Category: Drama
Posted on August 24, 2014 |
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Klondike (TV Mini-Series 2014)
Adventure | Drama | Western
Klondike is an event mini-series of epic proportion inspired by the true stories of those who hunted for wealth and battled for survival in the brutal Yukon Territory. At the center of the action are Bill Haskell and Byron Epstein – childhood best friends who risk everything to pursue their dream of striking it rich during the 1890’s gold rush. Lured into this treacherous landscape by the prospect of riches, they endure the unforgiving elements and discover that the deadliest threats are always human.
Starring: Richard Madden, Augustus Prew, Abbie Cornish, Tim Blake Nelson, Tim Roth, Sam Shepard
Creator: Paul Scheuring, Joshua Goldin, Rachel Abramowitz
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Tags: Abbie Cornish, Augustus Prew, Joshua Goldin, Paul Scheuring, Rachel Abramowitz, Richard Madden, Sam Shepard, Tim Blake Nelson, Tim Roth
Posted on August 23, 2014 |
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Herz aus Glas / Heart of Glass (1976)
Drama
A small village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.
Starring: Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Güttler, Clemens Scheitz, Sonja Skiba
Director: Werner Herzog
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Tags: Clemens Scheitz, Josef Bierbichler, Sonja Skiba, Stefan Güttler, Werner Herzog
Posted on August 23, 2014 |
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Série noire / Black Series (1979)
Crime | Drama
Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona from her aunt. Murder is the only solution he finds to achieve his goal… A very gloomy movie, exuding dispair and uneasiness, with pathetic characters.
Starring: Patrick Dewaere, Myriam Boyer, Marie Trintignant. Bernard Blier
Director: Alain Corneau
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Tags: Alain Corneau, Marie Trintignant. Bernard Blier, Myriam Boyer, Patrick Dewaere
Posted on August 23, 2014 |
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Stroszek (1977)
Comedy | Drama
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck. After they are harried and beaten by the thugs who have been Eva's pimps, they join Bruno's neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin. In that winter bound, barren prairie, Bruno works as a mechanic, Eva as a waitress. They buy a trailer. Then, bills mount, the bank threatens to repossess the trailer, Eva wants privacy, and inexorably, the promise of a new life deserts Bruno.
Starring: Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz, Wilhelm von Homburg, Michael Gahr
Director: Werner Herzog
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Tags: Bruno S., Clemens Scheitz, Eva Mattes, Michael Gahr, Werner Herzog, Wilhelm von Homburg
Posted on August 23, 2014 |
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The Count of Monte-Cristo (1975)
Adventure | Drama | History
A young officer, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friends," escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Trevor Howard, Louis Jourdan, Donald Pleasence, Tony Curtis, Kate Nelligan
Director: David Greene
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Tags: David Greene, Donald Pleasence, Kate Nelligan, Louis Jourdan, Richard Chamberlain, Tony Curtis, Trevor Howard
Posted on August 23, 2014 |
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The Harder They Fall (1956)
Drama | Film-Noir | Sport | Thriller
Down-on-his-luck ex-sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by shady fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his latest find, an unknown but easily exploitable phenom from Argentina.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling, Mike Lane, Max Baer, Edward Andrews
Director: Mark Robson
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Tags: Edward Andrews, Humphrey Bogart, Jan Sterling, Mark Robson, Max Baer, Mike Lane, Rod Steiger
Posted on August 21, 2014 |
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Night Moves (2013)
Drama | Thriller
Devoted environmentalists Josh and Dena join with Harmon, a disillusioned former Marine with an extensive knowledge of explosives, to blow up a dam. Their act of ecological protest has sinister consequences.
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard, Alia Shawkat, Logan Miller, Kai Lennox
Director: Kelly Reichardt
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Tags: Alia Shawkat, Dakota Fanning, Jesse Eisenberg, Kai Lennox, Kelly Reichardt, Logan Miller, Peter Sarsgaard
Posted on August 21, 2014 |
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Brick Mansions / District B13 (2014)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
An undercover cop tries to take down a ruthless crime lord with access to a neutron bomb by infiltrating his gang.
