Category: Drama
Posted on January 1, 2012 |
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Sweeney Todd / Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Drama | Horror | Musical
Unjustly sent to prison, a man vows revenge, not only for that cruel punishment, but for the devastating consequences of what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to reopen his barber shop, he becomes Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, who "shaved the faces of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard of again." Sweeney's amorous accomplice, Mrs. Lovett, creates diabolical meat pies.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen
Director: Tim Burton
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Posted on January 1, 2012 |
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La battaglia di Algeri / The Battle of Algiers (1966)
Drama | History | War
True-to-life chronicle of the Algerian people's struggle to overthrow the French Colonial Government in the mid-1950s. The focus is on the leaders of the Liberation Movement and the French general who is driven obsessively with catching them.
Starring: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
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Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
Comedy | Drama
A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion.
Starring: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Michael McKean, Kevin Bacon
Director: John Hughes
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Posted on January 1, 2012 |
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Dossier K. (2009)
Action | Crime | Drama
DOSSIER K. is the long anticipated successor to 'The Alzheimer Case' (aka The Memory Of A Killer) which won numerous awards and was sold to over 30 countries, among which the US (where it was released through Sony Picture Classics). This second film based on a novel by Jef Geeraerts is a dense European thriller about passion, betrayal, revenge, blind ambition and the inevitability of fate. Set against the realistic background of Albanian mafia in Antwerp, the story brings the main characters Erik Vincke and Freddy Verstuyft into a disastrous vortex from which no one seems to escape.
Starring: Koen De Bouw, Werner De Smedt, Blerim Destani, Hilde De Baerdemaeker, Filip Peeters, R. Kan Albay
Director: Jan Verheyen
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Posted on December 30, 2011 |
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Pearl Harbor (2001)
Action | Drama | Romance
Pearl Harbor is the classic story of the Japanese attack as told through the eyes of two boyhood friends, now serving as officers in the Army Air Corps. Rafe is an energetic young pilot who is selected to fly with the British in Europe while the United States is still not at war. After Rafe is shot down and presumed killed, Danny comforts Rafe's former lover, Evelyn, and the two draw closer. However, when Rafe turns up alive, the two former friends become enemies, and it is through the turmoil of Pearl Harbor that the two may reconcile their differences.
Starring: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tom Sizemore
Director: Michael Bay
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Posted on December 29, 2011 |
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The Silent Duel / Shizukanaru kettô (1949)
Drama
A surgeon gets syphilis from a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. The doctor's life is destroyed, but unlike the patient, he doesn't destroy others along with him.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjô, Kenjiro Uemura, Chieko Nakakita
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Posted on December 29, 2011 |
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Jump Ashin! / Fan gun ba A-xin! (2011)
Drama | Sport
Ashin loves gymnastics. Since a rib, he was quickly hooked and as an adult it’s his quantity single love. Yes, more than girls, and this is despite looking like Eddie Peng and probably having his pick of women in his rural Taiwan town. However, Ashin’s look after (Pan Li-Li) disapproves of gymnastics and asks so as to Ashin go it up to run the folks fruit locate on behalf of, well, eternity. Ashin does, but soon becomes a felon, execution with playmate Pickles (Lawrence Ko Yue-Lun) and getting into all sorts of bother. Pickles becomes a drug addict and the two run afoul of a gang boss’ son (Chen Han-Dian), so Ashin and Pickles flee to Taipei and resume their thug lifestyle. But gymnastics is until the end of time nearby, calling to Ashin like a long-lost love. Eventually, Ashin chooses to return at your house and back to the pommel horse, but can a loser like Ashin still regain it in himself to grow to be a medal-winning gymnast? And hey, isn’t this a wholly nonsensical premise?
Starring: Han Dian Chen, Lawrence Ko, Chen-Shi Lin, Eddie Peng
Director: Yu-Hsien Lin
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Posted on December 29, 2011 |
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Texas Killing Fields (2011)
Crime | Drama | History
Detective Souder, a homicide detective in a small Texan town, and his partner, transplanted New York City cop Detective Heigh, track a sadistic serial killer dumping his victims' mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call "The Killing Fields." Before long, the killer changes the game and begins hunting the detectives, teasing them with possible clues at the crime scenes while always remaining one step ahead. When local girl Anne goes missing, the detectives find themselves racing against time to catch the killer and save the young girl's life.
Starring: Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chloë Grace Moretz, Jessica Chastain, Annabeth Gish
Director: Ami Canaan Mann
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Posted on December 29, 2011 |
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Bigger Than Life (1956)
Drama
When a friendly, successful suburban teacher and father is prescribed cortisone for a painful, possibly fatal affliction, he grows dangerously addicted to the experimental drug, resulting in his transformation into a psychotic and ultimately violent household despot.
Starring: James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau
Director: Nicholas Ray
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Posted on December 28, 2011 |
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The Bad Sleep Well / Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (1960)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takashi Shimura
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Posted on December 28, 2011 |
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Drunken Angel / Yoidore tenshi (1948)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A drunken doctor with a hot temper and a violence-prone gangster with tuberculosis form a quicksilver bond.
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reisaburô Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure, Chieko Nakakita
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Posted on December 28, 2011 |
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The Lower Depths / Donzoko (1957)
Drama
In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa, Ganjiro Nakamura, Minoru Chiaki
Director: Akira Kurosawa
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Posted on December 28, 2011 | Comments Off on In Good Company (2004) 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi

In Good Company (2004)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Dan Foreman is headed for a shakeup. He is demoted from head of ad sales for a major magazine when the company he works for is acquired in a corporate takeover. His new boss, Carter Duryea, is half his age–a business school prodigy who preaches corporate synergy. While Dan develops clients through handshake deals and relationships, Carter cross-promotes the magazine with the cell phone division and Krispity Krunch, an indeterminate snack food under the same corporate umbrella. Both men are going through turmoil at home. Dan has two daughters, Alex, age 18, and Jana, age 16, and is shocked when his wife tells him she's pregnant with a new child. Carter, in the meanwhile, is dumped by his wife of seven months just as he gets his promotion. Dan and Carter's uneasy friendship is thrown into jeopardy when Carter falls for, and begins an affair with, Dan's daughter Alex.
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Topher Grace, Scarlett Johansson, Marg Helgenberger, David Paymer, Clark Gregg, Philip Baker Hall
Director: Paul Weitz
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Posted on December 28, 2011 |
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Zapomenuté světlo / Forgotten Light (1996)
Drama
Father Holy, a village priest, battles against the state and religious bureaucracies of 1980s Czechoslovakia in his fight to raise money for a new church roof. Permeated by his love for the villagers, his encounters are marked by his good humor. In his losing battle against Church and State, Holy is ordered to be transferred away from his parish and his allies. The Czech-American, Milena Jelinek, adapted this moving story from the the novel The Forgotten Light, by the 1930s Czech writer/poet and Catholic priest Jakub Deml.
Starring: Bolek Polívka, Veronika Zilková, Petr Kavan, Jirí Pecha, Antonín Kinský, Jirí Lábus, Richard Metznarowski
Director: Vladimír Michálek
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Posted on December 28, 2011 | Comments Off on Zlaté kapradí (1963) 720p HDTV DD2.0 x264-DON

Zlaté kapradí / The Golden Fern (1963)
Drama
The grim tales rarely penetrated baladičnost that neústila to happy endings. In this case, however, still black and white material intensifies the tragic tone of the story of betrayed love. According to the draft Jan Drda filmed by director Jiri Weiss film about a simple shepherd who gains the favor of forest fairies – and even from her magical ferns. But the gift of a careless protagonist undervalued carelessly allow to enlist in the army, where he charmed the calculating and selfish general's daughter, so the nymphs forget … The main role will be introduced former actress idol Vit Olmer, who later became director.
Starring: Vít Olmer, Karla Chadimová, Frantisek Smolík, Daniela Smutná, Otomar Krejca
Director: Jirí Weiss
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Origin: Spirits of the Past / Gin-iro no kami no Agito (2006)
Animation | Anime | Drama | Romance
It is 300 years into the future. Earth's environment had been devastated by mankind's own foolish plans and humankind is beleaguered by the sentient forests which they have awoken. The world balance is tipped when a young boy named Agito stumbles across a machine that glowed in a strange blue hue inside a forbidden sanctuary. The machine, which has preserved a beautiful girl named Tula from the past, is activated. Tula has a "mission" that had been entrusted to her by the past…
Starring: Ryo Katsuji, Aoi Miyazaki, Yûko Kotegawa, Masaru Hamaguchi, Toshikazu Fukawa
Director: Keiichi Sugiyama
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Posted on December 28, 2011 |
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The Quiet (2005)
Drama | Thriller
Dot (Belle), a young deaf and mute woman, is sent to live with her godparents (Falco and Donovan) and their daughter (Cuthbert). The new addition to the household realizes that everything is not copacetic in the home, and the family's dark come to light.
Starring: Camilla Belle, Elisha Cuthbert, Edie Falco, Martin Donovan
Director: Jamie Babbit
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Posted on December 27, 2011 | Comments Off on The Ides of March (2011) 720p BluRay x264 DTS-WiKi

The Ides of March (2011)
Drama
An idealistic staffer for a newbie presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail. Based on the play by Beau Willimon.
Starring: Paul Giamatti, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ryan Gosling, Marisa Tomei, Jeffrey Wright, Evan Rachel Wood
Director: George Clooney
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Posted on December 27, 2011 |
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Václav (2007)
Comedy | Drama
Feature film based on a true story that took place during Vaclav Havel's vast amnesty in early 90s.
Starring: Ivan Trojan, Emília Vásáryová, Jan Budar, Sona Norisová, Jirí Lábus
Director: Jirí Vejdelek
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Posted on December 27, 2011 |
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Se7en / Seven (1995)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Lt. William Somerset, a burnt-out veteran cop, is on the brink of retirement. Forced to train his ambitious and eager replacement, Somerset is teamed with Detective David Mills on an investigation that draws these disparate cops deeper and deeper into the twisted world of a cunning and meticulous criminal. He is methodical, exacting and grotesquely creative. He is known as John Doe and he is the most vicious serial killer alive, fashioning murders based on the seven deadly sins. As each new victim is discovered, the detectives must combine their collective experiences to track the trail of a killer bent on seeking attrition for society's sins.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, R. Lee Ermey
Director: David Fincher
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