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Argentina:13 certified full length DVD movies
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Venetian Giacomo Casanova (Heath Ledger) was a man of many parts: a famous traveler, talented writer, smart spy, good amateur doctor and even inventor of the lottery, just to name a few. However, his image as the world's greatest seducer lingers in the minds of people of different generations. Casanova was notorious for his promiscuity with women. Thousands of lovely ladies all over Europe – from servants to aristocrats – gave their argent love to the gallant, charismatic adventurer but none of them could win his heart. But one day Giacomo met smart and alluring Francesca Bruni (Sienna Miller), the only woman able to resist his amorous charms. Intrigued by the haughty beauty, Casanova decided to win her over by hook or crook before he knew that his own heart had been stolen forever.
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Since childhood ambitious Ricky Bobby (Will Ferrell) has been mad about auto racing, dreaming of following his father's (Gary Cole) steps and becoming a pro. He makes the first step to his dream and starts working on a pit crew as a jackman for a race team. One day he is lucky to replace Terry Cheveaux (Adam McKay) who is only an apology for a driver and ends up finishing third despite starting mid-race in last place. Ricky soon becomes the best NASCAR driver, around whom reporters and girl fans always swarm. He and his stalwart childhood friend, racing partner Cal Naughton Jr. (John C. Reilly) always finish races in the No. 1 and No. 2 positions; he has his trophy wife Carley (Leslie Bibb), two kids and fat cat accounts in the bank. It goes on like this, until a pretentious Formula One driver Jean Girard (Sacha Baron Cohen) challenges Ricky and outperforms him on the track. The ex-champion finds himself in a hospital bed instead of a pedestal. Doctors prohibit him from dreaming of his comeback on track but despite everything Ricky gets back into racing and makes it hot for Jean Girard.
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Connie Sumner has a loving husband, a beautiful home, and a wonderful son, but she wants more. When she's approached one day by a handsome stranger while trying to hail a taxi, she becomes obsessed with him and eventually starts an affair. But her selfish actions soon catch up with her... |
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When Agent 009 turns up dead at the British Embassy in Berlin holding a Russian Faberge egg, 007 is called in to investigate. He soon finds out that the egg is being sought by a collector named Kamal Khan (Jordan), who is in league with a psychopathic Soviet general, Orlov (Steven Berkhoff) who is hell-bent on Soviet domination despite reprimands from his superiors. Orlov's plan involves smuggling an atomic bomb into a U.S. Air Force Base in West Germany, in the hopes of crippling the country and leaving it an easy target for Soviet conquest. Bond's investigation of Khan leads him to India, where he meets a mysterious woman named 'Octopussy' who is connected to Khan. The bomb is smuggled aboard a circus train, and one of the men helping Kamal & Orlov is the man responsible for killing 009! Bond must race against time to stop the bomb from exploding & killing thousands, then running down Kamal Khan before he escapes! |
| Quick Change
[1990,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| The bank robbery was easy. But getting out of New York was a nightmare. |
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Grimm, his girlfriend Phyllis, and their friend Loomis decide to rob a bank. The robbery goes off without a hitch, but can they escape from New York without getting caught ? |
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Gavin Banek (Ben Affleck), a successful young attorney, is in a hurry to get to the courthouse. He needs to deliver legal papers that will transfer control of a deceased eccentric rich man's multi-million dollar estate over to his law firm. Doyle Gipson (Samuel L. Jackson), a down-on-his-luck insurance salesman, is also in a rush to a custody hearing to announce that he has got a house loan from the bank so that his ex-wife Valerie (Kim Staunton) and his sons won't move to another country. The two men's cars collide on the expressway at the most inopportune moment. Due to the process of the post-crash discussion Gipson misses his hearing, while Banek arrives at the court in time but discovers a crucial legal file inadvertently dropped at the scene of the accident. As Gipson loses custody of his kids, he decides to ruin the well-groomed attorney's life by refusing to give him back his paper. Thus a fierce and treacherous battle starts between the two desperate men. |
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This dark, but nonetheless sparkling comedy follows a vivid family which inhabits the dull, strange house. All horrors here are stylized and are not terrible at all - quite the contrary, all these vampires and other evil spirits who, in fact, respectively are the Addams family, can win your sympathies instead of expected fear. |
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Miles Massey (George Clooney) is the most successful divorce attorney in Southern California. Due to his outstanding skills he has a tremendous win record. One day he meets the dangerously gorgeous Marylin Rexroth (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who is willing to achieve financial independence after a divorce with her rich husband Rex (Edward Herrmann), a real estate developer. She is a typical gold digger who seeks a wealthy bachelor and then divorces him for his money. This time, she, however, ends up with nothing as Miles wins in court again. But the perfidious temptress goes all lengths to exact painful revenge on the elegant lawyer. She is bent on marrying Miles and then making fun of him during the divorce proceedings. |
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What would your life have been like if you had...? Jack Campbell (Nicolas Cage) has never asked himself that question. He is a successful Wall Street investment banker and playboy enjoying the high life in New York City. But one Christmas morning everything magically changes in his life. When Jack wakes up, he unexpectedly finds himself living in a modest suburban New Jersey house and working as a tire salesman. And most importantly he is married to Kate Reynolds (Téa Leoni), his college sweetheart whom he abandoned for the sake of his career in the past, and has two sweet kids, toddler Josh (Jake and Ryan Milkovich) and six-year-old Annie (Makenzie Vega). At first Jack feels horrified at this turn of events. But when he gets used to the idea that he is given a chance to start a new life with a big happy family, fate gets ready to play another trick on him... |
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Set in 1890 in America, the breathtaking western adventure tells the story of Frank T. Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen), a Pony Express rider and winner of long-distance horse races. His reputation as the greatest rider in the West reaches the ears of a wealthy Arabian sheik (Omar Sharif) who challenges Hopkins to take part in "The Ocean of Fire," a survival horse race across Middle Eastern deserts. Determined to receive $100,000 as prize money and the honor of being the best rider in the world, Hopkins accepts the invitation from the Sheikh to enter the treacherous competition with his endurance mixed-breed mustang, Hidalgo.
