The Da Vinci Code (2006)
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Symbologist Robert Langdon is thrown into a mysterious and bizarre murder. Alongside Langdon is the victims granddaughter and cryptologist Sophie Neveu, who with Robert discovers clues within Da Vinci's paintings. To further find the truth, Robert and Sophie travel from Paris to London, whilst crossing paths with allies and villains such as Sir Leigh Teabing and Silas. Wherever their path takes them, their discovery which is about to be revealed could shake the foundations of mankind.
Keywords: 1st-century, 4th-century, airplane, airport, albino, american, american-in-the-uk, anagram, ancient-tomb, appointment
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Taglines:
Seek The Truth
Seek the truth, seek the codes.
So Dark The Con Of Man
Break The Codes
Uncover The Secret
Quotes:
Robert Langdon: You are the secret.
Sir Leigh Teabing: [to Sophie] Can you keep secrets? Can you hear a thing and never say it again? And puzzles and codes, I imagine they lay down to you like lovers.
Robert Langdon: Women are a huge threat to the Church.
Silas: Job 38:11. Do you know it sister?::Sister Sandrine: Job 38:11. 'Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further.'::Silas: 'But no further'. Do you mock me?
Silas: You, cripple. Put the keystone on the table.::Sir Leigh Teabing: You will not succeed. Only the worthy can unlock the stone.
Robert Langdon: It hides beneath the rose.
Robert Langdon: [reading off papyrus scroll] The holy grail 'neath ancient Roslin waits. The blade and chalice guarding o'er her gates. Adorned in masters' loving art, she lies. She rests at last beneath the starry skys.
[first lines]::Silas: Stop now. Tell me where it is.::[removes hood]::Silas: You and your brethren possess what is not rightfully yours.::Jacques Saunière: I don't know what you are talking about.::Silas: Is it a secret you will die for?::Jacques Saunière: Please...::Silas: As you wish.::[cocks gun]
Sophie Neveu: [rips the tape off Silas's mouth] Did you kill Jacques Saunière?::[no answer]::Sophie Neveu: Did you kill Jacques Saunière?::Silas: I am the messenger of God.::Sophie Neveu: [slaps him across the face] Did you kill my grandfather?::Silas: I am the messenger...::[Sophie slaps him again]::Silas: Each breath you take is a sin. No shadow will be safe again, for you will be hunted by angels.::Sophie Neveu: You believe in God? Your God doesn't forgive murderers... he burns them.
Silas: [to Sophie] Do not move, woman. [to Teabing] Cripple, put the box on the table.::Sir Leigh Teabing: What, this trifle? Perhaps we can make a financial arrangement.::Silas: Put the keystone on the table.::Sir Leigh Teabing: You will not succeed. Only the worthy can unlock the stone. [Silas turns gun on Teabing, pulls hammer back]
Trudeau II: Maverick in the Making (2005)
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Born into privilege and wealth, Pierre Trudeau was a boy who grew to value something more in his life. Disgusted with the tyrannical regime of Maurice Duplesis' governance of Quebec with the eager approval of the Catholic Church, Trudeau gains his basic ideals of rights and justice as he joins the fight for a more open society. Although initially hampered by his naive zealousness and his indulgent playboy habits, we see Trudeau gain the skills and the contacts that would help him become the Prime Minister that would redefine a nation.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, canada, canadian, character-name-in-title, civil-liberties, civil-rights, conscription
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Stoned (2005)
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Fact-based story about the drug-addled and sordid life of The Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones. Unfortunately the story moves so quickly into the sensationalized decadence and drug-induced state of Jones, that the unknowing viewer has to wonder why anyone would care. There are only a few framing sequences with members of The Stones, particularly Keith Richards, that show they had a great respect for him and tried to bring him back into the band as he drifted away. Mixed into the destruction of Jones is a common builder, Frank Thorogood, who is given the unenviable task of trying to please Jones by rebuilding his estate and to watch him per Jones' manager's instructions. Thorogood's life is so far removed from all of the sex and drugs that he sees, that he envies and desires the tawdry life as well, but never quite fits in. Unfortunately, at least according to this film and according to a supposed death bed confessional of Thorogood in 1993, it led to Thorogood's murder of Jones in a swimming pool "accident".
