Movies

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Legally Blonde
Summary: The blonde Elle Woods took an off boyfriend, Warner Huntington III, a boy of noble family that is going to study law at Harvard. The reason: she is "blonde" too. He decides to prove that not only has beauty and is at the same university, even if it means losing all the comforts of life futile. Now she has to struggle and turn, while trying to win back her lover. And is determined to prove, on behalf of all the blondes, who is also capable of being a good lawyer.



Anna and the King
Summary: When the English teacher, Anna Leonowens, arrives at the exotic Siam to teach the children of King Mongkut, her Western sensibilities clash with the ruler's Eastern ways. The tension increases when Mongkut learns that outside forces are conspiring against his regime.



Pro daybreak happy
Summary: Documentary about the different situations that adolescents aged 14 to 17 years, rich and poor, face within the school: the insecurity, prejudice, violence and hope. It surveyed students from schools in the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Pernambuco as well as two well-known private schools, one of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.



Patch Adams - Love is contagious
Summary: In 1969, after trying to commit suicide, Hunter Adams voluntarily checked himself into a sanitarium. By helping other inmates, he discovers that want to be a doctor, in order to help people. Thus, out of the institution and into the medical school. His unconventional methods cause shock initially, but is slowly gaining all but the chancellor, who wants to find a reason to expel him, although he was head of the class.



Dead Poets Society
Summary: In 1959, John Keating back to very traditional boarding Welton Academy, where he was a brilliant student, to be the new English teacher. In the gloomy atmosphere of the prestigious school, Keating became a controversial figure and unwelcome, as lights in students a passion for poetry and art and rebellion against social conventions. The students, excited, raised the Dead Poets Society, founded by Keating in his time in high school and dedicated to the cult of poetry, mystery and friendship. The tension between discipline and freedom increases, the parents are against the new ideas that found their children, and the conflict leads to tragedy.



Scent of a Woman
Summary: Frank Slade is a former army colonel who leads the blind young student Charlie Simms for a weekend in New York, the holiday of Thanksgiving. During the trip, Frank reveals the young Charlie plans: visit your family, eating in good restaurants, sleeping with a beautiful woman and, after all, commit suicide. The film follows the two during the weekend, when exciting situations teach them about relationships and meanings of life.


Mona Lisa Smile
Summary: The year 1953 is, and the girls of Wellesley College, one of the most traditional of the United States, are preparing for another school year. The students will have a new teacher of art history: Katherine Watson (Julia Roberts) got the job after fighting a lot, about to cross the country, leaving sunny California and her boyfriend to live in the cold east coast.