Plot summary :
It was no ordinary life for a young girl: living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College and tearing unsupervised through Oxford’s motley streets on mad quests for adventure. But Lyra’s greatest adventure would begin closer to home, the day she heard hushed talk of an extraordinary particle. Microscopic in size, the magical dust- found only in the vast Artic expanse of the North -was rumored to possess profound properties that could unite whole universes. But there were those who feared the particle and would stop at nothing to destroy it. Catapulted into the heart of a terrible struggle, Lyra was forced to seek aid from clans, gyptians, and formidable armored bears. And as she journeyed into unbelievable danger, she had not the faintest clue that she alone was destined to win, or to lose, this more-than-mortal battle…

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User rating: 6.6/10
Director: Chris Weitz
Awards: 8 nominations

Cast overview :
Nicole Kidman…Marisa Coulter
Daniel Craig…Lord Asriel
Dakota Blue Richards…Lyra Belacqua
Ben Walker…Roger
Freddie Highmore…Pantalaimon (voice)
Ian McKellen…Iorek Byrnison (voice)

IMDB page :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385752/

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Popularity: 56% [?]

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In an animated fairy tale world, a young girl meets and falls in love with the handsome prince of her dreams. News of this romance upsets the prince’s mother, the evil queen, who uses her black magic to send the girl hurtling out of the animated world into the one place in the universe where there is no true love: modern day Manhattan. The now-real girl has to survive in New York City and find her way home again to her true love…

Movie info :
User rating: 8.0/10
Director: Kevin Lima
Awards: Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 1 win & 6 nominations

Cast overview :
Julie Andrews…Narrator (voice)
Amy Adams…Giselle
James Marsden…Prince Edward
Idina Menzel…Nancy Tremaine
Susan Sarandon…Queen Narissa

IMDB page :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0461770/

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Popularity: 43% [?]

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It is a distant galaxy in the far future. The year is 10191. Arrakis is a desert planet, Arrakis is the only source of ‘Melange’ a vital drug used by the Guild Navigators for space travel from star system to star system. Two rival families, The Atreides and The Harkonnens, fight for control of the mining operations of Melange on Arrakis. When his father Duke Leto Atreides is assassinated by the evil Baron Harkonnen. Duke Leto’s son Paul and Paul’s mother Lady Jessica flee deep into the desert and are befriend by the Fremen, natives of Arrakis. Due to the influence of the ‘Melange’ Paul learns he has special powers and he can see into the future. Paul unites the Freman and forms a army of warriors and leads them into battle against Baron Harkonnen and the corrupt Emperor Padishah Shaddam IV who is in league with the Harkonnen’s and vows to avenge his father and sets out to liberate Arrakis and it’s people from the Emperor’s rule and fulfill his destiny…

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User rating: 6.5/10
Director: David Lynch
Awards: Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 4 nominations

Cast overview :
Francesca Annis…Lady Jessica
Leonardo Cimino…The Baron’s Doctor
Brad Dourif…Piter De Vries
José Ferrer…Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV
Linda Hunt…Shadout Mapes

IMDB page :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087182/

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Popularity: 44% [?]

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A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the revolution but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism…

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User rating: 8.0/10
Director: David Lean
Awards: Won 5 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 10 nominations

Cast overview :
Omar Sharif…Dr. Yuri Zhivago
Julie Christie…Lara Antipova
Geraldine Chaplin…Tonya Gromeko
Rod Steiger…Viktor Komarovsky
Alec Guinness…Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago

IMDB page :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059113/

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Popularity: 20% [?]

Plot summary :
U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely and utterly mad, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He suspects that the communists are conspiring to pollute the “precious bodily fluids” of the American people. The U.S. president meets with his advisors, where the Soviet ambassador tells him that if the U.S.S.R. is hit by nuclear weapons, it will trigger a “Doomsday Machine” which will destroy all plant and animal life on Earth. Peter Sellers portrays the three men who might avert this tragedy: British Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, the only person with access to the demented Gen. Ripper; U.S. President Merkin Muffley, whose best attempts to divert disaster depend on placating a drunken Soviet Premier and the former Nazi genius Dr. Strangelove, who concludes that “such a device would not be a practical deterrent for reasons which at this moment must be all too obvious”. Will the bombers be stopped in time, or will General Jack Ripper succeed in destroying the world?…

Movie info :
User rating: 8.7/10
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Awards: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 4 nominations

Cast overview :
Peter Sellers…Dr. Strangelove
George C. Scott…Gen. ‘Buck’ Turgidson
Sterling Hayden…Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper
Keenan Wynn…Col. ‘Bat’ Guano
Slim Pickens…Maj. T.J. ‘King’ Kong

IMDB page :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/

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Popularity: 16% [?]