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Drama movies
| Alibi, The
[2006,
USA]
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| Planning a lunchtime rendezvous or an elicit affair and don't want anyone to find out? Do you need an alibi? Then Ray Elliot is here to help. (1 more taglines...) |
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Ray Elliott manages alibi service for men and women who want to spend some time separately from their so-called beloved. Ray's life could be much better, if the wealthiest client's son wouldn't run away with some girl... just before his upcoming wedding. |
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The biopic follows the life and career of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali (Will Smith) also known as ‘The Greatest’. He was the only boxer to become the world’s heavyweight champion three times. He was born in 1942 and was called Cassius Clay. When in 1954 somebody stole his new bike, Ali couldn’t stand up for himself, so he went to a gym to learn how to fight. Ali trained six days a week and was soon really good at running, skipping and, of course, boxing. In 1964 Clay converted to Islam and changed his name to Muhammad Ali. The movie depicts his rise and fall in sports and politics, including forfeiture of his boxing license and championship title for his principled refusal to serve in the military during the Vietnam War and his comeback battles against Joe Frazier and George Foreman. |
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Mort Rainey's (Johnny Depp) life is getting worse gradually in this adaptation of Stephen King's novella. Mort is a recently divorced writer who decides to take some time off at his cottage. His lack of energy and creativity left him incapable of even stringing a simple sentence together notwithstanding the former success. In addition, Mort finds himself beleaguered by a psychotic stranger (John Turturro) who claims Rainey plagiarized his story idea and demands satisfaction. Though Rainey claims he's done nothing wrong, the stranger isn't pacified, instead growing more and more threatening. As Mort's wife (Maria Bello) pushes him to complete their separation and Shooter methodically destroys his life, he struggles to restore order to an increasingly insane situation. When Shooter's demands turn to murder Rainey involves in a private detective (Timothy Hutton) for help. But the horror spirals out of control on and on, Mort soon discovers he can't trust anyone or anything. The ending of this psychological thriller is really shocking and horrifying as the writer of "Panic Room", David Koepp, and Johnny Depp, 2003 Best Actor (Pirates of the Caribbean) do their best. |
| John Q
[2002,
USA]
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| Give a father no options and you leave him no choice. |
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Loss of consciousness turns out to be a symptom of the deadly threat for the young boy, who collapses during the baseball match, and his parents get to know the kid is urgently needs an urgent heart transplantation that won't be covered by insurance. The father (Denzel Washington) finds himself in a blind alley as his beloved son can suddenly die, and the man takes the severe measures risking his life and even the lives of the hospital personnel. The hospital is taken hostage, police negotiators try to do something when the team of the doctors has to operate. This desperate race against time can become the last trial for every participant... |
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A destitute 14 year old (Noah Fleiss) struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's (Karen Young) hands, harsher abuse at his father's (Val Kilmer), and a growing separation from his slightly older brother (Max Ligosh). Petty thefts for food grow into more major takes until he steals a cash box from the diner where he works. Although Joe uses the money to pay off some of his father's debts and to replace his mother's records that his father smashed in a fit of temper, Joe gets no thanks... |
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Peter (Bettany) is a typical loser and his private life is slack as well as his tennis career. By some unknown chance, this wannabe staying at the very end of the world tennis rating becomes a participant of the prestige Wimbledon tournament. That's where he meet Lizzy Bradbury (Dunst) who is a star of american tennis, and soon he falls for her. Inbspired by the new-found love and new-found mastership on the grass of the prestigious tennis court, Peter's position at the tournament score goes higher and higher. A little bit more luck and he will... win the Champion goblet! Will his dream incarnate into reality? |
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BBC Adaption of Agatha Christie's novel. In the small village of St. Mary Mead, Colonel and Mrs. Bantry, owner of the local manor - Gossington Hall is shocked when one morning a young lady's body is found in the library. They call in the police who soon run up against a brick wall, only finding out that the body is that of a dancer in London who the Bantry's didn't even know. But how and why was her body left in the library? To find out the truth, the Bantry's call in the help of their good friend and detective - Miss Jane Marple. |
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A dramatization of Mark Champman's plan to murder John Lennon. |
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A small town girl runs into big time trouble as she takes on her roommates identity as a dominatrix to pay the bills. |
| Jacknife
[1989,
USA]
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| Three buddies in Vietnam. Two survived. Only one is really alive. |
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A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle they both survived. |
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An elite team of Navy SEALS led by Lieutenant A.K. Waters (Bruce Willis) is given a special assignment to go to the Nigerian jungle. Their mission is to seek and release Dr. Lena Kendricks (Monica Bellucci) from captivity. When they find the doctor in a godforsaken small village, Kendricks refuses to leave the dangerous area. She begs Waters to escort the villagers she has been caring for to the nearby border of Cameroon where they will be granted political asylum. The goal of the mission is radically changed as Waters’ group must race against time to reach a border town before the enormous army of rebels can ambush and take prisoner them. |
