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Full length DVD movies produced in 2005
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Set in Central Africa in 1870, the drama revolves around Dr. Jamie Dodd (Joseph Fiennes), an anthropologist who combs the tropical jungle for a rare species, hoping to find the link between man and ape. He is lucky to meet the indigenous population of pygmies who he thinks are the clue to the puzzle. Dodd captures two of them, Toko (Lomama Boseki) and Likola (Cécile Bayiha), and transports them to Scotland with the help of Elena Van den Ende (Kristin Scott Thomas), an agent selling wild animals to the zoos of Europe. After the thorough examination of the captive pygmies, Dodd comes to the conclusion that they are absolute equals with human beings, and attempts to do all in his power to free the couple despite the fact his actions can cost him his life. |
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This tale of Beowulf, a medieval warrior who arrived in a time of need to assist King Hrothgar when his kingdom was attacked by the monster Grendel, is an adaptation from the Anglo-Saxon epic poem. As a soldier, Beowulf is not used to hesitating, he leads the troop of Norse warriors ahead to the village besieged by the monster. In search for the vicious and elusive Grendel, he crosses paths with Selma (Sarah Polley), a beautiful and voluptuous witch whose alliances are divided between Beowulf and his enemy. |
| Revolver
[2005,
UK, France]
from $1.99 |
| The greatest trick that he ever pulled was making you believe that he is you. |
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In this Guy Ritchie's highly stylized crime drama a recently released ex-convict hotshot gambler Jake (Jason Statham) sets into motion a complex revenge plot against the man who killed his sister-in-law and put him behind bars. Being rarely allowed to play in the casinos because he's a winner, he is invited to sit in on a private game when he beats an opponent in the person of his foe, a gangster Dorothy Macha (Ray Liotta), and humiliates him. Dorothy sends a hitman to kill Jake, but there are some people who help Jake to protect himself and who are out to take gone-too-far Dorothy down. |
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Chris (Ryan Reynolds) and Jamie (Amy Smart) were the best friends at the high school: he was the clumsy source of mockery for cruel classmates, she was a popular and beautiful cheerleader. Surely, he harbored a secret that he is hopelessly in love with Jamie. One day Chris finally works up his courage and makes his feelings known for her. Surprised, Jamie proceeds with "let us stay just friends" talk, that fateful moment Chris decides to change himself. Decade after, we can see reinvented Chris as a smooth talking womanizer, living large in Los Angeles. He was given a challenging job assignment from his boss, KC, concerning the turning spoiled socialite, diva and magazine pin-up girl Samantha James into a pop-star. The snag is in the fact that Chris and Sam used to date, and that she still carries a torch for him, which makes it all the more hellish. On their way to Paris, they make an unexpected stop in New Jersey – for Chris it's the first time back in 10 years. Chris isn't going to stay there for a long, but he runs into Jamie working at the local bar... You should see yourself what will come further in this slapstick comedy! |
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Professional quarterback Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler), a former NFL player, and former college champion and coach Nate Scarborough (Burt Reynolds) are doing time in the same prison. Tough warden Hazen (James Cromwell) decides to organize a soccer match between the guards and the inmates and forces Paul to assemble his team. Yet, he tries to persuade Crewe to lose the game in exchange of his early release. The convicts willingly unite when they discover that the guards will be their rivals. They see the forthcoming game as a golden opportunity to exact some revenge on the sadistic warders. |
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Promising football player Brandon Lane (Matthew McConaughey) sustains a serious knee injury which puts the kibosh on his football career. Failing professional options he takes a job in a telephone service foretelling the outcome of games for sports betters. His talent to pick the winners soon attracts the attention of Walter Abrams (Al Pacino) who runs a large sports prognosticating business. He lures Brandon to join his enterprise, hoping to make lots of money off him. Brandon changes his name and personality and the perilous game starts!
