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Girl, Interrupted
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Brittany Murphy, Winona Ryder, Jared Leto, Vanessa Redgrave, Jeffrey Tambor, Clea DuVall
Country: Germany, USA
Directors: James Mangold
Year: 1999
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Susanna is rushed to the hospital. Afterwards she discusses this with a psychiatrist. She had been having some delusions. She had also been having an affair with the husband of her parents' friend. The doctor suggests that combining a bottle of aspirin and a bottle of vodka was a suicide attempt. This she denies. He recommends a short period of rest at Claymoore. Claymoore is a private mental hospital full of noisy, crazy people. Georgina is a pathological liar. Polly has been badly scarred by fire. Daisy won't eat in the presence of other people. Lisa is a sociopath, the biggest exasperation for the staff - like Nurse Valerie - and the bigge...
Hans Christian Andersen
Genres: Family / Musical / Romance / Biography
Starring: Farley Granger, John Brown, John Qualen, George Chandler, Danny Kaye, Zizi Jeanmaire, Joseph Walsh
Country: USA
Directors: Charles Vidor
Year: 1952
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A completely fabricated biography of the famous Danish fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen featuring several of his stories and a ballet performance of "The Little Mermaid".
Julius Caesar
Genres: Drama / History / War / Biography
Starring: Christopher Walken, Sean Pertwee, Chris Noth, Jeremy Sisto, Ian Duncan, Valeria Golino, Richard Harris
Country: Germany, USA, Netherlands
Directors: Uli Edel
Year: 2002
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The story of the rise and fall of the Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar, born July 13, 100 B.C., and starting his career as a young Roman with visions of greatness for the Eternal City. When Sulla conquers Rome with his troops, Caesar is one of the very few to stand up against the despotic dictator. This impresses Pompeius, Sulla's general, and he protects the young man, who is a nephew of Marius, a well known veteran, against the wrath of Sulla. After Sulla's death, Caesar returns from exile and starts his political career. Caesar's daughter Julia marries general and senator Pompeius, and Caesar takes Pompeius' troops in order to simply safe...
Elvis
Genres: Drama / Biography / Music
Starring: Rose McGowan, Jack Noseworthy, Camryn Manheim, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Robert C. Treveiler, Randy Quaid, Tim Guinee
Country: Germany, USA
Directors: James Steven Sadwith
Year: 2005
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
A chronicle of the life of Elvis Presley (Rhys Meyers), from his humble beginnings to his rise to international stardom.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Max von Sydow, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Country: USA, France
Directors: Julian Schnabel
Year: 2007
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Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Control
Genres: Drama / Biography / Music
Starring: Sam Riley, Toby Kebbell, Joe Anderson, Samantha Morton, Matthew McNulty, Alexandra Maria Lara, Harry Treadaway
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Directors: Anton Corbijn
Year: 2007
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Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band, of which the name in the meantime has been changed to Joy Division, gets more and more successful. Even though Debbie and he become parents, their relationship is going downhill rapidly and Ian starts an affair with Belgium Annik whom he met after one of the gigs and he's almost never at home. Ian also suffers from epilepsy and has no-good medication for it. He doesn't know how to handle the feelings he has for Debbie and Annik and the pressure the popularity of Joy ...
Cry Freedom
Starring: Denzel Washington, Kevin McNally, Kevin Kline, Penelope Wilton, John Matshikiza, Josette Simon, Wabei Siyolwe
Country: UK
Directors: Richard Attenborough
Year: 1987
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Donald Woods is chief editor at the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko. But after having met him for the first time, he changes his views. They meet several times, and this means that Woods and his family get attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody, he writes a book about Biko. The only way to get it published is for Woods himself to illegally escape the country.
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Genres: Crime / Drama / Biography / Music
Starring: Viola Davis, Marc John Jefferies, Joy Bryant, Terrence Howard, Omar Benson Miller, Tory Kittles, Bill Duke
Country: USA
Directors: Jim Sheridan
Year: 2005
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A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
Milk
Genres: Romance / Drama / History / Biography
Starring: Denis O'Hare, Josh Brolin, James Franco, Joseph Cross, Kelvin Yu, Diego Luna, Sean Penn
Country: USA
Directors: Gus Van Sant
Year: 2008
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Upon moving to San Francisco from New York City in 1972, forty year old Harvey Milk gains focus in his life as a gay activist in the city's Castro district. Gay rights activism turns to political activism as Milk decides he can be a more effective voice for the gay community as a politician, elected or not. Through several elections and losses both for a city seat and a state assembly seat, Milk becomes the first openly gay man in the United States to be elected to political office when he wins a San Francisco supervisor seat in 1977. His many political battlefronts include one with the national anti-gay Save the Children crusade, led and fro...
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Genres: Romance / Drama / History / Biography
Starring: Jordi Mollà , Rhys Ifans, John Shrapnel, Cate Blanchett, Eddie Redmayne, Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen
Country: Germany, UK, France
Directors: Shekhar Kapur
Year: 2007
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Two faiths, two empires, two rulers - colliding in 1588. Papist Spain wants to bring down the heretic Elizabeth. Philip is building an armada but needs a rationale to attack. With covert intrigue, Spain sets a trap for the Queen and her principal secretary, Walsingham, using as a pawn Elizabeth's cousin Mary Stuart, who's under house arrest in the North. The trap springs, and the armada sets sail, to rendezvous with French ground forces and to attack. During these months, the Virgin Queen falls in love with Walter Raleigh, keeping him close to court and away from the sea and America. Is treachery or heroism at his heart? Does loneliness await...
