Bella
Year: 2006
Country: USA, Mexico
Director: Alejandro Gomez Monteverde
Starring: Manny Perez, Ramon Rodriguez, Jaime Tirelli, Tammy Blanchard, Eduardo Verástegui, Ali Landry, Angélica Aragón
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An international soccer star is on his way to sign a multi-million dollar contract when something happens that brings his career to an abrupt end. A waitress, struggling to make it in New York City, discovers something about herself that she's unprepared for. In one irreversible moment, their lives are turned upside down...until an impetuous action brings them together and turns an ordinary day into an unforgettable experience. Once a famous athlete, and now a cook at his brother's Mexican restaurant, Jos
Love Is the Drug
Genres: Drama
Year: 2006
Country: USA
Director: Elliott Lester
Starring: Daryl Hannah, Lizzy Caplan, John Patrick Amedori, Jenny Wade, D.J. Cotrona, Jonathon Trent, Yvonne Maverick
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A love triangle among recent high school graduates proves deadly.
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
Genres: Thriller, Romance, Horror
Year: 2006
Country: USA
Director: Jonathan Levine
Starring: Michael Welch, Aaron Himelstein, Anson Mount, Whitney Able, Edwin Hodge, Luke Grimes, Adam Powell
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The orphan Mandy Lane is a beautiful, virgin and pure teenager raised by her aunt, desired by her schoolmates and a close friend of the outcast Emmet. After the death of their high school mate in a pool party, Mandy befriends Chloe, Marlin, Red, Bird and Jake. Red invites the group for a weekend party in the isolated ranch of his family, with all the boys disputing who would succeed in having sex with Mandy Lane. They meet the henchman Garth that takes care of the ranch and he asks the group to go easy on the drugs and booze. In the middle of the night, a stranger wearing a hood attacks Marlin in the barn; when Jake seeks her out, he faces th...
Smokin' Aces
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Year: 2006
Country: USA, UK, France
Director: Joe Carnahan
Starring: Jeremy Piven, Martin Henderson, Ryan Reynolds, Ben Affleck, Christopher Michael Holley, Andy Garcia, Ray Liotta
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Mob boss Primo Sparazza has taken out a hefty contract on Buddy "Aces" Israel, a sleazy magician who has agreed to turn state's evidence against the Vegas mob. The FBI, sensing a chance to use this small-time con to bring down big-target Sparazza, places Aces into protective custody-under the supervision of two agents dispatched to Aces' Lake Tahoe hideout. When the word of the price on Aces' head spreads into the community of ex-cons and cons-to-be, it entices bounty hunters, thugs-for-hire, deadly vixens and double-crossing mobsters to join in the hunt. With all eyes on Tahoe, this rogues' gallery collides in a comic race to hit the jackpot...
The Namesake
Genres: Drama
Year: 2006
Country: USA, India
Director: Mira Nair
Starring: Kal Penn, Jacinda Barrett, Brooke Smith, Zuleikha Robinson, Jagannath Guha, Ruma Guha Thakurta, Tabu
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
In 1977, Ashima, a young Bengali woman, accepts Ashoke's marriage proposal. He's a student living abroad, so after the marriage she accompanies him to New York, where their temporary residence becomes permanent. We see her navigate and adapt to this alien land. They name their son Nikhil, with the pet name of Gogol, after Ashoke's favorite writer. We watch Gogol grow up American with roots he only begins to appreciate when he visits India in his 20s. A family death hastens his coming to terms with his name (and his roots) and Ashima's determination of where she will live once she has a choice.
Death of a President
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 2006
Country: UK
Director: Gabriel Range
Starring: Jay Patterson, Christian Stolte, Michael Reilly Burke, Becky Ann Baker, James Urbaniak, Hend Ayoub, Brian Boland
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Years after the assassination of President George W. Bush in Chicago, an investigative documentary examines that as-yet-unsolved crime.
Unknown
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 2006
Country: USA
Director: Simon Brand
Starring: Peter Stormare, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior, Greg Kinnear, Barry Pepper, Jeffrey Daniel Phillips, Chris Mulkey
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Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.
