Academy Award for Best Visual Effects Winners
# Mighty Joe Young
Ano: 1998 | País: United States of America
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As a child living in Africa, Jill Young saw her mother killed while protecting wild gorillas from poachers led by Andrei Strasser. Now an adult, Jill cares for an orphaned gorilla named Joe -- who, du
# The War of the Worlds
Ano: 1953 | País: United States of America
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The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to a
# 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Ano: 1954 | País: United States of America
Diretor: Richard Fleischer
Elenco: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre, Robert J. Wilke
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A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo.
# The Ten Commandments
Ano: 1956 | País: US
Diretor: Cecil B. DeMille
Elenco: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo
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Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
# Ben-Hur
Ano: 1959 | País: US
Diretor: William Wyler
Elenco: Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet
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In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
# The Time Machine
Ano: 2002 | País: United States of America
Diretor: Simon Wells
Elenco: Guy Pearce, Mark Addy, Phyllida Law, Sienna Guillory, Laura Kirk
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Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
# The Longest Day
Ano: 1962 | País: United States of America
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The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's A
# Cleopatra
Ano: 1963 | País: GB
Diretor: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Elenco: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, George Cole
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Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
# Mary Poppins
Ano: 1964 | País: US
Diretor: Robert Stevenson
Elenco: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley
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Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in their lives but also spreads happiness.
# Thunderball
Ano: 1965 | País: GB
Diretor: Terence Young
Elenco: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi, Rik Van Nutter
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A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
# Doctor Dolittle
Ano: 1998 | País: United States of America
Diretor: Betty Thomas
Elenco: Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt, Peter Boyle, Richard Schiff
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A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is sud
# 2001: A Space Odyssey
Ano: 1968 | País: GB
Diretor: Stanley Kubrick
Elenco: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rain, Daniel Richter
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Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
# Superman
Ano: 1978 | País: GB
Diretor: Richard Donner
Elenco: Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Marlon Brando, Ned Beatty
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Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
# Alien
Ano: 1979 | País: United States of America, United Kingdom
Diretor: Ridley Scott
Elenco: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt
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During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs
# Raiders of the Lost Ark
Ano: 1981 | País: US
Diretor: Steven Spielberg
Elenco: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-Davies, Ronald Lacey
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When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
# E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Ano: 1982 | País: US
Diretor: Steven Spielberg
Elenco: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Robert MacNaughton, Peter Coyote, Dee Wallace
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An alien is left behind on Earth and saved by the 10-year-old Elliot who decides to keep him hidden in his home. While a task force hunts for the extra-terrestrial, Elliot, his brother, and his little sister Gertie form an emotional bond with their new friend, and try to help him find his way home.
# Return of the Jedi
Ano: 1983 | País: US
Diretor: Richard Marquand
Elenco: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels
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Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion once and for all with a second dreaded Death Star.
# Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Ano: 1984 | País: US
Diretor: Steven Spielberg
Elenco: Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth
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After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
# Aliens
Ano: 1986 | País: US
Diretor: James Cameron
Elenco: Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen
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Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.
# Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Ano: 1988 | País: US
Diretor: Robert Zemeckis
Elenco: Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer, Kathleen Turner
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'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
# The Abyss
Ano: 1989 | País: United States of America
Diretor: James Cameron
Elenco: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester, Todd Graff
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A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocea
# Total Recall
Ano: 2012 | País: CA
Diretor: Len Wiseman
Elenco: Colin Farrell, Jessica Biel, Kate Beckinsale, Ethan Hawke, Bill Nighy
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Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure goes wrong, Quaid becomes a wanted man by the police and joins forces with a rebel fighter to stop the evil Chancellor Cohaagen.
# Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Ano: 1991 | País: France, United States of America
Diretor: James Cameron
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Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly
# Death Becomes Her
Ano: 1992 | País: US
Diretor: Robert Zemeckis
Elenco: Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis, Meryl Streep, Isabella Rossellini, Ian Ogilvy
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Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once arch-rival Helen's fiance. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes things to be a great deal more complicated than a mere murder plot.
# Jurassic Park
Ano: 1993 | País: US
Diretor: Steven Spielberg
Elenco: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck
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A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
# Forrest Gump
Ano: 1994 | País: United States of America
Diretor: Robert Zemeckis
Elenco: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, Sally Field
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A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has
# Babe
Ano: 1995 | País: AU
Diretor: Chris Noonan
Elenco: Christine Cavanaugh, Miriam Margolyes, Danny Mann, Hugo Weaving, Miriam Flynn
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Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he calls mum, Babe realises that he has the makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time, and Farmer Hoggett knows it. With the help of the sheep dogs, Babe learns that a pig can be anything that he wants to be.
# Independence Day
Ano: 1996 | País: US
Diretor: Roland Emmerich
Elenco: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch
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Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.
