Category: Drama
Posted on April 29, 2012 |
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind / CE3K (1977)
Drama | Sci-Fi
In the night skies near his Muncie, Indiana, home, power repairman Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) experiences something out of this world. His close encounter sets into action an amazing chain of events that leads to contact with benevolent aliens and their Mothership. This Blu-ray release includes the Original Theatrical Version, Special Edition and the Director's Cut of the movie.
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Cary Guffey
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Posted on April 29, 2012 |
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Drama | Romance
Looking for a benchmark in movie acting? Breakthrough performances don't come much more electrifying than Marlon Brando's animalistic turn as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. Stanley and his wife, Stella (as in Brando's oft-mimicked line, "Hey, Stellaaaaaa!"), are the earthy couple in New Orleans's French Quarter whose lives are upended by the arrival of Stella's sister, Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh). Blanche, a disturbed, lyrical, faded Southern belle, is immediately drawn into a battle of wills with Stanley, beautifully captured in the differing styles of the two actors. This extraordinarily fine adaptation won acting Oscars for Leigh, Kim Hunter (as Stella), and Karl Malden (as Blanche's clueless suitor), but not for Brando.
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden
Director: Elia Kazan
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Posted on April 29, 2012 |
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The Host / Gwoemul (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Careless American military personnel dump chemicals into South Korea's Han River. Several years later, a creature emerges from the tainted waters and sinks its ravenous jaws into local residents. It abducts Hyun-seo (A-sung Ko) the daughter of Kang-du (Kang-ho Song), who works at a food-stand on the banks of the river. The government announces that the monstrous thing is the Host of an unidentified virus. Having feared the worst, Kang-du receives a phone call from his daughter who is frightened, but very much alive. Kang-du soon makes plans to infiltrate the forbidden zone near the Han River to rescue his daughter.
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Hie-bong Byeon, Hae-il Park, Doona Bae, Ah-sung Ko
Director: Joon-ho Bong
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Tags: Ah-sung Ko, Doona Bae, Hae-il Park, Hie-bong Byeon, Joon-ho Bong, Kang-ho Song
Posted on April 28, 2012 |
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Eva (2011)
Drama | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Set in 2041, Alex Garel is a well-known robot programmer who after 10 years returns to his home town to work in his old university when his friend Julia offers him a job like programmer in a project to create a new line of robot child.
Starring: Daniel Brühl, Marta Etura, Alberto Ammann, Claudia Vega, Lluís Homar
Director: Kike Maíllo
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Tags: Alberto Ammann, Claudia Vega, Daniel Brühl, Kike Maíllo, Lluís Homar, Marta Etura
Posted on April 28, 2012 |
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The Job / The American Job (2009)
Comedy | Drama | Thriller
A guy looking to find employment and marry the love of his life gets in over his head when a fast-talking temp agent lands him a job.
Starring: Patrick John Flueger, Ron Perlman, Taryn Manning
Director: Shem Bitterman
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Posted on April 28, 2012 |
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The Hamiltons (2006)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
The Hamiltons seem to be the picture-perfect American family. They are hardworking community members; giving to their local charities, attending town hall meetings and always respectful of their neighbors…except for the fact that they usually end up killing them.
Starring: Cory Knauf, Samuel Child, Joseph McKelheer
Director: Mitchell Altieri, Phil Flores
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Posted on April 27, 2012 |
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Rampart (2011)
Crime | Drama
Set in 1999 Los Angeles, veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, works to take care of his family, and struggles for his own survival.
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Robin Wright, Steve Buscemi, Sigourney Weaver, Ben Foster, Ned Beatty, Anne Heche, Ice Cube, Cynthia Nixon
Director: Oren Moverman
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Tags: Anne Heche, Ben Foster, Cynthia Nixon, Ice Cube, Ned Beatty, Oren Moverman, Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, Steve Buscemi, Woody Harrelson
Posted on April 27, 2012 |
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Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai / Ichimei (2011)
Drama
An tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Hikari Mitsushima, Naoto Takenaka, Eita, Hikari Mitsushima
Director: Takashi Miike
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Posted on April 27, 2012 |
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Perfect Sense (2011)
Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
Susan, an epidemiologist, reemerges from an affair gone sour and encounters a peculiar patient — a truck driver who experienced a sudden, uncontrollable crying fit. Now he is calm, but he has lost his sense of smell. Susan soon learns there are hundreds of people across the globe beginning to suffer strange symptoms, affecting the emotions, then the senses.