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In the year 2001, Dave Bowman was taken by the Jupiter monolith and transformed into a powerful being. Now, in the year 2010, Dr. Heywood Floyd, the man held responsible for Discovery's failure, is going to Jupiter. He and his crewmates must reactivate the psychotic HAL-9000 computer, so they may learn what happened, and they must find out the meaning of Dave Bowman's last transmission... "My God, it's full of stars..." |
| Working Girl
[1988,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| For anyone who's ever won. For anyone who's ever lost. And for everyone who's still in there trying. |
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A witty, romantic look at life in the corporate jungle: Tess McGill is an ambitious secretary with a unique approach for climbing the ladder to success. When her classy, but villainous boss breaks a leg skiing, Tess simply takes over her office, her apartment, even her wardrobe. She then creates a deal with a handsome investment banker that will either take her straight to the top - or finish her off for good. |
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All of Caroline's boyfriends seem to leave her or cheat on her. On her way home from work two men try to rape Caroline. An introverted man from her work, Adam, rescues her. Adam is an orphan and he is told that he's got a baboon's heart. Adam opens up to Caroline and together they make sense. Adam and Caroline are very happy together but the rapists try to get back at Adam and not everyone accepts an outcast like Adam. |
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It is 1948 in LA and Ezikeal "Easy" Rawlins, an African-American World War II veteran, is looking for work. At his friend's bar, he is introduced to a white man, DeWitt Albright, who is looking for someone to help him find a missing white woman assumed to be hiding somewhere in LA's Black community. This woman, Daphane Monet, happens to be the fiancée of a wealthy "blue blood," Todd Carter, who is currently the favorite in the city's mayoralty race. Daphane Monet is known to frequent the Black jazz clubs in LA. Easy, innocently, accepts Albright's offer; however, he quickly finds himself amidst murder, crooked cops, ruthless politicians, and brutalizing hoodlums. This is a Chandler-esque "who-done-it" with an African-American theme. |
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A study of the physical and emotional intricacies affecting the everyday lives of a very diverse group of women, and the strategies they adopt in coping with events - large and small, overt and hidden - which shape the way they live. |
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Dr. Richard Thorndyke arrives as new administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, VERY Nervous to discover some suspicious goings-on. When he's framed for murder, Dr. Thorndyke must confront his own psychiatric condition, "high anxiety," in order to clear his name. An homage to the films of Alfred Hitchcock; contains many parodies of famous Hitchcock scenes from THE BIRDS, PSYCHO, and VERTIGO. |
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Centred around a weekend party at the home of inventor Andrew Hobbs and his wife Adrian, attended by randy doctor Maxwell Jordan, his nurse Dulcy, renowned philosopher Dr.Leopold Sturgis and his fiancée, this is a light comedy concerning their various emotional, intellectual and sexual entanglements, loosely based on Ingmar Bergman's 'Smiles of a Summer Night' . |
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Paired with the owlish, reticent young Watson, Sherlock Holmes embarks on the solution of a mystery that involves a hallucinatory and lethal drug, and a religious cult celebrating ancient Egyptian rites of mummification. They all enter and view, from a hiding place, an Ancient-Egyptian-themed cult, known as the Rame-Tep (also known as Rametep and Ramatep), performing a ceremony in which a young girl is hypnotized, wrapped in linen and killed with the pouring of boiling wax atop her body. The trio gets spotted, and are each hit by a thorn and experience their own horrific hallucinations in a graveyard, but eventually recover. |
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Henry Turner is a despicable and ruthless trial lawyer whose life is turned upside down when he is shot in the head during a robbery. He survives the injury with significant brain damage and must re-learn how to speak, walk, and function normally. He has also lost most of the memory of his personal life, and must adjust to life with the family that he does not remember. To the surprise of his wife and daughter, Henry becomes a loving and affectionate man. |
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Allie Fox has never been a man to do things by the book. An avid inventor, he is a troubled genuis given to intense moods and an incredible drive. Seemingly on a whim, he shifts his family to the jungles of Central America, telling his children that America "is gone". Determined to create a civilization better than the one he has abandoned, Fox's obsession and mania might pull his family through, or it might pull them apart. |
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