Category: Drama
Posted on April 22, 2014 |
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Making the Rules / Abby in the Summer (2014)
Drama | Romance
The life of Abby is centered around the fast-paced days of being a successful sous-chef and her marriage to Matt, a loving husband. A sudden accident in the kitchen forces her to leave the job she loves, and worse, to forgo a dream promotion. As the hottest summer in L.A. history reaches its peak, she faces an extreme challenge: doing nothing. The summer intensifies as she confronts a growing emotional gulf between herself and her husband, much unsolicited advice from her prying girlfriend and the temptation of an old flame…
Starring: Jaime Pressly, Robin Thicke, Tygh Runyan, Joey Lauren Adams, Frances Conroy
Director: Jimbo Lee
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Posted on April 22, 2014 |
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City Baby (2013)
Comedy | Drama
Between her best friend moving to Brooklyn, pressure to find employment from her pop (Daniel Baldwin), and juggling romances with an aging rocker boyfriend and a yuppie fling – Cloey is reluctantly plucked from her party girl reality to deal with her own set of common people dilemmas and accomplishments. Scattered with cameos from musicians like Stephen Malkmus (Pavement), live performances by Glass Candy and Starfucker and a soundtrack featuring all local bands, 'City Baby' documents the youth utopia of Portland Oregon, revolving through the lives of a few sexy, style-conscious kids surviving extreme love affairs and complicated friendships.
Starring: Cora Benesh, Jillian Leigh, Richard Keith, Andrew Harris, Dustin Rush, Lauren Bair, Daniel Baldwin
Director: David F. Morgan
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Tags: Andrew Harris, Cora Benesh, Daniel Baldwin, David F. Morgan, Dustin Rush, Jillian Leigh, Lauren Bair, Richard Keith
Posted on April 22, 2014 |
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Dumas / L'autre Dumas (2010)
Comedy | Drama | History
When Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet, his ghostwriter, are at the summit of their collaboration, Auguste decides to pass himself off as Alexandre in order to seduce Charlotte, a fervent admirer of the great man.
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Benoît Poelvoorde, Dominique Blanc, Mélanie Thierry, Catherine Mouchet
Director: Safy Nebbou
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Tags: Benoît Poelvoorde, Catherine Mouchet, Dominique Blanc, Gérard Depardieu, Mélanie Thierry, Safy Nebbou
Posted on April 22, 2014 |
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Proxy (2013)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
While walking home from her latest OB appointment, a very pregnant Esther Woodhouse is brutally attacked and disfigured by a hooded assailant. This horrible event seems to be a blessing in disguise when Esther finds consolation in a support group. Her life of sadness and solitude is opened up to friendship, understanding, and even acceptance. However, friendship and understanding can be very dangerous things when accepted by the wrong people.
Starring: Joe Swanberg, Kristina Klebe, Alexa Havins, Alexia Rasmussen
Director: Zack Parker
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Posted on April 21, 2014 |
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Shouting / Zesshô (1975)
Drama | Romance
Junkichi is the son of a rich landlord, while Koyuki is the daughter of a poor lumber worker. The mismatched pair soon finds love, and against his father's wishes, Junkichi decides to run away with Koyuki to start a new life. But when Junkichi is called off to war, they make a pledge to sing the song of engagement everyday until they are able to reunite.
Starring: Momoe Yamaguchi, Tomokazu Miura, Shirô Osaka, Tokue Hanazawa, Shin'ya Ohwada, Nobuo Nakamura, Yoshio Yoshida
Director: Katsumi Nishikawa
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Tags: Katsumi Nishikawa, Momoe Yamaguchi, Nobuo Nakamura, Shin'ya Ohwada, Shirô Osaka, Tokue Hanazawa, Tomokazu Miura, Yoshio Yoshida
Posted on April 21, 2014 |
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Sex and Death 101 (2007)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Less than two weeks before his wedding, good-guy Roderick Blank (Simon Baker) receives a mysterious email listing every girl he's ever had sex with…and the 70+ names of everyone he ever will have sex with. But as Roderick begins enjoying all the strippers, porn stars, stewardesses and celebrity lesbians on the list, he discovers that his ultimate date with destiny may lay with the serial killer known as "Death Nell" (Winona Ryder). Is the luckiest man in the world now doomed to face the final position of the Karma Sutra?
Starring: Robert Wisdom, Tanc Sade, Patton Oswalt, Simon Baker, Mindy Cohn, Winona Ryder
Director: Daniel Waters
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Tags: Daniel Waters, Mindy Cohn, Patton Oswalt, Robert Wisdom, Simon Baker, Tanc Sade, Winona Ryder
Posted on April 21, 2014 |
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The Brave One (2007)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
New York radio host Erica Bain has a life that she loves and a fiance she adores. All of it is taken from her when a brutal attack leaves Erica badly wounded and her fiance dead. Unable to move past the tragedy, Erica begins prowling the city streets at night to track down the men she holds responsible. Her dark pursuit of justice catches the public's attention, and the city is riveted by her anonymous exploits. But with the NYPD desperate to find the culprit and a dogged police detective hot on her trail, she must decide whether her quest for revenge is truly the right path, or if she is becoming the very thing she is trying to stop.
