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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | 21 Grams | | | | Plot Summary
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers (Penn) an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigré (Gainsbourg), Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan (Del Toro), an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Alejandro González Iñárritu | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio Del Toro |
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|  | | 400 Blows | | | | Plot Summary
Antoine Doinel is a 14 year old Parisian. His parents do not show much interest in him. He skips school to go to the movies and play with his friends. He discovers his mother has a lover. Antoine steals a typewriter, which leads to his suspension from school. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | François Truffaut | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | 8 1/2 | | | | Plot Summary
Guido is a film director, trying to relax after his last big hit. He can't get a moments peace, however, with the people who have worked with him in the past constantly looking for more work. He wrestles with his conscience, but is unable to come up with a new idea. While thinking, he starts to recall major happenings in his life, and all the women he has loved and left. An autobiographical film of Fellini, about the trials and tribulations of film making. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Federico Fellini | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | 8 1/2 Women | | | | Plot Summary
After his wife dies, 55-year-old businessman Philip Emmenthal, at the prompting of his playboy son Storey, populates his Geneva villa with eight and a half concubines. Three are from Kyoto, where Storey manages Pachinco palaces. Each has a distinctive personality: a nun, a child bearer, a gambler, a student of Kabuki, a horsewoman with a pet pig, a maid. Philip throws off his strait-laced and repressed attitudes, immersing himself in pleasure. After about a year, the women begin to assert their own power. Side adventures pre-figure the household's breakup, and the women depart in one way or another, one at at time. Philip's fate is in the hands of Palmira, his favorite. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Peter Greenaway | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | 8 Mile | | | | Plot Summary
A young rapper (Eminem) in Detroit struggles with his anger through music. Can a white kid with a blue vocabulary and lots of hate in his heart transcend his meager beginnings and attain global superdupermegastar success? |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Curtis Hanson | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Eminem , Kim Basinger , Brittany Murphy, Mekhi Phifer |
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|  | | 8MM | | | | Plot Summary
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles (Nicolas Cage) down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max (Joaquin Phoenix), Welles relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife (Catherine Keener), family and simple life as a small-town private eye. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Joel Schumacher | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Nicolas Cage |
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|  | | A Home At The End Of The World | | | | Plot Summary
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Hours" comes a story that chronicles a dozen years in the lives of two best friends who couldn't be more different. From suburban Cleveland in the 60s, to New York City in the 80s, where they meet an older woman, the film charts a journey of trials, triumphs, loves and losses. Now the question is: can they navigate the unusual triangle they've created and hold their friendship together? |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Michael Mayer | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Sissy Spacek, Colin Farrell, Robin Wright Penn, Shawn Roberts |
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|  | | A League Of Their Own | | | | Plot Summary
The Second world war is beginning. Most of the baseball players are being drafted. In an attempt to save the sport, several owners formed the All American Girls Baseball League. The film begins in the 90s as one of the players from the 40s leaves to attend their installation in the Baseball Hall of Fame. The story told in one long flashback, is of two sisters who play in the inaugural year of the league. They have to establish themselves with baseball professionals, the public and each other as they try and live the lives of women athletes in the 1940s. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Penny Marshall | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Tom Hanks , Geena Davis, Madonna, Lori Petty, Jon Lovitz, David Strathairn |
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|  | | A Ma Soeur | | | | Plot Summary
A Ma Soeur! is a provocative and shocking drama about sibling rivalry, family discord and relationships. Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is forced to watch in silence, conspiring with the lovers, but harbouring jealousy and similar desires. Their actions, however, have unforeseen tragic consequences for the whole family.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Catherine Breillat - | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Above The Rim | | | | Plot Summary
Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with his two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a basketball star now employed as a security guard.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Jeff Pollack | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Marlon Wayans , Tupac Shakur , Leon |
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|  | | Adaptation | | | | Plot Summary
An account of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's (Cage) attempt to adapt Susan Orlean's (Streep) non-fiction book The Orchid Thief, which is the story of John Laroche (Cooper), a plant dealer who clones rare orchids then sells them to collectors. We see the action of the book as we see Kaufman struggle to adapt it into a movie. This is presumably a somewhat true story, as Charlie Kaufman is the real life screenwriter of Adaptation. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Spike Jonze | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Alexander The Great (1955) | | | | Plot Summary
An epic film that follows the life of Alexander the Great, the macedonian king that united all ancient greek tribes and led them against the vast Persian Empire. Alexander conquered most of the then known world and created a greek empire that spanned all the way from the Balkans to India. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | U | | Director: | Robert Rossen | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Richard Burton , Peter Cushing |
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|  | | All I Want | | | | Plot Summary
After 17-year-old misfit Jones Dillon (Wood) drops out of college on his first day, he moves into an old apartment building where he soon becomes entangled in the lives of his kooky new neighbors, including a temperamental photographer (Potente) and a self-absorbed aspiring actress (Moore). When he's not busy flirting with the ladies or learning to live on his own, would-be writer Jones divides his time between fending off queries from his alcoholic mother (Perkins), penning letters to an absentee father, and indulging in an overactive fantasy life. An auto accident forces a reality check, however, nudging Jones to grow up & decide what he really wants. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Jeffrey Porter | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Elijah Wood , Franka Potente, Mandy Moore |
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|  | | Almost Famous | | | | Plot Summary
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. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Cameron Crowe | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Billy Crudup , Frances McDormand , Kate Hudson , Jason Lee, Zooey Deschanel, Philip Seymour Hoffman |
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|  | | American History X | | | | Plot Summary
Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) returns from prison to find his younger brother, Danny (Edward Furlong), caught in the same web of racism and hatred that landed him in prison. After Derek's father is killed in the line of duty by a minority, Derek's view of mankind is altered, but while in prison, he discovers that there is good and bad in every race. The task before him now is to convince Danny of his newfound enlightenment. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Tony Kaye | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Amores Perros | | | | Plot Summary
Three interconnected stories about the different strata of life in Mexico City all resolve with a fatal car accident. Octavio is trying to raise enough money to run away with his sister-in-law, and decides to enter his dog Cofi into the world of dogfighting. After a dogfight goes bad, Octavio flees in his car, running a red light and causing the accident. Daniel and Valeria's new-found bliss is prematurely ended when she loses her leg in the accident. El Chiro is a homeless man who cares for stray dogs and is there to witness the collision.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Alejandro González Iñárritu | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Angelas Ashes | | | | Plot Summary
Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse. Prejudice against Frankie's Northern Irish father makes his search for employment in the Republic difficult despite his having fought for the IRA, and when he does find money, he spends the money on drink. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Alan Parker | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Emily Watson |
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|  | | Aviator | | | | Plot Summary
The script begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese's favorite films, Hell's Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that he waits forever for perfect conditions, right down to cloud formations. The Aviator ends in 1946, when Hughes was still a dashing young man and romancing actresses like Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Martin Scorsese | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Leonardo DiCaprio , Cate Blanchett |
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|  | | Bad Education | | | | In the early 60s, two boy - Ignacio and Enrique - disover love, movies and fear in a Christian school. Father Manolo, the school principal and LIterature teacher, both witnesses and takes part in these discoveries, The three characters come against one another twice again, in the late 70s and in 1980. These mettings are set to change the life and death of some of them. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Pedro Almodovar | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Gael García Bernal |
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|  | | Barry Lydon | | | | Plot Summary
A gentlemanly rogue travels the battlefields and parlors of 18th century Europe determined to make for himself the life of a nobleman through seduction, gambling and dueling in this methodical film showing the rhythm and life of the period.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Stanley Kubrick | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Ryan O'Neal |
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|  | | Basic Instinct | | | | Plot Summary
Former rock star and San Francisco nightclub owner Johnny Boz is found murdered in his bed. Detective Nick Curran is assigned to the case; he has a history of alcoholism and drug abuse although he is clean now. The prime suspect is Catherine Tramell, an attractive and manipulative novelist who had been seeing Boz for a while. Police psychiatrist Beth Gardner (who happens to be Nick's ex-girlfriend) is brought in on the case when it is discovered that Boz's murder was copied directly from one of Catherine's novels. Nick starts to get too involved and everyone seems to be a suspect. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Paul Verhoeven | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, Jeanne Tripplehorn |
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|  | | Basketball Diaries | | | | Plot Summary
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach ("Swifty") who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin -- all of these begin to encroach on young Jim's dream of becoming a basketball star. Soon, the dark streets of New York become a refuge from his mother's mounting concern for her son. He can't go home and his only escape from the reality of the streets is heroin for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim "picked up a game" now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Scott Kalvert | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Mark Wahlberg |
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|  | | Beaches | | | | Plot Summary
When the New York child performer CC Bloom and San Fransisco rich kid Hillary meet in a holiday resort in Atlantic City, it marks the start of a lifetime friendship between them. The two keep in touch through letters for a number of years until Hillary, now a successful lawyer moves to New York to stay with struggling singer CC. The movie shows the various stages of their friendship and their romances including their love for the same man. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Garry Marshall | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard |
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|  | | Best Man | | | | Plot Summary
Harper's autobiographical novel is almost out, his girlfriend Robin desires commitment, and he's best man at the wedding of Lance, a pro athlete. He goes to New York early (Robin will come for the wedding) to hang out with Lance and other friends, including Jordan, his former almost-lover, now in media and privy to an advance copy of the book. The men discuss women, never facing their own double standard; Jordan wants to try again with Harper, at least for one night; and Harper fears that Lance will read his book and learn that the bride-to-be slept with him once to avenge Lance's many affairs. Can Harper mature before Lance kills him, Jordan seduces him, and he loses Robin?
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Malcolm D. Lee | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut, Harold Perrineau, Terrence Howard, Sanaa Lathan |
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|  | | Big Girls Don't Cry | | | | Plot Summary
Kati and Steffi are best friends since childhood. But as they step into adulthood, both their perfect friendship and their personalities get harshly tested by a series of unfortunate events; mainly caused by Steffi finding out her father wasn't quite faithful to her mother, and the two girls getting hit by the consequences of her delirious revenge plans. When things get out of hand, the two girls find themselves in the middle of a mess, and Kati starts questioning whether or not Steffi is really so precious to her. Where will Steffi's plans of penalizing her father's "evil" lover will end up..? Will the girls' friendship be saved..? |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Maria Von Heland | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Birth | | | | Plot Summary
Anna is a young widow who is finally getting on with her life after the death of her husband, Sean. Now engaged to be married, Anna meets a ten-year-old boy who tells her he is Sean reincarnated. Though his story is both unsettling and absurd, Anna can't get the boy out of her mind. And much to the concern of her fiancée, her increased contact with him leads her to question the choices she has made in her life. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Jonathan Glazer | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Nicole Kidman , Cameron Bright , Lauren Bacall , Anne Heche, Peter Stormare |
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|  | | Bitter Moon | | | | Plot Summary
British couple Fiona and Nigel Dobson are sailing to Istanbul en route to India. They encounter a beautiful French woman, and that night Nigel meets her while dancing alone in the ship's bar. Later he meets her crippled American husband Oscar, who tells him their story... While living in Paris for several years trying to be a writer, he becomes obsessed with a woman he met by chance on a bus. He tracks her down and they start a steamy love affair. Soon Oscar finds himself enslaved body and soul by her love, and continues to tell Nigel the details of of the various stages of this relationship over a number of visits to Oscars cabin. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Roman Polanski | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas , Emmanuelle Seigner , Peter Coyote |
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|  | | Black And White | | | | Plot Summary
True story that created headline news in 1959. A young aboriginal man Max Stuart, was convicted of murder in the light of questionable evidence presented, of nine year old Mary Hattam near Ceduna, on the south coast of Australia. International News Media Baron, Rupert Murdoch (played by Ben Mendelsohn), then publisher of the Adelaide "News," became the driving force behind securing a re-trial for Stuart. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Craig Lahiff | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Robert Carlyle , Charles Dance |
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|  | | Blind Flight | | | | Plot Summary
Keenan and McCarthy spent 4.5 years confined together, held underground for much of their captivity, at times chained to each other and to the walls of their prisons. The two men, who could easily have found themselves at opposite ends of a gun barrel in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, instead forged a relationship which transcended all that appeared to divide them. "Blind Flight" tells the story of this compelling relationship as they both resurrect their deepest memories, feelings, fears and loves. In their near biblical journey they uncover many of the forces which made them blind and captive human beings prior to their physical captivity. They finally discover a compassion for their captors which makes the film a 'love story' in the fullest and most humanistic sense. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | John Furse | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Bloom | | | | Adapted from James Joyce's Ulysses, Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway into the consiousness of its three main characters: Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and the extraordinary Leopold Bloom |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Sean Walsh | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Blue Crush | | | | Plot Summary
Nothing gets between Anne Marie and her board. Living in a beach shack with three roommates including her rebellious younger sister, she is up before dawn every morning to conquer the waves and count the days until the Pipe Masters surf competition. Having transplanted herself to Hawaii with no one's blessing but her own, Anne Marie finds all she needs in the adrenaline-charged surf scene ... until pro quarterback Matt Tollman comes along. Like it or not, Anne Marie starts losing her balance - and finding it - as she falls for Matt. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | John Stockwell | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Kate Bosworth, Michelle Rodriguez |
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|  | | Blue Velvet | | | |
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Crime / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Taglines
• It's a strange world.
