Portugal:M/12 certified movies

The Object of My Affection (1998)

Thursday, March 4th, 2010
The Object of My Affection
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Paul Rudd | Kali Rocha | Jennifer Aniston | Lena Cardwell | Natalie B. Kikkenborg | Lauren Pratt | Hayden Panettiere | Lauren Chen | Liam Aiken | Alan Alda | Allison Janney | Tim Daly | Janet Zarish | Ellen Tobie | Virl Andrick
Directors: Nicholas Hytner
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George and Nina seem like the perfect couple. They share a cozy Brooklyn apartment, a taste for tuna casserole dinners, and a devotion to ballroom dancing. They love each other. There’s only one hitch: George is gay. And when Nina announces she’s pregnant, things get especially complicated. Vince – Nina’s overbearing boyfriend and the baby’s father-wants marriage. Nina wants independence. George will do anything for a little unqualified affection, but is he ready to become an unwed surrogate dad?

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The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
The Man Who Wasn’t There
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton | Frances McDormand | Michael Badalucco | James Gandolfini | Katherine Borowitz | Jon Polito | Scarlett Johansson | Richard Jenkins | Tony Shalhoub | Christopher Kriesa | Brian Haley | Jack McGee | Gregg Binkley | Alan Fudge | Lilyan Chauvin
Directors: Ethan Coen
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1949, Santa Rosa, California. A laconic, chain-smoking barber with fallen arches tells a story of a man trying to escape a humdrum life. It’s a tale of suspected adultery, blackmail, foul play, death, Sacramento city slickers, racial slurs, invented war heroics, shaved legs, a gamine piano player, aliens, and Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. Ed Crane cuts hair in his in-law’s shop; his wife drinks and may be having an affair with her boss, Big Dave, who has $10,000 to invest in a second department store. Ed gets wind of a chance to make money in dry cleaning. Blackmail and investment are his opportunity to be more than a man no one notices. Settle in the chair and listen.

The American President (1995)

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
The American President
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Douglas | Annette Bening | Martin Sheen | Michael J. Fox | Anna Deavere Smith | Samantha Mathis | Shawna Waldron | David Paymer | Anne Haney | Richard Dreyfuss | Nina Siemaszko | Wendie Malick | Beau Billingslea | Gail Strickland | Joshua Malina
Directors: Rob Reiner
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As President, Andrew Shepherd is immensely popular (he has a 63% approval rating). As a man, he’s a lonely father struggling to raise a daughter. His struggles multiply when his romance with lobbyist Sydney Ellen Wade becomes fodder for both the press and a rival Senator — precipitating a rapid drop in the polls.

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Titanic (1953)

Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Titanic
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio | Kate Winslet | Billy Zane | Kathy Bates | Frances Fisher | Gloria Stuart | Bill Paxton | Bernard Hill | David Warner | Victor Garber | Jonathan Hyde | Suzy Amis | Lewis Abernathy | Nicholas Cascone | Dr. Anatoly M. Sagalevitch
Directors: James Cameron
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Unhappily married and uncomfortable with life among the British upper crust, Julia Sturges takes her two children and boards the Titanic for America. Her husband Richard also arranges passage on the doomed luxury liner in order to let him have custody of their two children. Their problems soon seem minor when the ship hits an iceberg.

The Good Shepherd (2006)

Saturday, February 27th, 2010
The Good Shepherd
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Matt Damon | Angelina Jolie | Alec Baldwin | Tammy Blanchard | Billy Crudup | Keir Dullea | Michael Gambon | Martina Gedeck | William Hurt | Timothy Hutton | Mark Ivanir | Gabriel Macht | Lee Pace | Joe Pesci
Directors: Robert De Niro
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Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father’s suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded Office of Strategic Services (OSS, the predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency). While working there, his ideals gradually turn to suspicion influenced by the Cold War paranoia present within the office. Eventually, he becomes an influential veteran operative, while his distrust of everyone around him increases to no end. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.

