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Drama movies
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The humour-packed, heartwarming drama tells the story of Dan Millan (Scott Mechlowicz), a gifted college gymnast with aspirations of winning the Olympic Games. He seems to have it all: plenty of money, good grades, trophies, fast motorcycles, fast women and wild parties. Despite his many successes, Dan feels restless and empty inside. Haunted by terrifying nightmares, he is forced to run along streets in the early hours of the morning. One night, awakened by another nightmare, he wanders into a service station and encounters an eccentric old man called Socrates (Nick Nolte) who becomes his mentor. Guided by Socrates, Millan embarks on a spiritual odyssey in search of his inner peace and enlightenment. |
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Wealthy business man Rex Fortescue collapses when he reaches his office. It is determined that he was poisoned. No one seems too upset, as everyone agrees that Rex was a tyrant. Soon however Rex's young wife also turns up poisoned. The maid, Gladyes, whom Miss Marple trained, writes to Miss Marple asking for help. Miss Marple arrives too late, as Gladyses' body is found strangled and strung up on the clothes line. Now it's personal, and Miss Marple is determined to see the murderer punished. |
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The movie is about the life of Tarzan. Tarzan was a small orphan who was raised by an ape named Kala since he was a child. He believed that this was his family, but on an expedition Jane Porter is rescued by Tarzan. He then finds out that he's human. Now Tarzan must make the decision as to which family he should belong to... |
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The most emotional adventure of his career begins for James Bond on a deserted beach where a young woman tries to drown herself. He rescues the girl and for his trouble is attacked by two toughs - the girl's bodyguards. It soon becomes much bigger for 007 - the girl is Teresa Draco, daughter of crime boss Marc Ange Draco, who wants James to marry his wayward daughter, and in return he can provide 007 with information on an even more dangerous criminal leader - Ernst Stavro Bloefeld of SPECTRE. But both James and Teresa find more than they ever bargained for when their paths collide in a vicious pursuit in the snow-capped mountains of Switzerland, an enormous avalanche, and a smuggling ring for germ warfare against the West by Blofeld, who proves most difficult to kill and who exacts a revenge that James can never forget - or forgive. |
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A lonely hospital doctor, Kate Forster (Sandra Bullock), happens to find her twin soul – a talented but frustrated architect, Alex Wyler (Keanu Reeves). The amazing thing is that he lives in the very same glass house in a lake where she used to live. The two begin exchanging letters and eventually develop a long distance relationship. When Kate and Alex become overwhelmed by the urge to meet each other, they face a very powerful obstacle standing in their way. It turns out that they are living in disparate time periods: he in 2004 and she in 2006. They disclose that the enchanted mailbox outside the lake house is the only link between past and future. Alex and Kate try their darndest to find means to bridge the distance between them. |
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After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedroom listening to her father's collection of old records of Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe and various other famous female singers. But at night time, LV sings, imitating these great singers with surprising accuracy. One night she is overheard by one of her mother's boyfriends, who happens to be a talent agent. He manages to convince her that her talent is special and arranges for her to perform at the local night club, but several problems arise. |
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A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII. |
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Chili Palmer, a Miami mobster, loan-sharks for Ray Bones, a violent thug with a big chip on his shoulder. Ray sends Chili to Vegas after a bad debt, and a casino boss enlists Chili to find an even bigger deadbeat: Harry Zimm, Hollywood player and producer of low-budget horror films. In Tinseltown, Chili meets Harry, as well as his scream- queen leading lady, Karen Flores; Harry's drug-dealing financier, Bo Catlett; and Karen's ex, Martin Weir (aka "Shorty"), a big star with an ego to match. Chili finds his Mafioso skills lend themselves quite nicely to what he's always really wanted to do: producing movies. |
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A day trader (Embry) and his fiancée (Robertson) get caught up in high stakes gambling. |
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Ridley Scott's saga of a peasant blacksmith named Balian (Orlando Bloom), who has lost his family and nearly his faith. During the Crusades - the world shaping 200-year collision between Europe and the East, he wonders in a strange land, he serves a doomed king, falls in love with an exotic and forbidden queen and rises to knighthood. Balian meets a man revealing himself as his father. Ultimately, he must protect the people of Jerusalem from overwhelming forces - while trying to keep a fragile peace. |
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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? |
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While having a consultation with psychiatrist Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor), deranged college student and amateur artist Henry Lethem (Ryan Gosling) claims to have killed both of his parents. He also informs Sam about his plan to follow the lead of his idol and commit suicide in three days, on his 21st birthday. Wanting to prevent the suicide of the troubled patient, Sam decides to help him break free from his obsession. While investigating the intriguing case, he gradually gets drawn into the web of Henry's nightmarish illusions, standing on the sharpest edge of death or life.
