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The Last Emperor
Genres: Drama, History, Biography
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Joan Chen, Victor Wong, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Ric Young, Dennis Dun, John Lone
Directors: Bernardo Bertolucci
Country: UK, Italy, France, China
Year: 1987
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
A biography of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at the age of three was named the Emperor of China, and dies as a gardener at the Botanical Gardens of Peking. Told in an interesting flashback/flashforward style, we learn of Pu Yi's childhood, the time he spent imprisoned in the Forbidden City, his term as the emperor of Japans Manchuguo, and his eventual release back to public life in 1959.
Birdman of Alcatraz
Genres: Drama, Biography
Starring: Telly Savalas, Thelma Ritter, Edmond O'Brien, Burt Lancaster, Whit Bissell, Karl Malden, Neville Brand
Directors: John Frankenheimer
Country: USA
Year: 1962
As an inmate at Leavenworth prison, Robert Stroud has a series of confrontations with the guards and with the other convicts. When Stroud kills a guard, he is sentenced to be executed, and only his mother's impassioned intervention gets his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, which he must serve in solitary confinement. As he serves out his sentence in boredom and despair, one day he finds a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard. Stroud soon takes a deep interest in caring for birds, which gives him a new purpose in life, but which also brings new conflicts with prison authorities.
Against the Ropes
Genres: Romance, Drama, Sport
Starring: Holt McCallany, Beau Starr, Charles S. Dutton, Dean McDermott, Kerry Washington, Tony Shalhoub, Meg Ryan
Directors: Charles S. Dutton
Country: Germany, USA
Year: 2004
A Jewish woman from Detroit who became a boxing manager, guiding several major careers. This film focuses on her relationship with one boxer (Epps), who's reportedly a composite of several including Toney, McKart and Hearns. Kallen eventually left her husband of 30 years, and moved to Los Angeles, becoming the commissioner of the International Female Boxers Association...
Buster
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Adventure
Starring: Anthony Quayle, Ralph Brown, Larry Lamb, Julie Walters, Rupert Vansittart, Michael Byrne, Phil Collins
Directors: David Green
Country: UK
Year: 1988
Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can't contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, but finds that he must choose between his family and freedom.
The Miracle Worker
Genres: Drama, Biography
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Victor Jory, Andrew Prine, Patty Duke, Inga Swenson, Kathleen Comegys
Directors: Arthur Penn
Country: USA
Year: 1962
The true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, a gripping battle to overcome impossible obstacles and the struggle to communicate. As a young girl, Helen Keller is stricken with scarlet fever. The illness leaves her blind, mute, and deaf. Sealed off from the world, Helen cannot communicate with anyone, nor anyone with her. Often frustrated and desperate, Helen flies into uncontrollable rages and tantrums that terrify her hopeless family. The gifted teacher Annie Sullivan is summoned by the family to help the girl understand the world from which she is isolated, freeing Helen Keller from her internal prison forever.
Sylvia
Genres: Romance, Drama, Biography
Starring: Blythe Danner, Michael Gambon, Daniel Craig, Liddy Holloway, Jared Harris, Julian Firth, David Birkin
Directors: Christine Jeffs
Country: UK
Year: 2003
Talented but plagued by her owns demons Sylvia Plath's early relationship with husband and fellow poet, Ted Hughes, is dominated by Ted's ambition and success. In the early years of their marriage Sylvia lacks inspiration and increasingly senses Ted's infidelity. The unspoken question is whether Ted's extra-marital affairs are the result of Sylvia's own insecurities or whether Sylvia's deepening depression is exacerbated by her husbands philandering. It is only towards the end, when they are separated, that Sylvia is able to truly explore the dark depths of her soul and write the searingly brilliant poetry that earned her fame.
