Category: Drama
Posted on February 24, 2014 |
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O Lucky Man! (1973)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Music
This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in Europe. Many actors play multiple roles, giving the film a stagy tone.
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts, Arthur Lowe, Helen Mirren, Graham Crowden
Director: Lindsay Anderson
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Posted on February 24, 2014 |
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Little Caesar (1931)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
The ambitious criminal Rico moves from the country to the big city in the east and joins Sam Vettori's gang with his friend Joe Massara. Soon he becomes the leader of the gangsters, known as Little Caesar.
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell, Sidney Blackmer, Thomas E. Jackson, George E. Stone
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
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Posted on February 23, 2014 |
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The Clearing (2004)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Wayne Hayes is a well-off business executive with his own personal slice of the American dream: a beautiful wife, Eileen, two grown-up children, a lovely home in Pittsburg and a successful business built up from scratch. The Hayes' perfect world is turned upside down when Wayne is kidnapped by one of his employees and held ransom in remote woodlands. Eileen must deal with a houseful of FBI agents, and Wayne must draw on his powers of negotiation as never before…
Starring: Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, Willem Dafoe
Director: Pieter Jan Brugge
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Posted on February 23, 2014 |
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Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day / Ano hi mita hana no namae o bokutachi wa mada shiranai (TV Series 2011)
Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Teen
A story about grief and the acceptance of death. Six children formed a group that they called The Peace Busters. One day, an incident occurred which took the life of one of their friends, Meiko Honma. After this, Jinta Yadomi, leader of the group when they were kids, neglects high school and lives as a shut-in when he unexpectedly starts seeing the ghost of Meiko, who can only interact with him and no one else. The Peace Busters disbanded and the friends began distancing themselves far away from each other. Years later, Meiko has returned to ask Jinta to fulfill the forgotten wish she made as a kid.
Starring: Saori Hayami, Miyu Irino, Ai Kayano, Takayuki Kondô, Mitsuru Ogata, Takahiro Sakurai, Asami Seto, Mutsumi Tamura, Haruka Tomatsu, Aki Toyosaki
Creator: Mari Okada
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Tags: Ai Kayano, Aki Toyosaki, Asami Seto, Haruka Tomatsu, Mari Okada, Mitsuru Ogata, Miyu Irino, Mutsumi Tamura, Saori Hayami, Takahiro Sakurai, Takayuki Kondô
Posted on February 23, 2014 |
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Big fish (2003)
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures in this marvel of a movie.
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman, Helena Bonham Carter
Director: Tim Burton
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Tags: Albert Finney, Alison Lohman, Billy Crudup, Ewan McGregor, Helena Bonham Carter, Jessica Lange, Tim Burton
Posted on February 23, 2014 |
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Somewhere in Time (1980)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to find the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright, George Voskovec, William H. Macy
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
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Tags: Christopher Plummer, Christopher Reeve, George Voskovec, Jane Seymour, Jeannot Szwarc, Teresa Wright, William H. Macy
Posted on February 23, 2014 |
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
Seven years after a daring bank robbery involving an anti-tank gun used to blow open a vault, the robbery team temporarily puts aside their mutual suspicions to repeat the crime after they are unable to find the loot from the original heist, hidden behind a school chalkboard. The hardened artilleryman and his flippant, irresponsible young sidekick are the two wild cards in the deck of jokers.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, Geoffrey Lewis, Catherine Bach, Gary Busey, George Kennedy
Director: Michael Cimino
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Tags: Catherine Bach, Clint Eastwood, Gary Busey, Geoffrey Lewis, George Kennedy, Jeff Bridges, Michael Cimino
Posted on February 23, 2014 |
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Washington Square (1997)
Drama | Romance
Passionate tale of a young heiress who must choose between love or money. Based on the 1880 Henry James novel.
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, Maggie Smith, Ben Chaplin, Judith Ivey
Director: Agnieszka Holland
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Posted on February 22, 2014 |
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The Front (1976)
Comedy | Drama
In the early 1950s Howard Prince, who works in a restaurant, helps out a black-listed writer friend by selling a TV station a script under his own name. The money is useful in paying off gambling debts, so he takes on three more such clients. Howard is politically pretty innocent, but involvement with Florence – who quits TV in disgust over things – and friendship with the show's ex-star – now himself blacklisted – make him start to think about what is really going on.
Starring: Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Michael Murphy, Andrea Marcovicci, Lloyd Gough, David Margulies, Herschel Bernardi
Director: Martin Ritt
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Tags: Andrea Marcovicci, David Margulies, Herschel Bernardi, Lloyd Gough, Martin Ritt, Michael Murphy, Woody Allen, Zero Mostel
Posted on February 22, 2014 |
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The Wild Geese (1978)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
A group of aged mercenaries are hired by a British millionaire to rescue an African President being held by a vicious Central African dictator. Even though the mission succeeds, the mercenaries are betrayed by the millionaire who's financing the operation as he cares only about his own business interests, and are forced to fight the dictator's troops in order to survive and escape.
Starring: Roger Moore, Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Hardy Kruger, Stewart Granger, John Kani
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
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Posted on February 22, 2014 |
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Angels in Stardust (2014)
Comedy | Drama
An imaginative teenage girl, living in a mystical and dangerous community built on a deserted drive-in movie lot along the Texas/Oklahoma border, struggles to realize her potential, and escape the world she was born into.
