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Sweden:11 certified full length DVD movies
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In 1933, after leaving Dogville, while traveling with her father (Willem Dafoe) and his gangsters to the south of USA, Grace Margaret Mulligan (Bryce Dallas Howard) sees a slave ready to be punished in a property called Manderlay. The slavery had been abolished seventy years ago, and Grace becomes revolted with the attitude of the owners of Manderlay, keeping slaves in their cotton fields and following predetermined despicable rules called "Mam's Law". Grace decides to stay with some gangsters in Manderlay and give notions of democracy to the slaves and to the white family. When harvest time comes, Grace sees the social and economical reality of Manderlay. |
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Set in France around 1760-1770. The Marquise de Merteuil needs a favour from her ex-lover, Vicomte de Valmont. One Marquise de Merteuil's ex-lover, Gercourt, is planning on marrying a young, virtuos, woman called Cecile de Volanges. The Marquise would like Valmont to seduce Cecile before her wedding day. Meanwhile Valmont has a conquest of his own in mind, Madame de Tourvel, a beautiful, married, and God fearing woman. The Marquise doesn't think that Valmont can do it, she tells him that if he can provide written proof of a sexual encounter with Madame de Tourvel, that she will offer him a reward, one last night with her. But Valmont will find himself falling in love with Mrs. de Tourvel, embrasing the deadly jealousy of the marquise de Merteuil. |
| Inside Man
[2006,
USA]
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| It looked like the perfect bank robbery. But you can't judge a crime by its cover. |
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A Denzel Washington's tough cop struggles against a perfectionist bank robber Dalton (Clive Owen). Four people dressed in painters' outfits march into the busy lobby of Manhattan Trust, a cornerstone Wall Street Branch of a worldwide financial institution. Within seconds, the costumed robbers place the bank under a well-planned siege, and the people inside become unwitting pawns in an airtight robbery. The bank president (Christopher Plummer) is having something to protect so he has requested the services of high-profile negotiator Madeline White (Foster) who turns the situation to be even more unstable. |
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For many centuries two competing races of extraterrestrial robots — the intrepid Autobots commanded by the Optimus Prime (voiced by Peter Cullen) and the evil Decepticons led by the Megatron (voiced by Hugo Weaving) – have been waging a war in which the fate of the Universe was at stake. Now, they have arrived on Earth to find the Allspark, a mystical cube which grants unlimited power. The intergalactic battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons heats up when the latter assault a U.S. military base in Qatar. The last hope for humanity's survival is a young earthman, Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf), who unexpectedly stumbles across the powerful cube. |
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The movie brings us back in 1806. During the Napoleonic Wars, British Captain Jack Aubrey (Russell Crowe) receives a battle-order to sink or capture a French frigate known as the Acheron in the cold waters off the South American coast. However, the Acheron is the first to attack the Surprise, Aubrey’s Man of War. Despite serious crippling and losses in dead, the tenacious and courageous Aubrey decides to pursue the enemy’s ship that is larger and better-equipped and sets sail across two oceans. Lucky Jack’s reputation, lives of his crew and his own are at stake. |
| Few Good Men, A
[1992,
USA]
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| In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth. |
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Tom Cruise embodies the novice, inspired and self-reliant lawyer named Daniel Kaffee who defends two Marines accused of the colleague murder at the Guantanamo military base. From many points this process seems unambiguous, but the more our attorney digs, the more strange facts come to light. In this military drama he tries to find the real offenders at any cost, confronting the high and mighty, risking his life, career and trying to overcome his biggest fears. |
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Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler are three scientists at Columbia University in New York City. When their grant expires, the guys are fired and they go into business as a ghost extermination company called "Ghostbusters". Their first customer is orchestra cello player Dana Barrett, who was scared out of her apartment on the 22nd floor of a high rise apartment building on Central Park West. It seems that Dana's neighbor, Louis Tully, is also being affected by the strange happenings in the apartment building. Armed with proton guns, the Ghostbusters become wildly popular, and they are joined by Winston Zeddmore, who is looking for a job with good pay. Overzealous Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agent Walter Peck thinks the Ghostbusters are frauds, and he has the Ghostbusters put in jail. Peck is forced to believe the Ghostbusters when New York City is put under siege by an ancient Sumerian God named Gozer the Gozerian, who is channeled through the apartment building that Dana and Louis live in, and the mayor has no choice but to let the Ghostbusters out of jail to face Gozer. |
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Jackie Brown (Pam Grier), a 44-year old flight attendant, used to augment her modest income by smuggling - until the day she was caught right at the airport. Under the threat of being sent to jail she agrees to help the agents to trap the gun dealer Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson). Eventually, the witty lady comes up with an almost impeccable plan to play off the struggling forces - the cops and the criminals - against each other and misappropriate a half million dollar. So will Jackie be able to outfox everybody? |
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"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary. |
