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The interface works whenever people from a large pool of talent come together in different combinations on many projects.
Pixels

When aliens misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth in the form of the video games.
2015
Atlantis: The Lost Empire

A young adventurer named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost continent of Atlantis.
2001
Contact

Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of intelligent aliens, who send plans for a mysterious machine.
1997
Seventh Son

When Mother Malkin, the queen of evil witches, escapes the pit she was imprisoned in by professional monster hunter Spook decades ago and kills his apprentice, he recruits young Tom, the seventh son of the seventh son, to help him.
2014
The Road to El Dorado

Two swindlers get their hands on a map to the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.
2000
The Campaign

An incumbent congressman embroiled in personal scandal faces a no-holds-barred challenge from a naive newcomer funded by two unscrupulous billionaire lobbyist brothers.
2012
Black Hawk Down

160 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.
2001
The Adventures of Pluto Nash

In the future, a man struggles to keep his lunar nightclub out of the hands of the mafia.
2002
The Spanish Prisoner

An employee of a corporation with a lucrative secret process is tempted to betray it. But there's more to it than that.
1997
Point Break

A young FBI agent infiltrates an extraordinary team of extreme sports athletes he suspects of masterminding a string of unprecedented, sophisticated corporate heists.
2015
The Expendables 3

Barney augments his team with new blood for a personal battle: to take down Conrad Stonebanks, the Expendables co-founder and notorious arms trader who is hell bent on wiping out Barney and every single one of his associates.
2014
Catwoman

A shy woman, endowed with the speed, reflexes, and senses of a cat, walks a thin line between criminal and hero, even as a detective doggedly pursues her, fascinated by both of her personas.
2004
Land of the Lost

On his latest expedition, Dr. Rick Marshall is sucked into a space-time vortex alongside his research assistant and a redneck survivalist. In this alternate universe, the trio make friends with a primate named Chaka, their only ally in a world full of dinosaurs and other fantastic creatures.
2009
Starship Troopers

Humans in a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a fight for survival.
1997
The Tourist

Revolves around Frank, an American tourist visiting Italy to mend a broken heart. Elise is an extraordinary woman who deliberately crosses his path.
2010
Eraser

A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons.
1996
True Lies

A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.
1994
National Treasure

A historian races to find the legendary Templar Treasure before a team of mercenaries.
2004
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry ignores warnings not to return to Hogwarts, only to find the school plagued by a series of mysterious attacks and a strange voice haunting him.
2002
Gone in Sixty Seconds

A retired master car thief must come back to the industry and steal 50 cars with his crew in one night to save his brother's life.
2000
Stuart Little

The Little family adopt a charming young mouse named Stuart, but the family cat wants rid of him.
1999
I, Robot

In 2035, a technophobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity.
2004
The Cat in the Hat

Two bored children have their lives turned upside down when a talking cat comes to visit them.
2003
Ender's Game

Young Ender Wiggin is recruited by the International Military to lead the fight against the Formics, a genocidal alien race which nearly annihilated the human race in a previous invasion.
2013
Tomorrow Never Dies

James Bond heads to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage.
1997
Insurgent

Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart with the help from others on her side.
2015
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Three years into the Clone Wars, the Jedi rescue Palpatine from Count Dooku. As Obi-Wan pursues a new threat, Anakin acts as a double agent between the Jedi Council and Palpatine and is lured into a sinister plan to rule the galaxy.
2005
How Do You Know

After being cut from the USA softball team and feeling a bit past her prime, Lisa finds herself evaluating her life and in the middle of a love triangle, as a corporate guy in crisis competes with her current, baseball-playing beau.
2010
RoboCop

In 2028 Detroit, when Alex Murphy - a loving husband, father and good cop - is critically injured in the line of duty, the multinational conglomerate OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer.
2014
Stuart Little 2

Stuart and Snowbell set out across town to rescue a friend.
2002
Oblivion

A veteran assigned to extract Earth's remaining resources begins to question what he knows about his mission and himself.
2013
The 13th Warrior

A man, having fallen in love with the wrong woman, is sent by the sultan himself on a diplomatic mission to a distant land as an ambassador. Stopping at a Viking village port to restock on supplies, he finds himself unwittingly embroiled on a quest to banish a mysterious threat in a distant Viking land.
1999
The Bourne Legacy

An expansion of the universe from Robert Ludlum's novels, centered on a new hero whose stakes have been triggered by the events of the previous three films.
2012
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
2001
Noah

A man is chosen by his world's creator to undertake a momentous mission before an apocalyptic flood cleanses the world.
2014
Puss in Boots

An outlaw cat, his childhood egg-friend and a seductive thief kitty set out in search for the eggs of the fabled Golden Goose to clear his name, restore his lost honor and regain the trust of his mother and town.
2011
Happy Feet Two

