This is the second part of the best DRAMA movies issued on DVD, the first part of the DVD DRAMA movie section is here
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MAITRE D'ARMES / FEARLESS , Jet Li . Fearless starts off with Huo Yuanjia fighting 3 Westerners: a boxer, a spearfighter, and a fencer. Huo Yuanjia beats them all, and makes it his habit to bow to the opponent. Just as he is about to fight a fourth and final challenger, Anno Tanaka from Japan, Huo Yuanjia has a flashback. |
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LE MAITRE DU JEU / RUNAWAY JURY with Cusack, Hackman, Hoffman, Weisz . In New Orleans, Louisiana, Celeste Wood's life is changed in a blinding flash when a failed day trader at her husband's stock brokerage firm shows up at his former workplace with an semiautomatic handgun and opens fire on his former colleagues, including Celeste's husband. Two years later, and armed with pro bono attorney Wendell Rohr (Dustin Hoffman), Celeste decides to take the weapon's manufacturer to court, on the grounds that the company's gross negligence led to her husband's death. |
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LIGUE des GENTLEMEN EXTRAORDINAIRES starring Sean Connery, Shane West . |
| Man on FIre with Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning . A wave of kidnappings has swept through Mexico, feeding a growing sense of panic among its wealthier citizens, especially parents. In one six-day period, there were twenty-four abductions, leading many to hire bodyguards for their children. Into this world enters John Creasy, a burned-out ex-CIA operative/assassin, who has given up on life. Creasy's friend Rayburn brings him to Mexico City to be a bodyguard to nine-year-old Pita Ramos, daughter of industrialist Samuel Ramos and his wife Lisa. Creasy is not interested in being a bodyguard, especially to a youngster, but for lack of something better to do, he accepts the assignment. Creasy barely tolerates the precocious child and her pestering questions about him and his life. But slowly, she chips away at his seemingly impenetrable exterior, his defenses drop, and he opens up to her. Creasy's new-found purpose in life is shattered when Pita is kidnapped. Despite being seriously wounded during the kidnapping, he vows to kill anyone involved in or profiting from the kidnapping. And no one can stop him |
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THE MARSH Forest Whitaker, Gabrielle Anwar, Justin Louis . The successful children's writer Claire Holloway is troubled by scary nightmares and is under psychological treatment. While working out watching television, she sees the landscape of the Rose Marsh Farm in the Westmoreland County, and she notes that the farmhouse is linked to her nightmares. She decides to spend her vacation in the farm, which is located nearby a swamp, and she is haunted by the ghosts of a little girl and a teenage boy inside the house. She is befriended by the local publisher and historian Noah Pitney but after a sequence of disturbing visions, she decides to contact the paranormal consultant Geoffry Hunt. Together, they investigate the mystery and disclose a tragedy that happened in the farm about twenty years ago |
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MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD, Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany During the Napoleonic Wars, Lucky Jack Aubrey captains the crew of his H.M.S. Surprise. When the ship is suddenly attacked by a superior enemy, it is badly damaged and much of his crew is injured. In a bold and dangerous move, Aubrey decides to set sail in a high stakes chase across two oceans to intercept and capture their foe. It's a mission that can decide the fate of a nation--or destroy Lucky Jack and his crew. |
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MEAN CREEK - Rory Culkin, Trevor Morgan . Rocky, being a mostly peaceful guy who likes to do drugs and laze around, decides along with Sam and his two friends to play a peaceful, yet powerful prank to get revenge. Rocky's two friends are Clyde (Ryan Kelley), a shy, also peaceful teenager, embarrassed by harassment of his gay fathers by Marty (Scott Mechlowicz), the other friend. Rocky is outgoing, but Marty may go over the top. He is an angry and violent young man, shown in one of the first few scenes shooting at bottles and calling them names of real people (the real people are crew members), only to be physically bullied by his older brother at their trailer, for mentioning his dad, who we can only assume is not around and did not have a good fate. |
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The story ultimately revolves around two "men of honor"; their relationship, their individual and joint failures and triumphs. Carl Brashear is determined to be the first African American Navy Diver in a time where racism is strife. Leslie Sunday is his embittered trainer, determined to see him fail. Fate, challenges and circumstances eventually draw these two men together in a tale of turbulance and ultimately triumph. |
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Agé de 66 ans, Warren Schmidt prend sa retraite et perd par la même occasion tous ses repères. Le brusque décès de son épouse quelques semaines plus tard ne fait qu'empirer les choses. Il se décide alors à entretenir une correspondance épistolaire avec Ndugu, un petit Tanzanien qu'il parraine pour vingt-deux dollars par mois et qui lui sert de confident. |
| MOTEL / VACANCY starring Kate Beckinsale, Luke Wilson David (Luke Wilson) and Amy Fox (Kate Beckinsale) are driving through the middle of nowhere when their car breaks down. The bickering couple decide to spend the night in a motel, home to a creepy manager named Mason (Frank Whaley). Soon after, they discover that the low-budget slasher movies they're watching on the room's television are not fake and were filmed in the very room in which they're staying ... |
Preview: Mean Girls starring Lindsay Lohan, Tina Fey, Rachel McAdams and Lacey Chabert (2004) - Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) thinks she knows about "survival of the fittest." But the law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when the home-schooled 15-year-old enters public high school for the first time and falls prey to the psychological warfare and unwritten social rules that teenage girls face today.
