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Argentina:13 certified full length DVD movies
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At his fourth summer at the Hogwarts Harry has grown into a strapping teen, his legendary scar aches more and more. Everybody in the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry gets ready for the soon to be held Triwizard Tournament. The Goblet of Fire judges who will participate in the Tournament and who will not, three competitors should be selected. Suddenly the Goblet points at the fourth contestant – Harry Potter. Four magicians should stand three trials: the battle with the dragon, rescue a friend from the lake depths, and, finally, find the Goblet of fire hidden inside the labyrinth to win it. Meanwhile, Voldemort’s followers are preparing the reappear of the dark lord. |
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Ted Striker just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess at Trans American Airlines. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard the plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to contact her again and again, but as the crew and many passengers get seriously ill due to a bad fish meal, he has no chance to get to her. In fact, Ted Striker seems to be the only healthy person aboard that has piloting experience. Now, it is up to him to get the bird down in Chicago safely, before the poisoning starts causing casualties. But Ted Striker's aversion really is a serious psychosis, which breaks open and needs to be cured - right now. |
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The story follows Chris Wilton (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), a young tennis instructor who becomes involved with a wealthy family after he is hired to coach one of the members. He meets Tom Hewett, a well-off pretty boy, Tom's sister Chloe instantly falls in love with Chris but he, in his turn, has his eyes on Tom's fiancée, the sweet Nola. The attraction turns to an obsession that forces Chris to make a critical choice. This dark, disturbing drama is written and directed by Woody Allen, his first film set and shot in Great Britain and one his few films almost without any humor. |
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Based on true events, the extraordinary movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2001. The movie tells the story of John Nash (Russell Crowe) who starts grad school at Princeton in 1947. Some people consider him to be mentally ill, others regard him as a math genius. He is very lonely as he doesn't much like people, and they don't like him either. John often misses classes and spends his time working on game theory. As a result, Nash gains a prestigious post at MIT's Wheeler House. Some time later he gets married to brilliant student Alicia (Jennifer Connelly) and is recruited by the CIA for top-secret code-breaking activities. Eventually, Nash's brilliance leads him to madness making him lose control of reality. Alicia wants to help her husband; drugs and shock therapy, however, turn Nash into a listless, crest-fallen person. But Nash starts struggling to gain some control over his mental state. After hard years of insanity John Nash ultimately manages to overcome his schizophrenia and win international recognition. |
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In the 70's in Afghanistan, the Pushtun boy Amir and the Hazara boy Hassan, who is his loyal friend and son of their Hazara servant Ali, are raised together in Amir's father house, playing and kitting on the streets of a peaceful Kabul. Amir feels that his wise and good father Baba blames him for the death of his mother in the delivery, and also that his father loves and prefers Hassam to him. In return, Amir feels a great respect for his father's best friend Rahim Khan, who supports his intention to become a writer. After Amir winning a competition of kitting, Hassam runs to bring a kite to Amir, but he is beaten and raped by the brutal Assef in an empty street to protect Amir's kite; the coward Amir witness the assault but does not help the loyal Hassam. On the day after his birthday party, Amir hides his new watch in Hassam's bed to frame the boy as a thief and force his father to fire Ali, releasing his conscience from recalling his cowardice and betrayal. In 1979, the Russians invade Afghanistan and Baba and Amir escape to Pakistan. In 1988, they have a simple life in Fremont, California, when Amir graduates in a public college for the pride and joy of Baba. Later Amir meets his countrywoman Soraya and they get married. In 2000, after the death of Baba, Amir is a famous novelist and receives a phone call from the terminal Rahim Khan, who discloses secrets about his family, forcing Amir to return to Peshawar, in Pakistan, in a journey of redemption. |