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Connie Nielsen
Director: David Mackenzie
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Posted on April 27, 2012 |
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Running with Scissors (2006)
Comedy | Drama
Based on the personal memoirs of Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors is a wickedly funny, brave and moving tale of surviving a most unusual childhood. Augusten's (Joseph Cross) mother (Annette Bening) is a deluded aspiring post with bipolar disorder whose marriage to his dad (Alec Baldwin) is in ruins. Soon, she is seeing a very eccentric therapist named Dr. Finch (Brian Cox), while Augusten is left in the care of Finch's wackly family, including his tightly-wound daughter (Gwyneth Paltrow). Abandoned by his parents and adopted by the Finches, he finds a kindred spirit in youngest daughter Natalie (Even Rachel Wood) and motherly support from Finch's long suffering wife Agnes (Jill Clayburgh). Constantly recording the events of his life in his journals as a way to cope, Augusten finds himself avoiding school, learning about love from an older man (Joseph Fiennes), and making big decisions at the tender age of fifteen.
Starring: Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin, Jill Clayburgh, Joseph Cross, Gwyneth Paltrow
Director: Ryan Murphy
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Tags: Alec Baldwin, Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Evan Rachel Wood, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jill Clayburgh, Joseph Cross, Joseph Fiennes, Ryan Murphy
Posted on April 27, 2012 |
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Damien: Omen II / The Omen II (1978)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
Damien the Antichrist, now age 13, finally learns of his destiny under the guidance of an unholy disciple of Satan. Meanwhile dark mystical forces begin to eliminate all those who suspect the child's true identity.
Starring: William Holden, Lee Grant, Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Robert Foxworth, Nicholas Pryor
Director: Don Taylor
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Posted on April 26, 2012 |
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The Aryan Couple / The Couple (2004)
Drama | War
In 1944, in Hungary, the wealthy Jewish industrialist Joseph Krauzenberg is forced by the Reichführer Heinrich Himmler to deliver his 3,000 employee factory; his palace with his collection of antiques and arts; a large amount in gold; and his house to the Reich. In return, the Nazis would send his big family that is arrested in Gestapo safe and sound to the neutral Switzerland and then to Palestine. Himmler schedules a dinner with Krauzenberg and his wife Rachel Krauzenberg to sign the contract and orders the butcher Eichmann to not do harm to the imprisoned Jews relatives of Krauzenberg. Himmer also send the SS Edelhein to check the security of the palace and the two German house servants of Krauzenberg, Hans Vassman and his beautiful pregnant wife Ingrid Vassman.
Starring: Martin Landau, Kenny Doughty, Caroline Carver, Judy Parfitt
Director: John Daly
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Posted on April 26, 2012 |
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A Night to Remember (1958)
Action | Drama | History
Based on Walter Lord's popular book, A Night to Remember recounts the sailing of the Titanic, billed as the "unsinkable ship," and its inevitable voyage toward the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and doom.
Starring: Kenneth More, Ronald Allen, Robert Ayres, Honor Blackman, Anthony Bushell
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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Posted on April 26, 2012 |
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The Lazarus Papers / The Mercenary (2010)
Action | Drama | Sci-Fi
Lonny Smith, a young man with a suitcase full of money, who might drop dead at any moment is searching for love with each dying breath even if he has to pay for it. One is an ex-assassin slave runner, who operates a mail order bride scam exploiting prostitutes infected by HIV. Another is a mysterious club owner named Kyo, who manages a cabaret show and finally, a vixen named Nana, the girl who will bring it all crashing down. They all will carve their way through the macabre alleys of a magical land buried in South East Asia, a city named Pali, the city of gold.
