

TO CITY OF LIES IN EUROPE

MOVIES
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NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET
A film by Wes Craven
The monstrous spirit of a slain janitor seeks revenge by invading the dreams of teenagers whose parents were responsible for his untimely death.
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SLOW BURN
A film by Oliver Stone
Jacob Asch is hired by Gerald McMurty to find his ex-wife Laine and their son in Palm Springs. Jacob finds Laine and a teenager named Donnie who may or may not be Gerald’s son. He also finds an intricate web of deceit and betrayal that begin to lead to death. He takes it upon himself to unravel the mystery and find out who is killing people and why.
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PLATOON
A film by Oliver Stone
A young soldier in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
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CRY-BABY
A film by John Waters
In 1950s Baltimore, a bad boy with a heart of gold wins the love of a good girl, whose boyfriend sets out for revenge.
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EDWARD SCISSORHANDS
A film by Tim Burton
A gentle man, with scissors for hands, is brought into a new community after living in isolation.
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ARIZONA DREAM
A film by Emir Kusturica
A young New Yorker goes to Arizona where he finds freedom to both love and dream.
BENNY & JOON
A film by Jeremiah Chechik
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
WHAT’S EATING MR GRAPE
A film by Lasse Hallström
After his father’s death, Gilbert has to care for his mentally-disabled brother, Arnie, and his morbidly obese mother. This situation is suddenly challenged though, when love unexpectedly walks into his life.
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ED WOOD
A film by Tim Burton
Ambitious but troubled movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. tries his best to fulfill his dreams, despite his lack of support.
DON JUAN DE MARCO
A film by Jeremy Leven
A psychiatrist must cure a young patient that presents himself as Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world.
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DEAD MAN
A film by Jim Jarmusch
On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
NICK OF TIME
A film by John Badham
An unimpressive, every-day man is forced into a situation where he is told to kill a politician to save his kidnapped daughter.
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DONNIE BRASCO
A film by Mike Newell
An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life, at the expense of his regular one.
THE BRAVE
A film by Johnny Depp
A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to “star” as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of which could greatly help his poverty stricken family.
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FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS
A film by Terry Gilliam
An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades.
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THE NINTH GATE
A film by Roman Polaski
A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones.
THE ASTRONAUT’S WIFE
A film by Rand Ravich
After an explosion in space and subsequent two-minute radio-out period, two astronauts return home to their wives. Slightly it’s revealed that they’re not the same as they were.
SLEEPY HOLLOW
A film by Tim Burton
Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of 3 people with the culprit being the legendary apparition, the Headless Horseman.
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CHOCOLAT
A film by Lasse Hallström
A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.
BEFORE NIGHT FALLS
A film by Julian Schnabel
The life of Cuban poet and novelist Reynaldo Arenas.
THE MAN WHO CRIED
A film by Sally Potter
A young refugee traveling from Russia to America in search of her lost father falls for a gypsy horseman.
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FROM HELL
A film by The Hughes Brothers
In Victorian Era London, a troubled clairvoyant police detective investigates the murders by Jack The Ripper.
BLOW
A film by Ted Demme
The story of how George Jung, along with the Medellín Cartel headed by Pablo Escobar, established the American cocaine market in the 1970s in the United States.
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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL
A film by Gore Verbinski
Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate “Captain” Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor’s daughter, from Jack’s former pirate allies, who are now undead.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO
A film by Robert Rodriguez
Hitman “El Mariachi” becomes involved in international espionage involving a psychotic CIA agent and a corrupt Mexican general.
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SECRET WINDOW
A film by David Koepp
A writer is accused of plagiarism by a strange man, who then starts haunting him for “justice.”
FINDING NEVERLAND
A film by Marc Forster
The story of J.M. Barrie’s friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.
THE LIBERTINE
A film by Laurence Dunmore
The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life’s work.
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CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
A film by Tim Burton
A writer is accused of plagiarism by a strange man, who then starts haunting him for “justice.”
