Category: Drama
Posted on January 13, 2014 |
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Zatoichi's Conspiracy / Shin Zatôichi monogatari: Kasama no chimatsuri / Zatôichi 25 (1973)
Action | Drama
Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same wet-nurse as Zatoichi. He also encounters a boyhood friend, Shinbei, who now is wealthy and appears not to remember Zatoichi. Shinbei seems to be interested in repaying the villagers' debts, but is in reality manipulating the ownership of a now-valuable rock quarry. Zatoichi learns of the subterfuge and confronts his old friend, who has a score of yakuza swordsmen backing his play.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
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Posted on January 13, 2014 |
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Convoy (1978)
Action | Drama
Truckers form a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff…Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall.
Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young, Seymour Cassel
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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Posted on January 12, 2014 |
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Der siebente Kontinent / The Seventh Continent (1989)
Drama
Haneke's first theatrical feature is a disturbing and masterfully composed portrait of a family's disintegration and ultimate self-destruction.
Starring: Birgit Doll, Dieter Berner, Leni Tanzer, Udo Samel, Silvia Fenz
Director: Michael Haneke
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Posted on January 11, 2014 |
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Blue Jasmine (2013)
Comedy | Drama
Woody Allen writes and directs this comedy drama starring Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin and Sally Hawkins. Broke and suffering from a nervous breakdown, housewife Jasmine (Blanchett) travels from New York to San Fransisco to stay with her sister Ginger (Hawkins). The ensemble cast also features Louis C.K., Andrew Dice Clay, Peter Sarsgaard and Bobby Cannavale.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannavale, Louis C.K., Sally Hawkins, Peter Sarsgaard, Andrew Dice Clay, Michael Stuhlbarg
Director: Woody Allen
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Posted on January 11, 2014 |
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Gone Missing (2013)
Adventure | Crime | Drama | Thriller
When two best friends go missing during Spring Break, their mothers do everything they can to find them, while realizing that their different parenting styles may have led to the disappearances. Loving but overprotective mom Rene's worst fears come true when her 18-year-old daughter Kaitlin and her best friend Matty go missing from a San Diego resort during Spring Break. Rene will stop at nothing to find her daughter, even if it means starting her own investigation into the night her daughter went missing. With the help of her son Kennedy and Matty's mom Lisa, Rene navigates the San Diego Spring Break scene, digging into her daughter's night of partying, and discovering some unsettling facts about Kaitlin's secret life. With the clock ticking, Rene gets closer and closer to the truth about her daughter's disappearance. But will she make it to her daughter in time or is she already too late?
Starring: Daphne Zuniga, Lauren Bowles, Brigette Davidovici, Gage Golightly
Director: Tara Miele
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Posted on January 10, 2014 |
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JIN / Time Slip Dr. Jin (TV Series 2009- )
Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
The story follows a brain surgeon named, Minakata Jin, who has spent the last two years in anguish, as his fiancee lies in a vegetative state after an operation he performed. One day, he faints at the hospital and awakens to find himself transported back in time to the Edo period. He is soon attacked by a samurai, but he escapes with the help of a man named Kyotaro. Kyotaro suffers a serious injury to the head while trying to protect him, but Jin manages to save his life despite a lack of proper medical equipment. Because of that, Kyotaro's sister Saki begins taking an interest in Jin and becomes his assistant. Meanwhile, Jin is determined to find a way back to the present.
Starring: Takao Ohsawa, Miki Nakatani, Haruka Ayase, Keisuke Koide, Kenta Kiritani, Masaaki Uchino, Hiromasa Taguchi, Tetsu Saiki, Daiki Nakae, Yumi Asô, Erena Mizusawa, Takahiro Fujimoto, Aki Mizusawa, Saki Takaoka
Creator: Yoshiko Morishita, Motoka Murakami
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Tags: Aki Mizusawa, Daiki Nakae, Erena Mizusawa, Haruka Ayase, Hiromasa Taguchi, Keisuke Koide, Kenta Kiritani, Masaaki Uchino, Miki Nakatani, Motoka Murakami, Saki Takaoka, Takahiro Fujimoto, Takao Ohsawa, Tetsu Saiki, Yoshiko Morishita, Yumi Asô
Posted on January 10, 2014 |
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Hostages (TV Series 2013- )
Drama | Thriller
A high-octane suspense drama that centers on Dr. Ellen Sanders, a premier surgeon thrust into a chilling political conspiracy when she and her family are held captive in their home by rogue FBI Agent Duncan Carlisle, a desperate man doing the wrong thing for the right reasons, who orders Dr. Sanders to assassinate the President when she operates on him. Carlisle's highly skilled accomplices include his brother-in-law Kramer, whose loyalty to Carlisle will be tested; quick-tempered and intimidating Archer, an ex-military man with a razor-sharp tongue; and the only woman involved, Sandrine, a mysterious last-minute replacement to the team. With her family’s life in peril, Ellen faces an incomprehensible moral dilemma in order to save her overbearing husband Brian, her secretive daughter Morgan and her not-so-innocent son Jake.
