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Canada:14A certified full length DVD movies
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Chili Palmer, a Miami mobster, loan-sharks for Ray Bones, a violent thug with a big chip on his shoulder. Ray sends Chili to Vegas after a bad debt, and a casino boss enlists Chili to find an even bigger deadbeat: Harry Zimm, Hollywood player and producer of low-budget horror films. In Tinseltown, Chili meets Harry, as well as his scream- queen leading lady, Karen Flores; Harry's drug-dealing financier, Bo Catlett; and Karen's ex, Martin Weir (aka "Shorty"), a big star with an ego to match. Chili finds his Mafioso skills lend themselves quite nicely to what he's always really wanted to do: producing movies. |
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This political thriller set in a South-American country follows Agustin Rejas (Javier Bardem) who had left his law practice for a police detective being to deal with crime and justice more directly. He tracks down the terrorist group which is ready to overturn the current government; these guys practice everything from political pranks to assassinations and bombings. Things get complicated as Agustin begins to suspect his girlfriend of the possible connections with the terrorists. And these suspicions seem to prove to be correct. This taut movie became the directorial first-born of one famous person known well as John Malkovich. |
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The plot takes place in the Philippines in 1945. The Second World War is coming to an end. Under the command of the confident Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci (Benjamin Bratt), the 6th Ranger Battalion gets an order to infiltrate deep into enemy territory and liberate U.S. prisoners. The mission appears to be virtually impossible to undertake but the tough Mucci sends his soldiers to their doom, performing one of the most daring rescue missions in history. The Rangers manage to penetrate thirty miles behind enemy lines and rescue over five hundred prisoners who are about to be transferred to the infamous Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp. |
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It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles, and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer's "The Iliad." |
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In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950's, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent nightclub owner, is caught in the violent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the Marxist government of Fidel Castro. Castro's regime ultimately leads the nightclub owner to flee to New York. |
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Eighteen-year-old Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch), an aspiring high school student with big dreams of being a politician, is still inexperienced in matters of love and sex. But everything changes when a fascinating, seemingly innocent 19-year-old girl, Danielle (Elisha Cuthbert), moves in next door. They fall wildly in love with each other and begin dating. Besotted, Matthew considers her to be the girl of his dreams and gets stunned to find out that Danielle is a former porn star. From that point on, he finds his life turned upside down. Matthew decides to help her cut the strings of her past but he faces a variety of obstacles he is not prepared for. All in all, it is Danielle who helps him deal with the problems and teaches him that he should be willing to risk everything for the sake of love. |
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After mastermind Charlie Croker (Mark Wahlberg) and his crew of expert thieves and adventurers pull off a massive gold bullion heist from a Venetian palazzo, they are shocked to discover that one of them is a traitor. It is inside man Steve (Edward Norton) who kills his companion, veteran safecracker John Bridger (Donald Sutherland), and makes off with the bullions. One year later, the surviving gang members decide to exact their revenge on the double-crosser. They track down Steve in Los Angeles, California, and plot to break into his palatial estate, steal back the gold and make their escape by hacking into the traffic control system and creating the biggest traffic jam in the city's history. |
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Mike (Nicholas Cage), who is in search for work, is mistakenly considered to be a hitman and given 5 thousand bucks as a payment to kill the wife of the cafee's owner. The customer is a local sherrif as well: he thought that the killer will be a Texan (Mike's car had tags of the same state). Mike faces several problems: he is consent to kill the woman, but she offers him double money. Then the real assassin (Dennis Hopper) arrives to the place... |
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In 1943, A dying gunner, who was in a crash involving a United States B-17, gives a ring to a local to return to his girlfriend in the USA. Fifty years later, a man finds the ring and tracks down the girlfriend and the history of this ring. Set in Belfast and North Carolina. |
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In this hilarious comedy, Will Ferrell stars as Ron Burgundy, the most popular TV news anchor in San Diego in the 1970s. As a chauvinist and sexist he thinks that men are inherently superior to women. Therefore he believes that a female who dreams of a television career must settle for being eye candy telling about fashion or sharing the latest recipes with the viewer. When an intelligent and ambitious feminist reporter, Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate), arrives at Ferrell's TV station pretending to his crown, a fierce battle breaks out between two bright anchorpersons. |
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Andrew Wyke (Michael Caine), a famous British writer, lives in a hi-tech equipped house alone after his wife has left him for Milo Tindle (Jude Law), a brilliant actor. Andrew invites his wife's lover to discuss the divorce, but little by little their meeting changes into a keen intellectual duel with an unexpected ending. |
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Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addiction are featured. |
