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Germany:12 certified full length DVD movies
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In the branches of Axis, a tree rising 100 miles into the clouds, there is a village inhabited by human-like dwellers. One of them is Kaena (voiced by Kirsten Dunst), a young girl who dreams of the world with blue clear sky and plentiful fresh water. When Axis’s sap almost runs dry and it grows weak, it seems to Kaena that Axis is calling her for help. In defiance of her tribe's taboos the adventurous and rebellious Kaena starts on her journey beyond the confines of the village to seek help. She finds herself in the weird and wonderful world inhabited by mysterious creatures! At the end of her courageous quest Kaena will unravel a terrible secret...
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One absurd misunderstanding can turn your life upside down. The easygoing and timid Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler), an executive assistant at a pet products company, is mistaken for an aggressively inclined neurotic. All his attempts to clear himself yield no results, and he is sentenced to attend anger management therapy headed by the eccentric Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson) who is able to turn a phlegmatic person into a schizophrenic. Alas, poor Dave has to go through hell. The enthusiastic, overenergetic doctor is determined to help Dave struggle with his inner demons, making his life a real nightmare. However, if a patient wants to stay alive, medicine is virtually powerless! |
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"Sahara" stars Matthew McConaughey as adventurer Dirk Pitt, who must try to prevent a deadly microbe from causing an epidemic in the oceans after he discovered that thousands of people in Africa are being driven mad by something polluting the water. Along the way Matthew make the acquaintance of Dr. Eva Rojas (Penélope Cruz), a scientist and physician who is trying to determine the source of a strange and deadly disease sweeping the nation. Based on the one of Clive Cusslers' best-selling novels. |
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When returning to Earth, a NASA space shuttle explodes under mysterious circumstances and the fragments bring alien spores that begin spreading by leaps and bounds and infecting human beings, turning them into emotionless pod people. Along with her love interest, Dr. Ben Driscoll (Daniel Craig), Washington psychiatrist Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman) discovers that the mind-altering extraterrestrial virus is attempting to take over mankind and that her son Oliver (Jackson Bond) is immune to the disease because of chicken pox he had as a baby and may hold the key to creating an effective vaccine. However, Ollie is abducted by his father, Carol's infected ex-husband Tucker Kaufman (Jeremy Northam). Thus, Carol and Ben begin prowling zombie-infested streets in search of her son who is the last hope for saving the human race... |
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Internet love connections and mail-order brides rarely ever work out, and John (played by Ben Chaplin) should have known. Having never been lucky in the game of love and tired of waiting for the perfect woman to come along, John decides to take his chances and orders a mail-order bride from Russia online. At first, things seem perfect: his new bride Nadia (Nicole Kidman) is a gorgeous woman, and although she may not speak much English, her skills in the bedroom more than make up for any communication problems. When Nadia's 'cousins' unexpectedly arrive to celebrate her birthday, John is drawn into their web of corruption and crime. |
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Based somewhat more authentically on the Grimm Brothers' story of a young woman who is unliked by her stepmother, the film includes the talking mirror, a poisoned apple, and some ruffian gold (not diamond) miners (and they aren't dwarfs or cute). It takes place at the time of the Crusades, and depicts the attitudes of the wealthy and the peasant classes toward one another. |
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A British intelligence agent, Andy Osnard (Pierce Brosnan), is ruled by two passions: gambling and infatuation with other men's wives. After having a clandestine liaison with an ambassador's mistress, Osnard is exiled to Panama by his boss, Luxmore (David Hayman). This time, he finds himself at the center of political intrigue concerning the Panama Canal treaty. The only one who captures his attention is a prestigious tailor, Harold Pendel (Geoffrey Rush), who works for the Panamanian President and influential embassy officials. Osnard recruits him as an informant, leveraging his checkered past and his huge debt. |
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The flight over Mongolian desert ended with a crash landing, and the crew is to survive on the waterless planes with almost no chance of rescue. Few men and one woman are under threat of the imminent and slow thirsty death in the midst of the most brutal deserts of the world. Being exhausted by the raging winds, desert smugglers and constant quarrels and diminishing in number, crash survivors realize, that the only way out is to build the new plane using the debris of the crashed one. This movie is a remake of Robert Aldrich classic based on the novel by Elleston Trevor. |
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After defeating Von Doom, the Fantastic Four can really enjoy life more. All four are now comfortable with their new powers. The Thing and Johnny Storm now get along with each other, and Sue Storm is now planning to be Mrs. Fantastic. Galactus, an evil creature in space, has decided that Earth is it's new target, and sends the Silver Surfer to destroy it. Reed Richards and his team must now work together to capture this surfer, and even must now team up with one individual who they didn't expect to help. |
| Mad City
[1997,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| One man will make a mistake. The other will make it a spectacle. |
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Max Brackett (Dustin Hoffman), a brilliant journalist has to leave his job after a large-scale scandal at the tv-channel he worked. He can stay at work in only one case: if he will find a Sensation, a country-scale one. He gets a chance, meeting Sam Baily (Travolta, John), a guard who tries to fight for justice having a gun and turning it against his former chiefs and takes some people hostage. Max finds out that these occurence is nothing but a pure coincidence, he is surprised to find himself became the only friend of Sam. The journalist tries to save the man but the colleague reporter from NY wants to place all in a bad light.
