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Netherlands:12 certified full length DVD movies
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An Army sergeant (Samual Jackson) takes six of his special troops on a training mission into the rain-soaked Colombian jungles and only two come out alive. When the rescue mission arrives, they see one soldier (Brian Van Holt) killing another and carrying a wounded comrade (Giovanni Ribisi). As the interrogation begins, the soldier refuses to talk to anyone other than another Ranger. The investigating officer (Connie Nielsen) protests, but her commanding officer (Timothy Daly) nonetheless brings in a former Ranger and current DEA agent (John Travolta) to help. The agent is currently on suspension from DEA for allegedly accepting a bribe. From this point on, the plot continues to twist and turn and offers numerous surprises that keeps the story interesting. |
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In a small Minnesota town, the annual beauty pageant is being covered by a TV crew. Former winner Gladys Leeman wants to make sure her daughter follows in her footsteps. Explosions, falling lights, and trailer fires prove that. As the Leemans are the richest family in town the police are pretty relaxed about it all. Despite everything, main rival (but nice) Amber Atkins won't be stopped. There could well be more death and disappointment to come. |
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American Special Forces arrest Russian General Ivan Radek (Jürgen Prochnow) who has taken over Kazakhstan and set up a dictatorship that has resulted in the death of thousands of people. James Marshall (Harrison Ford), the President of the USA, visits Moscow and makes a speech on the USA's get-tough policy with regard to the dictatorial regime and terrorism. On the flight back to Washington, a group of Russian nationalists disguised as newspaper reporters and led by the Ivan Korshunov (Gary Oldman) seize the plane and take the passengers hostage. They want the President to release General Radek from prison and threaten to kill the hostages unless their demands are met. Everybody is sure that the President manages to escape from the plane in an emergency capsule. However, Marshall, a combat hero in the Vietnam War, considers it to be his duty to stay on board to rescue the hostages and regain control of the plane. |
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"Starsky & Hutch" takes place in the 70s. Two guys played by Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson are stripped of their badges, done by a drug kingpin (Vince Vaughn) and totally ripped off in a disco contest. Vaughn's character is a maniacal drug lord with an absurd moustache who is prone to dramatic outbursts. So, yeah, they got some scores to settle. Driving a red and white Ford Torino and solving cases with the assistance of their informant Huggy Bear (Snoop Dogg), they investigate their latest case, and soon realize that the culprit is none other than Reese Feldman (Vince Vaughn), the criminal involved in their first bust. |
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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. |
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Angels are among us and when we feel an invisible presence, you better believe they are watching you. An angel must decide if love is more important than eternal peace in this Americanized adaptation of Wim Wenders' modern classic Wings of Desire. Seth, an angel watching over Los Angeles, begins finding his job difficult as he falls in love with Maggie, a beautiful heart surgeon. She becomes interested in Seth, and soon his not-quite-mortal state seems a barrier rather than a gift. As Maggie gets to know the strange visitor in black who has suddenly appeared in her life, she finds herself torn between her new feelings for Seth and her attachment to her fiancй Jordan (Colm Feore), a fellow doctor. Seth, on the other hand, has a serious choice to make – between celestial duty and earthly love. |
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American Special Forces arrest Russian General Ivan Radek (Jürgen Prochnow) who has taken over Kazakhstan and set up a dictatorship that has resulted in the death of thousands of people. James Marshall (Harrison Ford), the President of the USA, visits Moscow and makes a speech on the USA's get-tough policy with regard to the dictatorial regime and terrorism. On the flight back to Washington, a group of Russian nationalists disguised as newspaper reporters and led by the Ivan Korshunov (Gary Oldman) seize the plane and take the passengers hostage. They want the President to release General Radek from prison and threaten to kill the hostages unless their demands are met. Everybody is sure that the President manages to escape from the plane in an emergency capsule. However, Marshall, a combat hero in the Vietnam War, considers it to be his duty to stay on board to rescue the hostages and regain control of the plane. |
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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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Arnie Cunningham is a typical high school nerd who is picked on, overruled by his parents, and has very few friends. Until he meets Christine, a run-down 1958 Plymouth Fury and buys her. Arnie learns that Christine has a thing for him and devotes his time to restoring her to Mint Condition. But overtime, Arnie begins to change and becomes disconnected with reality and his friends. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis find out that Christine's previous owner cared about nothing else when he bought her and find out that Arnie is becoming just like him. The only way they can bring Arnie back to reality is to destroy Christine, But Arnie and Christine are ready to destroy them first and any one else who gets in their way. |
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Some Arabs hijack an airliner and demand the release of their leader who is in American custody. They also intend to land in Washington for refueling. At the Pentagon, everyone there advises the National Security Advisor that they should let the plane land and then let the counter terrorist team of Colonel Austin Travis take them out. But David Grant, an intelligence expert believes that this whole thing is a smokescreen. Grant believes that the Arab leader was abducted by his second in command, who is a fanatic. And that he has in his possession a biological weapon that could wipe out Washington and that it's on the plane. Now they have only two choices let them land and hope Grant is wrong or shoot the plane down along with every one onboard. Then Colonel Travis suggests that they use this new plane that the military uses to transport men from onto another aircraft while in flight. With no other option Travis is given the go ahead. He then asks that Grant be allowed to! |
