The Devil's Advocate (1997)

The Devil's Advocate is an american horror film directed by Taylor Hackford.starring Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino and Charlize Theron, and based on a novel by Andrew Neiderman.
Kevin Lomax, a young and succesful Lawyer who works as accident car florida lawyer, is defending a case of child molestation in Florida and later another as a new york personal injury lawyer. He has never lost a case, and this one is another win for him. During his celebration, he is approached by Milton, the CEO of an important law firm, who offers a large sum of money to help the firm with a jury selection. Recognising Kevin's skills, Milton offers him an important salary and an apartment if he decides to join that big law firm. 


In his new job, he becomes the defense of many different people, for example: orlando criminal attorney, a case of adverse remortgage, he works as a criminal defense attorney los angeles while he has to make difficult decisions between good and evil, to continue with his great career and also taking care of his family.

The film's title is a reference to the common phrase "devil's advocate", and Pacino's character is named after the author of Paradise Lost, John Milton. The movie has some minor allusions to Milton's epic, such as the famous quotation "Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven".


Great movie, the plot is awesome, that's one of the movies in which you can move away from the TV. Totally recommended to think about what is really important in our lives after all.




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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn: Part 1 (2011)

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, commonly referred to as Breaking Dawn, is a 2011/2012 two-part romantic fantasy film directed by Bill Condon and based on the novel Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer. The two parts form the fourth and final installment in theThe Twilight Saga series. All three main cast members, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner, reprise their roles. 


Trailer:

The last part of this story, recommended for those who love romantic films (specially women)
See ya

Social Network (2010)

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard University undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications. Education and intelligence became power. Written by Columbia Pictures
Review by NY Times: http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/movies/24nyffsocial.html


Trailer:

Great movie, for those who love programming and want to learn about Internet, blogs, networks. Remember that you don't have to go to University to learn those stuff, you can download a pdf or go to forums... you'll improve your skills only if you want.

Happy Feet Two (2011)

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.


Trailer:

Totally Recommended! The second part of this great story...

Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999)

Pirates of Silicon Valley is a 1999 film based on the book Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine. It is a made-for-television docudrama written and directed by Martyn Burke which documents the rise of the home computer (personal computer) through the rivalry between Apple Computer and Microsoft. The film stars Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates and Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs.


Trailer:

Sharing this movie to remember Steve Jobs, who left days ago, but we know he gave us a lot of revolutionary ideas that we enjoy nowadays.
Thanks Steve!

X-Men: First Class (2011)

Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known. In the process, a rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto's Brotherhood and Professor X's X-MEN. 


Trailer:

So recommended, to watch the beggining of this legendary story!

Student Services (2010)

A cash strapped college student goes to work as an escort in order to make ends meet, only to realize that her education has taken a back seat to her budding career in the pleasure industry. In her struggle to stay financially stable during her first year at the university, 19 year old Laura (Deborah Francois) discovers that a part-time job just won't pay the bills. Then, just when Laura is at her most desperate, she sees an internet ad from a man who's willing to pay £100 an hour to spend an intimate evening with a willing student. Compelled by the lure of some easy money, Laura answers the ad. Later, despite a promise to herself that this will be a once time occurrence, Laura finds herself falling into a new bed every night, and making more money than she ever thought possible. By the time Laura realizes she has stumbled into the downward spiral of prostitution, she begins to doubt her ability to break free from temptation, and finish her education.

Trailer:

Spoken in French with English subtitles, Student Services is a very interesting story of a girl who will do pretty much anything to get by. Francois is terrific as Laura, a strong young woman who is basically just trying to survive in the real world. Writer/director Emmanuelle Bercot (Clement) has crafted a truly beautiful film. The characters are well-developed, the script is genuine and the acting is realistic. Student Services is just exquisite.

Hope you enjoy it!

