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Paraísos Artificiais / Artificial Paradises (2012)
Drama
A huge festival of alternative culture and art is the background of intense sensory experiences between three young people: Nando, DJ Érika, and Lara. Without realizing it, the meeting radically changes their lives forever. An engaging story in full explosion of electronic music in Brazil, which has a moving story of love and overcoming the involvement of middle-class youth in international narcotics trafficking, conflicts, and fates crossed through time.
Starring: Nathalia Dill, Luca Bianchi, Lívia de Bueno, Bernardo Melo Barreto, César Cardadeiro
Director: Marcos Prado
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The Sound and the Fury (1959)
Drama
This movie follows the lives and passions of the Compsons: a once-proud Southern family now just barely scraping by both financially and emotionally. Howard passes the time in a bottle; his brother Bengy is child in a man's body; sister Caddy has come crawling home after years of being kept by a string of "admirers." Only Jason, the cruel, cold-hearted adopted head of the family, and Quentin, who was abandoned at birth by Caddy, have the fire and the fury needed to put the family back on its feet again.
Starring: Yul Brynner, Joanne Woodward, Stuart Whitman, Jack Warden, John Beal, Albert Dekker
Director: Martin Ritt
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Tags: Albert Dekker, Jack Warden, Joanne Woodward, John Beal, Martin Ritt, Stuart Whitman, Yul Brynner
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Retreat, Hell! (1952)
Drama | War
During the Korean War, a U.S. Marine battalion must fight its way out of a frozen mountain pass despite diminishing supplies, freezing temperatures and constant attacks by overwhelming numbers of Chinese soldiers.
Starring: Frank Lovejoy, Richard Carlson, Anita Louise, Russ Tamblyn, Nedrick Young, Lamont Johnson
Director: Joseph H. Lewis
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Tags: Anita Louise, Frank Lovejoy, Joseph H. Lewis, Lamont Johnson, Nedrick Young, Richard Carlson, Russ Tamblyn
Posted on August 6, 2013 |
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Father Goose (1964)
Adventure | Comedy | Romance | War
During WW2, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.
Starring: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard, Jack Good
Director: Ralph Nelson
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Posted on August 5, 2013 |
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Young Hollywood Awards (2013)
Awards
he Young Hollywood Awards is an award presented annually which honors the year's biggest achievements in pop music, movies, sports, television, fashion and more, as voted on by teenagers aged 13-19 and young adults. The award ceremonies also honor rising and promising young aged performers in Hollywood. The award ceremony usually features a high number of celebrities and musical performers such as Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, and Nick Jonas. New artists such as Black Cards have also performed. The Young Hollywood Awards was started in 1999.
Starring: Aisha Tyler, Lucy Hale, Kit Harington, Liam James, Tatiana Maslany, Kelly Osbourne, AnnaSophia Robb
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The Bible (TV Mini-Series 2013)
Action | Drama
This is a 10-hour mini-series. It tells some of the best-known stories from the most popular book in human history, from Noah's Ark and the Exodus to Daniel in the Lion's Den to the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.
Starring: Darwin Shaw, Diogo Morgado, Roma Downey
Narrator: Keith David
Creator: Roma Downey, Mark Burnett
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Galileo / Garireo (TV Series 2007- )
Drama | Mystery
In "Galileo," Fukuyama Masaharu plays a genius physicist and university associate professor, Yukawa Manabu, who solves difficult mysteries. Affectionately known as Tantei Galileo ("Detective Galileo"), Yukawa is brilliant, an all-round sportsman, tall and handsome but eccentric. Yukawa's partner is a rookie cop, Utsumi Kaoru (Shibasaki Kou), a hot-blooded woman with a strong sense of justice.
Starring: Masaharu Fukuyama, Ikkei Watanabe, Kô Shibasaki, Kazuki Kitamura, Yû Sawabe, Yuriko Yoshitaka, Hiroshi Shinagawa
Creator: Yasushi Fukuda, Keigo Higashino
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Tags: Hiroshi Shinagawa, Ikkei Watanabe, Kazuki Kitamura, Keigo Higashino, Kô Shibasaki, Masaharu Fukuyama, Yasushi Fukuda, Yû Sawabe, Yuriko Yoshitaka
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Jab Tak Hai Jaan / J.T.H.J. (2012)
Drama | Romance
A young immigrant falls in love with a NRI who wanted to marry any British person, not a typical brown Indian. But she falls in love with that young musician, but this love story ends with a breakup. Then that man, fed up with life with vast emotion joins Indian army bomb squad, where he flirts with death everyday. A young discovery channel journalist approaches his team to cover bomb squad story but falls in love with him.
