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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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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 30, 2011 |
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Tombstone (1993)
Action | Drama | History
Former U.S. Marshall Wyatt Earp's plan for peace, quiet and prosperity misfires when he, his brothers and the outrageous rogue Doc Holliday encounter that ruthless band of outlaws, the Cowboys.
Starring: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
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Tags: Bill Paxton, George Pan Cosmatos, Kurt Russell, Michael Biehn, Powers Boothe, Sam Elliott, Val Kilmer
Posted on December 30, 2011 |
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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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Posted on December 29, 2011 |
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Michael Buble Meets Madison Square Garden (2009)
Documentary | Music
This musical release from singer Michael Buble captures a live performance by the artist, recorded at Madison Square Garden in front of an ecstatic crowd. Some of the tracks featured in the performance include I'm Your Man, I've Got the World on a String, and Crazy Little Thing Called Love.
Starring: Michael Bublé, Naturally 7
Director: Jason Hehir, Dick Carruthers
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Posted on December 29, 2011 |
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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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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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Tags: Akira Kurosawa, Chieko Nakakita, Kenjiro Uemura, Miki Sanjô, Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune
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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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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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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Tags: Akira Kurosawa, Ganjiro Nakamura, Isuzu Yamada, Kyôko Kagawa, Minoru Chiaki, Toshirô Mifune
Posted on December 28, 2011 |
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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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Posted on December 28, 2011 |
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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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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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Tags: Antonín Kinský, Bolek Polívka, Jirí Lábus, Jirí Pecha, Petr Kavan, Richard Metznarowski, Veronika Zilková, Vladimír Michálek
Posted on December 28, 2011 |
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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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Tags: Daniela Smutná, Frantisek Smolík, Jirí Weiss, Karla Chadimová, Otomar Krejca, Vít Olmer
Posted on December 28, 2011 |
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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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