Category: Drama
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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Tags: Ángel Sosa, Dolores Heredia, Gabino Rodríguez, Iria Gómez Concheiro, Juan Pablo de Santiago, Paulina Avalos
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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Tags: Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Allégret, Catherine Breillat, Giovanna Galletti, Maria Michi, Maria Schneider, Marlon Brando
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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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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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