Phantom Punch
Genres: Drama / Sport / Biography
Starring: Ving Rhames, David Proval, Nicholas Turturro, Bridgette Wilson, Gord Rand, Phillip Jarrett, Alan Van Sprang
Country: USA, Canada
Directors: Robert Townsend
Year: 2009
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From a Missouri jail cell to the heights of the world heavyweight boxing championship, Phantom Punch traces the turbulent life of Sonny Liston, chronicling his ties to the mob, run ins with the law, and the circumstances surrounding his mysterious death.
Lawrence of Arabia
Genres: Adventure / Drama / War / Biography
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains
Country: UK
Directors: David Lean
Year: 1962
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An inordinately complex man who has been labeled everything from hero, to charlatan, to sadist, Thomas Edward Lawrence blazed his way to glory in the Arabian desert, then sought anonymity as a common soldier under an assumed name. The story opens with the death of Lawrence in a motorcycle accident in London at the age of 47, then flashbacks to recount his adventures: as a young intelligence officer in Cairo in 1916, he is given leave to investigate the progress of the Arab revolt against the Turks in World War I. In the desert, he organizes a guerrilla army and--for two years--leads the Arabs in harassing the Turks with desert raids, train-wr...
Jarhead
Genres: Drama / War / Biography
Starring: Peter Sarsgaard, Rini Bell, Jake Gyllenhaal, Scott MacDonald, Lo Ming, Kevin Foster, Damion Poitier
Country: Germany, USA
Directors: Sam Mendes
Year: 2005
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Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows "Swoff," a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand against an enemy they can't see for a cause they don't fully fathom... Sergeant Sykes is a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford's scout/sniper platoon, while ...
Annie Get Your Gun
Genres: Comedy / Family / Musical / Romance / Biography / Western
Starring: Keenan Wynn, Howard Keel, Betty Hutton, Louis Calhern, J. Carrol Naish, Edward Arnold, Benay Venuta
Country: USA
Directors: George Sidney
Year: 1950
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Annie Oakley is an incredible shot who was raised 'Doin' What Comes Naturally'. Frank Butler, the star sharpshooter in 'Colonel Buffalo Bill''s show, however, knows full well that's not how 'The Girl That I Marry' must be. Anyway, not at least until he finds that 'My Defences are Down'. Though Annie defiantly says 'Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better', she realizes that 'You Can't Get a Man With a Gun'. The victor at the end is love; as you know, 'It's Wonderful'. After all, 'There's No Business Like Show Business'.
Confessions of an Innocent Man
Genres: Documentary / Biography
Starring: Martin Sheen, Tony Ali, Brent Stait, William Sampson, Zeus Ghadban, Babak Haleky, Ahmad Sharmrou
Country: Canada
Directors: David Paperny
Year: 2007
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The shocking, heart-wrenching story of British-Canadian engineer William Sampson who lived a privileged life in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia until he was kidnapped, locked up and tortured by Saudi thugs for almost three years.
Shine
Genres: Romance / Drama / Biography / Music
Starring: Noah Taylor, Geoffrey Rush, Nicholas Bell, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd, Chris Haywood, Alex Rafalowicz
Country: Australia
Directors: Scott Hicks
Year: 1996
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Based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott, this delightful movie charts the early and traumatic early years. Telling the story in flashback we see David as he grows up and into a child prodigy while his father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his childhood in Europe and the loss of his family in the concentration camps. David finally breaks away from his father and goes away to study overseas, he later suffers a breakdown and returns to Australia and a life in an institution. Many years later he is released and through several twists of fate (in reality even more unlikely than film portrays) he starts playing ...
Barabba
Genres: Adventure / Drama / Biography
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy, Ernest Borgnine, Arnoldo Foà , Jack Palance, Harry Andrews, Vittorio Gassman
Country: Italy
Directors: Richard Fleischer
Year: 1961
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Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was spared crucifixion when Pilate manipulated the crowd into to pardoning him, rather than Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiatorial arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons, ultimately becoming a follower of the man who was crucified in his place.
Ed Wood
Genres: Comedy / Drama / Biography
Starring: Vincent D'Onofrio, Johnny Depp, Mike Starr, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jeffrey Jones, Bill Murray, Max Casella
Country: USA
Directors: Tim Burton
Year: 1994
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The life of Edward D. Wood Jr., hailed as the worst director (of Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959), Glen or Glenda (1953) and Bride of the Monster (1955)) of all time.
Wisegal
Genres: Crime / Drama / Biography
Starring: James Caan, Alyssa Milano, Jason Gedrick, Alessandro Costantini, Devon Graye, Tommy Lioutas, Zak Longo
Country: USA
Directors: Jerry Ciccoritti
Year: 2008
Available Quality: DVD, iPod
A drama centered around Patty Montanari, the widowed mother of two who went to work for her lover Frank Russo, a captain in a Brooklyn crime family.
1492: Conquest of Paradise
Genres: Adventure / Drama / History / Biography
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Mark Margolis, Fernando Rey, Michael Wincott, Arnold Vosloo, Loren Dean
Country: Spain, France
Directors: Ridley Scott
Year: 1992
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Big budget account of Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas. Released in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the discovery. Shows the disastrous effects the Europeans had on the original inhabitants, and Columbus' struggle to civilize the New World.
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