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A Good Year

career 05:25:00
 The definition of success is different for everyone. Swimming in the sea of financial sharks, owning a great apartment, and enjoying the pleasures of a big city is considered a great achievement for some but, possibly, you need to redefine things in life. Going back to your roots gives you an opportunity to climb not the career ladder but expand your own personal...
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The Magnificent Seven

action 05:10:00
 All the good in the world is tinted with some evil. But if you come across a particularly nasty bad guy who makes life for people in your town a living nightmare, you need to take action. And just as in every good recipe for success you need a few key ingredients. Courage, skill, humor, wit, friendship, and trust with a pinch of...
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Knives Out

accident 04:55:00
 It's rare that all family members add up equally to the family fortune. It often happens that one hard-working and successful man keeps the rest of the less accomplished, lazy bunch afloat. The fortune is tempting like a lottery win and there are many eager candidates for the inheritance. You can wait for years for the death of the prospective benefactor, but what...
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Bohemian Rhapsody

career 12:20:00
 It's a challenge to play someone well-known and characteristic without the cringe effect. Freddy Mercury was such a person for sure. But having an unsurpassed music gift calls for an unsurpassed acting talent, and then the story just clicks. Queen's music enchanted us with this brilliant feeling of unity and power against the world's injustice. Bohemian Rhapsody reminds you about that magic and...
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The Big Lebowski

black comedy 04:47:00
 You can live your quiet, uneventful life, not bothering anyone, getting in trouble, or aiming too high in life or career opportunities. But trouble tends to find you. What if you were mistaken for a millionaire with a reckless wife and thrown into a crime you had no intention of getting involved in? What if someone pissed on your carpet, and while having...
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Seven Years in Tibet

Brad Pitt 01:35:00
Ambition can blind you at times. You can be driven by ego and achievements and be misled by what is worthy. Life also puts obstacles in front of you, challenges that make you learn your lessons and change your course of action. This journey gives you people who can shift your perspective and teach you the important things. And very rarely in life,...
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Supernova

Colin Firth 03:42:00
 When you look at the pictures of couples that have spent their lives together and celebrated decades, you want that for yourself. You want that company, that happiness, that time, and that love. Success, money, and health are just a part of life. Another part contains the downs you agree on at the altar. And you know that the downs will be coming...
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Another Round/Druk

accident 03:19:00
Life gets boring, problematic, and stressful. You're not as good as you wish you'd be, and it's no point denying that you're on the right path to success. What if you could make it just a bit less tiresome? A bit more exciting? A bit more relaxed? What if drinking just a bit of alcohol every day could solve your life problems? Experiments...
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I Care a Lot

crime 10:16:00
 For an average person, it takes a lifetime to finally own a home, save up enough for retirement and enjoy the autumn of their lives, spending what was once earned by hard work. But if you want to have a lot and you want it fast, you have to act in a different way. Acquiring lifetime savings of lonely elderly, imprisoning them in...
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True Grit

crime 09:31:00
If you have a matter to solve, you want to get the job done, don't you? And when the issue concerns the killing of your father, you want to hire the best possible person to make sure the villain will be caught and punished accordingly. And it doesn't matter that you are just a teenage girl in the brutal world of Wild West...
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Amadeus

competition 08:20:00
 Life is unfair in its distribution of goods. Some are born rich and healthy, others live in abandonment, poverty, and sickness. Equally is with talent. You might think that those with God's gift are special, distinct, and admirable. That they had finished the best schools, have the best manners, and epitomize the best human virtues. But kings and geniuses equally are only people...
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Palm Springs

adventure 03:55:00
Remember Groundhog Day? Thirty years on you can have the same concept adjusted to modern circumstances. And what reliving the same day over and over, and over again means for the 2020s? Is it the same as Bill Murray's never-ending nightmare which led to self-reflection or in time have we changed and our experiences, social contacts, and relationships are relevant only for us? This...
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The Dark Crystal

adventure 04:29:00
 Not only actors can act with their mimicry and gestures. The world of fantasy is opened to more than green-screen special effects. It can be created by hours of work, costume design, and arts and crafts. And the result is one of a kind. You can call them puppets, but once you enter their realm, you will buy their unique faces and movements,...
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The Princess Bride

fairy tales 04:01:00
 Are you fond of fairy tales? You can argue that they are for children, but written by adults, they have at least a pinch of truth in them. Do you believe in true love? Are you a fan of quests, castles, princesses in distress, and magic? Righteous knights and evil princes? Giants and revenge? And maybe a bit of humor? Then, a perfect...
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Split

