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Argentina:13 certified full length DVD movies
| City by the Sea
[2002,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| When you're searching for a killer... the last suspect you want to see is your son. |
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Detective Vincent LaMarca (Robert DeNiro) is an ideal campaigner whose incorruptible reputation is known well. But this cop has a skeleton in the cupboard: his father was executed for the murder many years ago, a child was killed. Vincent is an incarnated atonement; "serving and protecting", he does his best to expiate his father's crime. But the poison seed' sprouts of the past are bitter and dire: LaMarca gets to know the part of his own son Joey (James Franco) in the crimes of the present; this awful knowledge obliges him to make the difficult choice between his professional duty and the love for his son. This film is based on the real events being an outstanding one between the other crime-themed movies. |
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Professional quarterback Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler), a former NFL player, and former college champion and coach Nate Scarborough (Burt Reynolds) are doing time in the same prison. Tough warden Hazen (James Cromwell) decides to organize a soccer match between the guards and the inmates and forces Paul to assemble his team. Yet, he tries to persuade Crewe to lose the game in exchange of his early release. The convicts willingly unite when they discover that the guards will be their rivals. They see the forthcoming game as a golden opportunity to exact some revenge on the sadistic warders. |
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Frank Castle's family was murdered as a payback for his final FBI undercover assignment when the son of a criminal-minded, ruthless businessman named Howard Saint (John Travolta) was mistakenly killed by Castle. He had lost any confidence in the police & courts to put the killer of the family and his thugs behind the bars and aims to wreak vengeance by tracking down the offenders responsible for the demise. He has no superpowers to battle the evil he sees - only his ferocious intelligence, his years of fighting experience and, above all, his iron determination to avenge those rejected by society's criminals. Dave (Ben Foster), Bumpo (John Pinette), and Joan (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) are the Castle's fellow outcasts combined with him to get the job done as he hunts down Saint. Thrilling stunt work, gunfights, and huge explosions are abundant in this creation of Jonathan Hensleigh's directorial mind. |
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An Army sergeant (Samual Jackson) takes six of his special troops on a training mission into the rain-soaked Colombian jungles and only two come out alive. When the rescue mission arrives, they see one soldier (Brian Van Holt) killing another and carrying a wounded comrade (Giovanni Ribisi). As the interrogation begins, the soldier refuses to talk to anyone other than another Ranger. The investigating officer (Connie Nielsen) protests, but her commanding officer (Timothy Daly) nonetheless brings in a former Ranger and current DEA agent (John Travolta) to help. The agent is currently on suspension from DEA for allegedly accepting a bribe. From this point on, the plot continues to twist and turn and offers numerous surprises that keeps the story interesting. |
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This sequel to Pitch Black follows escaped convict Riddick (Vin Diesel) as he finds himself between the hammer and the anvil in a raging galactic war. After spending five years on the run and pursued by ruthless bounty-hunters, Riddick is to fight for the future of the human race, which is about to annihilate by the efforts of an evil Necromongers. Notwithstanding he is not a hero but an antihero, he is an evil to defeat evil. Aided by the mysterious ethereal being named Aereon (Judi Dench), who helps him uncover the secrets of his past, Riddick has to fight against the evil Lord Marshal (Colm Feore) and his army. He meets the girl Kyra (Alexa Davalos), with whom he escaped from the monster-swarmed planet, together they should stand the battle that will determine the fate of the universe. |
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One of the most dangerous and perfidious spies in the world, charismatic Gabriel Shear (John Travolta), once a CIA agent and now a criminal genius, has the intention of stealing $9 billion in illegal government funds. To steal dirty money, however, he needs a superhacker able to break into the most complicated computer system. It is Stanley Jobson (Hugh Jackman) who can pull off the impossible. After having done time for hacking into the FBI's cyber surveillance systems, Stanley, penniless, computerless and solitary, leads a miserable life. Gabriel, along with his charming henchman Ginger Knowles (Halle Berry), entices him into breaking the law once again in exchange for custody of his daughter Holly (Camryn Grimes) he lost in a divorce. |
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In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps. Explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but nice) Amber Atkins won't be stopped. There could well be more death and disappointment to come. |
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Promising football player Brandon Lane (Matthew McConaughey) sustains a serious knee injury which puts the kibosh on his football career. Failing professional options he takes a job in a telephone service foretelling the outcome of games for sports betters. His talent to pick the winners soon attracts the attention of Walter Abrams (Al Pacino) who runs a large sports prognosticating business. He lures Brandon to join his enterprise, hoping to make lots of money off him. Brandon changes his name and personality and the perilous game starts!
