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Argentina:16 certified full length DVD movies
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In the Texas desert nearby the border of Mexico, Melquiades Estrada (Julio Cedillo), a Mexican illegal immigrant working as a cowboy, ends up being mistakenly shot and killed by tough border patrolman Mike Norton (Barry Pepper). Scared to death, Mike quickly buries the body and does not report anything. A week later, Estrada’s body is accidentally found and reburied in a local cemetery. But when Pete Perkins (Tommy Lee Jones), a rancher and Estrada’s best friend, finds out the killer’s identity, he abducts Norton and forces him to disinter the body. With the body tied to a mule and his captive in tow, Pete undertakes a perilous and surreal journey horseback into Jimйnez, Mexico in order to give Estrada his third and final burial.
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A young man struggles with the effects of suppressed childhood memories and while struggling, he discovers some method for traveling back in time to occupy his own body in the days of boyhood. From an early age, crucial moments of Evan Treborn's (Ashton Kutcher) life have sunk into oblivion, his childhood was darkened by a series of terrifying events he can't remember. He discovers that with every trip back in time, he gently changes the present, which leads him to travel back in time over and over again to undo the oppressive events of his past. |
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Peaceful Missouri farmer Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) is brutally attacked by pro-Union Jayhawkers during the Civil War. His beloved wife and his adorable son are murdered and his house is burned. Driven to get revenge on the people who took his loved ones, Josey joins a band of pro-Confederate guerillas. The Confederacy loses the war, but Wales refuses to lay down arms and becomes a dangerous outlaw who is pursued by a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters. The lone revenge-seeker soon encounters a group of outcasts, Lone Watie (Chief Dan George), a sly old Cherokee man, Sarah (Paula Trueman), a vigorous elderly Yankee woman from Kansas and her granddaughter, Laura Lee (Sondra Locke), each of whom needs his protection. |
| Lolita
[1962,
USA, UK]
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| How did they ever make a movie of Lolita? |
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Stanly Kubrick's version of a famous novel by Vladimir Nabokov. Humbert Humbert (James Mason), a middle professor, rents a room from a simple-minded woman who has her eye on her new lodger. But Humbert falls in love with her 15-year-old daughter, Lolita (Sue Lyon) and he's ready to marry her mother to become closer to the girl. But Humbert's new wife is killed by a car after reading her husband's diary and discovering his perverted thoughts. The professor goes across the country with his beloved adopted daughter.
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Barbara Covett (Judi Dench) is a 65-year-old cynical, disdainful woman with a lot of experience under her belt. She is a formidable long-tenured history teacher at a London comprehensive school who is feared but respected by both her students and colleagues. A lonely old maid, Barbara unburdens herself to a diary, her only companion. The habitual course of events is changed by the appearance of a young art teacher, Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett), who charms both the faculty and her pupils, including the acerbate Barbara. She instantly takes the new teacher under her wing. For Covett, Sheba is more than a friend; she is the object of her sexual interest. Later, Barbara discovers that she is not the only one attracted to the beautiful Sheba. As it turns out, Sheba cheats on her older husband Richard (Bill Nighy) by having illicit amorous encounters with a 15-year-old student, Steven Connolly (Andrew Simpson), who is deeply infatuated with her. However, Barbara isn't going to take it lying down. She knows how to take advantage of it. |
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The patriarch (Jeff Daniels) of an eccentric Brooklyn family claims to once have been a great novelist, but he has settled into a teaching job. When his wife (Laura Linney) discovers a writing talent of her own, jealousy divides the family, leaving two teenage sons to forge new relationships with their parents. Linney's character begins dating her younger son's tennis coach. Meanwhile, Daniels' character has an affair with the student his older son is pursuing. |
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When Hank Deerfield is told by the military that his son Mike, who only recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, has gone AWOL he travels to the military base to see if he can make any sense of the young man's disappearance. Hank is himself a retired military investigator and is frustrated by both the military and the civilian police's apparent lack of interest in the case. In the end he does manage to get help from Det. Emily Sanders and together they piece together the events that led to Mike's disappearance. In the end, this is a story of how war dehumanizes individuals to the point where the taking of life makes no sense and has no purpose |
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Based on a story by Daphne Du Maurier, this bone-chilling horror movie revolves around English architect John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) and his wife Laura (Julie Christie) who, after the tragic death of their young daughter, try to get their minds off their grief by changing environment. The mourning couple head for Venice, Italy where John has been contracted to oversee the architectural restoration of an ancient church. In Venice, they encounter two eccentric elderly sisters, one of whom is blind and claims to be psychic. Heather (Hilary Mason) insists that she is able to come into contact with their daughter's spirit. Baxter remains skeptical until he begins having visions of a mysterious young girl in a red cloak identical with his daughter's, as well as his wife and the sisters on a funeral gondola. Unfortunately, John realizes too late that the disturbing visions were premonitions of impending danger to him. |
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Mr. Earl Brooks (Kevin Costner) — a respectable family man, a prosperous businessman, a generous philanthropist, one of so-called pillars of society — wins Man of the Year awards. The old saying goes that still waters run deep. Earl has a secret life full of terrific things. He is a brilliant and diabolical serial killer who manages to conceal his double life from his family and avoid being caught by police thanks to the efforts of his cunning alter ego Marshall (William Hurt). He is too wide awake to be caught napping. But one day Mr. Brooks ends up embroiled in the sinister agenda of an opportunistic, voyeuristic photographer, Mr. Smith (Dane Cook), who has accidentally witnessed the sadistic crime and now wants to adopt Earl's methods so as to become a killer himself. Meanwhile, hotshot police detective Tracy Atwood (Demi Moore) is on Earl's trail... |
