Category: Drama
Posted on July 16, 2012 |
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Gandu / Asshole (2010)
Drama
Gandu hates his life. He hates his mother. Gandu raps out his hate, anger, dirt and filth of his existence. He and his rickshawpuller friend enter the world of smack, rap, porn and horror. Reality and fiction, surreal and bizarre come together. Can Gandu survive?
Starring: Anubrata Basu, Joyraj Bhattacharya, Rii, Kamalika Banerjee, Shilajit Majumdar
Director: Kaushik Mukherjee
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Posted on July 16, 2012 |
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An Empress and the Warriors (2008)
Action | Drama | Romance | War
Set during the Warring States Period,the story centers on Princess Fei'er who is commanded by her dying father on the battlefield to defend their country with General Xuehu. The princess is later attacked and injured by the treacherous official Wu Ba, but is rescued by Duan Lanquan, whom she falls in love with. Faced with continued attack from outside and within, the princess must make some important decisions to ensure the survival of herself and her country.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Kelly Chen, Leon Lai, Xiaodong Guo, Zhenghai Kou
Director: Siu-Tung Ching
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Posted on July 14, 2012 |
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More American Graffiti / American Graffiti 2 (1979)
Comedy | Drama | War
College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.
Starring: Candy Clark, Bo Hopkins, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Cindy Williams, Charles Martin Smith, Mackenzie Phillips
Director: Bill L. Norton
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Posted on July 14, 2012 |
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Teenagers struggling with independence, sexuality, money, maturity, rock'n roll, Spicoli ordering pizza and high school. Oh and that pool scene.
Starring: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Phoebe Cates, Nicolas Cage
Director: Amy Heckerling
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Posted on July 14, 2012 |
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Terra Nova / Novaya Zemlya (2008)
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
In 2013, capital punishment is abolished. With prison spaces running out, a bunch of prisoners are taken to an island called Novaya Zemlya for the sake of an experiment.
Starring: Konstantin Lavronenko, Andrei Feskov, Marat Basharov, Tommy Lister, Ingeborga Dapkunaite
Director: Aleksandr Melnik
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Posted on July 14, 2012 |
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Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | History | Romance
A dashing officer of the guard and romantic poet, Cyrano de Bergerac falls in love with his cousin Roxane without her knowing. His one fault in his life, he feels, is his large nose and although it may have been a forming influence in his rapier-sharp wit, he believes that Roxane will reject him. He resorts to writing letters to her on behalf of one of his cadets, Christian, who is also in love with Roxane but just doesn't know how to tell her. She falls for the poetic charm of the letters but believes that they were written by Christian.
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Roland Bertin
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
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Posted on July 14, 2012 |
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Chronicle (2012)
Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Three high school friends gain superpowers after making an incredible discovery. Soon, though, they find their lives spinning out of control and their bond tested as they embrace their darker sides.
Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Michael Kelly, Alex Russell
Director: Josh Trank
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Posted on July 14, 2012 |
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Enter the Void (2009)
Drama | Fantasy
The story of a young man, Oscar, who after the brutal death of his parents, makes a promise to his sister never to leave her, no matter what, but is killed at the hands of corrupt police.
Starring: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy, Emily Alyn Lind, Jesse Kuhn
Director: Gaspar Noé
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Posted on July 14, 2012 |
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Gladiator (2000)
Action | Adventure | Drama | History
In the final days of Marcus Aurelius' reign, the aging emperor angers his son Commodus by making it known that he wants Maximus, a fearsome and respected Roman general, to be his successor. Power-hungry Commodus kills his father and orders the death of Maximus. But the latter flees, only to discover that his wife and child have been murdered by Commodus. Captured, Maximus is forced into slavery, where he is sold to Proximo, a former gladiator who serves as both mentor and slavemaster. Maximus trains as a gladiator in the arena, where his fame grows. He goes to Rome, intent on avenging the murder of his wife and son by killing the new emperor Commodus. Maximus has learned that the one power stronger than that of the emperor is the will of the people, and he knows he can only attain his revenge by becoming the greatest hero in all the empire.
Starring: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris
Director: Ridley Scott
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Posted on July 14, 2012 |
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Udaan / Flight (2010)
Drama
After being abandoned for eight straight years in boarding school, Rohan returns to the small industrial town of Jamshedpur and finds himself closeted with an authoritarian father and a younger half brother who he didn't even know existed. Forced to work in his father's steel factory and study engineering against his wishes, he strives to forge his own life out of his given circumstances and pursue his dream of being a writer.
Starring: Sanjay Gandhi, Manjot Singh, Rajat Barmecha
Director: Vikramaditya Motwane
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Posted on July 14, 2012 |
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Guns N' Roses / Huang Jin Da Jie An (2012)
Action | Comedy | Drama
A city in Japanese-occupied Manchuria, mid/late 1930s. Impoverished thief and amateur magician Xiao Dongbei (Lei Jiayin), 28, from Taiyuan, is arrested by the police after stealing some money from the collection box of the local priest (Fan Wei). Temporarily imprisoned, he's put in the same cell as Bai Murong (Sun Chun), an anti-Japanese revolutionary who was arrested in a cinema after receiving a message from a fellow revolutionary (Huang Bo). Xiao Dongbei steals his shoes and in them later finds the message: "The gold will arrive on the 10th at Yamato Bank." Xiao Dongbei is then kidnapped by a group of revolutionaries, led by film actress Fang Die (Tao Hong), and forced to reveal the contenst of the message. Fang Die tells him the 8 tons of gold will be used by the Japanese to buy weapons from the Italians, in a deal to be signed by visiting Italian ambassador DeNiro (Jean-Michel Casanovas). The revolutionaries, all working as film-makers, decide to steal it on its way to the bank. Xiao Dongbei is eventually taken on as Fang Die's driver but almost compromises a mission one night when the gang tries to steal the map of the gold convoy from the home of bank president Gu Xianming (Yang Xinming), a Chinese collaborator. Later, Xiao Dongbei redeems himself by getting the map after he by chance saves Gu's daughter, Xixi (Cheng Yuanyuan), during an air raid. As the revolutonaries are all film-makers, they decide to use some movie artifice during the hijacking of the convoy. They successfully make off with the gold, but Japanese security chief Toriyama Konosuke (Yamazaki Keiichi) is hot on their trail after Xiao Dongbei's greed gets the best of him.
