Movies In 2006
Director: Billy Corben
Stars: Jon Roberts, Al Sunshine, Sam Burstyn
In the 1980s ruthless Colombian cocaine barons invaded Miami with a brand of violence unseen in this country since Prohibition-era Chicago - and it put the city on the map. Cocaine Cowboys is the true story of how Miami became the drug murder and cash capital of the USA told by the people who made it all...
Director: Mark Verkerk
Stars: Phra Khru Bah Neua Chai Kositto, Khun Ead, Pan Sean
Buddhas Lost Children is a feature-length documentary film about a Thai Buddhist monk who - armed only with his faith and skills and master boxer skills - wages an inspirational battle to help orphaned children fight drug abuse and preserve a vanishing way of...
Director: Marty Callaghan
Stars:
Marty Callaghans Synopsis: Except for the Dardanelles/Gallipoli campaigns the extensive combat operations in the Middle East during World War I have been largely overlooked in documentary programs. Given the historical significance of the Ottoman Empires demise in 1918 and the ongoing importance of Middle Eastern oil reserves to Western economies a close study of this conflict provides two...
Director: Davis Guggenheim
Stars: Al Gore, Billy West, George Bush
Director Davis Guggenheim eloquently weaves the science of global warming with Mr. Gores personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change. A longtime advocate for the environment Gore presents a wide array of facts and information in a thoughtful and compelling way. Al Gore strips his presentations of politics laying out the facts for the audience...
Director: Aaron Russo
Stars: Aaron Russo, John Turner, Joe Banister
A documentary that explores the connection between income tax collection and the erosion of civil liberties in...
Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell
Diana the Peoples Princess has died in a car accident in Paris. The Queen and her family decide that for the best they should remain hidden behind the closed doors of Balmoral Castle. The heartbroken public do not understand and request that the Queen comforts her people. This also puts pressure on newly elected Tony Blair who constantly tries to convince the monarchy to address the...
Director: Susanne Bier
Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Rolf Lassgård
Jacob Pederson lives in shanty surroundings in Bombay India and assists in the running of Anand Orphanage and School. He had attempted a number of projects to assist orphans including child prostitutes - all quite in vain. He has adopted a young male orphan Pramod and takes special care of him. With growing pressure on the facilities which is on the verge bankruptcy the orphanage receives...
Director: Douglas McGrath
Stars: Toby Jones, Daniel Craig, Sandra Bullock
On November 16 1959 Truman Capote reads about the murder of a Kansas family. There are no suspects. With Harper Lee he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must get locals to talk then after arrests he must gain access to the prisoners. One talks constantly; the other Perry Smith says little. Capote is implacable wanting the story believing this book will...
Director: George Hickenlooper
Stars: Sienna Miller, Guy Pearce, Hayden Christensen
A beautiful wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on...
Director: Milos Forman
Stars: Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgård
The painter Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition when his muse Ines is arrested by the church for heresy. Her father Thomas comes to him hoping that his connection with Brother Lorenzo whom he is painting can secure the release of his...
Director: Sofia Coppola
Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn
All eyes will be on you says the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa to her youngest daughter Marie Antoinette. The film marketed for a teen audience is an impressionistic retelling of Marie Antoinettes life as a young queen in the opulent and eccentric court at Versailles. The film focuses on Marie Antoinette as she matures from a teenage bride to a young woman and eventual queen of...
Director: Phillip Noyce
Stars: Derek Luke, Tim Robbins, Bonnie Henna
A political thriller: the real-life story of a South African heros journey to freedom. In the countrys turbulent and divided times in the 1980s Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the countrys oppressive reigning system even as police Colonel Nic Vos further...
Director: Michael Apted
Stars: Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon
In 1797 William Wilberforce the great crusader for the British abolition of slavery is taking a vacation for his health even while he is sicker at heart for his frustrated cause. However meeting the charming Barbara Spooner Wilberforce finds a soulmate to share the story of his struggle. With few allies such as his mentor John Newton a slave ship captain turned repentant priest who penned...
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Stars: Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Anton Yelchin
1999 Claremont California. Middle-class kids in their 20s talk trash wave guns hang out in a pack. Johnny Truelove drug dealer and son of a underworld figure threatens Jake Mazursky an explosive head case who owes Johnny money; Jake responds by breaking into Johnnys house. On impulse Johnny and a couple pals kidnap Jakes 15-year-old brother Zach. Zachs okay with it figuring his...
Director: Frank Coraci
Stars: Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken
Michael Newman Sandler is a hard working family man who must please his boss Hasselhoff in order to get promoted. Problem is he gets less time with his family and wishes for a remote in which he can control his life. This soon comes true for Newman when he meets Morty Walken a crazy sales clerk who has the ultimate remote. A remote in which he can do anything including muting...
