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Current Category Drama > S to Z - DRAMA MOVIES
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SOFT SKIN
One of Truffaut's more neglected but essential films, The Soft Skin follows a well known scholar (Jean Desailly) as he becomes infatuated with an airline stewardess (Franoise Dorlac) and hopelessly pursues the doomed affair.
Famously echoing Truffaut's own life, this compelling drama is an essential follow up to the director's new wave films like The 400 Blows.
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SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL
Think everyone over 17 has forgotten what it's like to be 16? Filmmaker John Hughes (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Pretty in Pink) hasn't. Now Hughes delivers another funny, savvy, crowd-pleasing look at adolescence in this story about high school misfit (Eric Stoltz-Mask), who falls so head-over-heels for the senior class siren that he's blind to the charms of his beautiful and devoted best pal (Mary Stuart Masterson-Fired Green Tomatoes). Some fun, some heartache, Some Kind of Wonderful!
Running time - 91 minutes Rated - M
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SOMETHING THE LORD MADE
Something the Lord Made tells the emotional true story of two men who defied the rules of their time to launch a medical revolution, set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow south. Working in 1940s Baltimore on an unprecedented technique for performing heart surgery on "blue babies," Dr. Alfred Blalock (Alan Rickman) and lab technician Vivien Thomas (Mos Def) form an impressive team. As Blalock and Thomas invent a new field of medicine, saving thousands of lives in the process, social pressures threaten to undermine their collaboration and tear their friendship apart.
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SOMETIMES IN APRIL
(Drama) In April 1994, one of the most heinous genocides in world history began in the African nation of Rwanda. Over the course of 100 days, an estimated 800,000 people were killed in a terrifying purge by Hutu nationalists against their Tutsi countrymen. This harrowing HBO Films drama focuses on the almost indescribable human atrocities that took place a decade ago through the story of two Hutu brothers--one in the military, one a radio personality--whose relationship and private lives were forever changed in the midst of the genocide. Written and directed by Raoul Peck, (HBO Films' Lumumba) the movie is the first large-scale film about the 100 days of the 1994 Rwandan genocide to be shot in Rwanda, in the locations where the real-life events transpired.
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SOMEWHERE IN TIME
The story of a young writer who sacrifices his life in the present to find happiness in the past, where true love awaits him. Young Richard Collier is approached by an elderly woman who gives him an antique gold watch and who pleads with him to return in time with her. Years later, Richard Collier is overwhelmed by a photograph of a beautiful young woman. Another picture of this woman in her later years reveals to him that she is the same woman who had given him the gold watch. Collier then becomes obesessed with returning to 1912 and the beautiful young woman who awaits there.
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SOMMERSBY
People remember Jack Sommersby. They know him as a bitter, loutish man. But when Jack returns home after the Civil War, he's tender, caring and resourceful. Has the war changed him...or is the man calling himself Jack Sommersby an impostor?
Richard Gere and two-time Academy Award winner Jodie Foster are a match for the ages in this period romance rich in mystery, detail and splendid performances. They portray Jack and Laurel Sommersby, whose love grows as suspicion about Jack mounts. If he isn't the man she married, Laurel knows he is the man she always wanted. But an ultimate test of their love and Jack's identity awaits. Jack must stand trial for his life and the outcome makes one thing sure: you'll remember Sommersby.
Running time - 109 minutes Rated - M
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SONG FOR A RAGGY BOY
William Franklin (Aidan Quinn from Michael Collins and The Assignment) arrives at St Judes, the only lay teacher among a staff of Catholic brothers. He is quick to realise that his teaching methods are totally opposed to those of the brothers, who revert to the use of verbal and physical abuse. Franklin succeeds in building a trusting relationship with the boys, which enables him to unlock their hidden talents and open their minds to the beauty of poetry.
When two boys are severely beaten on Christmas Day, it is mroe than Franklin can bear, and he goes head-to-head with the brutal Brother John (Iain Glen from Lara Croft: Tomb Raider). More harrowing than Dead Poets Society, SONG FOR A RAGGY BOY is a powerful and moving film that will break your heart.
Based On A True Story
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SONG FOR MARTIN, A
From one of the rare two-time winners of Cannes' Palme d'Or, Denmark's Bille August, comes a beautiful meditation on autumnal love.
In midlife, two soul mates finally meet and their passion is fueled by their love of music.
Famous composer Martin meets concertmaster Barbara at one of his performances, and the two fall in love. After divorcing their spouses, Martin and Barbara marry and begin a happy life together. Five years later, as the couple is working on a new opera, Martin is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. As Martin's condition worsens and his personality changes, the couple strain to hold on to the love that once brought them together.
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SOUL VENGEANCE
Hes done his time and now hes out FOR REVENGE!
