Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

A spaceship arrives in Arizona, 1873, to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. A posse of cowboys and natives are all that stand in their way.

Genres: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Director: Jon Favreau

Actors: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Abigail Spencer, Buck Taylor, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Matthew Taylor, Cooper Taylor, Clancy Brown, Paul Dano, Chris Browning, Adam Beach, Ana de la Reguera, Noah Ringer, Brian Duffy

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50/50 (2011)

Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Jonathan Levine

Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anjelica Huston, Serge Houde, Andrew Airlie, Matt Frewer, Philip Baker Hall, Donna Yamamoto, Sugar Lyn Beard, Yee Jee Tso, Sarah Smyth, Peter Kelamis, Jessica Parker Kennedy

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Midnight in Paris (2011)

A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy., Romance

Director: Woody Allen

Actors: Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Kurt Fuller, Mimi Kennedy, Michael Sheen, Nina Arianda, Carla Bruni, Maurice Sonnenberg, Thierry Hancisse, Guillaume Gouix, Audrey Fleurot, Marie-Sohna Conde, Yves Heck, Alison Pill, Corey Stoll

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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.

Genres: Animation, Comedy, Family

Director: George Miller

Actors: Carlos Alazraqui, Lombardo Boyar, Jeffrey Garcia, Johnny A. Sanchez, Sofía Vergara, Robin Williams, Elijah Wood, Pink, Ava Acres, Benjamin Flores Jr., Common, Magda Szubanski, Hugo Weaving, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon

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Warrior (2011)

The youngest son (Hardy) of an alcoholic former boxer (Nolte) returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament -- a path that puts the fighter on a collision corner with his older brother (Edgerton).

Genres: Action, Drama, Sport

Director: Gavin O'Connor

Actors: Joel Edgerton, Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Morrison, Frank Grillo, Kevin Dunn, Maximiliano Hernández, Bryan Callen, Sam Sheridan, Fernando Chien, Jake McLaughlin, Vanessa Martinez, Denzel Whitaker, Carlos Miranda, Nick Lehane

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The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional endeavor.

Genres: Biography, Drama

Director: Gabriele Muccino

Actors: Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Thandie Newton, Brian Howe, James Karen, Dan Castellaneta, Kurt Fuller, Takayo Fischer, Kevin West, George Cheung, David Michael Silverman, Domenic Bove, Geoff Callan, Joyful Raven, Scott Klace

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

The Quileute and the Volturi close in on expecting parents Edward and Bella, whose unborn child poses different threats to the wolf pack and vampire coven.

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Director: Bill Condon

Actors: Taylor Lautner, Gil Birmingham, Billy Burke, Sarah Clarke, Ty Olsson, Kristen Stewart, Ashley Greene, Jackson Rathbone, Peter Facinelli, Elizabeth Reaser, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Robert Pattinson, Christian Sloan, James Pizzinato

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The Help (2011)

An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960's decides to write a book detailing the African-American maid's point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.

Genre: Drama

Director: Tate Taylor

Actors: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Ahna O'Reilly, Allison Janney, Anna Camp, Eleanor Henry, Emma Henry, Chris Lowell, Cicely Tyson, Mike Vogel, Sissy Spacek, Brian Kerwin

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Our Idiot Brother (2011)

A comedy centered on an idealist who barges into the lives of his three sisters.

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Jesse Peretz

Actors: Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Nick Sullivan, Zooey Deschanel, Francesca Papalia, Emily Mortimer, Bob Stephenson, Peter Hermann, Adam Scott, Kelly Briter, Rashida Jones, Steve Coogan, Kathryn Hahn, T.J. Miller, Shirley Knight

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Cannibal Holocaust (1980)

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Horror

Director: Ruggero Deodato

Actors: Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Barbareschi, Salvatore Basile, Ricardo Fuentes, Carl Gabriel Yorke, Paolo Paoloni, Lionello Pio Di Savoia Luigina Rocchi

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One Day (2011)

After spending the night together on the night of their college graduation Dexter and Em are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, sometimes not, on that day.

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Lone Scherfig

Actors: Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Tom Mison, Jodie Whittaker, Tim Key, Rafe Spall, Joséphine de La Baume, Patricia Clarkson, Ken Stott, Heida Reed, Amanda Fairbank-Hynes, Gil Alma, David Ajala, David Ajala, Ukweli Roach

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Like Crazy (2011)

A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Drake Doremus

Actors: Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlie Bewley, Alex Kingston, Oliver Muirhead, Finola Hughes, Chris Messina, Ben York Jones, Jamie Thomas King, Amanda Carlin, Barry Sabath, Keeley Hazell, Kayla Barr, James Messer

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Flypaper (2011)

A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at the same bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.

Genres: Comedy, Crime

Director: Rob Minkoff

Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Judd, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Octavia Spencer, Jeffrey Tambor, Mekhi Phifer, Curtis Armstrong, Tim Blake Nelson, Rob Huebel, Beau Brasseaux, John Ventimiglia, Matt Ryan, Monica Acosta, Adrian Martinez, Kasey Emas

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Colombiana (2011)

A young woman, after witnessing her parents' murder as a child in Bogota, grows up to be a stone-cold assassin.

