Category: Drama
Posted on June 30, 2014 |
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Gurren Lagann – The Movie 01 – Childhood's End / Gurren Lagann / Gekijô ban Tengen toppa guren ragan: Guren hen (2008)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi
Simon and Kamina, brothers in arms, take upon themselves to venture beyond the borders of their world, reality and imagination. Venturing further and further into a hidden truth that has kept humanity prisoners for millennia.
Starring: Tetsuya Kakihara, Katsuyuki Konishi, Marina Inoue, Yukari Fukui, Nobuyuki Hiyama, Mitsuki Saiga
Director: Hiroyuki Imaishi
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Posted on June 30, 2014 |
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A Star Is Born (1954)
Drama | Musical | Romance
A Star Is Born marked Judy Garland's return to movies after a four-year absence, director George Cukor's first musical and first color film, and a showcase for great Harold Arlen/Ira Gershwin songs in state-of-the-art stereo. Garland is singer Esther Blodgett, an undeniable talent on the rise. She catches the eye of Norman Maine (James Mason), an alcoholic actor in career decline. Their intense love transforms them both. Only one will survive Hollywood's slings and arrows.
Starring: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford, Tommy Noonan, Irving Bacon
Director: George Cukor
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Posted on June 30, 2014 |
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Le professionnel / The Professional (1981)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
French secret agent Joss Baumont is sent to one of the African countries to kill their president Njala. However, at the last moment the political situation changes and the French secret service turns him in to the African authorities, and he is sentenced to a long-term imprisonment. After the daring escape he returns to France and deliberately informs his former chiefs of his presence promising them to kill Njala who has just arrived to the country with the official visit.
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Desailly, Cyrielle Clair, Marie-Christine Descouard, Elisabeth Margoni
Director: Georges Lautner
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Tags: Cyrielle Clair, Elisabeth Margoni, Georges Lautner, Jean Desailly, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie-Christine Descouard
Posted on June 28, 2014 |
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Jack Strong (2014)
Action | Biography | Crime | Drama | Mystery
This gripping spy thriller tells the true story of a man who dares to challenge the Soviet empire. While planning the maneuvers of the Warsaw Pact forces, Polish army colonel Ryszard Kuklinski has access to top secrets. He gets to know that the American nuclear counterattack against Soviet forces is planned to be executed on Polish territory. Thanks to his determination, he starts a long, lonely and psychologically exhausting cooperation with CIA. From that very moment the life of his family and his own is in constant danger as one careless move may lead to tragedy.
Starring: Marcin Dorocinski, Maja Ostaszewska, Patrick Wilson, Dimitri Bilov, Dagmara Dominczyk
Director: Wladyslaw Pasikowski
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Posted on June 28, 2014 |
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Kabadayi / For Love and Honor (2007)
Action | Crime | Drama
Ali Osman is a former bully of city of Istanbul. But lately he gives up bully and starts to operate a synthetic pitch. He often meets his old friends, former bullies, too. One day Ali Osman receives a news which is related with his previous passionate life. Then the whole action stats as a chain of events. He learns not only he has had a son named as a Murat, also he realizes that his son has got a enemy called as Devran for his son's relationship with a attractive and fine girl, Karaca.
Starring: Sener Sen, Kenan Imirzalioglu, Ismail Hacioglu, Asli Tandogan, Rasim Öztekin
Director: Ömer Vargi
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Posted on June 28, 2014 |
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Hobson's Choice (1954)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Lancashire bootmaker Henry Horatio Hobson (Charles Laughton) keeps a tight rein on his three daughters, until his eldest, Maggie (Brenda De Banzie), marries his assistant Willie Mossop (John Mills) and sets him up in his own bootmaking firm. To Hobson's consternation, Willie has soon become his father-in-law's main business rival.
Starring: Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie, Daphne Anderson, Prunella Scales, Richard Wattis
Director: David Lean
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Posted on June 28, 2014 |
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Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
The legendary James Cagney (White Heat) in his final great gangster role. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye offers Cagney at his nastiest. The star plays career criminal Ralph Cotter, a lowlife maniac who doesn’t care about anything except his next “kill.” After violently busting out from prison and murdering his partner, the cold-blooded mobster satisfies a pent-up lust for violence in an unstoppable and vicious crime-spree. Dirty cops, Inspector Charles Webber (Ward Bond) and Lieutenant John Reese (Barton MacLane) try to strong-arm the fascinating creep, but he turns the table on them and blackmails them with the help of a crooked lawyer, Keith 'Cherokee' Mandon (Luther Adler).