Men of Honor,
Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding Jr, Charlize Theron (2000) - The story ultimately revolves around two "men of honor"; their relationship, their individual and joint failures and triumphs. Carl Brashear is determined to be the first African American Navy Diver in a time where racism is strife. Leslie Sunday is his embittered trainer, determined to see him fail. Fate, challenges and circumstances eventually draw these two men together in a tale of turbulance and ultimately triumph.
The Missing with Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett - The Missing, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett, is a bone-chilling suspense thriller from Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, the Oscar¨-winning director-producer team of A Beautiful Mind.
Monster starring Charlize Theron and Christina Ricci (2003) - Wuornos had a difficult and cruel childhood plagued by abuse and drug use in Michigan. She became a prostitute by the age of thirteen, the same year she became pregnant. She eventually moved to Florida where she began earning a living as a highway prostitute--servicing the desires of semi-truck drivers.
Monster's Ball (Halle Berry) - Set in the Southern United States, 'Monster's Ball' is a tale of a racist white man, Hank (played by Billy Bob Thornton), who falls in love with a black woman named Leticia (Halle Berry). Ironically Hank is a prison guard working on Death Row who executed Leticia's husband (Sean Combs). Hank and Leticia's interracial affair leads to confusion and new ideas for the two unlikely lovers
Moulin Rouge,
Nicole Kidman (2001) - In 1900, Christian, an impoverished writer who has come
from Scotland the year before, types his story: he arrived in Montmartre and
fell in with Toulouse-Lautrec and Bohemians who believe in freedom, truth, beauty,
and love. They want to sell a show to the Moulin Rouge, and its impresario wants
a backer so he can build a proper theatre. He's plying a duke, who wants exclusive
access to the favors of Satine, the Moulin Rouge's consumptive star. She wants
to be a proper actress, so the duke's offer is fine - except that she and Christian
fall in love. Can Satine keep the duke at bay without losing his patronage,
will he discover the lovers and kill Christian, and can love trump jealousy?
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A woman, known only as Rita, is involved in a car crash on Mulholland Drive, in Hollywood California, with two men, who are apparently evil. In the crash, the two men die, but Rita escapes. She remembers nothing afterwards, not even her name |
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In 17th century Paris, a dashing swordsman named D'Artagnan finds himself at odds with the powerful forces taking over France. He sets out to avenge the murder of his parents and finds his country cleaved by chaos and civil unrest. His heart softens only for Francesca, a fiery peasant girl who claims D'Artagnan's heart on sight. |
Mystic River, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon (2003) - When they were kids growing up together in a rough section of Boston, Jimmy Markum, Dave Boyle and Sean Devine spent their days playing stickball on the street, the way most boys did in their blue-collar neighborhood of East Buckingham. Nothing much out of the ordinary ever happened, until a moment's decision drastically altered the course of each of their lives forever. Twenty-five years later, the three find themselves thrust back together by another tragic event--the murder of Jimmy's 19-year-old daughter.
Narc, Dan Leis, Jason Patric, Ray Liotta (2002) - Nick Tellis is a recovering drug addict. But staying clean is not so easy for this Detroit narcotics officer when the police department reinstates him in order to investigate an elusive 'narc' squad homicide
Natural Born Killers - Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis (1994) - The misadventures of Mickey and Mallory: outcasts, lovers,
and serial killers. They travel across Route 666 conducting psychadelic mass-slaughters
not for money, not for revenge, just for kicks. Glorified by the media, the
pair become legendary folk heroes; their story told by the single person they
leave alive at the scene of each of their slaughters.
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin |
One Hour Photo,
Robin Williams (2002) - Seymour 'SY' Parrish has been doing photo development for
20 years. He has a vast knowledge of modern photography and develops photos
for various customers at the Sav-Mart. His biggest customers are the Yorkin
family, and they seem to have everything in the world. But when SY begins spying
on the Yorkins, he begins to feel that he wants to be in the Yorkin's life.
But SY discovers that the Yorkins are not as perfect as they seem and becomes
a man on a mission to expose the imperfections of the Yorkin family at any cost.
