Unable to afford the dowry of his wealthy sweetheart, a young man is devastated when his beloved's father forces her to marry another, leaving him to convince his scientist brother to use his knowledge to shrink him. As he becomes pint-sized, he turns the life of his beloved's husband into hell.
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
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A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
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A grifter in 1960s New York is hired to convince a wealthy man's son to return home from Italy and begins a life of deceit, fraud and murder.
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A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.
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Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
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Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.
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A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
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When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial strife, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change as the staff prepares for a new chapter with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.
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Thanks to his police officer father's efforts, Shawn Spencer spent his childhood developing a keen eye for detail (and a lasting dislike of his dad). Years later, Shawn's frequent tips to the police lead to him being falsely accused of a crime he solved. Now, Shawn has no choice but to use his abilities to perpetuate his cover story: psychic crime-solving powers, all the while dragging his best friend, his dad, and the police along for the ride.
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A family of crooks assume the identity of an upper-middle-class suburban clan in the Deep South.
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An ex-con becomes the traveling partner of a conman who turns out to be one of the older gods trying to recruit troops to battle the upstart deities. Based on Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel.
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After turning 60, a wealthy woman suddenly falls in love with an attractive and much younger man, but her family raises doubts about his intentions.
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Maddie, a persona shifting con-artist who is as beautiful as she is dangerous, leaves her unwitting victims tormented when they realize they have been used and robbed of everything – including their hearts. But things get complicated when her former targets, Ezra, Richard, and Jules team up to track her down.
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In 1949, German writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika embark on a road trip across a Germany in ruins, from US-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar.
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This classic Australian mini series was originally broadcast in 1989 as three 90 minute episodes and tells the story of a young woman who goes in search of the father she has never known. Her search takes her from Australia to England and then on to Bangkok. There she meets up with a charming young man, Arkie Regan, who plants drugs in her luggage and leaves her to her fate when the authorities find them during a routine search at the airport. Following her imprisonment in the notorious Bangkok Hilton prison she awaits the decision of the authorities on whether she should face the death penalty.
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A former Army Ranger and struggling father turns to robbing McDonald’s restaurants by cutting holes in their roofs, earning him the nickname "Roofman." After escaping prison, he secretly lives inside a Toys “R” Us for six months, surviving undetected while planning his next move. But when he falls for a divorced mom drawn to his undeniable charm, his double life begins to unravel, setting off a compelling and suspenseful game of cat and mouse as his past closes in.
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A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
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Two girls leave Alexandria, to go to Cairo. They look for fame in the art scene of the big city. Relying only on their beauty, they don't get a lot of luck. One of them returns to Alexandria while the other works as a belly dancer.
An ill-fated flight ends in the Western Desert where it crash-fives into quicksand as the passengers try to control their temper. The movie provides archetypes as they start reflecting on their lives in crisis, some of them being hopeless, and some of them being hopeless romantics.
Based on the novel by Latifa al-Zayyat, which explores a middle-class Egyptian girl's coming of age against the background of the growing Egyptian nationalist movement before the 1952 Egypt revolution.
A strict father refuses to let his beautiful daughter marry the young pilot she loves, believing that the life of a pilot is filled with danger. The pilot sees a dead end, but that does not prevent him from using his cunning to persuade his beloved's father of their marriage.
After Laila's fiancé is killed, she decides to travel to her brother Samy in Aswan. She witnesses a murder from the balcony of the house and reports it to the police, as the gang seeks to kidnap Laila, the only witness.
Karima, the cabaret owner who's called 'Queen of the Night', meets Dr. Mahmoud, the university professor, and falls in love with him. Mahmoud is a widower living with his daughter Hoda who is engaged, and when Mahmoud proposes to Karima, both the daughter and her fiancé are against it.
This magnificently madcap comedy classic stars Egyptian film legends Tahiya Karioka and Emad Hamdi as Zeinab and Hussein, overworked parents who get little relief from the never ending demands of their seven mischievous children. When their eldest daughter, Ahlam, meets a dashing young man at a party, it's love at first sight and wedding plans must quickly be arranged. As preparations get underway, Zeinab and Hussein are soon overwhelmed by the elaborate and costly requests made by the groom's extravagant family. While tending to the needs of their other six children, Hussein and Zeinab must consider unconventional means to obtain the funds for a ceremony that the newlyweds will be proud of.
In Roman-dominated Egypt, the corrupt administration of a governor named Petronius has sparked a revolt headed by El Kabir, a young man who learns that he's actually the son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. When Petronius' daughter, Livia, newly-arrived from Rome, falls into his hands, El Kabir uses this opportunity to win her over to his side before releasing her to her father.
A philosophy teacher finds himself and his ethics surrounded by a corrupt society, and as he's mistaken for an exorcist and fortune-teller. He uses logic and psychological tricks to practice wizardry, until he masters it and controls people, meanwhile losing his ethics.
To cover up a robbery, a plan is devised to set fire to the warehouse. When Youssef confides in Dalia about his concern over the fire, she reports him to Sherif, the mastermind behind the crime. Youssef tries to expose Sherif who plots to have him murdered.
Zuhra has nothing to do but to runaway after her family forced her to marry an old rich man. She goes to Alexandria where she works in a motel and there she meets people with different ideologies and thoughts about life.
Fahmi Abdul Hadi .. A distinguished student of law school .. His dreams are simple and his actions are ideal and pure .. Fahmi collides with the bitter reality of life when losing his mother because he cannot afford the price of her treatment. At a time, He watches his colleagues around him spend money like water and making fun of his poverty and even refuse to help him to treat his mother. Fahmi decides to abandon the idealism and take revenge of all who failed him.