Starring: Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif, Anushka Sharma, Anupam Kher, Rishi Kapoor
Director: Yash Chopra
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The Story of Qiu Ju / Qiu Ju da guan si (1992)
Comedy | Drama
A pregnant peasant woman seeks redress from the Chinese bureaucracy after the village chief kicks her husband in the groin in this comedy of justice. As she is frustrated by each level of the hierarchy and travels farther and farther away from the countryside the viewer is also provided with a look at the changing Chinese society.
Starring: Li Gong, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang, Kesheng Lei, Zhijun Ge
Director: Yimou Zhang
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Tags: Kesheng Lei, Li Gong, Liuchun Yang, Peiqi Liu, Yimou Zhang, Zhijun Ge
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Educazione siberiana / Siberian Education / Deadly Code (2013)
Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A drama based on a memoir about growing up as a member of the Urka community in the small republic of Transnistria.
Starring: Eleanor Tomlinson, John Malkovich, Peter Stormare, Arnas Fedaravicius, Mindaugas Papinigis
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
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Tags: Arnas Fedaravicius, Eleanor Tomlinson, Gabriele Salvatores, John Malkovich, Mindaugas Papinigis, Peter Stormare
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Gangster / Gangster: A Love Story (2006)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Daya Shankar lived with his family in Kashmir, but then subsequently re-located to Bombay where he took to crime as a career. One day while on the run from the Police, he holes up in a small room with a young bar dancer, Simran. She shields him from the Police, and he falls in love. He finds out the bar she dances in and comes in silently to watch her perform. He had come to her rescue when she was being molested and thereafter asked her to move in with him, which she did. For sometime it was as though they seemed to be living in bliss, then all of a sudden, they were on the run again. Then Daya decided that it was time to settle down, and they adopted a young boy, Bittu, made different passports, and decided to re-locate to Dubai. That did not happen, instead Bittu gets killed, and a heart-broken Simran and Daya are forced to live apart, with Simran moving to Seoul, Korea. It is here that she meets with Akash and both fall in love, get intimate and Simran gets pregnant. Then Daya re-enters her life, disrupting it completely, beating Akash to a pulp. It is now that Simran has to decide whether to stay with Akash, get married, and have her baby, or continue to live a life on the run with Daya – who is not only on the run from the Police, but also from the underworld Don, Khan. What the three players do not known that two of them are going to be betrayed – a betrayal so shocking that none of them may be able to survive it.
Starring: Emraan Hashmi, Shiney Ahuja, Kangana Ranaut, Gulshan Grover, Vicky Ahuja
Director: Anurag Basu
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Tags: Anurag Basu, Emraan Hashmi, Gulshan Grover, Kangana Ranaut, Shiney Ahuja, Vicky Ahuja
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Branded to Kill / Koroshi no rakuin (1967)
Action | Crime | Drama
Branded to Kill tells the ecstatically bent story of a yakuza assassin (chipmunk-cheeked superstar Joe Shishido) with a fetish for sniffing boiled rice who botches a job and ends up a target himself.
Starring: Jô Shishido, Kôji Nanbara, Isao Tamagawa, Anne Mari, Mariko Ogawa, Hiroshi Minami
Director: Seijun Suzuki
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Tags: Anne Mari, Hiroshi Minami, Isao Tamagawa, Jô Shishido, Kôji Nanbara, Mariko Ogawa, Seijun Suzuki
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Man of La Mancha / L'uomo della Mancha (1972)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
This musical version of Don Quixote is framed by an incident allegedly from the life of its author, Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote is the mad, aging nobleman who embarrasses his respectable family by his adventures. Backed by his faithful sidekick Sancho Panza, he duels windmills and defends his perfect lady Dulcinea (who is actually a downtrodden whore named Aldonza).
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco, Harry Andrews, John Castle
Director: Arthur Hiller
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Rihanna: No Regrets (2013)
Documentary
She has been referred to as one of the most powerful celebrities of our time and has been characterised as one of the most influential people in the world. We are taken on a journey from humble beginnings in St. Michael in Barbados to her becoming the world class pop icon she is today. Rihanna is the first female artist from Barbados to have won a Grammy Award. She has received dozens of awards, produced songs with Ne-Yo, Stargate and Timberland and released seven albums. This film takes a look at the life of a singer from the view of the fans, industry experts and the singer herself as she talks about the heartaches and celebration of being one of the most talked about individuals in the music industry today. We also take an intimate look into her love/ hate relationship with singer Chris Brown and how this has lead to a positive change in her music, while the abuse she experiencedlead to a change that would stay with her forever. Including rare archive footage and music videos from a selection of her greatest hits including Pon de Replay, Umbrella, Rude Boy, We Found Love and more this a must see for any Rihanna fan!