Starring: Jiayin Lei, Yuanyuan Cheng, Wei Fan, Tao Guo, Bo Huang, Hong Tao, Chun Sun, Hua Liu, Keiichi Yamasaki
Director: Hao Ning
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Posted on July 13, 2012 |
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Tatanka (2011)
Crime | Drama | Sport
Clemente Russo portrays himself in the story of a promising boxer who grew up in the Neapolitan mob heartland.
Starring: Rade Serbedzija, Giacomo Gonnella, Susanne Wolff, Alexander Yassin, Giorgio Colangeli
Director: Giuseppe Gagliardi
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Tags: Alexander Yassin, Giacomo Gonnella, Giorgio Colangeli, Giuseppe Gagliardi, Rade Serbedzija, Susanne Wolff
Posted on July 13, 2012 |
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island / Miyamoto Musashi kanketsuhen: kettô Ganryûjima (1956)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader. He's also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a year's time but rejects Shogun's patronage, choosing instead to live on the edge of a village, raising vegetables. He's followed there by Otsu and later by Akemi, both in love with him. The year ends as Takezo assists the villagers against a band of brigands. He seeks Otsu's forgiveness and accepts her love, then sets off across the water to Ganryu Island for his final contest.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Koji Tsuruta, Kaoru Yachigusa, Daisuke Katô
Director: Hiroshi Inagaki
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Tags: Daisuke Katô, Hiroshi Inagaki, Kaoru Yachigusa, Koji Tsuruta, Mariko Okada, Toshirô Mifune
Posted on July 13, 2012 |
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The Insect Woman / Nippon konchûki (1963)
Drama
A woman, who suffered much in her life, forges valiantly to survive, much like an industrious "ant".
Starring: Emiko Aizawa, Masumi Harukawa, Sachiko Hidari, Emiko Higashi, Daizaburo Hirata
Director: Shôhei Imamura
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Posted on July 12, 2012 |
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Silent House (2012)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
Trapped inside her family's lakeside retreat, a young woman descends into madness.
Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, Eric Sheffer Stevens
Director: Chris Kentis, Laura Lau
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Posted on July 12, 2012 |
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Bitch Slap (2009)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
When three curvaceous babes arrive at a desert hideaway to steal over $200 million from an underworld kingpin, things quickly spiral out of control. Allegiances are switched, truths are revealed, criminals are unmasked and nothing is quite what it seems as the fate of the world is precariously balanced among this trio of sexy femmes fatales.
Starring: Julia Voth, Erin Cummings, America Olivo, William Gregory Lee, Kevin Sorbo
Director: Rick Jacobson
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Posted on July 12, 2012 |
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The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Action | Drama | Thriller
When the president of Russia suddenly dies and is succeeded by a man about whom little is known, tension increases as old fears ignite new paranoia. Director of Central Intelligence Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst from the Russia desk, Jack Ryan, to supply insight and advice. Then the unthinkable happens: the capital of Chechnya is leveled by a nuclear bomb. America is quick to blame the Russians, and mistrust escalates despite Ryan's certainty that other players are at work. He is right. Terrorists bent on provoking open war between the two nations are moving behind the scenes to manufacture and escalate a conflict. When they successfully detonate a second bomb outside Baltimore during the Super Bowl, the world is pushed inexorably towards war… unless Ryan can supply the needed proof to stem the tide of disaster in time.
Starring: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Liev Schreiber, Alan Bates, Bruce McGill
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
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Posted on July 12, 2012 |
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Clear and Present Danger (1994)
Action | Drama | Thriller
Patriotic American Jack Ryan's (Harrison Ford) just been promoted to Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA. But before he can adjust to the demands of his position as advisor to the President, Jack's got to investigate a massacre that took the lives of several dignitaries. Probing relentlessly, Jack uncovers the disturbing truth about criminal activities involving an international drug cartel and a close friend of the United States President. Based on Tom Clancy's bestselling novel.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, Joaquim de Almeida, Henry Czerny, Harris Yulin
Director: Phillip Noyce
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Posted on July 12, 2012 |
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Patriot Games (1992)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Ex-CIA agent Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) is forced back into service when he saves the lives of the English minister to Northern Ireland and his family from a terrorist attack, killing one of the perpetrators in the process. The dead man's brother, also a member of an IRA splinter faction, vows revenge on Ryan and his family and pursues them to the United States. Ryan knows it is only a matter of time till he comes face to face with his nemesis… and that only one of them will come out alive. Based on Tom Clancy's bestselling novel.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Patrick Bergin, Sean Bean, Thora Birch, James Fox
Director: Phillip Noyce
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Posted on July 11, 2012 |
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Elles (2011)
Drama
Anne, a well-off, Paris-based mother of two and investigative journalist for ELLE, is writing an article about student prostitution. Her meetings with two fiercely independent young women, Alicja and Charlotte, are profound and unsettling, moving her to question her most intimate convictions about money, family and sex.
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Anaïs Demoustier, Joanna Kulig
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
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