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OPEN RANGE starring Robert Duvall, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening The cowboys encounter a corrupt Sheriff (Russo) and kingpin rancher (Gambon) who govern the territory through fear, tyranny and violence. Boss and Charley find themselves inextricably drawn towards the inevitable showdown as they are forced to defend the freedom and values of a lifestyle that is all too quickly vanishing |
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THE OTHERS / LES AUTRES with Nicole Kidman On the secluded Isle of Jersey in the final days of World War II, a young woman waits in vain for her beloved husband to return from the front. Grace has been raising her two young children alone in her beautiful, cavernous Victorian mansion, the one place she believes them to be safe. But they are not safe. Not anymore. When a new trio of servants arrives to replace the crew that inexplicably disappeared, startling events begin to unfold. Grace's daughter reveals she has been communicating with unexplained apparitions that come and go in every room of the house. At first, Grace refuses to believe in her children's scary sightings, but soon, she too begins to sense that intruders are at large. Who are these numinous trespassers? And what do they want from Grace's family? In order to discover the truth, Grace must abandon all of her fears and beliefs and enter the otherworldly heart of the supernatural. is |
Out of Time starring Denzel Washington and Eva Mendes (2003) - Suppose everything you knew – everything you trusted – became a lie. For Matt Lee Whitlock, that nightmare has become a reality.
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This story centers around a divorced woman in her 30's and her daughter, who are caught up in a cat-and-mouse game inside their new New York brownstone when three burglars come looking for a hidden cache of cash. Mother and daughter hide in the "panic room," a secret room designed for just such a purpose, but still end up fighting for their lives... |
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PAS UN MOT Famke Janssen, Brittany Murphy, Michael Douglas (See also: Don't Say a Word) Le docteur Nathan Conrad, un éminent psychiatre new-yorkais, mène une vie paisible, entouré de Aggie, son épouse, et de Jessie, son adorable fille... Jusqu'à ce qu'un collègue, le docteur Louis Sachs, lui demande, à la veille de Thanksgiving, d'examiner le cas désespéré d'une jeune fille catatonique se nommant Elizabeth Burrows. S'apprêtant à retourner dans un institut spécialisé, celle-ci semble rescapée d'événements où se mêlent violences inexpliquées et stigmates de mauvais traitements. |
Patch Adams - Robin Williams, Monica Potter (1998) - Robin Williams stars as Patch Adams, in this true story of a heroic man, determined to become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people. Unfortunately, the medical and scientific community does not appreciate his methods of healing the sick, while the actual patients, medical professors, and hospital nurses all appreciate the work *he* can do, because they are unable to do it.
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- Before they were soldiers, they were family. Before they were legends, they were heros. Before there was a nation, there was a fight for freedom. |
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In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute details of the fishing boats, their gear and the weather are juxtaposed with the sea adventure. |
Planet of the Apes (2001) - It is the year 2029: Astronaut Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) boards a pod cruiser on a Space Station for a "routine" reconnaissance mission. But an aburupt detour through a space time wormhole lands him on a strange planet where talking apes rule over the human race. With the help of a sympathetic chimpanzee activist named Ari (Helena Bonham-Carter) and a small band of human rebels, Leo leads the effort to evade the advancing Gorilla Army led by General Thade (Tim Roth) and his most trusted warrior Attar (Michael Clarke Duncan). Now the race is on to reach a sacred temple within the planet's Forbidden Zone to discover the shocking secrets of mankind's past - and the key to its future.
Play It to the Bone, Antonio Banderas, Woody Harrelson,Lolita Davidovich, Lucy Liu (1999) - Two aging fighters in LA, friends, get a call from a Vegas promoter because his undercard fighters for a Mike Tyson bout that night are suddenly unavailable. He wants them to box each other. They agree as long as the winner gets a shot at the middleweight title. They enlist Gloria, Cesar's current and Vinnie's ex girlfriend, to drive them to Vegas. On the trip, we see flashbacks to their previous title shots, their competitive friendship, and Gloria's motivational wiles. (She has her own entrepreneurial dreams.) The fight itself is historic: ten rounds of savagery and courage. Who will win, who'll get the title shot, who gets Gloria, and where will she find venture capital?
Proof of Life,
Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe (2000) - In a mountainous South American country, drug-dealing rebels
kidnap Peter Bowman, a US engineer who works for an oil company's subsidiary.
