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Full length DVD movies produced in 2006
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Inspired by true events, the drama follows the adventures of Clifford Irving (Richard Gere), a struggling American novelist in the 1970s who couldn't sell his books. Wanting to make a name for himself, Irving decided to resort to a ruse about writing an "autobiography" of Howard Hughes (Milton Buras), one of the most famous and wealthiest people in the world. After enlisting the help of his pal Richard Suskind (Alfred Molina), Irving attempted to compose the fake memoirs. To make them "authentic," they did some research, stole government documents, forged Hughes' handwritten communiqués and copied his former confidante Noah Dietrich's (Eli Wallach) manuscript of his conversations with the eccentric billionaire. The published book immediately became a mammoth bestseller. |
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When a crime is committed on the border of Quebec and Ontario, everyone is forced to come together, whether they want to or not. As the investigation gets underway, we meet David Bouchard and Martin Ward, members of their respective provincial police forces who are forced to work together. The two men couldn't be more different. In fact, the only thing they appear to have in common is that they are both cops, albeit cops with totally different styles. |
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On a fateful night in November 1970, the town of Huntington, West a plane crash took the lives of 75 members of the Marshall University football team, coaching staff, boosters and crew. Aided by the former Marshall assistant coach Red Dawson (Matthew Fox) and the three remaining players who didn't travel for the away game, Jack Lengyel (Matthew McConaughey), a daring, persistent young coach, sets out to reassemble the football program, and raise the spirits spirit of the grief-stricken town. |
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In February, 1945, one of the fiercest battles of the Pacific theater of World War II occurs on the tiny island of Iwo Jima. Thousands of Marines attack the stronghold maintained by thousands of Japanese, and the slaughter on both sides is horrific. Early in the battle, an American flag is raised atop the high point, Mount Suribachi, and a photograph of the raising becomes an American cause celebre. As a powerful inspiration to war-sick Americans, the photo becomes a symbol of the Allied cause. The three surviving flag raisers, Rene Gagnon, John Bradley, and Ira Hayes, are whisked back to civilization to help raise funds for the war effort. But the accolades for heroism heaped upon the three men are at odds with their own personal realizations that thousands of real heroes lie dead on Iwo Jima, and that their own contributions to the fight are only symbolic and not deserving of the singling out they are experiencing. Each of the three must come to terms with the honors, exploitation, and grief that they face simply for being in a photograph. |
| Midnight Clear
[2006,
USA]
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| For many people, the holidays are the loneliest time of year. Merry Christmas. |
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A recently homeless and jobless loser, a senior citizen estranged from her family, a mother of one dealing with her husband's brain damage, a gas station owner stuck in a job he hates, and a youth pastor feeling irrelevant face depression and loneliness on Christmas Eve. As they cross paths and experience random and minor acts of kindness, their lives are changed forever. |
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Having awaken from hibernation, forest dwellers - Verne the overptotective turtle (Garry Shandling), Stella the skunk (Wanda Sykes), Hammy the energetic squirrel (Steve Carell), Ozzie the opossum (William Shatner) and his daughter Heather (Avril Lavigne), Lou the porcupine (Eugene Levy), his caring wife Penny (Catherine O'Hara) and their fidgety kids – feel very anxious about not having enough food for everyone. And what is more, they are bitterly disappointed to discover that a suburban housing development has appeared in a place that used to be their forest home. Unaware of where to find food and scared of approaching the hedge, not to mention alien creatures called humans, they start thinking hard about solving the problem. Fortunately for them, an opportunistic yet charismatic traveling raccoon named RJ (Bruce Willis) who has recently attached himself to the forest community is bursting with ideas. RJ convinces the forest band of having nothing to fear and suggests that they should go over the hedge and get all they want from their new neighbors.