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An aristocratic British youth is seperated from his family at the start of World War II after the Japanese Army invades British controlled areas of China. Reduced to living on the street and fighting for food, the youth is eventually interned in a Japanese POW camp for British civilians. Here, admiration quickly develops both for captured American pilots and the Japanese themselves. When the war ends, the boy torn from everything he knew attempts to again find his parents. |
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Based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott, this delightful movie charts the early and traumatic early years. Telling the story in flashback we see David as he grows up and into a child prodigy while his father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his childhood in Europe and the loss of his family in the concentration camps. David finally breaks away from his father and goes away to study overseas, he later suffers a breakdown and returns to Australia and a life in an institution. Many years later he is released and through several twists of fate (in reality even more unlikely than film portrays) he starts playing a piano in a bar before finally returning to the concert hall. |
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The satirical documentary revolves around General Motors, a multinational corporation which betrayed those who believed in the American dream by closing its factories in the thriving town of Flint, Michigan in the mid-1980s. The closure resulted in the loss of 33,000 jobs and the economical devastation of the town. Filmmaker Michael Moore doggedly and unsuccessfully tries to meet and obtain an interview from General Motors Chairman Roger Smith who throws various obstacles in his way. |
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This movie consists of 5 different novels dedicated to taxi drivers who live in five different cities, every novel has its specific theme, which is peculiar to each action scene. LA and NY, Paris and Rome are the scenes where the stories about cities, culture, blind and seeing, life and death unroll. And the theme of man's abandonment develops in the snow-covered Helsinki. |
| Philadelphia
[1993,
USA]
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| No one would take on his case... until one man was willing to take on the system. |
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Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) is a young lawyer who is making a career in Philadelphia, in a well-known firm. But one day he finds himself fired - at the first glance, for a minor error, but the real reason is that he is gay and more to say he is AIDS-infected person. Andrew hires an attorney, Joe Miller (Denzel Washington), to defend his interests in the law-court, and the pair tries to fight for the truth. |
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Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is pulled from the Mediterranean Sea, he is bullet-wounded and remember nothing. The only key to uncover his identity is a mysterious capsule which is implanted directly in his body. The digits etched on the capsule lead him to the safe deposit box where he found some documents, cash, and a weapon. Soon he meets several people, who recognize him, but some of them are aggressive and Bourne realizes he is hunted by an assassins. His combat and language skills soon emerge, as he tries to survive attempting to uncover the past with the help of Marie (Franka Potente). |
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Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket. Their daughter Rachel cleans in a home for elderly people, and their son Rory is unemployed and aggressive. The joy has gone out of Phil's and Penny's life, but when an unexpected tragedy occurs, they are brought together to rediscover their love. All or Nothing is set on a London working-class housing estate over a long weekend, and also tells the stories of a range of Phil and Penny's neighbors, some of whom become involved in the family's lives, and all of whom experience an emotional journey. |
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Walter is released from the prison after the 12-years imprisonment and being shunned as he is a sex offender. Was he really guilty or it was a terrible mistake? Now he is to prove his innocence to the people who met him with hate and indifference. To cap it all, a maniac attacks children in the Walter's town and all victims of the villain had been arrogated to Walter. Now he has the only chance to get clear - by attempting to catch the real pervert. Walter begins an all-out war against the dangerous predator. |
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Just before their wedding, Elizabeth Swann and Will Turner are arrested by Lord Cutler Beckett for helping the pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, but Cutler proposes a deal to Will: their freedom per Jack's compass. Meanwhile, Jack is afraid of the sea, because he owes his soul to the evil Davy Jones, the Captain of the Flying Dutchmen. When Will meets Jack, the pirate proposes to exchange his compass by a key owned by Davy Jones. Will goes to the Flying Dutchman without knowing how dangerous and diabolic Davy Jones and his crew are. |
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Legendary assassin Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is charged with the slaughter of a Chinese vice-premiere as his calling card is found at the scene of the crime. However, the CIA is sure that he is in fact innocent of the crime. Thus, Jason Bourne is assigned to track down the killer who has assumed his own identity. His mission leads him to Russia where he faces many surprises that are typical of the country but seem strange to a foreigner. |
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Barry Egan is a wreck, driven to breakdown by the henpecking of his seven sisters. He steals his heart and manhood away from the curbside. Slowly he learns how to direct them toward love, for the sake of and with the help of another troubled soul. |
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