The company calls in a negotiator, Terry Thorne, an Aussie ex-soldier based
in London
(The) Pledge, Jack Nicholson (2001) - The night he retires as a Nevada sheriff, Jerry Black pledges to the mother of a murdered girl that he will find the killer. Jerry doesn't believe the police arrested the right man; he discovers this is the third incident in the area in the recent past with victims young, blond, pretty, and small for their age.
| PLUS JAMAIS / ENOUGH starring Jennifer Lopez . On the run from an abusive husband, a young mother begins to train herself to fight back |
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In a mountainous South American country, drug-dealing rebels kidnap Peter Bowman, a US engineer who works for an oil company's subsidiary. The company calls in a negotiator, Terry Thorne, an Aussie ex-soldier based in London. When the subsidiary goes bankrupt, the oil company washes its hands of the matter and pulls Thorne. Bowman's wife Alice begs him to stay. She and Peter's sister cobble together some money, Thorne talks ransom terms with the cash-strapped rebels, and Peter, chained high in the mountains, is sustained by a photo of Alice. When the politics of the situation change, so must Thorne's strategy. And what can Alice and he do about the attraction growing between them? |
Pulp Fiction,
John Travolta (1994) - The film initiates with two small-time thieves, Honey Bunny
and Pumpkin, who spontaneously decide to hold up a restaurant. The film then
shifts to the story of Jules and Vincent, who hit men for the well known and
feared Marsellus Wallace, who is caught up in a deal gone wrong with struggling
boxer Butch Coolidge
| RAY CHARLES starring Jamie Foxx . Born in a small town in Georgia, Ray Charles went blind at the age of seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mother who insisted he make his own way in the world, Charles found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered incorporating gospel, country, jazz and orchestral influences into his inimitable style.. |
Red Planet, Val Kilmer, Carrie-Ann Moss (2000) - In the near future, Earth is dying. A new colony on Mars could be humanity's only hope. A team of American astronauts, each a specialist in a different field, is making the first manned expedition to the red planet and must struggle to overcome the differences in their personalities, backgrounds and ideologies for the overall good of the mission.
| RETOUR A COLD MOUNTAIN starring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman , Renée Zellweger . The movie opens depicting the events leading up to the American Civil War, and proceeds to a vivid recreation of the Battle of the Crater. Jude Law plays a Confederate soldier named W. P. Inman, who meets Ada (Kidman), and is at the fledgling stages of a relationship with her when he marches off to war. Inman experiences many battles and losses of friends, and as he is recovering in a hospital from a battle wound, decides to set off on foot for his home on Cold Mountain, in North Carolina, and to the woman he loves. On his journey he meets a corrupt preacher (Hoffman), an old and wizened woman, and a young widow (Portman). Through these people, he is able to continue his journey back to Ada and finds something out about himself. |
Rivières pourpres aka Crimson Rivers, Jean Reno (2000) - Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings
Road to Perdition,
Tom Hanks, Paul Newman (2002) - Mike Sullivan (Tom Hanks) works as a hit man for crime
boss John Rooney (Paul Newman) Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure. However
after his son is witness to a killing he has done Mike Sullivan finds him self
on the run trying to save the life of his son and at the same time looking for
revenge on those who wronged him. Jude Law co stars as a hit man hired to kill
Sullivan.
ROCKY BALBOA - Sylvester Stallone Rocky Balboa picks up in present-day Philadelphia, where Rocky, now retired from boxing for roughly 20 years, is living in a row house in Kensington (a deleted scene reveals that his brother-in-law Paulie has been living with him). His wife Adrian has died (due to what Rocky describes as "woman cancer" in 2002), and Rocky has retired to become owner of a small but successful Italian restaurant, Adrian's. He charms his patrons with stories of his past. Rocky visits his late wife's grave site regularly, and embarks on an annual tour of Philadelphia landmarks that held importance to him and Adrian, including his old apartment, the pet shop where Adrian worked, and the remains of the torn-down ice skating rink where Rocky took Adrian on their first date. Paulie (Burt Young) joins him on this tour, but does so at great personal pain because, in his opinion, he did not treat Adrian well during her life. Rocky counters this claim by reminding Paulie that Adrian loved him as well. |
Runaway Jury (Le maitre du Jeu) with John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Weisz (2003) - an explosive trial against a gun manufacturer joins forces with a beautiful woman to manipulate the panel. With millions of dollars at stake in the precedent-setting lawsuit, the mysterious jurist finds himself battling a high-priced and ruthless jury “consultant” who will stop at nothing to secure a verdict.
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A la naissance de la petite Lucy, sa mère la rejette et s'enfuit, laissant l'enfant grandir avec son père Sam Dawson, un modeste employé de café defficient mentalement. Pour ce dernier, rien au monde ne compte plus que Lucy. Cependant, après quelques années, il se voit retirer la garde de sa fille par les services sociaux qui ne le trouvent pas apte à s'occuper de son éducation. Ces derniers souhaitent la placer dans une famille d'accueil. |
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SANS MOTIF APPARENT / NO GOOD DEED Milla Jovovich, Samuel L Jackson Jack Friar is a police detective who, while doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager on Turk Street, stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery. Jack finds himself being held hostage while the criminals decide what to do with him, and the leader's beautiful girlfriend Erin is left alone to watch Jack.
