DVD - Drama

On the Wirral in the grim early years of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, the opportunities for thrill seeking young men looking to escape 9 to 5 drudgery are what they've always been: sex, drugs, rock n' roll, fashion, football and fighting.

Actors: Stephen Graham » Nicky Bell » Liam Boyle » Oliver Lee » Lee Battle » Michael Ryan » Ian Puleston-Davies » Holly Grainger »

Director: Pat Holden »

Movie category: Drama »

The drama based on the three-year romance between 19th century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne, which was cut short by Keats' untimely death at age 25.

Actors: Abbie Cornish » Ben Whishaw » Kerry Fox » Paul Schneider » Edie Martin » Thomas Sangster » Gerard Monaco »

Director: Jane Campion »

Movie category: Drama » Lovestory »

The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain. CASS grew up in a time before political correctness and was forced to endure racist bullying on a daily basis, until one day when the years of pent up anger came out in a violent burst. CASS found through violence the respect he never had and became addicted to the buzz of fighting. His way of life finally caught up with him when an attempted assassination on his life, saw him shot three times a...

Actors: Nonso Anozie » Natalie Press » Leo Gregory » Gavin Brocker » Tiggy Allen » Helen Anderson » Gemma Baker » Nick Bartlett »

Director: John S. Baird »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Drama »

This heartwarming true story is an American adaptation of a Japanese tale about a loyal dog named Hachiko. This very special friend would accompany his master to the train station every day and return each afternoon to greet him after work. Sadly his master departs one day, passes away and never returns to the station. Hachiko faithfully returns to the same spot at the station the very next day, and every day for the next nine years to wait for his beloved master. During his daily visits, Hachiko touches the lives of many who work near and commute through the town square. He teaches the local ...

Actors: Richard Gere » Joan Allen » Sara Roemer » Robbie Collier Sublett » Kevin DeCoste » Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa » Jason Alexander » Erick Avari » Davenia McFadden » Robert Degnan » Tora Hallström »

Director: Lasse Hallström »

Movie category: Drama »

The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.

Actors: Morgan Freeman » Matt Damon » Tony Kgoroge » Patrick Mofokeng » Matt Stern » Julian Lewis Jones »

Director: Clint Eastwood »

Movie category: Drama »

It's 1942, and the Australian 39th Home Guard of just 500 men face a Japanese force of 6000 on the treacherous Kokoda track in New Guinea. In the village of Isurava, it looks like an attack is imminent. A patrol from the 39th, led by an AIF lieutenant (Ben Barrack) from North Africa, are about to go out for the night. The patrol consists of Jack and Max Scholt (Jack Finsterer and Simon Stone), Darko (Travis McMahon), Burke (Luke Ford), Johnno (Tom Budge), Sam (Steve Le Marquand), Dan (Angus Sampson), Blue (Christopher Baker) and Wilstead (Ewen Leslie). Johnno is suffering from dysentery.

Actors: Jack Finsterer » Travis McMahon » Simon Stone » Luke Ford » Tom Budge » Steve Le Marquand » Ewan Leslie » Christopher Baker » Angus Sampson »

Director: Alister Grierson »

Movie category: Drama » War »

Brittany Murphy stars as a seismologist who must stop a devastating fault from ripping the Earth apart in this apocalyptic thriller.

Actors: Brittany Murphy » Eriq La Salle » Justin Hartley » Bruce Davison » Paul Logan » Anya Benton » Jack P. Downing » Sarah Garvey »

Director: David Michael Latt »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Drama »

Jessica Olsen goes to Los Angeles with nothing more in mind that visiting her grandparents while her sister tries to meet Christopher Wilde. One night she meets Christopher Wilde. They go an an adventure around Los Angeles and start to like each other. When Jessica returns home, Christopher, on national TV, says he doesn't know her, and never met her.

Actors: Sterling Knight » Danielle Campbell » Brandon Mychal Smith » Maggie Castle » Chelsea Staub » Beth Littleford » Dan O'Connor » Lauren Bowles » Ron Pearson » Matt Winston » Toni Trucks » Alice Hirson »

Director: Michael Grossman »

Movie category: Drama » Comedy » Music films »

Written and directed by Shana Feste, in her feature directorial debut, THE GREATEST tells the story of Allen and Grace Brewer, a grief-stricken couple whose family has been pushed to the breaking point by the death of their older son, Bennett, in a car crash. When a young woman, Rose, shows up a few months later announcing that she is pregnant with Bennetts child, the Brewers are forced to take her in. At first, Roses presence threatens to tear the family even further apart but, eventually, her interaction with each of the Brewers proves to be the very thing that brings them back together.