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| Anna Karenina
[1997,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| In a world of power and privilege, one woman dared to obey her heart. |
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Anna is a young and elegant wife of Mr. Karenin, who is wealthy and old. She meets the handsome Count Vronsky. Anna and Vronsky fall in love with each other, and he comes to be with her in St. Petersburg. They are very happy together and make a great looking couple, but soon their happiness gets under social pressures. Anna is hopelessly begging Mr. Karenin for a divorce, but he wants to keep the mother of their child. She has another baby born from her lover Vronsky. Conflict between her untamed desires and painful reality causes her a depression... |
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Conor O'Neill (Keanu Reeves) is addicted to alcohol, gambling and scalping tickets. He has been down on his luck recently and various bookies have become increasingly impatient with him. Desperate for cash to pay off his debts, he seeks help from his old friend Jimmy Flemming (Mike McGlone) who agrees to lend money provided that Conor coaches a baseball team of troubled kids from the Cabrini Green housing projects. |
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Kate Wells (Famke Janssen) is a magazine journalist who is given an impossible assignment to write an article on love and sex by the end of the day. Kate has no choice but to reminisce about her past romances. Kate experienced her first love at school. But it was unhappy love ending in break-up with classmate Bobby Norton. She lost her virginity to her high-school French teacher. With the years, the number of her sexual partners was a bit shocking: Kate had had 13 lovers when she met artist Adam Levy (Jon Favreau). However, the longer people live together, the more they irritate each other. Her miscarriage and regular domestic quarrels made them split up. Depressed and devastated, Kate met charismatic B-movie actor Joey Santino (Josh Hopkins) at a sex-shop while buying a vibration toy for her "female friend". On the same day they became lovers. Their love affair totally based on sex didn't last long. Kate resumed dating other men but, to her surprise, Adam decided to come back into Kate's life. At first Kate resisted but soon agreed to reunite... Love and sex... |
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TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the three have joined the team of stormchasers as they attempt to insert a revolutionary measuring device into the very heart of several extremely violent tornados. |
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'The Mexican' is a priceless antique pistol belonging to big boss Arnold Margolese (Gene Hackman) who is about to get out of jail. A small-time gangster, Jerry Welbach (Brad Pitt), who has big problems with the mafia, is instructed to travel to Mexico so as to find this cursed legendary gun. What is worse is that he is at outs with his girl-friend Samantha (Julia Roberts) who demands that he break off with the mob. The problems multiply when the gun turns out to be hunted by many other bandits including two hired assassins. |
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In the 50's, in Louisiana, the smart populist, manipulative and wolf hick Willie Stark is elected governor with the support of the lower social classes. He joins a team composed of his bodyguard and friend Sugar Boy; the journalist from an aristocratic family Jack Burden; the lobbyist Tiny Duffy; and his mistress Sadie Burke, to face the opposition of the upper classes. When the influent Judge Irwin supports a group of politicians in their request of impeachment, Stark assigns Jack to find some dirtiness along the life of Irwin, leading to a tragedy in the end. |
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This quite speculative story tells about two brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm who pretends to protect townsfolk from folklore creatures they fabricated. But when their quick-money-getting scheme is disclosed, the con men are forced to contend with a real magical curse. They enter an enchanted forest where young girls keep disappearing under mysterious circumstances. The story sometimes balances on a brink of nonsense, but Monica Belucci appearing by the end of film is good as usual. |
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The hilarious, outrageous teenage comedy follows two buddies, wannabe producer Joe (Tom Riley) and director Baggy (Tom Burke), who come up with the idea of making a movie. What they need to achieve their dream is to get money. They receive a stroke of luck when they encounter low-life producer Doug (Eddie Marsan) who is ready to give them some money provided that they make a porn movie starring the world's most famous adult film actress, Candy Fiveways (Carmen Electra). |
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This romantic tale chronicles the ten-year affair between a busy American socialite and an international disaster relief worker. Sarah Jordan (Angelina Jolie) is a young married woman whose huband Henry Bauford (Linus Roache) comes from a wealthy British family of a powerful industrialist. In 1984 Sarah meets Nick Callahan (Clive Owen) at a charity event in London. She gets so charmed by his passionate speech on behalf of world hunger that decides to support his relief efforts. In Ethiopia Sarah comes across Nick again, and romantic sparks start to fly between them; nevertheless the relationship is cut short because of family and work commitments. Some years later, after Sarah’s marital crisis and divorce, they rekindle the passion against the backdrop of the world's most dangerous political hot spots. |
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Stephen Dorff narrates this tale about how his life goes astray as his character attempts to strike a balance between the demands of directing his first film and the pressures of his new romance with a model. U2's Bono plays a role in this film as both himself and Dorff's character's concience. |
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