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| Jazz great Billy Strayhorn wrote the song which gives this film its title, "Lush Life". This film will be an especial treat to afficianados of jazz in all its forms. The story concerns the efforts of session musician Al Gorky (Jeff Goldblum) to arrange a once-in-a-lifetime jam session for his frequent recording partner, Buddy Chester (Forest Whitaker). The kicker is that Chester is dying of a brain tumor, and while he wants this session, he doesn't want anybody who's being invited to know. For a long time now, Al has been sliding, slacking off in his musical and his personal life. His wife Janis (Kathy Baker) thinks its about time he won free of the lure of the hipster lifestyle of the '60s, and gave up the dope and easy women. Chester has one final gift to give his friend: he won't allow Al to play in the super-session he's asked him to arrange unless he can sharpen up his playing. Search keywords
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Categories: 1993, Drama, USA
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| Soft-spoken 16-year old Leland Fitzgerald commits a seemingly senseless murder that shocks his community, affecting both his victim's family and his own. Arrested and imprisoned in a juvenile detention facility, Leland comes in contact with an aspiring writer and prison teacher, Pearl Madison. As Pearl delves into the mystery of Leland's crime, he also sees the chance for a career-making book as the boy's estranged father is the world-renowned author, Albert Fitzgerald. Search keywords
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Categories: 2003, Crime, Drama, USA
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| Ten years ago some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda—and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, one million people were brutally murdered. In the face of these unspeakable actions, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees, by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages. Search keywords
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Categories: 2004, Drama, History, Italy, South Africa, Thriller, UK, USA, War
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| Ten years ago some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda—and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, one million people were brutally murdered. In the face of these unspeakable actions, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees, by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages. Search keywords
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Categories: 2004, Drama, History, Italy, South Africa, Thriller, UK, USA, War
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| After a seemingly minor earthquake one night in Los Angeles, a giant burst of lava is released from the La Brea Tar Pits, resulting in the birth of a new volcano under the city. City officials are reluctant to believe scientists who notice the early warning signs (the temperature of a lake rises 6 degrees in 12 hours) but they learn their lesson when lava begins to spill out into the streets and to destroy buildings and cars. Dedicated Emergency Management director Mike Roark rushes to the rescue, with help from a plucky seismologist. Search keywords
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Categories: 1997, Action, Drama, Thriller, USA
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| With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) faces pressure from the government, the press, and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention, Stark, along with Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), and James "Rhodey" Rhodes (Don Cheadle) at his side, must forge new alliances — and confront powerful enemies. Search keywords
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Categories: 2010, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, USA
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| Burned out veteran Eddie Dugan is just one week away from his pension and a fishing cabin in Connecticut. Narcotics officer Sal Procida has discovered there's no line he won't cross to provide a better life for his long-suffering wife and seven children. And Clarence "Tango" Butler has been undercover so long his loyalties have started to shift from his fellow police officers to his prison buddy Caz, one of Brooklyn's most infamous drug dealers. With personal and work pressures bearing down on them, each man faces daily tests of judgment and honor in one of the world's most difficult jobs. When NYPD's Operation Clean Up targets the notoriously drug-ridden BK housing project, all three officers find themselves swept away by the violence and corruption of Brooklyn's gritty 65th Precinct and its most treacherous criminals. During seven fateful days, Eddie, Sal and Tango find themselves hurtling inextricably toward the same fatal crime scene and a shattering collision with destiny. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Action, Crime, Drama, USA
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| A look at America's struggles with war, class, race and women's rights. based on Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States." Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Documentary, USA
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| Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters, a black police detective with a drugged out mother and a thieving younger brother, two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the distracted district attorney and his irritated and pampered wife, a racist veteran cop (caring for a sick father at home) who disgusts his more idealistic younger partner, a successful black Hollywood director and his wife who must deal with racist cop, a Persian-immigrant father who buys a gun to protect his shop, a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter who is afraid of bullets, and more. Search keywords