Actors: Pierce Brosnan » Susan Sarandon » Carey Mulligan » Johnny Simmons » Aaron Johnson » Zoë Kravitz »

Director: Shana Feste »

Movie category: Drama » Lovestory »

After a dramatic escape from death row, former FBI agent Adam Riley (David White) reunites with his friend and mentor Jacob Krause (Brad Heller) leader of The Way, and his small remnant of Christians. Little do they know the forces out for their destruction. Global Alliance leader Commander Fredericks (Monte Perlin) has forced Adam's former partner Charles Baker (Kevin Downes) to hunt them down while a ragtag militia, led by "Captain" Jackson (Lonnie Colon), spy on them for their own gain. As events lead to an explosive confrontation, all will be forced to an awakening of the real struggle... ...

Actors: Kevin Downes » John Gilbert » Jesse Jam Miranda » Dr. Asad Farr » Brad Heller » Bree Pavey » Christopher Greer » Jason Brock »

Director: Wes Llewellyn »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

The girlfriend of a ruthless drug dealer attempts to strike out on her own, only to find that it isn't easy to shake the grip of the most dangerous man in the city. Kat (Milla Jovovich) is a beautiful bad girl whose hunger for danger has led her down a dark path in life. Despite having her every move dictated by her dope-slinging boyfriend, Big Al (Angus MacFadyen), Kat longs take her fate in her own hands. Now, as Kat begins to make her own deals on the street, Big Al's right-hand man (Stephen Dorff) professes that his feelings for the increasingly independent moll run much deeper than she ev...

Actors: Milla Jovovich » Aisha Tyler » Sarah Strange » Nola Augustson » Conrad Bergschneider » Stephen Dorff » Tim Eddis » Suresh John » Vincent Laresca » Angus Macfadyen »

Director: Gary Lennon »

Movie category: Horror » Drama »

A young outcast from a primitive tribe is forced to defend his people from a brutal onslaught in Independence Day director Roland Emmerich's fast-paced period adventure. Despite the fact that he is low man on the totem pole in his tribe of fearless hunters, a brave young boy (Steven Strait) longs to win the heart of a beautiful princess (Camilla Belle) who is well above his station in life. When an overwhelming horde of powerful invaders forces the hunters into slavery and abducts the princess, the once-aimless boy suddenly finds his destiny taking an unexpected turn. Now, if he has any hope o...

Actors: Steven Strait » Camilla Belle » Omar Sharif » Suri van Sornsen » Tim Barlow » Marco Khan » Mo Zinal » Nathanael Baring »

Director: Roland Emmerich »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Drama »

A young outcast from a primitive tribe is forced to defend his people from a brutal onslaught in Independence Day director Roland Emmerich's fast-paced period adventure. Despite the fact that he is low man on the totem pole in his tribe of fearless hunters, a brave young boy (Steven Strait) longs to win the heart of a beautiful princess (Camilla Belle) who is well above his station in life. When an overwhelming horde of powerful invaders forces the hunters into slavery and abducts the princess, the once-aimless boy suddenly finds his destiny taking an unexpected turn. Now, if he has any hope o...

Actors: Steven Strait » Camilla Belle » Omar Sharif » Suri van Sornsen » Tim Barlow » Marco Khan » Mo Zinal » Nathanael Baring »

Director: Roland Emmerich »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Drama »

A man is forced to go against his family and his principles in the name of serving his country in this drama inspired by actual events. Tommy Santoro (James Marsden) was just a boy when his father was murdered, and young Tommy quickly discovered his dad was a high-ranking member of the Philadelphia Mafia. Tommy grew up determined to stay on the right side of the law, but his brother Vincent (Brad Renfro) and cousin Joey (Giovanni Ribisi) had other ideas and ended up joining "the family business." Tommy enlisted in the Army and served in Operation Desert Storm, but when he impulsively stole a j...

Actors: Val Kilmer » Dennis Hopper » Brad Renfro » Giovanni Ribisi » James Marsden » Piper Perabo » Brian Dennehy » Tommy Lee » Dash Mihok » Lesley Ann Warren »

Director: Robert Moresco »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

Greg Marcks' 11:14 intertwines five different storylines that all lead up to a series of events that happen one evening at 11:14. The audience is made privy to connections between the characters that they themselves are unaware of. The audience will see how various lies and deceptions lead to murder.

