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Drama full length DVD movies
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This powerful family movie follows two generations of a Bengali family living in New York. It depicts the important milestones in their lives such as births, weddings, anniversaries, break-ups, deaths, and etc. The central theme of the movie is a son's apathy towards his Indian ancestry and traditions, and his odd name, Gogol, which provokes derision from others. |
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On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny. |
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Set in late 18th century England, the compelling drama revolves around the five Bennet sisters, Jane (Rosamund PIike), Elizabeth(Keira Knightley), Lydia (Jena Malone), Mary(Talulah Riley), and Kitty (Carey Mulligan), who have been raised by their overactive mother (Brenda Blethyn), obsessed with arranging for all of them 'advantageous' marriages to wealthy men. Despite her efforts, the strong-willed and intelligent Lizzie can tell you 100 reasons why you shouldn't marry. But the sisters find their lives turned upside down when the prosperous bachelor Mr. Bingley (Simon Woods) and his buddy Mr. Darcy (Mattew Macfayden) rent a nearby mansion for the summer vacation. Charles immediately the eldest Bennet girl, Jane.When Lizzie meets up with the mysterious handsome Darcy, their couple seems to be made in heaven. But their emotions swing between pride and prejudice. Will the lovers be able to cope with their problem? Will Lizzie eventually find the reason to get married? |
| Fugitive, The
[1993,
USA]
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| A murdered wife. A one-armed man. An obsessed detective. The chase begins. |
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This double-Oscar-nominated movie is a detective story where a woman, Helen Kimble (Sela Ward), is killed, she was the wife of a well-known surgeon named Richard Kimble (Harrison Ford). The doctor gets arrested being accused of murder, but he escapes from the judgment and tries to find the real murderer being persecuted by Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones), a detective. |
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Based on Ron Hansen's novel, this action-packed western drama tells the story of Robert Ford (Casey Affleck), a seemingly insecure and quiet young man who has grown up worshiping America's most notorious outlaw, Jesse James (Brad Pitt). In 1881, he finds James and his older brother Frank (Sam Shepard) in Missouri and joins their gang for a final train robbery. One day the ambitious yet cowardly cowboy wants the fame that Jesse James gets and ventures to murder his idol. |
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This action-packed suspense thriller chronicles four very pivotal days in the life of Michael Clayton (George Clooney), an attorney who works as a fixer at one of the largest and most powerful New York City law firms. For 13 years he has been cleaning up messy situations for substantial clientele of the firm. Despite being burned-out and disgusted with his depraved clients, Clayton keeps doing his job to pay off his addicted brother's immense debt and his own one. Moreover, he experiences midlife crisis caused by his divorce and a failed personal business. To make matters worse, he is assigned to track down his former mentor, Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson), the firm's top litigator who has a nervous breakdown while defending a shady agrochemical company from a complicated multi-million dollar class action suit. Clayton is faced with a moral dilemma of whether to help his partner or to capture him. |
| Sideways
[2004,
USA]
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| In search of wine. In search of women. In search of themselves. |
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In this comedy drama movie, failed writer Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti) decides to take his longtime friend and unsuccessful TV actor (Thomas Haden Church) on a week-long tour of California's vineyards before the latter's upcoming wedding. A wine connoisseur, Miles intends to turn on his buddy to the art of wine tasting, while Jack is determined to appease his insatiable sexual thirst. However, the two hapless buddies can't foresee what awaits them and how much the trip will change their lives... |
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A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town. |
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Set almost entirely in London, England during five frantic weeks before Christmas follows a web-like pattern of inter-related, loosely related and unrelated stories of a dozen or more various individuals with their love lives, or lack of them. The central character is the new bachelor prime minister David who cannot express his growing feelings for his new personal assistant Natalie. The prime minister's older sister Karen slowly grows aware of her husband Harry's flirtation with an office worker named Mia. Karen's friend Daniel is a recently widowed writer whose 11-year-old son asks for love advice about a girl he has a crush on. Meanwhile, Jamie is another writer who leaves his girlfriend after catching her cheating on him and travels to France to write a novel where he pursues a possible romance with his non-English speaking Portuguese maid Aurelia. Also, Harry's American secretary Sarah questions a romance she pursues with the office hunk Karl, but her personal family problems get in the way. Other secondary characters involve a photographer who pursues his best friend's new wife Juliet; a pair of movie stand-ins, named John and Judy, who grow closer after their simulated love scenes; a libidinous chum who wants to travel to Wisconsin, USA to score with women; and a burned-out former rock star named Billy Mack who is the main connection between all stories involved. |
