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Four Weddings and a Funeral The Godfather The Da Vinci Code Hunger Games Wuthering Heights The Matrix Princess Diana The Pelican Brief Mr Bean The Bridget Jones Titanic
____________________ is a comedy film, which was released in 1997 starring British actor, Rowan Atkinson. In the film, the strange man, familiar to TV viewers, is sent as an `art expert' to a gallery in Los Angeles. While there, Mr Bean accidentally ruins a famous masterpiece. But somehow he manages to rescue the situation, earn the gratitude of his host, and even impress the art world with his perceptive remarks on the masterpiece. All Mr Bean fans will love this film, and those unfamiliar with him will find it highly entertaining.
_______________________ is a 1999 American science fiction action film. The film stars Keanu Reeves,Laurence Fishburne. It depicts a dystopian future in which reality as perceived by most humans is actually a simulated reality or cyberspace called "the Matrix", created by sentient machines to pacify and subdue the human population, while their bodies' heat and electrical activity are used as an energy source. Computer programmer "Neo" learns this truth and is drawn into a rebellion against the machines, which involves other people who have been freed from the "dream world".
______________________________is a biography of the British princess, specially written for learners of English. As a beautiful young girl, Lady Diana Spencer married Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, in a fairy-tale wedding. But all was not as it seemed. Privately, the marriage went wrong early on and Diana developed an eating disorder. In public, she became a colourful member of the British royal family and the public adored her. She won people's hearts, too, through her charity work for the underprivileged and outcasts of society. Her tragic death at the age of thirty-six in a car accident shocked the world. Many people felt as bereaved as if she had been in their own family. This biography provides a detailed and fascinating account of an important figure in British public life.
_________________________is a hugely popular romantic comedy film which was released in 1993, starring Hugh Grant and Andie McDowell. The screenplay was written by Richard Curtis, one of the best current British writers of comedy and the film began a series of successes for British film-making. One of a group of friends, Charles, is a young man in search of love. The trouble is he is too shy and reticent to get the girl he really loves - Carrie. When she marries someone else, he tries to make the best of things by nearly getting married himself. Luckily for him, Carrie reappears and all ends well.
___________________________is thriller by John Grisham, published in 1992. It is a story of big business, politics and corruption in high places in the US. Two Supreme Court judges are murdered at the same time. Are their deaths a coincidence or is there a connection? A bright law student, Darby Shaw, decides to investigate and comes up with a seemingly farfetched theory, which she writes up as a brief. It turns out that the `Brief' actually reveals secrets some people with connections to the President himself would like to remain hidden. These people are prepared to kill and Darby has to go on the run to save her life. As with all Grisham stories, this is a gripping and exciting read. An excellent film came out in 1993 starring Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington.
__________________________ is the classic British nineteenth century romantic novel by Emily Bronte written in 1847. It is a tragic tale of love and revenge which takes place in the wild, remote Yorkshire Moors in England. At the same time the book contains insights into dysfunctional family life which are relevant today. Heathcliff, a strange foundling child brought to live with the Earnshaw family, grows into a passionate youth who falls in love with Catherine Earnshaw. But Catherine marries Edgar Linton. Badly treated by the rest of the family, Heathcliff plans his revenge. First, he artfully acquires the property of the Earnshaws. Then Catherine dies after giving birth to a daughter, and after a while, Heathcliff begins to find that revenge is not so sweet. Though he also gains the Linton's property, he is tortured by memories of his beloved Catherine and is overcome by guilt and madness.
_________________________ is a 2003 mystery-detective novel written by Dan Brown. It follows symbologist Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu as they investigate a murder in Paris's Louvre Museum and discover a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus having been married to Mary Magdalene. The title of the novel refers to, among other things, the fact that the murder victim is found in the Grand Gallery of the Louvre, naked and posed like Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawing, the Vitruvian Man, with a cryptic message written beside his body and a pentacledrawn on his chest in his own blood
_________________________ is novel by American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the voice of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem, where the countries of North America once existed. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12-18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle to the death. Katniss Everdeen, a girl from District 12 who volunteers for the 74th annual Hunger Games in place of her younger sister, Primrose. The male tribute chosen from District 12 is Peeta Mellark. They fight with people from other districts.
________________________ is a crime novel written by Italian American author Mario Puzo. It details the story of a fictitious Sicilian Mafia family based in New York City, headed by Don Vito Corleone, who became synonymous with the Italian Mafia. In 1972, a film adaptation of the novel was released, starring Marlon Brando as Don Vito Corleone, and it won three Academy Awards, 5 Golden Globes and one Grammy.
_______________________ is a story about single, thirty-eight-year-old woman whose life is a version of the stereotypical single London thirty-something in the nineties trying to go out there and look for love. She has some bad habits - smoking and drinking too much - but she annually writes her New Year's resolutions in her diary, determined to stop smoking, drink no more than fourteen alcohol units a week, and eat more pulses and try her best to lose weight. She flirts with her boss, Daniel Cleaver. A successful barrister named Mark Darcy also keeps popping into Bridget's life.
________________________ - 84 years later a 100-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukator tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell, and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancé, Caledon Cal Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of the ship on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning,.
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