Actors: Hilary Swank » Colin Hanks » Rachael Leigh Cook » Henry Thomas » Ben Foster » Rick Gomez » Clark Gregg » Shawn Hatosy » Blake Heron » Barbara Hershey » Stephen Milton » Stark Sands » Jason Segel »

Director: Greg Marcks »

Movie category: Drama »

Andy Warhol once said, in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. Welcome to that future - where reality shows mean fame, violence means ratings and tabloid television lives and dies by the rule 'If is bleeds, it leads'. DE NIRO is Eddie Fleming, New York's ultimate celebrity detective - he's on TV most nights in his quest to bring down serial killers and raise his own media profile. But this time, he has just met his match. Someone is on a killing spree, and they're videotaping the horrific murders to provoke the police. They want to be famous too. And if they get caught they can p...

Actors: Robert De Niro » Edward Burns » Vera Farmiga » Karel Roden » Oleg Taktarov » Kelsey Grammer » Melina Kanakaredes » Tygh Runyan » Janean Christine Mariani » Avery Brooks »

Director: John Herzfeld »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Drama »

Scottish writer and former vocalist for the punk band the Skids, Richard Jobson makes his directorial debut with 16 Years of Alcohol, the stylized psychological drama based on his own semi-autobiographical novel. Through voice-over narration and various flashback methods, troubled young man Frankie Mac (Kevin McKidd) recalls his childhood (played by Iain De Caestaecker as a boy) growing up in working-class Edinburgh. In the '50s, his father (Lewis McCloud) was a hard-drinking good-timer and his long-suffering mother (Lisa May Cooper) eventually gave up on the family. As a teenager in the '70s,...

Actors: Kevin McKidd » Laura Fraser » Susan Lynch » Ewen Bremner » Jim Carter » Stuart Sinclair Blyth »

Director: Richard Jobson »

Movie category: Drama » Lovestory »

Set in Italy, the film follows the lives and interactions of two boys/men, one born a bastard of peasant stock (Depardieu), the other born to a land owner (de Niro). The drama spans from 1900 to about 1945, and focuses mainly on the rise of Fascism and the peasants' eventual reaction by supporting Communism, and how these events shape the destinies of the two main characters.

Actors: Robert De Niro » Gerard Depardieu » Dominique Sanda » Donald Sutherland » Francesca Bertini » Laura Betti » Werner Bruhns » Stefania Casini » Sterling Hayden »

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci »

Movie category: Drama » War »

Set in Italy, the film follows the lives and interactions of two boys/men, one born a bastard of peasant stock (Depardieu), the other born to a land owner (de Niro). The drama spans from 1900 to about 1945, and focuses mainly on the rise of Fascism and the peasants' eventual reaction by supporting Communism, and how these events shape the destinies of the two main characters.

Actors: Robert De Niro » Gerard Depardieu » Dominique Sanda » Donald Sutherland » Francesca Bertini » Laura Betti » Werner Bruhns » Stefania Casini » Sterling Hayden »

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci »

Movie category: Drama » War »

A woman (Azura Skye) becomes pregnant with the first child of the post-nuclear apocalypse era in director Jim Torres' feature adaptation of a 1987 play by Ron Harris. Desperate to provide a better life for her unborn child, the expectant mother joins a band of survivors two decades after the unthinkable became a devastating reality. Joshua Leonard (The Blair Witch Project), Nathan Baesel (Invasion), Reg E. Cathey (The Wire), and Diane Salinger (Carnivale) co-star.

Actors: Azura Skye » Joshua Leonard » Nathan Baesel » Reg E. Cathey » Diane Salinger »

Director: Jim Torres »

Movie category: Drama » Sci-Fi & Fantaisie »

Director Robert Luketic adapts Ben Mezrich's best-seller Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions to tell the true-life tale of six genius students who used their brains to beat considerable odds. Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) may be shy, but his wallflower reputation betrays his inner brilliance. As smart as Ben may be, however, if he can't pay his tuition he'll be kicked out of M.I.T. Fortunately, the answer to all of Ben's problems is right there in the cards. Recruited to join a team of extremely gifted students who have used their mastery ...

