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Netherlands:16 certified full length DVD movies
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Benjamin Martin is a South Carolina planter who is still haunted by his notoriously brutal past as a soldier in the French and Indian War. When the American Revolution comes, he chooses not to fight for the Continental Army because he wants to protect his family. But when the British Colonel Tavington threatens their welfare and kills one of his sons, he chooses to enlist. Martin becomes the leader of a makeshift militia, which consists of peasants, slaves, a minister, and assorted other irregulars. During the war Martin and his men discover that they will pay a steep personal price for their rebellion. But thanks to their courage and bravery, they are also destined to pay a pivotal role in turning the tide against the Redcoats. |
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When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened — or didn't happen — in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out. |
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In the late 40's, the swindler Raymond Martinez Fernandez seduces lonely women to steal their possessions. When he meets the deranged Martha Beck, they fall in love for each other. With the jealous Martha posing as if she were his sister, the crook Ray seduces and kills other women. Two New York Detectives - Elmer C. Robinson and Charles Hildebrandt - chase the sociopaths, but without having the evidence of a body. In the end of 40's, the couple is finally arrested and sentenced to death, being electrocuted in March, 1951 in Sing Sing. |
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When Sean Jones witnesses a murder, he is asked to fly from Hawaii to Los Angeles to testify against the notorious gangster Eddie Kim. However, Kim has paid an assassin to release a crate-full of deadly snakes loose when the plane is 30,000 feet in the air. Only FBI agent Neville Flynn can protect Sean and rally the passengers together in hope of landing in L.A. alive. |
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He is Richard B. Riddick (Vin Diesel). He is a stranger to fear. More than once he has been within hair's breadth of death. This time fortune doesn't smile upon him: the dangerous escaped criminal is being caught, shackled and headed for a new prison in a large cargo spacecraft. After being damaged in a meteor storm, the spaceship crash-lands on a seemingly desolate distant planet. As a matter of fact, there is life on the eerie planet. Nasty carnivorous creatures dwelling in the subterraneans come out onto the surface and start seeking for flesh and blood, as three suns set and the planet plunges into pitch-darkness. The spaceship crash survivors – Riddick's captor William J. Johns (Cole Hauser), a Muslim Imam (Keith David ) with his three sons, Sulieman (Les Chantery), Hassan (Sam Sari) and Ali (Firass Dirani), a young stowaway, Jack (Rhiana Griffith), an antiquary, Paris P. Ogilvie (Lewis Fitz-Gerald), and two Australian settlers, Sharon "Shazza" Montgomery (Claudia Black) and John "Zeke" Ezekiel (John Moore) – have hope for the criminal Riddick who can see in the dark owing to an illegal prison surgery. Riddick get into a terrible fight with the vicious monsters so as to survive and leave the planet from whose bourn no traveller returns... |
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A ten-year-old girl named Jeliza-Rose (Jodelle Ferland) seems to have the bad luck to grow up in a family of junkies. Her aging father, Noah (Jeff Bridges), is a faded rock 'n' roll musician who has long-lasting drug trips in the evenings, and her erratic mother, Queen Gunhilda (Jennifer Tilly), is also dependent on drugs. Nevertheless, the little girl loves her family because as the old saying goes "you can't choose your parents." When his wife's unhealthy lifestyle brings her to her grave, Noah decides to take his daughter to a ramshackle remote house situated in the middle of wheat fields and prairies. To escape from harsh reality, Jeliza-Rose retreats into the realm of her own imagination. Her fairyland is populated by talking squirrels with shark heads, myriads of fireflies, resurrected bogmen, and bodiless doll heads who keep her company. |
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Based on John King's popular novel, the adrenaline-charged drama explores the world of middle-class England football violence, revenge, friendship and loyalty. The plot revolves around Tommy Johnson (Danny Dyer), a bored twenty-something who tries to escape his humdrum life with weekends of drinking, sexual exploits, drug use and soccer watching. But when he encounters a group of rival football fans and the fight escalates to terrifying levels, he is forced to reconsider his pointless way of life. |
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An asbestos abatement crew wins the bid for an abandoned insane asylum. What should be a straightforward, if rather rushed, job, is complicated by the personal histories of the crew. In particular, Hank is dating Phil's old girlfriend, and Gordon's new baby seems to be unnerving him more than should be expected. Things get more complicated as would-be lawyer Mike plays the tapes from a former patient with multiple personalities, including the mysterious Simon who does not appear until Session 9, and as Hank disappears after finding some old coins. |
| U Turn
[1997,
France, USA]
from $1.99 |
| Sex. Murder. Betrayal. Everything that makes life worth living. |
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A man running from a mysterious past is trapped in a small desert town after his car breaks down. Everybody in this town seems to have totally lost their mind and Bobby can't wait to leave. But there is a problem: Bobby doesn't have the money to get his car back. So when an aging man offers him money to kill his young wife Bobby seriously thinks about it. However the gorgeous young woman casts some kind of spell on him and she asks him to get rid of her husband. But this time, the stakes are much higher... |
