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The Truman Show (1998)
8.2
PG
Duration: 103min
Country: US
Original Language: en
Director: Peter Weir
Plot: Truman Burbank is a nice man who sells insurance. He likes to explore. But he does not know his life is a TV show. Christof is the TV boss who controls everything. Truman lives in a fake world with cameras everywhere. The TV network makes money from him. Truman does not know the truth. He is like a trapped rat.
Cast: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Holland Taylor
Keywords: dystopia, escape, paranoia, deception, suspicion, hidden camera, video surveillance, television producer, tv show in film, simulated reality
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The Pianist (2002)
8.5
R
Duration: 150min
Country: PL
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A Beautiful Mind (2001)
8.2
PG-13
Duration: 135min
Country: US
Plot: When John Nash Jr. was a graduate student, he developed the well-known game theory that has influenced several industries, including the military and the economy. Nevertheless, schizophrenia hampered Nash's exceptional insight. Surrounded by his wife Alicia, Nash fights an illness that has destroyed many before him. With sheer determination, he carried on working as before for over a decade and was granted the Nobel Prize in 1994.
Cast: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Paul Bettany, Christopher Plummer
Big Fish (2003)
8
PG-13
Duration: 125min
Country: US
Plot: When Edward was young, he loved telling his son about his legendary experiences. He claimed he had experienced many bizarre, magical, and absurd things. Will did not believe it and thought his father was vain and boastful. The relationship between father and son gradually became alienated. Until his father got cancer and died soon, the son decided to go back to see his father for the last time. When the son faced his father on the sickbed, his father began to talk about his legendary experiences in his early years. From his father's weak breath, Will seemed to understand feelings he had never had. When William, a reporter, began to investigate his father's story, he began to understand his father and his love of storytelling.
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter
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THX 1138 (1971)
6.6
R
Release Date: 1971-03-11
Duration: 86min
Country: US
Cast: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley, Maggie McOmie, Ian Wolfe
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
7.2
PG-13
Release Date: 2001-06-29
Duration: 146min
Country: US
Plot: Polar ice caps are expected to melt soon, causing global coastal towns to be inundated by rising sea levels. Humans advanced and made useful robots known as mechs after withdrawing to the continent's interior. A mech manufacturing firm created David. He is a manufactured child and the first to experience genuine emotions, particularly love for his "mother," Monica.
Cast: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards, Jake Thomas