Starring: Paul Walker, David Belle, RZA, Robert Maillet, Catalina Denis
Director: Camille Delamarre
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Posted on August 21, 2014 |
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Words and Pictures (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A flamboyant English teacher and a new, stoic art teacher collide at an upscale prep school. A high-spirited courtship begins and she finds herself enjoying the battle. Another battle they begin has the students trying to prove which is more powerful, the word or the picture. But the true war is against their own demons, as two troubled souls struggle for connection.
Starring: Clive Owen, Juliette Binoche, Bruce Davison, Valerie Tian, Navid Negahban, Amy Brenneman
Director: Fred Schepisi
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Tags: Amy Brenneman, Bruce Davison, Clive Owen, Fred Schepisi, Juliette Binoche, Navid Negahban, Valerie Tian
Posted on August 20, 2014 |
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The Tale of Nishino / Yukihiko Nishino's Love and Adventure / Nishino Yukihiko no koi to bouken (2014)
Drama
Yukihiko Nishino (Yutaka Takenouchi) is very popular with women, but, in the end, he is always dumped by a woman. Yukihiko seeks out his true love.
Starring: Yutaka Takenouchi, Machiko Ono, Riko Narumi, Fumino Kimura, Tsubasa Honda, Kumiko Asô, Sawako Agawa, Yurika Nakagawa
Director: Nami Iguchi
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Tags: Fumino Kimura, Kumiko Asô, Machiko Ono, Nami Iguchi, Riko Narumi, Sawako Agawa, Tsubasa Honda, Yurika Nakagawa, Yutaka Takenouchi
Posted on August 20, 2014 |
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Insomnia (1997)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
In this elegantly unsettling murder mystery, Stellan Skarsgård plays an enigmatic Swedish detective with a checkered past who arrives in a small town in northern Norway to investigate the death of a teenage girl. As he digs deeper into the facts surrounding the heinous killing, his own demons and the tyrannical midnight sun begin to take a toll.
Starring: Stellan Skarsgård, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Maria Mathiesen, Gisken Armand, Kristian Figenschow, Thor Michael Aamodt
Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg
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Posted on August 20, 2014 |
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Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen / Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
Comedy | Drama | Horror
The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming. An allegory on the problematic nature of fully liberating the human spirit, as both commendable and disturbing elements of our nature come forward. The film shows how justifiable revolt may be empowering, but may also turn to chaos and depravity. The allegory is developed in part by the fact that the film is cast entirely with dwarfs,
Starring: Helmut Döring, Paul Glauer, Gisela Hertwig, Hertel Minkner, Gertrud Piccini
Director: Werner Herzog
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Tags: Gertrud Piccini, Gisela Hertwig, Helmut Döring, Hertel Minkner, Paul Glauer, Werner Herzog
Posted on August 20, 2014 |
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The German Doctor / Wakolda (2013)
Drama | History | Thriller
Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor meets an Argentinean family and follows them on a long desert road to a small town where the family will be starting a new life. Eva, Enzo and their three children welcome the doctor into their home and entrust their young daughter, Lilith, to his care, not knowing that they are harboring one of the most dangerous criminals in the world. At the same time, Israeli agents are desperately looking to bring THE GERMAN DOCTOR to justice.
Starring: Àlex Brendemühl, Natalia Oreiro, Diego Peretti, Elena Roger, Guillermo Pfening, Florencia Bado, Alan Daicz
Director: Lucía Puenzo
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Tags: Alan Daicz, Àlex Brendemühl, Diego Peretti, Elena Roger, Florencia Bado, Guillermo Pfening, Lucía Puenzo, Natalia Oreiro
Posted on August 20, 2014 |
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Jealousy / La jalousie (2013)
Drama | Romance
A 30-year-old man lives with a woman in a small, furnished rental. He has a daughter by another woman – a woman he abandoned. A theatre actor and very poor, he is madly in love with this other woman. She was once a rising star, but all offers of work have dried up. The man does everything he can to get her a role, but nothing works out. The woman cheats on him. And then she leaves him. The man tries to kill himself, but fails. His sister visits him in hospital. She's all he has left – his sister and the theatre.