Tactical Force (2011)

A training exercise for the LAPD SWAT Team goes terribly wrong when they find themselves pitted against two rival gangs while trapped in an abandoned Hangar, armed with nothing but blanks. Director:  Adamo P. Cultraro Writer:  Adamo P. Cultraro (script) Stars:  Steve Austin, Michael Jai White and Lexa Doig Sorry for being dissapeared for a couple of weeks, I've had some problems but I'm back! That's a new movie that I've watched and it really surprised me!  Enjoy it

Ip Man (2008)

Ip Man is an award winning adaptation based on the life of Ip Man (Donnie Yen), the grandmaster of Wing Chun and later teacher and mentor to widely influential and legendary martial artist, Bruce Lee. Ip Man is set in the 1930s in Foshan, a hub of southern Chinese martial arts just as the Second Sino-Japan war breaks out. During the war, China is nearly ripped to pieces by racial hatred, nationalistic strife and warfare. Ip Man rose like a phoenix above these ashes as he defied an empire bringing hope to China. Winner of Best Picture and Actor, Ip Man ranks as one of the best martial arts movies of all time!

The film was directed by Wilson Yip, and stars Donnie Yen as Ip Man, with martial arts choreography by Sammo Hung. The supporting cast includes Simon Yam, Lynn Hung, Lam Ka-tung, Xing Yu and Hiroyuki Ikeuchi.

Trailer:

I love Bruce Lee, so it was interesting to know the story of his master. Totally recommended to the fans of Martial arts and fights!

Central Station

Central Station (1998)

Plot:

A lonely former schoolteacher, Dora, ekes out a living writing and mailing letters for illiterate passersby in Rio's Central Station. Dora's lonely existence is shattered when one of her clients, a young mother is killed outside the station--her child, Josue, is left behind, devastated. Coming to terms with the fact that Josue is now homeless and with nowhere to go, the cynical Dora takes it upon herself to care for the woman's orphaned young son. Resisting her initial impulse to make a quick profit off the child, Dora commits to returning him to his father in Brazil's remote Northeast. As buses and trucks carry the motley pair through the increasingly unfamiliar terrain, Dora and Josue defy their initial aversion to each other, journeying closer together and deeper inside themsleves. The trip becomes a quest for their own identities: one boy's search for his father; and one woman's search for her heart. 

Trailer:

Great story, fantastic. Recommended!

The White Ribbon

The White Ribbon

The White Ribbon is a 2009 Austrian-German film, released in black and white, written and directed by Michael Haneke. The drama darkly depicts society and family in a northern German village just before World War I. According to Haneke, the film is about "the origin of every type of terrorism, be it of political or religious nature."

Das weiße Band, Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (literally, "The White Ribbon, a German Children's Story") premiered at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in May 2009 and won the Palme d'Or, followed by positive reviews and several other major awards, including the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film received two nominations for Academy Awards: 2009 Best Foreign Language Film (representing Germany) and 2009 Best Cinematography (Christian Berger).

Cast:

• Christian Friedel as the school teacher
• Ernst Jacobi as narrator (the school teacher many years later)
• Leonie Benesch as Eva, nanny to the baron and baroness's twin babies
• Ulrich Tukur as the baron
• Ursina Lardi as the baroness, Marie-Louise
• Fion Mutert as Sigmund, their oldest son
• Michael Kranz as Sigmund's tutor
• Burghart Klaußner as the pastor

Trailer:

The plot is awesome. The images in black and white make the film completely different. Totally recommended.

Watch it and comment!

The Counterfeiters

The Counterfeiters (German: Die Fälscher) is a 2007 film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. It fictionalizes Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by the Nazis during the Second World War to destabilize Great Britain by flooding its economy with forged Bank of Englandbank notes. The film centres on a Jewish counterfeiter, Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch, who is coerced into assisting the Nazi operation at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. The film is based on a memoir written by Adolf Burger, a Jewish Slovak typographer who was imprisoned in 1942 for forging baptismal certificates to save Jews from deportation, and later interned at Sachsenhausen to work on Operation Bernhard. Ruzowitsky consulted closely with Burger through almost every stage of the writing and production. The film won the 2007Best Foreign Language Film Oscar at the 80th Academy Awards.


