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Flipper (1963)
Adventure | Drama | Family
The Florida Keys have been hit by hard times of late. First, a red plague kills off much of the fish in the area. And second, Hurricane Hazel unexpectedly changes course to hit the Keys. Regardless, the Ricks family – fisherman father Po (short for Porter), wife Martha, their preteen son Sandy, and Sandy's pet pelican Pete – live in all its aspects by the sea, even during these hard times. When Sandy witnesses the accidental spearing of a dolphin, he, on his own, decides to find the dolphin to put it out of its misery. Upon finding the injured dolphin, Sandy, not having the heart to shoot him, decides instead to tow the dolphin home. With some care and love, Sandy and Martha nurse the dolphin back to health. Sandy wants to keep the dolphin, who he's named Flipper, but Po ultimately releases Flipper, who he sees as "the enemy": a creature who is on the hunt for whatever short supply of fish there are around the Keys. But Po learns that friends – what Flipper and Sandy are to each other – help each other unconditionally.
Starring: Chuck Connors, Luke Halpin, Connie Scott, Jane Rose, Joe Higgins, Robertson White, George Applewhite, Kathleen Maguire
Director: James B. Clark
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Posted on August 3, 2013 |
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The Paper (1994)
Comedy | Drama
Henry Hackett is the editor of a New York City tabloid. He is a workaholic who loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchetman Alicia Clark, Henry's nemesis, impose unpopular cutbacks. Henry's wife Martha, a hugely pregnant former reporter of his, is fed up because he has so little time for his family. He is therefore considering an offer from Paul Bladden to edit a paper like the New York Times, which would mean more money, shorter hours, more respectability…but might also be a bit boring for his tastes. But a hot story soon confronts Henry with tough decisions.
Starring: Michael Keaton, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, Randy Quaid
Director: Ron Howard
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Tags: Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, Michael Keaton, Randy Quaid, Robert Duvall, Ron Howard
Posted on August 3, 2013 |
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Riddle (2013)
Thriller
College student Holly Teller (Elisabeth Harnois) is drawn to the mysterious small town of Riddle, Pennsylvania in search of her missing brother. Against the will of the local Sheriff (Val Kilmer) and town elder (William Sadler), she begins to unravel a mystery connected to an abandoned psychiatric hospital on the edge of town, uncovering a terrifying past the town in determined to keep hidden.
Starring: Elisabeth Harnois, Val Kilmer, Diora Baird, William Sadler, Ryan Malgarini, Bryan Lillis, Ben Bledsoe, Jack Erdie
Director: John O. Hartman, Nicholas Mross
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Tags: Ben Bledsoe, Bryan Lillis, Diora Baird, Elisabeth Harnois, Jack Erdie, John O. Hartman, Nicholas Mross, Ryan Malgarini, Val Kilmer, William Sadler
Posted on August 3, 2013 |
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Rescue Dawn (2006)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
American pilot Dieter Dengler is shot down during a top secret mission to destroy Viet Cong strongholds in Laos at the beginning of the Vietnam War. Taken hostage, he endures unimaginable conditions at the hands of cruel captors in a makeshift POW camp. Dengler's iron will to survive guides him and his fellow prisoners in a meticulously-planned, death-defying escape, only to discover the harsh realities of an unforgiving jungle beyond the camp's walls.
Starring: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies, Zach Grenier, Marshall Bell, Pat Healy
Director: Werner Herzog
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Tags: Christian Bale, Jeremy Davies, Marshall Bell, Pat Healy, Steve Zahn, Werner Herzog, Zach Grenier
Posted on August 3, 2013 |
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Chungking Express / Chung Hing sam lam (1994)
Drama | Mystery | Romance
Acclaimed Hong Kong New Wave director Wong Kar-Wai presents a kinetic, offbeat look at his city in these two stories. The first concerns a young woman who has been double-crossed in a heroin deal and her budding romance with a lovelorn cop. The second deals with another officer whose girlfriend has left him and the young waitress who tries to help him without his knowledge.
