Posts Tagged ‘Drama’

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Feb26

Barry Lyndon (1975) 2 x DVD9 and 2 x Blu-Ray Criterion Collection, Blu-Ray Warner

by movieworld on February 26th, 2018 at 17:23
Posted In: .Other movies, Adventure, Drama, History, War

Barry Lyndon 1975
Barry Lyndon is one of Stanley Kubrick's best films, as well of one of his most misunderstood. The story of one man's journey from rural Ireland to the height of English nobility, Lyndon is an epic in every sense of the word, filled with duels, wars, deceit, treachery, and some of the most beautiful cinematography in film history. While 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange garner more attention, Barry Lyndon is just as accomplished as either, and deserves a closer look.

Barry Lyndon tells the tale of Redmond Barry (Ryan O'Neal), an Irish boy who falls in love with his cousin, Nora Brady (Gay Hamilton), but she plans on marrying Captain Quin (Leonard Rossiter). Barry challenges Quin to a duel and wins. Since Quin was a British officer, Barry's cousins convince him that the British will come looking for him, so he runs off. From there Barry faces challenges, experiencing vast highs and deep lows throughout his life.

Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee
Country: UK, USA
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
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Feb26

The Breakfast Club (1985) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 26th, 2018 at 12:02
Posted In: .Other movies, Comedy, Drama

The Breakfast Club 1985
Crammed inside their school library, 5 different students all of different social status, intelligence and build must spend their Saturday serving detention. We have the Jock (Emilio Estevez), the Brian (Anthony Michael Hall), the Criminal (Judd Nelson), the Princess (Molly Ringwald) and the Kook (Ally Sheedy), most of who have never spoken a word or even glanced at one another. Even though these 5 different students never got along with each other before this day, by the end of the film they all develop a bond none of them figured they ever would. Each open themselves up revealing sides about themselves never heard before.
Slowly the story behind each one comes out and they find that they have more in common then they ever could have imagined.

BD50 + 2xDVD9 | 1080p AVC, NTSC | 01:37:09 | 42.6 Gb + 12.9 Gb
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama

Director: John Hughes
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald
Country: USA
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Feb26

I, Daniel Blake (2016) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 26th, 2018 at 11:01
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

I Daniel Blake 2016 Criterion Collection
Daniel (Dave Johns) is a 59-year-old woodworker who’s recently experienced a heart attack. Medical issues have ended his working years, relying on government assistance to pay the bills. When Daniel is hit with the news that he’s expected to return to employment right away, he’s baffled, trying to remain with his doctor’s orders to ease back into a routine. However, medical information isn’t connecting with benefit sources, sending Daniel, who isn’t computer literate, on an endless quest to fix the situation, entering the labyrinth of social services, where every option to continue living is trapped behind bewildering paperwork and professional demands. During this painful journey, Daniel meets Katie (Hayley Squires), a single mother of two who doesn’t have any money to support her family. She responds to Daniel’s kindness as he helps with home projects, but her own shame is silently destroying her, forced to accept the unthinkable just to afford to buy food for her kids.

BD50 + 2xDVD9 | 1080p AVC, NTSC | 01:40:26 | 45.8 Gb + 11.1 Gb
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy
Country: UK, France, Belgium
Genre: Drama
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Feb21

Two films by G.W. Pabst: Westfront 1918 (1930), Kameradschaft (1931) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Eureka! – Masters of Cinema

by movieworld on February 21st, 2018 at 18:00
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Romance, War

Two films by G.W. Pabst: Westfront 1918 (1930), Kameradschaft (1931)
Released in the same year as the American film All Quiet on the Western Front, the German Westfront 1918 is another early example of an anti-war film tackling the horrifying events of World War I. It takes a straightforward route of simply presenting life in and out the trenches at the time, following a small handful of German infantrymen as they struggle to stay alive and sane. For them, the reasons for the war have become irrelevant. Their existence is focused only on the camaraderie they share with one another, a mutual emotional support which is all they have to fend off the terror of life at the front. The sections away from the front lines show the hardships faced by those back home as well as some brief moments of relief the soldiers enjoy.

Although not a war film as such, the shadow of WWI plays an important part in the other film included in this package, Kameradschaft. It tells the tale of a mining disaster on the border between France and Germany, where both German and French rescue teams came to the assistance of French miners trapped after an explosion. The actual incident, which claimed the lives of 1,099 people, happened in 1906, but Pabst and his team of writers moved it forward to just after the WWI, so it would work as a call for peace and brotherhood between nations caught up in the conflict.
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Feb21

Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie (1930) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 21st, 2018 at 17:13
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Romance, War

Westfront 1918 1930 Criterion Collection
G.W. Pabst's first sound film, Westfront 1918, carries the same message that Lewis Milestone's legendary film All Quiet on the Western Front does: war is madness.
At its Berlin premiere on May 23, 1930, some moviegoers supposedly found Westfront 1918's realism so shocking that they fainted in their seats.

The bulk of Pabst's film has the raw appearance of a documentary feature. As World War I intensifies, the camera looks in all sorts of different directions to capture the chaos and blood-curdling carnage that people have been forced to endure. Sometimes the intensity of the random fights is so overwhelming that it almost looks as if the soldiers on both sides of the barb-wired trenches are lunatics who have somehow managed to get away from a mental institution.

