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Germany:12 certified full length DVD movies
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Lila Jute (Patricia Arquette) is a young woman who has a birth defect - excessive body hair. It’s so excessive that even in the medical encyclopaedia the description of the phenomenon is illustrated with her photo. Trying to find herself, Lila goes to live in the forest and writes several books about nature, but at the age of 30 she returns to society to find a significant other. She starts dating Dr. Nathan Bronfman (Tim Robbins), a 35-year-old pedantic bore who teaches table manners to lab mice. One day on a hiking trip, they come upon a feral man (Rhys Ifans) raised as an ape in the wilds. Nathan takes an opportunity to illustrate his theory of animal learning and tries to civilize Puff. |
| City by the Sea
[2002,
USA]
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| When you're searching for a killer... the last suspect you want to see is your son. |
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Detective Vincent LaMarca (Robert DeNiro) is an ideal campaigner whose incorruptible reputation is known well. But this cop has a skeleton in the cupboard: his father was executed for the murder many years ago, a child was killed. Vincent is an incarnated atonement; "serving and protecting", he does his best to expiate his father's crime. But the poison seed' sprouts of the past are bitter and dire: LaMarca gets to know the part of his own son Joey (James Franco) in the crimes of the present; this awful knowledge obliges him to make the difficult choice between his professional duty and the love for his son. This film is based on the real events being an outstanding one between the other crime-themed movies. |
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After their first year at college, the guys reunite for another summer of fun. Jim continues his quest for sexual independence by seeking the help of his old prom date, Michele, after an unexpected call from Nadia who plans to visit Jim. Meanwhile, Kev and Vicky find themselves in an awkward situation after having broken up for a year. Oz must deal with a long distance relationship when Heather heads off to France to study abroad. Old feuds die hard as the ever-so-horny Stifler harbors his hatred toward Finch, who is practicing the Hindu practice of Tantra. |
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Three Toronto women - a housewife/painter at leisure, a photojournalist and a famous cellist find themselves crisis-ridden. Olivia (Sophia Loren) decides that it is time to reveal her secret sketching, Natalia (Mira Sorvino) a well-known photographer, wants to know something about the destiny of an Angolan child who was a subject of her photography. Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger), as skillful cello player, leaves home to find her father who is responsible for interrupting her mother's life. She seeks revenge notwithstanding her father had mentally changed through the years. Three women are perfect strangers, but their destinies are intertwined by common visions, thoughts and their inward life. Gérard Depardieu, Klaus-Maria Brandauer and Malcolm McDowell are also starring in this movie directed by Edoardo Ponti, who happens to be Loren's son. |
| High Crimes
[2002,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| Everything you trust. Everything you know. May be a lie... |
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Claire Kubik (Ashley Judd) is a successful defense attorney - she has the perfect career, happy marriage... But once she gets to know something about her husband Tom's (Jim Caviezel) past - he turned out to be a government secret agent who is now arrested for a military high crime: somebody has killed seven civil people during the mission in the 1980s and Tom is apparently a scapegoat. She is to defend him in the top-secret military court, encountering lots of unfamiliar rules and strict directions. But what is more difficult is to risk her career, at the same time being uncertain about her husband's guilty... |
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Bewitching intrigante Maxine Conners (Sigourney Weaver) and her bright student, Paige (Jennifer Love Hewitt), are a mother and daughter con team. They know that God wants us to share with others. And there is no disgrace in fleecing a new wealthy hubby! Therefore they start a family business: Max seeks rich men to fall into her web and marry her, and then Page seduces them so that Max can win a great deal of money in divorce settlements. The main thing is to know when to stop because not only millionaires can take an interest in the gorgeous girls but cool-headed cops can do as well. Moreover, Max and Paige should be careful not to fall victim to the arrows of Eros... |
