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Drama full length DVD movies
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A young Arab man is sent to a French prison where he becomes a mafia kingpin. |
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A young Arab man is sent to a French prison where he becomes a mafia kingpin. |
| Trainspotting
[1996,
UK]
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| Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a starter home. Choose dental insurance, leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose your future. But why would anyone want to do a thing like that? (1 more taglines...) |
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A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton and his attempt to give up his heroin habit, and how the latter affects his relationship with family and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, 14-year-old girlfriend Diane, and clean-cut athlete Tommy, who's never touched drugs but can't help being curious about them... |
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This film follows the incredible life of Edward Bloom (Albert Finney), a well known wonderful storyteller whose tall tales involve a witch with a glass eye that can see the future, giants and werewolves, a haunted forest, and of course, a big fish that refuses to be caught. A self-described small-town hero, Bloom enjoys recounting his unbelievable adventure stories about how he left home at 18 determined to explore the world. He worked for the circus, took on courageous assignments as a WWII soldier, and wandered across the country as a traveling salesman. Bloom weaves his magical and delightful stories into his genealogical fabric. As a result, his son Will (Billy Crudup) considers him a braggart that never cares for his family and doesn’t get along with him. When Edward becomes incurably ill with cancer, his estranged son visits him for the last time. Will tries to separate the myth from the truth and finally understand who his father really was... |
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William Miller is a 15 year old kid, hired by Rolling Stone magazine to tour with, and write about Stillwater, an up and coming rock band. This wonderfully witty coming of age film follows William as he falls face first to confront life, love, and lingo. |
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When Castro opened the port at Mariel Harbor, thousands of Cubans fled to the United States. One is a young tough named Antonio (Tony) Montana, who, with his friend Manny Ray, starts in with Miami's cocaine trade. He survives attack by chainsaw after a deal goes bad, and several other attempts by other dealers to eliminate him. Eventually the grandiose Montana becomes head of a cocaine cartel. But his enemies start coming after him, and his paranoia threatens to drive Montana's empire into the ground... |
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Mamma Roma is a middle-aged whore of Roma. Now she can quit her job to become a fruit seller. And she can take back her 16-year-old son, Ettore. For him, she dreams of a good position. But it is perhaps too late for Ettore, whose company includes mostly teenaged louts... |
| Magnolia
[1999,
USA]
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| Things fall down. People look up. And when it rains, it pours. |
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Magnolia is the study of nine lives in one day in San Fernando Valley, California. These nine lives all connect and revolve around the game show "What Do Kids Know?"(WDKK), where a team of three kids play against adults and everytime the show is on, there is a new team of adults and the kids remain; if they won the previous game. Earl Partridge (the late Jason Robards) produced "WDKK" when it was first on in the late 60s. He is dying of brain and lung cancer and is being taken care of by Phil Parma (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a male nurse. Linda, Earl's trophy wife (Julianne Moore) starts to fall in love with Earl for real, despite her cheating. Earl, rapidly dying on his bed, asks Phil to find his estranged son, Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise), who grew up hating Earl and now runs a seminar for single men, which teaches them how to seduce a woman and leave her... The host of "WDKK", Jimmy Gator (Philip Baker Hall), is also dying, but not as rapidly as Earl. He has a very rocky relationship with his daughter Claudia (Melora Waters), who sniffs crack 24/7 and accuses her father of sexually molesting her. Police Officer Jim (John C. Reilly) goes to Claudia's house after getting called about a disturbance. He falls in love with her right away... Stanley Specter (Jeremy Blackman) is a contestant on "WDKK", who is a genius and is being used by his father to make money. If Stanley and his team keep winning, they will set a record on the show and get tons of money. The record Stanley is trying to beat is the 1968 record set by Donnie Smith (William H. Macy), who had the exact same childhood when he was on the show and has now grown up to be a pathetic loser. He's been recently fired from his job, and is trying to find his way into happiness... |
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Heath Ledger's bohemian-lifestyle poet craves for two kinds of candies. Firstly, a free-spirited girl called Candy (Abbie Cornish), an art student, and, secondly, a heroin. Their passionate relationship bounces between flashes of ecstatic passion and periods of despair and self-destruction. As they were addicted to heroin as to one another, their love included three components - a boy, a girl, and a drug. Candy's addiction gradually changed her, leading to insanity when her actress' career got crashed. Heroin addiction not only brings guaranteed pleasure, but also unavoidably shatters the lives of the pair as their love bends to the devastating pressure of vice. Movie reminds that the way of heroin is the road to nowhere. Can anything help? What can be an exit? Also starring in this drama is Geoffrey Rush, as a chemistry professor Casper. |
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After various skirmishes, two wounded soldiers, one Bosnian and one Serb, confront each other in a trench in the no man's land between their lines. They wait for dark, trading insults and even finding some common ground; sometimes one has the gun, sometimes the other, sometimes both. Things get complicated when another wounded Bosnian comes to, but can't move because a bouncing mine is beneath him. The two men cooperate to wave white flags, their lines call the UN (whose high command tries not to help), an English reporter shows up, a French sergeant shows courage, and the three men in no man's land may or may not find a way to all get along. |
