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Argentina:13 certified full length DVD movies
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Young energetic woman Caroline Ellis (Kate Hudson) takes a job as a live-in caretaker for Ben Devereaux (John Hurt), an elderly stroke victim who is speechless and wheelchair bound. To make maneuvering throughout the mansion an easier task, Ben’s wife Violet (Gena Rowlands) gives the nurse a skeleton key that unlocks every door in the house. One day, while exploring the rambling old house, Caroline discovers a secret room at the back of the attic. Curiosity prevails and she opens the room containing an intriguing mix of mystical items, hair, bones, blood, and spells, to name a few. Caroline soon realizes that odd, and sometimes inexplicable, things start occurring around her. The more time she spends in the hidden room, the more convinced she is that something ominous may be lurking in the mansion...
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The offbeat comedy focuses on two average persons, Army soldier Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson) and prostitute Rita (Maya Rudolph), who are selected as guinea pigs for a government-run hibernation program. The cryo-freezing experiment which was supposed to last only a year goes afoul, and Joe and Rita wake up in the year 2505. They find themselves living in a society where people have become degraded and the world is now ruled by the stupid. As a result, Joe and Rita prove to be the smartest people on the planet.
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Will Fransis (Jude Law), a successful landscape architect, discovers his office repeatedly burgled. He leaves his safe and familiar world to launch his own investigation which leads him to a young Muslim thief, Mirza Simic (Rafi Gavron). A Bosnian refugee, he lives in the shabby neighborhood of King's Cross with his widowed mother, Amira (Juliette Binoche), who works as a seamstress. Will decides not to report his discovery to the police as he realizes that the family can hardly make both ends. Moreover, he immediately gets drawn to Amira... |
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New York based freelance journalist John Kelso (John Cusack) arrives in the small town of Savannah to write a feature on an extravagant Christmas party held by local wealthy socialite James 'Jim' Williams (Kevin Spacey). Later that night, the host of the party acting in self-defence shoots dead his gay lover, Billy Carl Hanson (Jude Law), a troublesome young man. Clint Eastwood depicts the murder trial in great detail and states two different versions of the incident without giving any definite answer how the murder was committed. |
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This funny parody at the various American cop films stars Leslie Nielsen as Lt Frank Drebin who stops at nothing to catch scumbags who have encroached upon the law and the order. Quentin Hapsburg (Robert Goulet) is the foe of our valiant hero, and his evil mind will be defeated in the funniest way! |
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The seductive love story set in the mid 1930s revolves around a young British officer, John Truscott (Hugh Dancy), dispatched to the remote island of Borneo to civilize the native Iban tribe, and a gorgeous, beguiling native maiden Selima (Jessica Alba), a so-called sleeping dictionary. She is the kind of girl to fast-teach colonial officers the language and the local habits – in bed. Forbidden love flourishes between the officer and his concubine but unfortunately, their unexpected romance makes variance between the colonizers and the colonized. Thus Selima and John are ruthlessly separated by war. A year later, the officer returns to the island with his wife but suddenly his past intrudes on his present to cardinally change all his plans... |
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Two MTV cartoon dim-witted guys Beavis and Butt-head discover that their TV, their best friend and the window to the world, is stolen. They start the journey across America to find it and encounter a lot of adventures. During the trip they are hired by a smuggler to 'do' his ex-wife in Las Vegas, but for Beavis and Butt-head and for the smuggler the word 'to do' has two different meanings. |
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Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) is a perspective designer who has just been dismissed after his design for new sneakers caused company's failure. Troubles increase when his girlfriend Ellen leaves him. Drew is on the edge of suicide but suddenly he gets the news about his father's death. He should return to his home in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and help his mother with the funeral. Luckily, he meets Claire (Kirsten Dunst), a beautiful and sympathetic flight attendant, who brings long-awaited light into his life.
