Category: Drama
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Eight Below / 8 Below (2006)
Adventure | Drama | Family
'Eight Below' is the thrilling tale of friendship between eight amazing sled dogs and their guide Jerry. Stranded in Antarctica during the most unforgiving winter on the planet, Jerry's beloved sled dogs must learn to survive together until Jerry — who will stop at nothing — rescues them. Driven by unwavering bonds of friendship, enormous belief in one another and tremendous courage, Jerry and the dogs make an incredible journey to reunite in this triumphant and inspiring action-adventure the whole family will treasure.
Starring: Paul Walker, Bruce Greenwood, Moon Bloodgood, Jason Biggs, Gerard Plunkett
Director: Frank Marshall
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Posted on December 2, 2013 |
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1er amour / 1st Love (2013)
Drama
Antoine, 13, spends the summer vacation with his parents in a rented cottage on an island in the middle of the Saint-Lawrence River. His neighbour, 17-year-old Anna, is an enigmatic and lively young woman. Antoine begins to experience the first stirrings of love-which soon yield a troubling brew of anxiety, desire and obsession. He eventually comes across a terrible secret that will forever change his life.
Starring: Macha Grenon, Marianne Fortier, Pierre-Luc Brillant, Loïc Esteves, Sylvie Boucher, Benoît Gouin
Director: Guillaume Sylvestre
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Blackbird (2012)
Drama
This is a film about a troubled teen, Sean Randall, who is falsely accused of planning a Columbine shooting scenario. It all begins when an unlikely bond forms between Sean (Connor Jessup) and a preppy teenage girl named Deanna Roy (Alexia Fast). Deanna's boyfriend is deeply threatened by Sean and Deanna's friendship, resulting in a violent confrontation. Seeking to protect himself, Sean issues a death threat online – and is swiftly arrested. When the police raid Sean's home, they find rifles, shotguns, knives and ammunition – all property of Sean's father Ricky (Michael Buie), an avid hunter. They also find a supposed "hit list" with twenty names of people who have tormented Sean. The authorities and the media proclaim another Columbine has been narrowly averted, and soon Sean faces a terrifying imprisonment in a youth detention facility. Sean's only hope is to overcome his dark image, and prove his innocence to Deanna and to his community.
Starring: Connor Jessup, Alexia Fast, Michael Buie, Alex Ozerov, Craig Arnold, Tanya Clarke
Director: Jason Buxton
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Tags: Alex Ozerov, Alexia Fast, Connor Jessup, Craig Arnold, Jason Buxton, Michael Buie, Tanya Clarke
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The Tale of Zatoichi / Zatôichi monogatari / Zatôichi 1 (1962)
Action | Adventure | Drama
This is the movie that introduced the legend of Zatoichi and its star Shintaro Katsu, ushering in a new era of the Japanese samurai film. Practicing his trade as a masseur in a small province, Zatoichi finds himself caught in a turf war between rival yakuza gangs. Aware of Zatoichi's reputation as an undefeatable swordsman, yakuza leader Sukejoro tries to hire him-unsuccessfully-as a mercenary. But it's too late. The other gang leader, Shigezo, hires a warrior with an equally fierce reputation to challenge Zatoichi. Thus the legend of Zatoichi begins with intensely choreographed battle scenes and an expertly crafted story.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kenji Misumi
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Cavalcade (1933)
Drama | Romance | War
English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot.
Starring: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin, Frank Lawton, Margaret Lindsay
Director: Frank Lloyd
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Posted on December 2, 2013 |
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The United States of Leland (2003)
Crime | Drama | Romance
After stabbing an autistic boy, the sixteen year old troubled and pessimist Leland P. Fitzgerald is sent to a juvenile detention. His teacher and aspirant writer Pearl Madison gets close and tries to understand him, first with intention of writing a book, and later becoming his friend. Leland slowly discloses his sad vision of world.
Starring: Don Cheadle, Ryan Gosling, Chris Klein, Jena Malone, Lena Olin, Kevin Spacey, Michelle Williams
Director: Matthew Ryan Hoge
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Feu Mathias Pascal / The Living Dead Man (1926)
Drama | Horror
Mathias, an eccentric dreamer, is trapped in the undertakings of daily life as he suffers his days in a loveless marriage, a dead end job and tyrannized by his ungrateful mother-in-law. Grief-stricken by the death of his mother and infant daughter, Mathias flees to Monte Carlo, where a run of luck at roulette wins him a fortune. After his death is falsely reported, Mathias leaps at the chance of a second and adventurous life in Rome.
Starring: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Marcelle Pradot, Lois Moran, Marthe Mellot, Pauline Carton
Director: Marcel L'Herbier
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Posted on December 1, 2013 |
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Best Kept Secret (2013)
Documentary | Drama
JFK High School, located in the midst of a run-down area in Newark, New Jersey, is a public school for all types of students with special education needs, ranging from those on the autism spectrum to those with multiple disabilities. Janet Mino has taught her class of young men with autism for four years. When they all graduate in the spring of 2012, they will leave the security of the public school system forever. Best Kept Secret follows Ms. Mino and her students over the year and a half before graduation. The clock is ticking to find them a place in the adult world – a job or rare placement in a recreational center – so they do not end up where their predecessors have, sitting at home, institutionalized, or on the streets.
Director: Samantha Buck
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Posted on December 1, 2013 |
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The Carpenter's Miracle (2013)
Drama
Josh Carey is just your average small town carpenter, but when his touch miraculously brings a dead boy back to life, he is thrust into the media spotlight and things spin out of control. Now it's only through humor, faith and a budding romance that Josh can hope to return to a normal life.