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| SAVE THE LAST DANCE 2 starring Izabella Miko , Jacqueline Bisset . Fresh from her experience at an inner-city Chicago high school, Sara Johnson (Izabella Miko) begins her first year at Julliard, where new obstacles await her. First, she becomes a favorite student to her teacher and mentor, Monique Delacroix (Jacqueline Bisset), which only enrages a rival ballerina (Maria Brooks). Then, she meets a cute guest lecturer (Columbus Short) who causes her to rethink all of her choices. |
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SAW starring Cary Elwes Danny Glover Monica Potter Photographer Adam Faulkner (Leigh Whannell) and Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) awaken to find that they are chained by their ankles to pipes at opposite ends of a disused industrial bathroom. Between them is a corpse holding a revolver and a microcassette recorder. Lawrence and Adam each discover tapes in their pockets labeled "Play Me". From these tapes, Adam is told that he must escape the bathroom, while Lawrence is told that he must kill Adam before six o'clock, or else his wife and daughter will be killed and he will be left to die where he sits. Hacksaws are soon discovered; neither is sufficiently sharp to cut through their chains, and Adam breaks his and throws it away in agitated frustration. Lawrence realizes that the saws are not meant for the chains, but instead for their feet. |
(The) Score, Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando, Angela Bassett (2001) - Nick Wells, a professional criminal, decides to leave the business for good, since he nearly got caught on his last job. His plan is to live in peace with his girl Diane, running his Montreal jazz club NYC. Soon Max, his good friend and financial partner in the illegal affairs, comes along with an offer Nick can't refuse:
Scream 3, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox (2000) - After surviving numerous attacks by knife-wielding maniacs, Sidney lays low as a telephone crisis counselor in a secluded Northern California compound. Meanwhile, a killer is on the loose on the set of horror movie "Stab 3," a film based on the brutal events of Sidney's life. As the body count rises, Sidney is eventually lured out of hiding and back to Los Angeles to help the police track down the killer
| Secret Window with Johnny Depp, Maria Bello -about a writer (Johnny Depp) going through a painful divorce, who is stalked by a psychotic stranger (John Turturro) who claims the writer stole his story. To force the writer to make amends, the stranger will go to any lengths, including murder. |
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Sixth Sense, The - Bruce Willis (1999) - Malcom Crowe is a child psychologist who receives an award
on the same night that he is visited by a very unhappy ex-patient. After this
encounter, Crowe takes on the task of curing a young boy with the same ills
as the ex-patient. This boy "sees dead people". Crowe spends a lot of time with the boy (Cole) much to the dismay of his wife. Cole's mom is at her wit's end with what to do about her son's increasing problems. Crowe is the boy's only hope
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SHADOWBOXER Cuba Gooding Jr, Helen Mirren Helen Mirren plays Rose and Cuba Gooding plays Mikey, Rose's stepson. Mikey and Rose are lovers and contract killers. They are hired by Clayton (Stephen Dorff), a sadistic mob kingpin, to kill his pregnant wife Vickie (Vanessa Ferlito) and several of his mob associates. Rose and Mikey enter Vickie's bedroom, but just as Rose is about to carry out the contract on Vickie, the pregnant woman goes into labor. Rose switches to the role of midwife, and over Mikey's objections, insists that they take Vickie and her infant son to a safe place. The four end up in Philadelphia, where Mikey continues to struggle with the dual responsibilities of being an assassin for hire, and surrogate father figure. |
Shattered Glass with Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Chloë Sevigny and Rosario Dawson - Shattered Glass tells the true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass (Rayden Christensen), who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at "The New Republic" for three years (1995-1998), where 27 of his 41 published stories were either partially or completely made up.
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SIGNES / SIGNS starring Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix . In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a five-hundred-foot crop circle is found on the farm of Graham Hess (Mel Gibson), the town's reverend. The circles cause a media frenzy and test Hess's faith as he journeys to find out the truth behind the crop circles. |
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SLAM starring Saul Williams . Young Ray Joshua lives in the Washington district known as "Dodge City" which is dominated by gang wars. One day he is arrested when his drug dealer is gunned down during talking to him. He is put to prison where two rival gangs, Thug Life and the Union, want to get him as a member. |
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Ichabod Crane, a discredited professor is exiled to Sleepy Hollow because of his outrageous theories. Once there he learns of a local myth and uncovers a headless horseman, who has killed four people in search of a suitable replacement for his own missing head. |
| SLEVIN / LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN starring Lucy Liu, Morgan Freeman, Bruce Willis, Josh Hartnett, Ben Kingsley, Stanley Tucci . Two men are ambushed in separate locations and murdered, their ledgers stolen from their bodies by the unseen killers. Later, in the waiting area of an airport, a young man is approached by Goodkat (Bruce Willis), who tells the story of Max, a family man who bets borrowed money on a fixed horse race. Unknown to Max, the mobsters financing the fix discover others betting on it and, to set an example and solidify their reputation, murder Max and his entire family. As Goodkat concludes the story, he promptly snaps the man's neck. |
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Soul Food - Vanessa L. Williams, Vivica A. Fox (1997) - Matriarch Mama Joe has held her family together for 40 years around a Sunday dinner of soul food. When diabetes hospitalizes her, the dinners stop and tensions among her three daughters start to break the family apart.