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Simon is a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state. Dr.Karen Shoemaker wants to get through to him and starts visiting him in the hospital, and his previous life comes to us in flashbacks. |
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A destitute 14 year old (Noah Fleiss) struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's (Karen Young) hands, harsher abuse at his father's (Val Kilmer), and a growing separation from his slightly older brother (Max Ligosh). Petty thefts for food grow into more major takes until he steals a cash box from the diner where he works. Although Joe uses the money to pay off some of his father's debts and to replace his mother's records that his father smashed in a fit of temper, Joe gets no thanks... |
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It's a quiet little town where nothing happens - until the day the bank is hit for half a million dollars of Indian casino money by a thief wearing a clowns mask. From here the story follows a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse between bank robber and former cop Parker (James Spader) and small-town police officer Ray DeCarlo (David Keith) determined to catch him. Parker doesn't help himself by holing up with a nurse who happens to be DeCarlo's former wife. Throw in a rookie FBI agent, Indians who want their money back, some former friends of Parker who are not so friendly anymore and his fate seems sealed. |
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David Mamet takes this story of thieves along many twists and turns, some of which work and some of which don't. Gene Hackman plays the brilliant leader of a gang (Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay & Rebecca Pigeon as Hackman's youngish wife), which pulls off complex heists for a despicable fence (Danny DeVito). After stiffing the gang on a jewelry robbery, DeVito forces the gang to go after a Swiss gold shipment and to use his nephew (Sam Rockwell) in the crime. No one trusts anyone and every step is shaded with the unexpected. |
| Missing, The
[2003,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| How far would you go, how much would you sacrifice to get back what you have lost? |
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In 19th-century New Mexico, a father (Tommy Lee Jones) comes back home, hoping to reconcile with his adult daughter Maggie (Cate Blanchett). Maggie's daughter is kidnapped, forcing father and estranged daughter to work together to get her back. |
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Gambler Van Morgan runs a little card game in town but one night things get out of hand. A stranger amateurishly tries to cheat and, though Morgan tries to stop it, his fellow players string him up. The gambler leaves town but returns when he hears that the other players are being killed off one by one. It could be that someone will soon be after him too. |
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A loving father explains the value of promise and believing to his two boys trough the story of young Mike and his kid brother Bobby, who being abandoned by their dad had to move with ma and German shepherd Shane to a rural town where the local kids, lorded by abusive older scamp Victor Hernandez, consider them intruders 'stealing' their predecessors' place. Alas the friendly sheriff Daugherty, whose protection they politely wave, will have to act against a far worse bully, ma's new lover who expects to be called the king and belts Bobby's back brutally when drunk in the garage, a secret the boys want to keep secret for finally happy ma. The superstitious brothers spend their time exploring, pulling a wheeled red wagon called Radio Flyer, which name finally inspires a desperate 'magical escape' attempt... |
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When the Gothic new girl, Cassie, moves into the town, Priscilla the most popular, beautiful girl in school plots against her. But when Priscilla is kidnapped along with her brother, Cassie has no other choice but to search for them. |
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A virus similar to Ebola & Lassa is discovered in Africa in 1969. 25 years later, it resurfaces - and Col. Sam Daniels of the U.S. Army is sent in to investigate it. When he returns he warns his boss, Brigadier-Gen. Ford, of the lethal nature of the virus and wants to put out an alert. Ford, who had been one of the men who first dealt with the virus, insists the virus is contained and unlikely to show up in the U.S. What neither man knows is that the host - a monkey - has been brought into the U.S. by freighter. Through an under-the-table bribe, a young man gets the monkey out of the animal-testing lab it was bound for. Soon, the man is infected - and Col. Daniels' ex-wife, Dr. Keough - now with the CDC - is called into Boston when the young man is brought to a hospital in critical condition. Dr. Keough discovers that the man has died from the virus, and at the same time - on the other side of the country - a new outbreak is starting in a little California town. A quarantine is set up to stop the virus from spreading, while Ford's boss, the sinister Major-Gen. McClintock, has his own agenda in mind - to harness this lethal bug for use as a bioweapon. With the President about to order a fuel-air bomb to be dropped on the little town to stop the outbreak, Daniels must find a way to unravel McClintock's sinister plan... |
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John Klein, a Washington newspaper reporter leaves his job after his wife dies to investigate strange reports, including psychic visions ("prophecies") and sightings of winged creatures ("mothmen"), in a small West Virginia town, that may be the signs of an alien invasion of Earth... |
| Possession
[2002,
USA, UK]
from $1.99 |
| The past will connect them. The passion will possess them. |
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Roland Michell is an Americian trying to make it in the difficult world of British Academics. He has yet to break out from under his mentor's shadow until he finds a pair of love letters in the textbook that once belonged to one of his idols, a famous long dead Victorian poet. Michell, after some sleuthing around, narrows down the suspects to a woman not his wife, another well known Victorian poet. Roland enlists the aid of a Dr. Maud Bailey, an expert on the life of the woman in question. Together they piece together the story of a forbidden love affair, and discover one of their own. They also find themselves in a battle to hold on to their discovery before it falls into the hands of their rival, Fergus Wolfe. |
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Young boy who sees his father gunned down kills the assassin. Years later, he has grown up to be a successful bounty hunter who is feared by many. And then one day he discovers secrets to his past... |
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