The breaks between the fights are just as random and borderline surreal. Early into the film a group of German soldiers gather in an old cabaret to enjoy an improvised play by two aging comedians who have been tasked to temporarily make them forget the madness. Their play is poor, but with death lurking around the corner it feels brilliant and the spectators are thankful to be able to hear a few genuine laughs again. Then, just as abruptly, the soldiers are sent back to the front and the fighting resumes.
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Feb21

Kameradschaft / Comradeship (1931) DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 21st, 2018 at 16:05
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Kameradschaft 1931 Criterion Collection
In the Lorraine region on the French-German border, a gas explosion and series of tunnel collapses threatens the lives of French miners. A German rescue team, headed by Wittkopp, convinces the German mine director to allow them to conduct a rescue operation. In the meantime, a French miner descends an old stairway into the shaft in order to rescue his grandson on his own. The rescue mission ultimately becomes the expression of a common humanity that extends beyond national boundaries.

G. W. Pabst's Kameradschaft (1931) is based on an actual event: the 1906 Courrieres mining disaster in northern France, among the worst industrial accidents in history. A coal dust explosion resulted in 1,060 deaths and German miners from the Westphalia region came to France to assist in the rescue effort. Pabst and his scriptwriters relocated the event to the present day (that is, in the aftermath of World War I) and to the French-German border, transforming the story into a message of pacifism and solidarity among workers. In that respect, the film may be seen as a follow-up to Pabst's previous film, the anti-war picture Westfront 1918 (1930), which shares largely the same production team and even some of the cast members.
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Feb20

Rapa Nui (1994) DVD5

by movieworld on February 20th, 2018 at 14:36
Posted In: .Other movies, Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance

Rapa Nui 1994
An island paradise becomes a scarred paradise lost in the spectacular South Seas adventure Rapa Nui, co-produced by Kevin Costner.

Jason Scott Lee (Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story) and Esai Morales (La Bamba) play boyhood friends turned fierce rivals in this tumultuous tale of love and war. Each loves the same woman (Sandrine Holt of Black Robe) – and each intends to win her hand in marriage by competing for the island leadership in a grueling tribal contest. But the bitterness of the competition spills over into a savage civil war...and the isolated island’s destiny hangs in the balance. Lush, romantic and heroic, Rapa Nui is "an amazing achievement of imagination that dazzles the eye and challenges the mind".

DVD5 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:46:27 | 4.37 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance

Director: Kevin Reynolds
Cast: Jason Scott Lee, Esai Morales, Sandrine Holt
Country: USA
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Feb19

Tengoku to jigoku / High and Low (1963) 2 x DVD9 and Blu-Ray Criterion Collection

by movieworld on February 19th, 2018 at 18:15
Posted In: .Other movies, Asian, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

High and Low 1963 Criterion Collection
Kingo Gondo, played wonderfully by Toshiro Mifune, is concocting a scheme to take over the shoe company he is working for, no longer satisfied with the direction the corporation is taking, so he has mortgaged everything to come up with the millions he needs to secretly acquire a majority share. That’s when the call comes in from kidnappers demanding a ransom for his son; a ransom so high it will practically ruin him. But, the kidnappers have made an error; they’ve taken his employee’s son by mistake. They demand the ransom anyway, appealing to Gondo’s sense of honor. Now Gondo is caught between wanting to do the right thing, the pressure of his wife to save his employee’s son, Chief Detective Tokura (Tatsuya Nakadai) who wants to use him to help capture the kidnappers, and his own desire to keep his money to take over the company.

BD50 + 2xDVD9 | 1080p AVC, NTSC | 02:23:32 | 44 Gb + 12.7 Gb
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Yutaka Sada, Tatsuya Nakadai
Country: Japan
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Feb19

Cube (1997) Blu-Ray 20th Anniversary Special Edition

by movieworld on February 19th, 2018 at 16:04
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller

Cube 1997
With a shoestring budget, little-known actors, and a tiny set, director and co-writer Vincenzo Natali has created a compelling and gripping movie that will keep you engaged from intriguing beginning to startling end.

A group of strangers find themselves trapped inside of a series of monochromatically lit square cells, each with six possible exits. None of them know how, or why, they are here, but they do know they've got to get out. However, out of the six possible exits from each room, only one is not booby trapped (razor wire, sound activated acid sprays, etc), so the group look for patterns to lead themselves to safety, and slowly begin to see how their lives outside the cube impact their survival within. They realize that each of them has been chosen because they have unique talents that will help them navigate the labyrinth and that they need to cooperate in order to get out. However, tensions and angers within the group threaten to split them apart.

Director: Vincenzo Natali
Cast: Nicole de Boer, Maurice Dean Wint, David Hewlett
Country: Canada
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Feb19

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) Blu-Ray

by movieworld on February 19th, 2018 at 15:11
Posted In: .Other movies, Drama

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1958Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous in this Richard Brooks/James Poe interpretation of Tennessee Williams’s stunning play that reveals truths about mendacity days gone by and family power struggles.

The story begins at Big Daddy Pollitt’s sixty-fifth birthday party, an occasion for the gathering of the Pollitt clan at Big Daddy’s antebellum-style, Mississippi mansion. Big Daddy is a grumpy, hateful old codger, very rich and very powerful. He dominates everyone around him, and his inability to express any kind of warmth or love provides one of the movie’s central turning points. But more than the birthday party, the family has gathered to find out if the old man is going to live or die. He’s dying presumably of cancer. It’s clear from the beginning, however, that the family is more interested in who will inherit Big Daddy’s lands and money than in wishing him well.

BD50 | 1080p AVC | 01:48:04 | 32 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, French, German, Spanish (Latin & Castillian), Czech, Polish
Subtitles: English SDH, French, German SDH, Spanish (Latin & Castillian), Czech, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Turkish

Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives
Country: USA
Genre: Drama
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