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Finland:K-11 certified full length DVD movies
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Born charmer Sean Okden gave up tap-dancing when he started working in the steel mill, but as that's going down the hill he grabs his chance being the only candidate in his coastal Australian home town Newcastle selected for a Sidney show. Being sacked soon just for a row with the arrogant lead dancer, he returns to find his girlfriend in bed with his brother Mitchell, and decides to start his own tap-dance group wearing hardhats, which he soon gives an original edge when the steel mill inspires him to weld metal on their shoes and dance on industrial steel, so it the metallic acoustics fit well with a local rock group. Financing their local debut is so expensive, even when the mill allows them free us of its premises -opening some acrobatic perspectives- while even his father won't allow him to touch his mother's inheritance for the project, that the 'Bootmen' need to steal the cheerleaders' podium in a televised sports match to get media attention. Sean generously helps his brother when attacked, at the price of their motorbikes, only to learn his assailant Huey and Mitch rival as car (part) thieves, but still allows him into the group - only to see his fatal fall during an attack by Huey's goons. Even when the mill announces phasing out Sean continues, now as a benefit for the sacked workers' retraining. |
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Frodo (Elijah Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin) keep on their dangerous way to Mordor being accompanied by treacherous Gollum (voice of Andy Serkis) who is being torn between his evil and good identities. He still craves for the Ring he call his Precious. Meantime, Merry (Dominic Monaghan) and Pippin (Billy Boyd) are hostages of Uruk-hai while Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), Legolas (Orlando Bloom), and Gimli (John Rhys-Davies) are trying to release them. The power of Isengard grows, armies of many thousands orcs are marching on towards the lands of Gondor and Rohan, and the burning baleful Eye stares from the awful tower of Barad-Dur. The Ent nation rises when the orcs begin to cut down the ancient forest of them by Saruman's order. The might of the innumerable Mordor powers headed by Sauron looms over the Middlearth, the land became silent before the great war. |
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The first chapter of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic trilogy narrates that in ancient times the perfidious Dark Lord Sauron (Sala Baker) forged a Ring of Power to rule over the lands of Middle Earth. But the Ring was stolen, and Sauron thought it to be lost for ever.
Many ages later, the Ruling Ring fell into the hands of the Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm), and then was inherited by his nephew Frodo (Elijah Wood). Now Frodo assembles his three friends, Sam Gamgee (Sean Astin), Peregrin Took (Billy Boyd), and Meriadoc Brandybuck (Dominic Monaghan), the wizard Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen), the heir to the throne of Gondor, Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), Prince of the Stewards of Gondor, Boromir (Sean Bean), Prince of the Elves' Woodland Realm, Legolas (Orlando Bloom), and the dwarf Gimili (John Rhys-Davies), to form the so-called Fellowship of the Ring. They take a long and perilous journey across the treacherous landscape of Middle-earth so as to destroy the Ring in the fires of Mount Doom, where it was made. |
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Spring 1936. In the thick jungle of the South American continent, a renowned archeologist and expert on the occult is studying fragments of a map, when one of his exploration party pulls a gun. The archeologist pulls out a bullwhip and with such disarms the turncoat, sending him running - thus does Dr. Henry "Indiana" Jones stay alive. He and a guide enter a dank and oppressively vast cave that contains several traps created by the ancient race which hid inside a famous handheld statue; Indy barely escapes such traps but is cornered by native tribesmen served by Belloq, an old enemy who arrogantly makes off with the statue, while Indy must flee for his life and escape on a friend's seaplane. Back in the US two agents from US Army intelligence tell him of Nazi German activities in archeology, including a gigantic excavation site in Egypt - a site that an intercepted cable indicates to Indy is the location of the Ark of the Covenant, the powerful chest bearing the Ten Commandments, that the Nazis can use to obliterate any enemy. Indy must recruit a former girlfriend (the daughter of his old professor) and an old chum in Cairo to infiltrate the Nazi site and make off with the Ark, but along the way Indy gets involved in a series of fights, chases, and traps, before the Nazis learn the full power of the Ark. |
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Considered by many to be the best film ever made, this is the story of Charles Foster Kane. The film opens with a long shot of Xanadu - the private estate of one of the world's richest men. In the middle of the estate is a castle. We see, inside the castle, a dying man examining a winter scene within a crystal ball. As he drops it, it smashes, and one word is heard - "Rosebud..." What follows are pieces of newsreel-like footage detailing how Kane amassed his fortune, and turning around full circle at the end. |
