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Iceland:L certified full length DVD movies
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Based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott, this delightful movie charts the early and traumatic early years. Telling the story in flashback we see David as he grows up and into a child prodigy while his father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his childhood in Europe and the loss of his family in the concentration camps. David finally breaks away from his father and goes away to study overseas, he later suffers a breakdown and returns to Australia and a life in an institution. Many years later he is released and through several twists of fate (in reality even more unlikely than film portrays) he starts playing a piano in a bar before finally returning to the concert hall. |
| Philadelphia
[1993,
USA]
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| No one would take on his case... until one man was willing to take on the system. |
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Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) is a young lawyer who is making a career in Philadelphia, in a well-known firm. But one day he finds himself fired - at the first glance, for a minor error, but the real reason is that he is gay and more to say he is AIDS-infected person. Andrew hires an attorney, Joe Miller (Denzel Washington), to defend his interests in the law-court, and the pair tries to fight for the truth. |
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Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket. Their daughter Rachel cleans in a home for elderly people, and their son Rory is unemployed and aggressive. The joy has gone out of Phil's and Penny's life, but when an unexpected tragedy occurs, they are brought together to rediscover their love. All or Nothing is set on a London working-class housing estate over a long weekend, and also tells the stories of a range of Phil and Penny's neighbors, some of whom become involved in the family's lives, and all of whom experience an emotional journey. |
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The satirical documentary revolves around General Motors, a multinational corporation which betrayed those who believed in the American dream by closing its factories in the thriving town of Flint, Michigan in the mid-1980s. The closure resulted in the loss of 33,000 jobs and the economical devastation of the town. Filmmaker Michael Moore doggedly and unsuccessfully tries to meet and obtain an interview from General Motors Chairman Roger Smith who throws various obstacles in his way. |
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24 hours after Danny Ocean (George Clooney), a cunning and smart thief, has released from prison in New Jersey, he is already planning the most sophisticated and high-tech casino heist in history. He decides to rob three prosperous Las Vegas casinos owned by a dapper, unscrupulous and ruthless mogul, Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia), who happens to date Danny's ex-wife Tess (Julia Roberts). In one night, Danny assembles professionals from all over the country. The gang is comprised of Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt), a card fraud; Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon), a perfect pickpocket; Frank Catton (Bernie Mac), a cardsharper; Saul Bloom (Carl Reiner), a retired swindler who will play a weaponry dealer; Basher Tarr (Don Cheadle), an explosives expert, and others. Eveyone plays his own part in the classic game of Gambit. Ocean's accomplices will do their utmost to steal $150 million during a big boxing event on New Year's Eve. |
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In an era when Americans were in great need of heroic figures to help them forget their troubles, SEABISCUIT comes to the rescue. The picture relates a moving story of friendship and devotion in rehabilitating the main characters'fractured lives, as it interweaves the interactions between horse, jockey, trainer and owner and their adoring fans. The film accurately portrays the real people and events of those troubled times and how Seabiscuit "fixed us, every one of us." |
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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. |
| Few Good Men, A
[1992,
USA]
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| In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth. |
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Tom Cruise embodies the novice, inspired and self-reliant lawyer named Daniel Kaffee who defends two Marines accused of the colleague murder at the Guantanamo military base. From many points this process seems unambiguous, but the more our attorney digs, the more strange facts come to light. In this military drama he tries to find the real offenders at any cost, confronting the high and mighty, risking his life, career and trying to overcome his biggest fears. |
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When a new princess is born to King Stefan & his wife, the entire kingdom rejoices. At a ceremony, three good fairies - Flora, Fauna & Merryweather - bestow gifts of magic on the child. But an evil sorceress named Maleficent shows up, and because of a rude remark by Merryweather, she places a curse on the princess - that she will die on her 16th birthday after touching a poisoned spinning wheel. Merryweather tries to undo the damage by casting a spell that will allow the princess - named Aurora - to awake from an ageless sleep with a kiss from her true love. The fairies take Aurora to their cottage in the woods to keep her away from the eyes of Maleficent, and raise her as their own child, named Briar Rose. On her 16th birthday Aurora meets Prince Phillip, the son of a king whose own kingdom will soon merge with King Stefan's - and falls in love. Maleficent manages to kidnap the Prince and her horrible prophecy is fulfilled when she tricks Aurora into touching a spinning wheel created by Maleficent herself! Realizing that the Prince is in trouble, the 3 good fairies head to Maleficent's castle at the Forbidden Mountain, and spring the Prince loose. But the Prince soon finds himself up against Maleficent's army of brutes, and the power of Maleficent's evil spells - which include a thorn forest as thick as weeds around King Stefan's castle, and a fight against Maleficent when she turns herself into a dragon! Is the Prince strong enough to withstand the powers of the evil sorceress? |
