Category: Drama
Posted on May 6, 2012 |
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The Grey (2012)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
A group of oil-rig roughnecks are left stranded on the sub-arctic tundra after their plane experiences a complete mechanical failure and crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness. The survivors, battling mortal injuries, biting cold and ravenous hunger, are relentlessly hunted and pursued by a vicious pack of rogue wolves.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo, Dallas Roberts, Nonso Anozie
Director: Joe Carnahan
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Posted on May 6, 2012 |
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Another Day in Paradise (1998)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Bobbie is an addict and small-time thief. When one of his jobs goes bad, Mel is called in to patch him up. Mel offers him a chance at a bigger score. Over time, Mel and his girlfriend Sid become almost like parents to Bobbie and his girlfriend Rosie, but this can't last.
Starring: James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Vincent Kartheiser, Natasha Gregson Wagner
Director: Larry Clark
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Posted on May 6, 2012 |
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Nightwatch (1997)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
In order to finance his law studies, Martin starts as a night watchman in a mortuary. When the victims of a serial killer of prostitutes are deposited there, scary things begin to happen.
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Patricia Arquette, Josh Brolin
Director: Ole Bornedal
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Posted on May 6, 2012 |
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Three Monkeys / Üç maymun (2008)
Drama
A family suffers from a major communication breakdown during their struggle to to get through their hardships.
Starring: Yavuz Bingol, Hatice Aslan, Ahmet Rifat Sungar, Ercan Kesal
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
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Posted on May 5, 2012 |
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Red Tails (2012)
Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War
A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.
Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Bryan Cranston, Gerald McRaney, David Oyelowo
Director: Anthony Hemingway
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Posted on May 5, 2012 |
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The Capture / La capture (2007)
Drama
Rose almost never never lies. She has a natural elegance and sincerity that few girls have 20 years. Yet neither his friends nor his lovers know its past. She was great at hiding it, even if it is still haunted by her violent father. She lives with her boyfriend Nathan in Montreal. After two years's absence, she returns to visit his mother and his brother Felix in their suburban home. Family background doesn't has not changed. Their fates and the concern she decided's intervention in their lives. With the help of two boys, Rose receivership his father in an apartment rented for that purpose. The girl will try to change the beauty. But the implacable will of Rose meets the immovable resistance of the father. It's Rose is changing and slowly becoming the head of the family …
Starring: Catherine de Léan, Laurent Lucas, Pascale Bussières
Director: Carole Laure
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Posted on May 5, 2012 |
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Green Street Hooligans 2 / Hooligans 2 – stand your ground (2009)
Crime | Drama | Sport
Following the deadly climax of "Green Street Hooligans," several members of the West Ham firm and numerous members of Millwall end up in jail. The GSE quickly discover the brutality of life on the inside, as they are constant targets of the superior numbers and better-financed Millwall crew.
Starring: John Bariamis, Nicola Bertram, Matt Candito, Lonnie Cayetano, Paul Cullen
Director: Jesse V. Johnson
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Posted on May 5, 2012 |
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Dragon Tiger Gate / Lung Fu Moon (2006)
Action | Drama
Tiger Wong is a highly skilled martial artist with a strong sense of justice. While eating at a floating restaurant, he chances upon a bully. Unable to stand by and watch him terrorize the victims he defeats the bully using his special move – Dragon Slaying Leg Eighteen. At the same time, he unwittingly grabs a gold medal. It turns out that this gold medal is the Lousha Death Plaque given by the leader of the Lousha Gate, Shibumi. Whoever owns the gold medal has the power to demand the full cooperation of Lousha Gate. Tiger, unaware of the medal's powers, is ambushed by the gang during his celebrations. As fate has it, he is saved by Dragon Wong, the bodyguard of one of the gangsters, who is sent to retrieve the medal.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Nicholas Tse, Shawn Yue, Jie Dong, Xiao Ran Li
Director: Donnie Yen, Wilson Yip
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Posted on May 4, 2012 |
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Transit (2012)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A family on a road trip is stalked by criminals who stashed stolen money in their car.
Starring: Jim Caviezel, Diora Baird, Sterling Knight, James Frain, Elisabeth Röhm
Director: Antonio Negret
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Posted on May 4, 2012 |
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Asalto al Cine / The Cinema Hold Up (2011)
Drama
An in depth story from a forgotten social class in Mexico. Asalto al cine tells the tale of four youngsters: Negus, Chale, Sapo and Chata. Friends since childhood, the teenagers come from a block of flats in Mexico's Guerrero colony and have too
much time on their hands. They start toying with the idea of robbing a cinema. Each has a different problem and finds his own reason to go ahead with the heist. The adventure brings them into a head-on clash with their lives and threatens the only thing they have: their friendship.