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Vin Diesel acts as a true person "Jackie Dee" DiNorscio who was sent to prison for a drug charge, but didn't rat on his associates. Already in the midst of serving a 30-year sentence, Jackie is offered an opportunity to shorten his time by testifying against many of his closest friends. By the way, some of them previously tried to kill him out of fear he might talk. Jackie Dee suddenly goes so far as to defend himself in what will ultimately become the longest criminal trial of its time. |
| Bobby
[2006,
USA]
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| He saw wrong and tried to right it. He saw suffering and tried to heal it. He saw war and tried to stop it. |
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The Ambassador Hotel, 1968: the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy will soon take place here but none of the hotel residents and employees knows about it yet. Everyone at the hotel is busy with his own affairs, and their paths never seem to cross, not even in this closed space. However, it only seems so and twenty two individuals who will become unwitting witnesses to the tragedy will make a lot of startling discoveries and have strange meetings.
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Stewart Kane (Gabriel Byrne), a happily married 40-something Irishman in the Australian town of Jindabyne, goes on a fishing trip with his pals, Carl (John Howard), Rocco (Stelios Yiakmis) and Billy (Simon Stone). While out on the river, they discover the naked body of a murdered aboriginal girl (Tatea Reilly). Instead of returning to the town immediately, the men decide to stay on at the river and spend two days fishing. When the buddies finally return home and notify their macabre discovery to the police, they face their families' sharp condemnation of their actions. Stewart's wife Claire (Laura Linney) is so disturbed by her husband's callousness that she begins to question their marriage. |
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In the Spring of 2005 a graduate filmmaker from UCLA set forth to make a documentary reflecting an element of contemporary music culture that had yet to be fully examined. The notion was to capture something raw and original. He searched for something unpretentious and genuine, yearning to make a film that would stand out from other music documentaries and potentially redefine the genre. Who he found was the band Electric Apricot, what he achieved is enlightenment. Unexpectedly while searching for enlightenment the duality of existence was unveiled. |
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Set in the sordid underworld of prostitution and gang crime in London, this violent and gory crime thriller follows two girls, middle-aged hooker Kelly (Lorraine Stanley) and 11-year-old runaway Joanne (Georgia Groome). After Kelly's pimp, Derek (Johnny Harris) coerces the underage girl to act against her will and have intercourse with a client, Duncan Allen (Alexander Morton), the girls become involved in a brutal stabbing of the old man. They leave him to bleed in the bathtub and flee to the railway station where they board a train for Brighton. When Stuart Allen (Sam Spruell), a merciless gangster, discovers his father dead, he orders Derek to find the girls within 24 hours. Otherwise he will lose his head... |
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After an explosion on a ferry kills over 500 people including a large group of party-going sailors, an ATF agent investigates the crime. AN FBI agent also joins the investigation. Impressed with the ATF agent's skills, the FBI agent invites him to join a new team that has a new program that uses satellite technology to look backwards in time for 4-1/2 days to try to capture the terrorist. Meanwhile a young woman who was burned washes up on shore. Meant to look like part of of the explosion, the body arrives at its location too soon, which leads the agents to believe her death is related to the explosion. As they use the new technology to study the woman, the ATF agent determines that this is not satellite imagery but somehow is using a time warp. From this point in the film, the movie moves from a crime film to a sci-fi time paradox film. Nonetheless, the action is non-stop and always captivating. The end of the film may be confusing to some people, but it is all laid out if one cares to look carefully. Contains some extreme violence that some may find disturbing, particularly during the explosion when many people are shown jumping off the boat in flames. |
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This historical drama presents us one of the greatest romantic stories of doomed love. After the fall of the Roman Empire, King of Ireland (David O'Hara) has in fact taken control over England. While Tristan dreams of banishing Ireland's presence in England, he harbours a secret he's been hiding from his patron Marke - after suffering serious wounds, he was rescued and nursed back to health by Isolde (Sophia Myles), King Donnchadh's daughter, and the two fell deeply in love. Still seeking to throw the English tribes back into chaos, King Donnchadh gives away his daughter as the prize in a tournament between all the champions of England. Tristan wins the princess' hand for Lord Marke, whose vision of a united England may finally be realized. Tristan is horrified to see that the woman he has won for his Lord, the woman whom Marke will marry, is his Irish savior Isolde. |
