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Netherlands:16 certified full length DVD movies
| Commando
[1985,
USA]
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| Somewhere... somehow... someone's going to pay! |
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Colonel John Matrix is a retired Special Forces commando now living in the country with his daughter Jenny and are trying to live normal lives and live under new identities. John learns from his former commanding officer General Kirby that members of his unit have been gunned down one-by-one and someone from John's past is out to get him and leaves two soldiers to protect him and Jenny. But Jenny is kidnapped by Arius, a exiled Latin dictator and learns Bennett, one of his men, who he kicked out of his unit is working with Arius. Arius wants John to assassinate the president of Arius's country, if John succeeds in assassinating the president he'll return Jenny unharmed, but if John refuses or if he fails to assassinate the president, he will kill Jenny. Managing to get off the airplane, with only 11 hours before the airplane lands in Airus's country, John helped by a woman named Cindy sets out to find where Airus and Bennett are holding Jenny captive, and confronting Airus's associates in hoping they will tell him where Jenny is, and he will stop at nothing as he sets out to save Jenny... Even if he has to start a one man war. |
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Hollywood star Nick Lang is after a role as a movie cop, and to get background pulls strings to get seconded to a New York detective for a fortnight. Lt. John Moss is less than overjoyed by his new partner who is soon cramping his rough streetwise style. But when it comes to getting on with the lovely Susan the lieutenant could do a lot worse than listen to Nick's advice. |
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The thriller tells a tragic story that happens in the US Army. Warrant Officer Paul Brenner (John Travolta) is assigned to investigate the murder of Elisabeth Campbell (Leslie Stefanson), the daughter of the prominent Lieutenant General Campbell (James Cromwell). The young woman, who is an army captain in psychological operations, is found naked, tied to tent poles and strangled. Seven years ago, when Elisabeth was a cadet at West Point, she was brutally beaten and gang-raped by fellow trainees during a training exercise. Her father forced her to keep mum and thus the assailants escaped punishment. The incident itself and the General's deliberate cover-up changed the girl's attitude towards her dad and psychologically damaged her, causing her to become sexually promiscuous. The investigator and his assistant, Sara Sunhill (Madeleine Stowe), find compromising videotapes in a secret room in Elisabeth's house. The grief-stricken General, who is a Vice-Presidential candidate for the upcoming elections, finds himself in a political crisis and wants Brenner to close the investigation... |
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This tough action is set among the beautiful and dangerous Rocky mountains. One scumbag played by John Lithgow had stolen millions of dollars, but during the action on the board of the plane the suitcase full of money falls down onto the rocky, forest-covered slopes. There, in the land of ice and snow, Gabe Walker (Stallone), an alpinist, searches for the 5 men who had lost after the huge avalanche. When the paths of Stallone's tough guy and the offenders cross, the action begins! Bandits are armed to the teeth, but Walker has an ice-axe, bravery and good alpine skills. |
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200 years after the conclusion of Alien 3, the company is able to resurrect Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) through the process of cloning and the scientists successfully take the Queen Alien out of her. But, Ripley's DNA gets mixed up with the Queen's and she begins to develop certain alien characteristics. The scientists begin breeding the aliens, but they later escape. Soon the Xeno-morphs are running amok on the ship, which is on course to earth. The Queen then gives birth to a deadly new breed of alien, which could spell disaster for the entire human race. It's up to Ripley and a band of space pirates to stop the ship before it reaches earth. |
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On March 5th 1873, two Scandinavian women living on the Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire, were brutally murdered. The first woman was hacked by an ax, the second one was beaten and strangled. The third woman, Maren Hontvedt (Sarah Polley), managed to survive by hiding in a sea cave. Later she identified the murderer to the police. It was Louis Wagner (Ciarán Hinds) who was condemned to be hanged for his crimes. A century later, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Thomas Janes (Sean Penn), his wife, Jean (Catherine McCormack), a photojournalist, his stepbrother, Rich Janes (Josh Lucas), and Rich's girlfriend, Adaline Gunne (Elizabeth Hurley), travel to the same Isles on a yacht. Jean doesn't spend time only enjoying the sea and the sun but investigating the mysterious double homicide. The storyline shifts between the present and the past as the two different narratives of Maren's life, the eyewitness of the murder, and Jean's seemingly perfect life, interweave in the suspenseful movie. |
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A secret service agent, Jennifer Marsh, gets caught in a very personal and deadly cat-and-mouse game with a serial killer who knows that people (being what they are - both curious and drawn to the dark side of things) will log onto an "untraceable" website where he conducts violent and painful murders LIVE on the net. The more people who log on and enter the website, the quicker and more violently the victim dies. |
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A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage) down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max (Joaquin Phoenix), Welles relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife (Catherine Keener), family and simple life as a small-town private eye. |
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This erotic drama of an explicit content filmed by Larry Clark (director of a shocking movie of 1995, "Kids") uncovers the personal world of the four teenagers - three boys and one girl. They have various family problems living in Visalia, CA and face the difficulties of becoming adults. Tate (James Ransome), Claude (Stephen Jasso), Shawn (James Bullard) and Peaches (Tiffany Limos) are doing things their parents not think they even know about. Welcome to the forbidden world of the first-time desires, risky sexual experiments and violence; "Ken Park" is a skater park name where a classmate of the main characters commits suicide in the very beginning of the movie. The film was noted at numerous grand festivals in Europe and USA but its explicit content made it almost unsuitable for the distribution in the US. |
