Category: Drama
Posted on August 18, 2012 |
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Lapland Odyssey / Napapiirin sankarit (2010)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in Northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life. Janne wasn't even able to buy a digital TV box that Inari had given money for. Inari gives an ultimatum: a digital box needs to arrive by dawn or she leaves. Janne sets out into the night with his two friends to find a box. On their way to the city of Rovaniemi, Janne and his friends face many challenges, obstacles and temptations. They learn that they need to be daring. There's no room to give into bitterness. The most important thing isn't success, but rather the journey in itself.
Starring: Pamela Tola, Jussi Vatanen, Jasper Pääkkönen, Timo Lavikainen
Director: Dome Karukoski
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Posted on August 18, 2012 |
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Valhalla Rising (2009)
Action | Adventure | Drama
1000 AD, for years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self.
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Maarten Stevenson, Gordon Brown, Andrew Flanagan, Gary Lewis
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
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Posted on August 17, 2012 |
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V (TV Series 2009-2011)
Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Today, the world woke up to find spaceships over every major city. The Visitors claim to have come in peace, bringing gifts of medical miracles and technological breakthroughs. They promise to do no harm… They're lying…
Starring: Elizabeth Mitchell, Morris Chestnut, Joel Gretsch, Logan Huffman, Laura Vandervoort, Morena Baccarin, Scott Wolf, Christopher Shyer
Creator: Kenneth Johnson
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Tags: Christopher Shyer, Elizabeth Mitchell, Joel Gretsch, Kenneth Johnson, Laura Vandervoort, Logan Huffman, Morena Baccarin, Morris Chestnut, Scott Wolf
Posted on August 17, 2012 |
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Muži v naději / Men in Hope (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
It should be a true story about men and their real hopes, fears and expectations. And also on their infidelity, which can sometimes create even a happy marriage and relationship," Vejdělek said, describing the simple plot. Popular Czech actor Jiří Macháček, who also starred in Women in Temptation, plays the main character Ondřej, while Simona Stašová, Bolek Polívka and Eva Kerekésová round out the cast.
Starring: Jirí Machácek, Bolek Polívka, Petra Hrebícková, Vica Kerekes, Simona Stasová
Director: Jirí Vejdelek
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Tags: Bolek Polívka, Jirí Machácek, Jirí Vejdelek, Petra Hrebícková, Simona Stasová, Vica Kerekes
Posted on August 17, 2012 |
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Wild Things: Foursome / Wild Things 4 (2010)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Hotel magnate Ted Wheetley is tough on his arrogant hard partying son, Carson, who believes his wealthy, womanizer father drove his mother to her death. When Ted is killed in a speed boat accident, Detective Frank Walker is assigned to investigate the case. As he digs deeper into the death, he becomes more and more suspicious of the scheming, seduction, greed, double-crossing and possibly even cold blooded murder.
Starring: Jillian Murray, John Schneider, Ashley Parker Angel, Marc Macaulay, Cameron Daddo, Marnette Patterson
Director: Andy Hurst
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Posted on August 17, 2012 |
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In My Father's Den (2004)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A disillusioned war journalist's return home is blighted when he becomes implicated in the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl he has befriended.
Starring: Matthew Macfadyen, Miranda Otto, Emily Barclay, Colin Moy, Vanessa Riddell
Director: Brad McGann
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Posted on August 16, 2012 |
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Freelancers (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery
The son of a slain NYPD officer joins the force, where he falls in with his father's former partner and a team of rogue cops.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Forest Whitaker, Dana Delany, Beau Garrett, 50 Cent, Matt Gerald
Director: Jessy Terrero
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Posted on August 16, 2012 |
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Heleno (2011)
Biography | Drama
A biography of the tragic life of one of Brazil's greatest soccer players, Heleno de Freitas.
Starring: Rodrigo Santoro
Director: José Henrique Fonseca
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Posted on August 16, 2012 |
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Another Happy Day (2011)
Drama
A family weekend is fraught with emotional landmines for mercurial and sensitive Lynn as she arrives at her parents' Annapolis estate for the marriage of her estranged eldest son Dylan, accompanied by her three younger children. Lynn's hopes for a joyful reunion are crushed as her wry but troubled middle son Elliot lobs verbal grenades at his mother and her relatives while daughter Alice, a fights valiantly to keep her longtime demons under control. The weekend quickly unravels as Lynn demands to be heard by her aloof, disdainful mother, ailing, distant father and ever-judgmental sisters, but most especially by her ex-husband Paul and his hot-tempered second wife Patty.
Starring: Ellen Barkin, Ezra Miller, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Bosworth, Thomas Haden Church, George Kennedy, Demi Moore
Director: Sam Levinson
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Tags: Demi Moore, Ellen Barkin, Ellen Burstyn, Ezra Miller, George Kennedy, Kate Bosworth, Sam Levinson, Thomas Haden Church
Posted on August 16, 2012 |
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Aftershock / Tangshan dadizhen (2010)
Drama
On July 28th, 1976, a powerful earthquake destroyed the city of Tangshan, north-east of Beijing, China, and killed more than 240,000 people. Director Feng Xiaogang's Aftershock recreates the tragic event and the years of painful recovery that followed it.