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John's life has become a nightmare. He is hunted by the police for a series of murders he knows nothing about, a woman who claims to be his wife is after him, and so is a mysterious "doctor". But his worst trouble is the strangers, a series of vastly powerful beings who seem to manipulate just about everything in the city, and want him because of the extraordinary powers he manifested. John decides to find out what is happening in his city; why is it always night? And why can nobody tell him a way to leave the city? |
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Cloverfield follows five New Yorkers from the perspective of a hand-held video camera. The movie is exactly the length of a DV Tape and a sub-plot is established by showing bits and pieces of video previously recorded on the tape that is being recorded over. The movie starts as a monster of unknown origin destroys a building. As they go to investigate, parts of the building and the head of the Statue of Liberty come raining down. The movie follows their adventure trying to escape and save a friend, a love interest of the main character. |
| Sophie's Choice
[1982,
USA]
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| Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine. |
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A drama set in post-World War II New York City where Stingo, a young writer, moves from the American South. He gets acquainted with the beautiful pair of Polish immigrant Sophie Zawistowski (Meryl Streep) and Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline), an American Jew terribly obsessed by the Holocaust catastrophe. Their relations go wrong as Nathan becomes nearly insane with his mental demons while Stingo discovers Sophie's terrible family secret. |
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This sentimental drama centers on Sabrina 'Bree' Osbourne (Felicity Huffman), an overeducated, conservative transsexual woman from Los Angeles who awaits her final sexual reassignment surgery. Her life, however, takes an unexpected turn when she gets a phone call from Toby Wilkins (Kevin Zegers), a 17-year-old boy claiming to be his son from a long-ago liaison. He is a small-time drug user and street hustler (servicing both male and female clients) who is now in jail in New York. Toby's mother committed suicide, after which he was raised by his abusive stepfather, whom he does not get along with. So he wants to meet his biological father. Bree wants nothing to do with the troubled teenager but her psychiatrist Margaret (Elizabeth Peña) won't approve the surgery until she faces up to her past. Thus, Bree is forced to travel to New York in order to bail her son out of jail. |
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In the early 1990s the Civil War raged in Somali. The resulting humanitarian crisis carried away more than 300 thousand innocent civilians. The nation starved to death as the troops of Mohamed Farrah Aidid, the leader of the major belligerent faction, were taking the food sent by the United Nations Organization. The U.S. made a decision to send peacekeeping force to the capital city of Mogadishu in order to break down Aidid's resistance and kill him. On October 3, 1993, they planned to capture two top lieutenants of the mutinous warlord. Army Rangers and Delta Force entered the city on a mission that was supposed to take about an hour. However, things got out of kilter from the very beginning of the operation... |
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Wealthy residents of Mexico City are seized with panic as there were twenty-four cases of kidnapping in a six-day period. Terrified to death, many parents hire bodyguards for their offsprings. Former government operative John Creasy (Denzel Washington) reluctantly agrees to take a job as a bodyguard for Pita (Dakota Fanning), a nine-year-old daughter of industrialist Samuel Ramos (Marc Anthony). At first the cold Creasy can hardly tolerate the precocious kid but Pita gradually warms up his heart toward her and they become friends. When the girl is kidnapped, Creasy starts to take vengeance on each one involved in the abduction. |
| Donnie Brasco
[1997,
USA]
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| In 1978, the US government waged a war against organized crime. One man was left behind the lines. |
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This true story follows FBI agent Joe Pistone as he infiltrates the mafia of New York. Befriending Lefty Ruggiero, Pistone (under the name Donnie Brasco) is able to embed himself in a mafia faction lead by Sonny Black. Ruggiero and Pistone become tight as the group goes about collecting money for 'the bosses'. Eventually, the group become big time when Black himself becomes a boss, all the while Pistone collects evidence. However, the trials and tribulations of the undercover work become more than Pistone can bear. His marriage falls apart and to top it off, the mafia suspect a mole in the organization. The real dilemma is afforded to Pistone, who knows if he walks away from the mafia, Ruggiero will be the one punished. |
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Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by cult author Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death", then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity who has chosen their long-term care facility as his happy hunting grounds. |
| Lethal Weapon
[1987,
USA]
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| Two Cops. Glover carries a weapon..... Gibson is one. He's the only L.A cop registered as a Lethal Weapo |
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Los Angeles police sergeant Roger Murtaugh, who has just turned 50 years old, is assigned to investigate the death of Amanda Hunsaker, a prostitute who is one of the daughters of bank president Michael Hunsaker, a friend whom Roger has known since they were in the Vietnam War together, but Roger hasn't seen Michael in 12 years. Beginning with this investigation, Roger is assigned a new partner Sergeant Martin Riggs, who has been suicidal ever since his wife Victoria "Vicky" Lynn Riggs died in a car crash in 1984. Riggs and Murtaugh's investigation of Amanda's death reveals that she was murdered. Upon hearing of this, Michael tells Murtaugh that he would like for whoever is behind Amanda's murder to end up dead, like Amanda. Riggs and Murtaugh's investigation continues and it makes them the targets of Shadow Company, a group of former Vietnam War era mercenaries who now bring heroin into the Los Angeles County region. Shadow Company's leader, General Peter McAllister, and his right hand man, Mr. Joshua, want Riggs and Murtaugh dead, no matter what the cost. |
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This movie consists of 5 different novels dedicated to taxi drivers who live in five different cities, every novel has its specific theme, which is peculiar to each action scene. LA and NY, Paris and Rome are the scenes where the stories about cities, culture, blind and seeing, life and death unroll. And the theme of man's abandonment develops in the snow-covered Helsinki. |
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