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The Jacket (2005)

Friday, February 26th, 2010
The Jacket
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Adrien Brody | Keira Knightley | Kris Kristofferson | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Kelly Lynch | Brad Renfro | Daniel Craig | Steven Mackintosh | Brendan Coyle | Mackenzie Phillips | Laura Marano | Jason Lewis | Richard Dillane | Jonah Lotan | Angel Coulby
Directors: John Maybury
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In 1991, in Iraq, the military Jack Starks is shot in the head and presumed dead. When he blinks his eyes in the morgue, the doctor is called. One year later, after being discharged from the army, while hitchhiking in a road in Vermont having amnesia problem, he helps a drunken woman, Jean Price, and her daughter, Jackie Price, fixing their car. Later, he gets a lift, but the driver is stopped by the police and kills the policeman with three shots. Jack is also shot in the head and incriminated by the real killer, who leaves his gun close to the fainted Jack. He goes to court and is sentenced to the mental institution Alpine Grove for insane criminals. Jack becomes the experiment of Dr. Thomas Becker, who drugs and dresses him with a jacket and lock him in a drawer for corpses in the morgue. While locked, Jack travels to 2007, where he meets a grown-up Jackie Price and they fall in love for each other. Jack envisions that the only exit from the institution is though the jacket.

Taxi 2 (2000)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Taxi 2
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Samy Naceri | Frédéric Diefenthal | Marion Cotillard | Emma Sjöberg | Bernard Farcy | Jean-Christophe Bouvet | Frédérique Tirmont | Marc Faure | Hirata Haruhiko | Tsuyu Shimizu | Ko Suzuki | Yoshi Oida | Kentaro Yuji Yamashita | Hiro Uchiyama | Onochi Seietsu
Directors: Gérard Krawczyk
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The Japanese ambassaor is visiting Marseilles to view the city police’s anti-gang tactics. During the visit, however, he is kidnapped by a group working for the Japanese yakuza. Young officer Emilien is determined to rescue the ambassador and officer Petra (his girlfriend), who was also kidnapped, and restore the honor of his department. Once again, speed demon taxi-driver Daniel (from the first Taxi movie) is called upon to save the day with his high-speed driving skills.

Taxi (1998)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Taxi
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Samy Naceri | Frédéric Diefenthal | Marion Cotillard | Manuela Gourary | Emma Sjöberg | Bernard Farcy | Georges Neri | Guy Quang | Maurice Murcia | Sabine Bail | Dan Herzberg | Sébastien Thiery | Eric Bérenger | Philippe Du Janerand | Christophe Fesquet
Directors: Luc Besson | Gérard Pirès
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In Marseilles (France), skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can’t drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn’t lose his license and his dream job.

Che: Part Two (2008)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Che: Part Two
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Benicio Del Toro | Carlos Bardem | Demián Bichir | Joaquim de Almeida | Pablo Durán | Eduard Fernández | Marc-André Grondin | Óscar Jaenada | Kahlil Mendez | Cristian Mercado | Jordi Mollà | Gastón Pauls | Antonio Peredo | Jorge Perugorría | Lou Diamond Phillips
Directors: Steven Soderbergh
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In 1967, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara resigns from his Cuban government posts to secretly make his latest attempt to spread the revolution in Bolivia. However, Che must face grim realities about few troops and supplies, his failing health and a local population who largely does not share his idealistic aspirations. As the US supported Bolivian army prepares to defeat him, Che and his beleaguered force struggle against the increasingly hopeless odds.

Che: Part One (2008)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Che: Part One
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Benicio Del Toro | Demián Bichir | Santiago Cabrera | Vladimir Cruz | Alfredo De Quesada | Jsu Garcia | Kahlil Mendez | Elvira Mínguez | Andres Munar | Julia Ormond | Jorge Perugorría | Édgar Ramírez | Victor Rasuk | Othello Rensoli | Armando Riesco
Directors: Steven Soderbergh
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The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support and an army and toppled the U.S.-friendly regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.