Keywords: 1960s, accountant, acid-the-drug, american-flag, anita-pallenberg, antichrist, archive-footage, asthma, attempt-to-save-life, band
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Taglines:
the wild and wicked world of Brian Jones
Before Jimi and Janis there was Brian. The Original Rolling Stone.
Quotes:
Brian Jones: Thanks for making a marytr of me. If it wasn't for you i'd still be alive and, no one would care.::Tom Keylock: You know that isn't true. It was you screwing with Frank's head what did it, because you had nothing better to do. But you did know her...::Brian Jones: Anita.::Tom Keylock: You just had to go and screw it up, didn't ya? Your problem is, you were never happy - even Frank was happy.::Brian Jones: You're wrong you know Tom. I was happy, somewhere in the middle there. The thing with happiness was... It was boring.
Brian Jones: Thanks for making a marytr of me. If it wasn't for you I'd still be alive and, no one would care.::Tom Keylock: You know that isn't true. It was you screwing with Frank's head what did it, because you had nothing better to do. But you did know her...::Brian Jones: Anita.::Tom Keylock: You just had to go and screw it up, didn't ya? Your problem is, you were never happy - even Frank was happy.::Brian Jones: You're wrong you know Tom. I was happy, somewhere in the middle there. The thing with happiness was... It was boring.
La historia del baúl rosado (2005)
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In 1945, in the Train Station of Bogota, Colombia, a dead girl is found in a trunk. The case is assigned to Detective Mariano Corzo, and he has to deal with the yellow journalist Hipólito Mosquera meanwhile he solves the mystery case, besides nobody knows who the girl is, or who put she in the trunk either. The things turn worst when Mosquera says in a newspaper that the trunk is pink, when it is actually brown and wooden. With the help of the bar tender Martina Quijano, Corzo will find an answer for the question: Who killed the girl and why?
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[spoiler: last lines]::Detective Mariano Corzo: A lie-maker.
Martina: It's actionless... not like in movies.
Les destinées sentimentales (2000)
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In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he arranges a separation from his obsessive wife - and more talk when he decides to take her back. By this time he has been drawn to Pauline, niece of a Cognac distiller, and this precipitates him divorcing his wife, settling on her and his daughter the shares he owns in his family's porcelain factory. He resigns the ministry, marries Pauline, and moves to Switzerland and a tranquil life. On the death of his father he agrees to return home to save the factory, knowing the problems it will bring will change his life completely. So it proves, with service in the Great War having a further profound impact on him and those around him.
Keywords: 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, based-on-novel, brandy, cognac, divorce, factory, family-business
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Simon mágus (1999)
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In this surrealistic movie from the director of My 20th Century, the French police seek help from Simon, a visionary living in Budapest to solve a murder case. Whilst in Paris, Simon falls in love with Jeanne, although they do not speak each other's language. When Jeanne leaves for a couple of days, Peter, another visionary, calls Simon for a duel: They both have to spend three days buried alive. Will Simon ever meet his love again?
Keywords: character-name-in-title, sorcerer, surrealist
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La vita è bella (1997)
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In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, anvil, automobile, bicycle, blockbuster, bookstore, cake, character's-point-of-view-camera-shot, charades
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An unforgettable fable that proves love, family and imagination conquer all.
Quotes:
Guido: You can lose all your points for any one of three things. One: If you cry. Two: If you ask to see your mother. Three: If you're hungry and ask for a snack! Forget it!
Guido: What kind of place is this? It's beautiful: Pigeons fly, women fall from the sky! I'm moving here!
Guido: Buon giorno, Principessa!
Guido: I forgot to tell you.::Dora: Go ahead.::Guido: You can't imagine how much I feel like making love to you. But I'll never tell anyone, especially not you. They'd have to torture me to make me say it.::Dora: Say what?::Guido: That I want to make love to you - not just once, but over and over again! But I'll never tell you that. I'd have to be crazy to tell you. I'd even make love to you now... right here for the rest of my life.
Guido: What are your political views?::Other Man: [speaking to his two sons] Benito, Adolf! Sit Down!... Sorry Guido, what did you say?
Dr. Lessing: Fat, fat, ugly, ugly, all yellow in truth, if you ask me where I am I answer "here, here, here". Walking I make poo poo, who am I?
