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Netherlands:12 certified full length DVD movies
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Her goldfish dead, her lover exposed as a rat, Shawn Holloway leaves her bank post and goes to the roof intent on suicide. Before she can leap, she's taken hostage by Charlie Anders, a fleeing bank robber. He and his partners have stolen a million in cash and plan to escape to Venezuela. Shawn agrees to cooperate if Charlie promises to kill her once he's in the clear. Parts of the plan go awry, so Charlie has time to try to pierce her bleak manner and self pity, and she has time for reflection. As night falls, their interlude ends: they're each alone, Charlie facing prison as the police close in, and Shawn staring down at a river from atop a high bridge. |
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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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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. |
| Pure Country
[1992,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| Bright Lights. Hit Songs. Country's biggest star. He'd trade it all to find the kind of love he'd only sung about. |
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Dusty Chandler (Strait) is a super star in the country music world, but his shows have the style of a '70s rock concert. One day he takes a walk - out of his overdone concerts to find his real country roots. He's helped and hindered by friends and staff, but pushes on in his search for a real music style as well as a real romance. |
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When Bond is sent to investigate a security leak at the high-tech Zorin Industries, he discovers a hotbed of murder and deception. The company's mysterious owner, Max Zorin has devised a plan to corner the world microchip market, even if he has to kill millions to do it! But before Bond can stop Zorin, he must confront the madman's beautiful and deadly companion May Day. With help from the gorgeous Stacey, Bond will launch an all-out assault on Zorin's deadly scheme, climaxing in a spine-tingling duel on the upper spans of the Golden Gate Bridge. |
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The story is set in 1933, ten years after Richard O'Connell and Evelyn's fearless fight against High Priest Imhotep (Arnold Vosloo). Now the courageous adventurer Rick (Brendan Fraser) and the beautiful Egyptologist Evie (Rachel Weisz) are very happily married and have an 8-year-old son Alex (Freddie Boath). However, they are fated not to enjoy a restful life. The scientists find the mummified corpse of Imhotep and ship it to the British Museum. The cursed villain arises from the dead again! In the meantime, Mathayus the Scorpion King (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson), a legendary warrior who has been slept in the desert of Ahm Shere for many centuries, resurrects as well. When these two powerful forces clash, the destiny of the human race is in the balance. The O'Connells have only 7 days to save the world and rescue their son. |
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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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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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'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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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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When a happily married couple, Elizabeth (Ashley Judd) and Nicholas Parsons (Bruce Greenwood), decide to take a romantic sailing trip, they don’t think they may have any trouble. The end of the trip is, however, dismal. As the saying goes, misfortune never comes alone. Nick is drowned in the bosom of the sea, Libby is sent to prison on a murder rap, their 4-year-old son Matty (Benjamin Weir) is adopted by Libby’s friend, Angie (Annabeth Gish), who unexpectedly disappears with the kid. Libby seems to have had all the trials and troubles one must have. But this is not the case. While serving prison time, Libby discovers the awful truth that she was faked by her own hubby who is actually safe and sound and lives in clover. Knowing that she won’t be twice imprisoned for the same criminal offense she makes up her mind to take revenge on Nicholas. Therefore, when she is paroled six years later, Libby straightway escapes from a halfway house to find her missing son and her treacherous husband.