Charles (Marlo Monte) a small time dope dealer gets busted by an obsessive, racist cop who almost completely castrates him. Abandoned by his friends and scapegoats by the authorities, Charles serves three horrible years in solitary confinement before he is paroled. Charles gets a much different welcome home than the one he expected. His best friend has stolen his girl and put her to work as a stripper and his innocent younger brother now belongs to a gang. In the meantime, Charles notices that hes more than recovered from his injuries his manhood has achieved unheard of lengths! His inability to find a job and the memory of his mutilation whittles away a Charles sanity and he gradually becomes consumed with a need for vengeance. But this is no ordinary kind of vengeance this is SOUL VENGEANCE! Using his new power, Charles can mesmerise the wives of his victims, compelling them to do anything he demands. ANYTHING. This is one weapon that has to be seen to be believed!
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SOURCE OF LOVE, THE
Shot on location in Hong Kong, director Stephen Shin delivers a beautiful story of a traditional Chinese family that is facing struggles that challenge the family’s honour and their deep roots in ancestral worship.
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SPARTACUS - SPECIAL EDITION
The 2-disc Special Edition DVD of this powerful film presents the fully restored feature with additional footage cut from the film's orginal release. Bonus materials include rare deleted scenes and behind the scenes footage.
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SPEER AND HITLER - THE DEVILS ARCHITECT
The figures for World War II: 110 million troops mobilized in two thirds of the world's nations. The Third Reich at was with 53 countries. The casualties: more civilians than soldiers, 60 million all told, including 25 million Russians and six million Jews, killed in an unprecedented Genocide. More than five years of death and horror triggered by the German people. How was it possible? How could an entire nation allow itself to become part of a cold machinery of hatred and destruction? SPEER AND HITLER THE DEVIL'S ARCHITECT helps us understand what caused the Germans to unleash such devastation upon the world.
If Hitler had a friend, it would have been Albert Speer. Dashing and worldly, Speer became one of the superstars of the Third Reich. Afterwards, the Nuremberg Trials gave him a stage on which he could shine again: he now became the good Nazi. Among the accused, he was the only one to openly welcome the trials as necessary duty. With disarming conviction, he told his prosecutors that he was neither involved in nor aware of the Holocaust. Saving himself from execution, he was sentenced to only 20 years of prison. At Spandau Prison he wrote his biography, which became a best-seller all over the world. The darling of talk shows, journalists and historians, he died in 1981.
The theory he propounded, and which was eagerly adopted by millions of Germans , went like this: If the Minister of Armaments, who was at the center of power and virtually Hitler's closest friend, failed to know about the Holocaust and about Hitler's murderous plans, how could the rest of the German people know anything? Speer presented himself as the living proof that Germans were perhaps guilty, but only against their will: innocently guilty....
Yet Hitler's architect and master of the Wehrmacht was far from innocent. He was in no way a mute cog in this hellish machinery. Indeed, Speer had authorized many of the construction projects with the concentration camps. During the final days, he worked tirelessly to keep the armament industry running and to ensure supplies to the front until the bitter end.
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SPINNING INTO BUTTER
Spinning Into Butter is a story on a critical and timely subject told with heart, humanity and humour. Sarah Daniels (Sarah Jessica Parker), a highly educated white, liberal dean has barely settled into her new position as dean of students at an elite New England college when a series of hate crimes sends her world spinning out of control.
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SPIRAL
You cant paint over your past...
The harrowing story of a shy and possibly disturbed telemarketer/painter, his arrogant long time friend and boss, and the carefree new co-worker whose love may offer a portrait of normalcy. But in a life scarred by dark secrets, can the truth be the most horrifying pose of all
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SPUN
Three days of epic drug binging becomes a meth-induced odyssey for college drop out Ross when he becomes the local crystal meth cook's personal driver in exchange for free drugs. Bounding from one bizarre situaion to another, Ross slowly slips deeper into the crazy anonymous world of speed freaks in which there exists no boundaries or morality. With an all star cast including Brittany Murphy (from 8 Mile), Jason Schwartzman (from Slackers), John Leguizamo (from Moulin rouge), Patrick Fugit (from Almost Famous), Mickey Rourke (from Animal Factory), Mena Suvari (from American Beauty) and an unfortunate green dog. Get ready to see the city through eyes that can't sleep.
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SPY GAME
It's not how you play the game...
It's how the game plays you.
There was a time when CIA operative Nathan Muir (Robert Redford) and his protege Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt) were inseperable, travelling around the world. from Vietnam to Beirut, in a profession fraught with danger and uncertainty. But that was years ago.
Now, on the brink of his retirement from the agency. Muir learns that Bishop has gone rogue. His one-time protege has been jailed in Beijing on espionage charges after attempting to break a female prisoner out of China, the woman who came between them years before. But as time begins to run out for Bishop, Muir decides to take on his most dangerous and personal mission ever.
