Wolfgang Petersen's harrowing and claustrophobic U-boat thriller Das Boot was released as both a theatrical film and a six-hour mini-series, and remains the most expensive production ever made by a German studio. The expanded "Director's Cut" of the movie was re-released 1997 and it is this version that is available for home viewing. This epic story became an instant classic on its first release, provoking critical and audience acclaim worldwide for its sympathetic and entirely truthful portrayal of a German U-boat crew. Faithfully adapted from the best-selling novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Petersen and his committed cast (led by the amazing Jürgen Prochnow) were concerned to ensure that every detail was rendered with painstaking accuracy--both physical and psychological--and the result is not only the best submarine drama ever made but also arguably the finest cinematic portrait of men at war and the terrible madness they must endure.
A news team is sent to South Africa to capture and bring home a legendary 25-foot crocodile. Their difficult task turns potentially deadly when a warlord targets them for death.
Zev Guttman (Academy Award® Winner* Christopher Plummer), receives a mysterious package from his close friend Max (Academy Award® Winner Martin Landau), containing a stack of money and a letter detailing a shocking plan. Both Zev and Max were prisoners in Auschwitz, and the same sadistic guard was responsible for the death of both their families a guard who, immediately after the war, escaped Germany and has been living in the U.S. ever since under an assumed identity. With Max wheelchair-bound, Zev must embark on a cross-continental road-trip to bring justice once and for all to the man who destroyed both their lives. From Academy Award® nominated¡ director Atom Egoyan and with an incredible lead performance from Christopher Plummer as the frail but unstoppable Zev, REMEMBER is a thrillingly fast-paced revenge story. * Winner, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Beginners, 2012. Winner, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Ed Wood, 1995. ¡ Nominee, Best Director, The Sweet Hereafter, 1998.
Critics and controversy aside, The Da Vinci Code is a verifiable blockbuster. Combine the film's huge worldwide box-office take with over 100 million copies of Dan Brown's book sold, and The Da Vinci Code has clearly made the leap from pop-culture hit to a certifiable franchise (games and action figures are sure to follow). The leap for any story making the move from book to big screen, however, is always more perilous. In the case of The Da Vinci Code, the story is concocted of such a preposterous formula of elements that you wouldn't envy Akiva Goldsman, the screenwriter who was handed a potentially unfilmable book and asked to make a filmable script out of it. Goldsman's solution was to have the screenplay follow the book as closely as possible, with a few needed changes, including a better ending. The result is a film that actually makes slightly better entertainment than the book. So if you're like most of the world, by now you've read the book and know that it starts out as a murder mystery. While lecturing in Paris, noted Harvard Professor of Symbology Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is summoned to the Louvre by French police help decipher a bizarre series of clues left at the scene of the murder of the chief curator, Jacques Sauniere. Enter Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), gifted cryptologist and Sauniere's granddaughter. Neveu and Langdon are forced to team up to solve the mystery, and from there the story is propelled across Europe as it balloons into a modern-day mini-quest for the Holy Grail, complete with alternative theories about the life of Christ, ancient secret societies headed by historical figures like Leonardo Da Vinci, secret codes, conniving bishops, daring escapes, car chases, and, of course, a murderous albino monk controlled by a secret master who calls himself "The Teacher." Taken solely as a mystery thriller, the movie almost works--despite some gaping holes--mostly just because it keeps moving forward at the breakneck pace set in the book. Brown's greatest trick might have been to have the entire story take place in a day so that the action is forced to keep going, despite some necessary pauses for exposition. Hanks and Tautou are just fine together but not exactly a memorable screen pair; meanwhile, Sir Ian McKellen's scenery-chewing as pivotal character Sir Leigh Teabing is just what the film needs to keep it from taking itself too seriously. In the end, this hit movie is just like a good roller-coaster ride: try not to think too much about it--just sit back and enjoy the trip. --Daniel Vancini, Amazon.com
Chow Yun-Fat makes his Hollywood debut with Mira Sorvino in this fierce and explosive action thriller. A seamless fusion of style and Hong Kong action adventure Replacement Killers will blow you away! After he betrays Mr. Wei the ruthless crime boss who hired him to avenge his son's death professional killer John Lee goes on the run. Enlisting the aid of beautiful document forger Meg Coburn Lee attempts to return to his family in China before they are targets of their impressive firepower. With both sides fully armed and determined to fight to the death an ultra-violent shoot-out breaks out when they finally face off against each other.
When Katharina Blum spends the night with an alleged terrorist her quiet ordered life falls into ruins. Suddenly a suspect Katharina is subject to a vicious smear campaign by the police and a ruthless tabloid journalist testing the limits of her dignity and her sanity. Volker Schlondorff and Margarethe von Trotta's powerful adaptation of Heinrich Boll's novel is a stinging commentary on state power individual freedom and media manipulation - as relevant today as on the day of its release in 1975.