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Set on the remote Isle of Jersey in 1945, the horror drama focus on a beautiful young woman named Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) who raises her two small kids alone waiting for her husband to return from the front. All her worries are connected with a rare disease of Nicholas (James Bentley) and Anne (Alakina Mann) who are deathly allergic to bright light. But Grace's anxiety becomes aggravated when Anne reveals to her mother that she sees ghosts appearing in every room of the house. At first, the devout woman refuses to believe that other-worldly beings can intrude into the world of the living. However, events over the next few days persuade her that there are other people, invisible and terrible, in the house with them. |
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Documentary-style drama showing the events that lead up to the tragic incident on January 30, 1972 in the Northern Ireland town of Derry when a protest march led by civil rights activist Ivan Cooper was fired upon by British troops, killing 13 protesters and wounding 14 more. |
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Oppositionist Michael Moore ("Bowling for Columbine") defiantly criticizes the Bush administration in this documentary analysis of what happened at the day the World Trade Center was attacked and what followed. The documentary uncovers the probable relationships between President George W. Bush and the family of terrorist Osama bin Laden, and casts some light on the both-ways dependence binding the American power structures and the Saudi terrorists together. You have a rare opportunity to know the Bush Administration's ways of using the tragic event to push its own plans and to serve financial and political ambitions of the backers. |
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This engrossing docudrama follows three young British Muslims Shafiq Rasul (Riz Ahmed), Rhuhel Ahmed (Farhad Harun) and Asif Iqbal (Afran Usman) who travel to Pakistan for a relative's wedding. By a strange quirk of fate they find themselves mistaken for Taliban and Al-Qaeda operatives and captured by U.S. forces, while crossing the Afghanistan border. As a result, they are transported and held for three years in the prison camp at the Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba. |
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Wanda (Jamie Lee Curtis) brings her new secret lover, Otto (Kevin Kline) to England to help her and her lover George and stuttering animal lover Ken (Michael Palin) steal $20 million in diamonds. Wanda and Otto then turn in George to the police so they can have the loot for themselves, but George has already moved the diamonds and only he knows where they are. All four of the criminals start double-crossing each other to try to get to the diamonds before anyone else. Wanda tries to find them by "getting close" to George's barrister, Archie Leach (John Cleese), because if George pleads guilty he will tell Archie where the diamonds are to cut his sentence. Absolute hilarity ensues. |
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The moving drama is based on the real-life story of Chris Gardner (Will Smith), a purposeful, strong-willed, fortitudinous person who never let despair hold him captive. You know, life is difficult enough as it is. And you have to learn to take the rough with the smooth as Chris did. Jobless, homeless and stony-broke, he took things on the chin and bent over backwards to earn a reasonable living and make his infant son Christopher (Jaden Smith) happy. There was a period of tough sledding before he succeeded in beating the odds. But for his capability of endurance, his talent and the overwhelming desire for a better life, he wouldn’t have become a millionaire.
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The satirical comedy centers on famous Kazakh television personality Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen) who is assigned by the Kazakh Ministry of Information to travel to the USA so as to make a documentary about this 'greatest country in the world'. While in the United States, he sees an episode of Baywatch on TV and instantly becomes infatuated with sexy Pamela Anderson. Borat feels an urge to get married to her and, without thinking twice, sets out on a quest for the most desirable woman on Earth. On the way to California, he carries on gathering footage for his documentary and has a great many adventures while interviewing and interacting with Americans.
