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The Best Movies of 2005
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Movie: The Zodiac ( 2006 )
An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.
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Movie: Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical ( 2005 )
An outrageous tongue-in-cheek musical comedy adaptation of the classic anti-marijuana propaganda film Reefer Madness (1936).
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Movie: The Crow: Wicked Prayer ( 2005 )
On his way to becoming an immortal demon, a gang leader orchestrates the murder of an ex-con and his girlfriend.
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Movie: The Squid and the Whale ( 2005 )
Follows two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.
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Movie: Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story ( 2005 )
Cale Crane catalyzes the rescue and rehabilitation of Sonador, a race horse with a broken leg.
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Movie: The Matador ( 2006 )
A globetrotting hitman and a crestfallen businessman meet in a hotel bar in Mexico City in an encounter that draws them together in a way neither expected.
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Movie: Transamerica ( 2006 )
A transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.
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Movie: Winter Passing ( 2006 )
Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have moved in with her father, who cares more about his new friends than he does about his own health and well-being.
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Movie: Everything Is Illuminated ( 2005 )
A young Jewish American man endeavors to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village, that was ultimately razed by the Nazis, with the help of an eccentric local.
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Movie: Underclassman ( 2005 )
A young detective goes undercover at an elite private school to destroy an international stolen car ring.
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Movie: Today You Die ( 2005 )
A former thief who is trying to go straight seeks vengeance on those who framed him.
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Movie: Shopgirl ( 2005 )
A film adaptation of Steve Martin's novel about a complex love triangle between a bored salesgirl, a wealthy businessman and an aimless young man.
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Movie: The Proud Family Movie ( 2005 )
Penny and her family are lured on an all expenses paid vacation where a mad scientist captures them, refusing to let them go because Oscar won't reveal his one of his secret Proud Snacks formulas.
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Movie: March of the Penguins ( 2005 )
In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate and start a family.
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Movie: Man-Thing ( 2005 )
Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life: Man-Thing, a shambling swamp-monster whose touch burns those who feel fear.
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Movie: Because of Winn-Dixie ( 2005 )
A mischievous dog befriends a lonely young girl in a new town and helps her make new friends.
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Movie: The Gingerdead Man ( 2005 )
An evil yet adorable Gingerbread man comes to life with the soul of a convicted killer - this real life cookie monster wreaks havoc on the girl who sent the killer to the electric chair.
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Movie: Valiant ( 2005 )
At the height of World War II, a tiny wood pigeon enlists in the elite Royal Homing Pigeon Service to serve Britain, as the fearsome General Von Talon and his deadly squadron of falcons patrol the English Channel. Is he a war-hero in the making?
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Movie: The Ballad of Jack and Rose ( 2005 )
A father and daughter isolated on an island off the East Coast and living on a once-thriving commune grapple with the limits of family and sexuality.
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Movie: Last Days ( 2005 )
A Seattle musician's life and career are reminiscent of those of Kurt Cobain.
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Movie: Tristram Shandy ( 2006 )
Director Michael Winterbottom (Northam) attempts to shoot the adaptation of Laurence Sterne's essentially unfilmable novel, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman."
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Movie: The Notorious Bettie Page ( 2006 )
The life of Bettie Page, a 1950s pin-up model and one of the first sex icons in America, who became the target of a Senate investigation due to her risqué bondage photos.
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Movie: Aliens of the Deep ( 2005 )
James Cameron teams up with NASA scientists to explore the Mid-Ocean Ridge, a submerged chain of mountains that band the Earth and are home to some of the planet's most unique life forms.
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Movie: Color Me Kubrick ( 2006 )
The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), despite knowing very little about his work and looking nothing like him.
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Movie: Thumbsucker ( 2005 )
Justin throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb.
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Movie: Manderlay ( 2005 )
A story of slavery, set in the southern U.S. in the 1930s.
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Movie: Factotum ( 2005 )
This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.
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Movie: In the Mix ( 2005 )
A successful DJ manages to rescue a powerful mobster one night. In order to repay him, the mobster gives him the task of protecting his daughter.
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Movie: The Wendell Baker Story ( 2005 )
Luke Wilson plays a good-hearted ex-con who gets a job in a retirement hotel. Three elderly residents help him win back his girlfriend as he lends them a hand in fighting hotel corruption.
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Movie: Ellie Parker ( 2006 )
A hilarious comic portrait of a young woman's struggle for integrity, happiness and a Hollywood acting career.
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Movie: Larva ( 2005 )
In Host, Missouri, the newcomer vet, Dr Eli Rudkus, is called by a farmer to look at one of his cows. The vet finds a strange parasite in the animal and sends it to the agriculture lab to be looked into. He soon finds another one in a creek and he tells the townspeople the cause might be in the animal's feed. It's soon discovered the meals are actually an experimental genetic cocktail which is causing the parasites inside the cattle and people.
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Movie: Pretty Persuasion ( 2006 )
Manipulative high school sophomore Kimberly Joyce leads her friends Brittany Wells and Randa Azzouni in bringing charges of sexual assault against Percy Anderson, their English and drama teacher at an exclusive private school in Beverly Hills. Meanwhile, local reporter Emily Klein, originally assigned to do an insignificant piece on the school, hopes that the scandal will launch her into celebrity in the television news business, while Kimberly's bigoted father, Hank, is concerned primarily with the effect that his daughter's accusations may have on his business.
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Movie: The Beast of Bray Road ( 2005 )
Based on actual accounts of werewolf sightings in Walworth County, Wisconsin, the film follows a local sheriff who is finally forced to accept that a string of horrifying deaths is linked to a predator which possesses DNA of both man and wolf.
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Movie: Stoned ( 2005 )
A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks after being let go from the band.
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Movie: Junebug ( 2005 )
A dealer in "outsider" art travels from Chicago to North Carolina to meet her new in-laws, challenging the equilibrium of this middle class Southern home.
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Movie: Daltry Calhoun ( 2005 )
In small town Tennessee, a ne'er-do-well man (Knoxville) wrestling for control over his fading golf club is reunited with his estranged daughter, a 14-year-old musical prodigy.
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Movie: Mansquito ( 2005 )
A scientist and her subject turn into mutant insects.
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Movie: Bad Girls from Valley High ( 2005 )
Three snobbish high school girls prematurely age brought on from a curse, a drug (or something) after the arrival of new transfer student whom they believe is connected to a murder they committed a year earlier. A fate worse than death.
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Movie: Kids in America ( 2005 )
A diverse group of high school students band together to peacefully stick it to their overbearing principal.