Starring: James Cagney, Barbara Payton, Helena Carter, Ward Bond, Luther Adler, Barton MacLane
Director: Gordon Douglas
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Posted on June 27, 2014 |
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Koto the Ancient City / Ancient City / Koto (1980)
Drama
Koto is a 1980 film directed by Kon Ichikawa starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura in an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's story The Old Capital.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Keiko Kishi, Jun Izumi, Yuuki Kitazume
Director: Kon Ichikawa
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Tags: Jun Izumi, Keiko Kishi, Kon Ichikawa, Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Yuuki Kitazume
Posted on June 27, 2014 |
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Molly's Theory of Relativity (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Family
Molly's Theory of Relativity is a sexy, funny, surreal, and devastating portrait of a beautiful twenty-eight-year-old astronomer who, having unexpectedly lost her job, is poised to make perhaps the first reckless decision of her life. Her story unfolds during an eighteen-hour period, on Halloween. Providing counsel on the fateful day are her husband, her father-in-law, three deceased relatives, a precocious nine-year-old trick-or-treater, her grandfather from Minot, North Dakota, and a six-year-old neighbor, who may or may not be imaginary. "Molly's Theory of Relativity" is about the economy, and how we value what we do for a living, to ourselves and to 6 others. It's observes the unbreakable bonds of family, and posits the notion that death is merely a relative thing.
Starring: Reed Birney, Cady Huffman, Nicholas Lampiasi, Adam LeFevre, Sophia Takal
Director: Jeff Lipsky
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Posted on June 27, 2014 |
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Radio Free Albemuth (2010)
Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Berkeley record store clerk Nick Brady (Jonathan Scarfe) begins to experience strange visions from an entity he calls VALIS that cause him to uproot his family and move to Los Angeles where he becomes a successful music company executive. With the help of best friend, science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick himself (Shea Whigam) and a mysterious woman named Silvia (Alanis Morissette), Nick finds himself drawn into a dangerous political-mystical conspiracy of cosmic proportions. The story is set in an alternate reality America circa 1985 under the authoritarian control of President Fremont, a Nixon-like clone (Scott Wilson).
Starring: Jonathan Scarfe, Shea Whigham, Katheryn Winnick, Alanis Morissette, Hanna Hall, Scott Wilson
Director: John Alan Simon
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Tags: Alanis Morissette, Hanna Hall, John Alan Simon, Jonathan Scarfe, Katheryn Winnick, Scott Wilson, Shea Whigham
Posted on June 27, 2014 |
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It Felt Like Love (2013)
Drama
14-year-old Lila grows envious of her best friend's sexual confidence and begins to insinuate herself into the life of a volatile local boy, convincing herself they are in a relationship even when confronted with the harsh glare of reality.
Starring: Gina Piersanti, Giovanna Salimeni, Ronen Rubinstein
Director: Eliza Hittman
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Posted on June 27, 2014 |
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Broadway's Finest (2012)
Action | Comedy | Drama
Broadway's Finest is a diverting story about three struggling men who impersonate New York City under cover cops and chase down a notorious drug dealer in order to create their own cutting edge police drama. Desperate for success, they enter the dangerous world of undercover police work to get the authentic material they need to create their show. As the exploits of the ill-prepared detectives get them deeper and deeper into the case, they are driven to extremes. Do these guys really know what they're playing with? Will they survive the dangers of the street? Things are rarely what they seem in this gritty dramatic comedy.
Starring: Adam Storke, John Lavelle, Nick Cornish, Larry Pine, Lauren Hodges, Robert Clohessy, Robert Funaro, David Lansbury, Thomas G. Waites, Chris Kerson
Director: Stephen Marro
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Tags: Adam Storke, Chris Kerson, David Lansbury, John Lavelle, Larry Pine, Lauren Hodges, Nick Cornish, Robert Clohessy, Robert Funaro, Stephen Marro, Thomas G. Waites
Posted on June 27, 2014 |
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The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet / L'extravagant voyage du jeune et prodigieux T.S. Spivet (2013)
Adventure | Drama | Family
T.S. Spivet lives on a ranch in Montana with his mother who is obsessed with the morphology of beetles, his father (a cowboy born a hundred years too late) and his 14 year-old sister who dreams of becoming Miss America. T.S. is a 12 year-old prodigy with a passion for cartography and scientific inventions. One day, he receives an unexpected call from the Smithsonian museum telling him that he is the winner of the very prestigious Baird prize for his discovery of the perpetual motion machine and that he is invited to a reception in his honor where he is expected to give a speech. Without telling anyone, he sets out on a freight train across the U.S.A. to reach Washington DC.