Plot Summary
A man returns to his home town after being away and discovers a severed human ear in a field. Not satisfied with the police's pace, he and the police detective's daughter carry out their own investigation. The object of his investigation turns out to be a beautiful and mysterious woman involved with a violent and perversely evil man. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | David Lynch | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper , Laura Dern |
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|  | | Body Of Evidence | | | | Plot Summary
A millionaire is found dead of heart failure handcuffed to the bed with a home video tape of him and his lover. When cocaine is found in his system, and his will leaves $8 million to his lover, they arrest her on suspicion of murder. Her lawyer succumbs to her charms, and he begins a torrid and kinky affair with her. As new evidence turns up during trial, he begins to wonder if he's defending a murderer.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Willem Dafoe | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Madonna, Willem Dafoe |
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|  | | Bombon El Perro | | | | Life is no bed of roses for 52-year-old Juan "Coco" Villegas. He, who has been a gas station attendant for twenty years in Patagonia, finds himself jobless overnight. He first tries to survive by selling knives of his own making. But business is bad and he can't find real work. One day though, after fixing a vehicle on a farm, he gets paid by means of a ... beautiful Argentinian watch-dog! From this blessed day on, things start shaping well at last... |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Carlos Sorin | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Boxer | | | | Plot Summary
Danny Flynn is released from prison in Belfast after fourteen years for his part in IRA activities. He determines to avoid the bloodshed that was inherent in his political past and to build a new life in his old home. He starts a gym to train young boxers like himself, with no political or sectarian ties, and renews his relationship with the woman he left behind when imprisoned. But his relationship to the past refuses to let him live a life of peace. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Jim Sheridan | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Daniel Day-Lewis |
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|  | | Brick | | | | Plot Summary
In a modern-day Southern California neighborhood and high school, student Brendan Frye's piercing intelligence spares no one. He's not afraid to back up his words with actions, and knows all the angles; yet he prefers to stay an outsider, and does - until the day that his ex-girlfriend, Emily, reaches out to him unexpectedly and then vanishes. His feelings for her still run deep; so much so, that he becomes consumed with finding his troubled inamorata. To find her, he enlists the aid of his only true peer, the Brain, while keeping the assistant vice principal only occasionally informed of what quickly becomes a dangerous investigation. Brendan's single-minded unearthing of students' secrets thrusts him headlong into the colliding social orbits of rich-girl sophisticate Laura, intimidating Tugger, substance-abusing Dode, seductive Kara, jock Brad and - most ominously - non-student the Pin. Only by gaining acceptance into the Pin's closely guarded inner circle of crime and punishment that Brendan will be able to uncover hard truths about himself, Emily and the suspects that he is getting closer to |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Rian Johnson | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Lukas Haas , Noah Fleiss , Matt O'Leary , Emilie de Ravin |
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|  | | Bridge On The River Kwai | | | | Plot Summary
British WW2 prisoners of war are given the task, by their Japanese captors, of building a railway bridge in a harsh Asian jungle. Led by Col Nicholson, a stereotypical British officer, the prisoners score a moral victory over the Japanese by not only building the bridge, but running the whole show. Unknown to Nicholson, an allied demolition team are planning a spectacular opening for the bridge.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | David Lean | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | William Holden |
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|  | | Bringing Out The Dead | | | | Plot Summary
Frank Pierce is a paramedic working Gotham's Hell's Kitchen. He's become burned out and haunted by visions of the people he's tried to save.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Martin Scorsese | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Nicolas Cage , Patricia Arquette, John Goodman |
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|  | | Brothers | | | | Plot Summary
Michael (Ulrich Thomsen) has everything under control: a successful military career, a beautiful wife (Connie Nielsen) and two daughters. His younger brother Jannik (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) is a drifter, living on the edge of the law. When Michael is sent to Afghanistan on a UN mission the balance between the two brothers changes forever. Michael is missing in action - presumed dead - and Sarah is comforted by Jannik, who against all odds shows himself capable of taking responsibility for both himself and the family. It soon becomes clear that their feelings have developed beyond mutual sympathy. When Michael comes home, traumatized by being held prisoner in the mountains of Afghanistan, nothing is the same... |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Susanne Bier | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Connie Nielsen , Ulrich Thomsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas |
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|  | | Brown Bunny | | | | Plot Summary
It's the story of one man's tragic loss of the love of his life. He is Bud Clay. And he races motorcycles. He rides in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. Round and round he goes, repeating laps over and over until the race is over. The story begins with Bud racing in New Hampshire. Bud's next race is in California in five Days. And so his journey begins across America. And everyday Bud is haunted by the same memories of the last time he saw his true love. Bud will do anything to make those memories disappear. And every day he tries to find a new love. Making outrageous requests of women to come with him on his trip and then leaving them behind after they've agreed. He can't replace Daisy, the only girl he's ever loved and the only girl he will ever love. But every day he tries. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Vincent Gallo | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Vincent Gallo, Chloë Sevigny |
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|  | | Carandiru | | | | Plot Summary
Film based on real life experiences of doctor Drauzio Varella inside dreadful State penitentiary Carandiru, in São Paulo, Brazil, while he was doing a social work of Aids prevention. There he found hundreds of convicts living under degrading conditions. The situation came to a climax in 1992, when in order to smother a rebellion, police force killed 111 men. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Hector Babenco | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Changing Lanes | | | | Plot Summary
An attorney (Ben Affleck) in a rush to make a court appointment to file legal papers involving a multi-million dollar trust accidentally collides with an alcoholic insurance salesman (Samuel Jackson), who also is a rush for a court appointment involving the custody of his children. The attorney leaves the scene of the accident and strands the salesman, causing him to miss his custody hearing. During the process of the post-crash discussion, the attorney accidentally drops the papers he needs to present in court. The judge gives him until the end of the day to present the papers and thus begins a cat and mouse game between the proponents. A few questionable actions later on both parties' part, they finally start questioning their actions and their lives. In the end, both come to new understanding of what is important and appear to be set in new ethical and moral directions. Contains mild violence and profanity.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Roger Michell | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Ben Affleck , Samuel L. Jackson , Toni Collette, Amanda Peet |
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|  | | Cinderella Man | | | | Plot Summary
During the Great Depression, a common-man hero, James J. Braddock--a.k.a. the Cinderella Man--was to become one of the most surprising sports legends in history. By the early 1930s, the impoverished ex-prizefighter was seemingly as broken-down, beaten-up and out-of-luck as much of the rest of the American populace who had hit rock bottom. His career appeared to be finished, he was unable to pay the bills, the only thing that mattered to him--his family--was in danger, and he was even forced to go on Public Relief. But deep inside, Jim Braddock never relinquished his determination. Driven by love, honor and an incredible dose of grit, he willed an impossible dream to come true. In a last-chance bid to help his family, Braddock returned to the ring. No one thought he had a shot. However Braddock, fueled by something beyond mere competition, kept winning. Suddenly, the ordinary working man became the mythic athlete. Carrying the hopes and dreams of the disenfranchised on his shoulders, Braddock rocketed through the ranks, until this underdog chose to do the unthinkable: take on the heavyweight champ of the world, the unstoppable Max Baer, renowned for having killed two men in the ring. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Ron Howard | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger , Paul Giamatti , Craig Bierko |
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|  | | City By The Sea | | | | Plot Summary
New York City homicide detective Vincent LaMarca has forged a long and distinguished career in law enforcement, making a name for himself as a man intensely committed to his work. But on his latest case, the stakes are higher for Vincent--the suspect he's investigating is his own son. He and Joey have been painfully estranged ever since Vincent divorced his wife and left the decaying boardwalks of Long Beach, Long Island for the anonymity of Manhattan and a successful career with the NYPD. He lives his life in solitude, keeping his girlfriend at arm's length; the closest relationship he maintains is with his partner, Reg--and Vincent makes sure that stops at the precinct door. As long as Vincent lives in the protection of the present, he doesn't have to deal with the pain of his past--or his sorrow over his broken relationship with Joey. But this murder investigation is drawing Vincent home to Long Beach, the self-proclaimed City by the Sea, where the past has been waiting for him to return. The agonizing memory that has tortured him all his life--the death of his father, a convicted murderer who was executed when Vincent was just a boy--still plagues him. In the course of the investigation, he discovers that his own unresolved pain and failures as a father have deeply influenced Joey's life, and now his 18-month-old grandson may be fated to follow their self-destructive paths. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Michael Caton-Jones | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | City Of God | | | | Plot Summary
Cidade de Deus (City of God) is a housing project built in the 1960's that--in the early 80's--became one of the most dangerous places in Rio de Janeiro. The tale tells the stories of many characters whose lives sometimes intersect. However, all is seen through the eyes of a singular narrator: Busca-Pé, a poor black youth too frail and scared to become an outlaw but also to smart to be content with underpaid, menial jobs. He grows up in a very violent environment. The odds are all against him. But Busca-Pé soon discovers that he can see reality differently than others. His redemption is that he's been given an artist's point of view as a keen-eyed photographer. As Busca-Pé is not the real protagonist of the film--only the narrator--he is not the one who makes the decisions that will determine the sequence of events. Nevertheless, not only his life is attached to what happens in the story, but it is also through Busca-Pé's perspective of life that one can understand the complicated layers and humanity of a world, apparently condemned to endless violence.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Fernando Meirelles | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Clan Of The Cave Bear | | | | At a time in prehistory when Neanderthals shared the Earth with early Homo sapiens, a band of cave-dwellers adopt blond and blue-eyed Ayla, a child of the "Others". As Ayla matures into a young woman of spirit and courage (unlike other women of the clan), she must fight for survival against the jealous bigotry of Broud, who will one day be clan leader. Based on Jean M. Auel's popular book, there is minimal narration; subtitles translate the Neanderthal gestures and primitive spoken language.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Michael Chapman | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Daryl Hannah , James Remar |
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|  | | Coal Miners Daughter | | | | Plot Summary
At only thirteen years of age, Loretta Webb marries Doolittle Lynn and is soon responsible for a sizeable family. Loretta appears destined to a life of homemaking, but Doolittle recognises his wife's musical talent, and buys her a guitar as an anniversary present one year. This gift sets Loretta Lynn on the gruelling, tumultuous path to country music greatness. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Michael Apted | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Beverly D'Angelo |
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|  | | Confidence | | | | Plot Summary
What Jake Vig doesn't know just might get him killed. A sharp and polished grifter, Jake has just swindled thousands of dollars from the unsuspecting Lionel Dolby with the help of his crew: Insideman Gordo, Shills Miles, and Big Al--and two corrupt LAPD officers, Lloyd Whitworth and Omar Manzano. But when both Lionel and Big Al turn up dead, it becomes clear that Lionel wasn't just any mark--as Jake soon learns, he was an accountant for eccentric crime boss Winston King. Never one to shy away from a challenge, Jake offers to repay The King by pulling off the biggest con of his career. The mark? Morgan Price, a banker with deep ties to organized crime. With so much riding on the outcome, Jake decides to bring in a brash, blonde pickpocket named Lily, who joins the crew in a complex scheme involving corporate loans, creative accounting, wire transfers and off-shore accounts. Jake and his crew will have to stay one step ahead of both the criminals and the cops to finally settle their debt. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | James Foley | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz , Morris Chestnut, Paul Giamatti, Luis Guzmán , Dustin Hoffman |
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|  | | Conspiracy Theory | | | | Plot Summary
Jerry Fletcher is a man in love with a woman he observes from afar. She works for the government. Fletcher is an outspoken critic of that government. He has conspiracy theories for everything, from aliens to political assassinations. But soon, one of his theories finds itself to be accurate. But which one? Some dangerous people want him dead and the only person he trusts is that woman he loves but does not know. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Richard Donner | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart |
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|  | | Convicted | | | | Plot Summary
Charlotte Cory (Connie Nielsen) is a young woman convict on Death Row who has built up a friendship with Frank Nitzche (Aidan Quinn) through mail correspondence, whilst her attorney (Kelly Preston) desperately tries to appeal the verdict before Charlotte's time runs out. With only days to spare Frank realizes that he has fallen in love with Charlotte and discovers that there is much more to the tragic circumstances of her imprisonment than he first thought - her life is now in his hands. Frank races to solve the puzzle that will reveal the truth, and tell the secrets that both he and Charlotte have been concealing, before it's too late.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Bille August | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Connie Nielsen, Kelly Preston, Aidan Quinn |
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|  | | Cooler | | | | Plot Summary
The unluckiest man in Vegas (William H. Macy) - a guy whose bad luck is contagious - is used by the last of the old time mob run casinos to kill high rollers' action. That is, until he falls in love with a cocktail waitress (Maria Bello) and gets "lady luck," which throws the situation into reverse. Things turn nasty when the casino director (Alec Baldwin) tries to break up the romance. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Wayne Kramer | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Copland | | | | Policemen have always been the idols of Freddy Heflin. Due to being slightly deaf, Heflin could never pass the physical to become a police officer himself. However, because of his friendly, amiable nature, he's managed to get himself elected Sheriff of a small New Jersey county outside of New York City, and he lives in a town where many NYPD cops also live. Mo Tilden is an Internal Affairs investigator for the NYPD, and his investigation of some crooked cops leads him to this small town, and to Sheriff Freddy Heflin. Heflin begins to help Tilden, and discovers that some of his heroes may have feet of clay... |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | James Mangold | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel , Ray Liotta , Robert De Niro , Janeane Garofalo, Robert Patrick |
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|  | | Croupier | | | | Plot Summary
Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer going nowhere fast. To make ends meet, and against his better judgement, he takes a job as a croupier. He finds himself drawn into the casino world and the job gradually takes over his life; his relationship with girlfriend Marion begins to deteriorate. One gambler in particular catches his attention: Jani, whom he starts to see outside of working hours - a serious violation of casino rules. Jani is down on her luck; under pressure from her creditors she approaches Jack, asking him to be the inside man for a planned heist at the casino. Jack carefully considers the odds; it all looks so simple, but even a professional like Jack can't predict the cards he will be dealt. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Mike Hodges | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Dantes Peak | | | | Plot Summary
Volcanologist Harry Dalton and mayor Rachel Wando of Dante's Peak try to convince the city council and the other volcanologists that the volcano right above Dante's peak is indeed dangerous. People's safety is being set against economical interests. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Roger Donaldson | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton |
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| | | Dante's Peak | | | | Plot Summary
Volcanologist Harry Dalton and mayor Rachel Wando of Dante's Peak try to convince the city council and the other volcanologists that the volcano right above Dante's peak is indeed dangerous. People's safety is being set against economical interests. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Roger Donaldson | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton |
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|  | | Das Boot | | | | Plot Summary
It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so called "Battle of the Atlantic" to harass and destroy English shipping. With better escorts of the Destroyer Class, however, German U-Boats have begun to take heavy losses. "Das Boot" is the story of one such U-Boat crew, with the film examining how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers, attempted to accomplish impossible missions, while all the time attempting to understand and obey the ideology of the government under which they served. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Wolfgang Petersen | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Dear Wendy | | | | Plot Summary
DEAR WENDY is a story about the young loner Dick who lives in the poor mining town of Estherslope. When he happens upon a small handgun one day, he finds himself strangely drawn to it, despite his fervent pacifist views. Together with his newfound partner he soon convinces the other young outcasts in the town to join him in a secret club he calls The Dandies. A club based on the principals of pacifism and guns. Despite their firm belief in the most important Dandy rule of all - never draw your weapons - they soon find themselves in a predicament where they realise that rules are made to be broken.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Thomas Vinterberg | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Jamie Bell , Bill Pullman , Michael Angarano, Chris Owen , Alison Pill |