Actors: Kevin Spacey » Laurence Fishburne » Jim Sturgess » Kate Bosworth » Liza Lapira » Jacob Pitts » Jack McGee » Sam Golzari »

Director: Robert Luketic »

Movie category: Drama » Comedy » Thriller »

Director Robert Luketic adapts Ben Mezrich's best-seller Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions to tell the true-life tale of six genius students who used their brains to beat considerable odds. Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) may be shy, but his wallflower reputation betrays his inner brilliance. As smart as Ben may be, however, if he can't pay his tuition he'll be kicked out of M.I.T. Fortunately, the answer to all of Ben's problems is right there in the cards. Recruited to join a team of extremely gifted students who have used their mastery ...

Actors: Jim Sturgess » Kevin Spacey » Kate Bosworth » Laurence Fishburne » Liza Lapira » Jacob Pitts » Jack McGee » Sam Golzari »

Director: Robert Luketic »

Movie category: Drama » Comedy » Thriller »

Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu makes his first English-language feature with the downbeat drama 21 Grams. Set in an unnamed U.S. urban center, the film uses a nonlinear structure to piece together the intertwined lives of three very different people. Paul (Sean Penn) is a math teacher with a heart problem and a troubled marriage to British wife Mary (Charlotte Gainsbourg). Christine (Naomi Watts) is a former drug addict who lives with her husband, Michael (Danny Huston), and her daughters. Jack (Benicio del Toro) is a born-again Christian with a wife (Melissa Leo) who has sto...

Actors: Benicio Del Toro » Sean Penn » Naomi Watts » Charlotte Gainsbourg » Danny Huston » Melissa Leo » Eddie Marsan » John Rubinstein »

Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu makes his first English-language feature with the downbeat drama 21 Grams. Set in an unnamed U.S. urban center, the film uses a nonlinear structure to piece together the intertwined lives of three very different people. Paul (Sean Penn) is a math teacher with a heart problem and a troubled marriage to British wife Mary (Charlotte Gainsbourg). Christine (Naomi Watts) is a former drug addict who lives with her husband, Michael (Danny Huston), and her daughters. Jack (Benicio del Toro) is a born-again Christian with a wife (Melissa Leo) who has sto...

Actors: Benicio Del Toro » Sean Penn » Naomi Watts » Charlotte Gainsbourg » Danny Huston » Melissa Leo » Eddie Marsan » John Rubinstein »

Director: Alejandro González Inárritu »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

2:37 erzählt die Geschichte von sechs High School Schülern, deren Lebenslügen durch eine Tragödie von einer Sekunde auf die andere wie ein Kartenhaus zusammenfallen. Um 2:37 nachmittags wird die Leiche einer Schülerin gefunden - war es Mord, war es Selbstmord? In Rückblenden spannend verwoben, werden die Ereignisse der vorangegangen 24 Stunden aus dem Leben der Teenager erzählt. Wie ein Puzzle fügen sich die einzelnen Erlebnisse zusammen und klar wird, nichts ist so wie es scheint. Denn jeder Einzelne von ihnen verbirgt hinter der coolen Fassade ein quälendes Geheimnis...

Actors: Teresa Palmer » Frank Sweet » Sam Harris » Charles Baird »

Director: Murali K. Thalluri »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

An extortionist threatens to derail the career of a prominent politician by revealing visual proof of his lurid sex life in this sequel to Joel Schumacher's disturbing 1999 hit. In the world of politics David Huxley (Johnathon Schaech) is on the move. A crafty political visionary with lofty goals and an eye towards the future, Huxley's only Achilles heel is the sexual obsession that drives him into some of the city's seediest sex clubs. An unnamed extortionist has captured Huxley and his fiancée Tish (Lori Heuring) in a kinky three-way with an attractive young model (Zita Görög), and the hi...

Actors: Johnathon Schaech » Lori Heuring » Bruce Davison » Julie Benz » Zita Görög » Robert Cavanah » Jane How » Alex Scarlis » Barna Illyés » F.J. Flynn » Valentine Pelka » Andrew Fettes » Ferenc Kovács »

Director: J. S. Cardone »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

Contains scenes not released in original theatrical version. Set against the dazzling backdrop of Manhattan, 9 1/2 Weeks spans the length of the affair between Elizabeth, a beautiful art dealer, and John, the wealthy Wall Street executive who becomes her lover. After a tantalizing initial encounter, John charts the course of their sensual journey together in a deadly serious game of sexual dominance that introduces Elizabeth to more pleasure, ecstasy--and pain--than she has ever known... and alters the course of her life forever.