The Chamber (1996)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
The Chamber
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Chris O'Donnell | Gene Hackman | Faye Dunaway | Robert Prosky | Raymond J. Barry | Bo Jackson | Lela Rochon | David Marshall Grant | Nicholas Pryor | Harve Presnell | Richard Bradford | Greg Goossen | Seth Isler | Millie Perkins
Directors: James Foley
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Having survived the hatred and bigotry that was his Klansman grandfather’s only legacy, young attorney Adam Hall seeks at the last minute to appeal the old man’s death sentence for the murder of two small Jewish boys 30 years before. Only four weeks before Sam Cayhall is to be executed, Adam meets his grandfather for the first time in the Mississippi prison which has held him since the crime. The meeting is predictably tense when the educated, young Mr. “Hall” confronts his venom-spewing elder, Mr. “Cayhall,” about the murders. The next day, headlines run proclaiming Adam the grandson who has come to the state to save his grandfather, the infamous Ku Klux Klan bomber. While the old man’s life lies in the balance, Adam’s motivation in fighting this battle becomes clear as the story unfolds. Not only does he fight for his grandfather, but perhaps for himself as well. He has come to heal the wounds of his own father’s suicide, to mitigate the secret shame he has always felt for the genetic fluke which made this man his grandfather, and to bring closure — one way or another — to the suffering the old man seems to have brought to everyone he has ever known. But, would mercy soften his grandfather’s heart?

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The Straight Story (1999)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
The Straight Story
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
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Alvin Straight is a very old man with a quiet life in a small country town. When his brother gets seriously sick, he decides to put away their differences and visit him after many, many years. So, alone, he begins a long journey through hundreds of miles, just to see again his brother, even if it’s the last thing he will ever do… Based on a real story.

Smother (2008)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Smother
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Diane Keaton | Dax Shepard | Liv Tyler | Mike White | Ken Howard | Selma Stern | Jerry Lambert | Don Lake | Sarah Lancaster | Cameron Bender | Ron Butler | Frank Crim | Lucas Gorak | Johnny Hagen | Taj Hester
Directors: Vince Di Meglio
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What would you do if your mother moved in with you and just wouldn’t leave? When NOAH COOPER, 29, is fired from his job as a therapist, he thinks his day can’t possibly get worse. When he arrives home his already full house gets even crazier when MARILYN, Noah’s overbearing mother arrives with her five dogs in tow needing a place to stay. Comedy ensues as Noah learns to deal with the pressures of finding a job, a wife who desperately wants a baby, and worst of all a mother who won’t quit smothering!

Pranzo di ferragosto (2008)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Pranzo di ferragosto
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Valeria De Franciscis | Marina Cacciotti | Maria Calì | Grazia Cesarini Sforza | Alfonso Santagata | Luigi Marchetti | Marcello Ottolenghi | Petre Rosu | Biagio Ursitti
Directors: Gianni Di Gregorio
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La môme (2007)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
La môme
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Marion Cotillard | Sylvie Testud | Pascal Greggory | Emmanuelle Seigner | Jean-Paul Rouve | Gérard Depardieu | Clotilde Courau | Jean-Pierre Martins | Catherine Allégret | Marc Barbé | Caroline Sihol | Manon Chevallier | Pauline Burlet | Elisabeth Commelin | Marc Gannot
Directors: Olivier Dahan
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An un-chronological look at the life of the Little Sparrow, ‘Édith Piaf’ (qv) (1915-1963). Her mother is an alcoholic street singer, her father a circus performer, her paternal grandmother a madam. During childhood she lives with each of them. At 20, she’s a street singer discovered by a club owner who’s soon murdered, coached by a musician who brings her to concert halls, and then quickly famous. Constant companions are alcohol and heartache. The tragedies of her love affair with Marcel Cerdan and the death of her only child belie the words of one of her signature songs, “Non, je ne regrette rien.” The back and forth nature of the narrative suggests the patterns of memory and association.

