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Drama full length DVD movies
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California is at the epicenter of a political and environmental disaster that threatens to destroy the world in this ambitious fusion of comedy, drama, dystopia science fiction, and music. In the year 2005, a nuclear attack wipes out part of the state of Texas, and three years later America is a virtual police state, with the government taking control of nearly every part of people's lives, supposedly for their own good. A German firm has found a way to generate energy using seawater, but both public and private concerns are desperate to prevent the new technology from being introduced in the gasoline-starved United States. A Marxist underground based on the West Coast is determined to bring down the federal government through violent revolution. In this midst of this chaos, we follow a number of stories that continually return to three principle characters. Boxer Santaros is an actor famous for his role in action films; he's trying to secure financing for a new project, but reality keeps mirroring the events in his script and he struggles to hold on to his identity following a bout with amnesia. Krysta Now is a porn star who is reinventing herself as a television pundit offering her views on politics, contemporary culture, and teenage sex. And Roland Taverner is an L.A. police officer whose identity has mysteriously split in two and he struggles to track down his other half. |
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The stunning Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) is totally obsessed with her dream of becoming a celebrity of the silver screen and is determined to achieve her goal by any measures. Having married Larry Maretto (Matt Dillon), the most handsome guy in the small town of Little Hope, she decides to start climbing the TV ladder as a weather person at a local cable station. When her family-minded husband becomes an obstacle on the road to her fame, the cold-hearted Susan hatches a diabolical plot to get rid of him. She seduces a dim-witted high school student, Jimmy Emmett (Joaquin Phoenix), who has a crush on her, and manipulates him into killing her husband. Susan hopes that the murder case will become national news and make her known all over the world. |
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Academy Award nominee 'Diane Lane (I)' (qv) stars as 'Frances Mayes' (qv), a 35-year-old San Francisco writer whose perfect life has just taken an unexpected detour. Her recent divorce has left her with terminal writer's block and extremely depressed, and her best friend, Patti, is beginning to think she might never recover. Frances decides to take a break and she buys a villa in the beautiful Tuscan countryside and decides to begin anew. Restoring her new home, she eventually finds the fulfillment she was searching for, including love. Based on 'Frances Mayes' (qv)' memoir of the same name. |
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The exciting spy thriller tells the story of Christopher Boyce (Timothy Hutton) and Daulto Lee (Sean Penn), two young American men from wealthy families who were convicted of selling government secrets to the Soviet Union in 1977. Boyce, the son of a former FBI agent (Pat Hingle), works for the CIA in a message-routing center. When the idealistic man discovers that the CIA also interferes in the internal affairs of Australia, he becomes disillusioned with the government and decides to repay it by supplying classified information to the Soviets. With the help of his shallow childhood friend, reckless drug addict and dealer Daulton Lee (Sean Penn), Chris becomes involved with espionage which has disastrous consequences for him and his family. |
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Based on a true story, the movie tells of the struggle of a dance teacher, Pierre Dulain (Antonio Banderas), to give to a group of problem kids a second chance by exploring their dance skills. One night Dulain is astonished to see a boy, Rock (Rob Brown) destroying his school director's car. The following day Dulaine goes to the school to ask for a job as a dance teacher. The director has little confidence in Dulaine's idea of helping kids (including Rock) in detention to reform through ballroom dance classes. Even the kids, who prefer hip-hop or rap, think it isn't a great idea. Despite criticism from students in his formal dance academy as well as from parents and fellow teachers who believe that the kids need more math and less dance, Dulain catches the students' attention with a tango session. After their initial indifference, they eventually compete in a dance contest; the important thing isn't winning, but making a difference. |