Starring: Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Nicky Katt, Naveen Andrews, Mary Steenburgen
Director: Neil Jordan
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Posted on April 20, 2014 |
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The Physician / Der Medicus (2013)
Adventure | Drama
When nine-year-old Rob Cole felt the life force slipping from his mother's hand he could not foresee that this terrifying awareness of impending death was a gift that would lead him from the familiar life of 11th-century London to small villages throughout England and finally to the medical school at Ispahan. Though apprenticed to an itinerant barber surgeon, it is the dazzling surgery of a Jewish physician trained by the legendary Persian physician Avicenna that inspires him to accept his gift and to commit his life to healing by studying at Avicenna's school. Despite the ban on Christian students, Rob goes there, disguising himself as a Jew to gain admission. Gordon has written an adventurous and inspiring tale of a quest for medical knowledge pursued in a violent world full of superstition and prejudice.
Starring: Stellan Skarsgård, Emma Rigby, Ben Kingsley, Olivier Martinez, Tom Payne, Elyas M'Barek
Director: Philipp Stölzl
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Tags: Ben Kingsley, Elyas M'Barek, Emma Rigby, Olivier Martinez, Philipp Stölzl, Stellan Skarsgård, Tom Payne
Posted on April 19, 2014 |
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Labor Day (2013)
Drama
Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited.
Starring: Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin, Gattlin Griffith, Tobey Maguire, Tom Lipinski
Director: Jason Reitman
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Posted on April 19, 2014 |
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Salem Falls / Jodi Picoult's Salem Falls (2011)
Crime | Drama
Jack St. Bride was a teacher and soccer coach at a girls' prep school. Then one student's "crush" goes terribly wrong. He loses his job, and goes to prison. Eight months later Jack tries to move on and start over. He finds a job in Addie Peabody's diner and starts a relationship with the kind and beautiful owner. All this is set in Salem Falls, New England. When things start going well for Jack, a small group of teenage girls target him.
Starring: James Van Der Beek, Sarah Carter, AJ Michalka, Rick Roberts, Peter MacNeill
Director: Bradley Walsh
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Posted on April 19, 2014 |
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Recount (2008)
Drama | History
A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. presidential election and the subsequent recounts in Florida.
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley Jr., Laura Dern, John Hurt, Denis Leary, Bruce McGill, Tom Wilkinson, Bruce Altman
Director: Jay Roach
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Tags: Bob Balaban, Bruce Altman, Bruce McGill, Denis Leary, Ed Begley Jr., Jay Roach, John Hurt, Kevin Spacey, Laura Dern, Tom Wilkinson
Posted on April 19, 2014 |
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An Officer and a Murderer (2012)
Crime | Drama
The riveting film is based on the true story of a powerful and respected military officer who committed numerous brutal crimes and was eventually brought down by a tenacious small town police detective.
Starring: Gary Cole, Laura Harris, Rossif Sutherland, Nahanni Johnstone, Catherine Disher
Director: Norma Bailey
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Posted on April 18, 2014 |
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Gimme Shelter (2013)
Drama
16 year old street-wise Apple has never had an easy life. Her mother, June Bailey, is an addict and prostitute, is verbally and physically abusive, and is grooming her daughter to follow in her footsteps. Apple knows the streets, alleys and motels like the back of her hand but wants more from her life. She possesses a tenacious, tough, indomitable spirit, and will not surrender to fate. Apple runs away from her mother and tracks down her father whom she has never known, as he was only 19 when he got Apple's mother pregnant. Apple begs her now Wall Street Broker father, Tom Fitzpatrick, to take her in.
Starring: Vanessa Hudgens, Brendan Fraser, Rosario Dawson, James Earl Jones, Stephanie Szostak, Ann Dowd
Director: Ron Krauss
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Tags: Ann Dowd, Brendan Fraser, James Earl Jones, Ron Krauss, Rosario Dawson, Stephanie Szostak, Vanessa Hudgens
Posted on April 18, 2014 |
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Kid Cannabis (2014)
Drama
KID CANNABIS is the true story of an Idaho teen dropout who builds a multimillion-dollar marijuana ring by trafficking drugs through the woods across the Canadian border. But his pursuit of the high life – complete with girls, guns, and vicious rival drug lords – may leave this ex-pizza boy in way over his head.