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Kyle Catlett, Julian Richings, Judy Davis, Niamh Wilson, Robert Maillet
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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Posted on June 27, 2014 |
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Hot Young Bloods / Pikkeulneun Chungchoon (2014)
Comedy | Drama | Romance | Teen
A comedy romance movie about the last generation of youths and their passionate romance based in Hongseong, Chungcheong Namdo in the 1980's.
Starring: Young-kwang Kim, Jong-Suk Lee, Se-Young Lee, Bo-young Park
Director: Yeon-woo Lee
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Posted on June 27, 2014 |
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Soul / Shi hun (2013)
Drama | Thriller
An unsettling thriller which takes an unflinching look at demonic possession. A-chuan is a quiet 30-year-old chef working in a Japanese restaurant. One day he abruptly collapses unconscious and is rushed to a hospital. He is then sent back to his father’s home in the mountain to recuperate, where he remains catatonic and mute, until one day…
Starring: Yu Wang, Hsiao-chuan Chang, Shiang-chyi Chen, Shih-Chieh Chin, Leon Dai, Pong Fong Wu
Director: Mong-Hong Chung
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Posted on June 27, 2014 |
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Once (2006)
Drama | Music | Romance
A tale that follows 'the Guy', who works part-time helping his father run a small, vacuum cleaner repair business, but dreams of one day having his songs recorded and landing a record deal. Emotionally vulnerable, he is still coming to terms with the recent departure of his girlfriend and lacks the conviction and passion to move on in his pedestrian life. One day, he meets 'the Girl', an Eastern European immigrant who has moved to Dublin to start a new life for herself. Currently working as a house cleaner in an upper-class residence, she is struggling financially. She yearns for what she cannot afford–a piano to help her escape from the daily grind of finding her way through this strange new land. A relationship blossoms between 'the Guy' and 'the Girl', as they're both struggling. Their shared love of music causes them to flourish and grow with a new found confidence as they take a chance on each other and a new beginning on life.
Starring: Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Hugh Walsh, Gerard Hendrick, Alaistair Foley, Geoff Minogue
Director: John Carney
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Posted on June 25, 2014 |
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Poslední cyklista / Last of the Cyclists (2014)
Drama | History
Last of the Cyclists is a Czech drama – World War 2 story of a Christian orphan raised in Jewish family who has to face the cruel fate of Auschwitz.
Starring: Markéta Hrubesová, Petr Vanek, Ági Gubik, Lenka Vlasáková, David Novotný, Marta Vancurová, Václav Helsus
Director: Jirí Svoboda
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Tags: Ági Gubik, David Novotný, Jirí Svoboda, Lenka Vlasáková, Markéta Hrubesová, Marta Vancurová, Petr Vanek, Václav Helsus
Posted on June 25, 2014 |
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Judex (1963)
Action | Crime | Drama
Favraux, an unscrupulous banker, receives a threatening note, signed by "Judex", demanding that he pay back the people he has swindled. He refuses, and apparently dies after a midnight toast at his masked ball. However, he is only drugged by Judex and locked away. Judex spares his life when the banker's widowed daughter, Jacqueline, rejects the inheritance. Meanwhile Diana Monti, the former governess, kidnaps Jacqueline to try to get the banker's money. But Judex is hot on her trail.
Starring: Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob, Théo Sarapo, Sylva Koscina
Director: Georges Franju
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Posted on June 25, 2014 |
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Passage to Marseille (1944)
Adventure | Drama | War
Unfolded in a complex flashback-within-flashback structure, this is the story of Jean Matrac, a freedom-loving French journalist who sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny. The film opens as French liason officer Freycinet, stationed in London, tells Mantrac's story to a British reporter. Freycinet reveals that Mantrac, happily married to Paula, was framed by pro-fascists and sentenced to Devil's Island. Here he engineered a daring escape with such lost souls as Marius, Garou, Petit and Renault. Adrift in a lifeboat, the escapees were picked up by a French vessel commandeered by pro-fascist Major Duval. With the help of Mantrac and the prisoners, the ship's patriotic captain thwarted Duval's evil machinations, enabling Mantrac to continue his battle against Nazism as a member of the RAF.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Helmut Dantine
Director: Michael Curtiz
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Posted on June 25, 2014 |
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The Divorcee (1930)
Drama | Romance
When a woman discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her, she decides to respond to his infidelities in kind.
Starring: Norma Shearer, Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel, Robert Montgomery, Florence Eldridge
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
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Tags: Chester Morris, Conrad Nagel, Florence Eldridge, Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery, Robert Z. Leonard
