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Drama full length DVD movies
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John Sullivan (Caviezel) is a New York City homicide officer who is traumatized for 30 years following the death of his father, Frank (Quaid), After finding Frank's HAM radio, John begins talking to Frank, 30 years into the future. Together, they change the past but have to find a way to stop a serial killer from murdering John's Mom & Frank's wife with a 30 year gap. |
| RoboCop
[1987,
USA]
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| Part man. Part machine. All cop. The future of law enforcement. |
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In the aftermath of economic and moral collapse, the city of Detroit has become a cesspool of crime and anarchy, forcing the underfunded police to fall under the stewardship of corporate juggernaut OCP. In his first day patrolling Old Detroit, Officer Alex Murphy is killed by feared gang leader Clarence Boddicker. OCP scientists are able to use Murphy's remains to build a cybernetic soldier codenamed Robocop. Dubbed the future of law enforcement, Robocop begins a one-man war on crime. When memories of his former life begin to surface, Robocop becomes obsessed with tracking down Boddicker and claiming revenge, even as his handlers try to rein him in. |
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Roxie Hart is a married chorus girl with hopes of being a headliner in Vaudeville. Velma Kelly is a former headliner. What do these two have in common? They both are murderesses. Roxie killed her lover when he walked out on her, and Velma killed her husband and sister, who were having an affair. Chicago's newspapers love the nitty-gritty and Velma is at the top of the headlines. But then Roxie comes along and Velma is old news. They find themselves competing for not only the press' attention, but also the focus of their shared lawyer, the suave Billy Flynn. Add to the mix a sob sister, Roxie's hapless husband Amos, and a warm prison matron who watches out for her girls (if there's something in it for her), and you have Chicago. |
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The historical drama tells a breathtaking story about real heroes of the Cold War. In October, 1962 the world poised on the brink of the war for thirteen tense days. People in the East and the West lapped up every report about the course of alarming events that threatened to result in a nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. Due to those fateful days the world learnt the names of such politicians, diplomats and soldiers as Adlai Stevenson, Theodore Sorenson, Andrei Gromyko, Anatoly Dobrynin, General Curtis LeMay, Dean Rusk, McGeorge Bundy and many others. |
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The war drama is narrated by Anthony Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal), a third-generation Marine enlistee, who vividly recounts his experiences in the first Gulf War, depicting the rigours of boot camp, horrors of combats, friendship and loyalty of brothers-in-arms, and their memories of family and lovers who are cheating on them while they are on the front line. |
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"Cold Mountain" tells the story of a wounded Confederate soldier named Inman (Jude Law) who struggles on a perilous journey to get back home to Cold Mountain, N.C. as well as to Ada (Nicole Kidman), the woman he left behind before going off to fight in the Civil War. Along the way, he meets a long line of interesting and colorful characters, while back at home, Ada is learning the ropes of managing her deceased father's farm with Ruby (Renee Zellweger), a scrappy drifter who assists and teaches Ada along the way. |
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The biopic comedy relates the story of Andy Kaufman (Jim Carrey), a famous American entertainer, actor and performance artist who was able to stir any audience. An eccentric, extraordinary person and an enigmatic comedian, he gave bizarre performances making the audience empathize with him, hate him or wonder at his escapades. He made them show their emotions, as opposed to just sitting in front of a TV and swallowing cheap jokes. The movie takes a profound look at Kaufman's art as well as his personal life and his relationship with his girlfriend Lynne Margulies (Courtney Love), his best pal and partner Bob Zmuda (Paul Giamatti), and his manager George Shapiro (Danny DeVito).
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The Persian Gulf War comes to an end and the United States triumph over a defeated enemy. Hundreds of Iraqi officers and soldiers surrender themselves cradling leaflets promising food and drink, home and kind treatment. Sergeant First Class Troy Barlow (Mark Wahlberg) and Private First Class Conrad Vig (Spike Jonze) are charged to disarm, strip naked and search the surrendering Iraqi. They are lucky to have found an important document on a resisting Iraqi officer. The document proves to be a map that discloses the location of Saddam Hussein's caches of gold confiscated from Kuwait. Troy and Conrad arrive at a decision not to report their commanding officers, except their pal, Staff Sergeant Chief Elgin (Ice Cube). However, the rumors of the secret map reach the ears of Major Archie Gates (George Clooney), and the four soldiers come up with a selfish plan to abstract the treasure from the bunkers.
