Category: Drama
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Kit Kittredge: An American Girl / An American Girl Mystery (2008)
Drama | Family
Aspiring reporter Kit Kittredge can't resist bringing home strays, whether it's Grace, an abandoned basset hound, or Will and Countee, a pair of young hobos willing to trade work for meals. Bright, inquisitive and generous, Kit is a natural born leader. But her happy childhood is abruptly interrupted when her father loses his car dealership and must leave Cincinnati to look for work. Kit and her mother Margaret are left to manage on their own, growing vegetables, selling eggs and even taking in an assortment of boarders including an itinerant magician, a vivacious dance instructor on the prowl for a husband and a zany mobile librarian. When a crime spree sweeps Cincinnati, all signs point to the local hobo jungle, where Will and Countee live with a group of their impoverished companions. Kit, who always has her antennae out for a good news story, convinces her new friends to take her to see the hobo camp for herself and writes an article that creates a sympathetic portrait of the camp's residents. But when Kit's mother and their boarders become the latest victims in a string of robberies, Kit's loyalties are tested. Will is accused of the crimes and, with all of their savings gone, the Kittredges face losing their house to foreclosure. Determined to recover the stolen money and believing Will is innocent, Kit recruits her friends Ruthie and Stirling to help her track down the real culprit. Together they uncover a plot that goes far beyond Cincinnati!
Starring: Abigail Breslin, Julia Ormond, Chris O'Donnell, Wallace Shawn, Joan Cusack
Director: Patricia Rozema
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Posted on July 2, 2013 |
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Nine Days of One Year / 9 dney odnogo goda (1962)
Drama
Two young scientists are exploring new fields of nuclear physics. Dmitry Gusev and Ilya Kulikov are good friends, but rivals in love. Dmitry marries Lyolya and they live happily together. Luck has it that he makes an important discovery. Unfortunately he exposes himself to radioactivity during the experiments. As a result he falls seriously ill. However Dmitry has a strong spirit. His will to live, the deep passion for his work and his strong love for mankind makes it possible for him to recover.
Starring: Aleksey Batalov, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Lavrova, Nikolai Plotnikov, Sergei Blinnikov
Director: Mikhail Romm
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Posted on July 2, 2013 |
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I vitelloni / The Young and the Passionate (1953)
Comedy | Drama
Fausto Moretti, having seduced Sandra Rubini, the sister of his friend and companion Moraldo Rubini, is forced to marry her. After their honeymoon, he takes a job as a salesman of religious objects in a small shot. He isn't changed by his marriage and still looks for women, with his friends, when and where they can find them. He even tries to seduce the wife of his boss and is fired. After each episode, Sandra forgives him. He and his friends of similar temperament are content to be idle, chase girls and leave the work and job-hunting to others. After spending the night away from home with a girl, Sandra cannot forgive anymore and runs off with their child. Fausto and his friends search all over fearing the worst, and he finally finds her at the home of his father, Francesco, who gives him a deserved thrashing. The couple reconciles and Fausto pledges to reform. Life goes on as usual for his other friends, always planning but never getting around to doing anything constructive, with the exception of Moraldo, who makes the break and leaves their town to seek a better life elsewhere.
Starring: Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste, Riccardo Fellini
Director: Federico Fellini
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Tags: Alberto Sordi, Federico Fellini, Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi, Leopoldo Trieste, Riccardo Fellini
Posted on July 1, 2013 |
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The Newsroom (TV Series 2012- )
Drama
The Newsroom is an American drama television series created and primarily written by Aaron Sorkin that premiered on HBO on June 24, 2012. The series chronicles the behind-the-scenes events at the fictional Atlantis Cable News (ACN) channel. It features an ensemble cast including Jeff Daniels as anchor Will McAvoy, who, together with his staff set out to put on a news show "in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles and their own personal entanglements."[1] Other cast members include Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher, Jr., Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Dev Patel, Olivia Munn, and Sam Waterston.
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, John Gallagher Jr., Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski, Dev Patel, Olivia Munn, Sam Waterston, Chris Chalk, John F. Carpenter, Trieu Tran, Margaret Judson, Adina Porter, Charlie Weirauch, Wynn Everett, Thomas Matthews, Chris Messina, Kelen Coleman, Chasty Ballesteros
Creator: Aaron Sorkin
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Tags: Aaron Sorkin, Adina Porter, Alison Pill, Charlie Weirauch, Chasty Ballesteros, Chris Chalk, Chris Messina, Dev Patel, Emily Mortimer, Jeff Daniels, John F. Carpenter, John Gallagher Jr., Kelen Coleman, Margaret Judson, Olivia Munn, Sam Waterston, Thomas Matthews, Thomas Sadoski, Trieu Tran, Wynn Everett
Posted on July 1, 2013 |
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Best Friends Forever (2013)
Drama
BEST FRIENDS FOREVER is a clever dark comedy and sci-fi horror movie, combining equal parts heartfelt road trip buddy film and apocalyptic disaster story, with two badass girls. Harriet, a perpetually optimistic comic-book artist, dreams of escaping her past in Los Angeles and hits the road for a new life in Austin, Texas. She drags Reba her seemingly devil-may-care BFF, along for the ride. After nuclear bombs explode in four cities, the girls are forced to ask: When faced with the end of the world – what is most important to you?