Actors: Kim Basinger » Mickey Rourke » Christine Baranski » David Margulies » Margaret Whitton » Karen Young »

Director: Adrian Lyne »

Movie category: Drama » Erotic » Lovestory »

A relationship between a British scientist and an American student is chronicled through the concerts they saw and the love they made in this highly personal romantic drama from director Michael Winterbottom. Matt (Kieran O'Brien) works with the British Antarctic Survey team, and as he travels to the South Pole and ponders the vast plains of snow and ice, his mind drifts back to his short-lived romance with Lisa (Margo Stilley), a free-spirited girl from the United States. Matt and Lisa met at a rock concert, and afterward the two went back to his flat and made love; as Matt relives their rela...

Actors: Kieran O´Brien » Margot Stilley » The Dandy Warhols » Franz Ferdinand » Bobby Gillespie » Bob Hardy » Alex Kapranos » Nick McCarthy » Michael Nyman » Courtney Taylor-Taylor » Robert Young »

Director: Michael Winterbottom »

Movie category: Drama » Lovestory »

The true story of prominent mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. is the subject of this biographical drama from director Ron Howard. Russell Crowe stars as the brilliant but arrogant and conceited professor Nash. The prof seems guaranteed a rosy future in the early '50s after he marries beautiful student Alicia (Jennifer Connelly) and makes a remarkable advancement in the foundations of "game theory," which carries him to the brink of international acclaim. Soon after, John is visited by Agent William Parcher (Ed Harris), from the CIA, who wants to recruit him for code-breaking activities. But e...

Actors: Russell Crowe » Ed Harris » Jennifer Connelly » Adam Goldberg » Judd Hirsch »

Director: Ron Howard »

Movie category: Drama »

One of Oscar Wilde's most popular plays is given a new screen interpretation in this period comedy. In New York in the early '30s, Mrs. Erlynne (Helen Hunt) is a widow who lives comfortably through the largesse of several married men, and when she runs out of wealthy suitors in Manhattan, she decides to find greener pastures among the wealthy elite of Italy's Amalfi coast. Mrs. Erlynne sets her sights on Robert Windermere (Mark Umbers), a wealthy Englishman who is married to the young, innocent and very beautiful Meg (Scarlett Johansson). Mrs. Erlynne gingerly tries to separate Robert from his...

Actors: Helen Hunt » Scarlett Johansson » Tom Wilkinson » Stephen Campbell Moore » Jane How » Bruce McGuire »

Director: Mike Barker »

Movie category: Drama » Comedy »

The harsh realities of life on the street merge with the universal themes of youthful pain and exhilaration in director Dito Montiel's telling tale of one boy's struggle to escape the grim fate that awaits his aimless, trouble-minded peers. For most of Montiel's friends, the only means of escaping their bleak surroundings were drugs, prison, or death. In breaking the cycle and making a name for himself as a filmmaker, Montiel showed that there are ways to overcome the urban malaise that consumed the majority of his friends. He couldn't have done it alone, though, and with this film Montiel pay...

Actors: Robert Downey Jr. » Rosario Dawson » Shia LaBeouf » Chazz Palminteri » Dianne Wiest » Channing Tatum » Eric Roberts » Kyle Devon Benitez » Martin Compston » Melonie Diaz » Julia Garro » Eleonore Hendricks »

Director: Dito Montiel »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Drama »

David Cronenberg directed this screen adaptation of a graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke which explores how an act of heroism unexpectedly changes a man's life. Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) lives a quiet life in a small Indiana town, running the local diner with his wife, Edie (Maria Bello), and raising their two children. But the quiet is shattered one day when a pair of criminals on the run from the police walk into his diner just before closing time. After they attack one of the customers and seem ready to kill several of the people inside, Tom jumps to the fore, grabbing a gun fro...

Actors: Viggo Mortensen » Maria Bello » Ed Harris » William Hurt » Ashton Holmes » Peter MacNeill » Stephen McHattie » Greg Bryk » Sumela Kay » Kyle Schmid » Deborah Drakeford » Gerry Quigley » Heidi Hayes »

Director: David Cronenberg »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Drama » Thriller »

David Cronenberg directed this screen adaptation of a graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke which explores how an act of heroism unexpectedly changes a man's life. Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) lives a quiet life in a small Indiana town, running the local diner with his wife, Edie (Maria Bello), and raising their two children. But the quiet is shattered one day when a pair of criminals on the run from the police walk into his diner just before closing time. After they attack one of the customers and seem ready to kill several of the people inside, Tom jumps to the fore, grabbing a gun fro...

