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Argentina:13 certified full length DVD movies
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Catherine (Gwyneth Paltrow) was a young intelligent woman who would have followed in the footsteps of her father Robert (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant mathematician, if he hadn’t begun to suffer from dementia. Catherine gave up a seemingly promising future and devoted herself to caring for her ailing father. Now, after his death, Catherine comes face to face with her fears of inheriting her father’s madness which eventually lead her to the verge of a mental breakdown. The situation becomes aggravated with the unexpected arrival of her overbearing elder sister Claire (Hope Davis) who wants to help Catherine settle their father’s estate. Moreover, Robert’s former student and now teacher Hal (Jake Gyllenhaal) turns up at her door. He worshipped Robert and now wants to search through his mentor’s notebooks in the hope of finding valuable work.
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In 2057 people are extremely anxious that the Sun is dying, and thus Mankind faces the threat of extinction. In this situation their only plank is the Icarus II spacecraft, the crew of which includes eight valiant male and female astronauts, led by Captain Kaneda (Hiroyuki Sanada). Their mission is to deliver a nuclear device and reignite the dimming star. Deep into the voyage, the crew members receive a muted distress signal from Icarus I that went missing en route toward the Sun seven years earlier. They decide to change course for the lost spaceship, but navigator Trey (Benny Wong) makes a miscalculation that leads to a terrible disaster. From that point on, the crew must fight not only for their lives and sanity but the future of humanity. |
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The dramedy focuses on David Spritz (Nicholas Cage), one of those lucky men whom you can envy. A popular weatherman on a Chicago news program, he prepares for an audition for New York morning show "Hello America". While Dave's professional dreams and ambitions come true, his personal life is really a mess. He is cut up about his father's lethal disease; he feels distressed and devastated after his painful divorce with his wife Noreen (Hope Davis); he desperately tries to get along with his estranged kids, Shelly (Gemmenne de la Pena) and Mike (Nicholas Hoult). Will he manage to cope with all his problems or will he swim with the tide? His afterlife will depend on this choice. |
| Vikings, The
[1958,
USA]
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| Mightiest Of Men... Mightiest Of Spectacles... Mightiest Of Motion Pictures! |
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Einar and Eric are two Viking half-brothers. The former is a great warrior whilst the other is an ex-slave, but neither knows the true identity of the other. When the throne of Northumbria in Britain becomes free for the taking, the two brothers compete against one another for the prize, but they have very different motives - both involving the princess Morgana, however. |
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Set in Victorian England, the drama chronicles adventures of Oliver Twist (Barney Clark), a 9-year-old lowly orphan born in a workhouse run by the hypocritical, cruel Mr. Bumble (Jeremy Swift). Fed up with maltreatment and poor conditions in the workhouse, Oliver ventures to escape to the streets of London where he is trapped in a den of young pickpockets and petty thieves led by the sinister old Fagin (Ben Kingsley). He tries perfidiously to draw the innocent boy into a life of crime. When Oliver is caught and mistaken for a thief who has participated in the robbery of the wealthy Mr. Brownlow (Edward Hardwicke), the kindly old gentleman decides to take the miserable boy home and give him a proper upbringing. |
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After his father's death, Kale Brecht (LaBeouf) becomes sullen, withdrawn, and troubled — so much so that he finds himself under a court-ordered sentence of house arrest after a run in with the law. His mother, Julie (Moss), works night and day to support herself and her son, only to be met with indifference and lethargy. The walls of his house begin to close in on Kale. He becomes a voyeur as his interests turn outside the windows of his suburban home towards those of his neighbors, one of which Kale begins to suspect is a serial killer. But, are his suspicions merely the product of cabin fever and his overactive imagination? |
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Two sisters, plus a dead mother, a remarried father, and a hostile step-mother. The sisters, each in her way, have perfected the art of losing. The elder, Rose, is an attorney, responsible, lonely, with a closet full of shoes. The younger is Maggie, beautiful, selfish, and irresponsible. Her drunken behavior gets her tossed by her step-mother from her dad's house; worse behavior gets her tossed from Rose's apartment. Then, while searching in her father's desk for money to filch, Maggie finds an address; the past and the future open up to her and, with any luck, may open to her sister as well. |
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Gaylord Focker (Ben Stiller), a Jewish male nurse, is always plagued with bad luck and all his good deeds lead him into a string of mishaps. This time Greg tries his darndest to marry his beloved, Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo). However, after he spends his first weekend with Pam's parents at her sister's wedding on Long Island, this task becomes really tough. Things start to go horribly wrong when he loses his luggage at the airport. During the weekend Greg contrives to give Pam's sister, Deborah (Nicole DeHuff), a black eye, lose the Byrnes' rare cat and set their garden on fire. But there's more to it than that: his soon-to-be father-in-law, former CIA agent Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro), dislikes Greg very much and gives him an acid test. The strict and suspicious father even subjects his daughter's boyfriend to a lie detector. Will the Byrnes give their blessing to a future wedding between their daughter, the apple of their eyes, and the clumsy, bustling, accident-prone Greg? |
| Amistad
[1997,
USA]
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| Freedom is not given. It is our right at birth. But there are some moments when it must be taken. |
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Amistad is the name of a slave ship traveling towards the New World in 1839. It is carrying a cargo of Africans who have been captured, taken on board, and chained in the cargo hold of the ship. As the ship is crossing the Atlantic, Cinque, who was a tribal leader in Africa, leads a mutiny and takes over the ship. They continue to sail, hoping to find help when they land. Instead, when they reach the United States, they are imprisoned as runaway slaves. They don't speak a word of English, and it seems like they are doomed to die for killing their captors when an abolitionist lawyer decides to take their case, arguing that they were free citizens of another country and not slaves at all. The case finally gets to the Supreme Court, where John Quincy Adams makes an impassioned and eloquent plea for their release. |