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Captain Baron von Trapp is a widowed ex-naval officer with seven children who serve only to remind him of his deceased wife. The Von Trapp home is thus turned into a gloomy place of order and discipline, until the arrival of a new governess: Frauline Marie who is from a nearby Salzburg abbey. Marie shows the Von Trapp children the miracle of the Sound of Music, and teaches them how to sing. Captain von Trapp's heart opens up to feelings he had forgotten and he and Marie fall in love. Marie and Georg von Trapp are married, only to have their world brought down around them by the 1938 Anschluss of Austria, where Nazi Germany takes control of the country and demands that Captain von Trapp assume a position in the German Navy. |
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Clarence Worley, a penniless hipster in Detroit with a love for Elvis meets a mysterious hooker paid to meet him named Alabama on his birthday in a theater at night. Falling in love, he makes it his mission to dispose of her past, namely her violent pimp, Drexl Spivey. Defeating him and unknowingly taking a vast fortune of Cocaine, the two fight to sell the white gold in Los Angeles as Drexl's associates fight to reclaim it in a bloody romantic thriller full to the brim with style. |
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"The Machinist" is a film about a man who hasn't slept in a year, and he starts thinking that he's losing his mind, when he starts seeing hallucinations, and his perception of reality becomes twisted. He's haunted by a co-worker that no one else can see, and keeps finding post-it notes with secret messages on his fridge... |
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A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his wife and son four years before. As his memory returns, he makes contact with various people from his past. |
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A New York schoolteacher (Hunt) hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her real one, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she (April) begins a courtship with the father (Firth) of one of her students. |
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Set in the USA in the 1950s, the harrowing thriller is narrated by David Moran (Daniel Manche). After losing their parents in a horrific car accident, the Loughlin sisters, Megan (Blythe Auffath) and Susan (Madeline Taylor), are sent to live with their alcoholic aunt, Ruth Chandler (Blanche Baker), and her three sons, Willie (Graham Patrick Martin), Donny (Benjamin Ross Kaplin), and Ralphie (Austin Williams). The amiable Meg forges a friendship with her teenage neighbor, David, who immediately becomes enamoured of her. He soon makes a shocking discovery that the girl he dearly loves systematically receives gruesome physical tortures from her abusive aunt and neighborhood kids... |
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Fiona (Julie Christie) and Grant Anderson (Gordon Pinsent) have been happily married for over forty years. When Fiona is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, they come to realize that she must live in a nursing home as she requires medical treatment. For the first time in their lives, the spouses are forced to live apart from each other. According to the rules of the medical facility, visitors are not allowed during the first month so that patients can adapt to their new environment. When Grant finally comes to visit his wife, he is shocked to discover that Fiona not only has lost all memory of him but has given her heart to another man, Aubrey (Michael Murphy), a fellow patient. |
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When five high school students, Andrew, John, Allison, Brian, and Claire, meet in detention one day. The principal wants them to write an essay, and they think they are in for a boring 8 hours of doing nothing. At first, they argue and hate each other, but after smoking some marijuana, they pour their hearts out to each other, and tell about their fears, secrets, and their deepest emotions, and problems. |
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Based on true events, the political drama portrays the confrontation between journalist Edward R. Murrow (David Strathairn) and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin that shook the American society in 1954. America's freedom, values and ideals were threatened when Joseph McCarthy launched a massive campaign against communists. Murrow, a well-known host of the CBS television program, was the first person who drew the attention of the general public to ideological and political problems. Despite corporate pressure and the potential ramifications, the courageous journalist ventured to investigate and expose McCarthy and his dirty methods during his "witch-hunts." |
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Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy), a young idealistic Scottish doctor, wants to escape from the bourgeois life of his parents and thus volunteers to work in a remote Ugandan village. His arrival is coincident with the beginning of Idi Amin's (Forest Whitaker) reign. The new leader unexpectedly offers Garrigan the position of his personal physician, and, enamored by the president's magnanimity and charisma, the doctor accepts a tempting offer. Nicholas soon catches himself being his advisor on all matters, from architecture to foreign affairs. At first he feels proud to be given the honor of being Amin's closest confidante but then becomes appalled by the tyrant's savagery and murderous insanity. Moreover, he realizes that he is abetting Amin. Eventually, Garrigan has to put out considerable effort in order to avoid falling victim to the barbaric dictator and escape Uganda alive. |
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When New York dentist Charlie Fineman (Adam Sandler) loses his wife and three daughters in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he comes to realize that life is not worth having. Charlie gives up his job and seeks oblivion in videogames, record collecting, and roaming the city streets on his scooter. Five years later, things change when he has a chance encounter with his former college roommate Alan Johnson (Don Cheadle) who feels compassion for his grief-stricken old pal and does his utmost to breathe new life into him. Their rekindled friendship helps Charlie cope with his profound sense of sadness and thus patches a gaping hole in his heart. |
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