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Drama full length DVD movies
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Set on the remote Isle of Jersey in 1945, the horror drama focus on a beautiful young woman named Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) who raises her two small kids alone waiting for her husband to return from the front. All her worries are connected with a rare disease of Nicholas (James Bentley) and Anne (Alakina Mann) who are deathly allergic to bright light. But Grace's anxiety becomes aggravated when Anne reveals to her mother that she sees ghosts appearing in every room of the house. At first, the devout woman refuses to believe that other-worldly beings can intrude into the world of the living. However, events over the next few days persuade her that there are other people, invisible and terrible, in the house with them. |
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The moving drama is based on the real-life story of Chris Gardner (Will Smith), a purposeful, strong-willed, fortitudinous person who never let despair hold him captive. You know, life is difficult enough as it is. And you have to learn to take the rough with the smooth as Chris did. Jobless, homeless and stony-broke, he took things on the chin and bent over backwards to earn a reasonable living and make his infant son Christopher (Jaden Smith) happy. There was a period of tough sledding before he succeeded in beating the odds. But for his capability of endurance, his talent and the overwhelming desire for a better life, he wouldn’t have become a millionaire.
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The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament in 19th century England, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade. |
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Peaceful Missouri farmer Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) is brutally attacked by pro-Union Jayhawkers during the Civil War. His beloved wife and his adorable son are murdered and his house is burned. Driven to get revenge on the people who took his loved ones, Josey joins a band of pro-Confederate guerillas. The Confederacy loses the war, but Wales refuses to lay down arms and becomes a dangerous outlaw who is pursued by a group of bloodthirsty bounty hunters. The lone revenge-seeker soon encounters a group of outcasts, Lone Watie (Chief Dan George), a sly old Cherokee man, Sarah (Paula Trueman), a vigorous elderly Yankee woman from Kansas and her granddaughter, Laura Lee (Sondra Locke), each of whom needs his protection. |
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When 13-year-old Adriana (Paulina Gaitan) from a poor family in Mexico City is kidnapped by sex traffickers, her 17-year-old brother, Jorge (Cesar Ramos), determines to bring her back home. Jorge finds out that the girl was captured by a powerful international underground gangster network which earns millions on human trade. Veronica (Alicja Bachleda-Curus), a young Polish woman, another victim of the same criminal gang, is the only person who shares Adriana's sufferings in their captivity. Meantime, Jorge gets over all kind of difficulties in his attempt to follow his sister's abductors... Ray, a Texas cop, who himself has lost his family, tries to help Jorge to save Adriana before she is sold and lost forever in the hell that has been destined for her by her new owners. |
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Alex Hughes, an ex-convict, is on a road trip to Winnipeg to see an old friend. Along the way, he meets the annoying, but vivacious, Vivienne Freeman who manages to bum a ride with him. Just as he begins to warm to this eccentric girl, Alex's vehicle is in a serious automobile accident that kills Vivienne. After his meeting with the police, Alex decides to speak with Vivienne's mother. Upon arrival at her home, Alex discovers that the mother, Linda, is a barely functional autistic who convinces him to stay long to take out the garbage the day after the funeral he agrees to arrange. In those few days, Alex discovers new friends and learns more about the uniqueness of Linda even as he struggles to come to terms with his own grief. |
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Barbara Covett (Judi Dench) is a 65-year-old cynical, disdainful woman with a lot of experience under her belt. She is a formidable long-tenured history teacher at a London comprehensive school who is feared but respected by both her students and colleagues. A lonely old maid, Barbara unburdens herself to a diary, her only companion. The habitual course of events is changed by the appearance of a young art teacher, Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett), who charms both the faculty and her pupils, including the acerbate Barbara. She instantly takes the new teacher under her wing. For Covett, Sheba is more than a friend; she is the object of her sexual interest. Later, Barbara discovers that she is not the only one attracted to the beautiful Sheba. As it turns out, Sheba cheats on her older husband Richard (Bill Nighy) by having illicit amorous encounters with a 15-year-old student, Steven Connolly (Andrew Simpson), who is deeply infatuated with her. However, Barbara isn't going to take it lying down. She knows how to take advantage of it. |
| Lolita
[1962,
USA, UK]
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| How did they ever make a movie of Lolita? |
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Stanly Kubrick's version of a famous novel by Vladimir Nabokov. Humbert Humbert (James Mason), a middle professor, rents a room from a simple-minded woman who has her eye on her new lodger. But Humbert falls in love with her 15-year-old daughter, Lolita (Sue Lyon) and he's ready to marry her mother to become closer to the girl. But Humbert's new wife is killed by a car after reading her husband's diary and discovering his perverted thoughts. The professor goes across the country with his beloved adopted daughter.
