Category: Drama
Posted on February 24, 2012 |
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Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Drama | Romance
Among the idle nobility of 18th Century France, a pair of cold-hearted rivals, the charming Vicomte de Valmont and the beautiful Marquise de Merteuil, amuse themselves and each other by seducing and toying with the affections of those around them. But their games take a surprising turn when Valmont sets his sights on the virtuous Madame de Tourvel, whom he considers his greatest challenge, because she is renowned for virtue and loyalty to her husband. Meanwhile, the Marquise seeks revenge on an ex-lover by attempting to corrupt the virginal Cecile de Volanges, to whom he is engaged.
Starring: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Uma Thurman, Keanu Reeves
Director: Stephen Frears
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Posted on February 23, 2012 |
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Polisse / Poliss (2011)
Crime | Drama
The daily grind for the cops of the Police Department's Juvenile Protection Unit – taking in child molesters, busting underage pickpockets and chewing over relationship issues at lunch; interrogating abusive parents, taking statements from children, confronting the excesses of teen sexuality, enjoying solidarity with colleagues and laughing uncontrollably at the most unthinkable moments. Knowing the worst exists and living with it. How do these cops balance their private lives and the reality they confront every working day? Fred, the group's hypersensitive wild card, is going to have a hard time facing the scrutiny of Melissa, a photographer on a Ministry of the Interior assignment to document the unit.
Starring: Karin Viard, Joey Starr, Marina Foïs
Director: Maïwenn Le Besco
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Posted on February 23, 2012 | Comments Off on Sanbiki no samurai (1964) Criterion Collection BluRay 720p x264 DD1.0-MySiLU
Sanbiki no samurai / Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)
Action | Drama
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sakura and Kikyo. The three outlaws find themselves in a battle to the death.
Starring: Tetsurô Tanba, Isamu Nagato, Mikijiro Hira, Miyuki Kuwano, Yoshiko Kayama
Director: Hideo Gosha
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Posted on February 22, 2012 |
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Days of Glory / Indigènes (2006)
Action | Drama | War
During WWII, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from Nazi oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
Starring: Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Bernard Blancan
Director: Rachid Bouchareb
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Posted on February 21, 2012 |
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Footloose (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Music
Ren MacCormack is transplanted from Boston to the small southern town of Bomont where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out and Bomont's local councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore responded by implementing ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to…
Starring: Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Dennis Quaid
Director: Craig Brewer
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Posted on February 21, 2012 | Comments Off on The Dirty Picture (2011) BluRay 720p x264 DTS-MySiLU
The Dirty Picture (2011)
Biography | Comedy | Drama
Imagine a make-up girl who became an extra and then the most wanted heroine of the early 80s. Chronicling the meteoric rise and steep fall of an erstwhile screen sensation, The Dirty Picture is set against the colourful and entertaining backdrop of hte South film industry of the 80s. The quintessential siren, Silk, knew her audiences, and it didn't seem like anything would stop the fiercely ambitious starlet, till it did, in the shape of unrequited love. To the world, she was the queen of sensuality. But at heart, Silk was just another woman craving true love. An unfortunate encounter with deceit and infidelity led to dire consequences!
Starring: Vidya Balan, Emraan Hashmi, Tusshar Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Rajesh Sharma
Director: Milan Luthria
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Posted on February 20, 2012 |
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My Name is Khan (2010)
Drama | Romance
"My Name Is Khan" is about a Muslim who suffers from the Asperger syndrome, a form of autism that impacts social interaction abilities, and he is arrested as a suspected terrorist in post-9/11 Los Angeles after authorities mistake his disability for suspicious behaviour.
Starring: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Sheetal Menon, Katie A. Keane, Kenton Duty, Benny Nieves, Christopher B. Duncan
Director: Karan Johar
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Posted on February 19, 2012 |
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Jack and Jill (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, who dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his identical twin sister Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down.
Starring: Adam Sandler, Al Pacino, Katie Holmes, Peter Dante, David Spade
Director: Dennis Dugan
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Posted on February 19, 2012 |
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The Lookout (2007)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Chris Pratt was once a Golden Boy athletic hero in his small Midwestern town. Chris had it all – a beautiful girlfriend, a well-heeled family and a shining future. But after a serious accident, Chris has found himself in a strange new world where the most basic things seem to fall through holes in his memory and nothing quite makes sense. Unable to make it on his own, he lives with his mentor in navigating this surreal life – the wisecracking, fiercely independent blind man, Lewis. For a job, Chris sweeps the floor at the bank waiting for his halted life to come unstuck. Things suddenly shift when he meets Gary Spargo, an old school acquaintance and street philosopher who begins to revive Chris' shattered confidence, even helping him find a stripper – albeit a stripper named Luvlee Lemons. But Gary has bigger plans, and when he recruits Chris into his grand plan to rob the bank where he works, Chris appears to be in way over his damaged head. As the bank heist unravels into chaos, both Chris' uncertain future and even more importantly Lewis' survival are on the line. Now, it's up to this young outcast who can't always think straight to figure out how to outwit and take down his manipulators his own way.
