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Drama movies
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A loner American computer hacker is brought to Russia to commit bank fraud, only to find a family and love in the incomprehensible, violent, and chaotic Moscow underworld. |
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Four adopted brothers — Bobby (Mark Wahlberg), Angel (Tyrese Gibson), Jeremiah (André Benjamin), and Jack (Garrett Hedlund) — reunite at the funeral of their foster mother, Evelyn Mercer (Fionnula Flanagan), who was murdered during a grocery store robbery. They decide to take the matter of her death into their own hands in order to track down the killer and exact revenge on him. Ignoring the police orders, they start combing the city of Detroit. As they dig deeper and deeper into the case, all evidence seems to point to local crime boss Victor Sweet (Chiwetel Ejiofor)... |
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Daniel is new in town, and is getting picked on by the local bullies, who all are adept in karate. Determined to stick up for himself, Daniel begins to teach himself karate, only to discover that the caretaker at his apartment seems to be a grand master in karate. Agreeing to teach Daniel, Mr. Miyagi shows Daniel that there is more to karate than violence, and perhaps the best way to solve the problem he has with the bullies is in the All Valley Karate Championship. |
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Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose (Camilla Belle). Jack has sheltered Rose from the influences of the outside world, but now Rose's emerging womanhood poses troubling questions about the days ahead. A man who has lived a life motivated by environmentalism and other altruistic causes, Jack now rages at those who do not share his concerns, like developer Marty Rance (Beau Bridges), who is building a housing tract on the edge of his property. When Jack invites his girlfriend Kathleen (Catherine Keener) and her sons Rodney (Ryan McDonald) and Thaddius (Paul Dano) to live with them, Rose feels betrayed and the situation quickly becomes precarious. Rose acts out wildly, creating chaos. As everything flies out of control, Jack finds himself trapped in an impossible place and is forced to take action. |
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The movie follows the ancient Greek names, thus it is irrelevant to use the Roman name Ulysses. Generally, it was poorly written. Homer's classic epic poem about the hero, Odysseus, and his travels home after the infamous ten year battle of Troy, is brought to the silver screen. The gods seize the opportunity to make Odysseus and his crew the pawns in their games; forcing Odysseus to take unbelievable detours that add years to his journey home. These detours throw him into conflict with great mythological creatures like Circe, the Cyclops, and Poseidon, and ultimately bring him into Hades itself. Meanwhile, Odysseus' wife, Penelope, worries that her husband is dead and is forced to fight off suitors who want to claim his kingdom. Through all of this Odysseus must keep faith and fight to find his way back home, with only the aid of the goddess Athena. |
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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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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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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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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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Although Miss Marple wants only to bask quietly at a West Indian resort, she is badgered with boring reminiscences by an overly talkative ex-soldier and policeman, Major Palgrave. Although he claims to possess a picture of a murderer, Miss Marple is more interested in her omnipresent knitting than his long-winded stories. After the hard-drinking Major dies that night of an apparent heart attack, the maid tells her that the blood pressure medication found in his room belongs to another guest. When she later learns that the incriminating picture is missing and the maid is found stabbed to death, Miss Marple correctly predicts that more murders will follow. |
| 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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48 hours in the life of a burnt-out paramedic. Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own. |
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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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| It
[1990,
USA, Canada]
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| The Master of Horror unleashes everything you were ever afraid of. |
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Derry, Maine is a quiet town, terrorized every 30 years by a horror known only as "It". The only victims of "It" are children. Through the form of a clown named Pennywise, "It" wakes up every 30 years and feeds. The adults of Derry act like "It" doesn't happen. Ironically they know about "It", but the events are too horrible to talk about. Seven outcasts, know as The Lucky Seven, Bill, Ben, Beverly, Eddie, Richie, Mike, and Stan are able to defeat "It" as children and make a pact to return and do battle again should the terror return. Now 30 years later, Mike Hanlon who stayed behind, is puzzled by a bizarre occurance of child murders. When he discovers that "It" has come back, he reunites what's left of The Lucky Seven, now in their middle ages to do battle once again, and "It" is ready. The Lucky Seven must now defeat "It" and cure Derry of "The Derry Disease". |
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The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives. |
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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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California is at the epicenter of a political and environmental disaster that threatens to destroy the world in this ambitious fusion of comedy, drama, dystopia science fiction, and music. In the year 2005, a nuclear attack wipes out part of the state of Texas, and three years later America is a virtual police state, with the government taking control of nearly every part of people's lives, supposedly for their own good. A German firm has found a way to generate energy using seawater, but both public and private concerns are desperate to prevent the new technology from being introduced in the gasoline-starved United States. A Marxist underground based on the West Coast is determined to bring down the federal government through violent revolution. In this midst of this chaos, we follow a number of stories that continually return to three principle characters. Boxer Santaros is an actor famous for his role in action films; he's trying to secure financing for a new project, but reality keeps mirroring the events in his script and he struggles to hold on to his identity following a bout with amnesia. Krysta Now is a porn star who is reinventing herself as a television pundit offering her views on politics, contemporary culture, and teenage sex. And Roland Taverner is an L.A. police officer whose identity has mysteriously split in two and he struggles to track down his other half. |
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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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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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