Actors: Viggo Mortensen » Maria Bello » Ed Harris » William Hurt » Ashton Holmes » Peter MacNeill » Stephen McHattie » Greg Bryk » Sumela Kay » Kyle Schmid » Deborah Drakeford » Gerry Quigley » Heidi Hayes »

Director: David Cronenberg »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Drama » Thriller »

Directed by Michael Mayer and based on The Hours author Michael Cunningham's novel of the same name, A Home at the End of the World chronicles the 1980s reunion of childhood best friends Bobby (Colin Farrell) and Jonathan (Dallas Roberts). Where they were once best pals - and teenage lovers - in the suburbs of Cleveland, Bobby has become a charismatic but go-nowhere heterosexual slacker, and Jonathan is now living as an openly gay man in New York City, hoping to serve as father to his eccentric roommate Clare's (Robin Wright Penn) child. When Bobby impulsively moves to the city to be closer to...

Actors: Colin Farrell » Sissy Spacek » Wendy Crewson » Robin Wright Penn » Matt Frewer » Dallas Roberts » Ryan Donowho » Erik Smith » Harris Allan » Ron Lea »

Director: Michael Mayer »

Movie category: Drama » Lovestory »

Directed by Michael Mayer and based on The Hours author Michael Cunningham's novel of the same name, A Home at the End of the World chronicles the 1980s reunion of childhood best friends Bobby (Colin Farrell) and Jonathan (Dallas Roberts). Where they were once best pals - and teenage lovers - in the suburbs of Cleveland, Bobby has become a charismatic but go-nowhere heterosexual slacker, and Jonathan is now living as an openly gay man in New York City, hoping to serve as father to his eccentric roommate Clare's (Robin Wright Penn) child. When Bobby impulsively moves to the city to be closer to...

Actors: Colin Farrell » Sissy Spacek » Wendy Crewson » Robin Wright Penn » Matt Frewer » Dallas Roberts » Ryan Donowho » Erik Smith » Harris Allan » Ron Lea »

Director: Michael Mayer »

Movie category: Drama » Lovestory »

The acclaimed Trainspotting trio (director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew Macdonald, scripter John Hodge) reunited for this update of '30s screwball comedies and '40s fantasies, such as Here Comes Mr. Jordan(1941), Angel on My Shoulder(1946), Down to Earth(1947), and the 1946 Stairway to Heaven (co-directed by Macdonald's grandfather, Emeric Pressburger). Tossed together for $12 million, the result is a combination salad, a surreal salmagundi with an added animated sequence for lagniappe. In Heaven, Gabriel (Dan Hedaya) sends angels O'Reilly (Holly Hunter) and Jackson (Delroy Lindo) down to Eart...

Actors: Ewan McGregor » Cameron Diaz » Holly Hunter » Dan Hedaya » Ian Holm » Delroy Lindo »

Director: Danny Boyle »

Movie category: Lovestory » Drama »

Three stories of human treachery are given an unexpected link in this dry comedy drama from Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur. Holt (Forest Whitaker) is an insurance investigator who is sent to Minnesota to look into a bus accident; the bus seems to have had significantly more passengers after it crashed than it had when it left the station, and Holt, posing as a police detective, needs to know who is telling the truth and who is attempting to cash in on the tragedy. Later, Holt is back on the job, when a badly burned body is found in a wrecked car, and the ID on the corpse indicates the ...

Actors: Forest Whitaker » Jeremy Renner » Julia Stiles » Peter Coyote » Alfred Harmsworth » Philip Jackson » Joanna Scanlan » Anne Reid » Phyllida Law » Iddo Goldberg » Matyelok Gibbs » Vladas Bagdonas »

Director: Baltasar Kormákur »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

Bobby Long (John Travolta) is a washed up former literature professor with a voracious drinking habit. He lives in a rundown house in New Orleans with Lawson Pines (Gabriel Macht of The Recruit), his former star pupil, also an alcoholic. Lawson is allegedly writing a novel about Bobby. Their depressive little corner of the world is disrupted when Lorraine, the beloved eccentric singer who owns their house, dies. Her teenage daughter, Pursy (Scarlett Johansson), who hasn't seen her mother in years, arrives in town too late for the funeral, and crashes at the house. Afraid of being thrown out on...