Bridge Over The River Kwai: Set in Burma during World War II the story tells of British P.O.Ws who are forced to build a large bridge for the Japanese while a British Commando team is sent to destroy it. Winner of seven Academy Awards. (Dir. David Lean 1957) Das Boot: Das Boot is a graphic and gripping tale that follows the daring patrol of U-96 one of the famed German U-Boats known as 'The Grey Wolves'. Prowling the North Atlantic they challenged the British Navy at every turn. The crew abroad the U-96 is portrayed in a desperate life-and-death struggle coping with life beneath the waves quickly gives way to terror when confronting the enemy... (Dir. Wolfgang Peterson 1981) The Guns Of Navarone: Exciting war film based on a novel by Alistair Maclean which tells of the attempts of a British raiding team to sabotage two giant German guns on a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. Carl Foreman brought Allistar MacLean's best-selling novel to the screen winning nominations for seven Academy Awards in 1961. (Dir. J. Lee Thompson 1961)
Bridge Over The River Kwai: Set in Burma during World War II the story tells of British P.O.Ws who are forced to build a large bridge for the Japanese while a British Commando team is sent to destroy it. Winner of seven Academy Awards. Das Boot: Das Boot is a graphic and gripping tale that follows the daring patrol of U-96 one of the famed German U-Boats known as 'The Grey Wolves'. Prowling the North Atlantic they challenged the British Navy at every turn. The crew abroad the U-96 is portrayed in a desperate life-and-death struggle coping with life beneath the waves quickly gives way to terror when confronting the enemy... The Guns Of Navarone: Exciting war film based on a novel by Alistair Maclean which tells of the attempts of a British raiding team to sabotage two giant German guns on a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. Carl Foreman brought Allistar MacLean's best-selling novel to the screen winning nominations for seven Academy Awards in 1961.
An army of dragons invade the crippled English countryside and the apprentice wizard Merlin must confront the fire-breathing beasts.
Two young women persuade a yacht captain to sail them to Bermuda. It soon becomes obvious that the journey is not going to be plain sailing.
The year is 1867 and the Southern United States is an occupied territory. Gun Law rules and corruption flourishes. In control are thieves and murderers like ruthless land baron - Brent Mallick (Corbin Burnsen) backed by corrupt politicians and their State troopers. When Mallick has cattle-owner Jack Neumann (Jurgen Prochnow) murdered by his rogue mercenaries so that can steal his land retired Confederate General Jackson Ole Devil Hardin (Martin Sheen) calls in a group of former soldiers the Floating Outfit to ensure that Neumann's feisty neighbour Frida is not forced to sell her land. But Mallick is willing to use all necessary means to win out and unleashes his sadistic desperados to blaze a trail of torture lynchings and executions that only those that are fastest on the trigger can hope to survive.
An army of dragons invade the crippled English countryside and the apprentice wizard Merlin must confront the fire-breathing beasts.
This excellent drama follows a German journalist and a Swedish lawyer as they discover the truth behind the 1994 sinking of the MS Estonia in which more than 850 people lost their lives.
Chow Yun-Fat makes his Hollywood debut with Mira Sorvino in this fierce and explosive action thriller. A seamless fusion of style and Hong Kong action adventure 'Replacement Killers' will blow you away! After he betrays Mr. Wei the ruthless crime boss who hired him to avenge his son's death professional killer John Lee goes on the run. Enlisting the aid of beautiful document forger Meg Coburn Lee attempts to return to his family in China before they are targets of their impressive firepower. With both sides fully armed and determined to fight to the death an ultra-violent shoot-out breaks out when they finally face off against each other.
Rick (Andrew Lee Potts Primeval), a promising young artist, inadvertently enters an active crime scene and is gunned down in central Vienna by hired assassin, Andrei Loesin (Dougray Scott Enigma , Hitman). When Andrei visits the opening of a show of the dead artist he gets embroiled in the world and starts a relationship with Rick sister, Paula (Laura Elena Harring Mulholland Drive). Detective Inspector Vashon (Jurgen Procnow Das Boat, the English Patient) investigates the murder. Can Andrei free himself from the relationship before Vashon catches him or will Andrei confess his crime to Paula? A lyrical tragedy set in France, Austria and Germany with stunning images, poetically directed by Paul Hills (Boston Kickout, Do Elephants Pray?).
When they learn of a secret covenant on the status of Hong Kong signed by Mao in 1944 Chinese factions the British government Hong Kong businessmen and the Mafia all try to be the first to take hold of it. Tough man Sean Dillon pressured by Brigadier Ferguson into working for the British does it his own way. Based on the novel by Jack Higgins.
Bring on the beer...They've got the nuts... When American brothers Todd and Jan Wolfhouse (Erik Stolhanske and Paul Soter) travel to Germany to spread their grandfather's ashes at Oktoberfest they stumble upon a super-secret centuries old underground beer games competition-Beerfest-the secret Olympics of beer drinking. The brothers receive a less than warm welcome from their German cousins the Von Wolfhausens who humiliate Todd and Jan slander their relatives and finally cast them out of the event. Vowing to return in a year to defend their country and their family's honor the Wolfhouse boys assemble a ragtag dream team of beer drinkers and gamers: Barry Badrinath (Jay Chandrasekhar) the consummate skills player with a dark past; Phil Krundle (Kevin Heffernan) AKA Landfill the one-man chugging machine; and Steve Fink Finklestein (Steve Lemme) the lab tech with a Masters degree in All Things Beer. This Magnificent Five train relentlessly using their hearts minds and livers to drink faster smarter and harder than they ever have before. But first they must battle their own demons... as well as a bunch of big blond German jerks who want to destroy the team before they can even make it back to Munich. Revenge like beer is best served cold.... Even ruder and cruder than the original this uncut DVD release re-instates scenes that were too shocking for cinemas!
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Violent Lesson... Deadly Learning. It's the last day of school and the unthinkable is about to happen. Distraught by constant bullying and verbal abuse from their peers two senior high school students plan to take weapons to school to murder the bullies that torment them then end their own lives in a horrific suicide pact... Based on the tragic events at Columbine High School.
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