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|  | | Deer Hunter | | | | Plot Summary
Michael, Steven and Nick are young factory workers from Pennsylvania who get drafted to fight in Vietnam. Before they go, Steven marries the pregnant Angela and their wedding-party is also the men's farewell party. After some time and many horrors the three friends fall in the hands of the Vietcong and are brought to a prison camp in which they are forced to play Russian roulette against each other. Michael makes it possible for them to escape, but they soon get separated again. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Michael Cimino | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Robert De Niro , Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep |
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|  | | Deliverance | | | | Plot Summary
Canoeing down a river, four city men run into some unfriendly locals. Unable to escape from the gorge in which the river runs, the locals become more and more of a threat. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | John Boorman | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Jon Voight , Burt Reynolds |
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|  | | Dirty Dancing | | | | Plot Summary
Baby is becoming a young woman in the summer where she meets Johnny Castle who teaches dance at a family Summer Camp and in his off hours Dirty Dances with the other dancers. She learns a routine so that one of the women can recover from an abortion and becomes Johnny's lover. As the summer winds down, Each must come to grips with responsibility and love and others' expectations.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Emile Ardolino | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey |
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|  | | Doctor Zhivago | | | | Plot Summary
Lara inspires lechery in Komarovsky (her mother's lover who is a master at surviving whoever runs Russia) and can't compete with passion for the revolution of the man she marries, Pasha. Her true love is Zhivago who also loves his wife. Lara is the one who inspires poetry. The story is narrated by Zhivago's half brother Yevgraf, who has made his career in the Soviet Army. At the beginning of the film he is about to meet a young woman he believes may be the long lost daughter of Lara and Zhivago |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | David Lean | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Geraldine Chaplin |
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|  | | Dogville | | | | Plot Summary
Set in an American Town in the Rocky Mountains in the 1930s. Lars von Trier re-explores the concept of goodness, but this in an idiom very different from that of his Gold Heart Trilogy (Breaking the Waves, The idiots and Dancer in the Dark). DOGVILLE is shot exclusively in studio with a minimum of props once again allowing the actors' maximum freedom and full exposure inspired by televised theatre of the 70s. In DOGVILLE Trier works extensively with light, sound, score and music to obtain and heighten dramatic atmosphere. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Lars von Trier | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall , Paul Bettany , James Caan, Patricia Clarkson, John Hurt |
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|  | | Dolls | | | | Plot Summary
Three stories of undying love from acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano. Bound by a long red cord, a young couple wanders in search of something they have forgotten. An aging yakuza returns to the park where he used to meet his long-lost girlfriend. A disfigured pop star confronts the phenomenal devotion of her biggest fan ... Three stories delicately intertwined by the beauty of sadness. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Takeshi Kitano | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Donnie Darko | | | | Plot Summary
Donnie Darko is a disturbed adolescent from a semi-functional upper-middle-class family. After nearly escaping from death because he hears the voice of a 6-foot-tall bunny, Donnie is led by the bunny to create havoc that is both destructive and creative. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Richard Kelly | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Jake Gyllenhaal , Maggie Gyllenhaal |
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|  | | Don't Come Knocking | | | | Plot Summary
Howard Spence (Sam Shepard) has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a tear over him, that's the sad truth. Until one day Howard learns that he might have a child somewhere out there. The very idea seems like a ray of hope that his life wasn't all in vain. So he sets out to find that young man or woman. He discovers an entire life that he has missed ... |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Wim Wenders | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Sam Shepard, Tim Roth, Sarah Polley, Fairuza Balk, Eva Marie Saint |
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|  | | Door In The Floor | | | | Alternately tragic and comic, an exploration of the complexities of love in both its brightest and darkest corners. Adapted from John Irving's best-selling novel A Widow for One Year, the film is set in the privileged beach community of East Hampton, New York and chronicles one pivotal summer in the lives of famous children's book author Ted Cole (Jeff Bridges) and his beautiful wife Marion (Kim Basinger). Their once-great marriage has been strained by tragedy. Her resulting despondency and his subsequent infidelities have prevented the couple from confronting a much-needed change in their relationship. Eddie O'Hare, the young man Ted hires to work as his summer assistant, is the couple's unwitting yet willing pawn - and, ultimately, the catalyst in the transformation of their lives. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Tod Williams | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Bijou Phillips, Mimi Rogers |
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|  | | Doors | | | | Plot Summary
Oliver Stone's homage to 60's rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris in 1971, at the age of 27. The movies features a tour- de-force performance by Val Kilmer, who not only looks like Jim Morrison's long-lost twin brother, but also sounds so much like him that he did much of his own singing. It has been written that even the surviving Doors had trouble distinguishing Kilmer's vocals from Morrison's originals. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Oliver Stone | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Michael Madsen , Kyle MacLachlan, Meg Ryan , Kevin Dillon , Val Kilmer |
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|  | | Dreamers | | | | Plot Summary
The tumultuous political landscape of Paris in 1968 serves as the backdrop for a tale about three young cineastes who are drawn together through their passion for film. Matthew, an American exchange student, pursuing his education abroad in Paris, becomes friends with a French brother and sister duo, named Theo and Isabelle, who share a common love of the cinema. While the May 1968 Paris student riots--which eventually shut down most of the French government--are happening around them, the three friends develop a relationship unlike anything Matthew has ever experienced, or will ever encounter again. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Bernardo Bertolucci | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Edukators | | | | Plot Summary
Berlin student Jule is hoplessly indebted due to an accident she caused, uninsuredly hitting a rich businessman's limousine. Evicted from her flat she moves in with her boyfrend Peter and soon learns that Peter and his flatmate, Jan, are breaking into luxurious mansions at night. Instead of stealing or vandalizing, though, they carefully and ornately rearrange furniture and valulables and leave obscure messages. Jule convinces Jan, who has a crush on her, to pay a visit to the villa of her creditor |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Hans Weingartner | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Hanns Zischler, Daniel Brühl, Julia Jentsch , Stipe Erceg |
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|  | | Elvis The Early Years | | | | A chronicle of the life of Elvis Presley (Rhys Meyers), from his humble beginnings to his rise to international stardom. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | James Steven Sadwith | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Jonathan Rhys Meyers , Randy Quaid |
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|  | | Enigma | | | | Plot Summary
During the heart of World War II, in March of 1943, cryptoanalysts at Britain's code-breaking center have discovered to their horror that Nazi U-boats have changed their Enigma Code. Authorities enlist the help of a brilliant young man named Tom Jericho (played by Dougray Scott) to help them break the code again. The possibility of a spy within the British code-breakers' ranks looms and Tom's love, Claire (Saffron Burrows), has disappeared. To solve the mysteries, Tom recruits Claire's best friend, Hester Wallace (Kate Winslet). In investigating Claire's personal life, the pair discovers personal and international betrayals.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Michael Apted | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Kate Winslet , Richard Leaf |
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|  | | Escort | | | | Writer-director Michel Blanc, whose previous works include the acclaimed Marche a l'ombre (1984) and Dead Tired (1994), creates this gritty drama about a middle-aged impoverished French writer in London who becomes a gigolo. The film opens with Pierre (Daniel Auteuil) getting worked over by an irate pimp because he didn't pay for a hooker's drink. Rakish Irishman Tom (Stuart Townsend) offers to drive bloodied Pierre back to his seedy hotel. The following day, he stumbles upon Tom's sandwich bar and begs for a job. Though he describes himself as a dead-broke author working on a novel, Pierre is concealing secrets from his dark past. Later, during a party populated with well-turned out lesbians, Tom reveals that he moonlights as a gigolo and suggests that Pierre might try the same. Soon Pierre is making easy money at the same agency where Tom works. Things get complicated for our Gallic protagonist when he falls for a golden-hearted streetwalker with a psychotic ex-boyfriend and one of his married regulars falls for him. Told with wry wit and gritty honesty, this film explores London's dark sexual netherworld. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Michel Blanc | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Eureka | | | | Arctic prospector Jack McCann, after fifteen years of solitary searching, becomes one of the world's wealthiest men when he literally falls into a mountain of gold in 1925. Years later, in 1945, he lives in luxury on a Caribbean island that he owns. But his wealth brings him no peace of mind as he copes with Helen, his bored, alcoholic wife; Tracy, his dear, but headstrong, daughter who has married a dissolute, philandering social-climber; and Miami mobsters who want his island to build a casino. His life is entangled with the obsessions of those around him with greed, power, and debauchery against a background of occult symbolism.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Nicolas Roeg | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Everything Is Illuminated | | | | A young Jewish American man endeavors to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village, that was ultimately razed by the Nazis, with the help of a local who speaks weirdly funny broken English. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Liev Schreiber | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Elijah Wood |
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|  | | Fame | | | | Plot Summary
At the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, etc. This movie follows four students from the time when they audition to get into the school, through graduation. They are the brazen Coco Hernandez, shy Doris Finsecker, sensitive gay Montgomery MacNeil, and brash, abrasive Raul Garcia.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Alan Parker | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Far And Away | | | | Plot Summary
Joseph Donnelly, a young Irishman facing property eviction after his father's death, decides to take revenge on Daniel Christie, his landlord. Instead of killing Christie, however, he is injured and sentenced to a duel with Christie's arrogant manager, Stephen Chase, Christie's manager. Meanwhile, Shannon, Daniel's daughter, is growing dissatisfied with the traditional views of her parents' generation and longs to be modern. She makes her plans to leave for America, and with her help, Joseph is able to escape. Upon arriving in Boston, Mass., they find jobs and begin saving money. Joseph becomes a local barehands boxer, while Shannon works in a chicken processing plant and then as a dancer at the social club. All goes well until Joseph loses a boxing match, after which their money is taken away. Joseph and Shannon are left to starve in the winter cold. Shannon's parents, still in Ireland, face a devastating loss and decide to come to America to be with her. Chase, who joined them, has begun a campaign to find her, but his efforts are unnecessary Joseph brings Shannon to them after an accident. Joseph then heads west to work on the railroad. After many months, Joseph is confronted by his father in a dream, and is reminded of his desire to own his own land. Joseph decides to join the wagon trains and arrives in Oklahoma Territory just in time for the big land race, upon which his fate will lie. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Ron Howard | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Tom Cruise , Nicole Kidman |
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|  | | Far From Heaven | | | | Plot Summary
Cathy (Julianne Moore) is the perfect 50s housewife, living the perfect 50s life: healthy kids, successful husband, social prominence. Then one night she surprises her husband Frank (Dennis Quaid) kissing another man, and her tidy world starts spinning out of control. In her confusion and grief, she finds consolation in the friendship of their African-American gardener, Raymond (Dennis Haysbert) - a socially taboo relationship that leads to the further disintegration of life as she knew it. Despite Cathy and Frank's struggle to keep their marriage afloat, the reality of his homosexuality and her feelings for Raymond open a painful, if more honest, chapter in their lives.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Todd Haynes | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Finding Neverland | | | | Plot Summary
The movie details the experiences of "Peter Pan" author J.M. Barrie, which lead him to write the children's classic. He got to know four children who have no fathers. Drawing from his time with the kids, he writes a story about children who don't want to grow up. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Marc Forster | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Johnny Depp , Kate Winslet |
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|  | | First Knight | | | | Plot Summary
Lancelot lives by the sword. In fact, they're next door neighbours, so teaming up to fight for money comes pretty naturally. Lady Guinevere, on her way to marry King Arthur is ambushed by the evil Sir Malagant. Fortunately Lancelot is lurking nearby and he rescues his future queen. They fall in love, but Guinevere still fancies the idea of wearing a crown, so she honours her promise to Arthur. Can Lady Guinevere remain faithful, or will this Pretty Woman become a lady of the knight? |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Jerry Zucker | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond |
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|  | | Five Easy Pieces | | | | Plot Summary
Robert Dupea has given up his promising career as a concert pianist and is now working in oil fields. He lives together with Rayette, who's a waitress in a diner. When Robert hears from his sister that his father isn't well, he drives up to Washington to see him, taking Rayette with him. There he gets confronted with his rich, cultured family that he had left behind. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Bob Rafelson | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Lois Smith |
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|  | | Flashdance | | | | Plot Summary
Alex Owens is a female dynamo: steel worker by day, exotic dancer by night. Her dream is to get into a real dance company, though, and with encouragement from her boss/boyfriend, she may get her chance. The city of Pittsburgh co-stars. What a feeling! |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Adrian Lyne | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Fly | | | | This is the original version of a scientist experimenting with matter transference accidentally exchanging one arm and his head with that of a fly which was in the transfer chamber.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Kurt Neumann | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Al Hedison¹, Vincent Price |
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|  | | Footloose | | | | Plot Summary
Classic tale of teen rebellion and repression features a delightful combination of dance choreography and realistic and touching performances. When teenager Ren (Kevin Bacon) and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for a real case of culture shock. Though he tries hard to fit in, the streetwise Ren can't quite believe he's living in a place where rock music and dancing are illegal. There is one small pleasure, however: Ariel (Lori Singer), a troubled but lovely blonde with a jealous boyfriend. and a Bible-thumping minister, who is responsible for keeping the town dance-free. Ren and his classmates want to do away with this ordinance, especially since the senior prom is around the corner, but only Ren has the courage to initiate a battle to abolish the outmoded ban and revitalize the spirit of the repressed townspeople. Fast-paced drama is filled with such now-famous hit songs as the title track and "Let's Hear It for the Boy." |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Herbert Ross | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Kevin Bacon , Dianne Wiest, Sarah Jessica Parker , John Laughlin |
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|  | | For Love Of The Game | | | | Plot Summary
A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of thirty-seven has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he has loved for the past four years. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Sam Raimi | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Kevin Costner, Kelly Preston |
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|  | | For Love Or Country | | | | Plot outline
Story of the world-renowned trumpet player Arturo Sandoval. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Joseph Sargent | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Andy Garcia |
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|  | | Gangs Of New York | | | | Plot Summary
As waves of immigrants swell the population of New York, lawlessness and corruption thrive in Manhattan's Five Points section. After years of incarceration, young Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon returns seeking revenge against the rival gang leader who killed his father. But Amsterdam's personal vendetta becomes part of the gang warfare that erupts as he and his fellow Irishmen fight to carve a place for themselves in their newly adopted homeland! |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Martin Scorsese | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis , Cameron Diaz, Liam Neeson , Brendan Gleeson |
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|  | | Girlfight | | | | Plot Summary
At 18, Diana has a chip on her shoulder; she's close to expulsion from high school for fighting, her mother is dead, her dad is surly, the popular girls at school set her teeth on edge, she knows men can cause pain. When she picks up her younger brother at a Brooklyn gym where he boxes to please his father, she decides she wants to train. Hector, a coach, reluctantly agrees to teach her. It's soon clear to him that Diana has talent; he pushes her. She spends time with another young fighter, Adrian, who has a girlfriend, but Diana intrigues him and stirs real feelings he tries to articulate. She, too, must accommodate her toughness and ironic detachment to her feelings for him. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Karyn Kusama | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Good Shepherd | | | | Plot Summary
CHRISTIAN SLATER plays a worldly and urbane priest who is forced to challenge his comfortable existence as an ecclesiastical spin-doctor when he comes to believe in the innocence of a young priest accused of murder. His only ally, a journalist, is also his former sweetheart...