End Game
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 2006
Country: Germany, USA, Canada
Director: Andy Cheng
Starring: Peter Greene, Anne Archer, Burt Reynolds, Angie Harmon, Cuba Gooding Jr., James Woods, Todd Jensen
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A secret Service agent and a news reporter investigate the conspiracy behind the assassination of the President.
Crank
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Year: 2006
Country: USA
Director: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
Starring: Valarie Rae Miller, Dwight Yoakam, Glenn Howerton, Jason Statham, Amy Smart, David Brown, Keone Young
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The hit-man Chev Chelios is poisoned by the criminal Verona and his friend and doctor Miles advises him that he must keep his adrenaline in an upper level to stay alive. Chev meets his girlfriend Eve and together he looks for Verona to kill him.
The Ugly Duckling and Me!
Year: 2006
Country: Germany, UK, France, Ireland, Denmark
Director: Michael Hegner, Karsten Kiilerich
Starring: Paul Tylack, Kim Larney, Gary Hetzler, Danna Davis, Barbara Bergin, Michelle Read, Hilary Cahill
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
Filmmakers Michael Hegner and Karsten Kiilerich offer an updated variation on Hans Christian Anderson's beloved classic in this computer animated tale of a tough-luck rodent con-artist who befriends a homely hatchling with a most unusual talent. Ratso is a traveling scammer who longs to break big in the profitable world of show business, but when Ratso ends up on a duck farm and becomes the caretaker of a distinctively large egg, he is about to find out the true meaning of friendship. As the egg cracks and a most unsightly hatchling emerges, Ratso nicknames the feathered infant "Ugly" and reluctantly finds himself assuming the role of the chi...
Kidulthood
Genres: Drama
Year: 2006
Country: UK
Director: Menhaj Huda
Starring: Adam Deacon, Jaime Winstone, Nicholas Hoult, Noel Clarke, Femi Oyeniran, Red Madrell, Cornell John
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.
September Dawn
Genres: Romance, Drama, History
Year: 2006
Country: Canada
Director: Christopher Cain
Starring: Jon Gries, Terence Stamp, Jon Voight, Shaun Johnston, Daniel Libman, Lolita Davidovich, Tamara Hope
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A story set against the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the film is based upon the tragedy which occurred in Utah in 1857. A group of settlers, traveling on wagons, was murdered by the native Mormons. All together, about 140 souls of men, women and children, were taken. Amidst this, two young lovers-to-be, one a Mormon and the other one of the doomed settlers from Arkansas, develop a relationship in an atmosphere of suspicion and rancor.
Casino Royale
Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure
Year: 2006
Country: Germany, USA, UK, Czech Republic
Director: Martin Campbell
Starring: Eva Green, Jeffrey Wright, Judi Dench, Daniel Craig, Ivana Milicevic, Jesper Christensen, Giancarlo Giannini
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Casino Royale introduces James Bond before he holds his license to kill. But Bond is no less dangerous, and with two professional assassinations in quick succession, he is elevated to '00' status. Bond's first 007 mission takes him to Uganda where he is to spy on a terrorist, Mollaka. Not everything goes to plan and Bond decides to investigate, independently of MI6, in order to track down the rest of the terrorist cell. Following a lead to the Bahamas, he encounters Dimitrios and his girlfriend, Solange. He learns that Dimitrios is involved with Le Chiffre, banker to the world's terrorist organizations. Secret Service intelligence reveals tha...
Babel
Genres: Drama
Year: 2006
Country: USA, France, Mexico
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Dermot Crowley, Brad Pitt, Harriet Walter, Matyelok Gibbs, Mohamed Akhzam, Peter Wight
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"In Gen. 11:9, the name of Babel is etymologized by association with the Hebrew verb balal, 'to confuse or confound'" (www.wikipedia.org/wiki/babel)..."Babel", through a series of misunderstandings, interweaves the unfortunate circumstances of a Moroccan, an American, a Mexican and a Japanese family. A Moroccan family acquires a rifle to protect their goats. An American woman, on a bus tour with her husband, is accidentally shot, which is in turn grossly exaggerated by the press who are quick to label the incident as a "terrorist attack". The same couple's children accompany their long-time caretaker to Mexico to attend her son's wedding, whe...
