Category: Drama
Posted on December 9, 2013 |
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Tropical Inferno / Women in Cellblock 9 / Frauen für Zellenblock 9 (1978)
Action | Crime | Drama | Horror
Another sadistic women's prison film from the director of Ilsa, the Wicked Warden and Barbed Wire Dolls, this exploitation film posits a group of revolutionaries led by Karine Gambier thrown into a South American jail. Howard Vernon plays the staff torture specialist, Dr. Costa, who manages to extract information from Gambier, necessitating an escape by the women to warn their compatriots. Plenty of sex and violence is featured for the raincoat crowd, while Franco cultists will delight in Vernon's wonderfully sinister performance as the prison doctor.
Starring: Karine Gambier, Howard Vernon, Susan Hemingway, Aida Gouveia, Esther Studer
Director: Jesús Franco
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Zatoichi's Flashing Sword / Zatôichi abare tako / Zatôichi 7 (1964)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Blind masseur Zatoichi is nursed back to health by a young woman after he is shot by a gang member. Zatoichi, who had come to the village to repay a debt, now feels further indebted. He commits himself to use his amazing sword skills to help the young woman's father, whose river-crossing service is under attack by the same gang responsible for Zatoichi's wounds.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kazuo Ikehiro
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Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold / Zatôichi senryô-kubi / Zatôichi 6 (1964)
Action | Drama
In the 1840s, Ichi, blind masseur and quick-draw swordsman, travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years' ago. The villages in the area, after several years of famine, have struggled to raise 1,000 ryo in taxes they owe. The money is stolen while in transit to the governor. Ichi is accused as is Boss Chuji, a samurai Ichi respects. Ichi sets out to find the money and clear his own and Chuji's names. Along the way, he must face Kichizo's sister, some of Chuji's own gang, a corrupt governor, and his henchmen. Loyalties shift even as Ichi's moral compass stays true.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kazuo Ikehiro
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Posted on December 8, 2013 |
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Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)
Crime | Drama | Romance
After a series of crimes leads them to take to the Texas hills, lovers Ruth Guthrie and Bob Muldoon are finally cornered in a shack and involved in a fierce shootout with the police. In the ensuing battle Ruth critically injures a police officer, and Bob, unwilling to see his love sent to jail, admits to firing the shot, resulting in a sizable prison sentence. Years later, as he slowly acclimatises to life behind bars, the unexpected news that Ruth has borne him a daughter turns Bob's world upside down, resulting in him staging an audacious escape from prison and setting out across country to track down his family.
Starring: Rooney Mara, Ben Foster, Casey Affleck
Director: David Lowery
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Zatoichi on the Road / Zatôichi kenka-tabi / Zatôichi 5 (1963)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Blind swordsman/masseuer Ichi (or "Zatôichi") is asked by a dying man to deliver the maiden Mitsu (or "Omitsu") to her family in Edo, and Zatôichi feels honor-bound to do so. But rival gangs each have an interest in kidnapping the girl for ransom. Zatôichi joins with one of the gangs when the other gang captures Mitsu, but he then finds that to rescue her, he must fight both gangs.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
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Posted on December 8, 2013 |
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Uwasa no onna / The Woman in the Rumor (1954)
Drama | Romance
Hatsuko Umabuchi is a widow who runs a prosperous geisha house in present day Kyoto. Her daughter Yukiko returns from Tokyo following a failed suicide attempt, after her lover found out about her mother's profession. Hatsuko is having a discrete affair with the young Dr. Matoba, who looks after the geisha girls. The doctor is attracted to Yukiko, who initially despises him and everything connected with the geisha house. However Yukiko gradually changes her views.
Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Tomoemon Otani, Yoshiko Kuga, Eitarô Shindô
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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La vie de bohème / The Bohemian Life (1992)
Comedy | Drama
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
Starring: Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilmss, Kari Väänänen, Christine Murillo, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Laika
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
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Hamlet liikemaailmassa / Hamlet Goes Business (1987)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'. After the death of his father, young Hamlet inherits a seat on the board of a company controlled by his uncle that…
Starring: Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Esko Salminen, Kati Outinen, Elina Salo, Esko Nikkari, Kari Väänänen
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
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Unhook the Stars (1996)
Drama | Romance
Character study about Mildred, an elderly woman who has spent her life caring for others. When her daughter finally leaves home, she finds that, for the first time in her life, she has nobody to worry about – but soon becomes involved in the life of Monica, a young mother whose husband has left her to look after her young son J.J.. As the relationship blossoms, Monica teaches Mildred that there is more to life than taking care of others.
Starring: Gena Rowlands, Marisa Tomei, Gérard Depardieu
Director: Nick Cassavetes
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Posted on December 7, 2013 |
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The Great Passage / Fune wo amu (2013)
Drama
Majime (Ryuhei Matsuda) has a talent to comprehend different languages and holds different views than others. He is the most important member of a dictionary edit team. Other word enthusiasts gather at the dictionary edit section for a publishing company. Majime finds himself struggling with the word "sea". Meanwhile, Majime attempts to tell Kaguya Hayashi (Aoi Miyazaki) how he feels about her. Kaguya Hayashi is a cook and the granddaughter of the owner of his boarding home.
