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Drama movies
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The crime drama follows George Jung (Johnny Depp), an ordinary guy from the blue-collar suburbs, who doesn't want to follow in his father's footsteps of working hard and making ends meet. After moving to California, he becomes involved with drugs trafficking to pursue the American dream. His illegal business grows very fast. But the more money people have, the more they want. Driven by itch for money, Jung starts exporting tones of cocaine to the United States. He soon becomes wildly successful and lives in luxury. However, Jung has to pay the price... |
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This is a remake of the Japan version of "The Ring", which still is a cornerstone of the contemporary horror. A journalist woman named Rachel Keller (Naomi Watts) gets to know that her niece and the friends of the girl have died instantly and inexplicably when they checked a room in a distant motel, during their vacation. Rachel has a son Aidan (David Dorfman), she figures out that a mysterious video tape is involved in this story; these who are dead now, have watched it. Among other things, she resembles some ominous strangeness browsing photos of her dead niece's friends: their faces are uncommonly changed. And having seen the tape which initially seemed an amateurish film peculiar with an unskillful cutting, she realizes that something evil and nightmarishly unavoidable has begun looming over her and her son. Soon after watching the tape containing these various, inexplicably sinister frames she hears her phone ringing, and picks up a receiver only to hear how many days remained for her to live. Now her life is a race against the time, she is to know something about the tape and the horrifying story that lays hidden behind the dust of the past decades, spotting some things around her, the things she have seen watching the cursed cutting. A masterpiece of Gore Verbinski as a director and Naomi Watts as an actress is a prominent remake between the ones of the same genre. |
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In Paris, detective Claude Chavasse is hired to follow a wife suspected of infidelity with the notorious American libertine Frank Flannagan. When the husband learns that his suspicions are accurate, he tells Claude of his plan to kill Flannagan. Claude's daughter Ariane overhears the threat and warns Frank of the coming trouble. She then plays the part of a worldly socialite with a list of conquests as long as Flannagan's. The bemused ladies' man returns to America the next day and Ariane, completely in love, follows his romantic escapades in the news. She sees him again in Paris the following year, and resumes her worldly guise, telling tales of former lovers when they meet at his hotel in the afternoon. Frank, amazed by the mystery girl and surprised to find himself jealous of her past, hires Claude to uncover more information about her. When the detective realizes what has happened, he asks Frank not to break his daughter's heart. |
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A legendary zombie epic of George Romero has its remake in this impressive thriller which follows a small group of survivors that tries to find shelter from bloodthirsty hordes of decaying zombies in a massive shopping mall. Some plague invaded the Earth, and people, who died from it, aren't strictly dead, but they are terrible walking corpses craving for a living flesh. World is drawn into the despairing chaos when few survivors try to save themselves from the hordes of the dire hungry zombies. How to distinguish a live human from a freshman zombie when a former friend may become the deadly enemy? Will not he stab his teeth in your neck in next moment of a blind, bloodthirsty rage? |
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A sailor (Derek Luke) prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist (Washington) for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and reveals a horrific childhood. Through the guidance of his doctor, he confronts his painful past and begins a quest to find the family he never knew. |
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Tom Ludlow is a veteran LAPD cop who finds life difficult to navigate after the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him. |
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The suspense thriller follows an elite team of FBI agents who are sent to Saudi Arabia to investigate the deadly bombing at an American compound. Once in the desert kingdom, Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx), Grant Sykes (Chris Cooper), Adam Leavitt (Jason Bateman) and Janet Mayes (Jennifer Garner) must race against time to find a perpetrator before he strikes again. But they meet with the suspiciousness and resistance of Saudi officials who consider the crime to be a local matter and want to get the American agents out of the country. Thus they throw bureaucratic obstacles in the team's way so that they can't crack the case within the deadline. Nevertheless, the crew gains the trust of a scrupulous police officer, Faris Al Ghazi (Ashraf Barhoum), who agrees to help them unlock the secrets of the brutal mass murder. |
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This true-story-based bittersweet drama follows Evelyn Ryan (Julianna Moore) who was a housewife and a devoted mother of 10. Her remarkable ingenuity and an uncommon wit had success at the jingle contests staged by corporations to promote their products. Evelyn had found the way to keep her family together, notwithstanding an alcoholic husband and the other difficult circumstances. |
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While digging two miles below the Earth's surface, workers from LexCorp fortuitously release the intergalactic killing machine Doomsday (voiced by Tom Kenny). Superman (Adam Baldwin) sacrifices himself to stop the robot and save the Earth. People all over the world deeply grieve the loss of their hero. Even Superman's foe, Lex Luthor (James Marsters), deplores his death, provoking a chain of unforeseen events... |
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Manny is the "boss" of the convicts in an Alaskan high security prison. Renken, the heartless prison's administrator wants to kill him, so Manny escapes with the help of another young prisoner, Buck, who follows him. The two fugitives manage to get to a rail depot and get onboard a train. The problem is, the engineer has died and the the train is totally out of control, and nothing can stop it. So, leaving the prison, Manny and Buck find themselves aboard something that is both their freedom and their death... |