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After a U.S. doctor in Morgue (Scott Wilson) orders a South Korean soldier to discharge toxic chemicals into the drain near the Han River in Seoul, a small tadpole grows into a monstrous creature. One day the horrifying mutant (voiced by Dal-su Oh) emerges from the depths of the river onto its bank for a feast of flesh. Among the monster's victims is a teenage girl named Hyun-seo (Ah-sung Ko) whose father Gang-du (Kang-ho Song) fails to rescue her from the clutches of the beast. Fearing that the mutant spreads a deadly virus, the government decides to seal off the river and quarantine people who have come in contact with the monster. Meanwhile, the grief-stricken father receives a late-night phone call from Hyun-seo telling that she is still alive in a sewer nearby the river. |
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Roddy St. James (Hugh Jackman) is a pet mouse who lives a privileged life in the most prestigious and elegant penthouse apartment in London. He feels he has achieved a lot in his life. He is, to all appearances, absolutely on plush: he eats well, sleeps well and has no trouble. Roddy enjoys his blissful life, until one day vulgar sewer rat Sid (Shane Richie) comes spewing out of the clogged sink. Inclined to get rid of his uninvited guest, Roddy schemes to lure him into the "jacuzzi", which is actually the toilet bowl, and flush him away. However, his plan comes unstuck, for Sid so loses his heart to the luxurious place that he decides to replace Roddy at any cost. As a result, Roddy ends up in the bustling sewer world where he meets an eye-catching scavenger rat named Rita (Kate Winslet). To return home, Roddy and Rita must escape the crafty designs of the spiteful Toad (McKellen) who hates all rodents.
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For freelance hitman Chev Chelios (Jason Statham) the day begins with bad news. He receives a message from a rival thug, Ricky Verona (Jose Cantillo), who reveals that Chev has been injected in his sleep with rare poison from China and he is only an hour away from perishing. Chev learns from his friend, Doc Miles (Dwight Yoakam), that he must keep his adrenaline in an upper level to stay alive before he can find an antidote. It's generally known that fear, sex and rage make your blood boil and your adrenaline flow. Trying to create as much tension as possible, Chev sets out to wreak his deadly vengeance on those who have betrayed him, and prevent his girlfriend Eve (Amy Smart) from falling into the mob's clutches. |
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Haunted railroad tracks lead a troubled teenager to discover the horrifying truth hidden in a small Texas town. |
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While waiting for his car to get fixed, cynical salesman Jimmy Starks (Guy Pearce) decides to drop in on a roadside foreteller, Vacaro (J.K. Simmons), for fun. The soothsayer promises him unhoped-for success and ... death when the first snow falls. Self-assertive and skeptical, Jimmy doesn't take the old man's predictions seriously, but he becomes confused and anxious when the words of the prophecy begin to come true. And, as the temperature goes down steadily, he can't help thinking of the ominous oracle... |
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Based on a true story, the inspiring drama follows the life of renowned Scottish amateur cyclist, world champion Graeme Obree (Jonny Lee Miller). He had a passion for cycling and was determined to become the fastest cyclist in the history of the sport. Unemployed and aground, Obree decided to build his own bike so that he could fulfil his ambition. Despite his mental health problems, he showed fortitude and persistence and took great pains to set up the world one-hour record on his revolutionary bike, made out of scrap metal and washing machine parts. |
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Set in China, 10th Century, the gripping epic-scale historical drama follows the tragic collapse of the Later Tang dynasty. The imperial court wallows in sin: lust, infidelity, hatred, betrayal, incest, and conspiracy, to name a few. Empress Phoenix (Gong Li) has a liaison with Crown Prince Wan (Liu Ye), her stepson from the Emperor’s first marriage, who maintains a second secret relationship with Jiang Chan (Li Man), the Imperial Doctor’s daughter, and harbours a plan to elope with her. Meanwhile, Emperor Ping (Chow Yun Fat), a man of humble origins and great ambition, doesn’t love his wife, whom he only married to succeed to the throne. He has a nefarious scheme to use a special poison to drive the Empress mad. Moreover, he senses a threat from Prince Jai (Jay Chou), his middle son, and Prince Yu (Qin Junjie), his youngest son, who he thinks may want to take the throne by force or guile. There comes the Chrysanthemum Festival during which the darkest family secrets are revealed. |
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