Ben Affleck
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Written and directed by Terrence Malick, TO THE WONDER is a romantic drama about men and women grappling with love and its many phases and seasons - passion, sympathy, obligation, sorrow and indecision - and the way these forces merge together and drift apart, transforming, destroying and reinventing the lives they touch. Starring Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams and Javier Bardem, this deeply moving, visual film intermingles love, nature...
2) Chasing Amy
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Cult comic-book artist Holden falls in love with fellow artist Alyssa, only to be thwarted by her sexuality, the disdain of his best friend Banky, and his own misgivings about himself.
3) Clerks II
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A calamity at Dante and Randall's shops sends them looking for new horizons, but they ultimately settle at Mooby's, a fictional Disney-McDonald's- style fast-food empire. Sequel to the 1994 film by Kevin Smith.
5) Bounce
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Buddy Amaral is a smooth-talking ad exec who is enjoying his high-powered career. Then, a sudden twist of fate changes everything and leads him into the life of Abby Janello, with whom he eventually falls head-over-heels in love.
6) Jersey Girl
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Ollie is a successful big-city publicist with the life he's always wanted, until things take an unexpected turn and he finds himself an unemployed single father back in the suburbs. Just when he thinks his life has hit rock bottom, a sexy, no-nonsense video store clerk enters his life and shows him that sometimes you have to forget who you thought you were to realize what really makes you happy.
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High-powered sales exec Bobby Walker (Academy-Award®-winner Ben Affleck) is living the American dream: great job, beautiful family, and shiny Porsche in the garage. But when corporate downsizing leaves him and co-workers Phil Woodward (Academy-Award®-winner Chris Cooper) and Gene McClary (Academy-Award®-winner Tommy Lee Jones) jobless, he must redefine his life as a man, a husband and a father. Bobby soon finds himself enduring enthusiastic life...
9) Paycheck
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In a futuristic but familiar world, a high-tech engineer whose memory has been partially erased must use a group of unrelated objects, including a wire, a ticket stub and a bus token as clues to discover the truth about his previous identity, and collect a paycheck he had been awaiting. Based on the short story by science fiction author Phillip K. Dick.
10) Glory Daze
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Unwilling to say goodbye to the partying life, Jack and his four raunchy housemates face the surreal week of graduation together. Against a constant swirl of girlfriends, lecherous teachers, killer hangovers and Pomp and Circumstance, the buddies are forced to admit that the party is finally over - with time for only one final blow-out bash.
11) Boiler Room
Publication Date
2000.
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Anyone who says that money is the root of all evil, doesn't have it. Welcome to the new American Dream. Eager to show his aloof father that he can succeed in life, an ambitious, intelligent college dropout takes a job at a small stock brokerage firm, where he meets with great success. But when he learns that the company is selling worthless securities to gullible buyers, he realizes the cost of his ambitions--and how deeply embroiled he has become...
12) To the Wonder
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2020.
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Written and directed by Terrence Malick. A romantic drama about men and women grappling with love and its many phases and seasons, and how they merge together and drift apart. Starring Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams and Javier Bardem. **Venice Film Festival** winner. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**.
13) Gigli
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2024.
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From director Martin Brest comes GIGLI, an unconventional romantic comedy starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. When low-level hood Larry Gigli (Affleck) is given an assignment that gets him in way over his head, Ricki (Lopez), a gorgeous free spirited female enforcer is sent in to assist him. Gigli finds himself falling for the unavailable Ricki and goes to great lengths to win her affection. Yet the harder she resists him, the stronger their...
14) Argo
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[2013]
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On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics still felt today. But there's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped. And a midlevel agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them.
15) The company men
Publication Date
2011
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Bobby Walker is living the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and co-workers Phil Woodward and Gene McClary jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands, and fathers. Bobby soon finds himself enduring enthusiastic life coaching, a job building houses for his brother-in-law that does not play to his executive skill set, and perhaps...
16) Boiler room
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c2000
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Seth runs a small-time casino operation out of his apartment. With his streetwise business smarts, he's recruited to join the city's newest and hottest stock brokerage firm, and quickly takes to his new job's instant riches and fast-life pleasures. When he wins the eye and heart of Greg's ex-girlfriend, everything seems too good to be true.
17) State of play
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c2009
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When D.C. reporter Cal McCaffrey is assigned to investigate the murder of an assistant to an up-and-coming politician, he uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to bring down the nation's power structures. In a town of spin-doctors and wealthy power brokers, he will discover one truth: when fortunes are at stake, no one's integrity, love, or life is safe.
18) Gone girl
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[2015]
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On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question. Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?
19) Jersey Girl
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2023.
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Ollie Trinke is a smooth and successful Manhattan music publicist who seems to have it all. When his perfect life is suddenly tragically upended—leaving him as a single father unqualified for the role, he begins to realize that sometimes you have to forget about who you thought you were, accept who you are and acknowledge what makes you happy.
Publication Date
1997.
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Mark Pellington's adaptation of Dan Wakefield's seminal novel about a young man coming of age in the 1950s is a timeless story of freedom and repression, friendship and family, sex and love, and the psychological and spiritual struggle to be true to one’s self even if it means going against society’s expectations. In his debut as a feature filmmaker, Pellington constructs an elegant and morally complex tale about two young high school alumni and...