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino
Director: Scott Frank
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Posted on February 19, 2012 |
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City of Women / La città delle donne (1980)
Comedy | Drama
A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Donatella Damiani, Bernice Stegers, Silvana Fusacchia, Hélène Calzarelli
Director: Federico Fellini
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Posted on February 19, 2012 |
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Running Scared (2006)
Action | Crime | Drama
For over a decade Joey Gazelle has successfully juggled his conflicting roles as both loving family man and a low-level employee of the Italian Perello mob in Grimley, New Jersey. However, when Joey ignores the mob's explicit instructions to dispose of a gun used in the fatal shooting of a corrupt cop during a bungled drug buy, he unwittingly puts his entire family in immediate danger
Starring: Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Vera Farmiga, Karel Roden, Johnny Messner
Director: Wayne Kramer
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Posted on February 18, 2012 |
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Love Never Dies (2011)
Drama | Musical | Romance
It is 10 years after the Phantom's disappearance from the Paris Opera House. He has escaped to a new life in New York where he lives amongst the screaming joy rides and freak-shows of Coney Island.
Starring: Ben Lewis, Anna O'Byrne, Maria Mercedes, Simon Gleeson
Director: Simon Phillips
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Posted on February 18, 2012 |
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All Things Fall Apart (2011)
Drama | Sport
A drama centered on a promising football running back during his senior year in college.
Starring: 50 Cent, Mario Van Peebles, Lynn Whitfield, Ray Liotta
Director: Mario Van Peebles
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Posted on February 18, 2012 |
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Grand Canyon (1991)
Crime | Drama
Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from different races and classes brought together when one finds himself in jeopardy in the other's rough neighborhood.
Starring: Danny Glover, Kevin Kline, Steve Martin, Mary McDonnell, Mary-Louise Parker, Alfre Woodard
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
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Posted on February 18, 2012 |
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All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Drama | War
In 1914, a group of German teenagers volunteer for action on the Western Front. Paul Baumer is a sensitive youth, but is persuaded to join up by a war-mongering professor advocating glory for the Fatherland. Paul and his friends are trained under Himmelstoss, a kindly postmaster turned brutal corporal, and then sent to the front lines to taste battle, blood and death.
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Starring: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray
Director: Lewis Milestone
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Posted on February 18, 2012 |
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Immortals (2011)
Action | Drama | Fantasy
Eons after the Gods won their mythic struggle against the Titans, a new evil threatens the land. Mad with power, King Hyperion has declared war against humanity. Amassing a bloodthirsty army of soldiers disfigured by his own hand, Hyperion has scorched Greece in search of the legendary Epirus Bow, a weapon of unimaginable power forged in the heavens by Ares. Only he who possesses this bow can unleash the Titans, who have been imprisoned deep within the walls of Mount Tartaros since the dawn of time and thirst for revenge. In the king's hands, the bow would rain destruction upon mankind and annihilate the Gods. But ancient law dictates the Gods must not intervene in man's conflict. They remain powerless to stop Hyperion… until a peasant named Theseus comes forth as their only hope.
Starring: Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, Freida Pinto, Stephen Dorff, Kellan Lutz
Director: Tarsem Singh
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Posted on February 17, 2012 |
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Manhattan (1979)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A middle-aged TV writer, living in Manhattan, finds himself torn between relationships with a teenage girl who idolizes him, a thirtysomething woman who shares his intellectual passions, and an ex-wife who left him for another woman.
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep, Michael Murphy, Anne Byrne Hoffman
Director: Woody Allen
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Posted on February 17, 2012 |
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Henri 4 (2010)
Drama | History
A wide-ranging, energetic period piece tracing the rise of the Protestant Henry of Navarre as he goes from battlefield warrior to France's beloved King Henri IV. Director Jo Baier's epic is a classically entertaining adventure, albeit one with more than a little bloodshed and frequent bawdy sexual interludes. In late 16th-century France, Catholics and Protestant Huguenots were at war. Seemingly seeking peace, the French dowager queen, Catherine de Medici summons Henry to her court to have him marry her daughter, uniting the two warring factions. However, the Catholics slaughter the Protestant wedding guests in what became known as the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre and Henry-now married-must use all his guile to both stay alive and maneuver for the throne.
Starring: Julien Boisselier, Joachim Król, Andreas Schmidt, Armelle Deutsch, Chloé Stefani, Ulrich Noethen, Hannelore Hoger
Director: Jo Baier
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Posted on February 17, 2012 |
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Matching Jack (2010)
Drama
A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
Starring: Jacinda Barrett, Richard Roxburgh, Tom Russell, James Nesbitt, Kodi Smit-McPhee
Director: Nadia Tass
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Posted on February 17, 2012 |
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Yumeji (1991)
Drama
Yumeji is a 1991 independent Japanese film directed by Seijun Suzuki. It is a semi-fictional account of poet and painter Takehisa Yumeji. It also forms the final part of Suzuki's Taishō Roman Trilogy, preceded by Zigeunerweisen (1980) and Kagero-za (1981), surrealistic psychological dramas and ghost stories linked by style, themes and the Taishō period (1912-1926) setting. All three were produced by Genjiro Arato. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.
Starring: Kenji Sawada, Tomoko Mariya, Masumi Miyazaki, Tamasaburo Bando
Director: Seijun Suzuki
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