| Bat*21
[1988,
USA]
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| Trapped behind enemy lines. A whole army after him... And only one man can save him. |
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During the Vietnam war, a U.S. observation plane is hit by a missile. The only survivor of the crew is the Lieutenant Colonel Iceal Hambleton, an expert in missile weaponry. Because of his knowledge, it is crucial to rescue him before the Vietcong get their hands on him. It's a very difficult task because the enemy is listening to Hambleton's radio transmissions. And he knows it... |
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A local criminal authority, cop-killing mobster Marion Bishop is being transferred to soon-to-be-closed Precinct 13 at the New Year's Eve. Few cops and several cons are closed there by a snowstorm, which has stopped the prison bus on its way to a more secure destination. Despite everything, cops are going to celebrate the holiday, but their plans will fail not even due to Bishop's colleagues intending his release. Sudden assault of the men in white upsets his hopes to set himself free and even to survive. |
| Honkytonk Man
[1982,
USA]
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| The boy is on his way to becoming a man. The man is on his way to becoming a legend. |
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As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the missus' brother. A roguish country-western musician, he has just been invited to audition for the Grand Ole Opry, his chance of a lifetime to become a success. However, this is way back in Nashville, Red clearly drives terribly, and he's broke and sick with tuberculosis to boot. Whit, 14, seeing his own chance of a lifetime to avoid "growing up to be a cotton picker all my life," begs Ma to let him go with Uncle Red as driver and protege. Thus begins a picaresque journey both hilarious and poignant. |
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A man in a suit at a Manhattan firm leaves work on Friday; he looks unhappy. He stops at a fortune teller's for a Tarot reading: "You are not where you belong," she tells him. That evening he quits his marriage and walks the streets of New York, passing from a classy bar to a gentleman's club, then to a high-class bordello, a mugging, a pawnshop, and a diner where someone does listen. He shares his insights with her and later with others. Violence, disappointment, and musings entwine as Edmond loses his moorings while believing he's found them. Where does he belong? |
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Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins), a classics professor at a small New England college town, is fired after accusations of racism. His wife Iris (Phyllis Newman) takes it to heart and passes away. Coleman, broken-hearted and depressed, tries to redeem his honour but he soon finds consolation in a love affair with a local janitor, Faunia Farely (Nicole Kidman), a tempting woman half his age. The relations get strained when it turns out that both Coleman and Faunia have the dark secrets they have kept for many years. It’s high time they revealed all the secrets. |
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Some years after U.S. President George W. Bush has been assassinated following an economic speech and massive demonstration of antiwar protesters in Chicago, an investigative documentary recounts the events of the fateful day, presenting interviews with all the people somehow involved in the case. They include various government officials, journalists, witnesses and suspects who comment on their association with the tragic event and the disturbing implications of what occurred. |
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Rannulph Junnah is the best golfer in Savannah. He's living well and has a girl, Adele Invergordon, who's the daughter of a wealthy landowner. The First World War starts, though, and Junnah goes to Europe to fight. The only survivor of a dangerous mission, Junnah doesn't return to Savannah for 15 years. In 1930, he returns, and Adele's father has already committed suicide during the Depression. Pressured by tax collectors to sell the golf course her father built to pay off debts, Adele, now older, vows to bring to Savannah the greatest match ever played on the greatest golf course, her late father's. She's able to round up the 2 greatest golfers of their time, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen to play for $10,000. The townspeople insist on having "one of their own" compete also, and Rannulph Junnah is rounded up. Junnah now hangs out with bums and is an alcoholic, as he has lost his authentic swing from 15 years ago. At first he turns down the offer. He gets his old clubs and balls and starts practicing. He has lost his ability. Suddenly, Bagger Vance shows up. He offers to be Junnahs's caddy and help him regain his "authentic swing". He does, and Junnah agrees to play in the big match. |
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In a near-empty Northfork orphanage, Father Harlan gently tends to Irwin, a eight-year-old who lies between a dreamstate and death. As orphanage caretaker Harlan reads aloud about Northfork's years-ago forced evacuation to make way for a hydro-electric dam, Irwin's imagination takes flight. While a team of six men evacuate the last remaining citizens of the town, Irwin, too, invents a cast of characters to prepare himself for his own evacuation. |
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Ewan McGregor stars as a cleaning man in L.A. who takes his boss's daughter hostage after being fired and replaced by a robot. Two "angels" who are in charge of human relationships on earth, offer some unsolicited help to bring this unlikely couple together. The "angels" are so successful that the daughter soon turns on her father in order to save her captor. |
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