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In 1899 a young talented poet, Christian (Ewan McGregor), comes to Paris, Montmarte, where he plunges into the bohemian world of freedom, sex, drugs and love. Soon enough, Christian falls fathoms deep in love with Satin (Nicole Kidman), the most gorgeous Parisian courtesan and the Moulin Rouge's highest paid star. Meanwhile, the Duke (Richard Roxburgh), a wealthy nobleman, is also obsessed with Satin. He is determined to invest in the Moulin Rouge's latest musical in order to have Satin. However, Satin reciprocates Christian's affection, and they must conceal their love affair. Unfortunately, they are fated never to be happy: Satin is ill with consumption so she is not long for this world... |
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In present day Montreal, a famous Nicolo Bussotti violin, known as "the red violin," is being auctioned off. During the auction, we flash back to the creation of the violin in 17th century Italy, and follow the violin as it makes its way through an 18th century Austrian monastery, a violinist in 19th century Oxford, China during the Cultural Revolution, and back to Montreal, where a collector tries to establish the identity and the secrets of "the red violin." |
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In 1757 England fight a bitter war with France for domination of the North American colonies. Cora (Madeleine Stowe) and Alice (Jodhi May), two daughters of Colonel Edmund Munro (Maurice Roëves), try to penetrate a British fort besieged by the French troops. A valorous young white frontiersman named Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) comes to their rescue. And soon a torrid romance between Hawkeye, the adopted son of the Mohican Chingachgook (Russell Means), and the refined Cora begins. When Cora and her sister are taken captive by allies of France, jugular Huron warriors, only Hawkeye and his faithful Indian friends can save them... |
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On Halloween 1963, the small town of Haddonfield is shocked when six-year-old Michael Myers returns from trick-or-treating and for some unknown reason stabs his older sister to death with a big kitchen knife and is found by his parents staring into space with the bloody knife in his hand. Sent to a mental institution, Michael spends the next 15 years just sitting, still staring into space despite the best efforts of his Doctor, Dr. Samuel Loomis. Now, on October 30th 1978, something triggers Michael off and during a storm manages to steal a car from Dr. Loomis and Nurse Marion (who was coming to take Michael to a court to keep him locked up) and goes back to Haddonfield where he steals a white mask. There, Laurie Stode, Micheal's younger sister, finds that Michael is stalking her during the day (at school, at her home etc - but she doesn't know who he is.) As Dr. Loomis arrives and with the Sheriff frantically looks for Michael he doesn't know that Laurie is baby-sitting Lindsey and Tommy and that Laurie's friends Annie, Lynda and Bob are disappearing one by one... |
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It is the city of Berlin in 1930, a time when political unrest racks the country, the economy has been destroyed, and millions of unemployed roam the streets. Enter into this chaos an American cabaret dancer, working at the downtown "Kit-Kat club" where anything goes on the stage. Into this young dancer's life come several characters such as a rich German politician, a young Jewish man struggling with his identity, an Englishman teacher from London, and of course the all-knowing, all-seeing Master of Ceremonies. |
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Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson), an eccentric, sarcastic writer, suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder which shows itself in many different ways. For example, he avoids stepping on the crack in the sidewalk. Every time he wants to wash his hands, he takes a new bar of soap. Melvin brings a plastic spoon and fork in a hermetically sealed bag to the café where he eats every day. He generally hates people and the only person he befriends is Carol Connelly (Helen Hunt), a single-mother waitress. Melvin finally comes out of his shell when his neighbor, Simon Bishop (Greg Kinnear), ends up in hospital after being brutally beaten and left penniless by muggers. He is forced to look after Simon's dog that teaches him to be kind-hearted and devoted. |
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In the midst of the XXI century, new psychological technologies have made the crime prevention almost absolutely effective in this movie set in Washington DC. All crimes are being interrupted even before its commission, all future offenders get jailed before the coming victim will suffer. John Anderton (Tom Cruise) works for the Pre-crime Division, which obtains future crime data from three genetically altered humans (Pre-Cogs), a kind of extrasensory individuals who are maintained by the chemicals. John had lost his child, a little girl several years ago. Suddenly it becomes known that Anderton is soon-to-kill somebody, a man he don't even know. John can't believe this, and now he is outlawed trying to find the truth about himself, he gets to know that the minority report exists: Agatha, one of the Pre-Cogs, is having her separate opinion on the difficult situation... |
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The sci-fi movie follows three interwoven tales that explore great themes of love and death, immortality and spirituality, and take place in vastly different time periods: in the age of the Spanish conquistadors, the modern-day period, and the far future. The three parallel stories center on the so-called Tree of Life which, according to the legend, grants eternal life to those who take a drink of its sap.
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