Mumble's son, Erik, is struggling to realize his talents in the Emperor Penguin world. Meanwhile, Mumble and his family and friends discover a new threat their home -- one that will take everyone working together to save them.
2011
The World Is Not Enough

James Bond uncovers a nuclear plot when he protects an oil heiress from her former kidnapper, an international terrorist who can't feel pain.
1999
Sahara

"Master explorer Dirk Pitt goes on the adventure of a lifetime of seeking out a lost Civil War battleship known as the """"Ship of Death"""" in the deserts of West Africa while helping a WHO doctor being hounded by a ruthless dictator."
2005
Rise of the Guardians

When the evil spirit Pitch launches an assault on Earth, the Immortal Guardians team up to protect the innocence of children all around the world.
2012
The Matrix Revolutions

The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
2003
The Fast and the Furious

Los Angeles police officer Brian O'Connor must decide where his loyalty really lies when he becomes enamored with the street racing world he has been sent undercover to destroy.
2001
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

As the war of Panem escalates to the destruction of other districts, Katniss Everdeen, the reluctant leader of the rebellion, must bring together an army against President Snow, while all she holds dear hangs in the balance.
2015
Evan Almighty

God contacts Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in preparation for a great flood.
2007
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

An elite military unit comprised of special operatives known as G.I. Joe, operating out of The Pit, takes on an evil organization led by a notorious arms dealer.
2009
Maleficent

A vengeful fairy is driven to curse an infant princess, only to discover that the child may be the one person who can restore peace to their troubled land.
2014
The Amazing Spider-Man 2

When New York is put under siege by Oscorp, it is up to Spider-Man to save the city he swore to protect as well as his loved ones.
2014
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

"As Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as """"the property of the Half-Blood Prince"""" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past."
2009
Saathiya

A couple elopes to get married and set up home hoping that just love will do the trick - but that's just the beginning of their story.
2002
Waqt: The Race Against Time

Waqt the race against time is the story of a father and a son between whom there is a special bond. Ishwarchand Thakur (Amitabh Bachchan) and Sumitra Thakur (Shefali Shah) are a married ...
2005
Mohabbatein

Two stubborn men with opposing beliefs battle each other - three love stories are at stake.
2000
Fanaa

A sweet blind girl Zooni meets a flirty Rehan. She ignores her friends' warnings. It's her time to discover life. Is she making the right love choice?
2006
D-Day

A team of experts dispatched to bring in The Most Wanted Man in India almost achieves the unthinkable ... until something goes horribly wrong.
2013
Khaleja

When a mysterious illness ravages a remote village, the villagers embrace a reluctant taxi driver as their savior.
2010
Ishqiya

While on the run from goons, a man and his nephew fall for a kidnapper's seductive widow.
2010
Baghead

Four struggling actors retreat to a cabin in Big Bear, California in order to write a screenplay that will make them all stars. Problem is: What happens when their story idea -- a horror ...
2008
Chasing Amy

Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything's going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's gay.
1997
The Prophecy

The angel Gabriel comes to Earth to collect a soul which will end the stalemated war in Heaven, and only a former priest and a little girl can stop him.
1995
What Happens in Vegas

A man and a woman are compelled, for legal reasons, to live life as a couple for a limited period of time. At stake is a large amount of money.
2008
Now Is Good

A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.
2012
All the Real Girls

Small-town love story of a young man with a reputation for womanizing and his best friend's sister.
2003
The Skeleton Twins

Having both coincidentally cheated death on the same day, estranged twins reunite with the possibility of mending their relationship.
2014
Super Troopers

Five Vermont state troopers, avid pranksters with a knack for screwing up, try to save their jobs and out-do the local police department by solving a crime.
2001
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

During their college years, Anjali was in love with her best-friend Rahul, but he had eyes only for Tina. Years later, Rahul and the now-deceased Tina's eight-year-old daughter attempts to reunite her father and Anjali.
1998
Stolen Summer

Pete, an eight-year-old Catholic boy growing up in the suburbs of Chicago in the mid-1970s, attends Catholic school, where as classes let out for the summer, he's admonished by a nun to ...
2002
Buffalo '66

After being released from prison, Billy is set to visit his parents with his wife, whom he does not actually have. This provokes Billy to act out, as he kidnaps a girl and forces her to act as his wife for the visit.
1998
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity.
1972
Sarkar

The authority of a man, who runs a parallel government in Mumbai, is challenged. His son rises to face his enemies.
2005
Pokiri

A street killer has another identity and intention for joining a underworld gang of the city which he is hiding and when it exposes everything turns upside down
2006
Highway

"After Jack gets caught with a Vegas mob's wife in bed, he's gotta hit the road. Jack's best friend Pilot accompanies him, and the pair sets out on an adventure akin to Kerouac's """"On the Road""""."
2002
Full Frontal

