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Drama movies
| Revolver
[2005,
UK, France]
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| The greatest trick that he ever pulled was making you believe that he is you. |
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In this Guy Ritchie's highly stylized crime drama a recently released ex-convict hotshot gambler Jake (Jason Statham) sets into motion a complex revenge plot against the man who killed his sister-in-law and put him behind bars. Being rarely allowed to play in the casinos because he's a winner, he is invited to sit in on a private game when he beats an opponent in the person of his foe, a gangster Dorothy Macha (Ray Liotta), and humiliates him. Dorothy sends a hitman to kill Jake, but there are some people who help Jake to protect himself and who are out to take gone-too-far Dorothy down. |
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Based on the novel, a young gypsy becomes a Minister's obsession in 1483. Only the bell ringer and her husband and the court of miracles can save her. |
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Arnie Cunningham is a typical high school nerd who is picked on, overruled by his parents, and has very few friends. Until he meets Christine, a run-down 1958 Plymouth Fury and buys her. Arnie learns that Christine has a thing for him and devotes his time to restoring her to Mint Condition. But overtime, Arnie begins to change and becomes disconnected with reality and his friends. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis find out that Christine's previous owner cared about nothing else when he bought her and find out that Arnie is becoming just like him. The only way they can bring Arnie back to reality is to destroy Christine, But Arnie and Christine are ready to destroy them first and any one else who gets in their way. |
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In the 15th century, France was entangled in the Hundred Years' War with England. When the country seemed to be threatened with its inevitable downfall, Joan of Arc (Milla Jovovich), a 17-year-old illiterate peasant girl, appeared at the court of the French Dauphin, Charles (John Malkovich). She claimed that she had been instructed by the Lord to lead troops into a holy battle and defend their land against the aggressors. Inspired by the charismatic, self-confident, strong and fearless maiden, warriors won a victory over the English at Orleans. A year later, Joan was captured by the Burgundian and sold to their allies, the English, who tried her for heresy and burnt alive at the stake. In 1456, she was pronounced innocent. In 1920, Joan of Arc was declared a national heroine and canonized a saint. |
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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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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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A border agent involved in drug smuggling decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market. |
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A romantic comedy set against the backdrop of America's nascent pro-football league in 1925. Dodge Connolly, a charming, brash football hero, is determined to guide his team from bar brawls to packed stadiums. But after the players lose their sponsor and the entire league faces certain collapse, Dodge convinces a college football star to join his ragtag ranks. The captain hopes his latest move will help the struggling sport finally capture the country's attention. Welcome to the team Carter Rutherford, America's favorite son. A golden-boy war hero who single-handedly forced multiple German soldiers to surrender in WWI, Carter has dashing good looks and unparalleled speed on the field. This new champ is almost too good to be true, and Lexie Littleton aims to prove that's the case. A cub journalist playing in the big leagues, Lexie is a spitfire newswoman who suspects there are holes in Carter's war story. But while she digs, the two teammates start to become serious off-field rivals for her fickle affections. As the new game of pro-football becomes less like the freewheeling sport he knew and loved, Dodge must both fight to keep his guys together and to get the girl of his dreams. Finding that love and football have a surprisingly similar playbook, however, he has one maneuver he will save just for the fourth quarter... |
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Gene Watson (Johnny Depp) is an ordinary public accountant returning home from his ex-wife's funeral and is met by Mr Smith (Christopher Walken) and Ms. Jones (Roma Maffia) who kidnap his daughter (Courtney Chase) and give him a gun, six bullets, a name-tag that will give him access to anywhere in a specific hotel, and the itinerary of Governor Grant (Marsha Mason) and is informed that he must kill the Governor in 1 hour and 15 minutes or his daughter will die. The rest of the movie follows Mr. Watson as he desperately attempts to warn the Governor without the knowledge of the two and finds out that the conspiracy against her reaches all the way to those she trusts most. |
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After an accident in a tunnel, a forensics expert (Denzel Washington) is left as a quadriplegic who is able only to move his head and one finger. Setting his finger to a computer, he is able to manipulate his environment with the help of a loving nurse (Queen Latifah). Even so, fearing seizures that could leave him a vegetable, he plans his "transition" with the help of a hesitational doctor friend. That all changes when he is confronted with clues from a serial killer that obviously are pointed to forensics investigation. The case clearly re-invokes his interest in life. A sharp, young cop's quick thinking saves the first crime scene. Recognizing her talent for forensics, he brings her (Angelina Jolie) unwillingly into forensics detection. Through radio contact, she becomes his eyes and legs on the scene. Michael Rooker also appears as the police captain, who has bungled earlier killings by the serial killer and is more interested in the press than in good police work. Ed O'Neill and Luis Guzman are support staff who aid Washington and run interference with Rooker. |