Starring: Alicia Silverstone, AJ Michalka, Billy Burke
Director: William Robert Carey
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Posted on February 22, 2014 |
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Shopgirl (2005)
Drama | Romance
Twenty-something native Vermonter Mirabelle Buttersfield, having recently graduated from college, is finding her new life in Los Angeles not quite what she was expecting or hoping. An aspiring artist, she is barely eking out a living working as a clerk at the women's evening gloves counter at Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills and thus she can barely make the payments on her massive student loans. She treats her job with a certain distance, often daydreaming as she watches the life of the rich as they shop at the store. She has made no friends, including from among her Saks colleagues, and thus lives a solitary existence, which does not assist in her dealing with her chronic clinical depression.
Starring: Steve Martin, Claire Danes, Jason Schwartzman, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Sam Bottoms, Frances Conroy
Director: Anand Tucker
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Posted on February 22, 2014 |
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Frankenstein (2004)
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Another adaption of Mary Shelley's novel about a scientist who brings life to a creature fashioned from corpses and various body parts.
Starring: Luke Goss, Alec Newman, Julie Delpy, Nicole Lewis, Monika Hilmerová, Donald Sutherland, William Hurt, Tomas Mastalir
Director: Kevin Connor
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Tags: Alec Newman, Donald Sutherland, Julie Delpy, Kevin Connor, Luke Goss, Monika Hilmerová, Nicole Lewis, Tomas Mastalir, William Hurt
Posted on February 21, 2014 |
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12 Years a Slave / Twelve Years a Slave (2013)
Biography | Drama | History
Based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty, as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon's chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Michael K. Williams, Sarah Paulson, Lupita Nyong'o, Alfre Woodard
Director: Steve McQueen
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Tags: Alfre Woodard, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad Pitt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lupita Nyong'o, Michael Fassbender, Michael K. Williams, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Sarah Paulson, Steve McQueen
Posted on February 20, 2014 |
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Gloria (2013)
Comedy | Drama
A story set in Santiago and centered on Gloria, a free-spirited older woman, and the realities of her whirlwind relationship with a former naval officer whom she meets out in the clubs.
Starring: Paulina García, Sergio Hernández, Diego Fontecilla
Director: Sebastián Lelio
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Posted on February 20, 2014 |
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Sexy Beast (2000)
Crime | Drama
Ex-con Gary "Gal" Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa paradise with a wife he adores. The idyll is shattered by the arrival of his nemesis Don Logan, intent on persuading Gal to return to London for one last big job. Desperate not to sacrifice his enchanted existence, Dove is drawn into a shocking and explosive battle of wills with Logan, a battle that redefines his notions of love, honor and commitment.
Starring: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman, James Fox
Director: Jonathan Glazer
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Posted on February 20, 2014 |
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Lootera (2013)
Drama | Romance
The year is 1953. A visiting archaeologist called Varun Shrivastav comes to the village of Manikpur in West Bengal to excavate the temple grounds of the local Zamindar. With knowledge and experience beyond his young demeanour, Varun greatly impresses the Zamindar and his family.
Starring: Ranveer Singh, Sonakshi Sinha, Adil Hussain, Vikrant Massey, Arif Zakaria
Director: Vikramaditya Motwane
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Tags: Adil Hussain, Arif Zakaria, Ranveer Singh, Sonakshi Sinha, Vikramaditya Motwane, Vikrant Massey
Posted on February 19, 2014 |
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Unforgiven / Yurusarezaru mono (2013)
Action | Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Set in Hokkaido, Japan in the 1880's. Jubei Kamata (Ken Watanabe), who is on the side of the Edo shogunate government, kills many people. His name is infamous in Kyoto. When the battle at Goryoukaku is about to be finished, Jubei disappears. 10 years later, Jubei lives with his kid in relative peace. He is barely able to make a living. Protecting his dead wife's grave, Jubei has decided to never pick up a sword again, but due to poverty he has no choice but to pick the sword again. Jubei becomes a bounty hunter.
Starring: Ken Watanabe, Kôichi Satô, Akira Emoto, Yûya Yagira, Shiori Kutsuna, Eiko Koike, Jun Kunimura, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Takahiro Miura, Ken'ichi Takitô, Yoshimasa Kondô
Director: Sang-il Lee
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Tags: Akira Emoto, Eiko Koike, Jun Kunimura, Ken Watanabe, Ken'ichi Takitô, Kôichi Satô, Sang-il Lee, Shiori Kutsuna, Takahiro Miura, Yoshimasa Kondô, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Yûya Yagira
Posted on February 19, 2014 |
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Very Ordinary Couple / Yeonaeui Wondo (2013)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Young and Dong-Hee work at the same bank. They secretly dated for the past 3 years, but recently decided to end their relationship. Both tell the other that they are fine, but inside they are not. Can they live without each other? Can they live with each other?
Starring: Min-ki Lee, Min-hee Kim, Yeon-soo Ha, Mi-ran Ra, Moo-Seong Choi
Director: Deok Noh
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Tags: Deok Noh, Mi-ran Ra, Min-hee Kim, Min-ki Lee, Moo-Seong Choi, Yeon-soo Ha
Posted on February 19, 2014 |
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Heli (2013)
Drama
Love story between a young girl and a police man, both of them had connections with drugs but in opposite ways. This will create a conflict that love will try to overcome.
Starring: Armando Espitia, Andrea Vergara, Linda González, Juan Eduardo Palacios, Kenny Johnston
Director: Amat Escalante
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Tags: Amat Escalante, Andrea Vergara, Armando Espitia, Juan Eduardo Palacios, Kenny Johnston, Linda González