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Categories: 2004, Crime, Drama, Germany, Thriller, USA
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| In Cocoa Beach FL, a woman shows up drunk on the same lawn on the same date three years running. What's going on? She's Sherry McGrale, a singer building a reputation on college campuses, especially for her signature song about having been raped. A rock magazine in L.A. takes notice, and writer Owen Richardson recognizes her: his older brother orchestrated the assault and involved him. Owen heads for Florida, ostensibly to do a piece on her, but in reality to try to put his own demons to rest. Wounds from the event are ruining Sherry and Owen's current relationships. Is there any prospect of healing? A judge, Sherry's manager, and a widow with young kids provide supporting arms. Search keywords
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Categories: 2001, Drama, USA
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| A brutal and realistic war film focuses on the lives of a squad of 14 U.S. Army soldiers of B Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infanty Regiment, 101st Airborne Division during the brutal 10 day (May 11-20, 1969) battle for Hill 937 in the A Shau Valley of Vietnam as they try again and again to take the fortified hill held by the North Vietnamese, and the faults and casualties they take every time in which the battle was later dubbed "Hamburger Hill" because enemy fire was so fierce that the fusillade of bullets turned assaulting troops into shreded hamburger meat. Search keywords
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Categories: 1987, Action, Drama, USA, War
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| A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of L.A. about to explode in violence in this look at the gang culture enforced by the colors that members wear. Search keywords
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Categories: 1988, Crime, Drama, USA
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| It is 1948 in LA and Ezikeal "Easy" Rawlins, an African-American World War II veteran, is looking for work. At his friend's bar, he is introduced to a white man, DeWitt Albright, who is looking for someone to help him find a missing white woman assumed to be hiding somewhere in LA's Black community. This woman, Daphane Monet, happens to be the fiancée of a wealthy "blue blood," Todd Carter, who is currently the favorite in the city's mayoralty race. Daphane Monet is known to frequent the Black jazz clubs in LA. Easy, innocently, accepts Albright's offer; however, he quickly finds himself amidst murder, crooked cops, ruthless politicians, and brutalizing hoodlums. This is a Chandler-esque "who-done-it" with an African-American theme. Search keywords
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Categories: 1995, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, USA
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| Two kids secretly take in nine stray dogs at a vacant house. Search keywords
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Categories: 2009, Comedy
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| When the right arrow the judicial policeman federal Roy Clayton runs the inquiry in a dangerous international conspiracy, all indications seems to lead rear to ancient U. S. Special officer of Operations, Horn of Samir.
Quand la flèche droite l'agent de Police judiciaire fédérale Roy Clayton dirige l'enquête dans une conspiration internationale dangereuse, tous les indices semble mener en arrière à ancien U. S. Officier d'Opérations Spécial, Corne de Samir. Search keywords
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Categories: 2008, Drama, USA
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| The history of true life of Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene Jr. In the years 1960 of second half, in Washington, D. C. , the music of vibrant soul and the explosion of social conscience were combining to the only and powerful effect. It was the place and time of Petey to totally definite he itself - sometimes to the offensive effect - and "they say that as he is. " With the support of his irrepressible friend and stormy Vernell, the ex-false conversations recently coined coins his way in a radio-railroad handcar on air. He forges a friendship and a society with the brother of the inhabitant of sympathetic prison Dewey Hughes Milo. Of the first wild morning on air, Petey trusts the Dewey most held tight to run interference in WOL-SÃO, where Dewey is the director of program. In the station, Petey becomes a radio-personality icônica, surpassing up to the established popularity of his sympathetic jockeys of disc, Bacurau and Jim Cheio of sun. Combining penetrating mood with social comment, Petey openly controversy of courts of the owner of station E. G. Sonderling. One decided what Petey was doing not only he itself but his community heard during an exciting and turbulent period in the American history. Like the voice of Petey, mood, and wave of spirit through the air waves with the vitality of the era, melody of listeners to hear not the only incredible music but also a man who talks to them straightly on race and power in America as few persons sometime have. During the years, Petey "the truth is only" I distill — in - and out of the air - it would re-define so many Petey like Dewey, and would authorize each one if there was made the man what he more would like being.