Starring: Daoming Chen, Chen Li, Yi Lu, Fan Xu, Jingchu Zhang, Zi-feng Zhang, Jiajun Zhang, Guoqiang Zhang, Ziwen Wang
Director: Xiaogang Feng
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Tags: Chen Li, Daoming Chen, Fan Xu, Guoqiang Zhang, Jiajun Zhang, Jingchu Zhang, Xiaogang Feng, Yi Lu, Zi-feng Zhang, Ziwen Wang
Posted on August 15, 2012 |
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Swerve (2011)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
When loner Colin driving through the desert on the way to a job interview, he ends up in the middle of the chaos of a severe car accident. One driver is an excited beautiful woman, the other a dead stranger, with a bag filled with money, in the passenger seat…
Starring: Jason Clarke, Emma Booth, David Lyons, Travis McMahon, Vince Colosimo, Roy Billing
Director: Craig Lahiff
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Posted on August 15, 2012 |
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Biography | Crime | Drama | History | Western
'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' delves into the private life and public exploits of the United States' most notorious outlaw. As the charismatic and unpredictable Jesse James plans his next great robbery, he wages war on his enemies, who are trying to collect the reward money – and the glory – riding on his capture. But the greatest threat to his life may ultimately come from those he trusts the most.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Mary-Louise Parker, Paul Schneider
Director: Andrew Dominik
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Posted on August 15, 2012 |
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Death Wish 3 / Death Wish III (1985)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey arrives back in New York City and is forcibly recruited by a crooked police detective to fight street crime caused by a large gang terrorizing the neighborhoods.
Starring: Charles Bronson, Deborah Raffin, Ed Lauter, Martin Balsam, Gavan O'Herlihy, Alex Winter
Director: Michael Winner
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Tags: Alex Winter, Charles Bronson, Deborah Raffin, Ed Lauter, Gavan O'Herlihy, Martin Balsam, Michael Winner
Posted on August 15, 2012 |
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Casino (1995)
Biography | Crime | Drama
Sam "Ace" Rothstein, the consummate bookie who can change the odds merely by placing a bet, has risen through the ranks of the Midwestern mob to be picked by the bosses to front their entree into Vegas. Ace lives and breathes the odds. He eventually doubles the mob's take and changes the rules of how the casinos are run. But he can't control the odds when it comes to Ginger McKenna, the chip-hustling vamp who charms Ace and becomes his wife. His infatuation with Ginger turns to obsession as she rises with him to the upper crust of society, then turns to the bottle and pills for consolation in her gilded cage. The third member of this triangle of greed and obsession is Nicky Santoro, Ace's best friend and fellow graduate of the city streets. Together, they run the perfect operation, with Ace in charge and Nicky providing the muscle. But as Nicky expands his interests and each man gains power, their lives become entangled in a story of hot tempers, obstinacy, money, love and deception.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Don Rickles, Alan King
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Tags: Alan King, Don Rickles, James Woods, Joe Pesci, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone
Posted on August 15, 2012 |
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The Warlords / Tau ming chong (2007)
Action | Drama | History | War
During the Taiping Rebellion of the 1860s, General Pang barely survives a brutal massacre of his fellow soldiers by playing dead, and then joins a band of bandits led by Er Hu and Wu Yang. After fighting back attackers from a helpless village, the three men take an oath to become "blood brothers," but things quickly turn sour and the three men become embroiled in a web of political deceit, and a love triangle between Pang, Er Hu and a beautiful courtesan.
Starring: Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro
Director: Peter Chan, Wai Man Yip
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Posted on August 14, 2012 |
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The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Drama
In the troubling times of the Great Depression the Joad family, accompanied by their friend Reverend Jim, migrate from Oklahoma to California in the hopes of finding work in a vineyard and improving their financial condition. But the road is long and rough, and when they reach their destination things aren't quite what they expected.
Starring: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Russell Simpson, Charley Grapewin, Eddie Quillan
Director: John Ford
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Posted on August 14, 2012 |
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The Misfits (1961)
Drama | Romance | Western
A sexy divorcée falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically independent lifestyle in early-sixties Nevada.
Starring: Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach
Director: John Huston
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Tags: Clark Gable, Eli Wallach, John Huston, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter
Posted on August 14, 2012 |
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There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.
Starring: Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor, Dan Dailey
Director: Walter Lang
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Tags: Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Mitzi Gaynor, Walter Lang
Posted on August 14, 2012 |
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How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Three New York models, Shatze, Pola and Loco set-up in an exclusive appartment with a plan: tired of cheap men and a lack of money they intend to use all their talents to trap and marry three millionaires. The trouble is that's it's not so easy to tell the rich men from the huxters and even when they can, is the money really worth it?
Starring: Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun, Rory Calhoun
Director: Jean Negulesco
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Tags: Betty Grable, David Wayne, Jean Negulesco, Lauren Bacall, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun
Posted on August 14, 2012 |
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell sizzle, sing and dance as a couple of gold diggers out to land rich husbands. This Technicolor film fable follows the exploits of two gorgeous women aboard a luxury ocean liner. One (Monroe) loves diamonds and the other (Russell) loves men. On the ship with them are an elderly diamond mine owner (Charles Coburn), a team of handsome and muscular Olympic athletes, a fascinating but very young millionaire (George Winslow) and a nosy private eye. Packed with 40 minutes of production numbers, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes includes the legendary title song and "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend."
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan
Director: Howard Hawks
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