Cast:

• Karl Markovics as "Sorowitsch" (Salomon Smolianoff)
• August Diehl as "Burger" (Adolf Burger)
• Devid Striesow as "Sturmbannführer Herzog" (Bernhard Krüger)
• Veit Stübner as "Atze"
• Sebastian Urzendowsky as "Kolya"
• August Zirner as "Dr Klinger"
• Martin Brambach as "Hauptscharführer Holst"
• Andreas Schmidt as "Zilinski"
• Tilo Prückner as "Hahn"
• Lenn Kudrjawizki as "Loszek"                

Trailer:

I love these kind of movies, about Second World War. This one was fantastic, tottaly recommended!

The Placard (Le Placard)

François (Daniel Auteuil) is an accountant at a condom factory. However, he discovers that is going to be fired by management. The solution to avoid the dismissing comes from his neighbor Belone, who advises him to pretend to be gay to sue the company if it tries to fire him, alleging discrimination at work. This will mark the beginning of a whole series of misunderstandings and setbacksfor the poor François. 

Written and directed by Francis Veber.
Country: France.
Year: 2000.
Duration: 84 min.
Cast: Daniel Auteuil (François Pignon), Gérard Depardieu (FélixSantini), Thierry Lhermitte (Guillaume), Michèle Laroque (Bertrand), Michel Aumont (Belone), Jean Rochefort (Kopel), Alexandra Vandernoot (Christine), Stanislas Crevillén (Franck ), Edgar Givry (Mathieu), Thierry Ashanti (Victor), Armelle Deutsch (Ariane), Irina Ninova (Martine).
Production: Alan Poire.
Music: Vladimir Cosma.
Photography: Luciano Tovoli.
Mounting: Georges Klotz.
Costumes: Jacqueline Bouchard.
Decorated: Hugues Tissandier. 
Trailer: 

Great Comedy, enjoy it!

City of God

"Cidade de Deus" is not only a blow to the consciences asleep resolved without moral recommendations, with the nakedness of poetry and the strength of the facts, but a dense metaphor for society today, although Brazil has set in the grandeur of universal validity. The film bears the same name as a large slum in Rio de Janeiro created in the 60s as rash humanity free solution to meet the need for housing in a city doomed to a disproportionate growth and unmanageable. A few years after its construction, Cidade de Deus was already a hell, a suffocating and also one of the most dangerous in the world. In this context takes the story that this movie with a storyline set by the avatar of two young grown in the streets, in almost identical conditions and circumstances, however, two very different outcomes. One of them will survive become fatally drug trafficker and eventually work in occupations below the lumpen. The other escape the life he has touched the goal of taking refuge in your camera to capture the reality that without makeup or retouching. Both of them know what violence is, what is life for the sole purpose of survival. It is a hard film, uncomfortable to talk about our cities, hypocrisy, misery. Ourselves.

That's the trailer:

Enjoy it! Great film!

El secreto de sus ojos - The secret in their eyes

Hi guys! This is my first post and I hope you like it!




This film is based on the story "La pregunta de sus ojos" by Eduardo Sacheri. The argentinian director, Juan José Campanella, is very famous because of his works: he has directed two episodes of House MD an produced lots of interesting programs for the national channel in his country. 
As you may know, the movie is so famous due to the Oscar to the Best Foreign Language Film that won in 2010, after the great success in 2009, when it reached 2 million spectators, being one of the most viewed movies in the history of Argentina. Moreover, it won prizes in more than 10 film festivals, nationals and also internationals.


Plot:
Benjamin Esposito (Ricardo Darín) has just retired after a lifetime of working as a clerk in a criminal court. To occupy his free time he decides to write a novel based on a true story of what has been a witness and protagonist, the story of a murder in Buenos Airen in 1974, and research to find the culprit.
Argentina is with its burden of violence and death, marked the lives of the characters, and although Esposito suppose that weaves the story speaks only of the past, the searchlight in a gritty his life and his present , and you face a dilemma of love haunts him for too long.
Reconstructing the past will lead him to delve into their feelings,their own behaviors and decisions, and eventually become not a literary exercise, but the key that lets you open the door to live the rest of his life.


I'll put the trailer for you! (with english subtitles)

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