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Lars Lindstrom (Ryan Gosling) is a nice and kind-hearted but extremely introvert guy. Lars can hardly interact with other people in his small town, or even communicate normally with his family, co-workers, or folks from the church he attends. The young man rarely leaves the garage where he lives, except when he reluctantly accepts an invitation for dinner from his older brother Gus (Paul Schneider) and loving sister-in-law Karin (Emily Mortimer) to their house next door. One beautiful day he finally brings Bianca with him, a friend he met on the Internet. Gus and Karen are shocked. They don't know how to react, just because she is not real but a life-size doll while he is treating her as though she is alive. The family consults their doctor Dagmar (Patricia Clarkson) who gives certain advice... Next happen wonderful emotional revelations for Lars and people around him. The film deals with mental illness in an unexpectedly subtle way, avoiding cheap jokes that the topic could easily provoke but achieving really good humor at times. |
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Marshall, Texas, described by James Farmer, Jr. as "the last city to surrender after the Civil War," is home to Wiley College, where, in 1935-36, inspired by the Harlem Renaissance and his clandestine work as a union organizer, Professor Melvin Tolson coached the debate team to a nearly-undefeated season that included the first debate between students from white and Negro colleges and ended with an invitation to face Harvard University's national champions. The team of four, which included a female student and a very young James Farmer, is tested in a crucible heated by Jim Crow, sexism, a lynch mob, an arrest and near riot, a love affair, jealousy, and a national radio audience. |
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Eddie is an aspiring actor who gets discovered by Jack Horner, a porn director who considers his job an art form. Eddie then changes his name to Dirk Diggler and gets sucked in the lifestyle and relationships of the pornography industry of the late-1970s. |
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Two London brothers (McGregor and Farrell) are hard-up for cash, and both have girls to look out for, too (Atwell and Williams). When rich Uncle Howard (Wilkinson) comes to town and agrees to help them out, he admits his finances are under investigation, and he asks them to do him a favor and "take care of" an old business relation to keep his trouble under wraps - he says that they're family, and since he always takes care of them, the least they could do is help him out this once, as they're the only ones he can trust. The film follows their struggle with the immorality of this request and how each brother chooses to deal with it. |
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Shakespeare's classic tale of romance and tragedy. Two families of Verona, the Montagues and the Capulets, have been feuding with each other for years. Young Romeo Montague goes out with his friends to make trouble at a party the Capulets are hosting, but while there he spies the Capulet's daughter Juliet, and falls hopelessly in love with her. She returns his affections, but they both know that their families will never allow them to follow their hearts. |
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It is the city of Berlin in 1930, a time when political unrest racks the country, the economy has been destroyed, and millions of unemployed roam the streets. Enter into this chaos an American cabaret dancer, working at the downtown "Kit-Kat club" where anything goes on the stage. Into this young dancer's life come several characters such as a rich German politician, a young Jewish man struggling with his identity, an Englishman teacher from London, and of course the all-knowing, all-seeing Master of Ceremonies. |
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Enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her 3-year-old daughter 15 years ago, Julia Sandburg has cut herself off from anyone once near and dear to her, including her husband Doug and her son Chris, who tried for years to penetrate her wall of isolation and despair, without success. But when Julia meets Louise, a troubled young woman with a checkered past, all Julia's old psychic wounds painfully resurface, as does her illogical and increasingly irrational hope that Louise may be the daughter she lost so long ago. |
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Jack Crabb is about 100 years old as the film begins. A collector of oral histories asks him about his past. He recounts being captured and raised by indians, becoming a gunslinger, marrying an indian, watching her killed by General George Armstrong Custer, and becoming a scout for him at Little Big Horn. |
| Keith
[2007,
USA]
from $1.99 |
| Love is a force you can't control. |
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A popular 17-year-old high school senior, Natalie, thinks she's got life figured out, until she meets and falls for Keith Zetterstrom, a new student. Natalie is dismayed when Keith has little interest in her, but she ultimately discovers the boy is hiding a dark secret, with tragic results. |
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Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy. When he has learned to adjust his life to these new responsibilities, Joanna resurfaces and wants Billy back. Ted however refuses to give him up, so they go to court to fight for the custody of their son. |
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On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young ballerina he met just before he left for the front. Myra stayed with him past curfew and is thrown out of the corps de ballet. She survives on the streets of London, falling even lower after she hears her true love has been killed in action. But he wasn't killed. Those terrible years were nothing more than a bad dream is Myra's hope after Roy finds her and takes her to his family's country estate. |
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In order to free his best friend Bondi, Jack Burns lets himself be imprisoned only to find out that Bondi does not want to escape. Thus Burns breaks out on his own and is afterwards being chased by sheriff Johnson with helicopters and jeeps. |
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