A struggling young man abandons country life to work as a truck driver's assistant. His ambition drives him to be a driver himself, and lives a conflict that tears him apart between his love for a girl from his village, and his gratitude to his teacher who hopes to marry him to his daughter. We see the conflict that rages between truck drivers demanding wage increases on the one hand, and the employer on the other. The film depicts the harsh experiences that the hero goes through and learns through them the enormity of the individual battle in life.
Jaber is a professional hitman who decides to repent, but the gang he is affiliated with refuses to let go of him easily.
A girl (Suheir Ramzi) tells her friends that she lives in an upscale neighborhood and her father is a high rank in the government while she lives a poor life. She comes up with a rumor that a famous tennis player had fallen in love with her, and the tennis player (Nour Al-Sharif) finds out and plays along.
Set against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's novel follows the escapist, drug-fueled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life.
A shepherdess falls in love with a wealthy young medical graduate. His mother disapproves of the relationship, so she devises a plan to keep her away from him. The plan succeeds, and the shepherdess is forced to marry an old rich man who loved her, but he dies shortly after the marriage, leaving her a fortune that a relative of his steals from her through trickery. On the train, she meets a cabaret pimp who takes her with her and they work in the cabaret.
Jonathan is a young man with a strange condition that only his brother understands. But when he begins to yearn for a different life, their unique bond becomes increasingly tested.
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The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
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Amy Pond and Rory Williams are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way the Eleventh Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser. But is Kazran Sardick, the richest man in Sardicktown, beyond redemption? And what is lurking in the fogs of Christmas Eve?
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Diagnosed with a black hole growing inside her chest and stuck in a loop reliving the last five days of her life, a 55-year-old wife and mother from Miami, Florida decides to solve time travel in order to go back and be the person she always intended to be.
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Years after a pandemic wipes out most of the female population, a father struggles to shield his daughter from a dangerous and predatory world.
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After six months at sea, three navy officers return home for a short 24-hour leave, hoping for warmth and affection from their wives. Instead, they're met with cold shoulders and mistrust.
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Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and personal freedom have been well and truly obliterated.
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The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.
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Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
Abduljawad is separated from his wife Iglal, and he left her with their children Hashim and Samira. Hussein proposes to Samira, but when Hussein's father insists on meeting Abduljawad, she turns to her brother Hashim, to persuade their father to go and see Igalal who still loves him.
The Devil's Little Movie was produced in 1964 and directed by Kamal Al-Sheikh
An anthology film that features three stories about the suffering of the people of the Syrian countryside in the time of feudalism; the first is about a poor peasant who falls victim to an agent of feudalism, the second is about a little girl, who has to get medicine for her feverish mother. As for the third story, it depicts the tools of feudalism in wresting the land from the peasants.
Master Farhat falls for the dancer Seham and decides to produce a movie for her. Seham is in love with Shaker and convinces Farhat to have him star opposite her in the movie. Shaker's friend, Saber, enlists his help to find a job, and Shaker introduces Saber to Farhat as an Italian director.
A famous football player, girls flock to his love, and he faces problems with the preacher of one of the girls, but he is also subjected to one of his relatives, who came specially from the level to take revenge on him.
As Magdy leaves Upper Egypt for a job, he befriends the playboy Sami who impresses him with his many relationships. After a chance meeting with Hanan, Magdy asks for Sami's help to get close to her, something that Sami is happy to provide and support with previous experiences.
A failed Syrian inventor named Ziad Jamal is suffering from poverty and lack of faith from others, and his failure to marry the girl he loves. He reads in a newspaper about an armed robbery by a gang, and decides to help the Police in catching them.
It’s a romantic comedy dealing with social issues, shot in color and produced in 1975.
During a trip outside Beirut, a love story develops between two young men: a beautiful girl and her young lover. This story then faces many troubles, but they overcome them and get married.
Azouz lives with his aunt Hayat and her husband, Navy officer Yahya. Egyptian intelligence suspects the Greek girl Marcel. They recruit Yahya to watch and repeat their meeting. Hayat is killed and Marcel is arrested while leaving the country, they press her and inspect Azouz, who urges him to steal a tape of her belonging to Hayat who is recording It has dialogues with her Yahya.
Fardous is in prison for stealing a watch. She shares a cell with Samia, who works in a show band and is wrongly arrested in a brothel and Mona who accidentally killed a child with her car. When Fardous comes out, she works in Asfour's poultry farm, but leaves it when he and his son compete to marry her.
After six months at sea, three navy officers return home for a short 24-hour leave, hoping for warmth and affection from their wives. Instead, they're met with cold shoulders and mistrust.
Ghawar has two jobs: he is a beach guard during the day and a sculptor at night. Ghawar lives with his friend Hosni and the two suffer that their wives travel constantly. A gang plans to steal a statue from the museum where Ghawar works and they send two pretty women to seduce him and Hosni.
Adel lives happily with his wife until he meets his ex-girlfriend, who works as a dancer. During her visit to his home, she faints and then he discovers that she has died. Adel is arrested and his wife is shocked, while his friend the police officer tries to find out the real killer.
A man is being chased by group of people got rescued by a woman named Turkman. This man is astonished that Turkman knows too much about him.
While on the run from some people, Osama seeks refuge in a remote guesthouse run by Mansour, a miserly old man, and his wife Salma, a young and beautiful dancer. An illicit relationship develops between Osama and Salma, and she tempts him to kill her husband in order to seize his wealth and freely enjoy their love. However, Mansour’s daughter arrives to spend her school vacation, and when Osama sees her, his life changes completely.
