fortune. For six months, Jerry tries to find a sponsor for a rescue mission while his dogs fight for survival.
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Movie: Date Movie ( 2006 )
Spoof of romantic comedies which focuses on a man, his crush, his parents, and her father.
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Movie: Freedomland ( 2006 )
A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.
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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: 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: Curious George ( 2006 )
The Man in the Yellow Hat is an oddball museum employee who looks after his pet monkey, an inquisitive and wonderful creature whose enthusiasm often gets the best of him.
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Movie: Final Destination 3 ( 2006 )
A student's premonition of a deadly rollercoaster ride saves her life and a lucky few, but not from Death itself, which seeks out those who escaped their fate.
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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: Annapolis ( 2006 )
Set against the backdrop of boxing at the Naval Academy, centers on a young man from the wrong side of the tracks whose dream of attending Annapolis becomes a reality.
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Movie: Fearless ( 2006 )
A biography of Chinese Martial Arts Master Huo Yuanjia, who is the founder and spiritual guru of the Jin Wu Sports Federation.
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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: 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: High School Musical ( 2006 )
A popular high school athlete and an academically gifted girl get roles in the school musical and develop a friendship that threatens East High's social order.
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Movie: Underworld: Evolution ( 2006 )
Picking up directly from the previous movie, vampire warrior Selene and the half werewolf Michael hunt for clues to reveal the history of their races and the war between them.
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Movie: Bandidas ( 2006 )
In 1848, a New York bank wants to put a railroad across Mexico, so it buys up small banks around Santa Rita, Durango, and evicts farmers on the proposed rail line who owe money. The bank's henchman is the murderous Jackson. He runs afoul of two women, María, the tough but uneducated daughter of a farmer, and Sara, the European-educated daughter of the owner of one of these banks. To feed the now landless people and to seek revenge, María and Sara become bank robbers, veritable Robin Hoods. But Jackson and his hired guns are after them. What are the women's options?
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Movie: Half Light ( 2006 )
Rachel Carlson, a successful novelist moves to a small Scottish village to move on with her life after the death of her son. Strange things start to happen when she is haunted by ghosts and real life terror.
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Movie: Last Holiday ( 2006 )
Upon learning of a terminal illness, a shy woman decides to sell off all her possessions and live it up at a posh European hotel.
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Movie: Tristan + Isolde ( 2006 )
An affair between the second in line to Britain's throne and the princess of the feuding Irish spells doom for the young lovers.
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Movie: Glory Road ( 2006 )
In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.
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Movie: Running Scared ( 2006 )
A low-ranking thug is entrusted by his crime boss to dispose of a gun that killed corrupt cops, but things get out of control when the gun ends up in wrong hands.
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Movie: Grandma's Boy ( 2006 )
A thirty-five-year-old video game tester has to move in with his grandma and her two old lady roommates.