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This is the story of a guy, Joel, who discovers that his long-time girlfriend, Clementine, has undergone a psychiatrist's experimental procedure in which all of her memory of Joel is removed, after the couple has tried for years to get their relationship working fluidly. Frustrated by the idea of still being in love with a woman who doesn't remember their time together, Joel agrees to undergo the procedure as well, to erase his memories of Clementine. The film, which takes place mostly within Joel's mind, follows his memories of Clementine backwards in time as each recent memory is replaced, and the procedure then goes on to the previous one, which is likewise seen, and then erased. Once the process starts, however, Joel realizes he doesn't really want to forget Clementine, so he starts smuggling her away into parts of his memory where she doesn't belong which alters other things about his memories as well... |
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Bruce Wayne's parents were killed, a young boy received the trauma which led him into obsession to revenge. He travels Asia, where he is trained by a ninja fighter Ra's al Ghul. When Bruce returns home, he finds his native Gotham-city overran with crime and the Wayne Enterprises, his parents' corporation, slipped from his control. The hero is determined to bring peace and safety back to the city. Wayne and his allies develop a secret identity as Batman, a masked fighter for justice. But to defeat the mafia villains will not be so easy. |
| Million Dollar Baby
[2004,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| Beyond his silence, there is a past. Beyond her dreams, there is a feeling. Beyond hope, there is a memory. Beyond their journey, there is a love. |
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Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) is a veteran boxing trainer who has devoted his life to the ring and has precious little to show for it. His daughter is estranged from him, and he spends the twilight years of his life running a small, ramshackle gym in downtown Los Angeles. When Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) walks into his gym, things get changed. In a life of constant struggle, Maggie made herself this far on raw talent, unshakable focus and a tremendous force of will. Initially refusing to train Maggie due to her gender and age, Frankie relents when faced with her tenacity, spirit, and burning ambition. They form a sport tandem of great tutelage, and a talent. "Million Dollar Baby" also stars Morgan Freeman, Anthony Mackie, and Mike Colter. The movie is adapted from a short story by F.X. Toole, a former corner man with years of experience in the fight game. |
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A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy — full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences. From the time that they first met as young magicians on the rise, Robert Angier and Alfred Borden were competitors. However, their friendly competition evolves into a bitter rivalry making them fierce enemies-for-life and consequently jeopardizing the lives of everyone around them. Set against the backdrop of turn-of-the-century London. |
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The Hoover family is the dictionary definition for the word "dysfunctional". The dad Richard is a man who gives lectures on winners and losers, the wife is Sheryl, a chain-smoking, frazzled wife and working mother whose idea of a home cooked meal frequently consists of a bucket of chicken. Her gay brother Frank recently attempted suicide. The grandpa is Edwin, a drug addict. The son is Dwayne a rebel who has vowed not to talk until he gets into the Air Force. And then there is Olive, a seven-year old girl who dreams of going to the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. So what happens when they do? |
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Three brothers - Peter (Adrien Brody), Jack (Jason Schwartzman) and Francis (Owen Wilson) – residents of the USA, all of them a kind of drug-addicted and more or less depressed, have not been in touch for a year and are now (after they learn about the accidental death of their father) trying to reunite the family bonds. So they set off on a train voyage across India and... eventually find themselves moneyless in the middle of the desert with eleven suitcases, a printer, and a laminating machine. From here for them starts a new, unplanned and totally unpredictable journey. |
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Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor, a folk singer, an electrified troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylan's music behind their adventures, soliloquies, interviews, marriage, and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads, the artist becoming someone else. Jack, the son of Ramblin' Jack Elliott, finds Jesus; handsome Robbie falls in love then abandons Claire. Woody, a lad escaped from foster care, hobos the U.S. singing; Billy awakes in a valley threatened by a six-lane highway; Rimbaud talks. Jude, booed at Newport when he goes electric, fences with reporters, pundits, and fans. He won't be classified. |