Actors: John Travolta » Scarlett Johansson » Gabriel Macht » Deborah Kara Unger » Dane Rhodes » David Jensen » Clayne Crawford » Sonny Shroyer » Walter Breaux » Carol Sutton » Warren Blosjo » Bernard Johnson » Gina Bernal »

Director: Shainee Gabel »

Movie category: Drama » Comedy » Lovestory »

On January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, also a reporter. On the day before, with great care, he has arranged an interview in a café with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesn't return, Mariane initiates a search. Pakistani police, American embassy personnel, and the FBI examine witnesses, phone records, e-mails, and hard drives. Who has him? Where is he? There's also the why: because of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Guantanimo, because of a history of Journal cooperation with the CIA, because Pea...

Actors: Angelina Jolie » Dan Futterman » Archie Panjabi » Irfan Khan » Adnan Siddiqui » Brendan Wentworth »

Director: Michael Winterbottom »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

On January 23, 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife, Mariane, also a reporter. On the day before, with great care, he has arranged an interview in a café with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesn't return, Mariane initiates a search. Pakistani police, American embassy personnel, and the FBI examine witnesses, phone records, e-mails, and hard drives. Who has him? Where is he? There's also the why: because of U.S. abuse of prisoners at Guantanimo, because of a history of Journal cooperation with the CIA, because Pea...

Actors: Angelina Jolie » Dan Futterman » Archie Panjabi » Irfan Khan » Adnan Siddiqui » Brendan Wentworth »

Director: Michael Winterbottom »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

An author discovers fame when his book skyrockets to the bestseller list. But the trappings of his success challenges his relationships to his wife and daughter and it takes a visit from a mysterious stranger telling him he has 40 days to live for him to get his moral bearings back.

Actors: Rob Lowe » Christopher Lloyd » Paget Brewster » Damon Lipari » Frances Conroy » Jude Ciccolella » Kevin Dunn » Rowena King »

Director: Peter Levin »

Movie category: Drama » Lovestory »

An author discovers fame when his book skyrockets to the bestseller list. But the trappings of his success challenges his relationships to his wife and daughter and it takes a visit from a mysterious stranger telling him he has 40 days to live for him to get his moral bearings back.

Actors: Rob Lowe » Christopher Lloyd » Paget Brewster » Damon Lipari » Frances Conroy » Jude Ciccolella » Kevin Dunn » Rowena King »

Director: Peter Levin »

Movie category: Drama » Lovestory »

Robert Redford's lyrical direction sets the tone for this evocative adaptation of author Norman MacLean's memoir of his idyllic Montana youth. The MacLean family is presided over by the strict but encouraging Rev. MacLean (Tom Skerritt) and his loving wife (Brenda Blethyn). Craig Sheffer stars as the young Norman, the older son in his family, who takes his school work and writing a bit too seriously for Paul (Brad Pitt), the impetuous younger son, to take much stock in. Paul would rather have a good time, drink and play cards than get involved with academic study. Where Norman wants to be a co...

Actors: Brad Pitt » Craig Sheffer » Tom Skerritt » Brenda Blethyn »

Director: Robert Redford »

Movie category: Drama »

The best-seller by sentimental novelist Nicholas Sparks becomes this teen melodrama set in a coastal North Carolina port. Cocky, popular high school student Landon Carter (Shane West) is the big man on campus at Beaufort High School until a hazing incident leaves a fellow student paralyzed. Sentenced to community service and membership in his school's drama club, Landon is forced to seek help from Jamie Sullivan (pop singer Mandy Moore), the conservative, religious, plain-Jane daughter of the town's Baptist minister (Peter Coyote). When the two students begin to fall in love, Landon struggles ...

Actors: Shane West » Peter Coyote » Shane West » David Andrews » Mandy Moore » Paz de la Huerta » Al Thompson »

Director: Adam Shankman »

Movie category: Drama » Lovestory »

Jack Nicholson plays retiring insurance actuary Warren Schmidt in Alexander Payne's About Schmidt. Schmidt has settled into a dormant life. He has an unfulfilling marriage to Helen (June Squibb), and conspires to spend as much time away from her as possible. Schmidt's daughter Jeannie (Hope Davis) is engaged to Randall Hertzel (Dermot Mulroney), a man Schmidt believes is entirely unworthy of his daughter. When Helen unexpectedly dies, Warren is adrift until he discovers old love letters sent to his wife from his best friend. This inspires Warren to make a valiant effort to stop his daughter's ...