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President James Dale of the United States and his right-hand man, Jerry Ross discover that an army of Martian UFOs are hovering around the Earth, and everyone has a different response. Some, like Texan alcohol dealer Art Land and slimy nesman Jason Black, just want to make a profit out of it. Others, such as TV hostess Nathalie Lake, Land's spiritualist wife Barbara, and the Southern-like Norris family, are excited, and some, like Dale's wife, Marsha, and daughter, Taffy, don't care. Richie Norris is extremely intelligent but is only respected by his insane grandmother, while his older brother Billy is favored for joining the army. General Decker doesn't trust the Martians and insist they fight, but General Casey is more optimistic. The Martians appear to come in peace but suddenly begin to use their super-powerful and technologically advanced weapons to wipe out the population and great structures. Soon, they attack Las Vegas, where the Norrises are living, where former heavyweight champion Byron Williams is visiting, where an obnoxious lawyer is gambling, and where Tom Jones is performing in concerts. |
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After their last big score, two master jewel thieves, Max Burdett (Pierce Brosnan) and Lola Cirillo (Salma Hayek), decide to give up their criminal careers and settle down on a paradisiacal island, hoping to relax and enjoy the fruits of their ‘labor’. However, Burdett’s nemesis, federal agent Stanley Lloyd (Woody Harrelson) who has spent seven years in dogged but abortive pursuit of the crafty thief, wants to make sure that the retired criminal keeps his promise. Upon arrival in the Bahamas, the suspicious agent begins to shadow Max because the Diamond Cruise ship moored to the island where they are staying happens to have the third Napoleon diamond aboard. The cat-and-mouse game begins again! Will Max steal the unique diamond? Will Stan finally catch him red-handed?
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When men meet Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) in the street, they never follow her with their eyes, except for those situations, when she is armed and pursues a criminal. Gracie is an experienced FBI agent, and the lack of good manners and charm is more than compensated for by her marksmanship and martial arts skills. But her life takes an unexpected twist when she is assigned to go undercover as a contestant in the Miss America pageant in order to prevent one of the most dangerous criminals from bombing the competition. The bumbling Gracie wears neither a dress nor high heels. She doesn't wear make-up either. In her cosmetics bag there is nothing but a pair of handcuffs. An image consultant, Victor Melling (Michael Caine), will have a hard time beautifying Gracie and teaching her poise, gracefulness and perfect smile. |
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This sequel to Pitch Black follows escaped convict Riddick (Vin Diesel) as he finds himself between the hammer and the anvil in a raging galactic war. After spending five years on the run and pursued by ruthless bounty-hunters, Riddick is to fight for the future of the human race, which is about to annihilate by the efforts of an evil Necromongers. Notwithstanding he is not a hero but an antihero, he is an evil to defeat evil. Aided by the mysterious ethereal being named Aereon (Judi Dench), who helps him uncover the secrets of his past, Riddick has to fight against the evil Lord Marshal (Colm Feore) and his army. He meets the girl Kyra (Alexa Davalos), with whom he escaped from the monster-swarmed planet, together they should stand the battle that will determine the fate of the universe. |
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After the untimely death of their granddad (Donald Sutherland), German-American brothers Jan (Paul Soter) and Todd Wolfhouse (Erik Stolhanske) travel to the Old Country to spread his ashes. On arrival in Munich they discover that it’s Oktoberfest, an autumn festival that is famous for the consumption of beer. The brothers, who remember their roots and, like all Germans, are big beer drinkers, are eager to compete in Beerfest, the so-called Beer Olympic Games which take place during several days. Although their German cousins shoot their desire down in flames, Tod and Jan are not in the least embarrassed to enter the contest but are soon beaten. Determined to get their revenge, the guys return home and assemble a team of inveterate beer guzzlers to train strenuously for next year’s competition. All they need to receive the Beerfest honors is healthy liver and strong will to win.
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This movie takes a big-budget, special-effects-filled look at what the world would look like if the greenhouse effect and global warming continued at such levels that they resulted in worldwide catastrophe and disaster, including multiple hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of the next Ice Age. At the center of the story is a paleoclimatologist (a scientist who studies the ways weather patterns changed in the past), Professor Jack Hall (Quaid), who tries to save the world from the effects of global warming while also trying to get to his son, Sam (Gyllenhaal), who was in New York City as part of a scholastic competition, when the city was overwhelmed by the chilling beginnings of the new Ice Age. In addition to all of the other challenges Dr. Hall faces, he's also going against the flow as humanity races south to warmer climes, and he's nearly the only one going north... |
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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. |
| 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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Set in Wichita, Kansas, the black comedy centers on mob lawyer Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) and his associate Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) who decide to give themselves a Christmas present and embezzle $2 million in cash from Charlie's crime boss, Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid). The lawyer is impatient to slip out of town with the alluring strip club owner Renata (Connie Nielsen). But you never know what surprises are in store for you. For Charlie, Christmas Eve proves to be a great surprise... |
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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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