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Age Of Innocence
(1993) Society scion Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets May’s unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. At first, Newland becomes a defender of the Countess, whose separation from her abusive husband makes her a social outcast in the restrictive high society of late-19th Century New York, but he finds in her a companion spirit and they fall in love.

Apocalypto
(2006) As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw (Youngblood), a young man captured for sacrifice, flees to avoid his fate.

Around the World in 80 Days
(2004) A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief, and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days. Starring Jackie Chan

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Batman Begins
(2005) Explores the origins of the Batman legend and the Dark Knight’s emergence as a force for good in Gotham. In the wake of his parents’ murder, disillusioned industrial heir Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the fearful. He returns to Gotham and unveils his alter-ego: Batman.

Brick
(2005) A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

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The Chronicles of Narnia
(2005) Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion. Taken from the novels of C.S. Lewis.

Cinderella
(1950) Disney. When Cinderella’s cruel stepmother prevents her from attending the Royal Ball, she gets some unexpected help from the lovable mice Gus and Jaq, and from her Fairy Godmother.

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Dandelion
(2004) Isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason meets Danny, a sensitive and troubled girl, and their tender bond is soon tested after a fatal accident and a series of complications takes Mason away for something he didn’t do. Upon his return, the two find what they’re looking for - but with tragic consequences.

Dilwale Dulhania le Jayenge
(1995) A romantic anecdote of second-generation Indians living in Britain who are strongly attached to the traditional values of Indian culture. The frolicking of the lovers in Europe is followed by Raj’s struggle to win over the hearts of every member of Simran’s family so that they allow him to marry her.

Dukes of Hazzard
(2005) Cousins Bo (Scott) and Luke (Knoxville) Duke, with a little help from their cousin Daisy (Simpson) and Uncle Jesse (Willie Nelson), egg on the authorities of Hazzard County, Boss Hogg and Sheriff Coltrane.

Dune
(2000) In the far future, a duke and his family are sent by the Emperor to a sand world from which comes a spice that is essential for interstellar travel. The move is designed to destroy the duke and his family, but his son escapes and seeks revenge as he uses the world’s ecology as one of his weapons. Starring Alec Newman.

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Farewell My Concubine
(1993) It is the story of two performers in the Beijing Opera, stage brothers, and the woman who comes between them. At the same time, it attempts to do no less than squeeze the entire political history of China in the twentieth century into a three-hour time-frame. Stars Gong Li.

Finding Nemo
(2003) A father-son underwater adventure featuring Nemo, a boy clownfish, stolen from his coral reef home. His timid father must then travel to Sydney, and search Sydney Harbour find Nemo.

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Gladiator
(2000) When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt prince, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. Starring Russell Crow and Joaquin Pheonix.

The Grapes of Wrath
(1940) A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression. Starring Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell.

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Hannibal Rising
(2006) After the death of his parents during World War II, young Hannibal Lecter moves in with his uncle and his beautiful wife and begins plotting revenge on the barbarians responsible for his sister’s death. Cast: Gaspard Ulliel.

Happy Feet
(2006) In the cold land of Antarctica, the Emperor Penguins each express their true love with a special heartsong of their own that expresses their very being. However, the misfit Mumble cannot sing, but instead has an extraordinary talent to tap dance with almost magical energy and expression.

Home on the Range
(2004) When an eviction notice shows up at the gates of the Patch of Heaven dairy farm, three cows take it upon themselves to prevent their home from being taken away. To do so, they’ll need to collect the ransom on Alameda Slim, a cattle rustler with a yodel that can’t be beat or ignored. Voices include GW Bailey and Rosanne.

Howl’s Moving Castle
(2004) By Hayao Miyazaki. When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking home.

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King of Masks
(1996) “Grandpa” finds new joy in life as he plans to teach “Doggie” (an affectionate term often used for young children in China) his art of mask changing. All is well until Doggie is found out to really be a girl.

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The Last Emperor
(1987) He was the Lord of Ten Thousand Years, the absolute monarch of China. He was born to rule a world of ancient tradition. Nothing prepared him for our world of change. Starring John Lone.

The Last Starfighter
(1984) A videogaming boy, seemingly doomed to stay at his trailer park home all his life, finds himself recruited as a gunner for an alien defense force. Starring

The Little Prince
(1974) Based on the story by Antoine deSaint-Exupery, this magical musical fable begins as a pilot (Richard Kiley) makes a forced landing on the barren Sahara Desert. He is befriended by a “little” prince from the planet Asteroid B-612 who has been on planet-hopping journeys. It isn’t until he comes to Earth that the Little Prince learns the secrets of the importance of life from a Fox (Gene Wilder), a Snake (Bob Fosse), and the pilot.