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All that Neal Page wants to do is to get home for Thanksgiving. His flight has been cancelled due to bad weather, so he decides on other means of transport. As well as bad luck, Neal is blessed with the presence of Del Griffith, Shower Curtain Ring Salesman and all-around blabbermouth, who is never short of advice, conversation, bad jokes, or company. And when he decides that he is going the same direction as Neal.... |
| Eight Below
[2006,
USA]
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| The Most Amazing Story Of Survival, Friendship, And Adventure Ever Told. |
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Due to force majeure circumstances three members of a scientific expedition — survival guide Jerry Shepard (Paul Walker), cartographer Charlie Cooper (Jason Biggs), and geologist Davis McClaren (Bruce Greenwood) – are ordered to evacuate the National Science Foundation Research Base in Antarctica. As there is no room on board plane for their dogsled team, they reluctantly leave their smart and devoted four-footed friends, vowing to return in a few weeks and rescue them. |
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Somewhere in the desert. A car speeds like crazy along the roads. Suddenly, the driver loses control and sails off a cliff. Four other vehicles are near, they stop to help. The dying man narrates the drivers of a fortune in cash, $350,000, which he has hidden below a giant "W" in Santa Rosita, some 200 miles away. The four drivers and their respective passengers can't decide on how to share the future fortune, and suddenly a wild race to Santa Rosita develops. While one party manages to rent a plane (from 1916), the others face different problems like tire damage, untrustworthy lifts, deep water, drunken millionaires, a British adventurer, little girl's bicycles, and last but far not least a mother-in-law from hell and her imbecile son. While the folks slowly travel towards the goal, they are being watched. Who ever said that nobody else knew about the fortune? |
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Set in London, 1593, the romantic comedy revolves around a rising young playwright, Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes). Writer's block hits him quite unexpectedly and at the most inconvenient time when he is out of cash and the Globe theater owner, Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush), who is on the verge of bankruptcy, wants him to finish his new play "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter" as soon as possible. What Will needs to overcome the worst hiccup in the writing profession is a muse. And when the hope of finding inspiration seems to go glimmering, compelling love for a bewitching noblewoman, Viola De Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow), invades his soul. A devoted fan of Shakespeare's plays, Viola disguises herself as a man to join the Globe troupe and win the leading male role in his latest stage production. Viola is also inflamed with love for the passionate Will but there's just one snag: she is betrothed to Lord Wessex (Colin Firth) who is intent to take her to a remote English colony.
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Charlie loves chocolate, but he comes from a needy family and can’t afford even a little bit of the desired sweet. His penniless, but loving family lives by the walls of the mysterious Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory, and the last thing Charlie sees falling asleep is the magic building. He is dreaming about the secrets, hidden inside this amazing building of the most celebrating candy company. Eventually, he gets a chance to take there. While the Wonka's confectionery plant is usually closed to any visitors, the candy man who is famously living in seclusion decides to let the only five pleased children in to see the inside of his manufacture by placing five desired "golden tickets" in five different chocolate bars. Along with four other children, Charlie explores the astonishing world of the eccentric Willy Wonka (Johnny Depp). A really amazing movie, for Johnny Depp it’s just another film of a chocolate theme and another perfect role. |
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After the death of her husband, Anna Owens moves from England to Siam with her son Louis to become a teacher for the children of the king of Siam. She finds Siamese customs to be quite different from English ones, which brings her often in conflict with the king. However, after some time they find themselves getting along much better. |
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Denzel Washington is hired as the T.C. Williams High football coach over a white coach in Alexandria, Virginia in the early 1970's during a time when the school has just been integrated to allow blacks into the school. |
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Roger Rabbit is a cartoon character who (along with many others) exists along side of real humans. Eddy is a private eye who has seen better days and has been on the skids since the death of his brother at the hands of a Toon (cartoon character). Rogers' boss hires Eddy to see if his sexy wife has other male interests, but things get out of hand as Roger is framed for murder with no one but the Toon hating Eddy to go to for help. |
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Retelling of the Robin Hood legend with animals for the characters. Robin Hood is an outlaw who starts to form a gang in Sherwood Forest to fight the injustices of the Sheriff of Nottingham, who levies unpayable taxes upon the people. |
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When Waring Hudsucker, head of hugely successful Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide, his board of directors, led by Sidney Mussberger, comes up with a brilliant plan to make a lot of money: appoint a moron to run the company. When the stock falls low enough, Sidney and friends can buy it up for pennies on the dollar, take over the company, and restore its fortunes. They choose idealistic Norville Barnes, who just started in the mail room. Norville is whacky enough to drive any company to ruin, but soon, tough reporter Amy Archer smells a rat and begins an undercover investigation of Hudsucker Industries. |
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Will Freeman (Hugh Grant) seems to "have it all" - a cool sport car, a chic flat, pretty girls, etc. In his thirty-eight he is a mischievous child who use to pamper himself and not to take it all to the heart. Will's life was a series of fleeting romances, he had no problems and no boring obligations, and he was simply a handsome egoist until he met Marcus - twelve-aged child who turned all his life upside down. A sybarite and sweet bachelor's life is now totally changed... for the better! |
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