Category: Drama
Posted on February 24, 2013 | Comments Off on The Ballad of Narayama (1983) Masters of Cinema 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi
The Ballad of Narayama / Narayama-bushi kô (1983)
Drama | Music
In a small village in a remote valley where the harshness of life dictates that survival overrules compassion, elderly widow Orin is approaching her 70th birthday – the age when village law says she must go up to the mythic Mount Narayama to die. But there are several loose ends within her own family to tie up first.
Starring: Ken Ogata, Sumiko Sakamoto, Tonpei Hidari, Aki Takejô, Shoichi Ozawa
Director: Shôhei Imamura
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Posted on February 24, 2013 | Comments Off on The Ballad of Narayama (1958) Criterion Collection 720p BluRay x264 FLAC-WiKi
The Ballad of Narayama / Narayama bushiko (1958)
Drama
This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die.
Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Teiji Takahashi, Yûko Mochizuki, Danko Ichikawa, Keiko Ogasawara
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
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Posted on February 24, 2013 | Comments Off on Communion (1989) 720p WEB-DL AAC2.0 H.264-NoGRP
Communion (1989)
Biography | Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Whitley Strieber goes with his family and some friends to his holiday home in the forest. They experience some weird occurances, are they UFO activity? Whitley is abducted and then faces a horrible dilema; was I abducted or am I going mad? He sees a psychiatrist who tries to use hypnotic regression to discover the truth.
Starring: Christopher Walken, Lindsay Crouse, Frances Sternhagen, Andreas Katsulas, Terri Hanauer, Joel Carlson, John Dennis Johnston, Dee Dee Rescher
Director: Philippe Mora
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Posted on February 24, 2013 | Comments Off on Auto Focus (2002) 720p WEB-DL DD5.1 H.264-NoGRP
Auto Focus (2002)
Biography | Crime | Drama
In 1965, Bob Crane, who had achieved some earlier success as a television supporting actor, was working as a successful morning radio DJ at KNX Los Angeles. Despite enjoying his work, photography (especially of the female form) and drumming, Crane wanted to be a movie star. So it was with some reluctance that he accepted the title starring role in a new television sitcom called Hogan's Heroes, a WWII POW comedy. To his surprise, the show became a hit and catapulted him to television stardom. The fame resulting from the show led to excesses and a meeting with home video salesman and technician John Carpenter, with who he would form a friendship based on their mutual interests, namely excessive sex (for Crane, purely heterosexual sex) and capturing nude females on celluloid. His fame allowed Crane to have as much sex as he wanted, which was incongruent to his somewhat wholesome television friendly image, and the way he portrayed himself to almost everyone except Carpenter and his…
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Maria Bello, Maria Bello, Ron Leibman
Director: Paul Schrader
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Posted on February 23, 2013 | Comments Off on Premonition (2007) 720p BluRay DD5.1 x264-CRiSC
Premonition (2007)
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Linda Hanson has a beautiful house, a loving husband and two adorable daughters. Her life is perfect, until the day she receives the devastating news that her husband Jim has died in a car accident. When she wakes up the next morning to find him alive and well, she assumes it was all a dream, but is shaken by how vivid it felt. She soon realizes it wasn't a dream, and her world is turned upside down as the surreal circumstances lead her to discover that her perfect life may not have been all that it appeared. Desperate to save her family, Linda begins a furious race against time and fate to try and preserve everything that she and Jim have built together.
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon, Nia Long, Kate Nelligan, Amber Valletta
Director: Mennan Yapo
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Posted on February 23, 2013 | Comments Off on Electrick Children (2012) 720p WEB-DL DD5.1 H.264-NoGRP
Electrick Children (2012)
Drama
Rebecca Thomas's directorial debut is an indie coming-of-age drama in which a young Mormon girl believes that she has become pregnant by listening to a pop song. 15-year-old Rachel (Julia Garner) has been so strictly brought up by her fundamentally religious family that she has never even seen a cassette recorder. Shortly after her 15th birthday, her curiosity about the forbidden contraption triggers both a personal epiphany and a family crisis, leading to the unfolding of a string of unexpected events and encounters as Rachel and her brother, Will (Liam Aiken), leave their hometown and hook up with a gang of street kids in Las Vegas.