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It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles, and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer's "The Iliad." |
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A lonely hospital doctor, Kate Forster (Sandra Bullock), happens to find her twin soul – a talented but frustrated architect, Alex Wyler (Keanu Reeves). The amazing thing is that he lives in the very same glass house in a lake where she used to live. The two begin exchanging letters and eventually develop a long distance relationship. When Kate and Alex become overwhelmed by the urge to meet each other, they face a very powerful obstacle standing in their way. It turns out that they are living in disparate time periods: he in 2004 and she in 2006. They disclose that the enchanted mailbox outside the lake house is the only link between past and future. Alex and Kate try their darndest to find means to bridge the distance between them. |
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The US Army is under pressure from the desperate relatives of white prisoners of the Comanches to secure their rescue. A cynical and corrupt marshal, Guthrie McCabe, is persuaded by an army lieutenant to assist in the negotiations with the Comanches. However, just two captives are released; and their reintegration into white society proves highly problematic. |
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Chili Palmer, a Miami mobster, loan-sharks for Ray Bones, a violent thug with a big chip on his shoulder. Ray sends Chili to Vegas after a bad debt, and a casino boss enlists Chili to find an even bigger deadbeat: Harry Zimm, Hollywood player and producer of low-budget horror films. In Tinseltown, Chili meets Harry, as well as his scream- queen leading lady, Karen Flores; Harry's drug-dealing financier, Bo Catlett; and Karen's ex, Martin Weir (aka "Shorty"), a big star with an ego to match. Chili finds his Mafioso skills lend themselves quite nicely to what he's always really wanted to do: producing movies. |
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After mastermind Charlie Croker (Mark Wahlberg) and his crew of expert thieves and adventurers pull off a massive gold bullion heist from a Venetian palazzo, they are shocked to discover that one of them is a traitor. It is inside man Steve (Edward Norton) who kills his companion, veteran safecracker John Bridger (Donald Sutherland), and makes off with the bullions. One year later, the surviving gang members decide to exact their revenge on the double-crosser. They track down Steve in Los Angeles, California, and plot to break into his palatial estate, steal back the gold and make their escape by hacking into the traffic control system and creating the biggest traffic jam in the city's history. |
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Lenny and Amanda have an adopted son Max who turns out to be brilliant. Lenny becomes obsessed with finding Max's real parents because he believes that they too must be brilliant. When he finds that Linda Ash is Max' real mother, Lenny is disappointed. Linda is a prostitute and porn star. On top of that, she is quite possibly the dumbest person Lenny has ever met. Interwoven is a Greek chorus linking the story with the story of Oedipus. |
| Notting Hill
[1999,
UK, USA]
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| Can the most famous film star in the world fall for just an ordinary guy? |
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William Thacker (Hugh Grant) was a shy, kind, attractive Englishman who kept a small travel bookstore in the Notting Hill district in West London and shared an apartment with a whimsical Welsh pal, Spike (Rhys Ifans). The chance meeting with a celebrated American movie star, Anna Scott (Julia Roberts), who one day dropped into his store, could have ended in nothing if William hadn't run out a few minutes later to buy some coffee. On his way back to the shop, he accidentally rammed into Anna in the street, spilling the coffee onto her blouse. The gentlemanlike William kindly offered to remove a spot at his nearby house and Anna agreed. They began dating and love blossomed between the ordinary guy and the famous actress was ardent and romantic. Nevertheless the idyl came to an end when Anna's actor boyfriend Jeff King (Alec Baldwin) arrived in London to see her... |
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A sculptor of wax figures for a museum is horrified when his partner proposes setting fire to the unpopular museum in order to collect the insurance money. As the wax figures melt amid the blaze, the two men have a fight. The sculptor is knocked out in the scuffle and left to "perish" among the flames. He resurfaces many years later for the launch of his own wax museum. The opening coincides with the sudden disappearance of some dead bodies from the city morgue. His assistant begins to suspect his boss of foul play, especially after the deranged wizard of wax begins eyeing his assistant's lovely girlfriend's friend as a model for a waxed figure of Marie Antoinette. |
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Wonderful comedy, existential philosophy, corporate satire, and idealistic quest are mixed in this offbeat movie about a married couple of metaphysicians working as private "existentialist" detectives. They fearlessly investigate the mysteries at the core of their clients' secret innermost lives. They help others to solve their existential issues — the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means. Jason Schwartzman plays Albert, an environmental activist with a penchant for bad poetry and self-doubt. During his campaign to stop Huckabees, a suburban superstore, from destroying marshland, Albert's group is taken over by one of the store's vapidly charming salesmen, a pitch-perfect Jude Law. Utterly distraught and questioning the meaning of life, Albert seeks the help of a bizarre husband-and-wife team of "existential detectives." By spying on Albert's daily life, they seek to help him answer that most elemental of human questions, "Why am I here?" |
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Ethan Hunt, a superspy known from preceding movies MI and MI-II, has retired from active duty to train freshman IMF agents; he is having a peaceful life along with his girl Julia. But one night, its time to get into action again for Ethan (Tom Cruise, as it should be) and he is to struggle against Owen Davian, an international weapons and information provider with no conscience and no remorse. Hunt assembles his team again, he and his and new acquisitions like Zhen and Declan, will chase Owen all over the world, using high-tech and all sort of gadgets. |
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Baron Munchausen is a character of European myth that might be considered the predecessor of American tales of Pecos Bill or Paul Bunyan. The Baron's stories are taken to be outrageous and fanciful lies. This is the origin of the name of the psychiatric diagnosis of "Munchausen's Syndrome", a particularly bizzare form of hypochondria. |
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