Starring: Louis Garrel, Anna Mouglalis
Director: Philippe Garrel
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Posted on August 20, 2014 |
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Chimères (2013)
Drama | Horror
While on holidays in Romania with his girlfriend Livia, Alexandre is hit by a car. He is rushed to the hospital where he has to undergo a blood transfusion. On his return home he seems to suffer from a strange disease, convinced that contaminated blood runs through his veins. After all isn't Romania the land of legendary bloodsuckers? Livia faces Alexandre's increasingly strange behavior and tries to save their relationship at risk.
Starring: Jasna Kohoutova, Yannick Rosset, Catriona MacColl
Director: Olivier Beguin
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Posted on August 20, 2014 |
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The Maiden Danced to Death / A halálba táncoltatott leány (2011)
Drama
There were two brothers – two dancers – in Communist Hungary. One defected, the other stuck it out. One gave his soul to commerce, the other to the Party. After twenty years, they meet again. And the dance begins.
Starring: Endre Hules, Bea Melkvi, Deborah Kara Unger, Zsolt László, Stephen McHattie, Emöke Zsigmond, Gil Bellows, István Zámbó
Director: Endre Hules
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Tags: Bea Melkvi, Deborah Kara Unger, Emöke Zsigmond, Endre Hules, Gil Bellows, István Zámbó, Stephen McHattie, Zsolt László
Posted on August 19, 2014 |
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Rampage (2009)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A man with a thirst for revenge builds a full body armor from Kevlar and goes on a killing spree.
Starring: Brendan Fletcher, Shaun Sipos, Michael Paré, Matt Frewer, Lynda Boyd
Director: Uwe Boll
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Posted on August 19, 2014 |
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Silent Mountain / The Silent Mountain (2014)
Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
May 1915, at his sister's wedding, Anderl (William Moseley) meets Francesca (Eugenia Costantini), a stunning seventeen-year-old Italian girl, but their blossoming love is interrupted when Italy declares war against Austria, and he is sent off to front lines. As the conflict tears families apart and turns neighbors into enemies, Anderl fights his way through the mountainous battleground of the Alps, determined to return to Francesca and rescue her from impending danger.
Starring: William Moseley, Eugenia Costantini, Claudia Cardinale, Werner Daehn, Corrado Invernizzi, Fritz Karl, Harald Windisch, Giulio Cristini, Emily Cox
Director: Ernst Gossner
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Tags: Claudia Cardinale, Corrado Invernizzi, Emily Cox, Ernst Gossner, Eugenia Costantini, Fritz Karl, Giulio Cristini, Harald Windisch, Werner Daehn, William Moseley
Posted on August 19, 2014 |
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Draft Day (2014)
Drama | Sport
The General Manager of the Cleveland Browns struggles to acquire the number one draft pick for his team.
Starring: Kevin Costner, Jennifer Garner, Tom Welling, Terry Crews, Sam Elliott, Rosanna Arquette
Director: Ivan Reitman
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Posted on August 19, 2014 |
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The Walking Dead (TV Series 2010- )
Drama | Horror | Thriller
Based on the comic book series of the same name, The Walking Dead tells the story of a small group of survivors living in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse.
Starring: Andrew Lincoln, Steven Yeun, Chandler Riggs, Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan, Emily Kinney, Scott Wilson, Sarah Wayne Callies, Laurie Holden, Danai Gurira, Sonequa Martin-Green
Creator: Frank Darabont
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Tags: Andrew Lincoln, Chandler Riggs, Danai Gurira, Emily Kinney, Frank Darabont, Lauren Cohan, Laurie Holden, Melissa McBride, Norman Reedus, Sarah Wayne Callies, Scott Wilson, Sonequa Martin-Green, Steven Yeun
