Category: Drama
Posted on March 20, 2013 |
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Talaash / Talaash: The Answer Lies Within (2012)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Talaash follows inspector Surjan Singh Shekhawat (Aamir Khan), who is tackling the accidental death of a film star Armaan Kapoor (Vivan Bhatena). As Shekhawat unfolds the strange case, he gets entangled in a drama that has more to it than meets the eye. Meanwhile, his personal life suffers as he reels under the repercussions of an almost-broken marriage with Roshni (Rani Mukerji), and comes face-to-face with his suppressed grief of losing his only child. While trying to investigate the case, Shekhawat meets a sex worker Rosie (Kareena Kapoor), who helps him fight his inner demons and also helps him with his enquiry about the accident. How Shekhawat solves the case and revives his relationship with his wife forms the crux of the story.
Starring: Aamir Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Kareena Kapoor, Shernaz Patel
Director: Reema Kagti
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Posted on March 20, 2013 |
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Umizaru 3: The Last Message / Za rasuto messêji: Umizaru (2010)
Drama
Elite diver Daisuke is sent on a dangerous rescue mission to an oil rig hit by typhoon.
Starring: Hideaki Itô, Ai Katô, Shôhei Miura, Ryûta Satô, Sohee Park
Director: Eiichiro Hasumi
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Posted on March 20, 2013 |
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The Pillow Book (1996)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
In contemporary Japan and Hong Kong, a successful model revives memories of her calligrapher father by having her lovers give her pleasure by writing on her body. An affair with an Englishman leads her to start writing herself, using others as her paper.
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Vivian Wu
Director: Peter Greenaway
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Posted on March 20, 2013 |
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The Penalty (1920)
Crime | Drama | Horror
A deformed criminal mastermind plans to loot the city of San Francisco as well as revenge himself on the doctor who mistakenly amputated his legs.
Starring: Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, Lon Chaney
Director: Wallace Worsley
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Posted on March 18, 2013 |
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More Than Me (2010)
Comedy | Documentary | Drama
Actor/comedian Jim Breuer, best known from Saturday Night Live and the film Half Baked, set out in 2008 on his first stand-up tour in six years, taking his 84 year-old father along for the ride of his life. While struggling with the chores of caregiving and coming to terms with his father's mortality, Jim is determined to strengthen their relationship while on the road. Funny and raw, More Than Me is an intimate story of growing up and growing old.
Starring: Jim Breuer
Director: William Philbin
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Posted on March 17, 2013 |
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Badlands (1973)
Crime | Drama
A garbage collector (Martin Sheen) and his impressionable girlfriend (Sissy Spacek) kill her father when he disapproves of their relationship, and embark on a homicidal trail of destruction across the Midwestern United States. Based on the true case of 1950s killers Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate.
Starring: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, John Carter
Director: Terrence Malick
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Posted on March 17, 2013 |
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Utsukushii natsu kirishima / A Boy's Summer in 1945 (2002)
Drama
Japan in the painful aftermath of World War II. The film centres on 15-year-old Yasuo and the adults around him as they go through their usual routines during this unusual time. Yasuo feels guilty for surviving when so many of his classmates were killed. He witnessed the death of his best friend during the bombing and the memory of it tortures him. The others, too, have their own crosses to bear. Meanwhile, a poor widow and a wounded soldier meet surreptitiously, a beautiful wife bids farewell to her first lover, and a maidservant marries a veteran who has returned home without his leg. So many lives, so many loves… Yasuo is gradually losing control of himself…
Starring: Tasuku Emoto, Yoshio Harada, Tokie Hidari, Wakaba Irie, Eri Ishida, Teruyuki Kagawa, Masahiro Kômoto
Director: Kazuo Kuroki
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Everlasting Regret / Changhen ge (2005)
Drama | Romance
Follows a legendary Shanghai beauty from her glamorous days to her simpler life as she struggles to preserve the dignity of her past while surviving the constant betrayal of her men. She stands tall and proud as she bears witness to the waves of changes to her city from 1947 to 1981, until one wave finally overwhelms her.
