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Drama movies
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In a mountainous South American country, drug-dealing rebels kidnap Peter Bowman, a US engineer who works for an oil company's subsidiary. The company calls in a negotiator, Terry Thorne, an Aussie ex-soldier based in London. When the subsidiary goes bankrupt, the oil company washes its hands of the matter and pulls Thorne. Bowman's wife Alice begs him to stay. She and Peter's sister cobble together some money, Thorne talks ransom terms with the cash-strapped rebels, and Peter, chained high in the mountains, is sustained by a photo of Alice. When the politics of the situation change, so must Thorne's strategy. And what can Alice and he do about the attraction growing between them? |
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Jumanji is a board game, magic and dangerous, as two teenagers found it out and buried Jumanji in distant 1869. Now the young descendant of the same family Alan Parrish (Adam Hann-Byrd, Robin Williams) digs the game out and begins to play it along with his mate Sarah (Laura Bell Bundy, Bonnie Hunt). Then the game makes it clear that it is really perilous as the boy flies away into the distant jungle. Later, other members of the family begin expirience the shock of using the game, they should try to return Alan Parrish from the magic depths of the game keeping in mind that all the monstrous entities which are bred by it will disappear in the only certain case: if the game will be won.
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The comedy drama tells the story of Alfie Elkins (Jude Law), a charming British limousine driver living in New York and having an extraordinary genius for seducing any beautiful woman. One day he sleeps with a well-to-do widow who yearns for touching, hugging, snuggling, caressing, etc, the next day he goes to bed with an enchanting single-mother who dotes on the philanderer. His carefree existence is threatened to come to an end when one of his mistresses, Lonette (Nia Long), becomes pregnant. Will the inveterate womanizer and convinced bachelor be able to change his lifestyle and shift his focus from women to the paternity? |
| Four Rooms
[1995,
USA]
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| Twelve outrageous guests. Four scandalous requests. And one lone bellhop, in his first day on the job, who's in for the wildest New year's Eve of his life. |
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This movie features the collaborative directorial efforts of four new filmmakers, each of whom directs a segment of this comedy. It's New Year's Eve at the Mon Signor Hotel, a former grand old Hollywood hotel, now fallen upon hard times. Often using physical comedy and sight gags, this movie chronicles the slapstick misadventures of Ted, the Bellhop. He's on his first night on the job, when he's asked to help out a coven of witches in the Honeymoon Suite. Things only get worse when he delivers ice to the wrong room and ends up in a domestic argument at a really bad time. Next, he foolishly agrees to watch a gangster's kids for him while he's away. Finally, he finishes off the night refereeing a ghastly wager. |
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Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath, London, the film investigates the minutiae of seven couples. What makes us tick? |
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Promising football player Brandon Lane (Matthew McConaughey) sustains a serious knee injury which puts the kibosh on his football career. Failing professional options he takes a job in a telephone service foretelling the outcome of games for sports betters. His talent to pick the winners soon attracts the attention of Walter Abrams (Al Pacino) who runs a large sports prognosticating business. He lures Brandon to join his enterprise, hoping to make lots of money off him. Brandon changes his name and personality and the perilous game starts!
