La Battaglia Di Algeri (1966) 720p Criterion Collection BluRay x264-WiKi

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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Inside Job (2010)

Crime | Documentary

'Inside Job' provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia. It was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.

Starring: Matt Damon, William Ackman, Daniel Alpert, Jonathan Alpert, Sigridur Benediktsdottir
Director: Charles Ferguson

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Tags: Charles Ferguson, Daniel Alpert, Jonathan Alpert, Matt Damon, Sigridur Benediktsdottir, William Ackman

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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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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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Tags: Blerim Destani, Filip Peeters, Hilde De Baerdemaeker, Jan Verheyen, Koen De Bouw, R. Kan Albay, Werner De Smedt

Vares Yksityisetsivä (2004) 720p BluRay DD5.1 x264-DON

Vares – Yksityisetsivä / Vares: Private Eye (2004)

Action | Comedy | Crime

The title character Vares is a finnish private detective who sets out to help a woman named Eeva in her dangerous pursuit for Russian mobs money. Vares himself is a good guy, mostly hanging in his favourite pub with his boozing buddy Luusalmi in his spare time. Mikko Koitere is a tough cop working on both sides of the law. Then there's the hilarious killer duo 'Red-Eye'Munck and Tetsuo Sinkkonen.

Starring: Juha Veijonen, Laura Malmivaara, Jari Halonen, Markku Peltola, Jorma Tommila, Samuli Edelmann
Director: Aleksi Mäkelä

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Tags: Aleksi Mäkelä, Jari Halonen, Jorma Tommila, Juha Veijonen, Laura Malmivaara, Markku Peltola, Samuli Edelmann

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The Diamond Arm / Brilliantovaya ruka (1969)

Adventure | Comedy | Crime

Semyon Gorbunkov goes on a cruise. In Istanbul, he slips and breaks his arm. What he didn't know is that this was a signal for a gang of smugglers (a real smuggler – Gena – was also on board the same ship). So his arm gets bandaged with gold and diamonds. After he returns home, the gangsters are trying to get their stuff back, while the police try to catch them using Gorbunkov and his arm.

Starring: Yuri Nikulin, Nina Grebeshkova, Andrey Mironov, Anatoli Papanov, Stanislav Chekan
Director: Leonid Gaidai

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Tags: Anatoli Papanov, Andrey Mironov, Leonid Gaidai, Nina Grebeshkova, Stanislav Chekan, Yuri Nikulin

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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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The Saint (1997)

Action | Romance | Sci-Fi

Simon Templar has no real family, no real home and Simon Templar isn't even his real name. Yet Simon Templar , also known as the Saint for his use of creating false identities using the names of Catholic saints,is one of the world's most successful thieves. Slick, debonair and a master of disguise, Simon manages to outwit the police again and again. On his next job Simon is hired by the Russian Mafia to steal a cold fusion energy formula from scientist Emma Russel, however the mission backfires as he falls for the pretty, intelligent scientist. Simon and his new love must now manage to outwit the Russian Mafia and work out the energy formula before the worst happens and the US is affected forever.

Starring: Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija, Valeriy Nikolaev, Henry Goodman, Alun Armstrong
Director: Phillip Noyce

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Tags: Alun Armstrong, Elisabeth Shue, Henry Goodman, Phillip Noyce, Rade Serbedzija, Val Kilmer, Valeriy Nikolaev

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Kill Speed (2010)

Action

Best friends fly high-tech planes to deliver crystal meth throughout California.

Starring: Andrew Keegan, Brandon Quinn, Natalia Cigliuti, Nick Carter, Reno Wilson
Director: Kim Bass

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The Silent Duel (1949) BluRay 720p x264 DD2.0-MySiLU

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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Tags: Akira Kurosawa, Chieko Nakakita, Kenjiro Uemura, Miki Sanjô, Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune

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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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Tags: Chen-Shi Lin, Eddie Peng, Han Dian Chen, Lawrence Ko, Yu-Hsien Lin

Zlatovláska (1973) 720p HDTV DD2.0 x264-DON

Zlatovláska / Princess Goldenhair (1973)

Fantasy | Musical

Czech fairy tale, as retold by Bozena Nemcova and KJ Erben is one of those to which we return favorite. Not only as a reader, but also as lovers of their adaptations. "Goldilocks" in Erben's original premiere was when she starred on the television screen and its repetition is always a success. No wonder, when the screenwriter and director Vlasta Janeckova Jirik able story to tell and golden-haired princess so impressive. The main roles occupied an excellent actor – Jorge Kotrba, Petr Stepanek and George Holy. A composer and lyricist Angelo Mikhailov Edward Krečmar created a real fairy tale hits.

Starring: Jorga Kotrbová, Petr Stepánek, Jirí Holý, Ladislav Pesek, Marie Rosulková
Director: Vlasta Janecková

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Tags: Jirí Holý, Jorga Kotrbová, Ladislav Pesek, Marie Rosulková, Petr Stepánek, Vlasta Janecková

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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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Bigger Than Life (1956) BluRay Criterion Collection 720p AC3 x264-CHD

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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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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Drunken Angel (1948) BluRay 720p x264 DD2.0-MySiLU

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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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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Tags: Akira Kurosawa, Ganjiro Nakamura, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa, Minoru Chiaki, Toshirô Mifune

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I Don't Know How She Does It (2011)

Comedy

Kate Reddy devotes her days to her job with a Boston-based financial management firm. At night she goes home to her adoring, recently-downsized architect husband Richard and their two young children. It's a non-stop balancing act, the same one that Kate's acerbic best friend and fellow working mother Allison performs on a daily basis, and that Kate's super-brainy, child-phobic young junior associate…

Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan, Kelsey Grammer, Greg Kinnear
Director: Douglas McGrath

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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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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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Tags: Antonín Kinský, Bolek Polívka, Jirí Lábus, Jirí Pecha, Petr Kavan, Richard Metznarowski, Veronika Zilková, Vladimír Michálek