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Wonderful comedy, existential philosophy, corporate satire, and idealistic quest are mixed in this offbeat movie about a married couple of metaphysicians working as private "existentialist" detectives. They fearlessly investigate the mysteries at the core of their clients' secret innermost lives. They help others to solve their existential issues — the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means. Jason Schwartzman plays Albert, an environmental activist with a penchant for bad poetry and self-doubt. During his campaign to stop Huckabees, a suburban superstore, from destroying marshland, Albert's group is taken over by one of the store's vapidly charming salesmen, a pitch-perfect Jude Law. Utterly distraught and questioning the meaning of life, Albert seeks the help of a bizarre husband-and-wife team of "existential detectives." By spying on Albert's daily life, they seek to help him answer that most elemental of human questions, "Why am I here?" |
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In 1999, in Claremont, California, the violent Jake Mazursky owes US$ 1,200.00 to the coward drug dealer Johnny Truelove, who is son of the powerful criminal Sonny Truelove. They fight and start a personal war, with Jake breaking into the house of Johnny with his friends, stealing the TV and leaving excrement in the living room. Johnny kidnaps Jake's fifteen year old brother Zach Mazurka, who has just had an argument with his parents, and brings him to the upper class house of his friend Frankie Ballenbacher. Along a couple of days, Zach meets the friends of Frankie, goes to parties, drinks boozes, smokes pot and has sex with other teenagers. When Johnny realizes that kidnapping means life sentence, he asks the servile scum Elvis Schmidt to kill the boy. |
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In this comedy-horror movie a newly-divorced mother, Lucy Emerson (Dianne Wiest), and her two teenage sons, Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim), move to the sleepy California town of Santa Carla to live with her dad (Barnard Hughes). Little do they know that half of the population is comprised of vampires. Lucy soon begins dating video store owner Max (Edward Herrmann), unaware that he is the leader of the vampire gang. Meanwhile, her oldest son becomes enamoured of a beautiful vampire, Star (Jami Gertz). Lucy's younger son, his buddies and his brave grandpa are the only ones who manage to recognize the classic signs of vampirism and set out to destroy the treacherous bloodsuckers. |
| Friday
[1995,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| a lot can go down between thursday and saturday... |
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Just an ordinary day in Craig (Ice Cube) and his sidekick Smokey's (Chris Tucker) lives is featured. Smoking weed in their South Central neighborhood, drinking, resolving money problems with a nasty drug-dealer, looking for something to do... With some other odd characters hanging around, there is a pretty good chance for these two to be having their last Friday. |
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Justin (Lou Taylor Pucci) is a teenager boy, who has an oral obsession with his thumb. His mother (Tilda Swinton) seems to be a normal housekeeper, but she has her own obsessions as well, like a crush on a TV-star (Benjamin Bratt). The only person who's aware of Justin's problem is his father (Vincent D'Onofrio), manager in a store, but none of his advices seem to be working for Justin. The kid is signed up in a debate workshop, but the thing isn't going well, because he has his mind in a pretty classmate and, of course, in his thumb, affecting all the rest of his classes. So, Justin is a loner kid in the school, who prefers to lock himself in the bathroom and suck his thumb. Justin's dentist (Keanu Reeves), a mystical-hippie person, will try to help to overcome his thumb problem, through the hypnosis. But the school's psychologist will diagnose Justin with the Attention Deficit Disorder, and will prescribe him some drugs. Suddenly, Justin's problem with his thumb will disappear, becoming an hyperactive genius, winning several debate contests and the admiration from his teacher (Vince Vaughn). Nevertheless, more serious problems will come for Justin with his mother, his father and with a drug addiction. |
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The crime suspense movie centers on a promising young assistant district attorney, Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling), who finds himself drawn into an intricate cat-and-mouse game of Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) who has shot his adulterous wife (Embeth Davidtz) but manages to avoid being imprisoned due to legal loopholes. |
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Chen Chen returns to the international compound of China only to learn of his beloved teacher's death. This is compounded by the continual racist harassment by the Japanese population in the area. Unlike his friends, he confronts it head on with his mastery of martial arts while investigating his teacher's murder. |
| Stripes
[1981,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| The story of a man who wanted to keep the world safe for democracy...and meet girls |
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When New York City cab driver John Winger is fired from his job, his car is repossessed, he loses his apartment, and his girlfriend leaves him — all in the same day — John and his best friend Russell Ziskey decide to join the army. After enlisting, John and Russell are sent to Fort Arnold to undergo basic training under tough drill sergeant Hulka. Hulka is injured by a mortar bomb during basic training, and John has to lead the group in completing their training on their own. After graduation, General Barnicke Assigns Winger, Ziskey, and their platoon to Fort Milano, Italy, to man the EM-50 urban assault vehicle. By this time, sergeant Hulka has recovered from his injuries and has rejoined John, Russell, and the other men. When John and Russell decide to take the EM50 to Germany to pick up their girlfriends, MPs Stella Hansen and Louise Cooper, for a night on the town, the rest of the platoon searches for them because Captain Stillman wants the EM-50 to be put back where it was at. While searching for the EM-50, Stillman and the unit are captured by hostile Russian troops, who take them into Czechoslovakia. Now John, Russell, Stella, and Louise must venture into Czechoslovakia and rescue the guys. |
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