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This biopic drama follows the life and death of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (Dan Futterman) who went missing while researching a story about the infamous shoe bomber Richard Reid in Karachi, Pakistan. Six months gone with child, his wife Mariane (Angelina Jolie) embarked on a desperate quest to find him, calling on the FBI, Pakistani police, and American embassy personnel to help. However, she soon got the shattering news that Daniel was captured by terrorists, denounced as an Israeli spy and beheaded. Afterwards the kidnappers made the videotape of Daniel's execution public through the media... |
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Cookie's Fortune unfolds over an eventful Easter weekend in the small town of Holly Springs, Mississippi. The town residents are peaceful, kind folk--with the exception of Camille Dixon (Glenn Close)--a pushy theatre director with an incredibly shy younger sister, Cora (Julianne Moore), whose estranged daughter Emma (Liv Tyler) has just returned to town. On the heels of her latest play, Camille is shocked to discover that her Aunt Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt (Patricia Neal) has committed suicide. Terrified at the thought of how this will tarnish the family name, she eats the suicide note to make it look like a burglary. This set-up leads the police to one main suspect, Willis Richland (Charles S. Dutton), who also happens to be Cookie's best friend. Although the rest of the town is convinced Willis didn't commit the crime, an outside investigator (Courtney B. Vance) isn't so sure. As Easter Sunday and opening night of the play arrive, the truth comes out, revealing more secrets than anyone could have possibly imagined. Director Altman tells his story at a leisurely pace, beautifully recreating the eccentricities of small town life in this sweet-natured tale. |
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This film tells the tale of the Harper Affair, in which young Jimmy Harper finds his life of promise turn into a life of debauchery and murder thanks to the new drug menace marijuana. Along the way he receives help from his girlfriend Mary and Jesus himself, but always finds himself in the arms of the Reefer Man and the rest of the denizens of the Reefer Den. |
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During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event. |
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Jamie is 21. She's from Atlanta. She's come to Brooklyn to visit her friend Samantha, but she can't find her. Jamie tries calling, but Samantha's phone is dead. Jamie meets Charlie when she asks him for directions. Nothing to do and nothing but time leads them to bowls of coleslaw, footraces in the park, art shows, and after parties. |
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This psychological sci-fi thriller starts with two young engineers who work within a research team by day for a mighty corporation and conduct extramural experiments on nights and Sundays. Their recent work seems to have created an unexpected and seemingly impossible side-effect. The device they invented that reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it by blocking gravitation pull turned out to allow various manipulations with the space-time continuum. Attempting to manipulate time to their financial and emotional benefit, engineers faced with the questions of trust, moral and ethics being enabled to do and have anything they want. |
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This story happened at the dawn of civilization in ancient Egypt. A basket with a tiny infant was washed ashore by the swift and great Nile River and then was found by the Queen (Helen Mirren). Pharaoh Seti I (Patrick Stewart) adopted the Hebrew born boy and named him Moses (Val Kilmer). Years went by. Moses and his brother Rameses (Ralph Fiennes) grew up together, happily and wealthy. There came a day when one of them became the ruler of the most powerful empire on Earth, and the other – the leader and liberator of his people. |
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It is a couple of years in the future... The highways of Australia are ruled by violent gangs who have turned the highways into a battleground as they loot gasoline and terrorize the innocent. Max Rockatansky is a policeman who had everything... Until, a murderous motorcycle gang led by the evil Toecutter burns his partner Jim Goose to death and murders his wife and son, after Max killed their leader "The Knight Rider". Loosing his rocker, Max decides to take the law into his own hands as he sets out to get his revenge on the motorcycle gang and become the road warrior known as "Mad Max". |
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