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Netherlands:16 certified full length DVD movies
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Chic life and mysteriuos death of Bob Crane, an actor, is still stunning the minds despite the fact he died in 1978. He was a sex addict, and a permanent client of the most dissolute strip clubs; female form was the favorite object of his interest as a photographer. After he met a camera operator John Carpenter, he's got accustomed to the video, and, at the same time his marriage and the entirely life went to the road to ruin. As he used to tempt his fate, he could not escape it and died from the tripod strike on his head. |
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At the end of World War 2 Hitler tried to find an ideal weapon and turned to the powers of darkness. Ritual, started by the occult monk and the Nazi scientists, was interrupted by American agents, who had found a horned demonic child at the place where the ritual was held. Later, the benevolent Professor Bruttenholm raised the demonic child called Hellboy (Ron Perlman) to be a hero, who helps to investigate the supernatural in Dr. Bruttenholm's secret Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense (B.P.R.D.). Along with the amphibious psychic Abe Sapien (Doug Jones, voiced by David Hyde Pierce) and the fire-throwing Liz Sherman (Selma Blair), Hellboy is joined by new recruit John Myers (Rupert Evans), a naive and idealistic FBI agent. Evil monk rises again, putting mankind on a brink of destruction as he has drawn a new demonic being called Samael into our world. Meanwhile, a love triangle emerges in the story as Myers, the FBI agent becomes Hellboy's rival for Liz's affections. Guillermo del Toro's wisecracking and eccentric film is based on the comic book series by Mike Mignola. |
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Stepsiblings Kathryn Merteuil (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Sebastian Valmont (Ryan Phillippe) are wealthy prep school students and unscrupulous, manipulative socialites who have only a few things on their minds: how to satisfy their vicious desires, who to take revenge on and who else to choose as a sexual and emotional toy. When the lady-killing self-confident Sebastian and the cynical seductive Kathryn playing fast and loose with their peers' affections get bored with stale intrigue plots and banal declarations of love, they devise an ingenious heinous plan. Sebastian's challenge is to seduce the new headmaster's daughter, the virginal Annette Hargrove (Reese Witherspoon). The calculating Kathryn makes a wager. The stakes are high: if "Casanova" fails, she will get his vintage Jaguar car; if he succeeds, he will get one night of unbridled passion with Kathryne he lasts for since their parents married. |
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Son of a successful businessman was kidnapped and forcedly held for ransom. The father (Mel Gibson) unexpectedly spoils the game of kidnappers by appearing on TV-screen and offering money for the head of their leader (Gary Sinise). This turn changes the whole story radically, forcing bandits to change their plans.
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Based on the book The Club Dumas, written by Arturo Perez-Reverte. Dean Corso, a somewhat sleazy rare book dealer, is hired by a mysterious patron who has just come into possession of one of the only three copies of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows (a 17th century occult text said to give its owner unimaginable power). The man hires Corso to track down the other two copies and compare them to his, but complications - both natural and supernatural - arise at every turn. |
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Nicholas Oseransky (Matthew Perry) is a nice, mild-mannered, a bit naive guy living in peaceful suburban Montreal and working as a dentist. Oz, as his buddies call him, is unhappily married to a nymphomaniac woman, Sophie (Rosanna Arquette), who is sick and tired of him. If he divorced his wife, he would be poor as a church mouse.
One day a famous hitman from Chicago, Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (Bruce Willis), moves in next door under the assumed name of "Jimmy Jones" to make a new start. But his "hope" doesn't come true. When Sophie learns of Jimmy's true identity, she forces Nicholas to go to Chicago and sell the hitman's whereabouts to the dangerous mobsters he ratted out. Moreover, the greedy Sophie decides to kill two birds with one stone: she presses Jimmy to finish her husband off so that she can get the life insurance money...
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Norman Spencer (Harrison Ford), a renowned university research scientist, and his wife, Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer), a retired concert cellist, are a seemingly happily married couple. Their family life runs smoothly until Claire's daughter, Caitlin (Katharine Towne) goes off to college and the Spencers move into a lakeside house in Vermont that once belonged to Norman's father. Their new neighbors, Mary (Miranda Otto) and Warren Feur (James Remar), always make quarrels. One rainy night Claire sees Warren taking a carpet out of the house and putting it in the trunk of his car. When Mary abruptly disappears, Claire realizes that these two events are closely related to each other and begins seeing spectral images and hearing mysterious voices everywhere. At first she thinks it is her neighbor's wraith which is haunting her, but Mary then turns up alive. However, a mysterious woman's ghost keeps haunting Claire, and Norman suspects that his frightened wife experiences hallucinations as a consequence of an accident when Claire's car smashed into a tree a year ago. But the ghost (Amber Valletta) soon tells Claire a dreadful secret which is being carefully kept by her husband. |
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Reapers, a new breed of vampire that feed off humans and vampires, emerge with plans for world domination and Blade must team with the Bloodpack, an elite team of vampire warriors specifically trained to hunt him, in order to defeat this new menace. |
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Wes Craven produces this remake of his 1977 classic of the same name, about the Carters, an idyllic American family travelling through the great American southwest. But their trip takes a detour into an area closed off from the public, but more importantly from society. An area originally used by the U.S. Government for nuclear testing that was intended to be empty...or so they thought? When the Carter's car breaks down at the old site, they're stranded...or are they? As the Carters may soon realize that what seemed like a car casually breaking down, might actually be a trap. This trap might be perpetrated by the inhabitants of the site who aren't pulling a prank, but are out to set up a gruesome massacre. |
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Connie Sumner has a loving husband, a beautiful home, and a wonderful son, but she wants more. When she's approached one day by a handsome stranger while trying to hail a taxi, she becomes obsessed with him and eventually starts an affair. But her selfish actions soon catch up with her... |
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Sometimes a random phone call can be the last chance to stay alive. Kim Basinger stars as a kidnapped woman who places a call on her cell phone. A young man receives a call on his cellular and figures out that the calling women is kidnapped and her family is under a deadly threat. Situation becomes more complicated when it turns out to be the women don't know where she is and the cellular's battery is about to die. |
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When successful stand up comedian Buddy 'Aces' Israel (Jeremy Piven) is determined to turn state's evidence and testify against mob boss Primo Sparazza (Joseph Ruskin), the latter gives his orders, Aces' mouth is to be shut, and sets a price of a million dollars upon his head. Hoping to bring the big-time mobster to trial, the FBI places the sharpen-tongued witness into protective custody, under the supervision of two agents Richard Messner (Ryan Reynolds) and Donald Carruthers (Ray Liotta), and not without reason, for a gang of money-hungry villainous thugs is close on Buddy's tail, waiting for an opportunity to hit the jackpot. And they get a chance when the indiscreet Aces decides to go to a casino to try his luck. It must be said that luck is just what he needs!
