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Drama movies
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Jeff Talley (Bruce Willis), an ex-LAPD hostage negotiator, has moved to a smaller town with his family due to dramatic hostage situation he was unable to solve properly: a young mother and her child were killed. Now he is a police officer in a quiet town of Bristo Camino, where he serves as a chief of a police. When three delinquent teenagers follow a family home intending to steal their car, they involuntarily pick the wrong house on the wrong day. Panicked, the teenagers take the family hostage, placing Talley in exactly the kind of situation he never wanted to face again. He is about to take situation off his hands, but a house belongs to a corrupt accountant, cops are in over their heads, so Talley should take the situation under his control again in order to save his own family. The point is that the compound has digital information inside, which is time sensitive and invaluable to the mysterious criminals and critical to the enterprise the accountant is connected with. They will stop at nothing to get what belongs to them, and Talley finds himself being between a rock and a hard place. |
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In this urban action thriller New York police dept. detective Jack Mosley (Bruce Willis), is a hard-drinking cop, assigned to deliver a small-time convict to the court sixteen blocks far from the jail in less than 2 hours. The task seems to be simple, but there are some powerful people who don't want this prisoner to be delivered to the court house. Bruce Willis's Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness, and never has such a short distance seemed so long... |
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In the late 40's, the swindler Raymond Martinez Fernandez seduces lonely women to steal their possessions. When he meets the deranged Martha Beck, they fall in love for each other. With the jealous Martha posing as if she were his sister, the crook Ray seduces and kills other women. Two New York Detectives - Elmer C. Robinson and Charles Hildebrandt - chase the sociopaths, but without having the evidence of a body. In the end of 40's, the couple is finally arrested and sentenced to death, being electrocuted in March, 1951 in Sing Sing. |
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The deeply emotional drama revolves around Ann Grant (Vanessa Redgrave), a terminally ill elderly woman lying on her deathbed. She recollects her past and regrets that she let the man of her dreams get away fifty years ago. Before dying she wants to prevent her two adult daughters, Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette), from committing the same mistakes she did in her life. |
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A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. and is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love. |
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The stunning Suzanne Stone (Nicole Kidman) is totally obsessed with her dream of becoming a celebrity of the silver screen and is determined to achieve her goal by any measures. Having married Larry Maretto (Matt Dillon), the most handsome guy in the small town of Little Hope, she decides to start climbing the TV ladder as a weather person at a local cable station. When her family-minded husband becomes an obstacle on the road to her fame, the cold-hearted Susan hatches a diabolical plot to get rid of him. She seduces a dim-witted high school student, Jimmy Emmett (Joaquin Phoenix), who has a crush on her, and manipulates him into killing her husband. Susan hopes that the murder case will become national news and make her known all over the world. |
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The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat. |
| Return to Paradise
[1998,
USA]
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| Give up three years of their lives or give up the life of their friend. They have eight days to decide. |
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Three American college grads, John Volgecherev (Vince Vaughn), Tony Croft (David Conrad), and Lewis McBride (Joaquin Phoenix), meet by chance and decide to spend their vacation together in Penang, Malaysia. The exotic island, hot women, drinks and drugs - life in paradise! When the exciting vacation is over, John and Tony come back home to the United States, but Lewis goes to Borneo so as to dedicate himself to the study of tropical fauna. But some time later Lewis ends up arrested by local police who found a large quantity of hashish in the bungalow the buddies had rented. According to the Law of Malaysia, an over-limit amount of drug is classified as distribution; therefore Lewis is threatened with the death penalty. If John and Tony return and share the blame, the death sentence will be reduced to jail time. |
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The dramatic thriller is based on the true story of Patrick Chamusso (Derek Luke), an apolitical oil refinery foreman in South Africa who witnessed the authorities’ conspiracy and subsequently became a leader in the struggle against apartheid.
