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Drama full length DVD movies
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Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is an easygoing diner owner and respectable family man who lives happily with his wife Edie (Maria Bello) and two kids, Jack (Ashton Holmes) and Sarah (Heidi Hayes), in a small Indiana town. But one night his idyll is shattered when two gun-armed robbers show up at his diner. Tom acts surprisingly bravely and smartly in this dangerous situation. Defending himself and his customers, he gives short shrift to the intruders and immediately becomes a local hero. He is interviewed and showed on TV many times, though he seems to shun reporters. Some time later, a scarred faced mobster, Carl Fogarty (Ed Harris), and his two henchmen drop into Tom’s restaurant and begin addressing him as Joey Cusack, asking him questions about the old days in Philadelphia. Tom turns out to have a dark past and he is not what he pretends to be...
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| Midnight Express
[1978,
UK, USA]
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| Walk into the incredible true experience of Billy Hayes, and bring all the courage you can! |
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Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express". |
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During World War II, an Allied commando team, led by Major Roy Franklin (Anthony Quayle), is assigned the perilous mission of sailing to the Greek Island of Navarone in the Aegean Sea. They must team up with local resistance workers to destroy two massive German guns that threaten Allied naval ships, and prevent the evacuation of 2,000 endangered British soldiers from the Island of Kheros. |
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In this thought-provoking science-fiction drama, student math whiz Joan Leaven (Nicole deBoer), ex-con Rennes (Wayne Robson), former cop Quentin (Maurice Dean-Wint), office worker David Worth (David Hewlett), free clinic doctor Helen Holloway (Nicky Guadagni), and autistic man Kazan (Andrew Miller) have nothing in common with each other. But they suddenly find themselves embayed in a seemingly endless labyrinth of interlocking cube-like cells. They have neither water nor food and thus they don't have long to live. None of them knows how and why they were imprisoned but they come to realize that they are pawns in someone's diabolical game where their imprudent actions may cost lives. Some time later they discover that each of them has a unique skill that may aid in their escape. What they must do is to learn to cooperate and coordinate their actions with each other so that they can find a way out. |
| 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. |
| Of Mice and Men
[1992,
USA]
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| We have a dream. Someday, we'll have a little house and a couple of acres. A place to call home. |
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Set in the United States during the Depression, George Milton (Gary Sinise) and Lenny Small (John Malkovich) are two friends who wander the country in search of work. George is a quick-witted young man who has neither family nor money. His sole mate is Lenny, a simple-minded but good-natured man with crushing strength. Fortune rarely smiles upon them but George can't desert his childlike buddy because he would certainly get into trouble. However, Lenny's life takes a tragic turn when they arrive in California's San Joaquin Valley and start working at the violent Curley's (Casey Siemaszko) ranch. |
| 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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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. |
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A mysterious drifter (Clint Eastwood) rides into the small mining town of Lago, Arizona on a black horse. The rider has neither name, nor compassion, nor fear... Attacked by three gunslingers, the Stranger guns down them and then rapes a local woman named Callie Travers (Marianna Hill). The scared townspeople hire him to protect them from merciless outlaws, Stacey Bridges (Geoffrey Lewis), Bill Borders (Scott Walker) and Cole Carlin (Anthony James), who are to be released from the jail in Yuma in a few days and are about to return to Lago to get their vengeance. The Stranger agrees to defend the cowardly townsfolk because he has his own agenda. A few years ago when he was an officer of the law, the felons beat him within an inch of his life and none of Lago's residents tried to go to his assistance... |
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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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Dan Burns is a single father who dedicates his life to his children, but one day he meets Marie at a bookstore. They get to know each other, but then Dan finds out that Marie is actually dating his brother, Mitch Burns. |
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In an era when Americans were in great need of heroic figures to help them forget their troubles, SEABISCUIT comes to the rescue. The picture relates a moving story of friendship and devotion in rehabilitating the main characters'fractured lives, as it interweaves the interactions between horse, jockey, trainer and owner and their adoring fans. The film accurately portrays the real people and events of those troubled times and how Seabiscuit "fixed us, every one of us." |
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Zia (Patrick Fugit) commits suicide after a breakup with his girlfriend Desiree (Leslie Bibb). After finding himself in the afterlife, Zia discovers that it resembles the real world very much: he has to get a job and communicate with souls of other suicides. Then he learns that his ex-girlfriend also killed herself. Together with a Russian rocker named Eugene (with Eugene's spirit though), Zia travels across the next world to reunite with his love. |
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Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of eighteenth century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume. |
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This tense political drama tells the story of Charlie Wilson (Tom Hanks), a roguish Texas congressman whose career has been nearly shattered by his passion for alcohol and women. However, he manages to go through the scandals and becomes a witness of the first-rate and the most successful dealing in the history of the CIA. His attempts to finance Afghan mujahideen lead to unexpected consequences.
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Pollyanna is a young orphan with a positive, cheerful personality who comes to live with her wealthy, embittered, spinster aunt. She introduces everyone to her preacher father's favorite "Glad Game" and ends up transforming not only her aunt's life but the entire town. When the selfless, caring Pollyanna is severely injured in an accident, her spirits dip uncharacteristically, and the townsfolk rally around to help her regain her perspective, to rejoice in God and look for the good. |
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Based on a true story that shocked the nation in 1965, the film recounts one of the most shocking crimes ever committed against a single victim. Sylvia and Jennie Fae Likens, the two daughters of traveling carnival workers are left for an extended stay at the Indianapolis (3850 E. New York St. is hardly suburban, nor was it in 1965, by any stretch of the imagination.) home of single mother Gertrude Baniszewski and her seven children. Times are tough, and Gertrude's financial needs cause her to make this arrangement before realizing how the burden will push her unstable nature to a breaking point. What transpires in the next three months is both riveting and horrific, leaving one child dead and the rest scarred for life. |
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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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Vietnam War veteran John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is living and working in Thailand near the Burmese border transporting people across the river while a village in Burma is permanently tortured by savage local militaries. Sarah (Julie Benz) and Michael Bennett (Paul Schulze), human rights missionaries, ask Rambo to guide into the war zone to fulfill their humanitarian mission. After the aid workers are kidnapped from the village, Rambo decides to rescue them alone. |
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Romantic comedy: Will Hayes, a 30-something Manhattan dad is in the midst of a divorce when his 10 year old daughter, Maya, starts to question him about his life before marriage. Maya wants to know absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. Will's story begins in 1992, as a young, starry-eyed aspiring politician who moves to New York from Wisconsin in order to work on the Clinton campaign. For Maya, Will relives his past as a idealistic young man learning the ins and outs of big city politics, and recounts the history of his romantic relationships with three very different women. On the campaign, Will's best buddy is Russell McCormack. They not only have similar political aspirations, they share the same type of girl problems, too. Will hopelessly attempts a "PG" version of his story for his daughter ad changes the names so Maya has to guess who he finally married. Is her mother Will's college sweetheart, the dependable girl next-door Emily? Is she his longtime best friend and confidante, he apolitical April? Or is she the free-spirited but ambitious journalist? As Maya puts together the pieces of her dad's romantic puzzle, she begins to understand that love is not so simple or easy. And as Will tells her his tale, Maya helps him to understand that it's definitely never too late to go back...and maybe even possible to find a happy ending. |
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