# Titanic
Ano: 1997 | País: EUA
Diretor: James Cameron
Elenco: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane
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101-year-old Rose recalls her voyage on the Titanic, from its departure to its sinking on April 15, 1912.
# The Matrix
Ano: 1999 | País: United States of America
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Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
# Gladiator
Ano: 2000 | País: United Kingdom, United States of America
Diretor: Ridley Scott
Elenco: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris
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In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army's most capable and trusted generals and a key advisor to the emperor. As Ma
# The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Ano: 2001 | País: NZ
Diretor: Peter Jackson
Elenco: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Ian Holm
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Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.
# The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Ano: 2002 | País: NZ
Diretor: Peter Jackson
Elenco: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Andy Serkis
Sinopse
Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the One Ring--but on separate paths. Their destinies lie at two towers--Orthanc Tower in Isengard, where the corrupt wizard Saruman awaits, and Sauron's fortress at Barad-dur, deep within the dark lands of Mordor. Frodo and Sam are trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin. All along, nefarious wizard Saruman awaits the Fellowship members at the Orthanc Tower in Isengard.
# The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Ano: 2003 | País: NZ
Diretor: Peter Jackson
Elenco: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Andy Serkis
Sinopse
As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the outcome--one member of the Fellowship of the Ring is revealed as the noble heir to the throne of the Kings of Men. Yet, the sole hope for triumph over evil lies with a brave hobbit, Frodo, who, accompanied by his loyal friend Sam and the hideous, wretched Gollum, ventures deep into the very dark heart of Mordor on his seemingly impossible quest to destroy the Ring of Power.
# Spider-Man 2
Ano: 2004 | País: US
Diretor: Sam Raimi
Elenco: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina, Rosemary Harris
Sinopse
Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still can't act on his feelings for Mary Jane Watson, a girl he's loved since childhood. A certain anger begins to brew in his best friend Harry Osborn as well...
# King Kong
Ano: 2005 | País: NZ
Diretor: Peter Jackson
Elenco: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Andy Serkis, Colin Hanks
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In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.
# Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Ano: 2006 | País: US
Diretor: Gore Verbinski
Elenco: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Stellan Skarsgård, Bill Nighy
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Captain Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well.
# The Golden Compass
Ano: 2007 | País: United Kingdom, United States of America
Diretor: Chris Weitz
Elenco: Dakota Blue Richards, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Sam Elliott, Eva Green
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After overhearing a shocking secret, precocious orphan Lyra Belacqua trades her carefree existence roaming the halls of Jordan College for an otherworldly adventure in the far North, unaware that it's
# The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ano: 2008 | País: US
Diretor: David Fincher
Elenco: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng
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Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.
# Avatar
Ano: 2009 | País: United States of America, United Kingdom
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In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.
# Inception
Ano: 2010 | País: United Kingdom, United States of America
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Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inc
# Hugo
Ano: 2011 | País: France, United Kingdom, United States of America
Diretor: Martin Scorsese
Elenco: Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ray Winstone
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Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is
# Life of Pi
Ano: 2012 | País: IN
Diretor: Ang Lee
Elenco: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Ayush Tandon, Gautam Belur, Adil Hussain
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The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
# Gravity
Ano: 2013 | País: GB
Diretor: Alfonso Cuarón
Elenco: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris, Orto Ignatiussen, Phaldut Sharma
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Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone-tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness of space. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.
# Interstellar
Ano: 2014 | País: United Kingdom, United States of America
Diretor: Christopher Nolan
Elenco: Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Casey Affleck
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The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
# Ex Machina
Ano: 2015 | País: GB
Diretor: Alex Garland
Elenco: Domhnall Gleeson, Alicia Vikander, Oscar Isaac, Sonoya Mizuno, Corey Johnson
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Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.
# The Jungle Book
Ano: 2016 | País: GB
Diretor: Jon Favreau
Elenco: Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Scarlett Johansson
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A man-cub named Mowgli fostered by wolves. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli is forced to flee the jungle, by which he embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of the panther, Bagheera and the free-spirited bear, Baloo.
# Blade Runner 2049
Ano: 2017 | País: CA
Diretor: Denis Villeneuve
Elenco: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Dave Bautista, Robin Wright
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Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
# 1917
Ano: 2019 | País: IN
Diretor: Sam Mendes
Elenco: George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Richard Madden
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At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.
# Tenet
Ano: 2020 | País: GB
Diretor: Christopher Nolan
Elenco: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Kenneth Branagh, Dimple Kapadia
Sinopse
Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
# Dune
Ano: 1984 | País: US
Diretor: David Lynch
Elenco: Kyle MacLachlan, Francesca Annis, Patrick Stewart, Linda Hunt, José Ferrer
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In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.
# Avatar: The Way of Water
Ano: 2022 | País: United States of America
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Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other sa
# Godzilla Minus One
Ano: 2023 | País: JP
Diretor: Takashi Yamazaki
Elenco: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka
Sinopse
In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.