Starring: Julia Garner, Rory Culkin, Liam Aiken, Bill Sage, Cynthia Watros
Director: Rebecca Thomas
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Posted on February 23, 2013 |
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White Hunter Black Heart (1990)
Adventure | Drama
The world famous movie director John Wilson has gone to Africa to make his next movie. He is an obstinate, contrary director who'd rather hunt elephants than takes care of his crew or movie. He has become obsessed with one particular elephant and cares for nothing else.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, Charlotte Cornwell, Norman Lumsden, George Dzundza, Edward Tudor-Pole, Marisa Berenson
Director: Clint Eastwood
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Posted on February 21, 2013 |
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Legend of Bailiff Sansho / Sansho the Bailiff / Sanshô dayû (1954)
Drama
When an idealistic governor disobeys the reigning feudal lord, he is cast into exile, his wife and children left to fend for themselves and eventually wrenched apart by vicious slave traders. Under Kenji Mizoguchi's dazzling direction, this classic Japanese story became one of cinema's greatest masterpieces, a monumental, empathetic expression of human resilience in the face of evil.
Starring: Kinuyo Tanaka, Kyôko Kagawa, Yoshiaki Hanayagi, Akitake Kôno, Masao Shimizu, Eitarô Shindô
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
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Posted on February 21, 2013 | Comments Off on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Family | Sci-Fi
A quartet of humanoid turtles trained by their mentor in ninjitsu must learn to pull together in order to face the menace of Shredder and the Foot Clan.
Starring: Elias Koteas, Corey Feldman, Josh Pais, Kevin Clash, Sam Rockwell, Joe D'Onofrio
Director: Steve Barron
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Posted on February 21, 2013 | Comments Off on A Good Funeral (2009) 720p WEB-DL DD5.1 H.264-HD4FUN
A Good Funeral (2009)
Drama
At her father's funeral, Junior Talmadge remembers back 30 years to the last time she saw her Dad: the summer of 1979. Junior was graduating from college and had just gotten engaged. Her dad surprises the family when he arrives with a brand new motor home. He entices his kids into a final "family summer vacation," the only way he knows how: he tells them he has cancer. Thus begins the family's road trip to California, and their quest to become a real American family, the old-fashioned way, by being on a real American TV game show. As the family arrives in LA to audition for the show, secret after secret is revealed about their dad, forcing Junior and her brothers to confront the reality of who their Dad really is.
Starring: Gary Cole, Jennifer Coolidge, Agnes Bruckner, Tina Holmes, Josh Randall, Jordan Bridges, Teddy Dunn, Riki Lindhome
Director: David Moreton
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Posted on February 20, 2013 | Comments Off on The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012) 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 / Breaking Dawn: Part 2 / Twilight 5 (2012)
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi.
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Maggie Grace, Michael Sheen
Director: Bill Condon
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Posted on February 20, 2013 | Comments Off on Neds (2010) 720p BluRay DD5.1 x264-EbP
Neds (2010)
Drama
John McGill is a promising student at a tough Glasgow school who, despite a family background of alcoholism and abuse, looks set to sail into university and a bright future beyond. That is, until things begin to go wrong at school and John, like his older brother before him, slips into the heady and dangerous world of Glasgow's gangland.
Starring: Conor McCarron, Peter Mullan, Greg Forrest, Linda Cuthbert
Director: Peter Mullan
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Posted on February 20, 2013 |
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Polytechnique (2009)
Crime | Drama | History
Told from the perspective of the victims, recounts the Montreal Massacre of December 6, 1989 when Marc Lepine entered engineering school Ecole Polytechnique, and targeting feminists, shot 28 people, killing 14 of them.
Starring: Maxim Gaudette, Sébastien Huberdeau, Karine Vanasse, Martin Watier, Evelyne Brochu
Director: Denis Villeneuve
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Posted on February 20, 2013 | Comments Off on Shanghai Express (1932) 720p HDTV DD2.0 x264-DON
Shanghai Express (1932)
Adventure | Drama | Romance
Many passengers on the Shanghai Express are more concerned that the notorious Shanghai Lil is on board than the fact that a civil war is going on that may make the trip take more than three days. The British Army doctor, Donald Harvey, knew Lil before she became a famous "coaster." A fellow passenger defines a coaster as "a woman who lives by her wits along the China coast." When Chinese guerillas stop the train, Dr. Harvey is selected as the hostage. Lil saves him, but can she make him believe that she really hasn't changed from the woman he loved five years before?