CORPSE BRIDE
A film by Tim Burton
When a shy groom practices his wedding vows in the inadvertent presence of a deceased young woman, she rises from the grave assuming he has married her.
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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST
A film by Gore Verbinski
Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones’ service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well.
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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END
A film by Gore Verbinski
Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones’ service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well.
SWEENEY TODD
A film by Tim Burton
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, aka Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett.
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PUBLIC ENEMIES
A film by Michael Mann
The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS
A film by Terry Gilliam
A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting.
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND
A film by Tim Burton
Nineteen-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen’s reign of terror.
THE TOURIST
A film by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Revolves around Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path.
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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES
A film by Rob Marshall
Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too.
RANGO
A film by Gore Verbonski
Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff.
THE RUM DIARY
A film by Bruce Robinson
American journalist Paul Kemp takes on a freelance job in Puerto Rico for a local newspaper during the 1960s and struggles to find a balance between island culture and the expatriates who live there.
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DARK SHADOWS
A film by Tim Burton
An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection.
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THE LONE RANGER
A film by Gore Verbinski
Native American warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice.
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TRANSCENDENCE
A film by Wally Pfister
A scientist’s drive for artificial intelligence, takes on dangerous implications when his consciousness is uploaded into one such program.
TUSK
A film by Kevin Smith
A brash and arrogant podcaster gets more than he bargained for when he travels to Canada to interview a mysterious recluse… who has a rather disturbing fondness for walruses.
INTO THE WOODS
A film by Rob Mashall
A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree.
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MORTDECAI
A film by David Koepp
Juggling angry Russians, the British Mi5, and an international terrorist, debonair art dealer and part-time rogue Charlie Mortdecai races to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain a code that leads to lost gold.
BLACK MASS
A film by Scott Cooper
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
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ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
A film by James Bobin
Alice returns to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travels back in time to help the Mad Hatter.
YOGA HOSERS
A film by Kevin Smith
Two teenage yoga enthusiasts team up with a legendary man-hunter to battle with an ancient evil presence that is threatening their major party plans.
FANTASTIC BEAST AND WHERE TO FIND THEM
A film by David Yates
The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.
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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES
A film by Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Captain Jack Sparrow searches for the trident of Poseidon while being pursued by an undead sea captain and his crew.
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
A film by Kenneth Branagh
When a murder occurs on the train he’s travelling on, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case.
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SHERLOCK GNOMES
A film by John Stevenson
Garden gnomes, Gnomeo & Juliet, recruit renowned detective Sherlock Gnomes to investigate the mysterious disappearance of other garden ornaments.
FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD
A film by David Yates
The second installment of the “Fantastic Beasts” series set in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World featuring the adventures of magizoologist Newt Scamander.
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CITY OF LIES
A film by Brad Furman
The murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG spark an investigation.
DRAMA
RICHARD SAYS GOODBYE
A film by Wayne Roberts
A college professor lives his life with reckless abandon after being diagnosed with a terminal illness.
THE AWARDS
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Golden Globes
NOMINEE
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Edward Scissorhands
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Golden Globes
NOMINEE
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Benny & Joon
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Golden Globes
NOMINEE
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Ed Wood
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The Academy Awards
NOMINEE
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
BAFTA Film Award
NOMINEE
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Pirates of the Caribbean : The Curse of the Black Pearl
Golden Globes
NOMINEE
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
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BAFTA Film Award
NOMINEE
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Finding Neverland
Golden Globes
NOMINEE
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama
Finding Neverland
The Academy Awards
NOMINEE
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Finding Neverland
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Golden Globes
NOMINEE
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Golden Globes
NOMINEE
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Pirates of the Caribbean : Dead Man’s Chest
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The Academy Awards
NOMINEE
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Golden Globes
WINNER
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
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Golden Globes
NOMINEE
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
Alice in Wonderland
Golden Globes
NOMINEE
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical
The Tourist
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BAFTA Children’s award
NOMINEE
Best Feature Film
Hugo