Paramount Pictures Corporation
61) Georgetown
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. He is encouraged and egged on in his attempts by his strategically chosen wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht. Mott has a knack for making himself indispensable and impossible to ignore, with an impeccable sense for when to flatter and how to deftly use political jargon to his advantage. The only one seemingly immune to...
62) We're no angels
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There’s something funny about those two new priests. In fact, there’s something downright hilarious. Because Robert De Niro and Sean Penn aren’t clergymen at all. They’re escaped cons whose only prayer is to pass themselves off as men of the cloth...and pass right by a police blockade at the border and into the safety of Canada. Demi Moore joins De Niro and Penn in this clever romp scripted by David Mamet. The cons are loose and the comedy...
63) Explorers
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Paramount Pictures
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In their makeshift laboratory, three boys (Ethan Hawke, River Phoenix and Jason Presson) use an amazing discovery and their ingenuity to build their own spaceship and launch themselves on a fantastic interplanetary journey. Nominated for Best Make-Up and Best Special Effects at the **Academy of Science Fictions & Horror Movies.** *"It looks terrific, moves along at a gallop, and is marvelously good natured." - Geoff Andrew, **Time Out***
64) Vertigo
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Universal
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San Francisco police detective Scottie Ferguson is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. When a rich shipbuilder hires Scotty to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide, Scotty falls in love with her. She is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman.
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The moment the Grace family moves into the dilapidated Spiderwick Estate, strange things begin to happen. Jared is a curious, adventurous boy who quickly seeks out and finds the hidden laboratory of his great great uncle Arthur Spiderwick. He unleashes a mysterious force when he locates a field guide full of the secrets of the magical creatures that inhabit the forest surrounding the mansion. His twin brother Simon is calm and reserved. He is the...
66) The guilt trip
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
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The plan for a quick stop at Mom's takes a turn when an impulse compels Andy to invite his mother, Joyce, on a three-thousand mile cross-country journey. But the further they go, the closer they get, and Andy realizes that they have more in common than he ever imagined.
67) Boyhood
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Filmed over twelve years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's acclaimed smash hit is a groundbreaking celebration of life. Stars Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette.
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After moving with her husband and children to the well-manicured community of Stepford, Connecticut, former New York television executive Joanna Eberhart is beginning to realize that Stepford is more than just the "perfect" place to live ... it's a little to perfect. All the wives in town are models who cater to their husband's every desire. What is going on behind the closed doors of the Stepford Men's Association and the Stepford Day Spa? Can Joanna...
69) Fences
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Paramount Pictures
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Set in 1950s Pittsburgh, the film adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play takes a passionate look at former baseball player Troy Maxson as he fights to provide for those he loves in a world that threatens to push him down.
71) Blue Hawaii
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Paramount Pictures
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Though his mother (Angela Lansbury) expects him to climb the corporate ladder, Elvis would rather wear an aloha shirt than a white collar. Defying his mother's wishes, Elvis goes to work as a tour guide where he entertains a car full of cuties. This rockabilly romp is sure to make any lover of the king of rock and roll smile! Nominated for Best Written American Musical by the **Writer's Guild of America**.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Follows the Dutton family, led by John Dutton, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States, under constant attack by those it borders--land developers, an Indian reservation, and America's first National Park. It is an intense study of a violent world far from media scrutiny--where land grabs make developers billions, and politicians are bought and sold by the world's largest oil and lumber corporations. Where drinking water poisoned...
73) Election
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Reese Witherspoon plays Tracy Flick, a straight-A go-getter determined to be president of Carver High’s student body. Popular teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) decides to derail Tracy’s obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate. Nominated for Best Screenplay at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for Best Actress at the **Golden Globes.** Winner of Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay at the **Film Independent...
74) Losing Isaiah
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Paramount Pictures
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Jessica Lange and Halle Berry give performances of uncommon poignancy and depth. Lange plays an adoptive mother who gives an abandoned child a new chance at life. Berry, in a remarkable portrayal heralded as her dramatic breakthrough, is the birth mother who cleans up her life and sets out to reclaim the child. Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction) portrays her firebrand attorney.
75) Virtuosity
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
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He's a composite of some 200 personalities, each and every one a notorious killer. He's Sid 6.7, a virtual reality creation designed to put L.A. police officers to the test. But Sid isn't playing games anymore. He's escaped the bounds of cyberspace. And if you think he's unconquerable in the world of bits and bytes, wait till you see what Sid has in store for a world of flesh and blood. Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe square off on opposite sides...
77) Labor Day
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
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"From Academy Award-nominated director Jason Reitman (Up in the Air, Juno), Labor Day is “a romance to root for”* starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin as two strangers drawn together under incredible circumstances. What starts as an unforeseen encounter over a long holiday weekend soon becomes a second chance love story in the unforgettable film that critics are calling “satisfying and deeply touching” Nominated for the Audience Choice Award...
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Paramount Pictures
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"WORLD TRADE CENTER is a film about heroism and the best in all of us," raves Good Morning America's Joel Siegel. Academy Award winner, Nicolas Cage stars in the unforgettable true story of the courageous rescue and survival of two Port Authority policemen who were trapped in the rubble on September 11, 2001 after they volunteered to go in and help. Academy Award winning director, Oliver Stone reveals an intimate look at the events of the day as seen...
79) Houseboat
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Shows Cary Grant as a government attorney, living in a houseboat, widowed and left with three unruly kids. He hires Sophia Loren as a governess and ends up falling in love with her.
80) Vertigo
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Scottie Ferguson, a San Francisco police detective is forced to retire when a freak accident gives him a severe case of acrophobia. Ferguson is hired by a rich shipbuilder to follow his wife who is behaving suspiciously and might be planning suicide. He falls in love with her, she is later murdered and Ferguson becomes demonic in his desire to re-create her in another woman.