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The comedy drama tells the story of Alfie Elkins (Jude Law), a charming British limousine driver living in New York and having an extraordinary genius for seducing any beautiful woman. One day he sleeps with a well-to-do widow who yearns for touching, hugging, snuggling, caressing, etc, the next day he goes to bed with an enchanting single-mother who dotes on the philanderer. His carefree existence is threatened to come to an end when one of his mistresses, Lonette (Nia Long), becomes pregnant. Will the inveterate womanizer and convinced bachelor be able to change his lifestyle and shift his focus from women to the paternity? |
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In October of 1994, 3 students go into the woods to find the Blair witch. They find wooden dolls. When the last ray of light leave the forest. The forest is left black. Then, everyone mysteriously disappears. Then a year later, A thousand of film cans, tapes and footages were found. They are combined and made into "The Blair Witch Project" |
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In a mountainous South American country, drug-dealing rebels kidnap Peter Bowman, a US engineer who works for an oil company's subsidiary. The company calls in a negotiator, Terry Thorne, an Aussie ex-soldier based in London. When the subsidiary goes bankrupt, the oil company washes its hands of the matter and pulls Thorne. Bowman's wife Alice begs him to stay. She and Peter's sister cobble together some money, Thorne talks ransom terms with the cash-strapped rebels, and Peter, chained high in the mountains, is sustained by a photo of Alice. When the politics of the situation change, so must Thorne's strategy. And what can Alice and he do about the attraction growing between them? |
| Evita
[1996,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| The Most Anticipated Motion Picture Event of The Year |
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The musical drama depicts the real-life story of Eva Duarte (Madonna), an Argentine girl from the lower class who at the age of 15 decides to leave her hometown for the capital city with hopes of a better life. Once in Buenos Aires, she becomes involved in relationships with influential men who help her to climb the ladder. A famous radio performer and film actress, Eva meets ambitious Colonel Juan Perón (Jonathan Pryce) at a fundraiser in San Juan in 1944. The two fall in love and get married the following year. Encouraged by his wife, Juan wins election to the presidency. Eva Perón eventually becomes "the spiritual leader of the nation" by establishing and running the Ministries of Labor and Health, the charitable Eva Perón Foundation, and the Female Peronist Party. Her untimely death of uterine cancer at the age of 33 shakes the whole world. |
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Danny "Mean Machine" Meehan (Vinnie Jones), a famous British football captain, goes to jail for drunk driving and assaulting police officers. Governor (David Hemmings), a devoted football supporter, pays a large sum of money for Danny to be sent just in his jail because he wants 'Mean Machine' to coach a team of prison guards. However, Danny realizes that if he agrees, he will never go at large. Therefore he offers to assemble a team of convicts, who can play practice games against the guards. Without much foresight, the warden accepts the offer... |
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U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a planeload of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan is more than just another murderer. |
| Perfect Storm, The
[2000,
USA, Germany]
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| In the Fall of 1991, the "Andrea Gail" left Gloucester, Mass. and headed for the fishing grounds of the North Atlantic. Two weeks later, an event took place that had never occurred in recorded history. (4 more taglines...) |
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Billy Tyne is a sword-fishing-boat captain out of Gloucester, highly competitive and stung by a string of poor outings. His crew is hardly back in port when he tells them he's going out again, even though it's October and the weather can turn ugly. Five join him: the young Bobby, newly in love; Murph, a devoted father recently divorced; Sully, a guy Murph despises; Bugsy, who's finally met a woman who likes him; and Alfred, a quiet Jamaican. They catch little, so they sail east, with Tyne ignoring storm warnings behind him. Finally, the fish bite, but the ice machine fails. Should they head home through the storm of the century, or wait it out and lose their catch? Fearful, the women wait. |
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Jumanji is a board game, magic and dangerous, as two teenagers found it out and buried Jumanji in distant 1869. Now the young descendant of the same family Alan Parrish (Adam Hann-Byrd, Robin Williams) digs the game out and begins to play it along with his mate Sarah (Laura Bell Bundy, Bonnie Hunt). Then the game makes it clear that it is really perilous as the boy flies away into the distant jungle. Later, other members of the family begin expirience the shock of using the game, they should try to return Alan Parrish from the magic depths of the game keeping in mind that all the monstrous entities which are bred by it will disappear in the only certain case: if the game will be won.
