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The 82nd Annual Academy Awards
Year: 2010
Country: USA
Director: Hamish Hamilton
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, Quentin Tarantino, Pedro Almodóvar, Kirk Kelly, Gina Tuttle
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The curtain rises and we are greeted by sparkly stars, all the nominees for best actor and actress are on the stage in pairs...
Growing Up Brady
Year: 2000
Country: USA
Director: Richard A. Colla
Starring: Adam Brody, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Michael Tucker, Kaley Cuoco, Paul Greenberg, Carly Schroeder, Ricky Ullman
Available Quality: DivX
A tell-all story of what happened behind the scenes of the 70s hit TV series "The Brady Bunch." Based on the book written by Barry Williams, the actor who played Greg Brady.
The Miracle Maker
Genres: Drama, Biography, Animation
Year: 2000
Country: UK, Russia
Director: Derek W. Hayes, Stanislav Sokolov
Starring: James Frain, Alfred Molina, Julie Christie, Ian Holm, Miranda Richardson, William Hurt, Ralph Fiennes
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The story of Jesus Christ.
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Genres: Drama, History, Biography
Year: 1965
Country: USA
Director: George Stevens
Starring: Charlton Heston, Janet Margolin, Max von Sydow, Angela Lansbury, Victor Buono, Richard Conte, Martin Landau
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For any fan of George Stevens's expansive epic on the life of Christ, this restored version returns the film to its cinematic splendor. The print quality is magnificent. In one important way, the film even plays better decades after it was produced in 1965: the bevy of cameos is not as distracting. This mellowing-over-time approach was apparently part of Stevens's plan as revealed in one of two documentaries. A 20-minute segment made in 1965 is thinly veiled public relations but works as an intriguing time capsule capturing how massive moviemaking once was, with its large tent cities built to house cast and crew--in this case, in the remote a...
Please Remove Your Shoes
Genres: History, Documentary, Biography
Year: 2010
Country: USA
Director: Rob DelGaudio
Starring: P. Jeffrey Black
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A documentary about the US government's broken promise to keep our airlines secure, and the personal stories of a few people who know the truth - congressmen, air marshals, aviation security employees. It will make you angry and flying in an airplane may never be the same again.
The People vs. Larry Flynt
Year: 1996
Country: USA
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Crispin Glover, Edward Norton, James Cromwell, Courtney Love, Jan Triska, Vincent Schiavelli
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Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for all people.
Capote
Genres: Crime, Drama, Biography
Year: 2005
Country: USA, Canada
Director: Bennett Miller
Starring: Chris Cooper, Kate Shindle, Catherine Keener, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Craig Archibald, Kwesi Ameyaw, Allie Mickelson
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On the night of 14 November 1959, in Holcomb, Kansas, a farmhouse is broken into by the criminals Perry Smith and Dick Hickock that expect to get US$ 10,000.00. With the policy of "no witness", the murderers kill the entire family. The homosexual writer Truman Capote travels to the small town with his friend Nelle Harper Lee and decide to use the topic to write a book. When the killers are arrested, he becomes friend of Perry for his own interest and then he falls in love for him, and gets a new lawyer for them, postponing their execution until 14 April 1965.
King of Kings
Year: 1961
Country: USA
Director: Nicholas Ray
Starring: Robert Ryan, Royal Dano, Rip Torn, Viveca Lindfors, Hurd Hatfield, Harry Guardino, Frank Thring
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When the Romans under General Pompey conquer Judea in 63 BC, an era of despair and fear begins for the Jewish people. In the trials and persecutions that the Jews suffer under the Romans and under King Herod, they take hope in the promise that the Messiah someday would come. In the reign of Augustus, when Jesus is born in Bethlehem to Mary and Joseph, there are some who recognize him as the future king of the Jews. Later, when Jesus reaches adulthood and begins to appear in public, there are many different responses to his message, and there are also those who wish to use him for their own purposes.
MacArthur
Year: 1977
Country: USA
Director: Joseph Sargent
Starring: Allan Miller, Russell Johnson, Nicolas Coster, Gregory Peck, Dick O'Neill, Addison Powell, Dan O'Herlihy
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The story of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander during World War II and United Nations Commander for the Korean War. "MacArthur" begins in 1942, following the fall of Phillipines, and covers the remarkable career of this military legend up through and including the Korean War and into MacArthur's days of forced retirement after being dismissed from his post by President Truman.
Einstein
Year: 2008
Country: Italy
Director: Liliana Cavani
Starring: Luigi Diberti, Vincenzo Amato, Andréa Ferréol, Flavio Parenti, Maya Sansa, Piotr Adamczyk, Giorgio Basile
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A look at the relationship between renowned scientist Albert Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Maric.