Director: Michael Lembeck
Stars: Tim Allen, Martin Short, Elizabeth Mitchell
Now that Santa/Scott Calvin and Mrs. Claus/Carol Calvin have the North Pole running smoothly the Counsel of Legendary Figures has called an emergency meeting on Christmas Eve! The evil Jack Frost has been making trouble looking to take over the holiday! So he launches a plan to sabotage the toy factory and compel Scott to invoke the little-known Escape Clause and wish hed never become...
Director: Chris Renaud, Mike Thurmeier
Stars: Chris Wedge
Scrat comes across a time machine and is transported to various times all in pursuit of his beloved...
Director: David J. Francis
Stars: Steve Curtis, Sharon DeWitt, Dan Rooney
A new deadly virus is transmitted to humans via mosquito bites and then learns to control their corpses. A bunch of survivors let their guard down once they find shelter and sex in each...
Director: Craig Singer
Stars: Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Patrick Renna, David Clayton Rogers
Ten years after he brutally murdered two girls a killer escapes from a mental institution and returns to his turf the theme park attraction called Dark Ride. About to crash his path are a group of college kids on a road trip who stumble across the...
Director: Greg Beeman
Stars: Justin Hartley, Lou Diamond Phillips, Denise Quiñones
A young twenty-something diver living in the Florida Keys discovers he has the power to breathe...
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Stars: Braam Greyling, Godfrey Seome, Dawie Ackermann
An eerie tale of a close encounter of the third kind in...
Director: Albert Pyun
Stars: Morgan Weisser, Crystal Laws Green, Jenny Dare Paulin
Charlie Baxter a struggling screenwriter is searching for accommodation in a rundown mansion somewhere in the isolated mountains above Malibu. An expressionless and creatively bankrupt young man who rewrites exploitation sci-fi / horror scripts for a living he takes a room in the mansion and learns of the mysterious doctor residing in the room above his own who dabbles in strange experiments....
Director: Patchanon Thammajira
Stars: Pimpan Chalaikupp, Vittaya Wasukraipaisan, Kulthida Sattabongkoch
Colic is a syndrome found in infants which causes infants to cry continuously for hours. The reason behind this illness is usually credited by medical expects to a number of factors. However some people believe that its linked to something supernatural. Colic tells a story of a couple Pongpob and Phraeploy who have a shotgun wedding upon discovering that Praeploy has unexpectedly become...
Director: John Roecker
Stars: Nick 13, Billie Joe Armstrong, Tim Armstrong
It is the year 3069 and the Earth has been robbed of all its natural resources destroyed by war and ozone depletion and is now only a barren desert. The humans who inhabit this empty vessel search not only for food but for a god to save them. Their search will soon be over when Charlie returns to save...
Director: James Marshall
Stars: Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum
Thrown into the hell-dimension of the Phantom Zone a Kryptonian jail created by Jor-el Clark finds himself without powers and surrounded by revenge-seeking criminals both spirits and physical beings sent away by his father. But Clark is rescued by a Kryptonian female warrior named Raya who claimed to have known Jor-El and offers to help him escape. Meanwhile having taken over Lexs body...
Director: Gil Kenan
Stars: Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke
The teenage DJ is observing his neighbor Nebbercracker on the other side of their street in the suburb that destroys tricycles of children that trespass his lawn. When DJs parents travel on the eve of Halloween and the abusive nanny Zee stays with him he calls his clumsy best friend Chowder to play basketball. But when the ball falls in Nebbercrackers lawn the old man has a siege and soon...
Director: Gary Rydstrom
Stars:
Its night; crickets chirp outside an isolated farmhouse. A bright light from a spacecraft shines through a bedroom window and lifts a sleeping man. However the light and the small alien controlling it from the ship are unable to pull the man through the window: first its the glass that impedes them. The alien frets; its supervisor - large laconic and green - watches. As the human keeps...
Director: Tony Craig, Roberts Gannaway
Stars: Daveigh Chase, Chris Sanders, David Ogden Stiers
Lilo Stitch Jumba and Pleakley have finally caught all of Jumbas genetic experiments and found the one true place where each of them belongs. Stitch Jumba and Pleakley are offered positions in the Galactic Alliance turning them down so they can stay on Earth with Lilo. But Lilo realizes her alien friends have places where they belong and its finally time to say aloha. Meanwhile Gantu...
Director: Richard Pepin
Stars: Christopher Atkins, Colm Meaney, Angela Featherstone
In 1948 a group of miners finds a gallery full of emeralds in a salt mine in Switzerland but they are attacked by giant black beetles and only one of them survives. In the present days the explorer John Palmer is ready to take vacations in Greece with his family when he is contacted and invited by a stranger called Vincent to lead his team in an expedition into a mine in Switzerland. In...
Director: McG
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox, Anthony Mackie
In November 1970 virtually the entire football team and coaches of Marshall University Huntington W.V. die in a plane crash. That spring led by Nate Ruffin a player who was ill and missed the fatal flight students rally to convince the board of governors to play the 1971 season. The college president Don Dedman must find a coach who then must find players. They petition the NCAA to...