Starring: Jonathan Daniel Brown, Kenny Wormald, Ron Perlman, Aaron Yoo, John C. McGinley
Director: John Stockwell
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Posted on April 18, 2014 |
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Small Time (2014)
Comedy | Drama
comes to selling cars. Martini is a good-time charley, who never settled down. Klein, however, still pines for his ex-wife Barbara who left him years ago for a more successful man. After their son, Freddy graduates high school, he decides to forego college in favor of selling cars with his old man. But what's good for Klein might not be the best thing for Freddy, as Freddy quickly transforms from innocent young man into a jaded car salesman… leaving Al with a tough decision to make.
Starring: Christopher Meloni, Devon Bostick, Bridget Moynahan, Dean Norris
Director: Joel Surnow
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Posted on April 17, 2014 |
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Son of Batman (2014)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Crime | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Hidden atop a secret mountain stronghold lies the League of Shadows and its fearless leader, Ra's al Ghul. Together with his equally dangerous daughter Talia, he oversees a trained army of assassins with plans for global domination. But an uprising from within the league now threatens to shift the balance of power and sends Talia and her young son, Damian, fleeing to Gotham City. With assassins on their trail, Talia seeks the protection of Batman, who, unbeknownst to him, is the boy's father. With his son in tow, Batman wages war against the villain Deathstroke and the League of Shadows, all while teaching his headstrong boy that one can't fight crime by becoming a criminal. With help from Gotham's finest, including Commissioner Gordon and Nightwing, Batman will soon discover that his son and most trusted ally are one and the same!
Starring: Jason O'Mara, Stuart Allan, Thomas Gibson, Morena Baccarin, Xander Berkeley, Giancarlo Esposito, David McCallum
Director: Ethan Spaulding
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Tags: David McCallum, Ethan Spaulding, Giancarlo Esposito, Jason O'Mara, Morena Baccarin, Stuart Allan, Thomas Gibson, Xander Berkeley
Posted on April 17, 2014 |
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Summer in February (2013)
Biography | Drama | Romance
British drama based on the lives and loves of the Newlyn School of artists, influential at the beginning of the 20th century. Arguably the wildest and most free-spirited sect of the school is the Lamorna Group, who live together at the Lamorna Valley Estate on the Cornish coast. Alfred Munnings is one of the foremost artists based at Lamorna, a strident opponent of modernism particularly famous for his skill at depicting horses. However, Alfred faces stern competition for the love of fellow artist Florence Carter-Wood in the form of the estate's land agent Gilbert Evans.
Starring: Dominic Cooper, Emily Browning, Dan Stevens, Hattie Morahan, Mia Austen, Shaun Dingwall
Director: Christopher Menaul
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Posted on April 17, 2014 |
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The Damned United (2009)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | Sport
From the best-selling and critically acclaimed novel by David Peace, 'The Damned United' is directed by Tom Hooper and stars Michael Sheen as the legendary, opinionated football manager Brian Clough. Timothy Spall stars as his right hand man, only friend, and crutch Peter Taylor. Set in 1960's and 1970's England, 'The Damned United' tells the confrontational and darkly humorous story of Brian Clough's doomed 44 day tenure as manager of the reigning champions of English football, Leeds United.
Starring: Michael Sheen, Colm Meaney, Henry Goodman, Ralph Ineson, Joe Dempsie, Stephen Graham
Director: Tom Hooper
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Tags: Colm Meaney, Henry Goodman, Joe Dempsie, Michael Sheen, Ralph Ineson, Stephen Graham, Tom Hooper
Posted on April 16, 2014 |
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Golden Chickensss / Gam Gai SSS (2014)
Comedy | Drama
Working as a call girl since she was sixteen, Kam (Sandra Ng) is now a madam with many young girls under her wings. A regular face among the rich and powerful, Kam is fonder of the past when Hong Kong was still under British rule. Gordon (Nick Cheung), the mafia boss whom Kam had a crush on, is released from jail almost two decades after Hong Kong's Handover back to China, and has a hard time coming to terms with the new face of the city. Kam, with nothing but pure intentions, helps Gordon get back on his feet towards a normal life because that's what Hong Kong people do.
Starring: Sandra Ng, Louis Koo, Nick Cheung, Ronald Cheng, Eason Chan, Anthony Wong, Wyman Wong
Director: Matt Chow
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Tags: Anthony Wong, Eason Chan, Louis Koo, Matt Chow, Nick Cheung, Ronald Cheng, Sandra Ng, Wyman Wong
Posted on April 16, 2014 |
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Police Story 2013 / Ging chaat goo si 2013 (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A man looking for the release of a long-time prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and a group of strangers hostage.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Ye Liu, Tian Jing, Wei Na, Rongguang Yu
Director: Sheng Ding
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Tags: Jackie Chan, Rongguang Yu, Sheng Ding, Tian Jing, Wei Na, Ye Liu