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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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Jackie Dorsey is the daughter of 1992 Winter Olympics Gold medalists Kate Moseley and Doug Doursey. She grows up with ambitions of winning her own Olympic gold but that ambition seems to come to an end when she has a career threatening injury. Enter Alex Harrison as her new pairs skate partner and a new chance at Olympic Gold. But can they set aside their stubbornness long enough to actually win the game? |
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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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The drama follows an 11-year-old girl's struggle to come to terms with her mother's abandonment. |
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Berlin, July, 1945. Journalist Jake Geismer arrives to cover the Potsdam conference, issued a captain's uniform for easier passage. He also wants to find Lena, an old flame who's now a prostitute desperate to get out of Berlin. He discovers that the driver he's assigned, a cheerful down-home sadist named Corporal Tully, is Lena's keeper. When the body of a murdered man washes up in Potsdam (within the Russian sector), Jake may be the only person who wants to solve the crime: U.S. personnel are busy finding Nazis to bring to trial, the Russians and the Americans are looking for German rocket scientists, and Lena has her own secrets. |
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Lions for Lambs begins after two determined students at a West Coast University, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. But when the two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan, Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field, they become the string that binds together two disparate stories on opposite sides of America. In California, an anguished Dr. Malley attempts to reach a privileged but disaffected student who is the very opposite of Arian and Ernest. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. the charismatic Presidential hopeful, Senator Jasper Irving, is about to give a bombshell story to a probing TV journalist that may affect Arian and Ernest's fates. |
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Three Toronto women - a housewife/painter at leisure, a photojournalist and a famous cellist find themselves crisis-ridden. Olivia (Sophia Loren) decides that it is time to reveal her secret sketching, Natalia (Mira Sorvino) a well-known photographer, wants to know something about the destiny of an Angolan child who was a subject of her photography. Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger), as skillful cello player, leaves home to find her father who is responsible for interrupting her mother's life. She seeks revenge notwithstanding her father had mentally changed through the years. Three women are perfect strangers, but their destinies are intertwined by common visions, thoughts and their inward life. Gérard Depardieu, Klaus-Maria Brandauer and Malcolm McDowell are also starring in this movie directed by Edoardo Ponti, who happens to be Loren's son. |
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Shot on-location in Australia, this is the second television adaptation of Steven King's Salem's Lot. Ben Mears (Rob Lowe), a journalist with traumatic memories of his haunted childhood returns to find his hometown being almost invaded by vampires. Decedes ago, as a boy he took a dare and broke into the Marsten House, a local mansion having a misfortune of discovering the corpses resulting from a scandalous murder or suicide. In present, he returns to find that a mysterious antiques dealer (Donald Sutherland) and his mysterious business partner (Rutger Hauer) have moved into the Marsten House. Townspeople begin disappearing soon... only to return, flying by the window frames of their loved ones and begging to be let in. Only Ben and a few allies of him are convinced that something unholy has overtaken their town... something from the haunting nightmares of Rob Lowe's character. |
| Perfect Storm, The
[2000,
USA, Germany]
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| In the Fall of 1991, the "Andrea Gail" left Gloucester, Mass. and headed for the fishing grounds of the North Atlantic. Two weeks later, an event took place that had never occurred in recorded history. (4 more taglines...) |
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Billy Tyne is a sword-fishing-boat captain out of Gloucester, highly competitive and stung by a string of poor outings. His crew is hardly back in port when he tells them he's going out again, even though it's October and the weather can turn ugly. Five join him: the young Bobby, newly in love; Murph, a devoted father recently divorced; Sully, a guy Murph despises; Bugsy, who's finally met a woman who likes him; and Alfred, a quiet Jamaican. They catch little, so they sail east, with Tyne ignoring storm warnings behind him. Finally, the fish bite, but the ice machine fails. Should they head home through the storm of the century, or wait it out and lose their catch? Fearful, the women wait. |
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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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Dr. Jack Gramm (Al Pacino), a university professor and forensic psychiatrist for the FBI, suffers the unenviable fate of having received an anonymous phone call saying that he has only 88 minutes to live. Keeping his head right, Jack endeavours to use all his skills and know-how so as to figure out a killer before he manages to execute his nefarious plan. Among the possible suspects are Jon Forster (Neal McDonough), a serial killer on death row, Sara Pollard (Leah Cairns), a woman he had one night stand with, and some problematic students having a grudge against him.
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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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Claire Kubik (Ashley Judd) is a successful defense attorney - she has the perfect career, happy marriage... But once she gets to know something about her husband Tom's (Jim Caviezel) past - he turned out to be a government secret agent who is now arrested for a military high crime: somebody has killed seven civil people during the mission in the 1980s and Tom is apparently a scapegoat. She is to defend him in the top-secret military court, encountering lots of unfamiliar rules and strict directions. But what is more difficult is to risk her career, at the same time being uncertain about her husband's guilty... |
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