Starring: Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung, Faye Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Valerie Chow
Director: Kar Wai Wong
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Tags: Brigitte Lin, Faye Wong, Kar Wai Wong, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung, Valerie Chow
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Rumble in the Bronx / Hung fan kui (1995)
Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
A young man visiting and helping his uncle in New York City finds himself forced to fight a street gang and the mob with his martial art skills.
Starring: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Françoise Yip, Bill Tung, Marc Akerstream, Garvin Cross, Morgan Lam
Director: Stanley Tong
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Tags: Anita Mui, Bill Tung, Françoise Yip, Garvin Cross, Jackie Chan, Marc Akerstream, Morgan Lam, Stanley Tong
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How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Drama | Family
Sixty year-old Huw Morgan looks back on his life as a boy in a small Welsh mining town. His reminiscences reveal the disintegration of the closely knit Morgan's, and his devoted parents, while capturing the sentiments and issues of their time.
Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall, John Loder
Narrator: Irving Pichel
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Tags: Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, Irving Pichel, John Loder, Maureen O'Hara, Roddy McDowall, Walter Pidgeon
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Runaway Train (1985)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Manny is the toughest convict in a remote Alaskan prison who, along with fellow inmate Buck, makes a daring breakout. Hopping a freight train, they head full steam for freedom, but when the engineer dies of a heart attack, they find themselves trapped, alone and speeding towards certain disaster.
Starring: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay, Kyle T. Heffner
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
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Tags: Andrei Konchalovsky, Eric Roberts, Jon Voight, Kyle T. Heffner, Rebecca De Mornay
Posted on August 3, 2013 |
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Mr.Lee vs Mr.Lee / Lee Dae-geun's Family / Yi daegeun, Yi daikeun (2007)
Drama | Family
An old widower Mr. Lee plans a family reunion on the three-year anniversary of his wife’s death, but faces a series of adversities in the way. His eldest son goes through a scandalous divorce, his daughter is tied up in a car accident, and the youngest son has been missing for years after declaring bankruptcy. Finally the big day arrives and as the clock strikes midnight, the secrets of the troubled Lees begin to unfold.
Starring: Dae-geun Lee, Lee Doo Il, Kyung Soon Jung, Sun-young Ahn, Cheol-min Park
Director: Kwang-jin Shim
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Tags: Cheol-min Park, Dae-geun Lee, Kwang-jin Shim, Kyung Soon Jung, Lee Doo Il, Sun-young Ahn
Posted on August 2, 2013 |
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Least Among Saints (2012)
Drama
Writer, director and actor Martin Papazian's debut film LEAST AMONG SAINTS movingly illustrates a man's hard-fought road towards reconciling with his better self. Coming home to a broken marriage and uncertain future, veteran Anthony Hayward (Papazian) thinks he's at the end of his rope. But when his troubled ten year-old neighbor, Wade (Tristan Lake Leabu), calls out for help, Anthony can't seem to turn away. To the dismay of the boy's embattled social worker (Laura San Giacomo), Anthony sets out on a fool's quest to help this heartbroken but hard to reach child find his long-lost father, who might not even exist. Yet in the midst of this new mission – the first that seems to matter since his return — Anthony begins to come to grips with both the costs of war and the universal power of human connection. As the film builds to an emotional climax, Papazian finds both the gravity and the grace in ordinary, flawed characters pushed to extraordinary acts of compassion and decency.
Starring: Martin Papazian, Tristan Lake Leabu, Laura San Giacomo, Azura Skye, A.J. Cook, Charles S. Dutton, Taylor Kinney
Director: Martin Papazian
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Tags: A.J. Cook, Azura Skye, Charles S. Dutton, Laura San Giacomo, Martin Papazian, Taylor Kinney, Tristan Lake Leabu
Posted on August 2, 2013 |
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The Big Wedding (2013)
Comedy
A long-divorced couple fakes being married as their family unites for a wedding.
Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Robert De Niro, Katherine Heigl, Diane Keaton, Topher Grace, Susan Sarandon, Robin Williams, Ben Barnes
Director: Justin Zackham
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Tags: Amanda Seyfried, Ben Barnes, Diane Keaton, Justin Zackham, Katherine Heigl, Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Susan Sarandon, Topher Grace
Posted on August 2, 2013 |
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Emperor / Shûsen no enperâ (2012)
Drama | History | War
As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, General Douglas MacArthur assigns the task of investigating whether Emperor Hirohito should be hanged as a war criminal to a younger staff General Bonner Fellers. Influencing his recommendation is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S. All this must be done within ten days when MacArthur must decide on the Emperor's fate!
Starring: Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune, Toshiyuki Nishida, Masayoshi Haneda, Takatarô Kataoka
Director: Peter Webber
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Tags: Eriko Hatsune, Masayoshi Haneda, Matthew Fox, Peter Webber, Takatarô Kataoka, Tommy Lee Jones, Toshiyuki Nishida
Posted on August 2, 2013 |
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Love Me Tender (1956)
Western
Elvis plays Clint Reno, one of the Reno brothers who stayed home while his brother went to fight in the Civil War for the Confederate army. When his brother Vance comes back from the war, he finds that his old girlfriend Cathy has married Clint. The family has to struggle to reach stability with this issue. Vance is involved in a train robbery, while a Confederate soldier, of Federal Government money. There is a conflict of interest, when Vance tries to return the money, against the wishes of some of his fellow Confederates.
Starring: Elvis Presley, Richard Egan, Debra Paget, William Campbell, Neville Brand, Mildred Dunnock
Director: Robert D. Webb
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Tags: Debra Paget, Elvis Presley, Mildred Dunnock, Neville Brand, Richard Egan, Robert D. Webb, William Campbell
Posted on August 2, 2013 |
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Behind the Yellow Line / Yuen fan (1984)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
The Chinese title for this entertaining romantic drama is 'Destiny', which is fitting because it features remarkable new talent whose destiny was to become some of Hong Kong's most important filmmakers. There then 20-year-old Miss Hong Kong Pageant first runner-up Maggie Cheung. There's Leslie Cheung, before he became an award-winning singer/actor icon. There's Anita Mui ('The Chinese Madonna'), who won the Hong Kong Film Best Supporting Actress Award for her performance. And there's co-scripter Gordon Chan, destined to become a top writer/director.
Starring: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Anita Mui, Anthony Chan
Director: Taylor Wong
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Tags: Anita Mui, Anthony Chan, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Taylor Wong
Posted on August 2, 2013 |
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Sharks: Kings of the Ocean (2012)
Documentary
Take an amazing journey into the depths of the ocean to see one of Earth's most deadly predators, the shark.
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Posted on August 1, 2013 |
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Tokyo Family / Tokyo kazoku (2013)
Drama
An old married couple Shukichi Hirayama (Isao Hashizume) and Tomiko ( Kazuko Yoshiyuki) live on a small island in the Inland Sea. They go to Tokyo. The couple have 3 children. The eldest son Koichi (Masahiko Nishimura) runs a hospital. The first daughter Shigeko (Tomoko Nakajima) runs a beauty salon. The second son Shuji (Satoshi Tsumabuki) works in stage art. The families ask the parents to take a rest in Tokyo, but the parents do not like staying in Tokyo. One day, Tomiko visits Shuji's apartment. There, Tomiko is introduced to Shuji's fiance Noriko (Yu Aoi), but Tomiko collapses at Koichi's house…
Starring: Satoshi Tsumabuki, Yû Aoi, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Isao Hashizume
Director: Yôji Yamada
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Tags: Isao Hashizume, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Yôji Yamada, Yû Aoi
Posted on August 1, 2013 |
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Oliver & Company (1988)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Musical
This contemporary re-telling of Charles Dickens' classic story follows the misadventures of an orphaned kitten who is taken in by a pack of pickpocket dogs, headed by Dodger, the coolest quadruped in Manhattan and their human master, Fagin. When a little girl from Fifth Avenue finds Oliver and takes him uptown to live among the swells, Fagin's evil boss, Sykes steps in and kidnaps the pair. His nasty plan to keep Oliver from having his customary nine lives is foiled however, when the ransomed kitty's "Bow-wow-wow"-ery buddies decide to use their street savoir faire in order to rescue their feline friend!