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Un an apres le terrible drame qui a decimé ses amis, Julie est toujours hantée par la terrible vengeance du tueur au crochet. Quand Karla l'invite à partager un séjour aux Bahamas, Julie y voit l'occasion de tout oublier. Les deux jeunes filles partent en compagnie de Tyrell, le petit ami de Karla et de Will, que Julie ne laisse pas indifférent. A leur arrivée, ils découvrent qu'ils sont les seuls hôtes de l'hotel. La saison des ouragans vient juste de débuter. Et lorsque les premiers évènements étranges surviennent, Julie donne l'alarme, mais personne ne veut la croire. |
Spun with Brittany Murphy, Mena Suvari, Patrick Fugit, Jason Schwartzman, John Leguizamo - College dropout Ross (Jason Schwartzman) becomes the personal driver for a local crystal-meth cook (Mickey Rourke) in exchange for free drugs. But he has no idea what he's in for, as he descends into the circus-like world of speed freaks.
Spy Game
- Robert Redford, Brad Pitt (2001) - CIA operative Nathan Muir (Redford) is on the brink of
retirement when he finds out that his protege Tom Bishop (Pitt) has been arrested
in China for espionage. No stranger to the machinations of the CIA's top echelon,
Muir hones all his skills and irreverent manner in order to find a way to free
Bishop
Stanley Kubrick Collection -
A DVD-set with the following Stanley Kubrikc movies: Lolita ,
Dr Strangelove ,
2001 A Space Odyssey ,
Clockwork Orange ,
Barry Lyndon ,
The Shining ,
Full Metal Jacket ,
Eyes Wide Shut ,
Stanley Kubrick a life in pictures
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A priest from the Vatican is sent in to investigate claims that a small town in Brazil has a church where statues bleed from the eyes. Meanwhile, a young woman in the U.S. begins to show signs of stigmata, the wounds of Christ. The priest from the Vatican links up with her and cares for her as she is increasingly afflicted by the stigmata. Her ranting and raving finally begins to make sense to the priest who starts to question what his religion has stood for for the last 1900 years. |
Still Know What You Did Last Summer - Jennifer Love Hewitt (1998) - Julie's room mate - Karla - wins a trip for four to the Bahama's. Karla, her boyfriend and Julie with her new boyfriend - Will - go on vacation. While singing on stage, Julie follows the words for the song on a screen, but she then see's the words I STILL KNOW flash across the screen !!! Julie is now trapped on the island with the hook wielding killer who knows what she did last summer...
| STIRB LANGSAM 4.0, DIE HARD 4, Bruce Willis . Live Free or Die Hard (released as Die Hard 4.0 or Die Hard 4 outside North America) is a action film, and the fourth installment in the Die Hard series. The film was directed by Len Wiseman and stars Bruce Willis as John McClane, the protagonist of the first three films. Other cast members included Justin Long ... |
Suspect Zero starring Aaron Eckhart and Carrie-Anne Moss (2004) - FBI Agent Thomas Mackelway (Aaron Eckhart) gets called in to investigate a strange murder. When the trail leads him to the suspect (Ben Kingsley), he realizes that he has been drawn into a psychological labyrinth that turns what is expected upside down.
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TAI CHI MASTER, Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Chin Siu-Hou, Fenny Yuen . Junbao (Jet Li) and Tienbo grow up together in a shaolin temple as monks, studying the martial arts and generally getting into trouble. When they are expelled from the temple after Tienbo almost kills a fellow student who cheats in a fight against him, they go to the town to find food. A gang of henchmen take the money from a local shop owner where a woman called Miss Li steals the money and gives it back to the owner. Having noticed his money gone, the henchmen start to fight with Miss Li where Junbao interferes and defeats all of them. Army reinforcements arrive to break up the fight and so the trio run away to escape capture. At this moment the eunuch governor travels through the town. Tienbo realises that he wants to be as rich as the governor, but Miss Li warns him that he has "a heart of a viper" and wonders if he could handle his power. Miss Li then shows the monks to a pub to get .... |
Taking Lives with Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke and Kiefer Sutherland - A successful FBI profiler, Illeana Scott (Angelina Jolie), is summoned to help out Canadian law enforcement in Montreal, to hunt down a serial killer who assumes the lives and identities (hence the title) of the people he kills as he travels across North America, which forces Illeana to adjust to working in a strange city with a police team with which she doesn't really fit in with.