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Lewin Webb | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Christian Slater , Molly Parker, Stephen Rea |
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|  | | Good Thief | | | | Plot Summary
Set against the glitzy backdrop of the French Riviera, aging gambler Bob Montagnet is about to gamble it all on the casino heist of a lifetime; a spectatcular sleight of hand--two heists, one real, one not, but which is which? Under the watchful eye of Roger, a policeman who would as soon save his longtime opponent as arrest him, Montagnet assembles a team that consists of partners Paulo and Raoul, technical mastermind Vladimer, former-drug-dealer-turned-informant Said, Anne, a young Eastern girl Montagnet rescued from prostitution, and the perfect complement to a double theft--identical twins Albert and Bertram. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Neil Jordan | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Gozu | | | | Minami, a member of the Azamawari crew, highly respects his Aniki (brother) Ozaki who has saved his life in the past. However, lately Ozaki's eccentricities (like claiming that a Chihuahua hs sees is a 'Yakuza attack dog') have been making everyone wonder about his sanity. Chairman Azamawari is unsympathetic to Ozaki's little outbursts and secretly orders Minami to take Ozaki to a disposal facility in the city of Nagoya. There, the fate of these two follows a twisted path filled with violence, mother's milk, strange locals, and ultimately the disappearance of Ozaki's corpse which Minami now desperately tries to recover.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Takashi Miike | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Green Mile | | | | Plot Summary
Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Frank Darabont | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Tom Hanks , Bonnie Hunt , Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell , Patricia Clarkson |
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|  | | Green Street | | | | Plot Summary
Unjustly expelled from Harvard when a stash of cocaine is found in his possession, Matt (Elijah Wood) moves to London to live with his sister and her husband Steve (Marc Warren.) He is quickly introduced to Steve's chirpy, cock-sure younger brother Pete (Charlie Hunnam.) Initially, Pete is reluctant to get acquainted with Matt and allow him to tread around the capital city with him because he may be seen by others as an 'outsider', but after a heavy drinking session with him and his mates he quickly changes his opinion of him. On the way back from a football match, Matt is viciously accosted by a gang of Birmingham City thugs, until Pete and his friends step in and save him. It is from here that Matt learns the truth about Pete and his friends- they are football hooligans, operating the GSE (Green Street Elite) 'firm.' Initially afraid of the violence, Matt soon ends up becoming as desensitized to it as his new found friends- but as events roll on, suspicion, shocking revelations and unsettled scores combine to a devastating climax where London's most fierce football rivals- Millwall and West Ham United- are set to go head to head. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Lexi Alexander | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | David Alexander , Elijah Wood , Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani |
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|  | | H3 | | | | Plot Summary
'H3' is a universal story of endurance and courage set inside Europe's most secure prison, the Maze prison in Northern Ireland. Here, in H3 - the bleakest of all the H-blocks - a group of young republican prisoners hold out for what they believe in, refusing to be labeled as criminals or co-operate with prison authorities. However, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is determined that these Republican prisoners will be treated like all the other common criminals in British jails, ending a special regime which allowed the inmates political status to organise life inside the jail along POW lines. The republican prisoners immediately start a 'no-wash' protest, refusing to wear prison-issue clothes or perform work duties, a protest which results in their being locked in their cells for hours on end without exercise, recreation, reading materials and with only blankets to wear for heat. After four years on this protest, morale is at an all time low and everyone knows that something desperate is called for to break the deadlock... Although 'H3' portrays bleak prison conditions and tough moments, it also shows the camaraderie and craic, (Gaelic for fun) as inmates learn Jailic, (the particular brand of Gaelic learned inside the prison), sing songs, spin yarns and keep an eye out for each other. As each prisoner is forced to confront his own demons, the film shows us the triumph of humanity, friendship, loyalty and courage over the prison administration's crude efforts to break their will. The hunger strikes irrevocably altered the political landscape in the north of Ireland, preparing the ground for the current peace process which was born of the tremendous sacrifices made by the protagonists of this extraordinary yet true film. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Les Blair | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Hana-Bi | | | | Nishi is a cop whose wife is slowly dying of Leukemia. One of his partners gets shot on the job and is confined to a wheel chair for the rest of his life and becomes suicidal. Nishi, feeling guilt over his partners accident, tries to help him in any way he can. At the same time, Nishi leaves the police force to spend more time with his dying wife. However, in order to do the right things for those he loves, Nishi must do wrong things. Spiraling deeper into desperation and slowly building up to tragedy. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Takeshi Kitano | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Harry He's Here To Help | | | | Plot Summary
On a hot day in a highway gas station men's room, a man Michel doesn't recognize says they went to school together. He's Harry. He suggests they have a drink, so he and his girlfriend follow Michel and his family to their summer place. Michel is amazed when Harry quotes from memory a poem Michel wrote in school. Harry thinks Michel is a great writer, and he's distressed that Michel hasn't written in years. Harry stays awhile (since his father's death, he's a man of leisure) and sets out to eliminate distractions that might keep Michel from writing. First he buys Michel a car (with air conditioning) and then suspicious things happen. Michel picks up a pen, Harry is gratified, but he's not finished being Michel's self-appointed patron. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Dominik Moll | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Henry and June | | | | Plot Summary
In 1931 Paris, Anais Nin meets Henry Miller and his wife June. Intrigued by them both, she begins expanding her sexual horizons with her husband Hugo as well as with Henry and others. June shuttles between Paris and New York trying to find acting jobs while Henry works on his first major work, "Tropic of Cancer," a pseudo-biography of June. Anais and Hugo help finance the book, but June is displeased with Henry's portrayal of her, and Anais and Henry have many arguments about their styles of writing on a backdrop of a Bohemian lifestyle in Paris. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Philip Kaufman | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Uma Thurman , Kevin Spacey, Fred Ward |
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|  | | Henry Portrait Of A Serial Killer | | | | Plot Summary
Henry likes to kill people, in different ways each time. Henry shares an apartment with Otis. When Otis' sister comes to stay, we see both sides of Henry; the "guy-next-door" and the serial killer. Low budget movie, with some graphic murder scenes. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | John McNaughton | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Hustle And Flow | | | | Plot Summary
Rapper DJay (Howard) works the angles to get his first record made, with help from assorted people in his Memphis 'hood. And when he hears that rap superstar Skinny Black (Ludacris) is heading to his area, he throws together a supreme hustle to grab Skinny's attention. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Craig Brewer | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Terrence Howard, Anthony Anderson, Taryn Manning, Taraji P. Henson, Ludacris |
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|  | | I Am Cuba | | | | Plot Summary
Four vignettes in Batista's Cuba dramatize the need for revolution; long, mobile shots tell almost wordless stories. In Havana, Maria faces shame when a man who fancies her discovers how she earns her living. Pedro, an aging peasant, is summarily told that the land he farms has been sold to United Fruit. A university student faces down a crowd of swaggering U.S. sailors and then watches friends shot by police when they try to distribute a pro-Castro leaflet. The war arrives on the doorstep of peasants Mariano, Amelia, and their four children when Batista's forces bomb the hills. Mariano wants peace, so he seeks out the guerrillas to join the fight. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Mikhail Kalatozov | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | I Am Sam | | | | Plot Summary
Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song), and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a problem at school; she's intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away, and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it's really all you need.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Jessie Nelson | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Sean Penn , Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning , Dianne Wiest, Laura Dern |
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|  | | In The Bedroom | | | | Plot Summary
The Fowlers are a normal family in Maine. Matt (Tom Wilkinson) is the town doctor and loves to fish, his wife, Ruth (Sissy Spacek), is the school's choir leader, and their son, Frank (Nick Stahl), is home from his first year of college. Frank is in love with Natalie (Marisa Tomei), a young mother who isn't quite divorced yet from her ex-husband, Richard Strout (William Mapothor), whose family runs the local cannery. It's makes Richard's blood run cold to see his wife running around with another man. And soon, an unthinkable tragedy happens that will tear the Fowlers apart...
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Todd Field | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | In The Name Of The Father | | | | Plot Summary
A small time theif from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. Bullied by the British police, he and four of his friends are coerced into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father and other relatives in London are also implicated in the crime. He spends 14 years in prison with his father trying to prove his innocence with the help of a British attorney, Gareth Peirce. Based on a true story.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Jim Sheridan | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Inn Of The Sixth Happiness | | | | Plot Summary
All her life Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn the money to send herself to a poor, remote village. There she eventually lives a full and happy life: running the inn, acting as "foot inspector", advising the local Mandarin and even winning the heart of mixed race Captain Lin Nan. But Gladys discovers her real destiny when the country is invaded by Japan and the Chinese children need her to save their lives. Based on a true story. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Mark Robson | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Ingrid Bergman, Curt Jurgens, Robert Bonat |
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|  | | Innocence | | | | Plot outline
A look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Lucile Hadzihalilovic | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Insider | | | | Plot Summary
Based on a true story about a CBS 60 Minutes-episode in 1994 on malpractices in the tobacco industry, that was not aired because CBS parent company Westinghouse objected. Pacino plays the 60 Minutes reporter.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Michael Mann | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer , Diane Venora , Gina Gershon, Michael Gambon |
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|  | | Intimacy | | | | Plot Summary
Jay, a failed musician, walked out of his family and now earns a living as head bartender in a trendy London pub. Every Wednesday afternoon a woman comes to his house for graphic, almost wordless, sex. One day Jay follows her and finds out about the rest of her life (and that her name is Claire). This eventually disrupts their relationship.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Patrice Chéreau | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Irreversible | | | | Plot Summary
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex (Monica Bellucci) is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring two criminals to help them find the rapist so that they can exact revenge. A simultaneously beautiful and terrible examination of the destructive nature of cause and effect, and how time destroys everything. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Gaspar Noe | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Jarhead | | | | Plot Summary
Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows "Swoff" (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand against an enemy they can't see for a cause they don't fully fathom... Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford's scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff's friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Sam Mendes | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Jake Gyllenhaal, Scott MacDonald, Peter Sarsgaard, Jamie Foxx, Lucas Black |
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|  | | JuneBug | | | | A dealer in outsider art threatens the equilibrium of her middle-class in-laws in North Carolina. Madeline is a go-getting art gallery owner from Chicago, recently married to George, a near-perfect Southern beau. When Madeline needs to close a deal with a reclusive North Carolina artist, George introduces her to his family: prickly mother Peg, taciturn father Eugene, cranky brother Johnny, and Johnny's pregnant, childlike wife Ashley, who is awe-struck by her glamorous sister-in-law. Madeline's presence exposes the fragile family dynamics as hidden resentments and anxieties surface. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Phil Morrison | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Ben McKenzie, Amy Adams |
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|  | | Kids | | | | Plot Summary
Disturbing, dark, low-budget independent film about teen-agers growing up in poverty in New York City. The story focuses on Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick), a teen who has a goal to de-flower as many virgins as he can. When one of his old encounters discovers that she is H.I.V.-positive, after only one encounter with a guy, Telly remains undaunted.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Larry Clark | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Chloe Sevigny |
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|  | | Kidulthood | | | | Plot outline
A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Menhaj Huda | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Nicholas Hoult |
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|  | | Kinsey | | | | Plot Summary
Life story of Alfred Kinsey, a man driven to uncover the most private secrets of the nation, and a journey into the mystery of human behavior. In 1948 Kinsey irrevocably changed American culture and created a media sensation with his book "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male". Using the technique of his own famous sex interviews, story recounts the scientist's extraordinary journey from obscurity to global fame. Rebelling against the rigid piety of his home life, and drawn to the world of the senses, Kinsey becomes a Harvard-educated zoologist specializing in the study of gall wasps. After being hired to teach biology at Indiana University, Kinsey meets and marries a witty, freethinking female student, Clara McMillen. In the course of his teaching he discovers an astonishing dearth of scientific data on sexual behavior. When students seek him out for advice about sexual concerns and problems, he realizes that no one has done the clinical research that would yield reliable answers to their questions. Inspired to explore the emotionally charged subject of sex from a strictly scientific point of view, Kinsey recruits a team of researchers, including Clyde Martin, Wardell Pomeroy and Paul Gebhard. Over time they refine an interviewing technique, which helps people to break through shame, fear, and guilt and speak freely about their sexual histories. When Kinsey publishes his Male study in 1948, the press compares the impact to that of the atom bomb. But as the country enters the more paranoid Cold War era of the 1950s, Kinsey's follow-up study on women is seen as an attack on basic American values. The ensuing outrage and scorn causes Kinsey's benefactors to abandon him, just as his health begins to deteriorate. At the same time, the jealousies and acrimony caused by Kinsey's attempt to create a private sexual utopia threaten to tear apart the research team and expose them to unwelcome scrutiny. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Bill Condon | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Liam Neeson , Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Tim Curry, John Lithgow |
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|  | | Krays | | | | The life of a pair of twins (Ronald and Reginald Kray) who were born in London in 1934 and when they grew up became gangsters selling protection.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Peter Medak | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | La Nina Santa | | | | 16-year-old Amalia (Alche) looks to save the soul a middle-aged doctor (Belloso). |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Lucrecia Martel | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Lantana | | | | Plot Summary
The lives of several people are interwined in this darkly deceptive movie. This Australian drama starts out with the death of an unidentified woman. However, few answers were uncovered during the initial investigation by the police. As the movie progresses, the audience meets the rest of the cast whom all seems to be hiding something. In the end, they all come together for a finale that is reminded of "Magnolia" and "Short Cuts". |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Ray Lawrence | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Anthony Lapglia, Geoffrey Rush, Barbara Hershey |
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|  | | Last Days | | | | Plot Summary
Introspective artist Blake is buckling under the weight of fame, professional obligations and a mounting feeling of isolation. Dwarfed by towering trees, Blake slowly makes his way through dense woods. He scrambles down an embankment to a fresh spring and undresses for a short swim. The next morning he returns to his house, an elegant, if neglected, stone mansion. Many people are looking for Blake--his friends, his managers and record label, even a private detective--but he does not want to be found. In the haze of his final hours, Blake will spend most his time by himself. He avoids the people who are living in his house, who approach him only when they want something, be it money or help with a song. He hides from one concerned friend and turns away another. He visits politely with a stranger from the Yellow Pages sales department, and he ducks into an underground rock club. He wanders through the woods and he plays a new song, one last rock and roll blowout. Finally, alone in the greenhouse, Blake will look and listen--and seek release. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Gus Van Sant | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Michael Pitt, Asia Argento |
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|  | | Last Exit To Brooklyn | | | | Taken from Hubert Selby, Jr.'s controversial novel. A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Uli Edel | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Jennifer Jason Leigh , Sam Rockwell |
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|  | | Last Mitterrand | | | | A young journalist (Lespert) helps the French President compile his memoirs. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Robert Guédiguian | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Michel Bouquet, Jalil Lespert |
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|  | | Last Orders | | | | Plot Summary
Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final request, 'Last Orders', that his ashes be scattered in the sea at Margate. The movie follows his mates, Ray, Lenny and Vic and his foster son Vince as they journey to the sea with the ashes. Along the way, the threads of their lives, their loves and their disappointments are woven together in their memories of Jack and his wife Amy |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Fred Schepisi | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Ray Winstone , Kelly Reilly |
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|  | | Last Temptation of Christ | | | | Plot Summary
The carpenter Jesus of Nazareth, tormented by the temptations of demons, the guilt of making crosses for the Romans, pity for men and the world, and the constant call of God, sets out to find what God wills for him. But as his mission nears fulfillment, he must face the greatest temptation: the normal life of a good man. Based, not on the Gospels, but on Nikos Kazantzakis' novel of the same name. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Martin Scorcese | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Laurel Canyon | | | | Plot Summary
Newly graduated psychiatrist Sam and his fiancee Alex move to Los Angeles for Sam's residency, into Sam's mother's house in upscale Laurel Canyon. Only problem is, Sam's mother is still there, supposedly finishing up a record that she's producing for the band of her new boy toy, Ian. She seems more interested in smoking pot and drinking than actually working, though. Alex doesn't mind, but Sam is quite upset. Alex starts off focused on her work (finishing a dissertation on genomics), but is soon distracted by the rock-'n-roll lifestyle going on around her. Meanwhile, Sam is equally distracted by beautiful Israeli intern Sara. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Lisa Cholodenko | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Frances McDormand, Christian Bale , Kate Beckinsale, Natascha McElhone |
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|  | | Layer Cake | | | | Plot Summary
Based upon JJ Connelly's London crime novel, "LAYER CAKE" is about a successful cocaine dealer (DANIEL CRAIG) who has earned a respected place among England's Mafia elite and plans an early retirement from the business. However, big boss Jimmy Price hands down a tough assignment: find Charlotte Ryder, the missing rich princess daughter of Jimmy's old pal Edward, a powerful construction business player and gossip papers socialite. Complicating matters are two million pounds' worth of Grade A ecstasy, a brutal neo-Nazi sect and a whole series of double crossings. The title "LAYER CAKE" refers to the layers or levels the dealer has to go through as he painstakingly plots his own escape. What is revealed is a modern underworld where the rules have changed. There are no 'codes', or 'families' and respect lasts as long as a line. Not knowing who he can trust, he has to use all his 'savvy', 'telling' and skills which make him one of the best, to escape his own. The ultimate last job, a love interest called Tammy and an international drugs ring, threaten to draw him back into the 'cake mix'. But, time is running out and the penalty will endure a lifetime..