Reparando
Genres: Drama, History, Documentary
Year: 2010
Country: USA
Director: Scott Owen Moore
Starring: Unknown
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On the morning of June 18. 1954, the US CIA dropped leaflets in Guatemala City demanding the resignation of the president. Guatemala was ravaged by Civil War for the next 36 years. But hope is rising. In the midst of incredible odds, victims have been transformed into champions who willfully embrace the pain of their past to help repair the next generation. This is their story. Shorty - a former gang member who is now a pastor, and Tita - a woman who started a school in Guatemala's most notorious slum have joined forces to repair La Limonada.
A Home of Our Own
Year: 1993
Country: USA
Director: Tony Bill
Starring: Kathy Bates, David Jensen, Edward Furlong, Tony Campisi, Soon-Tek Oh, Michael Flynn, T.J. Lowther
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The story is located in Los Angeles in the sixties. An energetic widow, Frances Lacey, with her six children try to make a dream of theirs come true: to have a home of their own. Therefore they leave Los Angeles and head for the countryside, while facing all kinds of difficulties during their journey.
The Madness of King George
Genres: Comedy, Drama, History
Year: 1994
Country: UK
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Starring: Anthony Calf, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Rupert Everett, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Jim Carter, Nigel Hawthorne
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A meditation on power and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III [now suspected a victim of porphyria, a blood disorder]. As he loses his senses, he becomes both more alive and more politically marginalized; neither effect desirable to his lieutenants, who jimmy the rules to avoid a challenge to regal authority, raising the question of who is really in charge.
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
Year: 1981
Country: USA
Director: Robert Guenette
Starring: Bob Ruggiero, Philip L. Clarke, Orson Welles, Ray Laska, Brass Adams, Roy Edmonds, Ray Chubb
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Hosted by Orson Welles, this documentary utilizes a grab bag of dramatized scenes, stock footage, TV news clips and interviews to ask: Did 16th century French astrologer and physician Nostradamus actually predict such events as the fall of King Louis XVI, the rise of Napoleon, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy? And are there prophecies that have yet to come true?
The Five Pennies
Genres: Drama, Biography, Music
Year: 1959
Country: USA
Director: Melville Shavelson
Starring: Danny Kaye, Ray Anthony, Bob Crosby, Harry Guardino, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tuesday Weld, Louis Armstrong
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Loring "Red" Nichols is a cornet-playing country boy who goes to New York in the 1920s full of musical ambition and principles. He gets a job playing in Wil Paradise's band, but quits to pursue his dream of playing Dixieland jazz. He forms the "Five Pennies" which features his wife, Bobbie, as vocalist. At the peak of his fame, Red and Bobbie's daughter, Dorothy, develops polio. Red quits the music business to move to Los Angeles where the climate is better for Dorothy. As Dorothy becomes a young teen, she learns of her father's musical past, and he is persuaded to open a small nightclub which is failing until some noted names from his past c...
Beau Brummell
Year: 1954
Country: USA
Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Starring: Rosemary Harris, Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Peter Ustinov, Paul Rogers, Elizabeth Taylor, Mark Dignam
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Captain George Brummell is an upper-class dandy. He has to leave the army after having insulted the crown prince. This only gives him time to start a smear campaign against the prince. The prince, who is tired of all the yes-men around him, hires him as his chief advisor.
Fair Game
Genres: Action, Thriller, Drama
Year: 2010
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Naomi Watts, Michael Kelly, Sean Penn, Ty Burrell, Jessica Hecht, Brooke Smith, Anand Tiwari
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Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq.
Silkwood
Genres: Thriller, Drama, Biography
Year: 1983
Country: USA
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Josef Sommer, Bruce McGill, J.C. Quinn, Craig T. Nelson, David Strathairn
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Fairly accurate recounting of the story of Karen Silkwood, the Oklahoma nuclear-plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who died under circumstances which are still under debate.
Joe Hill aka The Ballad of Joe Hill
Year: 1971
Country: USA, Sweden
Director: Bo Widerberg
Starring: Michael Logan, Richard Weber, Thommy Berggren, Anja Schmidt, Kelvin Malave, Evert Anderson, Cathy Smith
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In the early 1900's, the legendary Joe Hill emigrates with his brother to the United States. But after a short time, he loses touch with his brother. Joe gets a few jobs but is struck by all the injustice and tragedy going on. He becomes active in the forbidden union IWW, a union for workers without trades. It is forbidden to demonstrate and to speak in public but Joe gets around that by singing his manifests with the Salvation Army. He manages to get more and more people to get on strike with him but he also makes powerful enemies doing that. Finally he gets connected with a murder and during the trial he fires his lawyer and takes upon hims...
This Way of Life
Genres: Action, Adventure, Family
Year: 2009
Country: New Zealand
Director: Thomas Burstyn
Starring: Colleen Karena, Peter Karena, Aurora Ottley-Karena, Corban Ottley-Karena, Elias Ottley-Karena, Llewelyn Ottley-Karena, Malachi Ottley-Karena
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Peter Karena, his wife Colleen, their six children and many horses live almost wild in the stunning beauty of New Zealand's rugged Ruahine Mountains. Until, that is, Peter's escalating battle with his own father has profound consequences for the whole clan.