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Sweden:11 certified full length DVD movies
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Eugene Martone (Ralph Macchio), a young aspiring musician, becomes fascinated by the blues while studying at New York City's Julliard School. He dreams of someday winning fame as a blues guitar player and is determined to find the legendary bluesman Willie Brown to get an old missing song. He discovers him incarcerated in a Harlem hospital and agrees to help him to get out of the facility and return to Mississippi in exchange for the storied song.
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In order to get out of hock with mobster Billy Walker, restaraunteur-turned-"retrieval expert" Beck has to go down to Brazil and retrieve Billy's ne'er-do-well archaeologist-wannabe son Travis, who is searching for an ancient gold idol called the Gato del Diablo. This idol is prized by not only the local population as the path to their salvation, but by Cornelius Hatcher, slavedriving operator of the Helldorado mining town who oppresses said population in the name of profits, and Hatcher just won't let Beck leave with Travis. |
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The historical drama follows the adventures of poet, courtier and debauchee John Wilmot (Johnny Depp), also known as the Earl of Rochester, in London of the 17th century. We observe him leading a dissolute life, having an ardent romance with aspiring actress Elizabeth Barry (Samantha Morton), enjoying the company of his favorite prostitute Jane (Kelly Reilly), drinking heavily, and writing ribald satirical poems and an outrageous play ridiculing King Charles II (John Malkovich). His defiant behavior ultimately begins to irritate his surroundings, from his wife Elizabeth Malet (Rosamund Pike) to the very monarch...
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An aging football coach finds himself struggling with his personal and professional life while trying to hold his team together. A star quarterback has been knocked out of the game and a naive football player replaces him only to become exposed to the world of sports and become a danger to himself and to his players. Meanwhile, the coach finds himself constantly at battle with the team owner's money and power hungry daughter intent on moving the team out. |
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Dorothy Gale (Fairuza Balk) has returned to Kanzas from the magical Land of Oz and cannot stop thinking about her friends, the Scarecrow (Justin Case), the Cowardly Lion (John Alexander) and the Tin Woodman (Deep Roy). Aunt Em (Piper Laurie), anxious about Dorothy's insomnia, takes Dorothy to see the famous Dr. Worley (Nicol Williamson) who treats his patients with electroshock therapy. With the help of a mysterious blonde girl named Ozma (Emma Ridley), Dorothy manages to escape from the clinic and finds herself back in Oz with her adorable chicken Billina (voiced by Denise Bryer) who now can talk. Exciting new adventures await Dorothy in Oz... |
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Maverick is a hot pilot. When he encounters a pair of MiGs over the Persian Gulf, his wingman is clearly outflown and freaks. On almost no fuel, Maverick is able to talk him back down to the Carrier. When his wingman turns in his wings, Maverick is moved up in the standings and sent to the Top Gun Naval Flying School. There he fights the attitudes of the other pilots and an old story of his father's death in combat that killed others due to his father's error. Maverick struggles to be the best pilot, stepping on the toes of his other students and in a different way to Charlie, a civilian instructor to whom he is strongly attracted. |
| Quick Change
[1990,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| The bank robbery was easy. But getting out of New York was a nightmare. |
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Grimm, his girlfriend Phyllis, and their friend Loomis decide to rob a bank. The robbery goes off without a hitch, but can they escape from New York without getting caught ? |
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie stars as a couple who live a boring life - 6 years in marriage, nothing new. But events unexpectedly take a new turn when the couple turns out to be a pair of highly paid assassins, who know nothing about real life of each other and even working for the competing organizations. Truth is disclosed at the moment when they are both assigned by their employers to kill the same person. While the deceived bosses are trying to ruin the couple, the real fun begins. Lots of dizzy stunts and a bit of a sexy humour are presented in this action thriller laced with comedy. |
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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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Set in 1890 in America, the breathtaking western adventure tells the story of Frank T. Hopkins (Viggo Mortensen), a Pony Express rider and winner of long-distance horse races. His reputation as the greatest rider in the West reaches the ears of a wealthy Arabian sheik (Omar Sharif) who challenges Hopkins to take part in "The Ocean of Fire," a survival horse race across Middle Eastern deserts. Determined to receive $100,000 as prize money and the honor of being the best rider in the world, Hopkins accepts the invitation from the Sheikh to enter the treacherous competition with his endurance mixed-breed mustang, Hidalgo.