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The charming dramedy follows the life of legendary New Zealander Burt Munro (Anthony Hopkins) who spent years improving and modifying his beloved 1920 Indian Scout motorcycle. He travelled all over the world on his bike and eventually made his dream come true. During the 1967 famous race held at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, he set a world speed record of 190.07 mph, which has not been broken yet. |
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The biopic depicts the life of Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix), a legendary country and rock-and-roll singer-songwriter. The early years of his life were saddened by his elder brother's tragic death and his father's scornful attitude towards him (his dad considered Cash to be a bad son). The soon-to-be musician served in the United States Air Force in Germany. After his discharge Cash married his sweetheart, Vivian Liberto (Ginnifer Goodwin), who gave birth to four daughters. But their marriage was not without shadows as he neglected his family duties and devoted all his time and energy mainly to playing the guitar and singing along with his two close friends. At the age of 23, he released his first hit "Cry Cry Cry" and soon went on a tour of the USA, along with Jerry Lee Lewis (Waylon Payne), Elvis Presley (Tyler Hilton) and June Carter (Reese Witherspoon). He adored June and her songs since he was a kid. When their paths crossed, he came to realize that June was a woman of his dreams. He had been trying to win her hand for several years. The critical moments in his life were accompanied by his addiction to amphetamine and alcohol. In 1968, Cash and Carter got married and lived together long and happily till death did them part. |
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Set in 2035, the futuristic science fiction movie revolves around convict James Cole (Bruce Willis) who volunteers to make a perilous trip back into the past. He is sent back to the year 1996 to help scientists to find the origins of a lethal virus that has killed 99% of the human population and has forced the survivors to live beneath the surface of the planet. Thus, the animals begin to dominate the world once again. Unfortunately for Cole, he finds himself mistakenly sent to 1990 and locked up in a mental asylum by Dr. Kathryn Railly(Madeleine Stowe) who considers him to be insane. While struggling to convince the psychiatrist that he is not crazy, he forms a bond with Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt), the mad son of a famous virus expert (Christopher Plummer), and tries to unravel the mystery of the epidemic. |
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In feudal China, the King of Qin is waging a bloody campaign to conquer the entire land. He has been made a target of three dangerous assassins: spear-wielding Sky, and the lovers Broken Sword and Flying Snow. One day word comes that he has nothing left to fear; a prefect known only as Nameless has killed all three assassins. Nameless is called to the palace and asked to recount the tale of how he accomplished this amazing feat. After he tells his story, however, the King notices some flaws in it... |
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The romantic drama chronicles the tentative relationship between an Irish man (Glen Hansard) and a Czech woman (Marketa Irglova). He is a talented musician who makes money to support himself by fixing vacuum cleaners in his dad's (Bill Hodnett) repair shop by day, and busking on the Dublin streets by night. Devastated over his painful breakup with his girlfriend, he seeks solace in writing songs and dreams of someday having them recorded. One day while playing the guitar and singing in the street, he captures the attention of a flower seller who is also a musician. The Guy's heartfelt songs touch her and she decides to get acquainted with him... |
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In 480 BC, the Persian king Xerxes sends his massive army to conquer Greece. The Greek city of Sparta houses its finest warriors, and 300 of these soldiers are chosen to meet the Persians at Thermopylae, engaging the soldiers in a narrow canyon where they cannot take full advantage of their numbers. The battle is a suicide mission, meant to buy time for the rest of the Greek forces to prepare for the invasion. However, that doesn't stop the Spartans from throwing their hearts into the fray, determined to take as many Persians as possible with them. |
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Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thorton) was born and raised in a fanatically religious family. At the age of twelve, he caught his mother having sex with her lover. He considered their actions appalling and killed them with a sling blade. Twenty-five years later, the partially handicapped Karl is deemed harmless to society and released from a mental asylum. When he returns to his Arkansas hometown, he takes a job at a repair shop and lives in the backroom. He develops a warm friendship with a young boy named Frank Wheatley (Lucas Black) and is soon invited by his widowed mother, Linda (Natalie Canerday), to move into their garage. However, when he meets Linda's aggressive and abusive boyfriend who maltreats Frank and Linda and mocks at Karl's disabilities, Karl is faced with an agonizing moral dilemma. |
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A two-hour Battlestar Galactica special that tells the story of the Battlestar Pegasus several months prior to it finding the Galactica. |
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Set in 1983 in Northern England, the drama feature tells the story of troubled twelve-year-old boy Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) living with his widowed mum. During his summer holidays Shaun aimlessly wanders the streets of his small coastal town, until he comes across a dangerous group of local skinheads, led by Woody (Joe Gilgun), who against expectations take him under their wing. The young kid gets a new lease of life by discovering stylish dressing, parties, brotherhood and first love. But when Combo (Stephen Graham), an older, militant, racist skinhead, returns home from prison and is determined to lead the gang on a nationalistic battle against the immigrants stealing their jobs during mass unemployment, Shaun is faced with a dilemma, whether he will stay with Woody or join the charismatic Combo. |
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Stingy old Ebenezer Scrooge is known as the meanest man in London. He overworks and underpays his humble clerk, Bob Cratchit, whose little son, Tiny Tim, is crippled and may soon die. He also has nothing to do with his nephew, Fred, because his birth cost the life of his beloved sister. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge has a haunting nightmare. He is visited by three ghosts and is given one last chance to change his ways and save himself from the grim fate that befell his business partner, Jacob Marley. |
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