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IMDB Rating: 6.7

The Soloist

In 2005, the only thing hurting Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez more than his face from a recent bike accident was his pressing need for story ideas. That is when he discovers Nathaniel Ayers, a mentally ill, homeless street musician who possesses extraordinary talent, even through his half-broken instruments. Inspired by his story, Lopez writes an acclaimed series of articles about Ayers and attempts to do more to help both him and the rest of the underclass of LA have a better life. However, Lopez's good intentions run headlong in the hard realities of the strength of Ayers' personal demons and the larger social injustices facing th...

Genres: DramaBiographyMu
Country: USA, UK, France
Actors: Stephen Root, Tom Hollander, Catherine Keener
Directors: Joe Wright
Year: 2009
Available Quality: DVD, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
 
IMDB Rating: 6.5

Coco Before Chanel

Several years after leaving the orphanage to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar both. She's both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan gives her an entree into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing increasingly popular hats. When she falls in love with English businessman Arthur Capel further opportunities open up, though life becomes ever more complicated.

Genres: DramaBiogra
Country: France
Actors: Alessandro Nivola, Vincent Nemeth, Audrey Tautou
Directors: Anne Fontaine
Year: 2009
Available Quality: DivX, iPod, Hi Def
 
IMDB Rating: 7

Public Enemies

This is the story of the last few years of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger. He loved what he did and could imagine little else that would make him happier. Living openly in 1930s Chicago, he had the run of the city with little fear of reprisals from the authorities. It's there that he meets Billie Frechette with whom he falls deeply in love. In parallel we meet Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent who would eventually track Dillinger down. The FBI was is in its early days and Director J. Edgar Hoover was keen to promote the clean cut image that so dominated the organization through his lifetime. Purvis realizes that if he is going to get Dil...

Genres: CrimeThrillerDr
Country: USA
Actors: Christian Bale, David Wenham, Johnny Depp
Directors: Michael Mann
Year: 2009
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
 
IMDB Rating: 7.6

The Blind Side

A poor, oversized and under-educated teenager is recruited by a major college football program where he is groomed into an athletically and academically successful NFL prospect.

Genres: DramaSportBiogra
Country: USA
Actors: Kim Dickens, Kathy Bates, Sandra Bullock
Directors: John Lee Hancock
Year: 2009
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
 
IMDB Rating: 5.7

Amelia

Amelia Earhart, a Kansas girl, discovers the thrill of aviation at age 23, and within 12 years has progressed to winning the Distinguished Flying Cross for being the first woman to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic Ocean. At age 39, she sets out on an attempt to circumnavigate the globe, an adventure that catapults her into aviation myth.

Genres: DramaBiogra
Country: USA, Canada
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Hilary Swank, Aaron Abrams
Directors: Mira Nair
Year: 2009
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
 
IMDB Rating: 8

Prayers for Bobby

In "Prayers for Bobby," Mary Griffith is a devout Christian who raises her children with the conservative teachings of the Presbyterian Church. However, when her son Bobby confides to his older brother he may be gay, life changes for the entire family after Mary learns about his secret. While Bobby's father and siblings slowly come to terms with his homosexuality, Mary believes God can cure him of what she considers his 'sin' and persuades Bobby to pray harder and seek solace in church activities in hopes of changing him. Desperate for his mother's approval, Bobby does what is asked of him, but through it all, the church's apparent disapprova...

Genres: DramaBiogra
Country: USA
Actors: Dan Butler, Sigourney Weaver, Henry Czerny
Directors: Russell Mulcahy
Year: 2009
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
 
IMDB Rating: 5.9

Party Monster

Set in the New York club scene of the late 1980's thru the 1990's, a tale which chronicles the rise and fall of club-kid promoter Michael Alig, a party organizer, whose extravagant life was sent spiralling downward when he boasted on television that he had killed his friend, roommate, and drug dealer, Angel Melendez. Originally from Indiana, Alig moved to New York, and came to be an underground legend, known for his excessive drug use and outrageous behavior in the club world. At his peak, he had his own record label, and magazine, and hosted Disco 2000, one of the biggest club nights in New York in the '90s. He was doing a lot of drugs, and ...