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Based on true events, the movie follows the ghastly story of a group of friends, Erin (Jessica Biel), her boy-friend Kemper (Eric Balfour), Andy (Mike Vogel) and Morgan (Jonathan Tucker), who decide to have a good time and take a journey before they are recruited to serve in Vietnam. On their way to a Lynyrd Skynyrd concert in Dallas, the ill-starred youths pick up a shocked girl who has been pursued by a stranger. Under stress, the girl commits suicide in their van. Looking for the local authorities, they find themselves in a gloomy house with an atrocious clan of Texas cannibals. The youths’ lives are threatened by a chainsaw-wielding madman, Thomas Hewitt (Andrew Bryniarski), known as Leatherface. Is there hope that they will find a way to stay alive? |
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After a girl has a premonition of a horrific roller coaster accident, her and several of her friends get off the ride. Only when her vision comes true does horrible things start happening to those that got off. Now, everyone who got off is dying in various ways in the order they died in the vision. Now, her and her friend, armed with only the picture she took at the carnival, have to find out how her classmates are going to die and how to stop it. |
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Eddie Flemming (Robert DeNiro) used to be an ordinary NYC homicide detective. But his purposefulness, persistence and tenacious mind while investigating the most sophisticated crimes allowed Eddie to attain celebrity status among the citizenry. Therefore his face appears on the most famous magazine covers from time to time. Meanwhile, two fellow criminals - Emil Slovak (Karel Roden) from Czechoslovakia and Oleg Razgul (Oleg Taktarov) from Russia – come to New York to make it big at any cost. When they happen on People magazine with Eddy on the cover, they come up with the brilliant idea of murdering him and filming the crime. They hope to evade crime penalty due to pretended insanity (videotaping their murders is incontestable proof of their irresponsibility). Then they plan to become famous and rich by selling the movie to the popular tabloid TV show "Top Story". |
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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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Chris Vaughn (The Rock) is recently retired from the military service, he finds his hometown turned into the place invaded by crime, violence and drugs. Since local Sheriff Bufford Pusser had lost his beloved wife, he is mentally crashed and, in fact, almost inept. Chris finds out, that the man who is guilty of causing such dilapidation of the town is none other than his former school rival keeping the doubtful casino, where an ex of Chris works as a dancer. Jay Hamilton (Neal McDonough), a casino owner, has also closed the lumber mill which caused severe unemployment. Taking on sheriff's duties, Chris, a tough guy with strong military skills, have to try to fight his sweet hometown back. |
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Seductive, blood-thirsty Count Dracula (Frank Langella) arrives from Transylvania in England. On a dark and stormy night his ship is wrecked off Whitby and all crew members are dead. The only survivor of the shipwreck is Dracula who is discovered by Dr. Jack Seward (Donald Pleasence) who runs the local asylum. Dr. Seward, his lovely daughter Lucy (Kate Nelligan) and her fiancé Johnathan Harker (Trevor Eve) give the Count a warm welcome, trying to please the charming guest and make him free of their house. Little do they know that the courteous Count poses a grave threat to them... |
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The United States is trying to help the New Russia in the war against organized crime in that country. Presently, they are after Terek Murad, a deadly crime boss. When they raid one of his establishments, Murad's brother is killed. Murad seeks revenge against the ones who killed his brother, FBI agent Carter Preston and Russian Major Valentina Koslova, but most of all, he wants to send a message to the Americans about interfering in matters that don't concern them, so he hires an international assassin to kill the head of the FBI. When the assassin advises Murad to go into hiding until the job is done, he does. Desperate to know what Murad is doing, Preston allows the Russians to abduct Murad's errand boy and torture him to find out, and he utters the word "Jackal" which Preston recognizes as the name of an international assassin. They have to find him but unfortunatly, there is noone who knows who he is except for one person, whom they have to find and the only person who knows where that person is, is Declan Mulqueen, an IRA man, who is in prison, they offer to reduce his sentence is he helps them but refuses because all he wants is to be freed, so they decide to leave but he tells them that he knows who the Jackal is. So they release him and together they try to find the Jackal before he makes his move which won't be easy because he is very wily. |
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After an AWAC crew has been held hostage by the North Koreans for six months, the U.S. President Jack Neil is about to give the order to attack the communistic country. Meantime, the nude corpse of a young female staffer is found in a White House restroom. Homicide detective Harlan Regis (Wesley Snipes) is assigned to investigate the murder. When he shows up in the White House, he meets the wall of silence as the Secret Service, headed by Nick Spikings (Daniel Benzali), are unwelcoming of the interloper into what they consider a local matter. They conceal all the evidence to avoid a political scandal because the list of suspects includes the President himself and his son Kyle (Tate Donovan). However, Regis enlists the aid of Secret Service Agent Nina Chance (Diane Lane) to unlock the dark secrets of the crime scene. |
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This fantastic thriller bears strong resemblance to the "Cube" and "Pi" movies, and, at some points, lets us feel the paranoid atmosphere of Kafka's books. This ominous and ingenious film is one of the most outstanding indie projects, a "Sundance" and "Fant-Asia" festivals nominee. Simon (Jeremy Sisto), a young programmer, finds an unexpected package in his room, and, when the box is opened, he finds himself surrounded by strange events and obsessed by sudden wishes. Being a test subject in a dangerous experiment testing a new advertising scheme, Simon turns out to be plagued by mysteriously empty brown packages, a sense of paranoia and a craving to drink lots and lots of milk. |
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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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It's a prequel to the cult thrillers 'Ginger Snaps' and 'Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed' which focused on two orphaned teenage sisters who became prey to a formidable monster. It's time to learn where the ominous legend of the Beast of Bailey Downs comes from. Set in 19th Century Canada, Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) and Brigitte Fitzgerald (Emily Perkins) find refuge at a trading fort which becomes their only hope of salvation from numerous monstrous werewolves that sieged the city. During one of werewolf attacks, Bridget gets bitten by a bloodthirsty creature... |
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