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Matthew Vaughn | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Life & Death Of Peter Sellers | | | | Plot Summary
Based on the biography of the same name. The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is the story of the comic actor, who would later immortalize bumbling Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther series. From his beginnings in show business as a variety performer to his ultimate success as a movie star, Peter Sellers was a man of many faces. But it was also that moniker that caught up with his personal life, when Sellers was a man without an identity and only a library of oddball characters to make up for his personality. Focusing on his rising success and his family life, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is the story of a man whose personal life clashed with stardom, while he was an individual completely immersed in the characters he portrayed. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Stephen Hopkins | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Geoffrey Rush, Charlize Theron, Emily Watson , John Lithgow, Stanley Tucci, Stephen Fry |
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|  | | Live Flesh | | | | Plot Summary
Pizza delivery man Victor is having an argument with Elena, whom he met a few days ago, but she was high then and doesn't want to hear about him. Reacting to the noise, two cops, young David and older Sancho, arrive at the scene, the gun accidentally goes off.. Four years later David is a wheelchair basketball star, he's married to Elena, Victor is released out of prison and their destinies begin to cross again.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Pedro Almodovar | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem |
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|  | | Long Run | | | | Plot Summary
The Comrades Marathon is a 90-k race in South Africa. An aging running coach, Barry, wants to field a winner; he's working with four men from a factory, but when he's fired to make way for a smooth, corporate type, he's at loose ends. Then he sees Christine, a Namibian immigrant who runs to forget her troubles. He offers to coach her and soon she's living at his house, following his diet and training regimen. But his single-mindedness gets to her: she wants a job and a place of her own. Plus, the man who replaced Barry likes her and wants her away from Barry. Can runner and coach (woman and man, African and European) sort out their complex relationship before the race? |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Jean Stewart | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Lords Of Dogtown | | | | Plot Summary
A fictionalized take on the group of brilliant young skateboarders raised in the mean streets of Dogtown in Santa Monica, California. The Z-Boys, as they come to be known, perfect their craft in the empty swimming pools of unsuspecting suburban homeowners, pioneering a thrilling new sport and eventually moving into legend.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Catherine Hardwicke | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Emile Hirsch, John Robinson, Rebecca De Mornay , Elden Henson, Nikki Reed , Heath Ledger |
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|  | | Machinist | | | | THE MACHINIST is the story of TREVOR REZNIK, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ability to sleep. This is no ordinary insomnia... |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Brad Anderson | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael Ironside |
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|  | | Magnolia | | | | Plot Summary
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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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Paul Thomas Anderson | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Tom Cruise , Julianne Moore , William H. Macy, Philip Seymour Hoffman |
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|  | | Majestic | | | | Plot Summary
Peter Appleton is an ambitious young screenwriter working for HHS Studios during Hollywood's Golden Age, 1951 in particular. "Ashes to Ashes" is about to be released, and he's dating the attractive movie star, Sandra Sinclair. Just when everything seems to be going his way, it is discovered he (unwittingly) attended a Communist meeting during college when pulled there by his girlfriend at the time, and thus heavy suspicion settles over him and he'll have to stand before Congress. Afraid of what might happen if they don't, HHS cancels Appleton's contract and aborts the release date of the film. Appleton promptly begins to wallow in self-pity and spends nearly an entire night at a bar, then drives intoxicated through the streets of the California course until plummeting into a stormy river and getting knocked unconscious. Washing up on the beaches of a small town called Lawson. Although the people there are pleasant and likeable, the town is depressed and lifeless due to having lost 62 of it's sons in World War II. One of them, Luke Trimble, was missing in action; and miraculously, Peter bears a striking resemblence to the black and white photos, close enough to fool even Luke's father, Harry. However, thanks to the blow to the head and the alcohol, Peter has suffered amnesia and decides he must be who they think he is. Besides, it's not a bad life: Luke's beautiful lover, lawyer Adele Stanton, is all over him, the town has suddenly come back to life with excitement, and he and his "father" rebuild a movie palace Harry used to run, the Majestic. Unfortunately, Peter's memory returns in time for G-men to track him down. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Frank Darabont | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Jim Carrey, Bob Balaban |
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|  | | Malice@Doll | | | | Prostitute robot dolls roam empty streets, in their daily search for clients. But those whom they were built to service have ceased to exist: humanity has wiped iteslf out. In a world of action without purpose, cleaners, guards and whores all respond to their programmed tasks until they in turn become defunct.... |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Keitarou Motonaga | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Manchurian Candidate | | | | Plot Summary
When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened -- or didn't happen -- in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Jonathan Demme | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Denzel Washington |
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|  | | Manderlay | | | | Plot outline
A story of slavery, set in the 1930s American South. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Lars von Trier | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Bryce Dallas Howard, Willem Dafoe, Danny Glover, Chloë Sevigny, Lauren Bacall |
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|  | | Me And You And Everyone We Know | | | | Plot Summary
'Me and You and Everyone We Know' is a poetic and penetrating observation of how people struggle to connect with one another in an isolating and contemporary world. Christine Jesperson is a lonely artist and "Eldercab" driver who uses her fantastical artistic visions to draw her aspirations and objects of desire closer to her. Richard Swersey (John Hawkes), a newly single shoe salesman and father of two boys, is prepared for amazing things to happen. But when he meets the captivating Christine, he panics. Life is not so oblique for Richard's seven-year-old Robby, who is having a risqué Internet romance with a stranger, and his fourteen-year-old brother Peter who becomes the guinea pig for neighborhood girls -- practicing for their future of romance and marriage. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Miranda July | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Mean Machine | | | | Plot Summary
Disgraced ex-England captain (Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan) is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. Whilst in jail, he doesn't recieve any favours because of his celebrity status in the outside world. He is out numbered and many prisoners constantly barrage him with insults for letting down his country in a crucial World Cup game. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners. These prisoners have the chance to put one over the evil guards. The prisoners are lead by Danny and the whole of the prison, guards aside, are behind them. Game on......
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Barry Skolnick | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Vinnie Jones, David Kelly, Jason Statham |
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|  | | Memoirs Of A Geisha | | | | Plot Summary
In 1929 an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo from a fishing village is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. Her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy of Hatsumomo, until she is rescued by and taken under the wing of Hatsumomo's bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha's mentorship, Chiyo becomes the geisha named Sayuri, trained in all the artistic and social skills a geisha must master in order to survive in her society. As a renowned geisha she enters a society of wealth, privilege, and political intrigue. As World War II looms Japan and the geisha's world are forever changed by the onslaught of history. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Rob Marshall | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe, Li Gong, Ted Levine |
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|  | | Mighty Celt | | | | Plot Summary
Donal (McKenna) is a 14-year old who develops a passion for greyhound racing. He works in a kennel, which is owned by Good Joe (Stott). Good Joe promises Donal ownership of Donal's favourite greyhound, The Mighty Celt, if the animal wins three races in a row. Meanwhile, Donal's mother, Kate (Anderson), must adjust her life when O (Carlyle), a man from her past, returns. The political climate of Ireland serves as the backdrop of this story |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Pearse Elliott | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Gillian Anderson, Robert Carlyle |
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|  | | Million Dollar Baby | | | | Plot Summary
In the wake of a painful estrangement from his daughter, boxing trainer Frankie Dunn has been unwilling to let himself get close to anyone for a very long time--then Maggie Fitzgerald walks into his gym. In a life of constant struggle, Maggie's gotten herself this far on raw talent, unshakable focus and a tremendous force of will. But more than anything, she wants someone to believe in her. The last thing Frankie needs is that kind of responsibility-- let alone that kind of risk--but won over by Maggie's sheer determination, he begrudgingly agrees to take her on. In turns exasperating and inspiring each other, the two come to discover that they share a common spirit that transcends the pain and loss of their pasts, and they find in each other a sense of family they lost long ago. Yet, they both face a battle that will demand more heart and courage than any they've ever known. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Clint Eastwood | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Clint Eastwood , Hilary Swank , Morgan Freeman |
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|  | | Motorcycle Diaries | | | | Plot Summary
"The Motorcycle Diaries" is based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he, and best friend Alberto Granado, had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Walter Salles | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Moulin Rouge | | | | Plot Summary
Christian, a young wannabe Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastical underworld of Paris' now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered electricity, the poet-innocent finds himself plunged into a passionate but ultimately tragic love affair with Satine, the club's highest paid star and the city's most famous courtesan. Their romance is played out against the infamous club - a meeting place of high life and low, where slumming aristocrats and the fashionably rich mingled with workers, artists, Bohemians, actresses and courtesans. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Baz Luhrmann | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Ewan McGregor , Nicole Kidman |
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|  | | Mr. Holland's Opus | | | | Plot Summary
Glenn Holland (Dreyfuss) is a musician and composer who takes a teaching job to pay the rent while, in his 'spare time', he can strive to achieve his true goal - compose one memorable piece of music to leave his mark on the world. As Holland discovers 'Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans' and as the years unfold the joy of sharing his contagious passion for music with his students becomes his new definition of success.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Stephen Herek | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Richard Dreyfuss, W.H. Macy, Alicia Witt , Terrence Howard |
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|  | | Mulholland Drive | | | | Plot Summary
A bright-eyed young actress travels to Hollywood, only to be ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving a woman who was nearly murdered, and now has amnesia because of a car crash. Eventually, both women are pulled into a psychotic illusion involving a dangerous blue box, a director named Adam Kesher, and the mysterious night club Silencio. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | David Lynch | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | My Left Foot | | | | Plot Summary
Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large, poor Irish family. His mother, Mrs Brown, recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. Eventually, Christy matures into a cantankerous writer who uses his only functional limb, his left foot, to write with.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Jim Sheridan | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker |
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|  | | Mysterious Skin | | | | Plot Summary
"The summer I was eight years old, five hours disappeared from my life. Five hours, lost, gone without a trace..." These are the words of Brian Lackey (Brady Corbet), a troubled 18 year-old, growing up in the stiflingly small town of Hutchinson, Kansas. Plagued by nightmares, Brian believes that he may have been the victim of an alien abduction. Local Neil McCormick (Joseph Gordon Levitt) however, is the ultimate beautiful outsider. With a loving but promiscuous mother (Elisabeth Shue), Neil is wise beyond his years and curious about his developing sexuality, having found what he perceived to be love from his Little League baseball coach (played by Hal Hartley veteran Bill Sage) at a very early age. Now, ten years later, Neil is a teenage hustler, nonchalant about the dangerous path his life is taking. Neil's pursuit of love leads him to New York City, while Brian's voyage of self discovery leads him to Neil - who helps him to unlock the dark secrets of their past. Based on the acclaimed novel by Scott Heim, "Mysterious Skin" explores the hearts and minds of two very different boys who come to find the key to their future happiness lies in the exorcism of their collective demons. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Gregg Araki | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brady Corbet, Elisabeth Shue, Michelle Trachtenberg |
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|  | | Nell | | | | Plot Summary
Nell is raised in the remote backwoods of North Carolina, never having met anyone except her mother. When her mother finally dies, Nell must confront the outside world. Since her mother's speech was distorted by a stroke, Nell has never heard real English spoken and has developed her own unintelligible language. Nice country doctor Jerome Lovell wants to help Nell adjust in her own protected surroundings, while psychology student Paula Olsen and her heartless boss Alexander Paley want to study this rare 'wild child' in their laboratory. But how long can Nell's world remain isolated? |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Michael Apted | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Jodie Foster , Liam Neeson , Natasha Richardson , Jeremy Davies |
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|  | | Nil By Mouth | | | | Plot Summary
The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Gary Oldman | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Ray Winstone , Kathy Burke |
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|  | | Nine Queens | | | | Plot Summary
Early one morning, Marcos observes Juan successfully pulling off a bill-changing scam on a cashier, and then getting caught as he attempts to pull the same trick on the next shift. Marcos steps in, claiming to be a policeman, and drags Juan out of the store. Once they are back on the street, Marcos reveals himself to be a fellow swindler with a game of much higher stakes in mind, and he invites Juan to be his partner in crime. A once-in-a-lifetime scheme seemingly falls into their laps - an old-time con man enlists them to sell a forged set of extremely valuable rare stamps, The Nine Queens. The tricky negotiations that ensue bring into the picture a cast of suspicious characters, including Marcos' sister Valeria, their younger brother Federico and a slew of thieves, conmen and pickpockets. As the deceptions mount, it becomes more and more difficult to figure out who is conning whom. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Fabián Bielinsky | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Nora | | | | Plot Summary
In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste, where he has a job with Berlitz. Over time, Nora pulls him through phobias, tolerates his drinking, takes in his brother Stan, and bests Joyce at 'the writin' game' to bring him back to Italy from Dublin where he's gone to open a cinema. But his sexual jealousy threatens the relationship and sends her back to Galway with the children. Is there any way to tame Jim's green-eyed monster? And, will the lad ever get his stories published? |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Pat Murphy | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Ewan McGregor |
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|  | | North County | | | | Plot Summary
A semi-fictionalized account of a long legal battle of group of women miners who endured a hostile work environment and numerous and continuous insults and unwanted touching when they became the first women to go underground at Eveleth Mines in Minnesota.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Niki Caro | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Charlize Theron , Sean Bean, Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Monaghan, Sissy Spacek |
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Andrei Konchalovsky | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Isabella Rossellini, Christopher Lee, Bernadette Peters, Eric Roberts , Vanessa Williams, Greta Scacchi |
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|  | | Once Were Warriors | | | | Plot Summary
Set in urban Auckland (New Zealand) this movie tells the story of the Heke family. Jake Heke is a violent man who beats his wife frequently when drunk, and yet obviously loves both her and his family. The movie follows a period of several weeks in the family's life showing Jake's frequent outburst of violence and the effect that this has on his family. The youngest son is in trouble with the police and may be put into a foster home while the elder son is about to join a street gang. Jake's daughter has her own serious problems which are a key element in the plot.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Lee tamahori | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | One True Thing | | | | Plot Summary
When a tough New Yorker's (Renee Zellweger) mother (Meryl Streep) is stricken with a serious illness, she is forced to quit her job and her relationship with her boyfriend to take care of her, finding out a lot of things she didn't know about her mother and father (William Hurt) and her life along the way. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Carl Franklin | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Meryl Streep , Renée Zellweger , William Hurt |
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|  | | Open Your Eyes (Abre Los Ojos) | | | | Plot Summary
An imprisoned man hides his face behind a mask is telling his story, as a flashback, to a psychiatrist: his name is César, he is an orphan but he had inherited a fortune from his parents, and he used to live in a luxurious house of his his own. He was also very handsome and a renowned womanizer. His best friend, Pelayo, was jealous of César because he was not very successful with women. But one night, Pelayo showed up in one of César's parties with a beautiful woman named Sofía. When César met her and talked to her for a while, he began to feel something he had never felt before: love. And, although she was supposed to be Pelayo's girlfriend, he tried to woo her, spending that night at her home. But Nuria, with whom César had his last affair, was very jealous; she went to pick him up in her car the next morning, and committed suicide by ramming it into a tree. César survived the crash, but his face was hideously disfigured, his handsome looks gone. Doctors said they couldn't help him. He was very depressed and still in love with Sofía. One night he went out with her and Pelayo, and he felt that they were very uncomfortable with his presence. But the morning after, his luck seemed to change completely: Sofía came to him, saying that it was he whom she really loved, and the doctors called him and told him that, with a revolutionary new technique, they could rebuild his face, which they did. César was happier than ever, but that's when the really strange and scary things started to happen...and César found out that the real nightmare had only just began for him.... |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Alejandro Amenábar | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Penélope Cruz |
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|  | | Others | | | | Plot Summary
A woman named Grace retires with her two children to a mansion on Jersey, towards the end of the Second World War, where she's waiting for her husband to come back from battle. The children have a disease which means they cannot be touched by direct sunlight without being hurt in some way. They will live alone there with oppressive, strange and almost religious rules, until she needs to hire a group of servants for them. Their arrival will accidentally begin to break the rules with unexpected consequences.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Alejandro Amenábar | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Pacte du Silence | | | | Plot Summary
Sister Sarah is living in Brazil, 25 years old, a Carmelite, and just about to move back to France. Her twin sister Gaelle has just been released from prison in Paris after serving ten years for killing a child her mother murdered while babysitting. Sarah begins experiencing severe abdominal pain, spawning the curiosity of Joachim a priest and doctor of medicine. Joachim, investigating the illness, discovers, Gaelle is the twin with the physical illness which is being transferred onto Sarah. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Graham Guit | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Gerard Depardieu, Elodie Bouchez |
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|  | | Palindromes | | | | Plot Summary
A fable of innocence: thirteen-year-old Aviva Victor wants to be a 'mom'. She does all she can to make this happen, and comes very close to succeeding, but in the end her plan is thwarted by her sensible parents. So she runs away, still determined to get pregnant one way or another, but instead finds herself lost in another world, a less sensible one, perhaps, but one pregnant itself with all sorts of strange possibility. She takes a road trip from the suburbs of New Jersey, through Ohio to the plains of Kansas and back. Like so many trips, this one is round-trip, and it's hard to say in the end if she can ever be quite the same again, or if she can ever be anything but the same again. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Todd Solondz | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Ellen Barkin |
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|  | | Panic Room | | | | Plot Summary
This story centers around a divorced woman in her 30's and her daughter, who are caught up in a cat-and-mouse game inside their new New York brownstone when three burglars come looking for a hidden cache of cash. Mother and daughter hide in the "panic room," a secret room designed for just such a purpose, but still end up fighting for their lives...