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Set in California in the 1970s, the compelling drama revolves around a group of energetic and fearless teenage surfers, named the Z-Boys, who revolutionized skateboarding. Performing daredevil stunts in empty swimming pools, they pioneered a new extreme sport which became a new trend in pop culture and a symbol of a whole generation of their young coevals. However, sudden fame took its toll on their friendship, as they transformed their hobby of surfing into a business. |
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After his father's tragic death, aspiring astronaut Charles Farmer (Billy Bob Thornton) is forced to retire from NASA years earlier so that he could save his family ranch and support his wife Audie (Virginia Madsen) and their three kids. Yet, he can't give up his lifelong dream of traveling into space and thus decides to build and launch his own rocket into orbit. Despite the fact that the FBI, FAA, CIA, NASA and the U.S. Military throw a spanner in his works, Charles is striving to achieve his goal at any cost. He believes that someday his dream will come true. |
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Based on a true story, the movie tells about the rise and fall of king of the porn industry John C. "Johnny Wadd" Holmes. He was considered to be the most famous porn star in the 1960s and 1970s. He acted in more than 2,000 smutty movies and had intercourse with more than 10,000 women. After his star fading Holmes (Val Kilmer) became hooked on drugs that led to his involvement in a homicide at Wonderland Avenue in Los Angeles in 1981. Four people were brutally murdered, beaten to death with lead pipes by Holmes and his teenage lover Dawn Schiller (Kate Bosworth). |
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A well-known actor, who hasn't accepted a role in four years, is considering a project. The cousin of the director drives him to Archie's Ranch Market, in Carson, and drops him off to do a little research. He's fascinated by one of the checkers, Scarlet, a young woman from Spain with a preternatural ability to ring up items at the cash register. She hates her job, stuck at the 10 items or less lane. The actor chats her up, and when her shift ends, he asks for a ride. In the course of the afternoon, he helps her prepare for a job interview. She needs to have confidence, he needs to commit. Human contact, however brief, can change people. |
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Meet Joseph 'Joe' Blake (Bruce Willis) and Terry Lee Collins (Billy Bob Thornton), the most successful bank burglars in the USA. Without firing a shot, with the help of their great charisma and insolence, the irresistible macho Joe and the hypochondriac Terry, always complaining of his imaginary illnesses, have robbed more banks than anybody else. It seemed that these suave, witty bandits would always lucky. But as the fates decree, the two fall in love with hot housewife Kate Wheeler (Cate Blanchett), who craves adventures and gets involved in their heists. As a result, everything in their lives goes topsy-turvy! |
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Thirty-something Tracey Heart (Cate Blanchett) is a former drug-addict trying to redeem herself in the eyes of her mother and to recover from the vicious habit. Tracy makes a vow to set up her own business and turn back to normal life before it's too late and life has passed her by. Tracy's plan turns out to be more difficult, when three men from her past reappear: her criminal-minded brother Ray (Martin Henderson) seems having an idée fixe on making for himself a name in the underworld, her ex-boyfriend Jonny (Dustin Nguyen), and the emotional interests of an ex-football star and also a troubled family friend Lionel Dawson (Hugo Weaving). Shaken and confused, emotionally vulnerable Tracy finds herself became tangled with the criminal boss Bradley "The Jockey" Thompson (Sam Neill). How she can learn to love again when the pain of the past ain't letting her go? |
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Set in New England in the mid-1980s, the intriguing drama follows the lives of Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek), Paul Denton (Ian Somerhalder) and Lauren Hynde (Shannyn Sossamon), three disturbed students at an exclusive Camden College who unwillingly become involved in a sexual triangle. Sean is a drug dealer as well as a real womanizer who has bedded with nearly all the female students. However, he unexpectedly falls for the pure Lauren, Paul's ex-girlfriend, and grows obsessed with her. Laura yearns to lose her virginity to Victor Johnson (Kip Pardue), a shallow college student who is travelling across Europe, but she then decides to find a replacement and has her eyes on Sean. Meanwhile, Paul is also attracted to Sean and tries to get him in bed.