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama

Director: Olivier Megaton

Actors: Zoe Saldana, Jordi Mollà, Lennie James, Amandla Stenberg, Michael Vartan, Cliff Curtis, Beto Benites, Jesse Borrego, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Angel Garnica, Ofelia Medina, Callum Blue, Sam Douglas, Graham McTavish, Charles Maquignon 

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Praybeyt Benjamin (2011)

Praybeyt Benjamin is a story of a gay whose ancestry is a man of valor and not giving up the fight. But neither he inherited his father's masculinity, he also inherited the courage. Now he'll do the duties of his father to protect their family.

The film opened with a P23.6 million gross during its first day. And on it's third day it grossed, P76 million. And continued to break Philippine box-office records after grossing P109 million on its fourth day of showing. It broke the P200 million mark on it's seventh day of showing. It is currently breaking the records set by the previous Star Cinema and Viva Films produced film, No Other Woman. Praybeyt Benjamin now becomes the Highest Grossing Filipino Movie of all time by virtue of its 320 million gross in 20 days (Wikipedia).

Genre: Comedy

Director: Wenn V. Deramas

Actors: Vice Ganda, Derek Ramsay, Eddie Garcia, Jimmy Santos, Nikki Valdez, Kean Cipriano, Vandolph, Carlos Agassi, DJ Durano, Bodie Cruz, Tutti Caringal, Malou de Guzman, Dennis Padilla, Ricky Rivero, Rubi Rubi

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Immortals (2011)

Theseus is a mortal man chosen by Zeus to lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion, who is on a rampage across Greece to obtain a weapon that can destroy humanity.

Genres: Action, Drama, Fantasy

Director: Tarsem Singh

Actors: Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, Stephen Dorff, Freida Pinto, Luke Evans, John Hurt, Joseph Morgan Anne Day-Jones, Greg Bryk, Alan Van Sprang, Peter Stebbings, Daniel Sharman, Isabel Lucas, Kellan Lutz, Steve Byers

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Tower Heist (2011)

When a group of hard working guys find out they've fallen victim to a wealthy business man's Ponzi scheme, they conspire to rob his high-rise residence.

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Danny Boyle

Actors: Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck, Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick, Stephen Henderson, Judd Hirsch, Téa Leoni, Michael Peña, Gabourey Sidibe, Nina Arianda, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Juan Carlos Hernández, Harry O'Reilly, Peter Van Wagner

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127 hours (2010)

A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Director: Danny Boyle

Actors: James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Sean Bott, Koleman Stinger, Treat Williams, John Lawrence, Kate Burton, Bailee Michelle Johnson, Parker Hadley, Clémence Poésy, Fenton Quinn, Lizzy Caplan, Peter Joshua Hull, Pieter Jan Brugge

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Secretariat (2010)

Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.

Genres: Drama, Family, History

Director: Randall Wallace

Actors: Diane Lane, John Malkovich Dylan Walsh, Margo Martindale, Nelsan Ellis Otto Thorwarth, Fred Dalton Thompson, James Cromwell, Scott Glenn, Michael Harding, Richard Fullerton, Roger D. Smith, Tim Ware, Nestor Serrano, Keith Austin

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Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 (2011)

A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her. Based on the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Director: Paul Johansson

Actors: Taylor Schilling, Edi Gathegi, Armin Shimerman, Paul Johansson, Geoff Pierson, Graham Beckel, Patrick Fischler, Matthew Marsden, Jon Polito, Grant Bowler, Daisy McCrackin, Michael O'Keefe, Christina Pickles, Jsu Garcia, Michael Lerner

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The Fighter (2010)

 A look at the early years of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid 1980s.

Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport

Director: David O. Russell

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo, Mickey O'Keefe, Jack McGee, Melissa McMeekin, Bianca Hunter, Erica McDermott, Jill Quigg, Dendrie Taylor, Kate B. O'Brien Jenna Lamia, Frank Renzulli, Paul Campbell

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Tangled (2010)

The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world for the first time, and who she really is.

Genres: Animation, Comedy, Family

Directors: Nathan Greno, Byron Howard

Actors: Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Ron Perlman, M.C. Gainey, Jeffrey Tambor, Brad Garrett, Paul F. Tompkins, Richard Kiel, Delaney Rose Stein, Nathan Greno, Byron Howard, Tim Mertens, Michael Bell Bob Bergen

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Burlesque (2011)

A small-town girl ventures to Los Angeles and finds her place in a neo-burlesque club run by a former dancer.

Genres:  Drama, Musical, Romance

Director: Steve Antin

Actors: Cher, Christina Aguilera, Eric Dane, Cam Gigandet, Julianne Hough, Alan Cumming, Peter Gallagher, Kristen Bell, Stanley Tucci, Dianna Agron, Glynn Turman, David Walton Terrence Jenkins, Chelsea Traille, Tanee McCall-Short

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Rango (2011)

Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff.

Genres: Animation, Adventure, Family

Director: Gore Verbinski

Actors: Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Ned Beatty, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy, Stephen Root, Harry Dean Stanton, Timothy Olyphant, Ray Winstone, Ian Abercrombie, Gil Birmingham, James Ward Byrkit, Claudia Black, Blake Clark

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2012 (2009)

An epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Roland Emmerich

Actors: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Thomas McCarthy, Woody Harrelson, Danny Glover, Liam James, Morgan Lily, Zlatko Buric, Beatrice Rosen, Alexandre Haussmann, Philippe Haussmann, Johann Urb

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