A day in the life of a group of men and women in Hollywood, in the hours leading up to a friend's birthday party.
2002
They Came Together

A small business owner is about to lose her shop to a major corporate development.
2014
Sinister

Washed-up true-crime writer Ellison Oswalt finds a box of super 8 home movies that suggest the murder he is currently researching is the work of a serial killer whose work dates back to the 1960s.
2012
Beginners

A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
2010
Margin Call

Follows the key people at an investment bank, over a 24-hour period, during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.
2011
Baby

An elite counter-intelligence unit learns of a plot, masterminded by a maniacal madman. With the clock ticking, it's up to them to track the terrorists' international tentacles and prevent them from striking at the heart of India.
2015
Kal Ho Naa Ho

Naina, an introverted, perpetually depressed girl's life changes when she meets Aman. But Aman has a secret of his own which changes their lives forever. Embroiled in all this is Rohit, Naina's best friend who conceals his love for her.
2003
The Cooler

In an old school Las Vegas casino, its top gambling jinx breaks his curse when he falls in love, much to his boss' consternation.
2003
Spun

A drug dealer introduces one of his customers, a 'speed freak', to the man who runs the meth lab. A crazy three-day adventure ensues.
2002
Salvador

An American photojournalist gets caught in a political struggle at El Salvador in 1980.
1986
Athadu

A gunman for hire is framed for murder, and assumes a dead man's identity while hiding from the police.
2005
Take Shelter

Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
2011
Light Sleeper

A drug dealer with upscale clientele is having moral problems going about his daily deliveries. A reformed addict, he has never gotten over the wife that left him, and the couple that use ...
1992
Zero Effect

The world's greatest detective Daryl Zero aided by his associate Steve Arlo investigates a complex and mysterious case of blackmail and missing keys for shady tycoon Gregory Stark who is less than forthcoming about what is really happening!
1998
Everything Must Go

When an alcoholic relapses, causing him to lose his wife and his job, he holds a yard sale on his front lawn in an attempt to start over. A new neighbor might be the key to his return to form.
2010
Made

Two aspiring boxers, lifelong friends, get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group.
2001
Robin and Marian

Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
1976
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

When Raj meets Simran in Europe, it isn't love at first sight but when Simran moves to India for an arranged marriage, love makes its presence felt.
1995
Wonderland

In the police investigation of a brutal crime scene, one man was at the center of it all: legendary porn star John Holmes.
2003
Ghost World

With only the plan of moving in together after high school, two unusually devious friends seek direction in life. As a mere gag, they respond to a man's newspaper ad for a date, only to find it will greatly complicate their lives.
2001
The Wrestler

A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.
2008
PK

A stranger in the city asks questions no one has asked before. His childlike curiosity will take him on a journey of love, laughter, and letting go.
2014
House at the End of the Street

After moving with her mother to a small town, a teenager finds that an accident happened in the house at the end of the street. Things get more complicated when she befriends a boy who was the only survivor of the accident.
2012
Warlock

A warlock flees from the 17th to the 20th century, with a witch-hunter in hot pursuit.
1989
Jumping the Broom

Two very different families converge on Martha's Vineyard one weekend for a wedding.
2011
Code 46

A futuristic Brief Encounter (1945), this is a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.
2003
Imagine Me & You

A newlywed bride becomes infatuated with another woman, who questions her sexual orientation, promoting a stir among the bride's family and friends.
2005
Dear Wendy

A young boy in a nameless, timeless American town establishes a gang of youthful misfits united in their love of guns and their code of honor.
2004
Shadow of the Vampire

The filming of Nosferatu (1922) is hampered by the fact that its star Max Schreck is taking the role of a vampire far more seriously than seems humanly possible.
2000
Black

The cathartic tale of a young woman who can't see, hear or talk and the teacher who brings a ray of light into her dark world.
2005
Little Miss Sunshine

A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.
2006
Hera Pheri

Three unemployed men find the answer to all their money problems when they recieve a call from a kidnapper. However, things do not go as planned.
2000
Velvet Goldmine

In 1984, British journalist Arthur Stuart investigates the career of 1970s glam superstar Brian Slade, who was heavily influenced in his early years by hard-living and rebellious American singer Curt Wild.
1998
Hamlet 2

In this irreverent comedy, a failed actor-turned-worse-high-school-drama-teacher rallies his Tucson, AZ students as he conceives and stages politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare's Hamlet.
2008
Sicko

A documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and HMO horror stories including shotgun deaths.
2007
The Best Man

Harper's autobiographical novel is almost out, his girlfriend Robin desires commitment, and he's best man at the wedding of Lance, a pro athlete. He goes to New York early (Robin will come ...
1999
Kites