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Backdraft is a dangerous phenomenon which can appear during a fire. Two brothers had lost their father, who was a firefighter and was killed by the backdraft. Stephen (Kurt Russell) and Brian (William Baldwin) are two firemen, their every day's work is complicated with the longtime conflict between them. It turns out to be that the last fires were initiated by an unknown incendiary, and the younger brother leaves the command to help the police to catch the maniac. |
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In 1840, there's work on the Florida Keys for honest salvagers (like the Claibornes) and outright pirates like King Cutler, who bribes sailors to cause wrecks. When Capt. Stuart's ship is wrecked, Loxi Claiborne rescues him, falls for him, and travels to Charleston to convince the owners the wreck wasn't his fault; company lawyer Steve Tolliver returns with them to Key West to investigate. Tolliver and Stuart's rivalry for Loxi's hand complicates their swashbuckling adventures in pursuit of Cutler, ending in a trial and a dangerous dive for evidence. |
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A love triangle between three friends. Rabbi Jake Schram and Father Brian Finn, two friends, are out to update their religions and draw in more worshipers. With the arrival of Anna Reilly, an old childhood friend of the two, the men's lives are thrown a curve ball. Anna has become a stunning beauty with a lot of spunk and ambition, and both of them want her. A major road block to Anna for both men is their religion. Jake is up for a head position at his synagogue and taking on a non-Jewish partner is frowned upon, besides the fact that his mother disowned his brother for marrying a non-Jewish woman. Brian has given a vow of celibacy to become a priest. |
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Stepsiblings Kathryn Merteuil (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Sebastian Valmont (Ryan Phillippe) are wealthy prep school students and unscrupulous, manipulative socialites who have only a few things on their minds: how to satisfy their vicious desires, who to take revenge on and who else to choose as a sexual and emotional toy. When the lady-killing self-confident Sebastian and the cynical seductive Kathryn playing fast and loose with their peers' affections get bored with stale intrigue plots and banal declarations of love, they devise an ingenious heinous plan. Sebastian's challenge is to seduce the new headmaster's daughter, the virginal Annette Hargrove (Reese Witherspoon). The calculating Kathryn makes a wager. The stakes are high: if "Casanova" fails, she will get his vintage Jaguar car; if he succeeds, he will get one night of unbridled passion with Kathryne he lasts for since their parents married. |
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An American cardio surgeon, Dr. Richard Walker (Harrison Ford), has come to Paris, the City of Lights, with his wife Sondra (Betty Buckley) for a medical conference. "I love Paris," he is singing while taking a shower. But when his wife unexpectedly disappears from their hotel room and doesn't return after several hours, Walker begins to fear the city. He embarks on a frantic, extremely dangerous quest for his adorable wife and finds himself plagued by misunderstandings, laissez-faire police officers and painstaking bureaucrats who offer him little help. The only person who may hold clues to finding the anxious Walker's wife is Michelle (Emmanuelle Seigner), a streetwise sexy gamine. |
| Edge, The
[1997,
USA]
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| They were fighting over a woman when the plane went down. Now, their only chance for survival is each other. |
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Billionaire Charles Morse accompanies his supermodel wife Mickey to photo shoot at Alaska. The shoot is to be made by fashion photographer Robert Green. To find specific Indian for the shoot, they fly to even more distant location, where their small plane crashes into a lake. To survive in the woods full of man-killing bears they need each other, but the smarter of the men - Charles is suspicious that Robert is having an affair with his wife. |
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The true-life military drama focuses upon two "men of honor", Carl Brashear (Cuba Gooding Jr.), the first African-American deep-sea diver, and Leslie W. Sunday (Robert De Niro), the training officer. In the 1940s, Brashear managed to overcome racism and become a Navy student. But he was the main enemy of other students and Leslie William "Billy" Sunday, the Leading Chief Petty Officer and head instructor. However, he had enough grit to hold out in the face of mental and physical challenges. He successfully graduated from the diving school and began to serve in the Navy. Years later, after having lost half his left leg in the atomic bomb incident, he continued to dive and his old enemy Billy Sunday unexpectedly became his guardian angel... |
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Eminem, the white star of American rap, acts in this movie incarnating some events of his own life on-screen. We can see a talented, emotional young rapper Jimmy Smith-Jr. aka Rabbit who has hard times living on the 8 mile street in Detroit. After the break-up with his girlfriend Jimmy lives with his mother who is constantly quarrelling with her admirer. To rent a flat and to save up money he lands a job at the metallurgical plant where he meets Alex, a girl who believes in his rap talents. His Afro-American buddy allows Jimmy to make a demo-record at the studio but their friendship crushes when Jimmy and Alex get caught red-handed at the scene of kissing. Meantime, Jimmy takes part in rap contests despite the fact he isn't met with open hands in the Afro-American community. |
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