The Long Road Home
(1999) As Yusheng debates the complications involved in organising such a big feat of setting his father’s funeral, he remembers the magical story of how his father and mother first met and got together.

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Match Point
(2005)At a turning point in his life, a former tennis pro falls for a femme-fatal type who happens to be dating his friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law. Starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Scarlett Johansson.

Miss Potter
(2006) 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. Cast: Renee Zellweger & Ewan McGregor.

Monsoon Wedding
(2001) A stressed father, a bride-to-be with a secret, a smitten event planner, and relatives from around the world create much ado about the preparations for an arranged marriage in India.

Monster’s Inc.
(2001) Monsters generate their city’s power by scaring children, but they are terribly afraid themselves of being contaminated by children, so when one enters Monstropolis, top scarer Sulley find his world disrupted.

Music and Lyrics
(2007) Alex Fletcher (Hugh Grant), a washed-up ’80s pop star, gets a chance at a comeback when reigning diva Cora Corman invites him to write and record a duet with her. but there’s a problem–Alex hasn’t written a song in years, he’s never written lyrics, and he has to come up with a hit in a matter of days with his plant lady- Sophie Fisher (Drew Barrymore).

My Best Friend’s Wedding
(1997) A woman who, by a promise made years earlier, is supposed to marry her best friend in three weeks, even though she doesn’t want to. When she finds out that he’s marrying someone else, she becomes jealous and tries to break off the wedding.

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Nicholas Nickleby
(2002) Every family needs a hero. A young compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle. Eventually, Nicholas runs away with schoolmate Smike, and the two set off to reunite the Nickleby family.

Nobody Knows
(2004) Four siblings’ odyssey, a journey nobody knows. Though engulfed by the cruel fate of abandonment by their mother, the four children do their best to survive in their own little world, devising and following their own set of rules.

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The Painted Veil
(2006) a love story set in the 1920s that tells the story of a young English couple, Walter (Edward Norton), a middle class doctor and Kitty (Naomi Watts), an upper-class woman, who get married for the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai, where she falls in love with someone else. When he uncovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China ravaged by a deadly epidemic, and takes her along. Their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them purpose in one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth.

Princess Mononoke
(1997) On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami’s curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest and Tataraba, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.

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Resident Evil: Apocolypse 2
(2004) After an outbreak in a top-secret facility, Umbrella ponders on covering up their mistakes by releasing the deadly Nemesis to eliminate surviving STARS members in Raccoon City. Starring Milla Jovovich.

The Rundown
(2003) Starring The Rock, A tough aspiring chef is hired to bring home a mobster’s son from the Amazon but becomes involved in the fight against an oppressive town operator and the search for a legendary treasure.

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School Of Life
(2005) A new teacher squares off against his crusty competitor for a teacher of the year award. Life’s greatest lessons are taught outside the classroom. Starring Ryan Reynolds.

Stay
(2005) This movie focuses on the attempts of a psychiatrist to prevent one of his patients from committing suicide while trying to maintain his own grip on reality. Starring Ewan McGregor, Ryan Gosling and Niomi Watts.

The Sweetest Thing
(2001) A girl finds she is forced to educate herself on the etiquette of wooing the opposite sex when she finally meets Mr. Right. Starring Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate, Selma Blair

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Thornbirds
(1983) This mini series covers 60 years in the lives of the Cleary family, brought from New Zealand to Australia to run their aunt Mary Carson’s ranch. The story centers on their daughter, Meggie, and her love for the family’s priest, Father Ralph de Bricassart. Meggie tries to forget Ralph by marrying dashing stockman Luke O’Neill, but she and Ralph are soon reunited, with tragic consequences for them both. Starring Richard Chamberlain and Rachel Ward.

To Live
(1994) Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry. Addicted to gambling, Fugui loses everything. In the years that follow he is pressed into both the nationalist and communist armies, while Jiazhen is forced into menial work. They raise a family and survive, managing “to live” from the 40’s to the 70’s in this epic, but personal, story of life through an amazing period.

The Triumph of Love
(2001) A Romantic Comedy That Aims For The Heart. A princess is determined to restore her homeland’s throne to its rightful heir, a young prince with whom she falls in love. Starring Mira Sorvino.

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Waiting
(2005) Comedy. Young employees at Shenaniganz restaurant collectively stave off boredom and adulthood with their antics while also thinking about their future. Starring Ryan Reynolds and Anna Farris.

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