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Drama movies
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A single woman in her mid-thirties, Jennifer Aniston's heroine Olivia quits teaching for a maid work and to think her life over. She feels she's reached a turning point in her life. She wants to feel the support of her married friends – Christine, Jane and Franny. Their material and matrimonial basis seems to be so solid and stable, but some of them find collaborating with own husband boring, another one became unconcerned to one another with her man as lovers and friends, and the other couple got emotionally exhausted as well. And nothing more? This comedy drama was created by Nicole Holofcener (director, writer), who previously made the welcomed independent films Walking and Talking and Lovely & Amazing. |
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In this study of Generation X manners, Lelaina, the valedictorian of her college class, camcords her friends in a mock documentary of posteducation life. Troy is her best friend, a perpetually unemployed musical slacker. Vickie is a manager at the Gap who worries about the results of an AIDS test, while Sammy has problems grappling with his sexuality. When Lelaina meets Michael, an earnest video executive who takes her homemade video to his MTV-like station, she must decide what she values--the materialism of yuppie Michael or the philosophical musings of Troy. |
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Professional quarterback Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler), a former NFL player, and former college champion and coach Nate Scarborough (Burt Reynolds) are doing time in the same prison. Tough warden Hazen (James Cromwell) decides to organize a soccer match between the guards and the inmates and forces Paul to assemble his team. Yet, he tries to persuade Crewe to lose the game in exchange of his early release. The convicts willingly unite when they discover that the guards will be their rivals. They see the forthcoming game as a golden opportunity to exact some revenge on the sadistic warders. |
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Frank Castle's family was murdered as a payback for his final FBI undercover assignment when the son of a criminal-minded, ruthless businessman named Howard Saint (John Travolta) was mistakenly killed by Castle. He had lost any confidence in the police & courts to put the killer of the family and his thugs behind the bars and aims to wreak vengeance by tracking down the offenders responsible for the demise. He has no superpowers to battle the evil he sees - only his ferocious intelligence, his years of fighting experience and, above all, his iron determination to avenge those rejected by society's criminals. Dave (Ben Foster), Bumpo (John Pinette), and Joan (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) are the Castle's fellow outcasts combined with him to get the job done as he hunts down Saint. Thrilling stunt work, gunfights, and huge explosions are abundant in this creation of Jonathan Hensleigh's directorial mind. |
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Liu Jian, a police officer from China, comes to Paris to help the vice squad apprehend a Chinese drug lord and his unknown French connection. The French connection is Richard, the head of the vice squad, who intends to kill the drug lord then frame Jian. Jian ducks a bullet and escapes with a tape of what really happened. By chance, Jian turns to Jessica - a US farm girl who is one of Richard's hookers - for help. She has her own problems, including the fact that Richard has her daughter locked in an orphanage to keep Jessica on the streets and silent about his activities. Can Jian protect Jessica, rescue her daughter, and give Richard the kiss of the dragon? |
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A New Orleans detective is leading an investigation into a killer who is raping and murdering women. His enquiries lead him into the seedy side of town where he is no stranger off-duty. All this contrasts with his home life as a single parent with two young girls. Then on the case he meets rape counsellor Beryl Thibodeaux with whom a relationship possibly offering some normalcy starts to develop. |
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This tale of Beowulf, a medieval warrior who arrived in a time of need to assist King Hrothgar when his kingdom was attacked by the monster Grendel, is an adaptation from the Anglo-Saxon epic poem. As a soldier, Beowulf is not used to hesitating, he leads the troop of Norse warriors ahead to the village besieged by the monster. In search for the vicious and elusive Grendel, he crosses paths with Selma (Sarah Polley), a beautiful and voluptuous witch whose alliances are divided between Beowulf and his enemy. |
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"KOKODA!" is an action-adventure drama set in modern day Papua New Guinea. It is about the head to head clash of two veterans of the WWII campaign, who find themselves on Kokoda once again, some 50 years later.