Starring: Dylan McDermott, Toni Collette, Mateus Ward, Quinn Shephard, Tate Donovan, Rhys Coiro, Sandrine Holt, Billy Brown, James Naughton
Creator: Rotem Shamir
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Posted on January 10, 2014 |
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Free Ride (2013)
Action | Drama | Thriller
A single mom caught up in the Florida drug trade during the late 1970s tries to make a better life for her two girls.
Starring: Anna Paquin, Cam Gigandet, Drea de Matteo, Liana Liberato, Yvette Yates
Director: Shana Betz
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Posted on January 10, 2014 |
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The Spectacular Now (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Sutter Keely lives in the now. It's a good place for him. A high school senior, charming and self-possessed, he's the life of the party, loves his job at a men's clothing store, and has no plans for the future. A budding alcoholic, he's never far from his supersized, whiskey-fortified thirst-master cup. But after being dumped by his girlfriend, Sutter gets drunk and wakes up on a lawn with Aimee Finicky hovering over him. She's different: the "nice girl" who reads science fiction and doesn't have a boyfriend. While Amy has dreams of a future, Sutter lives in the impressive delusion of a spectacular now, yet somehow, they're drawn together.
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Miles Teller, Brie Larson, Masam Holden, Dayo Okeniyi
Director: James Ponsoldt
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Posted on January 10, 2014 |
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Captain Phillips (2013)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | Thriller
The Maersk Alabama became the first US cargo ship to be hijacked in 200 years when heavily armed Somalis boarded the vessel on the 8th of April 2009. As commander of the ship, Captain Richard Phillips inevitably found himself at the heart of events. Held hostage by the pirates under the command of Muse, Phillips attempts to protect both his crew and ship to the best of his ability. However, as the drama plays out and Phillips spends more time in the company of his Somali captors, he gradually comes to realise that they have a story, too. Far from the greedy, heartless thugs of pirate lore, the Somalis may well represent the forces of globalisation. Based on the real life hijacking of a US cargo ship by Somali pirates.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Catherine Keener, Max Martini, David Warshofsky, John Magaro, Chris Mulkey
Director: Paul Greengrass
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Posted on January 10, 2014 |
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Fame (1980)
Drama | Music | Musical
In Alan Parker's 'Fame', teenagers selected for New York City's High School for the Performing Arts push their talents to the limit to make it big in show business. This episodic tale follows savvy Coco (Irene Cara), timid Doris (Maureen Teefy), gay Montgomery (Paul McCrane), macho Raul (Barry Miller), soulful Bruno (Lee Curreri), and others as they struggle to achieve their dreams of stardom while coping with the universal teenage problems of loneliness, insecurity, and embattled, mercurial identity. Cara, electric as the budding songstress Coco, shines brightest.
Starring: Irene Cara, Paul McCrane, Barry Miller, Gene Anthony Ray, Lee Curreri, Anne Meara
Director: Alan Parker
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Posted on January 10, 2014 |
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Mest / Revenge / The Red Flute (1989)
Drama | History
In a rage, a teacher murders a boy. Another boy is bred, for one sole purpose: to avenge his brother’s death. Kazakh master Ermek Shinarbaev’s close collaboration with the Korean-Russian writer Anatoli Kim yielded three great films, the most remarkable of which is this beautiful, profoundly unsettling film. A true odyssey, geographically and psychologically. One of the greatest films to emerge from the Kazakh New Wave, and one of the toughest.