Starring: Danny Trejo, Gary Daniels, Krystal Vee, Bai Ling, Tommy Lister
Director: Jeremiah Hundley
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Posted on April 26, 2012 |
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Initial D / Tau man ji D (2005)
Action | Crime | Drama | Teen | Thriller
Based on a popular manga by Shuichi Shigeno, Initial D is a high-octane movie about the world of downhill mountain racing. Takumi Fujiwara is an average high-school student who has honed his driving skills while making late-night deliveries for his father's tofu restaurant. When he has an inadvertent run-in with one of the area's top racers, Takumi finds himself thrust into the world of mountain racing and is soon duking it out for top honors in a series of daredevil downhill races. Thrilling and adrenaline-fueled, the anime is presented in its entirety with this collection of episodes.
Starring: Jay Chou, Shawn Yue, Shawn Yue, Edison Chen, Anthony Wong, Anne Suzuki, Jordan Chan, Chapman To, Kenny Bee, Tsuyoshi Abe
Director: Andrew Lau, Alan Mak
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Posted on April 25, 2012 |
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The Vow (2012)
Drama | Romance
Real-life story of a newlywed New Mexico couple, Kim and Krickitt Carpenter, who were struck by tragedy shortly after their marriage. A car crash puts the wife in a coma, where she is cared for by her devoted husband. When she comes to, without any memory of her husband or their marriage, the husband must woo her and ultimately win her heart once again.
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Sam Neill, Jessica Lange, Scott Speedman
Director: Michael Sucsy
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Posted on April 25, 2012 |
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The Terrorists / Ransom (1974)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A gang of hijackers led by Ian McShane seize a British plane as it is landing in Scandinavia. Ruthless military police chief Colonel Tahlvik is assigned to rescue the plane and it's passengers. But he must also deal with the problem of the British Ambassador, whose residence has been seized by a second group of terrorists.
Starring: Sean Connery, Ian McShane, Jeffrey Wickham
Director: Caspar Wrede
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Posted on April 25, 2012 |
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Taare Zameen Par / Like Stars on Earth (2007)
Drama
Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate; colours, fish, dogs and kites are just not important in the world of adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks and neatness. And Ishaan just cannot seem to get anything right in class. When he gets into far more trouble than his parents can handle, he is packed off to a boarding school to 'be disciplined'. Things are no different at his new school, and Ishaan has to contend with the added trauma of separation from his family. One day a new art teacher bursts onto the scene, Ram Shankar Nikumbh, who infects the students with joy and optimism. He breaks all the rules of 'how things are done' by asking them to think, dream and imagine, and all the children respond with enthusiasm, all except Ishaan.
Starring: Darsheel Safary, Aamir Khan, Tanay Chheda, Sachet Engineer, Tisca Chopra, Vipin Sharma
Director: Aamir Khan
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Posted on April 25, 2012 |
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Leafie, a Hen Into the Wild / Madangeul Naon Amtak (2011)
Adventure | Animation | Drama | Family
On a chicken farm among hundreds of chickens is clever Leafie, an amazing hen who dreams of a life outside her cage. She manages to escape from captivity but finds herself being hunted down by the weasel, One Eye. Luckily, Leafie is saved by a brave duck known as Wanderer. One day, Leafie enters Wanderer’s nest and finds an abandoned warm egg and sits on it tenderly. Time passes and the egg hatches on the night that Wanderer is himself killed by One Eye. Seeing a patch of green on the baby’s head, Leafie names him Greenie and decides she’ll take care of him. However, the differences between the hen and her duckling prove challenging. Sometime later, Greenie gets caught by the chicken farm owner and Leafie rushes to the farm to save him.
Starring: So-ri Moon, Seung Ho Yoo, Min-sik Choi, Cheol-min Park, Sang-hyun Kim, Jeon Sook-Kyeong
Director: Seong-yun Oh
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Posted on April 24, 2012 |
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Pariah (2011)
Drama
Alike is a 17-year-old African-American woman who lives with her parents and younger sister in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. Alike is quietly but firmly embracing her identity as a lesbian. With the support of her best friend, Laura, she is especially eager to find a girlfriend. Wondering how much she can confide in her family, Alike strives to get through adolescence with grace, humor, and…
Starring: Adepero Oduye, Kim Wayans, Aasha Davis, Afton Williamson
Director: Dee Rees
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