Silent Hill
Genres: Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Year: 2006
Country: USA, Japan, Canada, France
Director: Christophe Gans
Starring: Sean Bean, Radha Mitchell, Alice Krige, Kim Coates, Laurie Holden, Jodelle Ferland, Deborah Kara Unger
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Rose cannot accept the medical diagnosis that her daughter, who suffers nightmarish trances in which she refers to the town of Silent Hill, is going insane. Over the protests of her husband, she flees with her child, Sharon, to Silent Hill seeking answers for her daughter's condition. It is revealed that the town had been evacuated thirty years earlier due to an unstoppable (and still burning) underground coal fire, and that Sharon was likely born there. A local motorcycle cop named Sybil ends up pursuing Rose and Sharon into the outskirts of the abandoned and cordoned off town on a rainy night, where they suffer simultaneous "wipe-outs" and ...
The Marine
Genres: Action, Thriller, Drama
Year: 2006
Country: USA
Director: John Bonito
Starring: Drew Powell, Robert Patrick, Manu Bennett, Anthony Ray Parker, John Cena, Kelly Carlson, Abigail Bianca
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John Triton is a heroic Marine who returns home after being discharged--against his will--from the Iraq War. Stateside, he finds himself back in action, when a group of murderous diamond thieves on the run led by a merciless criminal named Rome has kidnapped his wife and John goes on a chase through the South Carolinian wilderness to retrieve her. With everything on the line, the Marine will stop at nothing to carry out his toughest and most important mission.
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
Year: 2006
Country: USA, UK
Director: Tim Hill
Starring: Billy Connolly, Bill Murray, Roger Rees, JB Blanc, Oliver Muirhead, Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt
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Garfield is back and this time Garfield and his canine sidekick Odie follows their owner, Jon Arbuckle, to England, the U.K. may never recover, as Garfield is mistaken for a look-alike, regal cat who has inherited a castle. Garfield savors the royal treatment afforded by his loyal four-legged subjects, but his reign is in jeopardy! The evil nefarious stubborn Lord Dargis is determined to do away with Garfield, so he can turn the castle into a resort. Garfield's bigger, better, more perfect world is soon turned upside down in this tale of two kitties.
Letters from Iwo Jima
Year: 2006
Country: USA
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase, Shido Nakamura, Hiroshi Watanabe, Takumi Bando
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The island of Iwo Jima stands between the American military force and the home islands of Japan. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Army is desperate to prevent it from falling into American hands and providing a launching point for an invasion of Japan. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi is given command of the forces on the island and sets out to prepare for the imminent attack. General Kuribayashi, however, does not favor the rigid traditional approach recommended by his subordinates, and resentment and resistance fester among his staff. In the lower echelons, a young soldier, Saigo, a poor baker in civilian life, strives with his friends to survi...
I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer
Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Year: 2006
Country: USA
Director: Sylvain White
Starring: Michael Flynn, Brooke Nevin, David Paetkau, Torrey DeVitto, Ben Easter, Seth Packard, K.C. Clyde
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
The latest installment in the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" franchise focuses on a seemingly harmless Fourth of July prank that ends in the unexpected death of a friend of four teens from a small Colorado town who make a pact to keep the death a secret (despite one's desperate protest). Over the course of the following year, the four teens find their friendships all horribly strained and all but terminated completely from the trauma. Come the next Fourth of July, just before the town's annual carnival, the four teens all find themselves being victimized by a mysterious menace when they begin to receive intimidating calling cards indicatin...
Away from Her
Year: 2006
Country: Canada
Director: Sarah Polley
Starring: Wendy Crewson, Alberta Watson, Olympia Dukakis, Julie Christie, Grace Lynn Kung, Deanna Dezmari, Gordon Pinsent
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Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have been married for over 40 years. Now, in the oncoming twilight of their years, they are forced to face the fact that Fiona's "forgetfulness" actually is Alzheimer's Disease. After Fiona wanders away and is found after being lost, they agree she must go into a nursing home. For the first time in the five decades their relationship has spanned, they are forced to undergo a long-time separation since the nursing home has a "no-visitors" policy for the first 30 days of a patient's stay, so they can adjust to their new surroundings. When Grant visits Fiona after the orientation period, he is devastated...