Starring: Joey Lawrence, Cheech Marin, Bette Midler, Robert Loggia, Dom DeLuise, Richard Mulligan
Director: George Scribner
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Posted on August 1, 2013 |
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The Foot Fist Way (2006)
Comedy
Small town Tae Kwon Do instructor Fred Simmons relishes the power that comes from being the king of a small kingdom. A former champion, Mr. Simmons fancies himself one in the same as his hero, Chuck "The Truck" Wallace, a B-movie Martial Arts film star. Mr. Simmons openly boasts about his self-proclaimed status as "king of the demo" [Tae Kwon Do demonstration], even though he can't nail one to save his life. His only vulnerability lies in his adoration of his wife Suzie – a weakness that comes bubbling to the surface when Mr. Simmons discovers Suzie has cheated on him with her new boss. When Suzie leaves him, Mr. Simmons finds himself slipping into a crushing downward spiral. He struggles to keep "the power" by abusing anyone who challenges him. After losing students and making a fool out of himself, he finds allies in Julio Chavez, his nine-year-old apprentice, and Henry Harrison, one of his students with an "obvious confidence problem." When his bizarre best friend Mike McAllister comes to visit, the four make a pilgrimage to meet the greatest Martial Artist of all time, "The Truck," at a Tae Kwon Do convention. What starts as a crazy man's expedition to escape turns into a trip of discovery, as Mr. Simmons and his crew party with "The Truck" and Mr. Simmons convinces him to perform a demo at his Tae Kwon Do school during the upcoming belt-qualifying testing. Inspired with renewed strength, Fred returns from the convention clear-headed and at the top of his game, until he is shocked by an unexpected turn of events when Suzie returns home, and the "The Truck" flies in from Hollywood to appear at his Tae Kwon Do school. In the end, Mr. Simmons faces the greatest test of his power and finds the strength he outwardly projects within his own spirit.
Starring: Danny McBride, Mary Jane Bostic, Ben Best, Spencer Moreno, Carlos Lopez, Jody Hill
Director: Jody Hill
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Posted on August 1, 2013 |
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My Favorite Martian (1999)
Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi
A martian lands on Earth and makes friends with a reporter.
Starring: Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Elizabeth Hurley, Daryl Hannah, Wallace Shawn, Ray Walston
Director: Donald Petrie
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Posted on August 1, 2013 |
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Touch (2011)
Drama
At V.I.P. Nails, a Vietnamese manicurist named Tam has a new customer: Brendan, a shy mechanic who literally has a problem on his hands. He can never get rid of the oil stains around his nails, and when he tries to be intimate with his aloof wife, she always rejects him with the same excuse: "Your hands are filthy!" Desperately seeking to save his marriage, Brendan goes to the nail salon every day, where Tam does more than scrub his hands clean. She also offers him advice on how to get his wife to love him again. But soon, Tam and Brendan find themselves drawn to each other, an attraction which becomes harder and harder to resist. This sensual film explores the sense of touch and its emotional impact – how with just a simple touch, we can reveal our deepest longings, give the utmost pleasure to others and even heal a wounded soul.
Starring: Porter Lynn, Melinda Bennett, Tony LaThanh, Long Nguyen, John Ruby
Director: Minh Duc Nguyen
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Tags: John Ruby, Long Nguyen, Melinda Bennett, Minh Duc Nguyen, Porter Lynn, Tony LaThanh