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | David Fincher | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Paradise Now | | | | Plot Summary
The story places two close friends, Palestinians Said and Khaled, recruited by an extremist group to perpetrate a terrorist attack in Tel-Aviv, blowing up themselves. However, things go wrong and both friends must separate in the border. One of them, maintaining in his purpose of carry the attack to the end, and the other will have his doubts about it. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Hany Abu-Assad | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Pavee Lackeen The Traveller Girl | | | | Plot outline
An intimate portrait of a resilient and spirited young girl and her proud and dignified family, who are part of Ireland's "traveller" community. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Perry Ogden | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Winnie Maughan, Rose Maughan, Rosie Maughan, Paddy Maughan, Michael Collins, Helen Joyce |
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|  | | Persona | | | | Plot Summary
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually confesses her secrets to a seemingly sympathetic Elisabeth and finds that her own personality is being submerged into Elisabeth's persona. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Ingmar Bergman | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Phantom Of The Opera | | | | Plot Summary
"The Phantom of the Opera" is a magnificent tale that begins when an opera ghost terrorizes the cast and crew of the French Opera House while tutoring a chorus girl. He finally drives the lead soprano crazy so she and her friend leave. The girl is able to sing lead one night but the soprano doesn't want her show stolen so she comes back. The ghost demands they keep giving his protoge lead roles. Meanwhile, His pupil falls in love with the Vicomte de Chagny, but the Phantom is in love with Christine, his student. The Phantom is outraged by their love and kidnaps Christine to be his eternal bride. Will Raoul, the Vicomte, be able to stop this dastardly plan? Watch and find out |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Joel Schumacher | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Phenomenon | | | | Plot Summary
The main character (John Travolta) observes a strange light on his birthday at a bar. The following days he becomes very intell-i-gent and puts the intell-i-gence to good use in his community. When word gets around he becomes known as a freak and everyone wants to figure out why this happened to a car mechanic. The government also wants to get their hands on it to put it to other uses.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Jon Turteltaub | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | John Travolta |
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|  | | Pi | | | | Max is a genius mathematician who's built a supercomputer at home that provides something that can be understood as a key for understanding all existence. Representatives both from a Hasidic cabalistic sect and high-powered Wall Street firm hear of that secret and attempt to seduce him.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Darren Aronofsky | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Piano Teacher | | | | Plot Summary
How far is a man willing to go to be with the woman he wants? Erika is a veteran piano instructor at a famous music conservatory in Vienna. Erika is highly respected for her remarkable talent and strong discipline, but she's also known to be a harsh taskmistress and does not suffer fools gladly; among her students, Erika's class is considered a highly rewarding challenge, but difficult to weather. Erika seems to get her stern and unforgiving nature from her mother, with whom she still lives, and without a husband or a lover, Erika satisfies her strong but frequently perverse sexual appetites through extreme porn videos, voyeurism, and masturbatory practices that sometimes involve pain and self-mutilation. Erika discovers she has attracted the attentions of one of her students, Walter, a gifted and good-looking young man who does not seem at all put off by her icy personality. She refuses to acknowledge Walter's romantic overtures, but when he rises to the defense of a fellow student after a recital, Erika is enraged, and Walter pursues her, finally following her as she storms off to the women's room. Erika abruptly approaches Walter in a rough sexual fashion, but refuses to fully satisfy him until he is willing to allow her to control the relationship. When Walter becomes aware of just how much pain and humiliation is involved in Erika's erotic bill of fare, he refuses to participate, but in time his attraction to her causes him to weaken, and he begins to accede to her sexual demands.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Michael Haneke | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Isabelle Huppert, Benoit Magimel, Annie Girardot |
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|  | | Pillow Book | | | | As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on bodies, and her sexual odyssey (and the creation of her own Pillow Book) is a "parfait mélange" of classical Japanese, modern Chinese, and Western film images.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Peter Greenaway | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Ewan McGregor |
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|  | | Pinero | | | | Plot Summary
"Piñero" tells the story of the explosive life of a Latino icon, the poet-playwright-actor Miguel Piñero, whose urban poetry is recognized as a pre-cursor to rap and hip-hop. After doing time in hard-core Sing-Sing for petty thefts and drug dealing, Piñero's prison experiences developed into the 1974 Tony-nominated play Short Eyes. The resulting notoriety and fame was too much for the Latino bad-boy genius who retreated to the darker corners of New York City.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Leon Ichaso | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Pollock | | | | Plot Summary
At the end of the 1940's, abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) is featured in Life magazine. Flashback to 1941, he's living with his brother in a tiny apartment in New York City, drinking too much, and exhibiting an occasional painting in group shows. That's when he meets artist Lee Krasner, who puts her career on hold to be his companion, lover, champion, wife, and, in essence, caretaker. To get him away from booze, insecurity, and the stress of city life, they move to the Hamptons where nature and sobriety help Pollock achieve a breakthrough in style: a critic praises, then Life magazine calls. But so do old demons: the end is nasty, brutish, and short.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Ed Harris | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Jennifer Connelly, Jeffrey Tambor |
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|  | | Pornographer | | | | Plot Summary
Jacques Laurent made pornographic films in the 1970's and '80's, but had put that aside for 20 years. His artistic ideas, born of the '60's counter-culture, had elevated the entire genre. Older and paunchier, he is now directing a porno again. Jacques's artistry clashes with his financially-troubled producer's ideas about shooting hard-core sex. Jacques has been estranged from his son Joseph for years, since the son first learned the nature of the family business. They are now speaking again. Joseph and his friends want to recapture the idealism of 1968 with a protest. Separated from his wife, Jacques strives for personal renewal with plans to build a new house by himself... |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Bertrand Bonello | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Portrait of Hell | | | | 19 years after Kurosawa's "Rashomon" a very different director took another story by the inimitable writer Ryunosuke Akutagawa and adopted it for a movie. "Jigokuhen" is a more complicated tale than even "Rashomon" and consequently must have been more difficult to film. @
Be warned that I am giving away the story.@
This is a story of a medieval painter (Nakadai) commissioned to paint the portrait of paradise on the wall of a palace of Lord Hosokawa (Yorozuya) the most powerful aristocrat of the time. (He is powerful enough to name the next emperor.) The nobleman wants the mural to demonstrate the glory of his power. The artist, who unlike the aristocrat sees the squalor of the world just outside of the palace, refuses. He would rather paint a portrait of hell. Confronted by the only man who would dare contradict him, the arrogant nobleman challenges the artist to paint a portrait of hell, on the strength of which he will decide whether paradise or inferno will be painted on his palace walls. The painter is the sort of genius-madman who would cut off his ears to paint a better self-portrait. Obsessed with his art, he goes to great extremes, such as actually torturing his apprentices to capture the expression of agony. In the end, even that is not enough. He wants the nobleman's gold-plated carriage set on fire so he can see what the fate of vanity in hell really looks like. The carriage is a symbol of the nobleman's power and position, but he cannot refuse because he is too proud to backtrack on his promise to provide anything the painter needed. The aristocrat instead puts the painter's daughter (whom he has taken under some pretence as his sex slave) bound in chains inside the vehicle and proceeds to have the carriage dowsed in oil. Then he hands a torch to painter and dares him to set the carriage on fire. The aristocrat is triumphant for only a few seconds. As she burns to her death, the daughter screams "I knew it would end this way!" Some time later, a finished portrait of hell is delivered to the palace. The painter commits suicide the same day and the nobleman, haunted by the ghost of the painter, is driven to madness. Only the brilliant artwork, a picture of hell, remains.
This is a treatise on the nature of art and the conflict between the artist and the patron. It is also a story about the pride of an obsessed artist and the hubris of the man who thinks he owns him. A very complicated tale.
The movie gets sidetracked by an unnecessary sub-plot involving rebels. Also the prolonged wandering of the painter through famine-ravaged Kyoto could be rather dull if you did not understand that much of the pantomime represent other stories by Akutagawa set in the same period (including Rashomon).Otherwise, this is a great movie and a rich experience to watch.
One pet theory of mine is that the garish colors of the films of the 50's and 60's actually helped Japanese cinema. The Caucasian woman is the most beautiful kind of human in a black-and-white movie, which probably helped consolidate their position as the epitome of human beauty. The Japanese, strangely, look very good in the hues of early Technicolor. It may have contributed to the popularity of Japanese films of the era. You will see what I mean when you see this exceptionally beautiful movie. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Shirô Toyoda | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Posession | | | | Plot Summary
Roland Michell is an Americian trying to make it in the difficult world of British Academics. He has yet to break out from under his mentor's shadow until he finds a pair of love letters in the textbook that once belonged to one of his idols, a famous long dead Victorian poet. Michell, after some sleuthing around, narrows down the suspects to a woman not his wife, another well known Victorian poet. Roland enlists the aid of a Dr. Maud Bailey, an expert on the life of the woman in question. Together they piece together the story of a forbidden love affair, and discover one of their own. The they also find themselves in a battle to hold on to their discovery before it falls into the hands of their rival, Fergus Wolfe.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Neil LaBute | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Gwyneth Paltrow , Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Ehle, Lena Headey |
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|  | | Price Of Glory | | | | Plot Summary
An ex-boxer, living with the knowledge that his fight career was cut short by a crooked manager, channels his bitter disappointment in a single-minded quest for boxing championships for his three sons. We see them in pee-wee Silver Glove matches with dad constantly pushing them. Ten years later, they're young men, with dad as both father and manager. A professional promoter, Nick Everson, wants to sign the boys, but dad rejects those offers. Then, in expressions of their varied relationships with their father, each son makes his own decisions. Can dad ever step aside, and can the family hold together? |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Carlos Ávila | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Ron Perlman, Jimmy Smits |
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|  | | Priscilla Queen Of The Desert | | | | Plot Summary
Two drag-queens (Anthony/Mitzi and Adam/Felicia) and a transexual (Bernadette) contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a resort town in the remote Australian desert. They head west from Sydney aboard their lavender bus, Priscilla. En route, it is discovered that the woman they've contracted with is Anthony's wife. Their bus breaks down, and is repaired by Bob, who travels on with them. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Stephan Elliott | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Pulp Fiction | | | | Plot Summary
The film initiates with two small-time thieves, Honey Bunny and Pumpkin, who spontaneously decide to hold up a restaurant. The film then shifts to the story of Jules and Vincent, who hit men for the well known and feared Marsellus Wallace, who is caught up in a deal gone wrong with struggling boxer Butch Coolidge. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Quentin Tarantino | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis , Uma Thurman |
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|  | | Pure | | | | Plot Summary
Following the death of her husband, 10-year-old Paul's mother Mel comes to rely on an old friend, Lenny, who is also a pimp and dealer. Soon Paul must take care of both his mother and his younger brother. When Mel's friend and fellow user dies, Paul must confront the fear that has been gathering in the pit of his stomach: having lost his father, his mother too may abandon him. Even with his limitations as a child, he takes action to stop this from happening. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Gillies MacKinnon | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Molly Parker , David Wenham, Keira Knightley |
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|  | | Quiet American | | | | Plot Summary
Saigon, 1952, a beautiful, exotic, and mysterious city caught in the grips of the Vietnamese war of liberation from the French colonial powers. New arrival Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser), an idealistic American aid worker, befriends London Times correspondent Thomas Fowler (Michael Caine). When Fowler introduces Pyle to his beautiful young Vietnamese mistress Phuong (Hai Yen) the three become swept up in a tempestuous love triangle that leads to a series of startling revelations and finally - murder. Nothing, and no one, is as it seems, in this adaptation of Graham Greene's classic and prophetic story of love, betrayal, murder and the origin of the American war in Southeast Asia.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Phillip Noyce | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Raging Bull | | | | Plot Summary
Based on the life and career of boxer Jake LaMotta, Raging Bull focuses on Jake's rage and violence that makes him virtually unstoppable in the ring. The same anger also drives Jake to beat his wife and his brother Joey, and sends Jake down a self-destructive spiral of paranoia and rage. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Martin Scorsese | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Robert De Niro , Joe Pesci |
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|  | | Ray | | | | Plot Summary
Ray Charles has the distinction of being both a national treasure and an international phenomenon. By the early 1960's Ray Charles had accomplished his dream. He'd come of age musically. He'd made it to Carnegie Hall. The hit records "Georgia," "Born to Lose" successively kept climbing to the top of the charts. He'd made his first triumphant European concert tour in 1960 (a feat which, except for 1965, he's repeated at least once a year ever since). He had taken virtually every form of popular music and broken through its boundaries with such awe inspiring achievements as the LP's "Genius Plus Soul Equals Jazz" and "Modern Sounds in Country & Western." Rhythm & blues (or "race music" as it had been called) became universally respectable through his efforts. Jazz found a mainstream audience it had never previously enjoyed. And country & western music began to chart an unexpected course to general acceptance, then worldwide popularity. And along the way Ray Charles was instrumental in the invention of rock & roll. Jamie Foxx (Any Given Sunday, Ali) is Ray Charles in this high-energy portrait of an exceptional man who has become an American icon. Born in a poor African American town in central Florida, Ray Charles went blind at the age of 7. With the staunch support of his determined single mother, he developed the fierce resolve, wit and incredible talent that would eventually enable him to overcome not only Jim Crow Racism and the cruel prejudices against the blind, but also discover his own sound which revolutionized American popular music. Nonetheless, as Ray's unprecedented fame grew, so did his weakness for drugs and women, until they threatened to strip away the very things he held most dear. This little known story of Ray Charles' meteoric rise from humble beginnings, his successful struggle to excel in a sighted world and his eventual defeat of his own personal demons make for an inspiring and unforgettable true story of human triumph. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Taylor Hackford | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Jamie Foxx |
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|  | | Read My Lips | | | | Plot Summary
Young secretary Carla is a long-time employee of a property development company. Loyal and hardworking, first to arrive and last to leave, Carla is beginning to chafe at the limitations of her career and is looking to move up. But as a 35-five-year-old woman with a hearing deficiency, she is not sure how to climb out of her humdrum life, though she is confident in her own abilities. Into her life comes Paul Angeli, a new trainee she decides to hire. Paul is 25 years old and completely unskilled, but Carla covers for him when the need arises because of his other qualities - he's a thief, fresh out of jail and very good-looking. It's a case of good meeting bad. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Jacques Audiard | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Red Squirrel | | | | Plot Summary
Jota is about to commit suicide. As he fighting against himself, trying to jump off a bridge, a girl riding a motorcycle falls off the bridge. He runs to help her, and goes with her to the hospital. She has forgotten even what her name is, and he invents her life. He makes up a name for her and tells her and the doctors that they live together as a couple for four years. The lie goes on for a while...
