During a few languid summer days in Strasbourg a young foreigner spends his time sitting at an outdoor cafe sketching the figures of the women around him patiently waiting for his lost love Sylvia. Then one fine afternoon he thinks he spots her and sets off through the city to confront his memory. Featuring standout performances from Xavier Lafitte and Pilar L''pez de Ayala Jos'' Luis Guer''-n's lovely exceedingly graceful work is an homage to cinema painting love and women. A cult classic on the festival circuit In The City Of Sylvia eloquently captures the feeling of being in love with love and the youthful sense of a world filled with an almost limitless sensuality.
ChinaTown: A landmark movie in the film noir tradition Roman Polanski's Chinatown stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one unforgettable night in ... Chinatown. The Two Jakes: Jack Nicholson returns as private eye Jake Gittes in this atmospheric 'Chinatown' follow-up that's hit upon the elusive sequel formula for somehow enhancing a great original. Much has changed since we last saw Jake. The war has come and gone 1948 Los Angeles teems with optimism and fast bucks. But there's one thing Jake knows hasn't changed: Nine times out of ten if you follow the money you will get to the truth. And that's the trail he follows when a routine case of marital hanky panky explodes into a murder that's tied to a grab for oil - and to Jake's own past. Terms of Endearment: This Oscar-winning film is both eccentrically funny and an old-fashioned tearjerker. The story centers around the volatile relationship between a mother and daughter spanning 30 years. The various permutations of their lives are examined including the daughter's bout with terminal cancer. Heartburn: Heartburn is an autobiographical tale based on the marriage of high-flying journalists Carl Bernstein (who helped uncover the Watergate scandal for the Washington Post) and Nora Ephron. When the two meet at a friends wedding they fall in love and subsequently marry. Living in different cities the relationship begins to unravel as the pair slowly drift apart and infidelities eventually wreck the marriage. Focusing on social events like weddings parties and birthdays the film expertly brings to life the cynical and often destructive world of a group of thirty something's living out their lives through their relationships with their families and each other. Intriguing performances from Nicholson and Streep depict a relationship that neither has any real control over. These interactions between the two central characters and their circle of friends are brilliantly real allowing the audience to establish an affinity with the lives of the protagonists. Further enhanced by a script that casts a wickedly sharp and witty observation on life the film offers a snapshot of reality that is totally absorbing.
A 5 disc box set of hazy cult comedies from Cheech and Chong. Includes: Born In East L.A: Rudy is an American of Mexican descent who is caught up in an immigration raid on a factory. Deported to Mexico as an illegal immigrant he has no way of proving that he is in fact an American citizen and is forced to rely on his cunning to sneak his way back home. Sound: Dolby (1.0) Mono Languages: English Duration: 1 hour and 21 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescr
In Price of Glory a promising young boxer is knocked out of contention thanks to a sleazy manager who cashed out on his potential by pushing him into a big-money fight before he was ready. Thirteen years later that very same boxer, Arturo Ortega (Jimmy Smits), has three sons whom he's training to be boxers too. His schoolteacher wife wants to make sure they get good grades, but Arturo is sure that boxing is their best chance to get out of the barrio. Flash-forward another 10 years, and the training is paying off. The three boys, Jimmy (Clifton Collins Jr.), Sonny (Jon Seda), and especially Johnny (Ernesto Hernández) have grown into smart and talented boxers. Obviously, Arturo is a good and a tough trainer, but the question of whether he's got his own or his sons' best interests at heart arises when a slick promoter (Ron Perlman) offers him big money first for his sons' contracts and then for a series of title fights. Price of Glory does an admirable job of riding that conundrum throughout, offering no easy answers. There is solid acting throughout and it's nice to see such a Latino-heavy cast, but at just over two hours the pace lags and the central themes are repeated one or two too many times. Aside from a late subplot about corruption and violence that comes across as a bit contrived, this is a good family film about boxing. --Andy Spletzer, Amazon.com
Titles Comprise: Balls Of Fury: Welcome to Balls Of Fury - a film about the unsanctioned underground and utterly unhinged world of clandestine ping-pong tournaments. Down-and-out former professional ping-pong phenom Randy Daytona (Dan Fogler) is sucked into this maelstrom when FBI Agent Ernie Rodriguez (Justin Lopez) recruits him for a secret mission. Randy is determined to bounce back and win and to smoke out his father's killer - arch-fiend Feng (Christopher Walken). Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story: America loves Cox! But behind the music is the up-and-down-and-up-again story of a musician whose songs would change a nation. On his rock 'n roll spiral Cox sleeps with 411 women marries three times has 22 kids and 14 stepkids stars in his own 70's TV show collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp and gets addicted to - and then kicks - every drug known to man... but despite it all Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a good woman. Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby: From the people who bought you Anchorman and The 40 Year Old Virgin comes this hilarious fast-paced comedy starring Will Ferrell as Ricky Bobby - one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history. Ricky has everything a racing sensation and national hero could wish for: a luxurious mansion a smokin' hot wife (Leslie Bibb) and a loyal racing partner childhood friend Cal Naughton Jr. (John C. Reilly). But flamboyant French Formula One driver Jean Girard (Sacha Baron Cohen) is about to wreck Ricky's world and challenge for the supremacy of NASCAR. Now Ricky must face his demons and kick some serious asphalt if he's to get his career back on the track beat Girard and reclaim his fame and fortune. 'Cause as Ricky Bobby always says If You Ain't First Your Last!