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Set in Europe during WWII, a group of American soldiers are in the process of being shipped off to military prison for a variety of infractions, ranging from desertion to murder. While they're being transported, a German artillery attack hits the convoy, killing the MPs and enabling four of the prisoners to escape. The group decides their best bet is to head to neutral Switzerland where they can avoid the fighting and prison. As they make their way to what they think will be freedom, they end up volunteering for a commando mission to steal a V2 warhead for the French Underground. Somehow, the team must sneak into the most heavily guarded base in German territory, steal the Nazi's most precious military hardware, and bring it back to the allies without getting arrested again by their own side. |
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Charlie Brewster (William Ragsdale) believes that his next door neighbour Jerry Dandridge (Chris Sarandon) is a vampire. His belief is strengthened when mysterious deaths of girls are reported. When Dandridge confronts Charlie in his own bedroom one night and tries to kill him, Charlie concludes that the monster must be destroyed. But since nobody believes his story he enlists the help of Peter Vincent, the vampire killer from his favourite horror TV show, who is in fact sceptical about vampires existing for real. |
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Sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, the Thracian slave Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the obese owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved by the defiance of an Ethiopian warrior, Draba, Spartacus leads a slave uprising which threatens Rome's status quo. As Spartacus gains sympathy within the Roman Senate, he also makes a powerful enemy in form of Marcus Lucinius Crassus, who makes it a matter of personal honor to crush the rebellion. |
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When High School Guidance counselor Sam Lombardo is accused of raping the popular student Kelly Van Ryan, his carefully structured life is ruined. But as the case heads to trial, an outcast school girl Suzie, may have information to free Sam. But the investigating Detective Ray, thinks that a more devious plan is at work that involves Sam, Kelly, and Suzie. As Ray digs deeper into the case, he uncovers a scheme that has very high stakes and where nothing is as it seems. |
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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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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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In this new tale a harrowing vision of a modern-day world where the walking dead roam an uninhabited wasteland and the living try to lead "normal" lives behind the walls of a fortified city. A new society has been built by a handful of enterprising, ruthless opportunists, who live in the towers of a skyscraper, high above the hard-scrabble existence on the streets below. But outside the city walls, an army of the dead is evolving. Inside, anarchy is on the rise. With the very survival of the city at stake, a group of hardened mercenaries is called into action to protect the living from an army of the dead. |
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Alex Browning (Devon Sawa) has an uncanny ability to foresee when and where the Grim Reaper's axe will fall next. When Alex and schoolmates take a flight to Paris for a French class trip, he has a deadly premonition of the plane bursting into flames. Scared and anxious about their safety, he begs the passengers to get off the plane. As a result, there are seven students to follow Alex. Before they have time to regret skipping the flight to Paris, the plane explodes shortly after takeoff. The survivors try to understand how he has been able to foretell the crash. Some people are attracted by his grant, others are terrified. Alex is soon haunted by dreadful omens, and when his friends start dying one by one, he comes to a conclusion that you can't cheat the Death. |
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Tony is an uneducated Brooklyn teenager. The highlight of his week is going to the local disco, where he is the king of the dancefloor. Tony meets Stephanie at the disco and they agree to dance together in a competition. Stephanie resists Tony's attempts to romance her, as she aspires to greater things; she is moving across the river to Manhattan. Gradually, Tony also becomes disillusioned with the life he is leading and he and Stephanie decide to help one another to start afresh. |
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Based on a true story, the movie tells about the rise and fall of king of the porn industry John C. "Johnny Wadd" Holmes. He was considered to be the most famous porn star in the 1960s and 1970s. He acted in more than 2,000 smutty movies and had intercourse with more than 10,000 women. After his star fading Holmes (Val Kilmer) became hooked on drugs that led to his involvement in a homicide at Wonderland Avenue in Los Angeles in 1981. Four people were brutally murdered, beaten to death with lead pipes by Holmes and his teenage lover Dawn Schiller (Kate Bosworth). |
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Humbert Humbert, a British professor coming to the US to teach, rents a room in Charlotte Haze's house, but only after he sees her 14-year-old daughter, Dolores (Lolita), to whom he is immediately attracted. Though he hates the mother, he marries her as this is the only way to be close to the girl, who will prove to be too mature for her age. They start a journey together, trying to hide they're not just (step)father and daughter, throughout the country, being followed by someone whom Humbert first suspects to be from the police. The profound jealousy, and maybe some guilt from the forbidden love, seem slowly to drive the man emotionally labile. |
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