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A young man named Tristan Thorne (Charlie Cox) lives in the small English village of Wall bordering on a supernatural parallel world. Trying to win the heart of Victoria (Sienna Miller), the most beautiful but selfish girl in the village, Tristan makes a reckless promise to retrieve a fallen star by crossing the forbidden old wall and entering the magical realm. In the kingdom of Stormhold, Tristan finds more than he has bargained for: the fallen star turns out to have been transformed into a striking young woman, Yvaine (Claire Danes). Moreover, he is not the only one in search of the luminous star. Yvaine is hunted by the King's (Peter O'Toole) four scheming sons, who are desperate to use her cosmic powers to succeed the throne, and the villainous old witch, Lamia (Michelle Pfeiffer), who yearns to devour her heart to achieve eternal youth and beauty. On his odyssey, Tristan has an incredible encounter with a sky pirate named Captain Shakespeare (Robert De Niro), faces a life-and-death struggle with Yvaine's nemeses, and discovers the secret to his own identity and the meaning of true love. |
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As Harry Potter begins his 6th year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he discovers an old book marked mysteriously "This book is the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past. |
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A black comedy set in 1967 and centered on Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern professor who watches his life unravel when his wife prepares to leave him because his inept brother won't move out of the house. |
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The action takes place in the 17th century in the Caribbean Sea. Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), a beautiful young daughter of a governor, gets a mysterious golden medallion. The skull medallion brings misfortune upon Elisabeth and her childhood friend Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) as it is cursed by the pirates of the Caribbean Sea. Captain Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) and his horde of undead pirates doomed to the eternal crucifixion have been guarding the Aztec treasures for many years. The medallion they have lost is the thing they need to get rid of an ancient damnation. Owing to the disappearance of the medallion, the skeletal pirates have to attack the city of Port Royal and kidnap Elisabeth to get it back. The roguish yet courageous Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), along with Will Turner, assembles a crew to rescue Ms. Swann and take vengeance on the detestable pirates. They hijack a ship from the British Navy and set out on an extremely adventurous quest that makes the blood curdle and shivers run up and down the spine. |
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William Miller is a 15 year old kid, hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with, and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming of age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo. |
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The biopic depicts the life of Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix), a legendary country and rock-and-roll singer-songwriter. The early years of his life were saddened by his elder brother's tragic death and his father's scornful attitude towards him (his dad considered Cash to be a bad son). The soon-to-be musician served in the United States Air Force in Germany. After his discharge Cash married his sweetheart, Vivian Liberto (Ginnifer Goodwin), who gave birth to four daughters. But their marriage was not without shadows as he neglected his family duties and devoted all his time and energy mainly to playing the guitar and singing along with his two close friends. At the age of 23, he released his first hit "Cry Cry Cry" and soon went on a tour of the USA, along with Jerry Lee Lewis (Waylon Payne), Elvis Presley (Tyler Hilton) and June Carter (Reese Witherspoon). He adored June and her songs since he was a kid. When their paths crossed, he came to realize that June was a woman of his dreams. He had been trying to win her hand for several years. The critical moments in his life were accompanied by his addiction to amphetamine and alcohol. In 1968, Cash and Carter got married and lived together long and happily till death did them part. |
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In feudal China, the King of Qin is waging a bloody campaign to conquer the entire land. He has been made a target of three dangerous assassins: spear-wielding Sky, and the lovers Broken Sword and Flying Snow. One day word comes that he has nothing left to fear; a prefect known only as Nameless has killed all three assassins. Nameless is called to the palace and asked to recount the tale of how he accomplished this amazing feat. After he tells his story, however, the King notices some flaws in it... |
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The compelling drama opens in a nursing home where an elderly man named Duke (James Garner) regularly visits an invalid woman (Gena Rowlands) whom he reads a touching story of enduring love from a tattered old notebook. The story follows two young sweethearts, socialite Allie Hamilton (Rachel McAdams) and poor country boy Noah Calhoun (Ryan Gosling), who were separated by Allie's snobbish parents and World War II. Noah wrote 365 letters to his beloved but Allie's mom (Joan Allen) kept them from reaching her. After waiting to hear from Noah for seven years, Allie decided to marry a wealthy war veteran, Lon Hammond (James Marsden). But when fate once again threw them together, Allie and Noah became seized by overwhelming passion. Allie had to make a difficult choice between her first love and her prosperous fiancé... |
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