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Drama movies
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After the abduction by the US military of an Islamic religious leader, New York City becomes the target of escalating terrorist attacks. Anthony Hubbard, the head of the FBI's Counter-Intelligence Task Force in New York, teams up with CIA operative Elise Kraft to hunt down the terrorist cells responsible for the attacks. As the bombings continue, the US government responds by declaring martial law, sending US troops, led by Gen. Devereaux, into the streets of New York City. |
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Joe Hickley thinks he's got a great scheme: kidnap the child of rich parents, hold it for 24 hours, keeping the mother under his control while an accomplice gets the ransom from the father, who is on a trip. But things go very wrong when he tries this scheme on the Jennings family, in part because their daughter Abby is asthmatic, and in part because the Jennings' find out more than Hickley wants them to know. |
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This bone-chilling horror movie tells the story of Max Truemont (Josh Holloway), an ex-convict who is determined to give up a life of crime despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion. But he soon discovers that it's tough to get a job if you have a criminal record. In desperate need of money, Max agrees to take one last job to kidnap David Sandborn (Blake Woodruff), the eight-year-old son of the wealthiest woman in the state, for ransom. Along with his fiancée Roxanne (Sarah Wayne Callies) and two shady associates, Max abducts and brings the boy to a secluded hideout in the woods to await further instruction. Much to their dismay, the kidnappers come to realize that their victim is not quite as innocent as he seems... |
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Three young martial arts masters emerge from the back streets of Hong Kong to help the powerless fight injustice. |
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A British intelligence agent, Andy Osnard (Pierce Brosnan), is ruled by two passions: gambling and infatuation with other men's wives. After having a clandestine liaison with an ambassador's mistress, Osnard is exiled to Panama by his boss, Luxmore (David Hayman). This time, he finds himself at the center of political intrigue concerning the Panama Canal treaty. The only one who captures his attention is a prestigious tailor, Harold Pendel (Geoffrey Rush), who works for the Panamanian President and influential embassy officials. Osnard recruits him as an informant, leveraging his checkered past and his huge debt. |
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Based on Mary Shelly's novel, the hair-raising movie tells the sad story of Victor Frankenstein (Kenneth Brannagh), a promising young scientist. The doctor was so devastated by his mother's death during childbirth that he became obsessed with the idea of bringing the deceased back to life, unaware of the consequences of his actions. The result of his experiment with the remains of the corpse and electricity was a simple, seemingly harmless creature (Robert De Niro) which, however, turned into a wrathful and vindictive monster after his ''father'' abandoned him. Dr. Frankenstein wished he had never created him! |
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Nikolai Rodchenko (Mikhail Baryshnikov), a Soviet ballet dancer, defects to the West in the hope of gaining freedom. But when he travels to Japan for a performance, his plane unexpectedly malfunctions and makes an emergency landing on a Soviet military airfield. Nikolai is caught by the KGB that tries to brainwash him into returning to the motherland of his own free will. But he wants to get out of the country and manages to make a daring escape once again. |
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In this world you have to pay for everything. Sometimes you have to pay for some things with your life. U.S. census worker Steve Kady (Jeremy Sisto) learnt this to his cost. Sent to the small town of Rockwell Falls, he started taking the census only to find a population anomaly. Steve noticed that the town's population had remained unchanged for the century. Whenever the census was taken, there were always 436 citizens. Extremely intrigued, Steve tried to find the causes of uncommon stability, without knowing how shocking and lethally dangerous the truth could be... |
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Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you "know wot I mean?" However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal. |
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The thriller tells a tragic story that happens in the US Army. Warrant Officer Paul Brenner (John Travolta) is assigned to investigate the murder of Elisabeth Campbell (Leslie Stefanson), the daughter of the prominent Lieutenant General Campbell (James Cromwell). The young woman, who is an army captain in psychological operations, is found naked, tied to tent poles and strangled. Seven years ago, when Elisabeth was a cadet at West Point, she was brutally beaten and gang-raped by fellow trainees during a training exercise. Her father forced her to keep mum and thus the assailants escaped punishment. The incident itself and the General's deliberate cover-up changed the girl's attitude towards her dad and psychologically damaged her, causing her to become sexually promiscuous. The investigator and his assistant, Sara Sunhill (Madeleine Stowe), find compromising videotapes in a secret room in Elisabeth's house. The grief-stricken General, who is a Vice-Presidential candidate for the upcoming elections, finds himself in a political crisis and wants Brenner to close the investigation... |
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After graduating from Stanford, Milo Hoffman (Ryan Phillippe), a young computer programming genius, is offered a dream job at NURV (Never Underestimate Radical Vision), a multi-billion dollar software corporation, run by Gary Winston (Tim Robbins). Milo expects to make a brilliant career when he suddenly sees Winston and his flourishing company in their true colors. The company is an evil, all-devouring monster that will stop at nothing to win. Milo realizes too late that he is merely a small cog in a cruel machine, a pawn in the game of the cunning billionaire. Will the pawn venture to challenge the Player who can easily flick the piece off the board with his little finger?