Starring: Cameron Mathison, Michelle Harrison, Ryan Grantham, Sarah-Jane Redmond, Aaron Pearl
Director: Kristoffer Tabori
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Diamond on Vinyl (2013)
Drama | Mystery | Romance
Henry's fiancee Beth kicks him out after discovering his audio recordings of their intimate life and his confession that he may no longer love her. After Beth confides in Charlie, a compassionate stranger, Charlie entangles herself in the couple's lives by helping Henry rehearse the perfect sequence of words that will regain Beth's trust. Charlie and Henry's recordings of imagined conversations become a game where intimacy and identity may be real or imagined.
Starring: Brian McGuire, Sonja Kinski, Nina Millin, Jeff Doucette, Jessica Golden
Director: J.R. Hughto
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Sweet Talk (2013)
Adventure | Drama
A blocked writer and a troubled young woman who meet over a phone-sex line go on a journey together.
Starring: Karen Austin, John Glover, Lindsay Hollister, Jeffrey Vincent Parise, Time Winters, Natalie Zea
Director: Terri Hanauer
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Angel's Perch (2013)
Drama
Angel's Perch is the story of Jack, a successful architect living in Pittsburgh, who must make the trip to his tiny hometown when his grandmother Polly, who is suffering from Alzheimer's, is found wandering outside her house one morning. But what was intended to be a two day, under the radar trip to town becomes more complicated when Jack is unable to move Polly into an assisted living facility. Torn between the career opportunity of a lifetime, caring for his last living relative and running from his own painful memories, Jack's carefully constructed life begins to unravel. As the town prepares to honor Polly's life by crowning her "Queen of Cass" and the pressure to return to Pittsburgh mounts, Jack struggles to hide behind the walls he has built. And when he finally reveals his secret to an old childhood friend, he is forced to choose between standing still or facing the pain of his past, so that he can finally move forward. Set almost entirely in the small, historic logging town of Cass, WV, Angel's Perch examines the delicate relationship between past and present, memory and loss.
Starring: Joyce Van Patten, Ally Walker, Ashley Jones, Ellen Crawford, J.T. Arbogast, Elisabeth Hower, Homer Hunter, Jesse Sharp, Michael Holstine, Conor O'Farrell
Director: Charles Haine
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Dancing Trees (2009)
Drama | Thriller
Martha is an autistic mathematical genius. Suddenly, her mother is viciously murdered before her eyes and she along with her cousin Nicole must use her unique abilites to catch the killer.
Starring: Brooke Burns, Katie Boland, Amanda Tapping
Director: Anne Wheeler
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Touchy Feely (2013)
Drama
A massage therapist is unable to do her job when stricken with a mysterious and sudden aversion to bodily contact. Meanwhile, her uptight brother's foundering dental practice receives new life when clients seek out his healing touch.
Starring: Rosemarie DeWitt, Scoot McNairy, Ellen Page, Allison Janney, Ron Livingston, Josh Pais
Director: Lynn Shelton
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Las 13 rosas / 13 Roses (2007)
Drama
True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940's. Despite of their innocence, the thirteen were soon executed without even a trace of evidence of any wrong doing.
Starring: Pilar López de Ayala, Verónica Sánchez, Gabriella Pession, Marta Etura, Nadia de Santiago
Director: Emilio Martínez Lázaro
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Posted on November 29, 2013 |
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Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? / Ming tian ji de ai shang wo (2013)
Comedy | Drama
Childhood sweethearts Wei Chung and Feng lead a seemingly perfect married life together with their son until Wei Chung meets a younger man who awakens the feelings he thought he had long left behind. Feng senses something wrong in their longtime marriage and worries that she could wake up without Wei Chung one day. Wei Chung's sister Mandy is also at a crossroad – she runs away from her fiancé San San after a trip to an outlet store, putting San San in a confusing and awkward position.
Starring: Richie Ren, Mavis Fan, Kimi Hsia, Lawrence Ko, Edward Stone
Director: Arvin Chen
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Posted on November 29, 2013 |
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Identification of a Woman / Identificazione di una donna (1982)
Drama | Romance
A film director finds himself drawn into affairs with two women while searching for an actress for this next film.
Starring: Tomas Milian, Daniela Silverio, Christine Boisson, Lara Wendel, Veronica Lazar
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
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Posted on November 29, 2013 |
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3096 Days / 3096 Tage (2013)
Crime | Drama
A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.
Starring: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Thure Lindhardt, Amelia Pidgeon
Director: Sherry Hormann
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Posted on November 28, 2013 |
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Vikings (TV Series 2013- )
Action | Drama | History | War
Vikings follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods, legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.
Starring: Travis Fimmel, Clive Standen, Gustaf Skarsgård, Katheryn Winnick, George Blagden, Jessalyn Gilsig, Maude Hirst, Alyssa Sutherland, Jefferson Hall
Creator: Michael Hirst
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The River Why (2010)
Drama | Romance
Young Gus Orviston, a fishing prodigy, leaves the family where he feels smothered by the ceaseless competition of his mother and father, and takes up residence in a cabin near the Oregon river where he can fish all day. But his plan becomes more complicated as Gus meets new people who challenge him to expand his world, including Titus, an amateur philosopher, and Eddy, a beautiful and elusive young woman with fishing skills to match Gus's.
Starring: Zach Gilford, Amber Heard, William Hurt, Kathleen Quinlan, Dallas Roberts, William Devane
Director: Matthew Leutwyler
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