Tears of the Sun, Bruce Willis, Monica Bellucci (2003) - Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their conscience and protect a group of innocent refugees.
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TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE - Jessica Biel, Jonathan Tucker, Erica Leerhsen A tale of five 20 young peoplewhose free spirited roadtrip becomes a terrifying descent into madness. When they find themselves isolated in a rural Texas community, they fall into the clutches of a monstrous clan of Texas cannibals and find themselves being whittled away by the chainsaw-wielding Leatherface. |
| THIN RED LINE with George Clooney, Sean Penn, Woody Harrelson. In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese's advance into the pacific. A group of young soldiers is brought in as a relief for the battle-weary Marine units. The exhausting fight for a key-positioned airfield that allows control over a 1000-mile radius puts the men of the Army Rifle company C-for-Charlie through hell. The horrors of war forms the soldiers into a tight-knit group, their emotions develop into bonds of love and even family. The reasons for this war get further away as the world for the men gets smaller and smaller until their fighting is for mere survival and the life of the other men with them. |
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When Dr. Zorba dies, he leaves his house to his broke nephew, who moves in with his daughter. With the house come two unexpected pluses (or minuses): the house has 13 ghosts which can only be seen with a special pair of glasses, and there's a fortune hidden somewhere in the house...and someone wants it. (Why did Zorba have so many ghosts? He collected them!) |
Ticker, Steven Seagal, Dennis Hopper, Jaime Pressly (2001) - Ray Nettles, a detective of San Francisco, and his partner Fuzzy must take up to one of the most dangerous terrorist gangs of the city. When one of the terrorists, the beautiful scientist Claire Manning is arrested, Swan, the leader of the terrorists, claims he will let explode bombs troughout the city if she will not be released. Because of the possible bloodsheat, Nettles calls for the help of explosive expert Frank Glass (Steven Seagal)...
Tigerland (2000) - In September 1971, a platoon of recruits arrives in Ft. Polk, LA, for infantry training before leaving for war. The final week takes place in Tigerland, a swamp similar to Vietnam. Jim Paxton has enlisted; he wants to experience everything and write books later. He befriends Roland Bozz, a cool Texan with a gift for getting into trouble and for helping misfits get discharges
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War begets revenge. Victorious general, Titus Andronicus, returns to Rome with hostages: Tamora queen of the Goths and her sons. He orders the eldest hewn to appease the Roman dead. He declines the proffered emperor's crown, nominating Saturninus, the last ruler's venal elder son. Saturninus, to spite his brother Bassianus, demands the hand of Lavinia, Titus's daughter. When Bassianus, Lavinia, and Titus's sons flee in protest, Titus stands against them and slays one of his own. Saturninus marries the honey-tongued Tamora, who vows vengeance against Titus. The ensuing maelstrom serves up tongues, hands, rape, adultery, racism, and Goth-meat pie. There's irony in which two sons survive. |
| TOKYO GA by Wim Wenders . Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in the films of Yasujiro Ozu |
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TRAINING DAY with Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes . In a city where streets are overrun by drug dealers, those who have sworn to uphold the law are breaking them to clean up the streets. Denzel Washington plays L.A.P.D detective Alonzo Harris, a veteran narcotics officer whose methods of enforcing the law are questionable, if not corrupt. 'Training Day' follows Harris as he trains rookie Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawk) over a period 24 hours. Ethical dilemmas arise for Hoyt as well as the audience as questions present themselves as to whether or not Harris' methodology for ridding the streets of South Central Los Angeles of drugs is right or wrong. |
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TROIE / TROY starrrring Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom Two nations at war with each other, as the Achaean Greeks lay siege to Troy, led by Agamemnon (Cox). Bana plays Hector, the greatest Trojan warrior |
Traffic, Michael Douglas, Catherine
Zeta-Jones (2000) - Ohio Supreme Court judge Robert Wakefield has been appointed the
nation's Drug Czar, his new position made more daunting by the discovery that
his teenage daughter Caroline is a heroin addict. Meanwhile, DEA agents Montel
Gordon and Ray Castro are pursuing Helena Ayala, wife of jailed kingpin Carlos
Ayala, as she seeks to the control the business that her husband had kept hidden
from her. South of the Border, duplicious local constable Javier Rodriguez is
fighting the battle with his own jaded, questionable ethical code.
Training Day,
Denzel Washington (2001) - In a city where streets are overrun by drug dealers, those
who have sworn to uphold the law are breaking them to clean up the streets.
Denzel Washington plays L.A.P.D detective Alonzo Harris, a veteran narcotics
officer whose methods of enforcing the law are questionable, if not corrupt.
'Training Day' follows Harris as he trains rookie Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawk) over
a period 24 hours. Ethical dilemmas arise for Hoyt as well as the audience as
questions present themselves as to whether or not Harris' methodology for ridding
the streets of South Central Los Angeles of drugs is right or wrong.