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One absurd misunderstanding can turn your life upside down. The easygoing and timid Dave Buznik (Adam Sandler), an executive assistant at a pet products company, is mistaken for an aggressively inclined neurotic. All his attempts to clear himself yield no results, and he is sentenced to attend anger management therapy headed by the eccentric Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson) who is able to turn a phlegmatic person into a schizophrenic. Alas, poor Dave has to go through hell. The enthusiastic, overenergetic doctor is determined to help Dave struggle with his inner demons, making his life a real nightmare. However, if a patient wants to stay alive, medicine is virtually powerless! |
| Mad City
[1997,
USA]
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| One man will make a mistake. The other will make it a spectacle. |
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Max Brackett (Dustin Hoffman), a brilliant journalist has to leave his job after a large-scale scandal at the tv-channel he worked. He can stay at work in only one case: if he will find a Sensation, a country-scale one. He gets a chance, meeting Sam Baily (Travolta, John), a guard who tries to fight for justice having a gun and turning it against his former chiefs and takes some people hostage. Max finds out that these occurence is nothing but a pure coincidence, he is surprised to find himself became the only friend of Sam. The journalist tries to save the man but the colleague reporter from NY wants to place all in a bad light.
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| Pure Country
[1992,
USA]
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| Bright Lights. Hit Songs. Country's biggest star. He'd trade it all to find the kind of love he'd only sung about. |
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Dusty Chandler (Strait) is a super star in the country music world, but his shows have the style of a '70s rock concert. One day he takes a walk - out of his overdone concerts to find his real country roots. He's helped and hindered by friends and staff, but pushes on in his search for a real music style as well as a real romance. |
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Frankie Paige (Patricia Arquette) is an ordinary 23-year-old hairdresser who likes a calm, carefree life, and the last thing she wants to think of is religion. After receiving a gift of the rosary beads that belonged to a now deceased priest in a small town in Brazil, her life swiftly and drastically changes. Frankie begins speaking with another person's voice and suffering from stigmata, the bleeding wounds Jesus Christ received from his crucifixion. The news reaching the Vatican, Cardinal Daniel Houseman (Jonathan Pryce) sends Father Andrew Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne), once a scientist and now an ordained Jesuit priest, to the U.S. to investigate the matter. |
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The story about Swedish ambassador in Chile - Harald Edelstam - and his heroic actions to protect the innocent people from the execution during and after the military coup on September 11th 1973. We travel with Edelstam during the terrible moments just after the coup and follows his never-ending fight for human rights, law and order. What drove him? And what price did he end up paying for his total commitment? Haunted by his own demons the we experiences on close hand how a womanizer desperately searches to find love again, a task only doable, if he can fight his own past and redeem himself. After saving hundreds - maybe even thousands - he is challenged once more, this time to save his newfound love from the death penalty issued by the regime. Another impossible task and a desperate chase against time. Based on a true story about a man, that did, what all of us only dreams of. |
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This erotic drama of an explicit content filmed by Larry Clark (director of a shocking movie of 1995, "Kids") uncovers the personal world of the four teenagers - three boys and one girl. They have various family problems living in Visalia, CA and face the difficulties of becoming adults. Tate (James Ransome), Claude (Stephen Jasso), Shawn (James Bullard) and Peaches (Tiffany Limos) are doing things their parents not think they even know about. Welcome to the forbidden world of the first-time desires, risky sexual experiments and violence; "Ken Park" is a skater park name where a classmate of the main characters commits suicide in the very beginning of the movie. The film was noted at numerous grand festivals in Europe and USA but its explicit content made it almost unsuitable for the distribution in the US. |
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Internet love connections and mail-order brides rarely ever work out, and John (played by Ben Chaplin) should have known. Having never been lucky in the game of love and tired of waiting for the perfect woman to come along, John decides to take his chances and orders a mail-order bride from Russia online. At first, things seem perfect: his new bride Nadia (Nicole Kidman) is a gorgeous woman, and although she may not speak much English, her skills in the bedroom more than make up for any communication problems. When Nadia's 'cousins' unexpectedly arrive to celebrate her birthday, John is drawn into their web of corruption and crime. |
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Set in 18th century England, the movie follows the story of Captain James Macleane (Jonny Lee Miller), a broken aristocrat who escapes from a debtor’s prison with the help of Will Plunkett (Robert Carlyle), once a druggist and now a highwayman. The two combine Plunkett’s criminal know-how and Macleane’s social connections to make a good team for robbing rich gamblers. Things go on wheels until Macleane falls for gorgeous Lady Rebecca Gibson (Liv Tyler), the niece of Chief Justice Gibson (Michael Gambon).
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Chris Vaughn (The Rock) is recently retired from the military service, he finds his hometown turned into the place invaded by crime, violence and drugs. Since local Sheriff Bufford Pusser had lost his beloved wife, he is mentally crashed and, in fact, almost inept. Chris finds out, that the man who is guilty of causing such dilapidation of the town is none other than his former school rival keeping the doubtful casino, where an ex of Chris works as a dancer. Jay Hamilton (Neal McDonough), a casino owner, has also closed the lumber mill which caused severe unemployment. Taking on sheriff's duties, Chris, a tough guy with strong military skills, have to try to fight his sweet hometown back. |
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