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Cynthia, TV producer, has an idea about how to save the station: A normal person's life should be broadcasted 24 hours a day. "Ed TV" is born the second her eye falls on Ed Pekurny, a sympathetic Joe Sixpack. After the first week on air Eds fame grows and grows, but conflicts break open: His brother Ray publishes a very negative book about Ed, who now dates Ray's ex; Ed's parent's partnership problematics are broadcasted nationwide and a very attractive and seducing model uses innocent Ed to raise her own fame. Also, Ed's contract proves to be unquittable, so that Ed Pekurny suddenly can see the golden bars around his cage. But in a country that switches the TV set on for breakfast and off for bedtime, nearly everything can happen - and people can be counted on. |
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Shortly before the playoffs, the Washington Sentinels and their cheerleaders have gone on strike for more money. To put their nose out, the owner of the NFL football team, Edward O'Neil (Jack Warden), brings in self-retired head coach Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman) to hire a team of substitute players. The replacement team is comprised of Daniel Bateman (Jon Favreau), a violent SWAT leader; Clifford Franklin (Orlando Jones), an ex-convict, who can outrun bit can't catch a football; Nigel 'The Leg' Gruff (Rhys Ifans), a Welsh soccer player who can kick a soccerball the full length of the playing field; Jahmal Abdul Jackson (Faizon Love) and André Action Jackson (Michael Taliferro), stout gangster rapper brothers; Jumbo Fumiko (Ace Yonamine), a Japanese sumo wrestler. Among them is Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves), a former Ohio State quarterback who has to become the ragtag team's captain. Charming blonde Annabelle Farrell (Brooke Langton), the head cheerleader, assembles a group of former strippers to encourage the replacements and kindle their fighting spirit. "Glory lasts forever, " Falco says to his team players. His plan of the game seems to be flawless. Their power is their unpredictability... |
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Peter Burton and Tim Garrity both meet when they go to law school. Tim comes from an affluent family, while Peter comes from the working class, which he is a bit ashamed of. Tim's a noble person who wants to do what is right, while Peter's willing to do whatever it takes to get ahead. And that includes blackmail and intimidation. And when his latest scheme burns Tim, Tim decides to find out if Peter deliberately betrayed him or if the man he works, John Palmeri made him do it and if so to make them answer for it. |
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Harry (Adrien Brody), a mad guy obsessed with Houdini escape tricks, kidnaps the wife of a tycoon (James Naughton) and buries her alive in a shallow grave somewhere in Manhattan. His ransom demands are outrageous. Besides, Harry refuses to negotiate with anyone but a New York Detective Madeline Foster (Maura Tierney) who's trying to harness her own demands. The lives of these two suffering smart people are interlaced in a 24-hour dramatic psychological game, with a suffocating woman's life put at stake.
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In October of 1994, 3 students go into the woods to find the Blair witch. They find wooden dolls. When the last ray of light leave the forest. The forest is left black. Then, everyone mysteriously disappears. Then a year later, A thousand of film cans, tapes and footages were found. They are combined and made into "The Blair Witch Project" |
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The road-trip comedy revolves around four middle-aged buddies, dentist Doug Madsen (Tim Allen), plumber Bobby Davis (Martin Lawrence), businessman Woody Stevens (John Travolta), and computer analyst Dudley Frank (William H. Macy). Burdened with variety of pursuits and duties and fed up with their weekly gatherings at a local saloon, they decide to revive the good old days and take a cross-country trip. The dashing guys put on leather jackets, cover their heads with bandanas, get on their bikes and embark on a memorable adventure to the Pacific Coast.