Fireflies in the Garden (2008)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Fireflies in the Garden
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Ryan Reynolds | Willem Dafoe | Emily Watson | Carrie-Anne Moss | Julia Roberts | Ioan Gruffudd | Hayden Panettiere | Shannon Lucio | Cayden Boyd | George Newbern | Chase Ellison | Brooklynn Proulx | Diane Perella | Natalie Karp | John C. Stennfeld
Directors: Dennis Lee
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The semi-autobiographical story centers on the complexities of love and commitment in a family torn apart when faced by an unexpected tragedy.

Malèna (2000)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Malèna
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Monica Bellucci | Giuseppe Sulfaro | Luciano Federico | Matilde Piana | Pietro Notarianni | Gaetano Aronica | Gilberto Idonea | Angelo Pellegrino | Gabriella Di Luzio | Pippo Provvidenti | Maria Terranova | Marcello Catalano | Elisa Morucci | Domenico Gennaro | Vitalba Andrea
Directors: Giuseppe Tornatore
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On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna, a beautiful, silent outsider who’s moved to this Sicilian town to be with her husband Nico who promptly goes off to war, leaving her to the lustful eyes of the men and the sharp tongues of the women. During the next few years, as Renato grows toward manhood, he watches Malèna suffer and prove her mettle: her loneliness, then grief when Nico is reported dead, the effects of slander on her relationship with her father, her poverty and search for work, and final humiliations. Will Renato learn courage from Malèna and stand up for her?

The Class (2008)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
The Class
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: François Bégaudeau | Nassim Amrabt | Cherif Bounaïdja Rachedi | Arthur Fogel | Damien Gomes | Laura Baquela | Juliette Demaille | Dalla Doucoure
Directors: Laurent Cantet
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Teacher François Marin and his colleagues are preparing for another school year teaching at a racially mixed inner city high school in Paris. The teachers talk to each other about their prospective students, both the good and the bad. The teachers collectively want to inspire their students, but each teacher is an individual who will do things in his or her own way to achieve the results they desire. They also have differing viewpoints on the students themselves, and how best to praise and discipline them. The administration of the school tries to be as fair as possible, which includes having student representatives sit on the student evaluation committee. Marin’s class this year of fourteen and fifteen year olds is no different than previous years, although the names and faces have changed. Marin tries to get through to his students, sometimes with success and sometimes resulting in utter failure. Even Marin has his breaking point, which may result in him doing things he would probably admit to himself are wrong. But after all is said and done, there is next year and another group of students.

Spanglish (2004)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Spanglish
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Adam Sandler | Téa Leoni | Paz Vega | Cloris Leachman | Shelbie Bruce | Sarah Steele
Directors: James L. Brooks
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John Clasky is a devoted dad whose skills as a chef have offered his family a very upscale life, including a summer home in Malibu and a breathtaking new Mexican housekeeper, named Flor. She and her daughter Cristina have recently emigrated to L.A. from Mexico and are trying to find a better life. When they move in with the Claskys for the summer, Flor has to fight for her daughter’s soul as she discovers that life in a new country is perilous!

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Good Will Hunting
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Robin Williams | Matt Damon | Ben Affleck | Stellan Skarsgård | Minnie Driver | Casey Affleck | Cole Hauser | John Mighton | Rachel Majorowski | Colleen McCauley | Matt Mercier | Ralph St. George | Rob Lynds | Dan Washington | Alison Folland
Directors: Gus Van Sant
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Will Hunting is a boy genius who was severely abused as a child and has been in trouble with the law ever since. When Will finally agrees to get counseling to keep himself out of jail and with his girlfriend, he meets Sean, the therapist who will change his life. Good Will Hunting tells the poignant story of Will and Sean’s coming to terms with the blows life has dealt them and with the questions that lie in the future.