Starring: Brea Grant, Vera Miao, Sean Maher, Kit Williamson, Glen Powell, Alex Berg, Alex Fernie, Stacey Storey
Director: Brea Grant
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Tags: Alex Berg, Alex Fernie, Brea Grant, Glen Powell, Kit Williamson, Sean Maher, Stacey Storey, Vera Miao
Posted on July 1, 2013 |
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Mexican Sunrise (2007)
Action | Drama | Thriller
In less than 24 hours Ryan will be a married man, and in order to celebrate his last night of freedom, Ryan's friends have arranged an elaborate bachelor party blowout across the Mexican border. But somewhere along the journey everything falls apart. Now as one man struggles for survival after being stuffed into a barrel and buried alive, the grim events of that fateful evening unfold in a series of flashbacks and flash-forwards that will leave the viewer guessing until the crucial final seconds.
Starring: Armand Assante, Jordan Belfi, William Gregory Lee, Reed Frerichs, Tom Tartamella, Drew Powell
Director: Rowdy Stovall
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Tags: Armand Assante, Drew Powell, Jordan Belfi, Reed Frerichs, Rowdy Stovall, Tom Tartamella, William Gregory Lee
Posted on July 1, 2013 |
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Train of Life / Train de vie (1998)
Comedy | Drama | War
Central Europe, WWII. The village fool of a small Jewish community warns the townsfolk that the Nazis are coming, and advises them to build a fake deportation train to cross the Russian border and get to Palestine. Some Jews are dressed up with German uniforms, and soon they start getting strange ideas about how it feels to be a Nazi; others are infected with the fast-spreading germ of communism. Meanwhile, the Russian border gets closer and closer…
Starring: Rufus, Lionel Abelanski, Clément Harari, Michel Muller, Agathe de La Fontaine
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
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Posted on July 1, 2013 |
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Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Run-down Precinct 13 is closing its doors forever. But everything changes when a high-security prison transport bus arrives with some of Detroit's most lethal prisoners. Soon, the only thing more dangerous than the criminals on the inside is the rogue gang on the outside. And if they're going to survive the night, two men on opposite sides of the law will have to work together to battle an enemy who doesn't follow the code of cop or criminal.
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Ethan Hawke, John Leguizamo, Maria Bello, Ja Rule, Drea de Matteo
Director: Jean-Francois Richet
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Posted on June 30, 2013 |
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Chashme Baddoor (2013)
Comedy | Drama
Siddharth , Omi and Jai are close friends and room mates who are studying at Delhi University. Siddharth has completed M.A in Economics and is preparing for PhD. Siddharth is very studious and spends most of his time with books whereas Omi and Jai are busy in chasing girls, watching movies or dramas; only common thing among them is smoking. One day Omi and Jai see a girl who is new to their neighborhood and try to impress her by their tricks; they give up when both of them experience shameful events. After some days, Neha shows up as Chamko washing powder salesgirl to their flat, upon seeing whom Jai and Omi hide quickly. Siddharth sees Neha for the first time and a love story begins. But when his two friends find out, they decide to put an end to their relationship as a revenge to the embarrassment inflicted upon them by the girl. Initially they succeed in separating Siddharth and Neha but later on repent when they find that Siddharth lost his interest in work and study and also likely to end his life. Finally they decide to reunite both. The parallel plot runs between Omi, Jai, Siddharth and Lallan Miyan. Lallan Miyan is the local shopkeeper who sells Cigarettes to Omi and Jai on credit. But as students don't clear his debts, Lallan Miyan tries to follow-up with them to get their dues. A spate of kidnapping (especially of young girls) has started in Delhi. One fine day Omi and his friends along with Neha's grandmother plan to stage a fake kidnapping and get married. But unfortunately she is kidnapped by the real gang and the duo is left in a lurch. The later part of the story revolves how they clear the confusion that she has been in fact kidnapped by real thugs and how she is rescued.
Starring: Ali Zafar, Siddharth, Divyendu Sharma, Tapsee Pannu, Rishi Kapoor, Anupam Kher
Director: David Dhawan
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Posted on June 30, 2013 |
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Copperhead (2013)
Drama
An Upstate New York family is torn apart during the American Civil War.