Running Time: 121 minutes Rating: MA
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SPY GAME / MEET JOE BLACK / SLEEPERS - BRAD PITT ICON COLLECTION
Spy Game:
Set against a world of global intrigue from the Vietnam war through to the end of the Cold War, Spy Game is a story of redemption and friendship between mentor and protégé (Robert Redford and Brad Pitt respectively). In 1991 on the brink of his retirement from the agency, Nathan Muir (Redford) learns that Tom Bishop (Pitt) has gone rogue, jailed overseas on espionage charges and is scheduled to die in 24 hours. Muir decides to take on the most dangerous and personal mission of his life.
Meet Joe Black:
Bill Parrish has it all - success, wealth and power. Days before his sixtieth birthday, he receives a visit from a mysterious stranger, Joe Black, who soon reveals himself as Death. In exchange for extra time, Bill agrees to serve as Joe's earthly guide. But will he regret his choice when Joe unexpectedly falls in love with Bill's beautiful daughter Susan?
Sleepers:
Sleepers is a wilder-than-fiction, true-life story of innocence lost and vengeance unleashed. An impulsive prank played by four inseparable childhood friends veers into unexpected violence in Hell's Kitchen in the mid-1960s. Sentenced to an infamous, up-state reform school, the four young boys enter aworld of danger and violence. Fifteen years later, the four now-grown men are suddenly confronted with the chance to repay the dept of their painful past. Their extraordinary quest for retribution makes for a motion picture experience you will never forget.
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SQUID AND THE WHALE, THE
Jeff Daniels and Laure Linney give superb performances in director Noah Baumbach's wry and biting autobiographical stab at his parent's divorce. Winner of 2 awards at the Sundance Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay, The Squid and The Whale has been described as the best American film this year and is essential viewing for fans of films like Rushmore and Igby Goes Down.
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STAGE BEAUTY
Set in the 1660’s at a time when live theatre women’s roles were played by men, Edward ‘Ned’ Kynaston (Billy Crudup) is England’s most celebrated leading lady, using his beauty and skill to make the great female roles his own. But when Charles II (Rupert Everett) is tired of seeing the same old performers, the ruler allows real women to tread the boards and men may no longer play women’s parts. Virtually overnight Ned becomes almost a complete nobody and seems headed for despair until his ex-dresser turned actress Maria (Claire Danes) takes it on herself to make a man of him again.
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STAGE FRIGHT
Jonathan Cooper is wanted by the police who suspect him of killing his lover's husband. His friend Eve Gill offers to hide him and Jonathan explains to her that his lover, actress Charlotte Inwood is the real murderer. Eve decides to investigate for herself, but when she meets the detective in charge of the case, she starts to fall in love.
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STALAG 17
During World War II, a group of G.I.s are thrown together in the notorious German prison camp Stalag 17. For the most part, they spend their time scheming ways to help each other escape. But when two prisoners are killed in an escape attempt, it becomes obvious that there is a spy among them. William Holden was awarded an Oscar for his performance as a cynical, sharp-tongued soldier who spends his time scheming up rackets and trading with the Germans for special privileges. This classic comedy drama from the great Billy Wilder remains the grandaddy of all POW movies.
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STAND AND DELIVER
Edward James Olmos's Oscar-nominated performance energizes this true-life story of a Los Angeles high school teacher who drives his students on to excellence at calculus.
Special Features:
* Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
* Interactive Menus
* Scene Access
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STANLEY KUBRICK COLLECTION
2001 - A Space Odyssey:
The monoliths have been watching us. They gave us the "evolutionary kick in the pants" we needed to survive at the Dawn of Time. In 1999, we discovered a second monolith on the moon.. Now, in the year 2001, the S.S. Discovery and its crew, Captains Dave Bowman and Frank Poole, and their onboard computer, HAL-9000, must discover what alien force is watching us...
A Clockwork Orange:
Stomping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating. Derby-topped teddy-boy hooligan Alex has his own way of having a good time. He has it at the tragic expense of others. Alex's journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of Anthony Burgess' novel. Unforgettable images startling musical counterpoints, the fascinating language used by Alex and his pals - Kubrick shapes them into a shattering whole. Hugely controversial when first released, A Clockwork Orange won the New York Film Critics Best Picture and Director honors and earned four Academy Award nominations, including best picture. The power of its art is such that it still entices, shocks and holds us in its grasp.