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In 1536, a talented alchemist named Umberto Fulcanelli (Mario Iván Martínez) fleeing the Inquisition arrived in Veracruz, Mexico and invented an insidious device that granted its owner eternal life, as well as an agonizing thirst for human blood. The alchemist lived four hundred years until he was buried to death under debris of the collapsed wall. Many years later, the golden scarab-like device called Cronos falls in the hands of antiques dealer Jesus Gris (Federico Luppi) but it soon becomes apparent that there is more than one person wanting to become immortal. |
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A close friend of the President and his family are murdered aboard their yacht in the Caribbean, setting off a chain of events that leads Jack Ryan, Deputy Director of the C.I.A., into a dangerous confrontation with the Colombian drug cartel. |
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Quoyle (Kevin Spacey) is a born loser. However, he makes no efforts to have success in his life. He is an unhappy, emotionally-beaten printer who drags out a miserable existence. When he falls in love with a beautiful girl, Petal (Cate Blanchett), he is unlucky again. Soon after Petal gives birth to a baby girl, she plunges into dissipation. Then she sells the daughter to an illegal adoption agency and dies suddenly in a car crash. At the same time Quoyle's father, a stern, sometimes brutal man, passes away. To turn over a new leaf, Quoyle leaves New York for his ancestral home on the coast of Newfoundland. There, he gets a job as a reporter for the local newspaper. The paper owner, Jack Buggit (Scott Glenn), assigns him to write shipping news. In the course of time, Quoyle's life changes for the better, in particular, when he wins favour of Wavey Prowse (Julianne Moore). |
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A ten-year-old girl named Jeliza-Rose (Jodelle Ferland) seems to have the bad luck to grow up in a family of junkies. Her aging father, Noah (Jeff Bridges), is a faded rock 'n' roll musician who has long-lasting drug trips in the evenings, and her erratic mother, Queen Gunhilda (Jennifer Tilly), is also dependent on drugs. Nevertheless, the little girl loves her family because as the old saying goes "you can't choose your parents." When his wife's unhealthy lifestyle brings her to her grave, Noah decides to take his daughter to a ramshackle remote house situated in the middle of wheat fields and prairies. To escape from harsh reality, Jeliza-Rose retreats into the realm of her own imagination. Her fairyland is populated by talking squirrels with shark heads, myriads of fireflies, resurrected bogmen, and bodiless doll heads who keep her company. |
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When moving up to the 7th grade, Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) doesn't even suspect that his new social studies teacher, Mr. Simonet (Kevin Spacey), will change not only his life forever but lives of many people all over America. Having assigned his students to come up with an idea of world improvement, Eugene Simonet at first doesn't take seriously Trevor's utopian plan. The precocious Trevor reflects that you can make the world better by doing a favor for a stranger and by that stranger paying it forward with good deeds for three other people. Trevor starts to follow his own philosophy of life and helps local outcast Jerry (James Caviezel) to open a new chapter. His next recipients whom Trevor wants to bring together are his single, overworked, alcoholic mother, Arlene McKinney (Helen Hunt), and the lonely Eugene with a scarred face. |
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An asbestos abatement crew wins the bid for an abandoned insane asylum. What should be a straightforward, if rather rushed, job, is complicated by the personal histories of the crew. In particular, Hank is dating Phil's old girlfriend, and Gordon's new baby seems to be unnerving him more than should be expected. Things get more complicated as would-be lawyer Mike plays the tapes from a former patient with multiple personalities, including the mysterious Simon who does not appear until Session 9, and as Hank disappears after finding some old coins. |
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Based on Stephen King’s novel, the movie tells the story of Bobby Garfield (David Morse), a middle-aged photographer who returns to his hometown for a funeral of his childhood friend. Bobby remembers the summer of 1960 when the entire world changed for him. The story begins when 11-year-old Bobby (Anton Yelchin) and his best friends, Carol (Mika Boorem) and Sully (Will Rothaar), enjoy their sweet childhood days. Into his life comes a mysterious stranger named Ted Brautigan (Anthony Hopkins) who befriends Bobby and tries to replace his father. The boy suddenly gets what he really needs – his parents’ love. His mother Liz (Hope Davis) is embittered after her husband’s death and doesn’t devote loving care to her little son. Ted comes into a vacancy in Bobby’s heart; he opens the boy’s eyes to the world around him and helps him to understand his own feelings toward Carol and his mother. However, Ted keeps his own secrets deep in his mind, and Bobby attempts to stop a powerful danger that's pursuing his adult friend. |
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The movie recalls an inspiring story of juvey detention camp officer Sean Porter (Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson) and his fellow colleague Malcolm Moore (Xzibit) who came up with an idea of forming a high-school-level football team from a ragtag group of hoodlums. They saw football and team spirit as a positive way for the felons to overcome their fears and frustrations, gain self-esteem and learn social responsibility. Porter didn't think that his proposal would meet with resistance from his skeptical bosses and coaches at rival high schools who were unwilling to face juvenile delinquents on the football field.
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This romantic drama is about Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway), the famous British novelist who had her own unique style of writing and exerted a great influence on the development of 18th-century literature. The movie follows Jane's early life, depicting her love affair with a charming young Irishman, Tom Lefroy (James McAvoy). |
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There was a time when these two old men were in love with the same woman. Now they are neighbors and get along together. But when a new beautiful lady Ariel Truax (Ann-Margret) moved in, the new reason to quarrel appeared, so the two started the new all-out war one against the other simultaneously trying to win over the heart of the "woman next door". Children under 12 are not welcomed to watch this movie as it includes some "not-for-kids" scenes. But anyway, the film is very hilarious and the acting is funny as Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon do their best. |
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Based on John King's popular novel, the adrenaline-charged drama explores the world of middle-class England football violence, revenge, friendship and loyalty. The plot revolves around Tommy Johnson (Danny Dyer), a bored twenty-something who tries to escape his humdrum life with weekends of drinking, sexual exploits, drug use and soccer watching. But when he encounters a group of rival football fans and the fight escalates to terrifying levels, he is forced to reconsider his pointless way of life. |
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