Starring: Rihanna, Julia Montgomery Brown
Director: Tom O' Dowd
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Posted on August 4, 2013 |
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Bus Stop (1956)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Eileen Heckart, Hope Lange
Director: Joshua Logan
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Tags: Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field, Don Murray, Eileen Heckart, Hope Lange, Joshua Logan, Marilyn Monroe
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A Christmas Tale / Un conte de Noël (2008)
Comedy | Drama
Junon and Abel are the parents of three grown children: Elizabeth, a melancholic playwright with a mathematician husband and a tortured teenage son, Paul; Henri, the self-destructive black sheep, banished from family events by Elizabeth five years prior; youngest Ivan, the peacemaker, is married to the beautiful Sylvia and has two eccentric little boys; while a fourth- -Joseph, the eldest–died from leukemia as a boy. When the disease reappears again in the family, all are tested to see who can be a donor, and then everyone–including lovesick cousin Simon and Henri's girlfriend, Faunia–return home for a long Christmas weekend. All crowded again under the same roof, solidarity quickly–and hilariously–devolves into feuding, drunkenness and bed-hopping, as everyone struggles to make sense of the mysteries of family, life, and what lies ahead.
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Anne Consigny, Mathieu Amalric, Melvil Poupaud, Hippolyte Girardot
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
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Tags: Anne Consigny, Arnaud Desplechin, Catherine Deneuve, Hippolyte Girardot, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric, Melvil Poupaud
Posted on August 4, 2013 |
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Los últimos días / The Last Days (2013)
Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
2013. A mysterious epidemic spreads across the planet. Humanity develops an irrational fear of open spaces that causes instant death. Soon, the world population is trapped inside buildings. As Barcelona descends into chaos, Marc sets off on a quest to find Julia, his missing girlfriend, without ever going outside.
Starring: Quim Gutiérrez, José Coronado, Marta Etura, Leticia Dolera, Mikel Iglesias, Ivan Massagué, Pere Ventura
Director: David Pastor, Àlex Pastor
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Posted on August 4, 2013 |
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Antapal / The Gangster (2012)
Action | Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Bangkok in the 1950s. Jod and his friend Daeng are fearless aspiring gangsters. Their ability in street fight have them hired by a local gang and admired by all. But as years go by, this violent lifestyle is more and more difficult for Jod. He tries to avoid violence when he can but is soon put aside by more violent youngsters. When some of his friends die in internal wars, he decides to take his revenge on the gang.
Starring: Krisada Sukosol Clapp, Somchai Kemglad, Sakarin Suthamsamai, Krisada Supapprom, Pakchanok Wo-Onsri, Wasu Sangsingkaew, Boonsong Nakphoo, Nantharat Chaowarat
Director: Kongkiat Khomsiri
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Tags: Boonsong Nakphoo, Kongkiat Khomsiri, Krisada Sukosol Clapp, Krisada Supapprom, Nantharat Chaowarat, Pakchanok Wo-Onsri, Sakarin Suthamsamai, Somchai Kemglad, Wasu Sangsingkaew
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Uncle Sam (1996)
Comedy | Horror
It's Fourth Of July Weekend, and the recently discovered corpse of Sgt. Sam Harper – killed by 'friendly fire' during the first Gulf War – is returned to his all-American hometown. But when Sam rises from the dead to punish the unpatriotic, only his young nephew and a bitter Korean War veteran can stop his red-blooded rampage. Draft dodgers, tax cheats, crooked politicians and flag-burners beware: Uncle Sam wants you… DEAD!
Starring: William Smith, P.J. Soles, Isaac Hayes, Timothy Bottoms, Bo Hopkins, Robert Forster
Director: William Lustig
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Tags: Bo Hopkins, Isaac Hayes, P.J. Soles, Robert Forster, Timothy Bottoms, William Lustig, William Smith
Posted on August 4, 2013 |
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The Jerk (1979)
Comedy
Steve Martin portrays Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, whose crazy inventions lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags. Along the way, he's smitten with a lady motorcycle racer, survives a series of screwball attacks by a deranged killer, becomes a millionaire by inventing the "Opti-grab" handle for eyeglasses – and shows why he's one of the hottest comic performers in the world.
Starring: Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, M. Emmet Walsh, Mabel King, Richard Ward, Dick Anthony Williams
Director: Carl Reiner
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Tags: Bernadette Peters, Carl Reiner, Dick Anthony Williams, M. Emmet Walsh, Mabel King, Richard Ward, Steve Martin