Starring: Sammi Cheng, Tony Leung, Jun Hu, Daniel Wu, Jue Huang
Director: Stanley Kwan
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On the Waterfront (1954)
Crime | Drama
Elia Kazan's compelling social drama was the winner of eight Academy Awards and marks one of Marlon Brando's finest screen performances. Brando is Terry Malloy, a handsome but inarticulate longshoreman, who gets involved in a labor scandal when a fellow dock worker is murdered. He knows that the victim was killed by the oppressive labor union for squealing to a commission investigating misdoings. Terry intends to keep his mouth shut and his job safe. But when Edie (Eva Marie-Saint), the dead man's beautiful sister, comes to town, he must choose between his allegiance to a corrupt union and his loyalty to Edie.
Starring: Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb, Karl Malden, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning
Director: Elia Kazan
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Posted on March 17, 2013 |
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Hard Candy (2005)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A smart, charming teenage girl, Hayley probably shouldn't be going to a local coffee shop to meet Jeff, a 30- something fashion photographer she met on the Internet. But Hayley's ready to have fun, and soon she's mixing screwdrivers at Jeff's place and stripping for an impromptu photo shoot. It's Jeff's lucky night–until his vision blurs and he passes out. Turns out Hayley isn't as innocent as she looks.
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Ellen Page, Sandra Oh, Odessa Rae, G.J. Echternkamp
Director: David Slade
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Posted on March 17, 2013 |
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Final Analysis (1992)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
A psychiatrist has an affair with his patient's sister who is married to a Greek mobster. The mobster is a tyrant over his wife. The psychiatrist wants her to get a divorce, but she is afraid of what her husband would do.
Starring: Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman, Eric Roberts, Paul Guilfoyle, Keith David
Director: Phil Joanou
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Posted on March 16, 2013 |
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Beyond the Trophy / Trophy (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama
TROPHY tells the story of men's obsession with power and how far they will go to claim the "PRIZE". Two rival gangs in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, led by Gino (Robert Miano) and Cole (Michael Madsen), are vying for control. Danny (Michael Masini), an LAPD undercover police detective, goes deep into gangland to infiltrate one gang to bring down both. Along the way, he becomes entangled with the beautiful and seductive Angela (Ali Costello), whose relationship with her husband Jake and mob leader Gino makes her the focal point of an intoxicating romantic equation-with deadly consequences. Her dream is to escape the wrath of evil abusive men, and find the love she never knew but always dreamed of. Even in the underworld, sometimes dreams do come true even when it all seems impossible.
Starring: Michael Madsen, Stephen Cloud, Eric Roberts, Michael Masini, Tommy Lister, Ben Maccabee, Ali Costello, Robert Miano
Director: Daniel J. Gillin
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Tags: Ali Costello, Ben Maccabee, Daniel J. Gillin, Eric Roberts, Michael Madsen, Michael Masini, Robert Miano, Stephen Cloud, Tommy Lister
Posted on March 16, 2013 |
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Brief Reunion (2011)
Drama
Be careful who you let play in your virtual sandbox – even if they're old friends. Aaron Clark has it all: financial security, a beautiful wife, and a close-knit circle of old friends. But this cozy life is shattered by the arrival of Teddy, former classmate and proverbial snake.
Teddy worms his way back into their lives, "befriends" Aaron's wife and hijacks Aaron's 40th birthday surprise. He systematically stalks them – at home, at work, and in cyberspace. Bitter over Aaron's success, Teddy pries into his business affairs and hints at improprieties, threatening extortion and revenge.
He relentlessly pushes, until Aaron snaps. And suddenly the question on everyone's mind: Is Aaron really the man he appears to be? Or is it true that "Nobody really knows anybody, least of all themselves?" This deep, dark question goes at the heart of human nature, and in Brief Reunion, finds some disturbing and even fatal answers.
Starring: Joel de la Fuente, Alexie Gilmore, Scott Shepherd, Francie Swift, Quentin Mare, John Ellison Conlee
Director: John Daschbach
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Posted on March 16, 2013 |
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Maid in Manhattan (2002)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Marisa Ventura (Jennifer Lopez) is a struggling single mom who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better life for her and her young son (Tyler Posey). One fateful day, hotel guest and senatorial candidate Christopher Marshall (Ralph Fiennes) meets Marisa and mistakes her for a wealthy socialite. After an enchanting evening together, the two fall madly in love. But when Marisa's true identity is revealed, issues of class and social status threaten to separate them. Can two people from very different worlds overcome their differences and live happily ever after?
