Category: Drama
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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Tags: Bin Won, Dong-gun Jang, Eun-ju Lee, Hyeong-jin Kong, Je-gyu Kang, Yeong-ran Lee
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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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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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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Tags: Channing Tatum, Jessica Lange, Michael Sucsy, Rachel McAdams, Sam Neill, Scott Speedman