Their younger charges, an injured pilot and two reluctant locals accompany them. The audience and our characters, are all taken on a roller coaster journey over the old battleground. Confronted by nature's fury and demons from the past, we have a cross cultural, cross generational conflict with their environment, themselves and each other. |
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A story of several intertwined characters unfolds in this comedy drama when their paths cross in unexpected ways during the holiday season. Rose Harrison's (Susan Sarandon) mother is interned in a hospital with Alzheimer's disease, Rose is a middle-aged divorcee who use to visit her mother often. Robin Williams plays the mysterious fellow who later prevents her from possibly jumping in the East River. Mike is engaged to marry the beautiful Nina (Penélope Cruz), but he's so consumed with jealousy and suspicion that she's not sure if she can go through with the wedding. Meantime, Mike (Paul Walker) portrays a police officer who has become the obsessive focus of an elderly waiter, Artie (Alan Arkin), who is convinced Mike is the reincarnation of his late wife. Paul Walker's character reveals great depths of painful feeling as the cop struggling to save his future family. Chazz Palminteri, well-known as an actor, directed this, his first feature film. Though set in New York, the movie was filmed in Montreal. |
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A usual ad in a newspaper can become the beginning of the true nightmare. Elli Jones (Bridget Fonda), a modeler, had found not only a shy lodger, but a woman, who began to imitate her style, manners and even the life. This suspense drama tells that still waters run deep: who seemed a shy, timid person, in reality is... you'd better watch yourself, who she is.
Jennifer Jason Lee plays Hedra 'Hedy' Carlson here. |
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The young, sickly King Einon was wounded in a battle. In order for him to survive, he is healed by Draco, a dragon. Some years later, Bowen, a dragon slayer, encounters Draco. The two team up to form a traveling duo that perform an act, but the act is only known by themselves. Bowen supposedly "slays" Draco and then collects a reward from the town or village that he protects by killing the dragon who had been "terrorizing" them. From there, Bowen and Draco must save the entire kingdom from the rule of the now evil King Einon, who is part of Draco and Draco a part of him. |
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Former pro golf player Roy McAvoy (Kevin Costner), surnamed Tin Cup for his talent, lives in the tiny West Texas town of Salome and ruins himself by drinking. Everything goes wrong in his life. Financial problems force him to work as a driving range instructor. One day beautiful psychiatrist Dr. Molly Griswold (Rene Russo) arrives at his driving range wanting to take golf lessons. She turns out to be the girlfriend of Roy's nemesis, calculating and low-down golfer David Simms (Don Johnson), who is said to hate 'people, kids and dogs.' Roy becomes immediately attracted to Molly. Inspired by her psychotherapy sessions, Roy decides to qualify for and play in the U.S. Open. Roy is determined to compete with Simms, win the most difficult tournament and thus win the heart of Molly. |
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A friendship between two twenty-something men—both named Gerry—is tested to its very limits when they go on a hike in an impossibly large desert and forget to bring any water or food with them |
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Zack Bradley (Matt Dillon) gets fired from his job and dumped by his fiancée Sara (Christina Applegate) in one day which had started out badly and quickly devolved into outright catastrophe. David's best friend, Jack (Steve Zahn), is determined to help cheer up David, Jack is an eccentric who makes his living stealing from corpses. When a bank robbery and a large sum of cash enter the picture, it becomes apparent that the disastrous and madcap events have just begun. |
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A beautiful, wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on reality... |
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In 1989, Nino Brown, a small time drug dealer, is convinced by one of his fellow thugs that the wave of the future is in the cocaine derivative, crack. Brown sees potential in crack and sets out to establish himself as chief kingpin by killing off his rivals and even going as far as to take over a whole apartment complex. Out to stop him are undercover cops Scottie Appleton and Nick Paretti. Appleton especially wants to get Nino because of the fact that he murdered Scottie's mother as part of a gang initiaton. Also involved is Pookie, a former crackhead who wants to bring down Nino as well. |
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The hilarious British comedy depicts an episode in the life of Albert Steptoe (Wilfred Brambell) and his son Harold (Harry H. Corbett), two carefree junk dealers living peacefully together in the junk yard. All goes well until Harold, who likes visiting hot spots, becomes enamoured of an alluring stripper named Zita (Carolyn Seymour). He loves her so much that he decides to marry her. But when Harold takes his wife home, Albert flies into a rage and schemes to turn his daughter-in-law out of doors by all means. |
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During Harry Houdini's tour of Britain in 1926, the master escapologist enters into a passionate affair with a Scottish psychic. The psychic and her daughter attempt to con Houdini during a highly publicized séance to contact his mother whose death has haunted him for many years. However all does not go to plan... |
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Danny "Mean Machine" Meehan (Vinnie Jones), a famous British football captain, goes to jail for drunk driving and assaulting police officers. Governor (David Hemmings), a devoted football supporter, pays a large sum of money for Danny to be sent just in his jail because he wants 'Mean Machine' to coach a team of prison guards. However, Danny realizes that if he agrees, he will never go at large. Therefore he offers to assemble a team of convicts, who can play practice games against the guards. Without much foresight, the warden accepts the offer... |
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