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After Harry's arrest of a gambling kingpin results in a conviction for murder, a group of thugs shoot up Harry's car and try to kill him. Harry overpowers them and is paired with a new partner, Insp. Al Quan (Evan Kim). Within days of this assignment Harry and Al find themselves working on a mysterious death of a rock star, who was on location filming a movie directed by Peter Swan (Liam Neeson). After one of Swan's crew is killed in a Chinatown robbery that is foiled by Al & Harry, Al discovers a list of celebrities on the dead man that includes the dead rock star and one Inspector Harry Callahan. They soon discover that this is part of a strange game called the Dead Pool, and it isn't long before other people on the list turn up dead...and someone starts making attempts on Harry's life... |
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Van Wilder (Ryan Reynolds) has been at his college for seven years and can't get his diploma. He is not at all the most stupid student at college. The fact is that Van enjoys carefree collegiate life and devotes all his time and energy to throwing hilarious parties. To his dismay he discovers that his father, Vance Wilder Sr. (Tim Matheson), doesn't propose to pay his offspring's tuition. Now, Van is confronted with a dilemma: either he will pay for another year of fun by himself or he will eventually become a graduate. |
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Two bored high school students, Justin Pendleton ('Michael Pitt (II)' (qv)) and Richard Haywood ('Ryan Gosling (I)' (qv)), decide to murder a random girl just for the challenge. They have planned everything ahead, and yet, a stiff homicide detective follows them much tighter then they have expected. |
| Next
[2007,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| If you can see the future, you can save it. |
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Cris Johnson (Nicolas Cage) was born with a special gift to see two minutes into the future and change it to suit himself. Unwilling to attract attention to his ability, he works as a magician with the stage name of Frank Cadillac, performing third-rate shows in Las Vegas and living off "winnings" on slot machines. Unfortunately for Cris, both casino security and the FBI somehow learn of his power and want to take advantage of it. The casino bosses want him to rob the house. FBI agent Callie Ferris (Julianne Moore) wants him to thwart the detonation of a nuclear device in Los Angeles. Cris, however, wants nothing to do with the former and the latter. The reason is that his love interest is Liz Cooper (Jessica Biel), a seductive schoolteacher, who is inexplicably linked to this bomb scheme, and he is not about to jeopardize a promising affair with the girl of his dreams. |
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Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor who almost cannot stand the death of his wife when something weird happens. Dead and dying patients start to speak to him in his wife's voice. He goes after the clues that the symbols left, which lead him to different mystical places. Is he just insane? Is she speaking to him from beyond the grave? Or is she still alive? Ending would be very surprising… |
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A bank's security specialist Jack Stanfield is responsible for the security of the computer system of a small bank. His family includes the architect Beth, a young son and teen daughter. One day, after being introduced to a man named Bill Cox who is interested in working with Jack on a security project, Jack finds himself attacked and staring down a gun barrel. Now he should hack his own-built computer system to transfer a big sum of money to the thug's account in Caimans. Failure to comply means the murder of Jack's family. However, even after Cox has the money, it becomes obvious that he ain't gonna let anyone live... |
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A THOUSAND ACRES is a drama about an American family who meets with tragedy on their land. It is the story of a father, his daughters, and their husbands, and their passion to subdue the history of their land and its stories. |
| Eraser
[1996,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| He will erase your past to protect your future. |
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John Kruger works for a branch of the Justice Department call Witness Security or Witsec, that's responsible for relocatibng and protecting witnesses. John's latest assignment is Lee Cullen, who works for a company that's a Defense Contractor, who is selling weapons to enemies of the U.S. When she agrees to get the evidence that the Feds need to take them down, she goes in and does it but was not told by the Feds that she was going to have a bullseye on her for the rest of her life. After refusing to be placed in Kruger's custody, some men attack her home but Kruger arrives just in time to save her and relocate. Later when several witnesses under Witsec are killed, Kruger accompanies another Witsec agent Deguerin to save a potential victim, when they get there, Deguerin shoots the killer but also kills the witness, and then plants a photo of Lee in the shooter's pocket. When Kruger sees the photo, Deguerin asks where she is, Kruger intially gives him a false location but while on the plane, Kruger sensing something's not right, calls her, which means that she is suppose to meet him somewhere. Kruger's drugged and when he awakens he discovers that Deguerin is not only working with the people who are trying to sell the weapons but has just framed him for killing another agent. Kruger escapes and gets to Lee in time but unfortunately, he is still a fugitive, so he must try and prove his innocence while trying to protect Lee. |
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A gigantic asteroid is on a direct collision course with Earth. There is little time left before the fatal crash. Only a miracle can save life on Earth. In order to make a miracle, NASA Administrator Dan Truman (Billy Bob Thornton) sends the world's foremost deep core driller, Harry S. Stamper (Bruce Willis), and his courageous crew to land on the asteroid, drill into its center and drop a nuclear explosive device. The detonation of the bomb will crack the asteroid into two halves which will pass Earth on both sides. The drilling team must complete their highly important mission before the deadline; otherwise the halves will not fly by but slam into the planet. |
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