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Thelma (Geena Davis) and Louise (Susan Sarandon) are two housewives bothered with their spouses; they are old friends and want to go on a spree one week-end. But what happens in a bar along the time, makes them go on the run: when a drunken man tries to rape Thelma, Louise shoots him and kills. Thus starts their adventure, acompanied by the police pursuit: Hal Slocumb (Harvey Keitel), a policeman, considers that the women are the prey for circumstances and tries to help. But these two continue with the next fatal stupidities... The story resembles "Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid" at some points, and also stars Brad Pitt, Michael Madsen and Christofer McDonald. |
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In the detective thriller, Truman Capote (Toby Jones), a famous writer for The New Yorker, reads a brief story about the brutal and senseless murders of four members of a farm family in Holcomb, Kansas. Intrigued by the story, he and his assistant and fellow writer, Nelle Harper Lee (Sandra Bullock), set out for Kansas to research the horrific case for an article. The deeper Capote digs into the story, the more convinced he becomes that it is too big for just an article, and he decides to write a modern non-fiction novel about the murders and suspects. In doing so, he creates his famous work, "In Cold Blood," but he has to pay too big a price for his success. |
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Set in modern-day Sacramento, California, this romantic dramedy centers on six people who decide to form a book club to discuss the beloved novels of English writer Jane Austen in order to distract themselves from a life of unrealized dreams, unrequited love, loneliness, betrayal, frustration, and other romantic problems. Among them is Bernadette (Kathy Baker), the organizer of the club who has been married six times; Jocelyn (Maria Bello Bello), a single dog breeder; Sylvia Avila (Amy Brenneman) who has been dumped by her husband for another woman; Allegra Avila (Maggie Grace), her lesbian daughter who has several lovers; and Prudie Drummond (Emily Blunt), a French teacher who is unhappily married, and drawn to one of her students. There is also Grigg Harris (Hugh Dancy), a sci-fi fan and tech support worker who joins the club out of attraction to Jocelyn. While reading and discussing one novel per month, they find their own lives resembling the plots of the books. |
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The historical drama tells a breathtaking story about real heroes of the Cold War. In October, 1962 the world poised on the brink of the war for thirteen tense days. People in the East and the West lapped up every report about the course of alarming events that threatened to result in a nuclear exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union. Due to those fateful days the world learnt the names of such politicians, diplomats and soldiers as Adlai Stevenson, Theodore Sorenson, Andrei Gromyko, Anatoly Dobrynin, General Curtis LeMay, Dean Rusk, McGeorge Bundy and many others. |
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A struggling Chinese-American actor, who unwittingly finds himself involved with a high school girl, learns he has inherited his grandmother's home in Shanghai. The American-raised character moves to China in an attempt to connect with his ancestry, leaving behind quite possibly the only girl who has ever loved him. |
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A BBC adaptation of the classic tale of the 18th century demon barber of Fleet Street, London, who cuts the throats of his unsuspecting clients in his shop. |
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It’s a lovely fall day. We become observers of the events that happen throughout the day at an Oregon high school. On the way to school photographer Elias (Elias McConnell) takes some pictures of a punk-rock couple. After football practice Nathan (Nathan Tyson) leaves gym class and meets up with girlfriend Carrie (Carrie Finklea) for lunch. John leaves his dad’s car keys in the school office for his brother to collect. In the cafeteria, Brittany (Brittany Mountain), Jordan (Jordan Taylor) and Nicole (Nicole George) gossip and complain about their mothers’ snooping. Michelle (Kristen Hicks) dashes to the school library for her volunteer work. John (John Robinson) walks out onto the lawn, crossing paths with outsiders Alex (Alex Frost) and Eric (Eric Deulen)... It seems to be an ordinary high school day. Except that it’s not. |
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The story follows a University of Austin professor, Dr. David Gale (Kevin Spacey). In a twist of fate this anti-death-penalty activist is convicted and condemned to death for the rape and murder of colleague Constance Hallaway (Laura Linney). Three days before his execution, he grants an exclusive interview to Elizabeth "Bitsey" Bloom (Kate Winslet), the brave reporter who sets out to learn the truth behind Gale's crime. Bitsey, full of skepticism and scorn for the convict, soon finds herself believing in David's innocence as he reveals his tragic tale to her. Can Bitsey find out who framed the professor? |
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Einar (Robert Redford) was a once successful rancher who developed a serious drinking problem being still in shock from his only son's death a decade ago. He has let his ranch fall into ruin so as his marriage. His daughter-in-law, a down-on-her-luck single mother (Jennifer Lopez) is forced to move in with Einar, from whom she has been estranged, in order to properly care for her young daughter. Lasse Hallstrom directs this adaptation of the same name novel by Mark Spragg. |
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This screen interpretation of vampire literature classic is the most well-known and, more to say, brilliant one. Set in London, this spectacular picture closely follows the book, but is even more dramatic. This eye-catching movie tells about Johnathan (Keanu Reeves) and Mina (Wynona Ryder), young pair which soon will face the ancient vampire - count Dracula (Gary Oldmen). When John heads to Transylvania for the business travel, he has to communicate with the famous Count and the monster accidentally sees John's medallion with the picture of Mina. This film is not simply an eye-candy due to its exquisite visual aesthetics, but it is also a profound story, which tells what it takes to be an immortal monster... and to love forever, hopelessly. |
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