On an overnight ferry ride French sixteen year old Thomas strikes up a conversation with English thirtysomething Alice. She invites him to share her table and as the evening progresses the nave yet full of bravado teenager engages in mutual flirtation with his older companion. With the sexual tension building they head for Alice's cabin. From the controversial director of Romance and A Ma Soeur comes a compelling and explicit portrayal of a brief sexual encounter that leads to a bitter conclusion.
Real women take chances have flaws embrace life... Should Ana leave home go to college and experience life? Or stay home get married and keep working in her sister's struggling garment factory? It may seem like an easy decision but for 18 year-old Ana every choice she makes this summer will change her life. At home she is bound to a mother who wants her to become someone she's not. But at school she's encouraged by a teacher who sees her potential and adored by a boyfr
Howling winds whip through the trees on a stormy night back in the 1940's. An angered man enters the old Victorian house on the banks of Fever Lake. Inside a fearful mother hides her young son in the attic and he soon becomes the only witness to his mother's tragic murder. Years later a group of friends are planning a weekend getaway and are offered the use of the deserted old house on Fever Lake. It started out as a fun filled weekend. But as evil supernatural forces collide with innocent victims the group find themselves in for a terror-filled stay. Nobody knows exactly what evil went on at Fever Lake but what they do know is that something evil happened before and it's happening again. They must destroy the evil... before it destroys them.
Darkly handsome Frank (Albert Dupontel - A Very Long Engagement), jailed for robbing a bank, escapes from prison to track down Maurel (Stphane Debac - The Happening), a former cellmate trying to make him take the fall for a series of murders and who abducts Frank's wife and daughter. Detective Claire Linne (Alice Taglioni - The Valet) leads the chase for the fugitive, who soon becomes public enemy n1.A brutal and no-holds-barred manhunt begins pushing the three protagonists as far as they can go but who will be the hunter and who will be the prey?
A senatorial candidate falls for a hotel maid, thinking she is a socialite when he sees her trying on a wealthy woman's dress.
Edward James Olmos sets the screen ablaze in this powerful epic about a youth from the streets of East LA who becomes the leader of the Mexican Mafia from behind the gates of Folsom Prison.
Red-hot stars ignite the white-hot thriller 'White Sands' a volatile mix of action and suspense directed by Roger Donaldson (Species) and filmed in an around New Mexico's glistening White Sands National Park. Willem Dafoe plays Sheriff Ray Dolezal a small-town lawman in big-time trouble. To untangle a mystery he assumes the identity of a murdered FBI agent and goes undercover inside a global crime ring. This precarious new life steers him toward a sinister weapons runner (Mickey R
Blue Streak (1999): Jewel thief Miles Logan (Martin Lawrence) finds the only way he can recover a diamond he stole two years prior is to impersonate a detective who along with his rookie partner ends up using his wits to solve crimes... Money Train (1995): Fresh from their successful double-act in White Men Can't Jump Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson reunite once more... Foster brothers they share a lifelong dream of robbing the `Money Train' that collects millions of dollars each night from New York City subway stations. Only two things stand in their way: they're cops and their boss. As far as he's concerned they're his trains it's his money and he's never been robbed. But on New Year's Eve plans are in motion and the action is switching to overdrive! Striking Distance (1993): Tom Hardy (Bruce Willis) is a fifth generation Pittsburgh cop. Formerly a homicide detective he publicly challenged the police department including several of his family members about the identity of the serial killer who took his father's life. Convinced that a newly active serial killer is the same gunman who murdered his father - despite the fact that another man is already behind bars for that crime - Hardy is working out of his jurisdiction to catch the killer. The maverick cop finds himself at odds with his new partner (Sarah Jessica Parker) as he skirts around the system and defies his uncle (Dennis Farina) his father's successor as the Chief of Homicide. A high-powered suspenseful drama with mind-blowing action Striking Distance is Bruce at his wisecracking best.
Blue Tiger explores the bloody-minded determination of a mother to avenge the tragic death of her young child fatally shot in the crossfire of a Yakuza 'hit'. Her only clue to the identity of her son's killer is the ripped shirt of the hitman and a lurid Blue Tiger tattoo emblazoned across his chest. Disguising herself as a voluptuous cocktail waitress she infiltrates known Yakuza haunts seducing suspects in the hope of finding the tell tale tattoo and exacting her burning revenge. According to Samurai legend the Blue Tiger is always in search of the Red Tiger; when they finally meet someone always pays with their life!