A wounded man searches for his sweetheart in the Mexican desert while on the run from the police, bounty hunters, and others.
2010
Jab Tak Hai Jaan

An uncompromising film on true love from the legendary and unforgettable director Yash Chopra which is fascinatingly distinctive and contemporary.
2012
Melancholia

Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
2011
Adam Resurrected

In the aftermath of WWII, a former circus entertainer who was spared from the gas chamber becomes the ringleader at an asylum for Holocaust survivors.
2008
Blonde Ambition

A young professional woman (Simpson) unwittingly becomes the pawn of two business executives in their bid to oust the head of a mega-conglomerate.
2007
Edmond

A fortune-tellers teasing rumination sends Edmond Burke lurching into New York City's hellish underworld.
2005
The Brothers Solomon

A pair of well-meaning, but socially inept brothers try to find their perfect mates in order to provide their dying father with a grandchild.
2007
Killer Joe

When a debt puts a young man's life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance.
2011
Bamboozled

A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit.
2000
Over Her Dead Body

A ghost tries to sabotage her former boyfriend's current relationship with a psychic.
2008
Very Bad Things

A prostitute is killed during a bachelor party and the attendees turn on each other as the wedding approaches.
1998
Big Eyes

A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.
2014
Roll Bounce

1970s roller-skate jams fuel this coming-of-age comedy, as X and his friends, who rule their local rink, are shocked when their home base goes out of business. Heading over to the ...
2005
The Dead Zone

A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic ability.
1983
Mud

Two young boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the vigilantes that are on his trail and to reunite him with his true love.
2012
Can't Hardly Wait

Multicharacter teenage comedy about high school graduates with different agenda of life on graduation night.
1998
Friday After Next

Craig and Day Day have finally moved out of their parents houses and into their own crib. The cousins work nights at a local mall as security guards. When their house is robbed on Christmas...
2002
Happy Gilmore

A rejected hockey player puts his skills to the golf course to save his grandmother's house.
1996
The Color of Money

Fast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.
1986
White Noise

An architect's desire to speak with his wife from beyond the grave, becomes an obsession with supernatural repercussions.
2005
Saw IV

Despite Jigsaw's death, and in order to save the lives of two of his colleagues, Lieutenant Rigg is forced to take part in a new game, which promises to test him to the limit.
2007
She's All That

A high school jock makes a bet that he can turn an unattractive girl into the school's prom queen.
1999
Saw III

Jigsaw kidnaps a doctor to keep him alive while he watches his new apprentice put an unlucky citizen through a brutal test.
2006
Romance & Cigarettes

A down-and-dirty musical set in the world of working-class New York, tells a story of a husband's journey into infidelity and redemption when he must choose between his seductive mistress and his beleaguered wife.
2005
The Guru

South Asian Ramu Gupta has always been fascinated with western movie musicals and has wanted to be an American movie star primarily as a dancer. So when he hears from his friend Vijay Rao ...
2002
What's Eating Gilbert Grape

After his father's death, Gilbert has to care for his mentally disabled brother, Arnie, and his morbidly obese mother, which is suddenly challenged when love walks into his life.
1993
Saw VI

Agent Strahm is dead, and FBI agent Erickson draws nearer to Hoffman. Meanwhile, a pair of insurance executives find themselves in another game set by Jigsaw.
2009
The Secret Life of Bees

Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens, a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with ...
2008
Dead Man Walking

A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families.
1995
Critical Care

Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they really ...
1997
Darling Companion

The story of a woman who loves her dog more than her husband. And then her husband loses the dog.
2012
2046

The women who enter a science fiction author's life, over the course of a few years, after the author loses the woman he considers his one true love.
2004
For Your Consideration

"Three actors learn that their respective performances in the film """"Home for Purim,"""" a drama set in the mid-1940s American South, are generating award-season buzz."
2006
House of Flying Daggers

A romantic police captain breaks a beautiful member of a rebel group out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.
2004
My Baby's Daddy

A trio of young men (Griffin, Anderson, and Imperioli) are forced to grow up quick when their girlfriends all become pregnant around the same time.
2004
The Upside of Anger

When her husband unexpectedly disappears, a sharp-witted suburban wife and her daughters juggle their mom's romantic dilemmas and family dynamics.
2005
The Boys from Brazil

A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
1978
Blood Diamond

A fisherman, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond.
2006
American Pie

Four teenage boys enter a pact to lose their virginity by prom night.
1999
Serial Mom

A sweet mother takes a little too much at heart for the defense of her family.
1994
21 & Over

The night before his big medical school interview, a promising student celebrates his 21st birthday with his two best friends.
2013
Young Guns

A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.
1988
About Last Night

Follow two couples as they journey from the bar to the bedroom and are eventually put to the test in the real world.
2014
The Sea Inside

The factual story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a thirty-year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.
2004