Starring: Aleksandr Pan, Valentina Te, Kasym Zhakibayev, Lyubov Germanova, Oleg Li, Juozas Budraitis
Director: Yermek Shinarbayev
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Posted on January 9, 2014 |
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Last Love / Mr. Morgan's Last Love (2013)
Comedy | Drama
A look at the life-changing connection between a retired and widowed American philosophy professor and a young Parisian woman.
Starring: Michael Caine, Clémence Poésy, Justin Kirk, Michelle Goddet, Gillian Anderson, Jane Alexander
Director: Sandra Nettelbeck
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Posted on January 9, 2014 |
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I Am Love / Io sono l'amore (2009)
Drama | Romance
A tragic love story set at the turn of the millennium in Milan. The film follows the fall of the haute bourgeoisie due to the forces of passion and unconditional love.
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Alba Rohrwacher, Pippo Delbono
Director: Luca Guadagnino
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Posted on January 9, 2014 |
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Russkiy kovcheg / Russian Ark (2002)
Drama | Fantasy | History | Mystery
Alexander Sokurov's (Mother and Son) cinematic tour-de-force follows a modern filmmaker who magically finds himself transported to the 18th century. There, he embarks on a time-traveling journey through 300 years of Russian history. Filmed with a cast of thousands, three live orchestras and an army of technicians, Russian Ark is the longest uninterrupted shot in film history, and the first feature film ever created in a single take.
Starring: Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
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Posted on January 9, 2014 |
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Written in Blood (2003)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
When the wife of Detective John Traveller and her lover are executed in bed and John takes the blame, his partner and friend, Detective Matthew Ransom, becomes very upset, affecting his marriage that was not working well. The lover of John's wife was the son of Luke Williams, a detective of the same department, and he does not accept the death of his son. After the trial and conviction of John, Matthew separates from his wife Mary Ramson, being sexually arrested by John's daughter Jude. Meanwhile, a serial killer kills the enemies of John, leaving clues in the crime scenes relatives to Sherlock Holmes tales and Matthew suspects of Jude.
Starring: Michael T. Weiss, Peter Coyote, Maureen Flannigan, Steve Rankin, Dan Gauthier, Gwen McGee, Nancy Valen
Director: John Terlesky
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Posted on January 9, 2014 |
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The Efficiency Expert / Spotswood (1992)
Crime | Drama
Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Alwyn Kurts, Bruno Lawrence, John Walton, Rebecca Rigg, Toni Collette, Russell Crowe, Angela Punch McGregor
Director: Mark Joffe
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Tags: Alwyn Kurts, Angela Punch McGregor, Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Bruno Lawrence, John Walton, Mark Joffe, Rebecca Rigg, Russell Crowe, Toni Collette
Posted on January 9, 2014 |
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Nicholas Nickleby / The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947)
Drama
Nineteenth century England. When Nicholas Nickleby's father dies and leaves his family destitute, his uncle, the greedy moneylender, Ralph Nickleby, finds Nicholas a job teaching in a repulsive school in Yorkshire. Nicholas flees the school taking with him one of the persecuted boys, Smike, and they join a troop of actors. Nicholas then has to protect Smike, while trying to stop his Uncle Ralph taking advantage of his sister Kate, and later his sweetheart, Madeline Bray, whose father is in debtors prison.
Starring: Derek Bond, Cedric Hardwicke, Mary Merrall, Sally Ann Howes, Bernard Miles, Alfred Drayton, Cyril Fletcher
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
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Tags: Alberto Cavalcanti, Alfred Drayton, Bernard Miles, Cedric Hardwicke, Cyril Fletcher, Derek Bond, Mary Merrall, Sally Ann Howes
Posted on January 8, 2014 |
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Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013)
Adventure | Drama | Family | Sci-Fi
The 50th Anniversary special unites three Doctors to once again save the universe.
Starring: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Alex Kingston, David Tennant, Christopher Eccleston
Director: Nick Hurran
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Posted on January 8, 2014 |
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Notting Hill (1999)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The life of a simple bookshop owner changes when he meets the most famous film star in the world.
Starring: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Richard McCabe, Rhys Ifans, James Dreyfus, Dylan Moran
Director: Roger Michell
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