They will eat your balls! Las Pollas del Metal (The Metal Dicks) a heavy metal band are on tour to promote their first album. On the road to Galicia their van suffers a flat tyre and they have to stay overnight at the Gutierrez's town a small village located nowhere. Next day the town is throwing a festival where its inhabitants celebrate the patron saint's day. The Mayor invites the artists to join the celebration and they accept without knowing a brutal danger awaits them. Special Features: 88 Films Trailer Park
Charting the events within a small single-class village school over the course of one academic year, 'Etre Et Avoir' takes a warm and serene look at primary education in the French heartlands. A dozen youngsters, aged 4-10, are brought together in a rural classroom and taught every subject by a single teacher. A master of quiet authority, he patiently navigates the children towards adolesence, cooling down their arguments and listening to their problems with extraordinary dedication.Soon, however, he will have to say goodbye to those older students, who are now ready to go onto the state school in the local town. Winner of a host of international awards, Etre et Avoir is a unique meeting of a director of remarkable talent and a man whose assured approach to teaching will have an impact, not only upon the lucky few children who share his wisdom, but upon anyone who sees this extraordinary and heart-warming film.
Everybody loved him. One woman understood him. But no one could save him... From himself El Cantante celebrates the life and music of the legendary Puerto Rican singer Hector Lavoe. The film spans three decades of Lavoe's life ranging from his arrival in New York to his tragic death in 1993.
The Back-Up Plan (2010): Jennifer Lopez stars as Zoe a single New Yorker who dreams about meeting Mr. Right having a baby and living happily ever after. But after a string of Mr. Wrongs Zoe commits to her back-up plan: to take on motherhood alone. Zoe's plan proves far from foolproof when moments after her procedure she's swept up into a whirlwind romance with Stan (Alex O'Loughlin) the man of her dreams. Can Zoe hide her pregnancy until Stan is ready for the truth? Or will the truth send him packing? The Back-Up Plan is a hilarious romantic comedy about courtship love marriage and parenthood - but not necessarily in that order! Knocked Up (2007): The Writer And Director Of The 40 Year-Old Virgin delivers another hilarious hit comedy! They say that opposites attract... well for super-slacker Ben (Seth Rogen) and career-girl Alison (Katherine Heigl) that's certainly the case - at least for one intoxicated evening. Two months later and several pregnancy tests later Ben and Alison go through a hysterically funny anxious and heart-warming journey that leads to huge laughs in the most outrageous comedy of the year! Baby Mama (2008): Successful and single businesswoman Kate Holbrook has long put her career ahead of a personal life. Now 37 she's finally determined to have a kid on her own. But her plan is thrown a curve ball after she discovers she has only a million-to-one chance of getting pregnant. Undaunted the driven Kate allows South Philly working girl Angie Ostrowiski to become her unlikely surrogate. Simple enough ... After learning from the steely head of their surrogacy center that Angie is pregnant Kate goes into precision nesting mode: reading childcare books baby-proofing the apartment and researching top pre-schools. But the executive's well-organized strategy is turned upside down when her Baby Mama shows up at her doorstep with no place to live. An unstoppable force meets an immovable object as structured Kate tries to turn vibrant Angie into the perfect expectant mom. In a battle of wills they will struggle their way through preparation for the baby's arrival...
12-year-old Maxi walks and sways his hips high on life laughing and joking with his playmates. Like any diva he has a wardrobe to die for - an assortment of sandals shorts and shirts in every colour imaginable. His mum has passed away and his dad and brothers who are devout Catholics have turned to stealing mobile phones to earn a better living. Maxi cooks cleans and sews for them and is their alibi when things go wrong. However it all becomes complicated when he meets and falls
Mona Lisa Smile: Set in 1953 Katherine Watson (Roberts) is a free-spirited graduate of UC Berkeley who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom. A League Of Their Own: Tom Hanks Geena Davis and Madonna star in this major-league comedy from the team that brought you Big. Hanks stars as Jimmy Dugan a washed-up ball player whose big league days are over. Hired to coach in the All-American Girls League of 1943 - while the male pros are at war - Dugan finds himself drawn back into the game by the heart and heroics of his all-girl team. Jon Lovitz adds a scene stealing cameo as the sarcastic scout who recruits Dottie Hanson (Davis) the baseball dolly with a Babe Ruth swing. Teammates Madonna Lori Petty and Rosie O'Donnell round out the roster taking the team to the World Series. Based on the true story of the pioneering women who blazed the trail for generations of athletes. Maid In Manhattan: Marisa Ventura is a single mother born and bred in the boroughs of New York City. She works as a maid in a first-class Manhattan hotel. By a twist of fate and mistaken identity Marisa meets Christopher Marshall a handsome heir to a political dynasty who believes that she is a guest at the hotel. Fate steps in and throws the unlikely pair together for one night. When Marisa's true identity is revealed the two find that they are worlds apart even though the distance separating them is just a subway ride between Manhattan and the Bronx.
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