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Lewis Thomas (Paul Walker) takes an opportunity to start an affair with Venna Wilcox (Leelee Sobieski), the girl of his dreams. He buys a jitney and sets out on a road trip to Colorado to pick Venna up at college. On the way, he detours to Salt Lake City to bail his ill-starred older brother, Fuller Thomas (Steve Zahn), out of jail. During their trip fun-loving Fuller decides to play a CB-radio trick on a trucker with a gruff voice which makes your flesh creep. Fuller convinces Lewis to pretend to be a female trucker named "Candy Cane" and make a rendezvous with "Rusty Nail" (Ted Levine) at the motel. The joke works well, and the dudes giggle at the lovelorn trucker. However, they are unaware that foolish pranks may be fraught with grave consequences. |
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Constantine, a supernatural detective, teams up with Angela, a skeptical policewoman to disclose the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, during her investigation Angela figures out that contemporary Los Angeles is inhabited by the world of angels and demons. Constantine was born with an ability to recognize the half-breed angels and demons in human appearance, and tried to get rid of this gift committing suicide. Back from the hell against his will, sending the devil's warriors back to the depths, he hopes to earn his way to salvation. |
| Long Kiss Goodnight, The
[1996,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| Eight years ago she lost her memory. Now, a detective must help her remember the past before it buries them both. What's forgotten is not always gone. |
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Samantha Caine, suburban homemaker, is the ideal mom to her 8 year old daughter Caitlin. She lives in Honesdale, PA, has a job teaching school and makes the best Rice Krispie treats in town. But when she receives a bump on her head, she begins to remember small parts of her previous life as a lethal, top-secret agent. Her old chums in the Chapter are now out to kill her so she enlists the help of a cheap detective named Mitch. As Samantha remembers more and more of her previous life, she becomes deadlier and more resourceful. Both Mitch and Charly proceed to do the killing thing, the bleeding thing and the shooting thing. |
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Jigsaw has disappeared. Now aided by his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Dr. Lynn Denlon is unaware that she is about to become the latest pawn on his vicious chessboard. One night, after finishing a shift at her hospital, Lynn is kidnapped by the deranged Amanda and taken to an abandoned warehouse where she meets Jigsaw, aka: John Kramer, who's now bedridden and on the verge of death. Lynn is told that she must keep the madman alive for as long as it takes Jeff, another of his victims, to complete a game of his own. Racing against the ticking clock of Jigsaw's own heartbeat, Lynn and Jeff struggle to make it through each of their vicious tests, unaware that Jigsaw and Amanda have a much bigger plan for both of them... |
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A young Japanese potter named Yō Hinomura (Mark Dacascos) finds himself kidnapped, hypnotized and trained as a merciless assassin for a secret powerful Chinese organization. Swift as lightning and elusive as a shadow, Yō seems to kill his targets ruthlessly; however, tears of regret he sheds after each assassination proclaim him a guilt-ridden solitary person who longs to be free but is doomed to serve the powerful evil forces. Nobody has seen the mysterious killer but unfortunately his murder of a yakuza boss is soon witnessed by Emu Hino (Julie Condra), an orphaned beautiful painter. Yō must kill the girl but they unexpectedly fall for each other... |
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They are complete opposites: one of them is a family man, and other is a bachelor who takes all occasions of such a free life: wealth, girls, cars... But these two guys (Martin Lawrence and Will Smith) are working together, they are policemen and should discover the way of stolen drugs. These dangerous meds are stolen from the police office and cost a round sum of 100 million bucks. Soon they find out that the man who had steel these drugs is none other then Cheki Kario's character whose band is one of the most dangerous and consists of the most unabashed guys. One of them gets killed by criminal colleagues which also begin to hunt down the only witness of the murder - a pretty call-girl Julie (Tea Leoni) whom our positive heroes begin to defend. Our guys - the bachelor and the family man - should trade places to succeed: to save the seductive witness and to catch the offenders.
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The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian 'sleeper' agents are planning to pre-start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister. However, Scudder is murdered and Hannay is framed for the death by the 'sleepers'. Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudder's death but by the agents who is headed by Appleton who has managed to hide himself in a high-placed position in the British Government... |
| Missing, The
[2003,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| How far would you go, how much would you sacrifice to get back what you have lost? |
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In 19th-century New Mexico, a father (Tommy Lee Jones) comes back home, hoping to reconcile with his adult daughter Maggie (Cate Blanchett). Maggie's daughter is kidnapped, forcing father and estranged daughter to work together to get her back. |
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