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This breath-taking thriller revolves around Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) and Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith), a middle class young couple who purchase their dream house – a fabulous mansion in the upscale San Francisco neighborhood of Pacific Heights. In order to pay the huge mortgage payments, they decide to rent two apartments on the first floor. Everything goes well until they meet a charming, elegant, smooth-talking and prosperous looking man named Carter Hayes (Michael Keaton) who seems to be an ideal tenant. When Carter moves in, he turns the couple's peaceful life into a living hell by refusing to pay his rent, making annoying humming noises in the middle of the night and breeding cockroaches in his apartment. The psychotic tenant schemes to drive his landlords to bankruptcy and then buy their property cheaply at mortgage foreclosure sales. When Hayes moves from what remains of the apartment in search of a new victim, Patty tracks him down to wreak her vengeance... |
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A rock group arrives onboard of the Missouri battleship which is soon to be decommissioned, and the party is to be held to celebrate the occassion. But several nuclear missiles still are on the ship; it turns out to be that the rockers are none other than disguised terrorists, and these guys do their best to take control over Missouri. Captain is killed, Government turns upside-down as the mercenaries begin to threaten with the nuclear attack. But onboard is Casey Ryback (Steven Seagal). He is a cook, but his military skills are not forgotten, moreover, his tactics and strategy can destroy every one of his foes. Captain was his good friend, so the terrorists are doomed all to a man. Somewhere onboard hides a Playboy's supermodel, which was to perform a strip-dance during the celebration; she is also to be rescued and taught how to make an explosive using a common cocoa butter and other (at first site harmless) components. This action thriller became a classic of the genre. |
| Class Action
[1991,
USA]
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| For the plaintiff...Jedediah Tucker Ward. For the defense...Margaret Eleanor Ward. Nothing Personal. It's just Father Vs. Daughter in the fight of their lives. (1 more taglines...) |
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Jeb Ward is an attorney who specializes in whistle blower, David vs. Goliath, type cases. He finds a client who is suing an auto company over a safety problem that has had a severe effect on his life after the accident. He must replace the current atorney and be ready for trial quickly, and then he finds that the defense atorney will be his estranged daughter. |
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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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"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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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. |
| City by the Sea
[2002,
USA]
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| When you're searching for a killer... the last suspect you want to see is your son. |
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Detective Vincent LaMarca (Robert DeNiro) is an ideal campaigner whose incorruptible reputation is known well. But this cop has a skeleton in the cupboard: his father was executed for the murder many years ago, a child was killed. Vincent is an incarnated atonement; "serving and protecting", he does his best to expiate his father's crime. But the poison seed' sprouts of the past are bitter and dire: LaMarca gets to know the part of his own son Joey (James Franco) in the crimes of the present; this awful knowledge obliges him to make the difficult choice between his professional duty and the love for his son. This film is based on the real events being an outstanding one between the other crime-themed movies. |
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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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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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American Special Forces arrest Russian General Ivan Radek (Jürgen Prochnow) who has taken over Kazakhstan and set up a dictatorship that has resulted in the death of thousands of people. James Marshall (Harrison Ford), the President of the USA, visits Moscow and makes a speech on the USA's get-tough policy with regard to the dictatorial regime and terrorism. On the flight back to Washington, a group of Russian nationalists disguised as newspaper reporters and led by the Ivan Korshunov (Gary Oldman) seize the plane and take the passengers hostage. They want the President to release General Radek from prison and threaten to kill the hostages unless their demands are met. Everybody is sure that the President manages to escape from the plane in an emergency capsule. However, Marshall, a combat hero in the Vietnam War, considers it to be his duty to stay on board to rescue the hostages and regain control of the plane. |
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