Starring: Ryûhei Matsuda, Aoi Miyazaki, Jô Odagiri, Haru Kuroki, Misako Watanabe, Chizuru Ikewaki, Shingo Tsurumi
Director: Yûya Ishii
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O Estranho Caso de Angélica / The Strange Case of Angelica (2010)
Drama
Set in the 1950s, a young photographer is asked by hotel owners to take portraits of their recently deceased daughter. But when he looks through his lens, the young woman appears to come to life. From that moment, Isaac will be haunted by Angelica day and night.
Starring: Pilar López de Ayala, Leonor Silveira, Ricardo Trêpa, Ana Maria Magalhães, Luís Miguel Cintra
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
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The Poker House (2008)
Drama
A dramatization of Lori Petty's teenage years spent in small town Iowa.
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Chloë Grace Moretz, Selma Blair
Director: Lori Petty
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Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery
When the man who replaced Jesse as Paradise Police Chief was killed when his car exploded. So Jesse is asked to return and he does. So he goes to the crime scene and there's evidence leads people to believe that the man may have been corrupt. And Jesse who didn't like him because he took his job, says that he is allowed the benefit of the doubt. Jesse finds himself alone because Suitcase and Rose left when the other Chief was there. Jesse suspects that Hasty might know something. And a guy is following Jesse.
Starring: Tom Selleck, Kathy Baker, Kohl Sudduth, Gloria Reuben, Stephen McHattie, William Sadler, Robert Carradine, Jeff Geddis, Saul Rubinek, William Devane
Director: Robert Harmon
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Posted on December 6, 2013 | Comments Off on Crave (2012) UNRATED 720p WEB-DL DD5.1 H.264-HD4FUN
Crave (2012)
Drama | Thriller
A downtrodden photographer, haunted by the urban violence and decay around him, retreats into an inner world of dark fantasies. Those dangerous visions explode in reality with deadly consequences when his intoxicating new relationship with a beautiful young woman goes sour.
Starring: Josh Lawson, Emma Lung, Ron Perlman , Edward Furlong, Christopher Stapleton
Director: Charles de Lauzirika
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Unbeatable / Ji Zhan (2013)
Action | Drama | Sport
Fai, once a world champion in boxing, escapes to Macau from the loan sharks and unexpectedly encounters Qi, a young chap who is determined to win a boxing match. Fai becomes Qi's mentor and rediscovers his passion to fight not only in the ring but for his life and ones he cares…
Starring: Singh Hartihan Bitto, Nick Cheung, Feier Li, Ting Mei, Andy On, Eddie Peng, Fatih Ugurlu
Director: Dante Lam
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Prisoners (2013)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
In the rural New England town of Brockton, Massachusetts, neighbors and friends the Dovers and the Birches gather for Thanksgiving dinner, but by the end of the night, their celebration turns to panic when the families' two youngest daughters go missing. As the hours pass and the girls don't turn up, it becomes terrifyingly apparent they've been kidnapped. After the cops fail to find them, Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) decides to take the law into his own hands, running up against dedicated Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal). But even as Loki is diligently working against the clock to solve the case, Keller will stop at nothing to get their prime suspect to talk before it's too late.
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Paul Dano, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo, Paul Dano
Director: Denis Villeneuve
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The Company You Keep (2012)
Drama | Thriller
A thriller centered on a former Weather Underground activist who goes on the run from a journalist who has discovered his identity.
Starring: Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon, Anna Kendrick, Julie Christie, Sam Elliott
Director: Robert Redford
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Zatoichi the Fugitive / Zatôichi kyôjô-tabi / Zatôichi 4 (1963)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Blind swordsman/masseur Ichi (known as Zatoichi, or "Masseur Ichi") angers a local yakuza gang when he defeats several of them in a wrestling match. When he finds that his long lost love Tane is nearby and romantically involved with a tough samurai in the employ of the gang, he remains in the village. Meanwhile, the young heir to the leadership is forced to confront his own fear and weakness when the gang insists he fight Ichi.
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Tokuzô Tanaka
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Posted on December 4, 2013 |
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Sherlock Holmes (TV Series 19841994)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
This series (made by Granada between 1984 and 1994) featuring the late Jeremy Brett as the eponymous detective includes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of Four, and The Hound of the Baskervilles. Granada Television had set themselves the task of filming every one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. A number of the mysteries were still waiting to be filmed at Jeremy Brett's death in 1995, but Granada decided not to continue without him.
Starring: Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Rosalie Williams, Charles Gray, Edward Hardwicke, Colin Jeavons, Eric Porter
Creator: Michael Cox
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Posted on December 4, 2013 | Comments Off on New Tale of Zatoichi (1963) 720p Criterion Collection BluRay FLAC x264-CtrlHD
New Tale of Zatoichi / Shin Zatôichi monogatari / Zatôichi 3 (1963)
Action | Drama
Blind masseur and master swordsman, Zatoichi, is tired of killing. He journeys to his old village looking for peace, but is pursued by the brother of Boss Kanbei, a man he's killed. Back home, Ichi connects with Banno, his teacher, who seeks prestige and has arranged for his younger sister, Yayoi, to marry into a wealthy samurai family. Ichi and Yayoi realize they are in love, but Ichi's request for her hand meets with Banno's derision. Ichi is also drawn into Banno's plot to kidnap the son of a wealthy man, ostensibly to aid the Mito Goblins, a gang of thieves on the run; but Banno wants to keep the ransom. Ichi wants harmony and love, but can he escape a destiny of violence?
Starring: Shintarô Katsu
Director: Tokuzô Tanaka
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