Actors: Jack Nicholson » Kathy Bates » Dermot Mulroney » Hope Davis » Len Cariou » Howard Hesseman » Matt Winston » Connie Ray » Harry Groener » June Squibb » Phil Reeves » Cheryl Hamada » Mark Venhuizen »

Director: Alexander Payne »

Movie category: Drama » Comedy »

Jack Nicholson plays retiring insurance actuary Warren Schmidt in Alexander Payne's About Schmidt. Schmidt has settled into a dormant life. He has an unfulfilling marriage to Helen (June Squibb), and conspires to spend as much time away from her as possible. Schmidt's daughter Jeannie (Hope Davis) is engaged to Randall Hertzel (Dermot Mulroney), a man Schmidt believes is entirely unworthy of his daughter. When Helen unexpectedly dies, Warren is adrift until he discovers old love letters sent to his wife from his best friend. This inspires Warren to make a valiant effort to stop his daughter's ...

Actors: Jack Nicholson » Kathy Bates » Dermot Mulroney » Hope Davis » Len Cariou » Howard Hesseman » Matt Winston » Connie Ray » Harry Groener » June Squibb » Phil Reeves » Cheryl Hamada » Mark Venhuizen »

Director: Alexander Payne »

Movie category: Drama » Comedy »

Director Atom Egoyan explores the concept of cyberspace as a place for redemption in this drama about an adolescent boy named Simon (Devon Bostick) who reinvents his life on the Internet. Before long, Simon's deeply personal journey provokes strong reactions from around the globe. Rachel Blanchard and Scott Speedman co-star.

Actors: Devon Bostick » Arsinee Khanjian » Scott Speedman » Rachel Blanchard » Aaron Poole » Kenneth Welsh » Dominic Cuzzocrea » Katie Boland » Noam Jenkins » Geraldine O'Rawe » Duane Murray » Thomas Hauff » Louca Tassone »

Director: Atom Egoyan »

Movie category: Drama »

Six years after Sam Peel is released from jail for killing Trife, he realizes that life is no easier on the outside than it was on the inside and he's forced to confront the people he hurt the most. Some have moved on, others are stuck with the repercussions of his actions that night, but one thing's for certain - everyone has been forced to grow up. Through his journey Sam struggles to deal with his sorrow and guilt and something else he didn't expect - those seeking revenge. As he's pursued by a new generation of bad boys, Sam sets about trying to get the message across to his pursuers that ...

Actors: Noel Clarke » Adam Deacon » Scarlett Alice Johnson » Jacob Anderson » Ben Drew » Danny Dyer » Femi Oyeniran » Shanika Warren-Markland » Red Madrell » Nathan Constance » Cornell John »

Director: Noel Clarke »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

Nathan, a brilliant New York lawyer who leads a life of professional success, but his private life is pretty dismal since he divorced Claire, his only love. Until he meets Doctor Kay, a mysterious doctor who introduces himself as a "Messenger." He claims that he can sense when certain people are about to die, and that he is sent to help them put their life in order before it's too late. Nathan doesn't believe a word of this, but soon afterwards he witnesses some disconcerting scenes which seem to confirm the doctor's claims. Written by anonymous Newly divorced lawyer Nathan Del Amico is sh...

Actors: Romain Duris » John Malkovich » Evangeline Lilly » Pascale Bussieres » Reece Thompson » Glenda Braganza » Sally Taylor-Isherwood »

Director: Gilles Bourdos »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

The fourth film to chronicle the life of fourth-century B.C. ruler Alexander the Great, Oliver Stone's Alexander stars Colin Farrell as the titular Macedonian conqueror. The film follows the young king as he leads his forces on a bloody empirical conquest across the known world, taking large parts of Asia and the Middle East to amass a giant empire, all by the time he turned 25. Anthony Hopkins co-stars as Ptolemy I along with Rosario Dawson as Roxane, Angelina Jolie as Olympias, Jared Leto as Hephaistion, Val Kilmer as King Philip II, and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Cassander.

Actors: Anthony Hopkins » David Bedella » Jessie Kamm » Angelina Jolie » Val Kilmer » Fiona O'Shaughnessy » Connor Paolo » Patrick Carroll » Brian Blessed » Peter Williamson » Morgan Christopher Ferris » Robert Earley » Aleczander Gordon »

Director: Oliver Stone »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Drama »