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When seductive British secret agent James Bond 007 is sent to North Korea to infiltrate renegade military officer Colonel Moon, the mission is sabotaged but Colonel Moon is killed and his second-in-command Zao is injured, but Bond is captured and is tortured and interrogated. 14 months later, Bond is released and traded for Zao, and Bond's boss M, rescinds his 007 status. 007 sets out to get his revenge on those who set him up. Where he tracks down Zao in Cuba and finds him in a genetic operation to give him a new identity. Bond finds diamonds on Zao which leads him to British billionaire Gustav Graves, who has set-up Icarus, a orbit satellite which will provide light and energy to the Earth. With help from sexy American secret agent Jinx and Grave's publicist, undercover M:I-6 agent Miranda Frost, Bond sets out to stop Graves who is working with Zao and plans on using Icarus as a weapon and unleash destruction. |
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Femme fatale Jewel Valentine (Liv Tyler) knows how to use her beauty and body to twist men round her little finger. One night at a bar called McCool's, bartender Randy (Matt Dillon), Detective Dehling (John Goodman), and lawyer Carl Harding (Paul Reiser) meet the seductive Jewel who turns their heads and ruins each of their lives by making them break the law. |
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Seriocomic story based on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio, the movie follows a young woman who finds her life radically altered by an event from her teen years. Born in 1950, Beverly grew up bright and ambitious in a working-class neighborhood in Connecticut; her father was a tough but good-hearted cop who listened to his daughter's problems, and her mother was a nervous woman eager to imagine the worst. From an early age, Beverly displays a keen intelligence and an interest in literature, and dreams of going to college in New York and becoming a writer. However, she also develops an early interest in boys, and at 15 finds herself madly in love with a boy from her high school. However, an attempt to get his attention leads to an embarassing incident at a party, and Ray, a sweet but thick-headed 18-year-old, steps forward to defend her. Beverly and Ray end up making out, and after one thing leads to another, Beverly discovers she's pregnant. Telling Ray is only marginally less difficult than informing her parents, and at 16, Beverly is a wife and mother. Against the odds, Beverly is determined to still finish high school and go on to college, but that goal becomes more difficult with time, especially after Beverly's marriage begins to fall apart. Ray tries to do the right thing but has trouble holding a job, and becomes addicted to heroin. |
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Allison is a "square" good girl who has decided she wants to be bad and falls hard for Cry-Baby Walker, a Greaser (or "Drape" in John Waters parlance). Spoofing Elvis movies and Juvenile Delinquency scare films of the '50s, this movie follows the adventures of Cry-Baby who, though he is sent to juvie, is determined to cross class (and taste) boundaries to get Allison back. |
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This movie became the real classic superhit between the other action-style films. John Spartan (Stallone) has the deadly foe: his name is Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes), and Spartan hunts him down for two years. When Simon takes 30 persons hostage, the building gets blown up during the all-out battle between the cop and the offender. Due to the fact that his efforts was taken for carelessness and the people were killed, Spartan gets accused and sentenced to serve 70 long years in a cryogenic camera. After the penitentiary period (already in the future) Spartan should acquire some peaceful skills such as knitting and cooking, but accidentally he gets to know that Simon is still alive and dangerous. More, Spartan is the only man who can stop this recidivist because all serious crimes and criminals are eradicated in the described future and there is no cop who can struggle against the offender. |
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FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith certainly has his hands full keeping Antonelli away from the Mafia hitmen who want to stop him testifying, not to mention the nightclubs... |
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