Walk the Line
Genres: Romance, Drama, Biography
Starring: Larry Bagby, Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Dan Beene, Robert Patrick, Dallas Roberts, Tyler Hilton
Directors: James Mangold
Country: Germany, USA
Year: 2005
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
A woman's love, given reluctantly, saves a man from addiction and self-destruction. Traces the life of Johnny Cash from his boyhood, with the loss of a brother and the loss of his father's affection, to 1968 when his outlaw side and his unhappiness give way to the twin triumphs of his concert at Folsom Prison and June Carter's acceptance of his marriage proposal. Along the way there's his first composition, first recording, first marriage, daughters, being smitten with June, divorce, pills and booze, an empty life, and the Carter family's nursing him back to health. June eases Johnny out of a ring of fire.
Bonnie and Clyde
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Romance
Starring: Gene Hackman, Michael J. Pollard, Dub Taylor, Denver Pyle, Gene Wilder, Faye Dunaway, Warren Beatty
Directors: Arthur Penn
Country: USA
Year: 1967
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Bonnie Parker is bored with life and wants a change. She gets her chance when she meets a charming young drifter by the name of Clyde Barrow. Clyde has dreams of a life of crime that will free him from the hardships of the Depression. The two fall in love and begin a crime spree that extends from Oklahoma to Texas. They rob small banks with skill and panache, soon becoming minor celebrities known across the country. People are proud to have been held up by Bonnie and Clyde; to their victims, the duo is doing what nobody else has the guts to do. To the law, the two are evil bank robbers who deserve to be gunned down where they stand.
Rise of the Footsoldier
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama
Starring: Billy Murray, Ricci Harnett, Terry Stone, Craig Fairbrass, Roland Manookian, Frank Harper, Neil Maskell
Directors: Julian Gilbey
Country: UK
Year: 2007
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Rise of the Footsoldier follows the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late eighties and early nineties. It is three decades of his life following him from football hooliganism, through to his burgeoning career as a bouncer, his involvement in the criminal aspects of the early 'rave' scene and subsequently to his rise to power as one of the most feared and respected criminals in the country.
Lords of Dogtown
Genres: Drama, Sport, Biography
Starring: Julio Oscar Mechoso, Heath Ledger, Michael Angarano, Pablo Schreiber, Vincent Laresca, Emile Hirsch, John Robinson
Directors: Catherine Hardwicke
Country: Germany, USA
Year: 2005
A fictionalized take on the group of brilliant young skateboarders raised in the mean streets of Dogtown in Santa Monica, California. The Z-Boys, as they come to be known, perfect their craft in the empty swimming pools of unsuspecting suburban homeowners, pioneering a thrilling new sport and eventually moving into legend.
Miss Potter
Genres: Drama, Biography
Starring: Ewan McGregor, David Bamber, Emily Watson, Phyllida Law, Barbara Flynn, Bill Paterson, Matyelok Gibbs
Directors: Chris Noonan
Country: USA, UK
Year: 2006
Thirty years old and single, Beatrix Potter lives in London with her social-climbing parents, who are exasperated that she has turned down any number of eligible young men. Her only real friends are the animals which since childhood she has lovingly drawn and made up stories about. She finally succeeds in selling a book of the stories, and it becomes Norman Warne's first project. He quickly falls in love with both the book and Beatrix and together they carefully arrange publication. This proves the first of many successes, offering her the possibility of escaping from both her parents' way of life and London.
Finding Neverland
Genres: Family, Drama, Biography
Starring: Kate Winslet, Radha Mitchell, Johnny Depp, Kelly Macdonald, Julie Christie, Freddie Highmore, Ian Hart
Directors: Marc Forster
Country: USA, UK
Year: 2004
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
The movie details the experiences of "Peter Pan" author J.M. Barrie, which lead him to write the children's classic. He got to know four children who have no fathers. Drawing from his time with the kids, he writes a story about children who don't want to grow up.