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Julio Medem | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Regeneration | | | | Plot Summary
Based on Pat Barker's novel of the same name, 'Regeneration' tells the story of soldiers of World War One sent to an asylum for emotional troubles. Two of the soldiers meeting there are Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important WW1 poets.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Gillies MacKinnon | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Reservoir Dogs | | | | Plot Summary
A gang of thieves carry out an armed robbery on a Diamond warehouse. The police are after them so quickly that they suspect they have a rat in their company. This film starts right after the robbery, with flashbacks to before the robbery, and to the planning of the crime. We are also introduced to the main characters in flashback mode. Plenty of fast action, and plenty of blood and gore.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Quentin Tarantino | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, Chris Penn, Quentin Tarantino |
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|  | | Riding Giants | | | | Plot Summary
A semiserious, often rollicking, multigenerational insider's look at the origins of surfing, the colorful and subversive birth of surf culture, and the mythology and lure of the big wave. This passionate and fluid film is without question the first authentic history of surfing from its humble Hawaiian beginnings to the big business it became to the still-rebellious universe it inhabits today. Riding Giants is a study in individuality and freedom, the pursuit and techniques of pure kinetic pleasure, and the risk taking and attitudes that characterize its leading figures. For some viewers, this is perhaps more than they ever wanted to know. But Peralta's detailed knowledge of the surfing lifestyle, its icons and locations, its boom and exploitation by the media, and the fascination it has held for young men for more than five decades is unparalleled and fuels this expedition for the expert and initiate alike. Closely chronicling the sometimes-life-and-death drama that big-wave riding entails, Riding Giants is an often-mesmerizing visual thrill ride. But the most appealing aspect of this often revelatory documentary is the realization that the man versus nature dialectic never ends; the search for the ultimate wave and the spiritual pinnacle can only be pursued but never reached. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Stacy Peralta | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Kelly Slater |
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|  | | Riding In Cars With Boys | | | | Plot Summary
Seriocomic story based on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio, the movie follows a young woman who finds her life radically altered by an event from her teen years. Born in 1950, Beverly grew up bright and ambitious in a working-class neighborhood in Connecticut; her father was a tough but good-hearted cop who listened to his daughter's problems, and her mother was a nervous woman eager to imagine the worst. From an early age, Beverly displays a keen intelligence and an interest in literature, and dreams of going to college in New York and becoming a writer. However, she also develops an early interest in boys, and at 15 finds herself madly in love with a boy from her high school. However, an attempt to get his attention leads to an embarassing incident at a party, and Ray, a sweet but thick-headed 18-year-old, steps forward to defend her. Beverly and Ray end up making out, and after one thing leads to another, Beverly discovers she's pregnant. Telling Ray is only marginally less difficult than informing her parents, and at 16, Beverly is a wife and mother. Against the odds, Beverly is determined to still finish high school and go on to college, but that goal becomes more difficult with time, especially after Beverly's marriage begins to fall apart. Ray tries to do the right thing but has trouble holding a job, and becomes addicted to heroin.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Penny Marshall | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Drew Barrymore, Steve Zahn , Adam Garcia, Brittany Murphy, James Woods, Lorraine Bracco |
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|  | | Rite | | | | A judge in an unnamed country interviews three actors, together and singly, provoking them while investigating a pornographic performance for which they may face a fine. Their relationships are complicated: Sebastian, volatile, a heavy drinker, in debt, guilty of killing his former partner, is having an affair with that man's wife. She is Thea, high strung, prone to fits, and seemingly fragile, currently married to Sebastian's new partner, Hans. Hans is the troupe leader, wealthy, self-contained, growing tired. The judge plays on the trio's insecurities, but when they finally, in a private session with him, perform the masque called The Rite, they may have their revenge |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Ingmar Bergman | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Ingmar Bergman |
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|  | | River | | | | Plot Summary
Farming family battles severe storms, a bank threatening to reposses their farm, and other hard times in a battle to save and hold on to their farm. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Mark Rydell | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Mel Gibson, Sissy Spacek |
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|  | | Rock Star | | | | Plot Summary
Chris Cole was born to rock. His longtime girlfriend Emily believes his talent could take him all the way - but Chris worships at the altar of Bobby Beers, the fiery frontman for heavy metal legends Steel Dragon. By day, Chris still lives at home with his parents and spends his days repairing copy machines. But when Chris takes the stage, fronting Pennsylvania's premiere Steel Dragon tribute band, all of that disappears. Chris Cole is Bobby Beers - mesmerizing audiences with his perfect imitation of Beers' electrifying vocals. The night his bandmates boot him out of the group, Chris is devastated - until an unexpected phone call changes his life forever: He, Chris Cole, has been tapped to replace Bobby Beers as the lead singer of Steel Dragon. In an instant, Chris rockets to the dizzying heights of sudden stardom, rising from devotee to icon, from rock fan to rock god - the wanna-be who got to be. So what happens when an average guy gets everything he wants - and discovers it's not enough? |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Stephen Herek | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Mark Wahlberg, Jennifer Aniston, Jason Flemyng , Timothy Spall , Timothy Olyphant |
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|  | | Romance & Cigarettes | | | | Romance and Cigarettes is a down-and-dirty musical love story set in the world of the working class. Mick is an ironworker who builds and repairs bridges. He's married to Kitty, a dressmaker, a strong and gentle woman with whom he has three daughters. He is carrying on a torrid affair with a redheaded woman named Tula. Nick is basically a good, hardworking man driven forward by wil and blinded by his urges. Likw Oedipus at Colonus, he is sent into exile and searches to find his way back through the damage he has done. In an imaginative, humorous, and touv=ching way, Romance and Cigarettes explores the cost and value of a relationship through life and death. When the characters can no longer exoress themselves with language, they break into song, lip-synching the tunes lodged in their subconscious. It is their way to escape the harsh reality of their world - to dream, to remember, and to connect to another human being. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | John Turturo | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi |
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|  | | Romper Stomper | | | | Plot Summary
Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins' merry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity? |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Geoffrey Wright | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Rumble Fish | | | | Plot Summary
Rusty James is the leader of a small, dying gang in an industrial town. He lives in the shadow of the memory of his absent, older brother -- The Motorcycle Boy. His mother has left, his father drinks, school has no meaning for him and his relationships are shallow. He is drawn into one more gang fight and the events that follow begin to change his life.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Francis Ford Coppola | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane , Dennis Hopper, Nicolas Cage, Larry Fishburne |
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|  | | Sabu | | | | Apparently Takashi Miike is capable of more than just throwing gobs and gobs of blood, bodyparts, S&M, and the senseless brutalizing of women at the screen. Go figure. "Sabu" is absolutely nothing one would ever associate with the master of splatter. It's a quiet and at times contemplative film about people, and not how many arms and legs they can rip out to showcase Miike's latest "geyser of blood" effect. In short, "Sabu" is as un-Miike as you will ever get from, well, Miike.
The film stars Satoshi Tsumabuki ("Dragonhead") as the titular Sabu, a passive, ineffectual young man who lives in a small town with his friend Eiji (Tatsuya Fujiwara), who is the exact opposite of Sabu personality-wise. Aggressive and stubborn, Eiji has looked out for Sabu ever since they were kids. They are also friends with Osue (Kazue Fukiishi), but it's obvious both have feelings for her, although neither knows it. One day Eiji is accused of theft and sentenced to an island prison, even though he claims to be innocent.
"Sabu" is a period film, taking place in the time of the Samurai, not that it matters because the film is about everyday people in small towns. Eiji's incarceration is quick -- we don't see a trial and the film immediately jumps to Eiji being transported to the island as soon as the opening credits dissolve away. We don't even see, or know, what Eiji has been convicted off until later on. This leaves Sabu and other friends of Eiji, including a working girl, looking for answers. They are simply told Eiji was "fired" from his job.
There are a lot of things to like about "Sabu". It is visually pleasing to the eye, with a number of moody, atmospheric scenes that look like landscape paintings. Our first image of the film is a woman hanging from a tree, but the frame composition is so haunting you almost forget you're looking at a dead woman. As Eiji struggles to adjust to life in prison, Sabu stumbles about their small town trying to find answers. The stark difference between the two friends come through -- Eiji in prison, going about life perfectly fine using his fists, while Sabu can barely defend himself in the free world.
At its core, "Sabu" is about Eiji's life in prison, with the side visits back to the village and Sabu little more than diversions. Uninteresting and dull diversions at that. It's not that Tsumabuki is a bad actor; it's more that the Sabu character is tedious and annoyingly pathetic. Watching him try to piece together Eiji's current fate barely registers as worthwhile. On the other hand, watching Eiji maneuver through the political and social hierarchy of the prison makes up the film's more entertainment moments.
"Sabu" was a made-for-TV movie, but don't fret. If "Sabu" is any indication, the Japanese have completely different ideas about what constitutes a "TV Movie". This is feature-length film caliber filmmaking here, not a throwaway 2-hour Lifetime special. Much of "Sabu" looks purposely like a surreal set on a soundstage, with the drab colors in stark contrast to the choice selections of primary colors sprinkled about the scene. It's a nice film to look at, even if one may find the narrative to be just a bit plodding at times, and the plot to be uninventive.
At almost two hours, "Sabu" is probably a little too long, offering up an ending that seems, on the surface, to contradict the film's contention that hardship can change men for the better. It's not a shocking revelation, of course, which seems to point to the film's lack of real resonance. Then again, I willingly preferred this gray ending to seeing bodyparts being hacked to pieces and female characters ending up on S&M tables being raped or ripped apart, as Miike is wont to do. Even so, the women in the movie seem interchangeable at best, even though one of them provides voiceover narration.
But "Sabu" has done one thing very well, and that is convincing me Takashi Miike is not a one-trick pony. This means, of course, that the man is now officially off my hit list. Time will tell how long he stays off it...
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Takashi Miike | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Schindler's List | | | | Plot Summary
Oskar Schindler is a vain, glorious and greedy German businessman who becomes unlikely humanitarian amid the barbaric Nazi reign when he feels compelled to turn his factory into a refuge for Jews. Based on the true story of Oskar Schindler who managed to save about 1100 Jews from being gassed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. A testament for the good in all of us.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Steven Spielberg | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes , Embeth Davidtz |
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|  | | Se7en | | | | Plot Summary
A film about two homicide detectives' desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The movie takes us from the tortured remains of one victim to the next as the sociopathic "John Doe" sermonizes to Detectives Sommerset and Mills -- one sin at a time. The sin of Gluttony comes first and the murderer's terrible capacity is graphically demonstrated in the dark and subdued tones characteristic of film noir. The seasoned and cultured Sommerset researches the Seven Deadly Sins in an effort to understand the killer's modus operandi while green Detective Mills scoffs at his efforts to get inside the mind of a killer...
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | David Fincher | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Shattered Glass | | | | Plot Summary
This film tells the true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass (Christensen), who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at "The New Republic" for three years (1995-1998), where 27 of his 41 published stories were either partially or completely made up. Looking for a short cut to fame, Glass concocted sources, quotes and even entire stories, but his deception did not go unnoticed forever, and eventually, his world came crumbling down... |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Billy Ray | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Hayden Christensen , Peter Sarsgaard, Chloë Sevigny , Rosario Dawson, Melanie Lynskey, Hank Azaria |
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|  | | Show Girls | | | | Plot Summary
Nomi Malone sets out for Las Vegas to become a showgirl. After working as a stripper, she gets her big break at a chorus line audition for the Stardust Casino production, 'Goddess.' She soon finds out that 'showbiz' is a rough-and-tumble world--is she tough enough to claw her way to the top? And if so, is it really worth it? |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Paul Verhoeven | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Solomon And Sheba | | | | Plot Summary
Shortly before his death in ancient Israel King David has a vision from God telling him that his younger son Solomon should succeed him as king. His other son Adonijah is unhappy and vows to attain the throne. Meanwhile the Egyptian Pharoah agrees to cede a Red Sea port to the Queen of Sheba is she can find a way to destroy Solomon, whose wisdom and benevolent rule is seen as a threat to more tyrannical monarchs in the region. Sheba, Pharoah, Adonijah, the leaders of the Twelve Tribes and his own God make life difficult for Solomon who is tempted by Sheba to stray.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | King Vidor | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Yul Brynner |
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|  | | Sophie's Choice | | | | Plot Summary
Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who has found a reason to live in Nathan, a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo, the movie's narrator, a young American writer new to New York City. But the happiness of Sophie and Nathan is endangered by her ghosts and his obsessions. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Alan J. Pakula | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Space Cowboys | | | | Frank Corvin, "Hawk" Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and Tank Sullivan were hotdog members of Project DAEDALUS, the Air Force's test program for space travel. Their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained chimps. They blackmail their way into orbit when Russia's mysterious Ikon communications satellite's orbit begins to degrade and threatens to crash into Earth. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Clint Eastwood | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Clint Eastwood , Tommy Lee Jones , Donald Sutherland, James Garner, James Cromwell , Marcia Gay Harden |
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|  | | Spartacus | | | | Plot Summary
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes. Meanwhile, in Rome, the slave revolt has become a deciding factor in the power struggle between two senators: the republican Gracchus and the militarist Crassus, each of whom sees the fortunes of the rebellion as the key to his own rise to power or humiliating defeat. As the two statesmen attempt to aid, hinder and manipulate the rebels for their own benefit, Spartacus and his followers press on toward freedom. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Stanley Kubrick | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Kirk Douglas , Laurence Olivier |
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|  | | Spirit Of The Beehive | | | | Plot Summary
In Castile c.1940, a travelling movie theatre brings James Whale's b/w film classic "Frankenstein" (1931) to a village. (Admission 1 peseta for adults, 2 reales for children.) Two young girls, Isabel and Ana, determine to find the Monster.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Victor Erice | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Stepmom | | | | Plot Summary
Anna and Ben, the two children of Jackie and Luke, have to cope with the fact that their parents divorced and that there is a new woman in their father's life: Isabel, a successful photographer. She does her best to treat the kids in a way that makes them still feel at home when being with their dad, but also loves her work and does not plan to give it up. But Jackie, a full-time mother, regards Isabel's efforts as offensively insufficient. She can't understand that work can be important to her as well as the kids. The conflict between them is deepened by the sudden diagnose of cancer, which might may be deadly for Jackie. They all have to learn a little in order to grow together. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Chris Columbus | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Julia Roberts , Susan Sarandon , Ed Harris, Jena Malone, Liam Aiken |
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|  | | Stone Cold | | | | Plot outline
Jesse Stone (Selleck) is a New England police chief investigating a series of murders, in an adaptation of Robert B. Parker's novel. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Robert Harmon | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Tom Selleck, Mimi Rogers, Alexis Dziena |
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|  | | Striptease | | | | Plot Summary
Erin Grant loses care and custody of her daughter when she's divorced from her husband Darrell, a small-time thief. Struggling for money, she is a dancer at a nightclub, where one night Congressman Dilbeck (in disguise) attacks another member of the audience. A spectator, who recognizes Dilbeck and is fond of Erin, offers to get back her daughter by blackmailing Dilbeck. Things do not work out as planned, though.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Andrew Bergman | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Demi Moore, Burt Reynolds, Ving Rhames, Robert Patrick |
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|  | | Swimming Upstream | | | | Plot Summary
The true story of Tony Fingleton, a young man from a troubled family who found the inner strength to become a champion. Always overshadowed in his father's eyes by his brothers, it is only when Tony displays an extraordinary swimming talent that he feels he has a shot at winning his father's heart. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Russell Mulcahy | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Geoffrey Rush , Jesse Spencer |
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|  | | Swing Kings | | | | The story of a close-knit group of young kids in Nazi Germany who listen to banned swing music from the US. Soon dancing and fun leads to more difficult choices as the Nazi's begin tightening the grip on Germany. Each member of the group is forced to face some tough choices about right, wrong, and survival. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Thomas Carter | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Robert Sean Leonard , Christian Bale |
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|  | | Taboo | | | | Six young adults struggle with their personal demons while staying at a secluded mansion during a dark and stormy night where a seemingly innocent game of 'taboo' brings out their inter-most secrets which soon leads to murder. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Max Makowski | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Nick Stahl |
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|  | | Tailor of Panama | | | | Plot Summary
John LeCarre's spy thriller is brought to the big screen. A British spy (Pierce Brosnan) is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor (Geoffrey Rush) with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife (Jamie Lee Curtis), who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Panama Canal. But what the two do is concoct a tremendous fictional tale about former mercenaries who are ready to topple the current government and are willing to work with Britain and the US to do so. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | John Boorman | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Talk To Her | | | | Plot Summary
After a chance encounter at a theater, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet student. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny.