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Berlin, July, 1945. Journalist Jake Geismer arrives to cover the Potsdam conference, issued a captain's uniform for easier passage. He also wants to find Lena, an old flame who's now a prostitute desperate to get out of Berlin. He discovers that the driver he's assigned, a cheerful down-home sadist named Corporal Tully, is Lena's keeper. When the body of a murdered man washes up in Potsdam (within the Russian sector), Jake may be the only person who wants to solve the crime: U.S. personnel are busy finding Nazis to bring to trial, the Russians and the Americans are looking for German rocket scientists, and Lena has her own secrets. |
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This suspenseful drama tells the story of Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti), an apartment building superintendent in Philadelphia, who one night finds a mysterious naked woman swimming in the pool. The bizarre events that ensue make him believe that the young woman is none other than a narf called Story, a fairy tale character. She has come from the Blue World to warn mankind of a race of deadly wolf-type creatures that hide in the dark corners of the condominium, waylaying their victims. It’s up to Cleveland to assemble tenants to assist the nymph in accomplishing her mission, avoiding the violent scrunts, and returning to her watery world via an eagle. |
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Michael Jennings (Ben Afleck) is a brilliant computer engineer who works for high-tech companies. As soon as the job is done, all memory of what he has been working on is erased from his mind so that he can’t let out any secrets to competitor companies. For his most recent top-secret project that has taken him 5 years, Jennings expects to receive a huge sum of money. When he awakens one day, he, however, receives not his paycheck of four billion dollars, but an envelope filled with 19 random objects he has sent himself before the procedure. Having no opportunity to claim his rights due to his wiped memory, Michael suddenly realizes that the envelope contains the clues to his own past. With the help of his old flame, Dr. Rachel Porter (Uma Thurman), Michael must somehow solve a puzzle until his ex-employers who want him dead find him. |
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Shortly before the playoffs, the Washington Sentinels and their cheerleaders have gone on strike for more money. To put their nose out, the owner of the NFL football team, Edward O'Neil (Jack Warden), brings in self-retired head coach Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman) to hire a team of substitute players. The replacement team is comprised of Daniel Bateman (Jon Favreau), a violent SWAT leader; Clifford Franklin (Orlando Jones), an ex-convict, who can outrun bit can't catch a football; Nigel 'The Leg' Gruff (Rhys Ifans), a Welsh soccer player who can kick a soccerball the full length of the playing field; Jahmal Abdul Jackson (Faizon Love) and André Action Jackson (Michael Taliferro), stout gangster rapper brothers; Jumbo Fumiko (Ace Yonamine), a Japanese sumo wrestler. Among them is Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves), a former Ohio State quarterback who has to become the ragtag team's captain. Charming blonde Annabelle Farrell (Brooke Langton), the head cheerleader, assembles a group of former strippers to encourage the replacements and kindle their fighting spirit. "Glory lasts forever, " Falco says to his team players. His plan of the game seems to be flawless. Their power is their unpredictability... |
| Sylvia
[2003,
UK]
from $1.99 |
| Life was too small to contain her... |
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The movie begins with the words from Sylvia Plath’s poem ‘Lady Lazarus’: ‘Dying is an art’. The movie relates the story of love and passion between two well-known poets of the XX century – Sylvia Plath (Gwyneth Paltrow) and Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig). Their first meeting developed into a stormy relationship. However, their marriage proved to be fragile, and they separated (mainly because of Hughes’ affair with Assia Wevill (Amira Casar). Down-and-out, depressed, with a broken heart, Sylvia Plath took her own life in 1963. |
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Lions for Lambs begins after two determined students at a West Coast University, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. But when the two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan, Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field, they become the string that binds together two disparate stories on opposite sides of America. In California, an anguished Dr. Malley attempts to reach a privileged but disaffected student who is the very opposite of Arian and Ernest. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. the charismatic Presidential hopeful, Senator Jasper Irving, is about to give a bombshell story to a probing TV journalist that may affect Arian and Ernest's fates. |
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