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Eugene Pallette
Director: Josef von Sternberg
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Posted on February 20, 2013 |
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Mary Reilly (1996)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
Starring: Julia Roberts, John Malkovich, George Cole, Michael Gambon, Glenn Close, Michael Sheen
Director: Stephen Frears
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Posted on February 20, 2013 | Comments Off on The Glimmer Man (1996) 720p WEB-DL AAC2.0 H.264-HD4FUN
The Glimmer Man (1996)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Jack Cole is a soft spoken, mystical, new age New York cop with a checkered past. He is transferred to Los Angeles to help Los Angeles cop Jim Campbell solve a series of brutal murders in which the victims are crucified. The murders that have happened since Jack arrived in Los Angeles just don't sit right with him. When the killer, known as the "Family Man", kills Ellen DunLeavy, who happens to be Jack's ex wife and the mother of his two kids, and Ellen's husband Andrew DunLeavy, it becomes personal – especially when Jack's prints are found on Ellen's body. Jack meets with his military mentor Smith, not knowing that Smith is in cahoots with local crime boss Frank Deverell.
Starring: Steven Seagal, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bob Gunton, Brian Cox, John M. Jackson, Michelle Johnson, Stephen Tobolowsky
Director: John Gray
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Posted on February 19, 2013 | Comments Off on Ginger and Rosa (2012) BluRay RERiP x264 720p DTS-HDS
Ginger & Rosa (2012)
Drama
Sally Potter directs this drama about two teenage girls living in London in the early 1960s. Elle Fanning and Alice Englert star as Ginger and Rosa, best friends who were both born on the day the first atom bomb fell on Hiroshima. The two are inseparable until Rosa falls in love with Ginger's charismatic father Roland (Alessandro Nivola). Ginger, shattered and alone, becomes increasingly immersed in the anti-nuclear movement, the looming horrors of the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis resonating with her own personal nightmare.
Starring: Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Annette Bening, Christina Hendricks, Alessandro Nivola, Timothy Spall, Oliver Platt
Director: Sally Potter
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Posted on February 19, 2013 | Comments Off on Lost Souls (2000) 720p WEB-DL DD5.1 H.264-HaT
Lost Souls (2000)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
A small group of Catholics led by an ailing priest believe that Satan intends to become man, just as God did in the person of Jesus. The writings of a possessed mental patient lead them to Peter Kelson, a writer who studies serial killers. They think it's his body Satan will occupy. The youngest in the group, a teacher named Maya Larkin, goes to Peter to investigate further and to convince him to believe in the possibility of Evil incarnate. Other signs come to him as he and Maya them take a journey full of strange occurrences, self-discovery, and an ultimate showdown.
Starring: Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, Sarah Wynter, Philip Baker Hall, John Hurt, Elias Koteas
Director: Janusz Kaminski
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Posted on February 19, 2013 |
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Life of Pi (2012)
Adventure | Drama
Based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel, is a magical adventure story centering on Pi Patel, the precocious son of a zoo keeper. Dwellers in Pondicherry, India, the family decides to move to Canada, hitching a ride on a huge freighter. After a shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a 26-foot lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, all fighting for survival.
Starring: Irfan Khan, Suraj Sharma, Gérard Depardieu, Rafe Spall
Director: Ang Lee
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Posted on February 19, 2013 | Comments Off on Dirty Girl (2010) BluRay RERiP x264 720p DTS-HDS
Dirty Girl (2010)
Comedy | Drama
Danielle, the dirty girl of Norman High School in Norman, Oklahoma, circa 1987. When Danielle's misbehavior gets her banished to a remedial class, she is paired on a parenting project with Clarke, an innocent closet-case with no friends. Danielle is determined to get to California to find the father she's never met, and Clarke is desperate to escape being sent to military school by his homophobic dad. Together, the mismatched misfits light out for California, and discover each other and themselves through a funny and serendipitous friendship.
Starring: Juno Temple, Milla Jovovich, William H. Macy, Mary Steenburgen, Dwight Yoakam
Director: Abe Sylvia
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