Anya Taylor-Joy 03:45:00
 It's one thing if you're moody, mean, and unpleasant. Or when one moment you're blissful and another devastated, spoiling the mood of everyone around you. Your friends and family might think that you're difficult or toxic to handle. But if inside you there were multiple personalities with their unique language, style, age, and life philosophy? And what if these personalities were not necessarily...
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A Monster Calls

cancer 04:08:00
We all have to deal with loss. If you ever loved anybody, be it your parents, partner, children, or pets, at some point, you'll have to experience excruciating pain, trauma, and deprivation. And you'll be there to deal with the remaining holes of your days. If you're a child facing the disease of your mother, the pain might leave you with a sense...
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Promising Young Woman

black comedy 03:40:00
 We've all been there. We have seen he said vs she said rape investigations, we have experienced discrimination at work, we had to fight against our father's, brother's, male politician's, and partner's wishes and ideas about our career choices, maternity decisions, and beliefs. Is there anything we, women, can do to finally feel equal? Is there a way to stop mistreatment and discrimination?...
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The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings

adventure 06:52:00
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If there is a series of films, which made magic come true in the most spectacular way, which influenced generations in the past and generations to come, it's impossible to omit the legacy of J.R.R. Tolkien. If there had ever been a more challenging writer, who created not only a story but entire worlds with their own languages, legends, and history, the film...
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David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

animals 11:24:00
Long life can give you something which you won't get at school, even being the smartest of the smartest and the most studious. Long life can give you experience and perspective. For someone so devoted to the beauty of flora and fauna, to the endless and awe-inspiring, untouched, and pristine, it must be heart-breaking to see that our planet is being destroyed. There...
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The Dig

Carey Mulligan 05:05:00
 In our teenage dreams, we are great explorers and achievers, independent artists, and freelance photographers. Then, even if we pursue our passion and complete our dream education, the reality comes back to us with the necessity of having odd jobs to make ends meet. Our parents discourage us from being archeologists, singers, actors, presenting the opulence of life for lawyers, doctors, and businessmen....
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The First Wives Club

aging 03:41:00
One day, you're young and innocent, and all those married forty-year-olds stare at you weighing their thoughts whether to leave their wife and children for you and pursue their desires. And after a wink, the situation is reversed. You are the one who is abandoned for someone younger, prettier, more successful, or (and this is a slap in the face) completely different. You've...
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James Bond

action 05:52:00
 What is our sinful nature the most attracted to? Beauty, money, power, exploration. All this - the best that the world has to offer - you can see in Ian Fleming's series of novels, which have been turned into a series of blockbuster films. There isn't a person in the world that doesn't know the 007 agent of Her Majesty's Service, handsome, a...
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Pieces of a Woman

death 03:43:00
 The majority of women want to have children. You can argue that they don't have to, that there is a choice, and a lot of them are not cracked up to be mothers (not even one feminist wants to be closed in the kitchen). But there are millions of those who love their children, they do want them, anticipate them, and fear any...
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Groundhog Day

Andie MacDowell 06:39:00
Life. Ranging from monotonous to exciting. Full of ups and downs. Falling in love and breaking up. Excitement and depression. Kindness and the ugly truth. Life goes by and before you know it, you fall into the trap of your routine and grow miserable. But if, quite depressed by your current daily chore of being alive, you found yourself in an almost magical...
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On the nature of pictures

*Every Google image belongs to someone and this someone should be noted. However, if pictures are scenes from the film they most probably belong to owners of the film/producers. I use saved screens of the Google compilation of pictures, thus the pictures of pictures, which I take, cut and edit myself (as a derivative use). They are used for reviewing purposes (fair use), not for diminishing the films' profits by stealing what rightly belongs to them. Copyright is tricky, let's get used to it.