Starring: Gabino Rodríguez, Juan Pablo de Santiago, Ángel Sosa, Paulina Avalos, Dolores Heredia
Director: Iria Gómez Concheiro
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Posted on May 4, 2012 |
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Ultimo tango a Parigi / Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Drama | Romance
A middle-aged American, whose wife has just committed suicide, meets a young French girl when they both view an apartment in Paris at the same time. They begin a strange, anonymous sexual relationship in the empty apartment, agreeing not to divulge any personal information to each other.
Starring: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi, Giovanna Galletti, Catherine Allegret, Catherine Breillat
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
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Posted on May 4, 2012 |
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Green Street Hooligans / Hooligans (2005)
Crime | Drama | Sport
Unjustly expelled from Harvard when a stash of cocaine is found in his possession, Matt moves to London to live with his sister and her husband Steve. He is quickly introduced to Steve's chirpy, cock-sure younger brother Pete. Initially, Pete is reluctant to get acquainted with Matt and allow him to tread around the capital city with him because he may be seen by others as an 'outsider', but after a heavy drinking session with him and his mates he quickly changes his opinion of him. On the way back from a football match, Matt is viciously accosted by a gang of Birmingham City thugs, until Pete and his friends step in and save him. It is from here that Matt learns the truth about Pete and his friends- they are football hooligans, operating the GSE (Green Street Elite) 'firm.'
Starring: Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani, Geoff Bell
Director: Lexi Alexander
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Posted on May 3, 2012 |
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99 francs / 39,90 (2007)
Comedy | Drama
Octave is the master of the universe. Octave exercises the profession of copywriter. Today he decides what you will want tomorrow. For him, "man is a product like everything else." Octave works for the world's largest advertising agency, Ross & Witchcraft, nicknamed "The Ross." He's swimming in money, girls and coke. Even so, he has his doubts. Two events will turn Octave's life on its head: his love affair with Sophie, the agency's most beautiful employee, and a meeting at Madone to sell an advertisement to this major company in the diary sector. Gifted Octave loses the plot and decides to rebel against the system that created him, by botching his greatest publicity campaign. From Paris, where agency bosses negociate deals, to Miami, where advertisements get shot while gulping anti-depressants, from Saint-Germain-de-Près to an isolated island in Central America, will Octave manage to escape his golden prison?
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Jocelyn Quivrin, Patrick Mille
Director: Jan Kounen
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Posted on May 2, 2012 |
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Parenthood (1989)
Comedy | Drama
A comedy about parenthood, and dealing with the lives of a family, from several points of view.
Starring: Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Dianne Wiest, Jason Robards, Rick Moranis
Director: Ron Howard
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Posted on May 2, 2012 |
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Winter's Bone (2010)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes
Director: Debra Granik
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Posted on May 1, 2012 |
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly / Le scaphandre et le papillon (2007)
Biography | Drama
Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais
Director: Julian Schnabel
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Posted on May 1, 2012 |
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The Scent of Green Papaya / Mùi du du xanh (1993)
Drama | Music | Romance
A young girl, Mui, becomes a servant for a rich family. Mui is notably peaceful and curious about the world. The family consists of a frequently absent husband, a wife, an older son, two younger sons, and the husband's mother. When the husband leaves for his fourth and final time, he takes all the household's money. He returns ill and passes away shortly after.
Starring: Tran Nu Yên-Khê, Man San Lu, Thi Loc Truong, Vantha Talisman, Anh Hoa Nguyen, Hoa Hoi Vuong
Director: Tran Anh Hung
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Posted on May 1, 2012 |
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Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo / Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
Action | Drama | War
The story of two brothers who are unwillingly drafted into the South Korean army following the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950. The older brother strives to protect his younger brother on the battlefield, while struggling to find a way to have him discharged so he can return to their village and care for the family they left behind. However, as the war progresses, the horror and violence they witness begin to take its toll on each man and severe their bonds as brothers and soldiers
Starring: Dong-gun Jang, Bin Won, Eun-ju Lee, Hyeong-jin Kong, Yeong-ran Lee
Director: Je-gyu Kang
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Posted on April 30, 2012 |
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This Is Not a Movie (2011)
Comedy | Drama
With the end of the world imminent, Pete Nelson (Edward Furlong) locks himself inside a Las Vegas hotel. There, he tries to understand his confused reality influenced by film, TV, pop culture, disinformation, drugs and propaganda. The journey that follows is a surreal, psychedelic, apocalyptic quest where nothing is what it seems.
Starring: Edward Furlong, Peter Coyote, Edi Gathegi
Director: Olallo Rubio
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Posted on April 29, 2012 |
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Hirokin / Hirokin: The Last Samurai (2011)
Action | Adventure | Drama
Hirokin, a reluctant hero marked by a dark past, must fulfill his destiny when forced to choose between avenging the murder of his family or fighting for the freedom of a people long abused.
Starring: Wes Bentley, Jessica Szohr, Angus MacFadyen, Julian Sands
Director: Alejo Mo-Sun
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