Giosué Orefice: "No Jews or Dogs Allowed." Why do all the shops say, "No Jews Allowed"?::Guido: Oh, that. "Not Allowed" signs are the latest trend! The other day, I was in a shop with my friend the kangaroo, but their sign said, "No Kangaroos Allowed," and I said to my friend, "Well, what can I do? They don't allow kangaroos."::Giosué Orefice: Why doesn't our shop have a "Not Allowed" sign?::Guido: Well, tomorrow, we'll put one up. We won't let in anything we don't like. What don't you like?::Giosué Orefice: Spiders.::Guido: Good. I don't like Visigoths. Tomorrow, we'll get sign: "No Spiders or Visigoths Allowed."
Guido: [being shipped to a concentration camp] You've never ridden on a train, have you? They're fantastic! Everybody stands up, close together, and there are no seats!::Giosué Orefice: There aren't any seats?::Guido: Seats? On a train? It's obvious you've never ridden one before! No, everybody's packed in, standing up. Look at this line to get on! Hey, we've got tickets, save room for us!
Dora: My husband and son are on that train. I want to get on that train. Did you hear me? I want to get on that train.
Giosué Orefice: Look, they stopped the train to let Mom get on.::Guido: Dora...
The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
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Peaceloving blacksmith Marcus refuses lucrative offers to fight in the arena...until his wife dies for lack of medical care. His life as a gladiator coarsens him, and shady enterprises make him the richest man in Pompeii, while his son Flavius (who met Jesus on a brief visit to Judaea) is as gentle as Marcus once was. The final disaster of Marcus and Flavius's cross purposes is interrupted by the eruption of Vesuvius.
Keywords: adopted-son, amman, ancient-rome, ancient-times, arena, based-on-novel, blacksmith, born-again-christian, building-collapse, christian
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Marcus: Money is all that matters. Well, I can get money! It's easy to get money! All you have to do... is kill.
Marcus: He still believes in things.::Pontius Pilate: And you and I are wiser? Perhaps... What is truth?
Pontius Pilate: My boy, I've heard such ideas, a long time ago. They are dreams - beautiful dreams, I know, but dreams nonetheless.::Flavius, as a Man: Was it a dream that once I knew a man who said "Love thy neighbor as thyself"?::Marcus: There never was such a man, I tell you.::Pontius Pilate: Don't lie to him, Marcus. There was such a man.::Flavius, as a Man: What happened to him?::Pontius Pilate: I crucified Him.
Pontius Pilate: I am innocent of the blood of this just man.
Cleon, the Slave Dealer: [pandering] If you're a rich man, a few coppers wouldn't interest you. [giving Marcus a coin] This is for your work... [he gives him a second copper]... and this is for saving my life.::Marcus: [laughing with contempt] Just about what the job is worth!
Gaius Tanno: You remind me of an acrobat in the arena walking on a rope stretched high in the air.::Marcus: Walking on a rope?::Gaius Tanno: Yes, a rope no wider than my thumb.::Marcus: [laughing] I'm not walking on a rope.::Gaius Tanno: Oh, yes, you are. Every poor man is. You think you're balanced nicely, but only money can make you safe. Some little unexpected thing, and you're down... smashed!
Cleon, the Slave Dealer: I don't think you should look down on me, my friend. Aren't we in the same business? We both furnish amusement for the people.::Marcus: I risk my life with the man I'm fighting. You buy and sell wretches to be slaughtered as a spectacle. I'm not proud of myself, but, by Jupiter, compared to you I'm a holy man.::Cleon, the Slave Dealer: You will never be an old one. It isn't bravery that survives; it's brains.::Marcus: Yes, it is well known that the rat lives longer than the lion, but who wants to be a rat? I wouldn't do your dirty work - not to save my life!
Marcus: If you don't want my money, what will you give to the poor?::Flavius, as a Man: Myself.
Prefect: What do you keep behind these locks and bolts?::Marcus: My fortune, excellency. It's a safe place.::Burbix: Would the prefect like to inspect the barbarians - the Britons who are to fight tomorrow?::Marcus: Yes. [to the prefect] Captives from Agricola's campaign.::Prefect: I wonder why we Romans trouble ourselves with that wretched island? After it's conquered, what good is it?::Marcus: Don't you believe we can ever civilize the Britons?::Prefect: Those people? They'll always be barbarians. What will they ever do?