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Pedro Almodóvar | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Tarnation | | | | Part Documentary, part narrative fiction, part home movie, and part acid trip. A psychedelic whirlwind of snapshots, Super-8 home movies, old answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, snippets of '80s pop culture, and dramatic reenactments to create an epic portrait of an American family travesty. the story begins in 2003 when Jonathan learns that his schizophrenic mother, Renee, has overdosed on her lithium medication. He is catapulted back into his real and horrifying family legacy of rape, abandonment, promiscuity, drug addication, child abbuse, and psychosis. As he grows up on camera, he finds the escapist balm of musical theater and B horror flicks and reconnects to life through a queer chosen family. Then a look into the future shows Jonathan as he confronts the symbiotic and almost unbearable love he shares with his beautiful and tragically damaged mother. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Jonathan Caouette | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Terminal | | | | Plot Summary
An Eastern European visitor (Hanks) becomes a resident of a New York airport terminal when a war breaks out and erases his country from the map, voiding his passport. He makes friends with the airport staff and falls in love with a flight attendant. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Steven Spielberg | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones |
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|  | | Tess | | | | Plot Summary
A rural clergyman in 19th century England tells Durbeyfield, a simple farmer, that he is descended from the illustrious d'Urberville family -- now extinct. Or maybe not. Durbeyfield sends his daughter Tess to check on a family named d'Uberville living in a manor house less than a day's carriage ride away. Alec d'Urberville is delighted to meet his beautiful "cousin" and seduces her with strawberries and roses. Actually Alec has gotten his illustrious name and coat of arms by purchasing them. Tess too takes up the game of illusion when she finds, loses and finds again her true love Angel. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Roman Polanski | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Nastassja Kinski |
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|  | | The Postman Always Rings Twice | | | | Plot Summary
A drifter hitches a ride from the local District Attorney to an 'out of the way' restaurant/gas station owned by a man and his beautiful wife. They fall in love and together they plot the murder of her husband |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | PG | | Director: | Tay Garnett | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Lana Turner , John Garfield, Hume Cronyn, Audrey Totter |
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|  | | Thirteen Days | | | | Plot Summary
In October, 1962, U-2 surveillance photos reveal that the Soviet Union is in the process of placing nuclear weapons in Cuba. These weapons have the capability of wiping out most of the Eastern and Southern United States in minutes if they become operational. President John F. Kennedy and his advisors must come up with a plan of action against the Soviets. Kennedy is determined to show that he is strong enough to stand up to the threat, and the Pentagon advises U.S. military strikes against Cuba--which could lead the way to another U.S. invasion of the island. However, Kennedy is reluctant to follow through, because a U.S. invasion could cause the Soviets to retaliate in Europe. A nuclear showdown appears to be almost inevitable. Can it be prevented? |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Roger Donaldson | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Kevin Costner |
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|  | | Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada | | | | A man is shot and quickly buried in the high desert of west Texas. The body is found and reburied in Van Horn's town cemetery. Pete Perkins, a local ranch foreman, kidnaps a Border Patrolman and forces him to disinter the body. With his captive in tow and the body tied to a mule, Pete undertakes a dangerous and quixotic journey into Mexico. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Tommy Lee Jones | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Tommy Lee Jones, Dwight Yoakam, Barry Pepper |
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|  | | Three Colours Blue | | | | Plot Summary
Three Colors: Blue is the first part of Kieslowski's trilogy on France's national motto: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. Blue is the story of Julie who loses her husband, an acclaimed European composer and her young daughter in a car accident. The film's theme of liberty is manifested in Julie's attempt to start life anew free of personal commitments, belongings grief and love. She intends to spiritually commit suicide by withdrawing from the world and live completely independently, anonymously and in solitude in the Parisian metropolis. Despite her intentions, people from her former and present life intrude with their own needs. However, the reality created by the people who need and care about her, a surprising discovery and the music around which the film revolves heals Julie and irresistably draws her back to the land of the living. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Krzysztof Kieslowski | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Three Colours Red | | | | Plot Summary
Valentine is a young model living in Geneva. Because of a dog she ran over, she meets a retired judge who spies his neighbours' phone calls, not for money but to feed his cynicism. The film is the story of relationships between some human beings, Valentine and the judge, but also other people who may not be aware of the relationship they have with Valentine or/and the old judge. Redemption, forgiveness and compassion...
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| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Krzysztof Kieslowski | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Thumbsucker | | | | lot outline
Justin throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Mike Mills | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Keanu Reeves, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D'Onofrio, Tilda Swinton, Chase Offerle, Benjamin Bratt |
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|  | | To Kill A King | | | | Plot outline
A man is torn between loyalty to his wife and his king. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Mike Barker | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Tim Roth, Dougray Scott, Olivia Williams , Rupert Everett |
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|  | | Torment | | | | Plot Summary
Jan-Erik Widgren is a high-school senior. His Latin teacher, Caligula, is feared by everybody, both teachers and students. Widgren falls in love with Berta, who works in a tobacco store. She tells him that she is harassed by a mean, sadistic man, but does not tell him that it is Caligula himself. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Alf Sjöberg | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | True Confessions | | | | Plot Summary
De Niro (a Catholic Priest) and Duvall (a Homicide Detective) play brothers drawn together after many years apart, in the aftermath of the brutal murder of a young prostitute. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Ulu Grosbard | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Charles Durning |
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|  | | Tsotsi | | | | six days in the violent life of s young Johannesburg Gang leader |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Gavin Hood | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Unbreakable | | | | Plot Summary
This suspense thriller unfolds as the audience is introduced to David Dunn, played by Willis. Not only is he the sole survivor of a horrific train-crash that killed 131 people he doesn't have a scratch on him. Samuel L Jackson plays an obscure character who approaches Dunn with a seemingly far fetched theory behind it all rocketing off an enticing thriller with a sci fi twist |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | M. Night Shyamalan | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Bruce Willis , Samuel L. Jackson , Robin Wright Penn |
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|  | | Uzak | | | | Plot Summary
Mahmut, a 40 year old independent photographer, is a "village boy made good" at least professionally in the big city - Istanbul in this case. After his wife leaves him, he falls into an existential crisis. Then comes his cousin Yusuf, who left his native village after a local factory closed down, effectively unemploying over half the local men. He looks to Istanbul for salvation: a job on board a ship sailing abroad, at once exciting and crucial to supporting his family in the desperately poor village. The distance between the two men is apparent at once, and becomes increasingly pronounced. Whereas Mahmut is adusted to big city life and suffers from many of its neuroses, Yusuf is a lonely, excentric country worker with annoying nervous and hygienic habits, and a sick mother back home he must somehow support. This intimate drama was filmed in the director's apartment in Istanbul, using all his furniture, appliances, rooms, car and so on as the film's props. The actor playing Yusuf is actually the director's real-life cousin, and the actor playing Mahmut is an actual friend, a non-professional actor. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Vacas | | | | Plot Summary
A film set in the Basque region, beginning in the 1875 civil war and ending during the war of 1936. The film portrays how one single act of cowardice shapes the life of the next three generations of two families and fuels the intense rivalry which will span the next sixty-one years. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Julio Medem | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Vanilla Sky | | | | Plot Summary
David Aames takes all he has for granted; his wealth, his inherited publishing company, his good looks - his relationships. Especially his relationships. It catches up to him when a friend/sometimes sex-partner can't see their relationship the way he sees it. From that point, the movie takes a Lynchian twist that ultimately and literally pulls us into Aames' tortured psyche. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Cameron Crowe | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Tom Cruise , Penélope Cruz , Cameron Diaz |
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|  | | Vendredi Soir | | | | Plot Summary
Having packed up her possessions to move in with her lover, Laure is more unsettled than she appears. Needing to get out and have a change of scenery, she jumps in her car to go to have dinner with friends--only to become stuck in a terrible traffic jam. Laure completely forgot about the mass transit strike that has thrown the city into chaos. But Laure feels good in her car, the only place she has for herself right now. As she takes in the sights and sounds around her--the blare of horns and arguments, the shimmer of lights and camaraderie--Laure notices a calm and self-assured stranger, Jean, approach her car. Soon thereafter, she opens her car door door to the man who--that night--will change her life. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Claire Denis | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | Vera Drake | | | | Vera Drake is a selfless woman who is completely devoted to, and loved by, her working class family. She spends her days doting on them and caring for her sick neighbor and elderly mother. However, she also secretly visits women and helps them induce miscarriages for unwanted pregnancies. While the practice itself was illegal in 1950s England, Vera sees herself as simply helping women in need, and always does so with a smile and kind words of encouragement. When the authorities finally find her out, Vera's world and family life rapidly unravel |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 12 | | Director: | Mike Leigh | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | War | | | | Plot Summary
Vietnam War vet Costner must deal with a war of a different sort between his son and their friends, and a rival group of children. He also must deal with his own personal and employment problems that have resulted from his Vietnam experiences. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Jon Avnet | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Elijah Wood , Kevin Costner , Lucas Black |
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|  | | Warrior King | | | | Kham grew up with elephants in Thailand. Elephants are majestic creatures, bred for peace, but prepared for war. When an evil Asian gang kidnapped the bull and the baby elephant during a festival and smuggled them to Sydney Australia, Kham must travel to a foreign land, and unravel a conspiracy that will reach into the highest strata of Australian law and business circles. With only his Muy Thai fighting techniques, and a disgraced Thai-descent police sergeant, he must reclaim his elephants, and his heritage... Against almost impossible odds... |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | Prachya Pinkaew | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | What Dreams May Come | | | | Plot Summary
After the death of their two children, Dr. Chris Nielson ('Robin Williams' ) and his wife Annie (Annabella Sciorra) find continuing their lives fraught with difficulties, especially for Annie. When Chris dies and goes to Heaven he meets Albert (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and discovers that Heaven is even more wondrous than anything he could have imagined. However, Chris's death is the last straw for Annie and in her madness commits suicide and journeys to a place very different from Chris. On discovering Annie's misfortune, Chris forces Albert to enlist the help of The Tracker ('Max von Sydow' ) and together they journey into the depths of despair to discover the destiny of Annie's soul and attempt a rescue. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Vincent Ward | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr., Annabella Sciorra , Max von Sydow , Werner Herzog |
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|  | | What To Do Incase Of Fire | | | | What To Do In Case of Fire? tells the humorous and touching story of six former creative anarchists who lived as house squatters in Berlin during its heyday in the 80s when Berlin was still an island in the middle of the former eastern Germany. At the end of the 80s they went their separate ways with the exception of Tim and Hotte, who have remained true to their ideals and continue to fight the issues they did as a group. In 2000, with Berlin as Germany's new capital, an event happens forcing the group out of existential reason to reunite and, ultimately, come to grips with the reason they separated 12 years ago |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Gregor Schnitzler | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | White Oleander | | | | Plot Summary
Astrid Magnussen is a 15 year old girl, living in California. Her mother, Ingrid, is a beautiful, free-spirited poet. Their life, though unusual, is satisfying until one day, a man named Barry Kolker (that her mother refers to at first as "The goat man") comes into their lives, and Ingrid falls madly in love with him, only to have her heart broken, and her life ruined. For revenge, Ingrid murders Barry with the deadly poison of her favourite flower: The White Oleander. She is sent to prison for life, and Astrid has to go through foster home after foster home. Throughout nearly a decade she experiences forbidden love, religion, near-death experiences, drugs, starvation, and how it feels to be loved. But throughout these years, she keeps in touch with her mother via letters to prison. And while Ingrid's gift is to give Astrid the power to survive, Astrid's gift is to teach her Mother about love. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Peter Kosminsky | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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|  | | XX/XY | | | | When two college students, Sam and Thea, meet Coles at a party, their mutual attraction is immediate, leading to a passionate and awkward night together, and the onset of an intensely charged bond. As they continue to push the sexual boundaries of their friendship, however, they are tested by Sam and Coles' incipient romance and Thea's increasing recklessness, until the relationship dissolves amid a cloud of fear, resentment and mistrust. Eight years later they reunite. An animator for a high-profile ad agency, Coles now lives with Claire, his girlfriend of five years. Thea is happily married to Miles, with whom she owns a flourishing restaurant. And Sam has just returned to Manhattan after working in London where she recently broke off her engagement. Yet upon reconnecting, the three are drawn back into the complicated dynamic that defined their relationship from the start and are forced to confront the true meaning of commitment and love. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 15 | | Director: | Austin Chick | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | Mark Ruffalo , Kathleen Robertson |
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|  | | Young Adam | | | | Plot Summary
Joe, a rootless young drifter, finds work on a barge travelling between Glasgow and Edinburgh, owned by Les and his wife Ella. One afternoon they discover the corpse of a young woman floating in the water. Accident? Suicide? Murder? As the police investigate and suspect is arrested, we discover that Joe knows more than he is letting on. Gradually we learn of Joe's past relationship with the dead woman. Meanwhile an unspoken attraction develops between Joe and Ella, heightening the claustrophobic tensions in the confined space of the barge. |
| Genre: | Drama | | Rating: | 18 | | Director: | David Mackenzie | | Rental Days: | 2 | | Starring: | |
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