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Frances Conroy, Christopher Eigeman, Ralph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins, Natasha Richardson
Director: Wayne Wang
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The Hurricane (1999)
Biography | Drama | Sport
This film tells the story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, an African-American man who rose above his troubled youth to become a top contender for the middle-weight boxing title. However, his dreams are shattered when he is accused of a triple murder, and is convicted to three natural-life terms. Despite becoming a cause celebre and his dogged efforts to prove his innocence through his autobiography, the years of fruitless efforts have left him discouraged. This changes when an African-American boy and his Canadian mentors read his book and are convinced of his innocence enough to work for his exoneration. However, what Hurricane and his friends learn is that this fight puts them against a racist establishment that profited from this travesty and have no intention of seeing it reversed.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger
Director: Norman Jewison
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Posted on March 16, 2013 |
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Corações Sujos / Dirty Hearts (2011)
Drama | History | Thriller
In 1945, Japan surrendered to the United States and the Second World War was over. Right? Wrong. For eighty percent of the Japanese community in Brazil, Japan had won the war and defeat was nothing more than American propaganda. The few immigrants that accepted the truth were persecuted. Some were hunted down and assassinated – by their own countrymen – causing the start of a new, private war. Dirty Hearts is a thriller and love story told by the wife of one of the fanatics dedicated to preach Japanese victory. Little by little, she watches her husband, a hard-working immigrant, become an assassin and their love story fade away.
Starring: Tsuyoshi Ihara, Takako Tokiwa, Eiji Okuda, Shun Sugata, Kimiko Yo, Eduardo Moscovis, Celine Fukumoto
Director: Vicente Amorim
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Posted on March 16, 2013 |
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Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
Comedy | Drama
Jonathan (Elijah Wood) is a lifelong collector of any and all objects pertaining to his family, and he has become obsessed with a woman he's never met.
Starring: Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin, Jonathan Safran Foer, Ljubomir Dezera
Director: Liev Schreiber
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Posted on March 15, 2013 |
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Camille (1984)
Drama | Romance
Camille, a popular Parisian courtesan, is wooed by innocent young Armand. She is willing to give up her libertine lifestyle for Armand, but is gently convinced by the boy's father that such a union would be impossible.
Starring: Greta Scacchi, Colin Firth, John Gielgud, Billie Whitelaw, Denholm Elliott, Ben Kingsley, Patrick Ryecart
Director: Desmond Davis
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Posted on March 15, 2013 |
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The White Bus / Red, White and Zero (1967)
Drama
Lindsay Anderson and Shelagh Delaney's The White Bus is a surrealistic film about a secretary who takes a strange trip, part of which takes place on the eponymous vehicle. The nameless girl has a seemingly dull life, which is interrupted by periodic flights of fantasy involving suicide, recreations of paintings, and pieces of meat that suddenly run blood-run. Between these fantasies are the details of her real life, especially as she begins a journey home to visit her family. She encounters a wide variety of people — a teen-ager exceedingly angry that his rubgy team has lost a match, a young man who proposes marriage, a lord mayor who enjoys feeling her leg — as she travels to locations ranging from a community center and a public library to a natural history museum and a civil defense demonstration. Along the way, the girl maintains a façade of passivity, even when events become quite surreal, as when all of her traveling companions turn into human dummies during the civil defense drill. At the end of the film, she enters a restaurant and eats dinner while the owners pile chairs on the tables around her, obscuring her from view and complaining about the never-ending pace of work.
Starring: Patricia Healey, Arthur Lowe, John Sharp, Julie Perry, Stephen Moore
Director: Lindsay Anderson
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Posted on March 15, 2013 |
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Hustle / All the Other Angels (1975)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Phil Gaines is a bitter, cynical cop who investigates the case of a dead stripper/porno actress found on the beach. Gaines is experiencing a troubled relationship with a hooker, and things don't get any better when the dead girl's father launches his own investigation.
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson, Paul Winfield, Eileen Brennan, Eddie Albert, Ernest Borgnine, Catherine Bach, Jack Carter
Director: Robert Aldrich
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