Starring: François Arnaud, Lucy Boynton, Casey Thomas Brown, Billy Campbell, Mary Fay Coady, Josh Cruddas, Ryan Doucette
Director: Ronald F. Maxwell
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Posted on June 30, 2013 |
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Places in the Heart (1984)
Drama
Edna Spalding finds herself alone and broke on a small farm in the midst of the Great Depression when her husband the Sheriff is killed in an accident. A wandering black man, Moses, helps her to plant cotton to try and keep her farm and her kids together. She also takes on a blind boarder, Mr. Will, who lost his sight in the first World War. She must endure storms and harsh labor to try and make her mortgage payment on time.
Starring: Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, John Malkovich, Danny Glover
Director: Robert Benton
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Posted on June 30, 2013 |
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The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
Biography of Charles Lindburgh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in 1927.
Starring: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith, Bartlett Robinson, Marc Connelly, Arthur Space, Charles Watts
Director: Billy Wilder
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Posted on June 30, 2013 |
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The Steel Helmet (1951)
Action | Drama | War
During the Korean War, strong but worn and cantankerous Sergeant Zack is aided by a young, orphaned Korean boy. Together they encounter and join a small group of American soldiers. The group stumbles upon a Buddhist temple where they decide to hold up, believing it to be empty…
Starring: Gene Evans, Robert Hutton, Steve Brodie, James Edwards, Richard Loo, William Chun
Director: Samuel Fuller
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Sahara (1943)
Action | Drama | War
Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command after the fall of Tobruk. They and the Germans are greatly in need of water.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Bruce Bennett, J. Carrol Naish, Lloyd Bridges, Rex Ingram, Richard Aherne, Dan Duryea
Director: Zoltan Korda
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Posted on June 30, 2013 |
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The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
Biography | Drama | Family | Romance | Sport
Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig, famous baseball player who played in 2130 consecutive games before falling at age 37 to ALS, a deadly nerve disease which now bears his name. Gehrig is followed from his childhood in New York until his famous 'Luckiest Man' speech at his farewell day in 1939.
Starring: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth, Walter Brennan, Dan Duryea
Director: Sam Wood
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Posted on June 30, 2013 |
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Filly Brown (2013)
Drama | Music
A promising hip-hop rhymer from Los Angeles finds herself in a gray area when a record producer offers her a compromising shot at stardom.
Starring: Gina Rodriguez, Lou Diamond Phillips, Edward James Olmos, Emilio Rivera, Noel Gugliemi, Jenni Rivera
Director: Youssef Delara, Michael D. Olmos
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Posted on June 30, 2013 |
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Brute Force (1947)
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
As hard-hitting as its title, Brute Force was the first of Jules Dassin's forays into the crime genre, a prison melodrama that takes a critical look at American society as well. Burt Lancaster is the timeworn Joe Collins, who, along with his fellow inmates, lives under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey (a riveting Hume Cronyn). Only Collins's dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains? Matter-of-fact and ferocious, Brute Force builds to an explosive climax that shows the lengths men will go to when fighting for their freedom.
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth, Sam Levene
Director: Jules Dassin
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Watashi wa kai ni naritai / I Want to Be a Shellfish (2008)
Drama | War
1944, in the depths of World War II. Toyomatsu Shimizu is a completely typical barber from a remote sea-side town who lives frugally but happily with his wife Fusae and their five-year-old son. Eventually, though, the army beckons and he is drafted. One day an officer on the battle-field orders him to kill a captive U.S. soldier. Although Toyomatsu lacks the spirit to kill the man, and only wounds him in the arm, the victorious U.S. soldiers will not accept this, and Toyomatsu is arrested and tried as a war-criminal. And he receives the cruelest sentence possible…
Starring: Masahiro Nakai, Yukie Nakama, Yuki Shibamoto, Masahiko Nishimura, Mitsuru Hirata, Magy, Tsubasa Katô
Director: Katsuo Fukuzawa
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Posted on June 30, 2013 |
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Love Now / Jigeum sarangha-neun saramgwa salgo issumnika? (2007)
Drama | Romance
One couple marries out of love, then falls out of love. Another couple marries without love, then fails to find love. Enter seduction. Love Now (a.k.a. Changing Partners), directed by Jung Yoon Soo (My Girl and I), revolves around the infidelities of two married couples who inadvertently engage in couple swapping. The film features the all-star casting of Uhm Jung Hwa (Seducing Mr. Perfect), Park Yong Woo (World Of Silence), Han Chae Young (Wild Card), and Lee Dong Gun (My Boyfriend Is Type B).
Starring: Jeong-hwa Eom, Chae-young Han, Yong-woo Park, Dong-geon Lee
Director: Yun-su Chong
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Posted on June 30, 2013 |
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Black Pond (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Thriller
An ordinary British family and their friend are accused of murder when a stranger dies at their dinner table. Black Pond is an existential comedy drama starring two-time BAFTA winner Chris Langham and double British Comedy Award Winner Simon Amstell.
Starring: Chris Langham, Simon Amstell, Amanda Hadingue, Colin Hurley, Will Sharpe, Anna O'Grady, Helen Cripps
Director: Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe
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