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In 1950, few soccer players in the United States played the game with any particular degree of expertise. Most Americans had heard about the soccer only by hearsay, even though it was the world's most popular sport, and when the United States was invited to compete in the World Cup in Brazil, the country turned out to have no soccer team to call their own. The U.S. set out to recruit players in the soccer breeding ground of St. Louis, Missouri, where they found a group of young friends with almost absolute lack of an appropriate experience, only an unabashed love of the game. |
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A prequel to the critically acclaimed series featuring Jerri Blank, a 46 year-old ex-junkie, ex-con who returns to high school in a bid to start her life over. |
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Set in Wichita, Kansas, the black comedy centers on mob lawyer Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) and his associate Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) who decide to give themselves a Christmas present and embezzle $2 million in cash from Charlie's crime boss, Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid). The lawyer is impatient to slip out of town with the alluring strip club owner Renata (Connie Nielsen). But you never know what surprises are in store for you. For Charlie, Christmas Eve proves to be a great surprise... |
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A girl who uses dogs to teach people about the true meaning of Christmas during the Depression. |
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This feature-length animation takes place between the original "Lilo and Stitch" and "Stitch: The Movie", and follows the same characters having new problems. As the film begins, everything seems to be going smoothly, but Lilo (Dakota Fanning) and her older sister Nani (Tia Carrere) soon discover that there are the major genetic failure in their alien friend so their plans to take part in the big hula dance festival may get crushed as well as the Stitch's possibility to stay with the new family that loves him. |
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Giulio is a big fan of Hitchcock also being a film student. He lives opposite a sexy young woman and her mother, whom he constantly witnesses arguing with one another. He makes an acquaintance with the girl, but soon her mother is murdered. He becomes obsessed with figuring out who did it - especially since he heard his neighbor's discussion in the local video shop. Does Hitchcock's influence extend to this murder? Giulio decides to start his own investigation. |
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Casey Carlyle (Michelle Trachtenberg), a bright high school student, has always dreamt of becoming a championship figure skater but she is forced to abandon her dream and head for Harvard to please her domineering professor mother Joan Carlyle (Joan Cusack). Fortunately for Casey, she gets the chance to make her dream come true when she visits a skating club and starts training with champion-in-the-making Gen Harwood (Hayden Panettiere) and her mother Tina (Kim Cattrall), a former professional skater. The more Casey trains, the more she finds herself attracted to the sport, the more she becomes obsessed with the idea of competing in the championship circuit. Does she have enough courage to ruin her mother's hopes completely in order to achieve her childhood dream? |
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Every family has its secrets and tries to hold them hidden within domestic walls. However, those of the family of Marcus Aylesbury are in order to become public because of the family's long date friend Trent, a journalist faithful to his ideals who, put under pressure by his editor, is looking for a "sexy-scoop"... |
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Set in 1950s, Asylum follows a psychiatrist family living in a house by the psychiatric asylum. In this drama based on the novel by Patrick McGrath, a forensic psychiatrist Max (Hugh Bonneville) serves at a remote psychiatric hospital where his wife slowly begins to fall for a dangerously handsome inmate named Edgar (Marton Csokas). Stella (Natasha Richardson) soon finds herself caught in the web of intrigue and the forbidden passion. A little pergola on the grounds of the Asylum becomes a shelter for the insane love, until the moment when Edgar escapes and hides somewhere in London. From this turning point the really deadly game begins as Stella's child is under the threat. |
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In Miami, the professional driver Frank Martin is working temporarily for the Billings family, transporting their son Jack while his driver is on vacation. Mr. Billings is an important member of the government and Mrs. Audrey Billings trusts on Frank, who promises to protect the boy. When Jack is kidnapped by a mercenary hired by the Colombian cartels, Frank faces the criminals and the Miami police force trying to rescue the kid. When the boy returns to his family, Jack discloses the real and lethal intention of the abduction of Jack. |
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"Sahara" stars Matthew McConaughey as adventurer Dirk Pitt, who must try to prevent a deadly microbe from causing an epidemic in the oceans after he discovered that thousands of people in Africa are being driven mad by something polluting the water. Along the way Matthew make the acquaintance of Dr. Eva Rojas (Penélope Cruz), a scientist and physician who is trying to determine the source of a strange and deadly disease sweeping the nation. Based on the one of Clive Cusslers' best-selling novels. |
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An historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan, where a young man is destined to unite the country's three warring tribes. |
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In late 90's, one man defiantly promoted himself to the high society splendour introducing himself as the great director Stanley Kubrick during the filming of Eyes Wide Shut. That man was a gay Englishman Alan Conway (John Malkovich) despite the fact that he bore no resemblance to Kubrick, and even knew almost nothing about the director's work. Conway take part on a number of ventures, as he get drinks, sex, money and almost anything from unsuspecting people, who was impressed by Kubrick's works or simply by his famous name and easily became victims of the gay venturer. This story is based on the real events, depicting the scoundrel who made his way through the various gorgeous clubs and restaurants in London. |
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Tony Scott's witty action-drama is based upon the true story. Inimitable Keira Knightley appears as a renegade Domino Harvey, who leaves her high-society life for the bounty-hunter being to track down drug dealers and murderers for a bail bonds company in South Central L.A. She met Ed Mosbey (Mickey Rourke), an ex-con who had gone on to a successful career as a "bail recovery agent" - in short, a bounty hunter. To mother's horror, Domino not only fell in love with the job but also with her fellow adventurers, who over the years would become her family. |
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