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Frank Falenczyk (Ben Kingsley) worked as a hit man for the Buffalo-based Polish Mafia. One day he got himself totally clinched, overslept and failed a critical assignment. Determined to give up drinking, the protagonist went to San Francisco to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Who would ever have imagined that he would have met the love of his life there and have decided to slip his past and put on a new shape? But at first he had to return home so as to settle some old scores with the villainous Irish mobster Edward O'Leary (Dennis Farina), who had grabbed power in Buffalo, threatening the family business. Frank would have won the upstart hands down if his girlfriend, Laurel Pearson (Téa Leoni), had not tried to assist him secretly... |
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This fact-based drama centers on an ambitious young man named Eric O'Neill (Ryan Phillipe) who is employed by the FBI to work as a personal assistant to respected operative Robert Hanssen (Chris Cooper). Eric is overjoyed to get this job because he dreams of becoming the world's best FBI agent. However, he soon discovers the true nature of his work. O'Neill is supposed to expose Hanssen, who pretends to be a man of good reputation and high principles but is actually a sexual deviant and double agent spying for the Soviet Union and Russia. Eric is shocked to find himself drawn into an intricate game of espionage and intrigue. He has no one to help him. He has only himself to depend on when he gets into a fight with a cold-blooded and calculating veteran agent. |
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In the detective thriller, Truman Capote (Toby Jones), a famous writer for The New Yorker, reads a brief story about the brutal and senseless murders of four members of a farm family in Holcomb, Kansas. Intrigued by the story, he and his assistant and fellow writer, Nelle Harper Lee (Sandra Bullock), set out for Kansas to research the horrific case for an article. The deeper Capote digs into the story, the more convinced he becomes that it is too big for just an article, and he decides to write a modern non-fiction novel about the murders and suspects. In doing so, he creates his famous work, "In Cold Blood," but he has to pay too big a price for his success. |
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While digging two miles below the Earth's surface, workers from LexCorp fortuitously release the intergalactic killing machine Doomsday (voiced by Tom Kenny). Superman (Adam Baldwin) sacrifices himself to stop the robot and save the Earth. People all over the world deeply grieve the loss of their hero. Even Superman's foe, Lex Luthor (James Marsters), deplores his death, provoking a chain of unforeseen events... |
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The suspense thriller follows an elite team of FBI agents who are sent to Saudi Arabia to investigate the deadly bombing at an American compound. Once in the desert kingdom, Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx), Grant Sykes (Chris Cooper), Adam Leavitt (Jason Bateman) and Janet Mayes (Jennifer Garner) must race against time to find a perpetrator before he strikes again. But they meet with the suspiciousness and resistance of Saudi officials who consider the crime to be a local matter and want to get the American agents out of the country. Thus they throw bureaucratic obstacles in the team's way so that they can't crack the case within the deadline. Nevertheless, the crew gains the trust of a scrupulous police officer, Faris Al Ghazi (Ashraf Barhoum), who agrees to help them unlock the secrets of the brutal mass murder. |
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The crime drama follows George Jung (Johnny Depp), an ordinary guy from the blue-collar suburbs, who doesn't want to follow in his father's footsteps of working hard and making ends meet. After moving to California, he becomes involved with drugs trafficking to pursue the American dream. His illegal business grows very fast. But the more money people have, the more they want. Driven by itch for money, Jung starts exporting tones of cocaine to the United States. He soon becomes wildly successful and lives in luxury. However, Jung has to pay the price... |
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Set in modern-day Sacramento, California, this romantic dramedy centers on six people who decide to form a book club to discuss the beloved novels of English writer Jane Austen in order to distract themselves from a life of unrealized dreams, unrequited love, loneliness, betrayal, frustration, and other romantic problems. Among them is Bernadette (Kathy Baker), the organizer of the club who has been married six times; Jocelyn (Maria Bello Bello), a single dog breeder; Sylvia Avila (Amy Brenneman) who has been dumped by her husband for another woman; Allegra Avila (Maggie Grace), her lesbian daughter who has several lovers; and Prudie Drummond (Emily Blunt), a French teacher who is unhappily married, and drawn to one of her students. There is also Grigg Harris (Hugh Dancy), a sci-fi fan and tech support worker who joins the club out of attraction to Jocelyn. While reading and discussing one novel per month, they find their own lives resembling the plots of the books. |
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The riveting mystery thriller takes place almost exclusively on a passenger ship, en route from England to Algiers. Intrepid detective Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) and his trusty assistant Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce) are charged with the job of accompanying Prince Nikolas (Leslie Vincent) on his journey home after his father's assassination. Holmes must guard the prince, disguised as Watson's nephew, from numerous villains who are also on board to murder the young sovereign and thus subvert the throne. |
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In Paris, detective Claude Chavasse is hired to follow a wife suspected of infidelity with the notorious American libertine Frank Flannagan. When the husband learns that his suspicions are accurate, he tells Claude of his plan to kill Flannagan. Claude's daughter Ariane overhears the threat and warns Frank of the coming trouble. She then plays the part of a worldly socialite with a list of conquests as long as Flannagan's. The bemused ladies' man returns to America the next day and Ariane, completely in love, follows his romantic escapades in the news. She sees him again in Paris the following year, and resumes her worldly guise, telling tales of former lovers when they meet at his hotel in the afternoon. Frank, amazed by the mystery girl and surprised to find himself jealous of her past, hires Claude to uncover more information about her. When the detective realizes what has happened, he asks Frank not to break his daughter's heart. |
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Heathers are the three most beautiful and popular high school girls and their popularity never leaves Veronica (Winona Ryder) in peace. She'd like to take up the Heathers' social position but she doesn't want to bear with their arrogance. Veronica's new boyfriend Jason Dean (Christian Slater) turns out to be much more decided than she is. Soon, one of the Heathers was found dead with a suicide note near her. |
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Scotty Smalls (Tom Guiry) tries to make friends with his neighbors in a new town where he has moved with his family. Luckily, the local baseball players need a player to make a team. Then one of the players breaks a ball and it's a bad sign that may bring down the team's fortune. Scotty steals his stepfather's ball to solve the problem and the whole team gets involved into the adventures. |
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Louis (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and Lyla (Keri Russell), two talented musicians, fall in love with each other and Lyla gets pregnant, but her father can't allow his daughter's career to stop. He hides a newborn and tells Lyla that the baby is dead. Years passed, and the little Evan (Freddie Highmore), brought up by an adoptive family, learns he was born for music and travels to New York City with an urge to find his real parents. He hopes they will recognize him through his great talent. Evan gets to a small theater where Wizard (Robin Williams), his strange boss, gives him a new name, August Rush.
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