Genres: CrimeThrillerDr
Country: USA, Netherlands
Actors: Macaulay Culkin, Mia Kirshner, Seth Green
Directors: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Year: 2003
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
 
IMDB Rating: 6.9

The Duchess

At the age of 17, Georgiana Spencer is married to the Duke of Devonshire. She soon realizes that hers is to be a loveless marriage and her only purpose in the arrangement is to provide her husband with a male heir. She hasn't much good fortune on that front, producing two daughters and having several miscarriages as well and it is many years before she succeeds. What relationship she does have with her husband breaks down completely when he begins what proves to be a lifelong affair with her best friend, Bess Foster. She does make a life for herself, becoming quite active in politics and the fashion icon of her day.

Genres: RomanceDramaHist
Country: UK, Italy, France
Actors: Richard McCabe, John Shrapnel, Ralph Fiennes
Directors: Saul Dibb
Year: 2008
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
 
IMDB Rating: 7.1

Girl, Interrupted

Susanna is rushed to the hospital. Afterwards she discusses this with a psychiatrist. She had been having some delusions. She had also been having an affair with the husband of her parents' friend. The doctor suggests that combining a bottle of aspirin and a bottle of vodka was a suicide attempt. This she denies. He recommends a short period of rest at Claymoore. Claymoore is a private mental hospital full of noisy, crazy people. Georgina is a pathological liar. Polly has been badly scarred by fire. Daisy won't eat in the presence of other people. Lisa is a sociopath, the biggest exasperation for the staff - like Nurse Valerie - and the bigge...

Genres: DramaBiogra
Country: Germany, USA
Actors: Angelina Jolie, Brittany Murphy, Winona Ryder
Directors: James Mangold
Year: 1999
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
 
IMDB Rating: 6.7

Hans Christian Andersen

A completely fabricated biography of the famous Danish fairytale writer Hans Christian Andersen featuring several of his stories and a ballet performance of "The Little Mermaid".

Genres: FamilyMusicalRoma
Country: USA
Actors: Farley Granger, John Brown, John Qualen
Directors: Charles Vidor
Year: 1952
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
 
IMDB Rating: 6.6

Julius Caesar

The story of the rise and fall of the Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar, born July 13, 100 B.C., and starting his career as a young Roman with visions of greatness for the Eternal City. When Sulla conquers Rome with his troops, Caesar is one of the very few to stand up against the despotic dictator. This impresses Pompeius, Sulla's general, and he protects the young man, who is a nephew of Marius, a well known veteran, against the wrath of Sulla. After Sulla's death, Caesar returns from exile and starts his political career. Caesar's daughter Julia marries general and senator Pompeius, and Caesar takes Pompeius' troops in order to simply safe...

Genres: DramaHistory
Country: Germany, USA, Netherlands
Actors: Christopher Walken, Sean Pertwee, Chris Noth
Directors: Uli Edel
Year: 2002
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
 
IMDB Rating: 7.2

Elvis

A chronicle of the life of Elvis Presley (Rhys Meyers), from his humble beginnings to his rise to international stardom.

Genres: DramaBiographyMu
Country: Germany, USA
Actors: Rose McGowan, Jack Noseworthy, Camryn Manheim
Directors: James Steven Sadwith
Year: 2005
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, iPod
 
IMDB Rating: 8.1

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.

Genres: DramaBiogra
Country: USA, France
Actors: Mathieu Amalric, Max von Sydow, Emmanuelle Seigner
Directors: Julian Schnabel
Year: 2007
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
 
IMDB Rating: 7.7

Control

Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band, of which the name in the meantime has been changed to Joy Division, gets more and more successful. Even though Debbie and he become parents, their relationship is going downhill rapidly and Ian starts an affair with Belgium Annik whom he met after one of the gigs and he's almost never at home. Ian also suffers from epilepsy and has no-good medication for it. He doesn't know how to handle the feelings he has for Debbie and Annik and the pressure the popularity of Joy ...