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This heroic picture is based on a true story of the Russian sub' crew which been on guard in the 1960's during the Cold War between the superpowers of the USA and the USSR. The picture shows how the secret reconnaissance raid turned out to be a reason for a new diplomatic crisis escalation and jeopardized the team of the ballistic sub. Harrison Ford portrays Alexei Vostrikov, a Captain of the nuclear K-19 the reactor of which is seriously injured. Alexei is at odds with an executive officer Mikhail Polenin (Liam Neeson), but they share such merits as bravery and uncompromising patriotism. The missiles located onboard and the men are endangered due to reactor problems, Alexei decides to eliminate the nuclear leakage at any cost... |
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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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A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnaping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boomtown. Along the way there is plenty of drinking, gambling, and singing. They even find time to do some creative gold mining. |
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It happens that the beautiful Princess Pei Pei (Liu) is abducted from the Forbidden City and taken to America by villainous white men. The Emperor of China sends three of his most reliable, bravest and skilful guards to pay a ransom and retrieve his daughter he loves with all his soul. Chon Wang (Jackie Chan), an athletically built yet gawky imperial guard, is not among one of the three. He, however, insists on accompanying the guards and travels to the West to rescue Pei Pei he has affection for. On arrival in Nevada, the train the Imperial Guards are on is attacked by Roy O'Bannon (Owen Wilson) and his well-armed gang. Both Roy and Chon happen to be separated from their groups and reluctantly become companions to find the Princess. Along the way, the unlikely duo plunges into a string of various mishaps and curious incidents. |
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Jim Carrey stars as mild-mannered bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss, who discovers a mysterious ancient mask that brings his inner most desires to wild, screaming life! Now, together with his sidekick Milo, this wise-cracking green tornado is taking Edge City over the top. |
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New York reporter Sue travels to Australia to meet and interview Michael J Crocodile Dundee, a man who runs a safari business and has just survived an attack by a crocodile. After spending a few days touring the safari park, Sue invites Mick to come back with her to visit New York. How would the clash of cultures and different life style affect the Aussie bushman? How do things turn out when Sue falls for his charms? |
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The tenth opus of the well-known epic series of Star Trek follows the Enterprise starship team. The ship is headed to Romulus, the planet where the foes of the Federation display an intention to conduct the peace negotiations. Coup'd'etat was arranged there and a new praetor, Shinzon, a cloned human apparently hides evil intentions. When Enterprise arrives, a new deadly threat comes to light endangering many planets including Earth and all the living forms on them. Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his crew are to ruin the interstellar villains... |
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The action takes place during the World War II. A crew of American mariners is given the top-secret assignment of penetrating into a submerged German U-Boat submarine to capture Enigma, a Nazi coding device that will allow the Allied naval forces to win the war much faster. However, they are unaware that the Germans also head for U-571 after a wrecked vessel sends out an SOS signal. As a result, nine U.S. soldiers become trapped in an enemy submarine in the middle of hostile waters with little chance of survival. |
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Det. James Carter (Chris Tucker) is on vacation in Hong Kong, but Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan) is too busy doing police work. After an explosion at the American Embassy, Lee attempts to track down the man who may be responsible, Ricky Tan, a Triad gang leader and the former partner of Lee's father, who was also a cop. Obviously, Carter doesn't appreciate being dragged along like that, but what choice does he have? Lee discovers a power struggle among the Triads between Tan and Hu Li (Zhang Ziyi). They later find out it has something to do with the death of Lee's father, and a counterfeiting scheme. Lee and Carter go back to Cali, and later Las Vegas, where they discover that everything that's happened goes way beyond an explosion at the Embassy. |
| Man Without a Face, The
[1993,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| A fatherless boy had almost given up all his dreams... until one man believed in him enough to make them come true. |
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People consider him a monster in this small town where he stayed to teach after his face was disfigured awfully in the car crash when he was hardly burnt. He (Mel Gibson, also the director of this picture) teaches in a local university, where hi finds an apprentice and even the best friend in the person of a young boy. The parents of the young kid (Nick Stall) know nothing about it, his father is a deranged alcoholic, and this fact seems to be a problem along with the conservative provincial society which tries to separate them from each other - the teacher and the pupil. |
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