The Great Debaters
Genres: Drama, Biography
Starring: Denzel Washington, Gina Ravera, John Heard, Forest Whitaker, Ritchie Montgomery, Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett
Directors: Denzel Washington
Country: USA
Year: 2007
Marshall, Texas, described by James Farmer, Jr. as "the last city to surrender after the Civil War," is home to Wiley College, where, in 1935-36, inspired by the Harlem Renaissance and his clandestine work as a union organizer, Professor Melvin Tolson coaches the debate team to a nearly-undefeated season that sees the first debate between U.S. students from white and Negro colleges and ends with an invitation to face Harvard University's national champions. The team of four, which includes a female student and a very young James Farmer, is tested in a crucible heated by Jim Crow, sexism, a lynch mob, an arrest and near riot, a love affair, je...
Reach for the Sky
Genres: Drama, War, Biography
Starring: Sydney Tafler, Nigel Green, Kenneth More, Charles Carson, Alexander Knox, Muriel Pavlow, Lyndon Brook
Directors: Lewis Gilbert
Country: UK
Year: 1956
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.
Catch a Fire
Genres: Thriller, Drama, History
Starring: Derek Luke, Tumisho Masha, Charlotte Savage, Tim Robbins, Eduan van Jaarsveldt, Terry Pheto, Mncedisi Shabangu
Directors: Phillip Noyce
Country: USA, UK, South Africa, France
Year: 2006
Patrick Chamusso is an honest oil refinery foreman. When he is interrogated about a terrorist attack at the refinery on his shift, he produces false alibi, which worsen his condition. His jail time experience pushes him across the line, and he joins the African National Congress.
Evita
Genres: Musical, Drama, Biography
Starring: Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail, Victoria Sus, Julian Littman, Olga Merediz
Directors: Alan Parker
Country: USA
Year: 1996
High-flying, adored! The film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical depicting the infamous real-life story of Eva "Evita" Duarte de Peron, the wife of President Juan Peron, who rose from poverty to become the most famous Argentine woman in history. Her huge political influence and constant charity works earned her scorn and fear from the military and upper classes but adoration and love from the workers and descamisados. Evita's legendary life is displayed before your eyes as the most hated and most beloved woman in Argentina.
Music Within
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Starring: Hector Elizondo, Ron Livingston, John Livingston, Rebecca De Mornay, Joel Bryant, Ridge Canipe, Paul Michael
Directors: Steven Sawalich
Country: USA
Year: 2007
The True Story Of Richard Pimentel, A Brilliant Public Speaker With A Troubled Past, Who Returns From Vietnam Severely Hearing-Impaired And Finds A New Purpose In His Landmark Efforts On The Behalf Of Americans With Disabilities...
Frida
Genres: Romance, Drama, Biography
Starring: Ashley Judd, Alfred Molina, Edward Norton, Salma Hayek, Antonio Banderas, Diego Luna, Valeria Golino
Directors: Julie Taymor
Country: USA, Canada, Mexico
Year: 2002
"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.
Geronimo
Genres: Action, History, Biography
Starring: Denver Pyle, Armando Silvestre, Adam West, Ross Martin, Eduardo Noriega, Claudio Brook, Chuck Connors
Directors: Arnold Laven
Country: USA
Year: 1962
An Apache warrior who defies U.S. attempts to bring the Indians under control grapples with an array of U.S. soldiers sent to subdue his revolt. Sympathetic scouts seek to bring Geronimo back to the reservation before he is hunted down.
Factory Girl
Genres: Drama, Biography
Starring: Edward Herrmann, Guy Pearce, Illeana Douglas, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jack Huston, Jimmy Fallon, Beth Grant
Directors: George Hickenlooper
Country: USA
Year: 2006
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
A beautiful, wealthy young party girl drops out of Radcliffe in 1965 and heads to New York to become Holly Golightly. When she meets a hungry young artist named Andy Warhol, he promises to make her the star she always wanted to be. And like a super nova she explodes on the New York scene only to find herself slowly lose grip on reality...