Genres: DramaBiographyMu
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Actors: Sam Riley, Toby Kebbell, Joe Anderson
Directors: Anton Corbijn
Year: 2007
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
 
IMDB Rating: 7.3

Cry Freedom

Donald Woods is chief editor at the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko. But after having met him for the first time, he changes his views. They meet several times, and this means that Woods and his family get attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody, he writes a book about Biko. The only way to get it published is for Woods himself to illegally escape the country.

Genres: DramaBiogra
Country: UK
Actors: Denzel Washington, Kevin McNally, Kevin Kline
Directors: Richard Attenborough
Year: 1987
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
 
IMDB Rating: 4.2

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.

Genres: CrimeDramaBiogra
Country: USA
Actors: Viola Davis, Marc John Jefferies, Joy Bryant
Directors: Jim Sheridan
Year: 2005
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
 
IMDB Rating: 7.8

Milk

Upon moving to San Francisco from New York City in 1972, forty year old Harvey Milk gains focus in his life as a gay activist in the city's Castro district. Gay rights activism turns to political activism as Milk decides he can be a more effective voice for the gay community as a politician, elected or not. Through several elections and losses both for a city seat and a state assembly seat, Milk becomes the first openly gay man in the United States to be elected to political office when he wins a San Francisco supervisor seat in 1977. His many political battlefronts include one with the national anti-gay Save the Children crusade, led and fro...

Genres: RomanceDramaHist
Country: USA
Actors: Denis O'Hare, Josh Brolin, James Franco
Directors: Gus Van Sant
Year: 2008
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
 
IMDB Rating: 6.8

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Two faiths, two empires, two rulers - colliding in 1588. Papist Spain wants to bring down the heretic Elizabeth. Philip is building an armada but needs a rationale to attack. With covert intrigue, Spain sets a trap for the Queen and her principal secretary, Walsingham, using as a pawn Elizabeth's cousin Mary Stuart, who's under house arrest in the North. The trap springs, and the armada sets sail, to rendezvous with French ground forces and to attack. During these months, the Virgin Queen falls in love with Walter Raleigh, keeping him close to court and away from the sea and America. Is treachery or heroism at his heart? Does loneliness await...

Genres: RomanceDramaHist
Country: Germany, UK, France
Actors: Jordi Mollà, Rhys Ifans, John Shrapnel
Directors: Shekhar Kapur
Year: 2007
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
 
IMDB Rating: 5.3

Phantom Punch

From a Missouri jail cell to the heights of the world heavyweight boxing championship, Phantom Punch traces the turbulent life of Sonny Liston, chronicling his ties to the mob, run ins with the law, and the circumstances surrounding his mysterious death.

Genres: DramaSportBiogra
Country: USA, Canada
Actors: Ving Rhames, David Proval, Nicholas Turturro
Directors: Robert Townsend
Year: 2009
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
 
IMDB Rating: 8.5

Lawrence of Arabia

An inordinately complex man who has been labeled everything from hero, to charlatan, to sadist, Thomas Edward Lawrence blazed his way to glory in the Arabian desert, then sought anonymity as a common soldier under an assumed name. The story opens with the death of Lawrence in a motorcycle accident in London at the age of 47, then flashbacks to recount his adventures: as a young intelligence officer in Cairo in 1916, he is given leave to investigate the progress of the Arab revolt against the Turks in World War I. In the desert, he organizes a guerrilla army and--for two years--leads the Arabs in harassing the Turks with desert raids, train-wr...

Genres: AdventureDrama
Country: UK
Actors: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Directors: David Lean
Year: 1962
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
 
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