The Shining:
Think of the greatest terror imaginable. Is it a monstrous alien? A lethal epidemic? Or, as in this harrowing masterpiece from Stanley Kubrick, is it fear of murder by someone who should love and protect you - a member of your own family? From a script he co-adapted from the Stephen King novel, Kubrick melds vivid performances, menacing settings, dreamlike tracking shots and shock after shock into a milestone of the macabre. In a signature role, Jack Nicholson ("Heeeere's Johnny!) plays Jack Torrance, who's come to the elegant, isolated Overlook Hotel as off-season caretaker with his wife (Shelley Duvall) and son (Danny Lloyd). Torrance has never been there before - or has he? The answer lies in a ghostly time warp of madness and murder.
Full Metal Jacket:
A superb ensemble cast falls in for action in Stanley Kubrick's brilliant saga about the Vietnam War and the dehumanizing process that turns people into trained killers. Joker, Animal Mother, Gomer, Eightball, Cowboy and more - all are plunged into a boot-camp hell pitbulled by a leatherlung D.I. (Lee Ermey) who views the would-be devil dogs as grunts, maggots or something less. The action is savage, the story unsparing, the dialogue spiked with scathing humor. Full Metal Jacket, from its rigors of basic training to its nightmare of combat in Hue City, scores a cinematic direct hit.
Eyes Wide Shut:
Tom Cruise plays Dr. William Hartford, who plunges into an erotic foray that threatens his marriage - and may even ensnare him in a jurid murder mystery - after his wife's (Nicole Kidman) admission of sexual longings. As the story sweeps from doubt and fear to self-discovery and reconciliation, Kubrick orchestrates it with masterful flourishes. Graceful tracking shots, controlled pacing, rich colors, starting images: bravura traits that make Kubrick a filmmaker for the ages are here to keep everyone's eyes wide open.
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STATE PROPERTY 2: BLOOD ON THE STREETS
This time, everything is on the line.
Hip hop mogul Damon Dash wrote, directed, and stars in this hard-hitting examination of life in the criminal underground as three gangsters vie for control of the streets of Philadelphia.
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STATES EVIDENCE
A quest for the ultimate thrill. Documenting the events, anticipating a grand finale like no other, to commit suicide on camera. The rush is instantaneous. Emotions run wild. Pressure mounts as shocking details are revealed. But with no future, there sre no rules, with no rules, there are no limits. So the search for the final adventure takes an unexpected turn down a very, very dark road
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STAVISKY
Stavisky was a man haunted by his father's desire to be accepted by French society. Stavisky pushed his Russian Jewish father's dream to its extreme. A charmer, a gambler and a crook, he became the darling of French High Society. But when his father found out that his son was wanted by the police he killed himself. The Stavisky affair was a scandal that rocked 1930s France. The scandal spread far and wide. Stavisky had seduced the rich and famous into his web of deception and lies. One evening, Stavisky got up from an extravagant dinner party. Leaving his fawning friends, he walked to the graveside of his lost father. Ready to meet his maker
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STEAL ME
Steal Me is a rare independent picture made in a rural setting that captures an authentic feel and rhythm
of the locale without self consciousness, awkwardness or sentimentality.
Chasing his wayward mother to Montana, fifteen year old Jake finds the picture perfect Tucker family instead who photo shop him into their lives, despite his questionable past. Too bad Jake can not stop himself from stealing, being seduced by the sexy next door neighbour, courting the mother of the house, encouraging the son in his first love affair, and leading the neighbourhood boys in an ever escalating series of pranks.
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STEALING BEAUTY
Renowned Academy Award®-winning director BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI* (“The Last Emperor”) explores one girl’s personal journey into womanhood in this lushly filmed romantic adventure starring LIV TYLER and JEREMY IRONS. When beautiful 19-year old Lucy (TYLER) arrives in Italy to spend the summer with her late mother’s bohemian friends, she’s determined to fulfill two dreams. The first, to consummate her romance with the Italian boy she fell in love with four years earlier, and the second, to discover the identity of her father through clues in her mother’s diary. As thoughtful as it is sensual and visually stunning, “Stealing Beauty” is “an exquisite, erotic adventure.” (Guy Flatley, COSMOPOLITAN)
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STEEL MAGNOLIAS - COLLECTORS EDITION
A beautiful, bittersweet human comedy set in America's deep south, STEEL MAGNOLIAS unites the talents of Hollywood's finest actresses as six very special friends bonded together by their mutual triumphs and tragedies.
Despite their differences, beautiful and impulsive Shelby (JULIA ROBERTS in her Academy Award nominated role), her strong-willed mother M'Lynn (SALLY FIELD), beauty parlour owner Truvy (DOLLY PARTON), elegant widow Clairee (OLYMPIA DUKAKIS), sharp-tongued Ouiser (SHIRLEY MacLAINE) and mousy newcomer Annelle (DARYL HANNAH) enjoy a friendship that spans the boundaries of age and status. Sharing each other's strengths and loyalties, these six remarkable woman survive the cycles of life, birth and death to emerge stronger, closer and still laughing!
Running time - 114 minutes Rated - M
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