Trainspotting - Ewan McGregor (1996) - A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the darkest
recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton and his attempt to
give up his heroin habit, and how the latter affects his relationship with
family and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie,
14-year-old girlfriend Diane, and clean-cut athlete Tommy, who's never touched
drugs but can't help being curious about them...
Truman Show, The - Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Natascha McElhone (1998) -
U-571 , Matthew McConaughey (2000) - In the midst of World War II, the battle below the seas rages. The Nazi's have the upper edge as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. That is, until a wrecked U-boat sends out an SOS signal, and the Allies realise this is their chance to seize the 'enigma coding machine'. But masquerading as Nazi's and taking over the U-boat is the smallest of their problems. The action really begins when they get stranded on the U-boat.
U-Turn - Jennifer Lopez, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, 1997 - When Bobby's car breaks down in the desert while on the run from some of the bookies who have already taken two of his fingers, he becomes trapped in the nearby small town where the people are stranger than anyone he's encountered. After becoming involved with a (unbeknownst to him) young married woman, her husband hires Bobby to kill her. Later, she hires Bobby to kill the husband.
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UNBREAKABLE with Bruce Willis, Samuel L Jackson . Elijah Price (Jackson) is born with Type I osteogenesis imperfecta, a rare disease in which the bones break easily. As a child he is taunted by other children, who nickname him "Mr. Glass". Drawing on what he has read in comic books during his many hospital stays, Price theorizes that if he is frail at one extreme, then perhaps there is someone strong at the opposite extreme. |
Undisputed (Wesley Snipes) - George "Ice Man" Chambers (Rhames) is a top ranked heavyweight boxer. However Chambers has his world turned upside down when he is accused of rape and sent to prison.
Vanilla Sky - Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Penelope Cruz, Kurt Russell - During the week he turns 33, NYC magazine publisher David Aames, a playboy who has strange dreams, spends a night of passion with Julie, "a friend he sometimes sleeps with," and a night with Sofia, a witty, knowing dancer with a Spanish accent - a night with intimations of love. David is charming, rich (his mother's Monet, "Vanilla Sky" is in his bedroom), and feckless: he inherited the magazines and his minority partners want him out.
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VENGEANCE DANS LE PEAU / BOURNE BETRAYAL Matt Damon is Jason Bourne |
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In a quiet, isolated village in olde Pennsylvania, there lies a pact between the people of the village and the creatures who reside in the surrounding woods: the towns people do not enter the woods, and the creatures do not enter the village. The pact stays true for many years, but when Lucius Hunt seeks medical supplies from the towns beyond the wood, the pact is challenged. Animal carcasses, devoid of fur, begin to appear around the village, causing the council of elders to fear for the safety of the village, the pact, and so much more. |
Virus - Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Sutherland (1999) - A deadly alien virus infects the crew of a Russian ship and everyone becomes sick. When they are found in the middle of the sea by some Americans, the virus tries to spread even more. The aliens aren't very friendly; their purpose is to dominate the Earth by effacing the human race.
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WE WERE SOLDIERS / NOUS ETIONS SOLDATS starring Mel Gibson . A French Army unit is on patrol in Vietnam in 1954 during the First Indochina War. The captain of the patrol curses the land when they see nothing. Then, the unit is suddenly ambushed by Vietminh forces who kill the officers and, although the unit kills many Vietminh, it is eventually overrun. Nguyen Huu An, hypothesising that if they take no prisoners the French will eventually stop sending troops, orders the execution of all surviving French soldiers. |
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In this supernatural thriller, Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer play a seemingly happily married couple who uncover a terrible secret . . . a secret so disturbing it threatens to destroy them. |
Windtalkers
- Nicolas Cage - WWII. Joe Enders, a decorated Marine who is by-the-book
to a fault, is just coming back on duty (by cheating on his medical tests). "Ox" Anderson, much greener, is also getting the same new task: Protect the Navajo codetalkers (Ben Yahzee and Charles Whitehorse, respectively). While Enders is initially frustrated with his assignment, his respect grows as the codetalkers prove their worth in the brutal battle to take Saipan.
Wonder Boys, Michael Douglas, Katie Holmes (2000) - Grady Tripp (Douglas) is a professor/writer living in Pittsburgh who is struggling with writer's block. Whilst doing this, he also manages to get the chancellor (McDormand) pregnant. In the meantime, he and a college student, James Leer (Maguire) are trying to find a rare jacket once owned by Marilyn Monroe, and a college girl, Hannah Green (Holmes) boarding with Grady has a bit of a crush on him. Based on the book of the same name by Michael Chabon.
ZigZag (Wesley Snipes) - An autistic 15-year-old boy steals money from his boss to provide rent for his abusive father, who uses the money to repay a loan shark.
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