A história de vida verdadeira de Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene Jr. Nos anos 1960 de segunda metade, em Washington, D. C. , a música de alma vibrante e a explosão de consciência social combinavam-se ao efeito único e potente. Foi o lugar e tempo de Petey a totalmente expresso ele mesmo - às vezes ao efeito ultrajante - e "dizem que como ele é. " Com o suporte da sua amiga irreprimível e tempestuosa Vernell, as conversações ex-falsas recentemente cunhadas moedas o seu caminho em um rádio-trole no ar. Ele forja uma amizade e uma sociedade com o irmão do habitante de prisão simpatizante Dewey Hughes Milo. Da primeira manhã selvagem no ar, Petey confia no Dewey mais apertado para correr interferência em WOL-SÃO, onde Dewey é o diretor de programa. Na estação, Petey torna-se uma rádio-personalidade icônica, sobrepujando até a popularidade estabelecida dos seus jóqueis de disco simpatizantes, Bacurau e Jim Cheio de sol. Combinando humor penetrante com comentário social, Petey abertamente controvérsia de tribunais do proprietário de estação E. G. Sonderling. Decidiu-se que Petey fizesse não somente ele mesmo mas a sua comunidade ouviu durante um período excitante e turbulento na história americana. Como a voz de Petey, humor, e onda de espírito através das ondas aéreas com a vitalidade da era, melodia de ouvintes para ouvir não a música só incrível mas também um homem que lhes fala diretamente sobre corrida e poder na América como poucas pessoas alguma vez têm. Pelos anos, Petey "a verdade somente é" estilo — em - e fora do ar - redefiniria tanto Petey como Dewey, e autorizaria cada um a tornar-se o homem que ele mais gostaria de ser. Search keywords
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Categories: 2007, Biography, Drama, History, USA
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| Commander Luke Graham is chosen to lead the first mission supplemented in march. On fact to walk on the foot on the red planet, the team discovers a similar, ancient structure in the dome with air to be a beacon. The dome destroys the team and Luke leaves hurt. JIM MCCONNELL recently widowed leads the rescue mission. When they arrive, they find surprisingly living Lke and he spent the only time learning the secrets of the mysterious building. Question becomes now: do they enter the dome and answer the oldest question of humanity, by risking their lives perhaps in that way, or come back to the Earth with what they really know and are productive in force with the equipment and reservations?.
Commandant Luke Graham est choisi pour mener la première mission complétée à Mars. Sur le fait de marcher sur le pied sur la planète rouge, l'équipe découvre une structure ancienne, semblable au dôme qui a l'air d'être une balise. Le dôme détruit l'équipe et part Luc a blessé. Jim McConnell récemment veuf mène la mission de sauvetage. Quand ils arrivent, ils trouvent Lke étonnamment vivant et il a passé le temps seul apprenant les secrets de la construction mystérieuse. La question devient maintenant : entrent-ils dans le dôme et répondent à la question la plus vieille d'humanité, en risquant peut-être leurs vies de cette manière, ou reviennent à la Terre avec ce qu'ils savent vraiment et rendent dans la force avec l'équipement et les réserves ?. Search keywords
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Categories: 2000, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, USA
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| Each one has gone with a special thing, and Eddie Adams uses his "assets" humongous to take the world of the pornography of movie as the thunderstorm. The things become ugly although when the success leads to medicines and ruin. Does Will Dirk clean and returns above? Does Will Amber see his son? Does Will Rollergirl ever remove his skates?!.
Cada uno ha llevado con una cosa especial, y Eddie Adams usa su "activo" humongous para tomar el mundo de la pornografía de película por la tormenta. Las cosas se hacen feas aunque cuando el éxito lleva a medicinas y ruina. ¿Will Dirk limpia y regresa encima? ¿Will Amber ve a su hijo? ¡¿Will Rollergirl alguna vez quita sus patines?!. Search keywords
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Categories: 1997, Drama, USA
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| A modern-day history of Frank Capra. Jack Campbell, a successful and gifted enterpriser, lives his single life happily. He has everything, or so thinks he. One day he wakes in a new life where he did not leave his university friend for a London trip. He is with Kate, life in the tricot marries and has two children. He wants to go back of course the life for which he has worked 13 years for it has despaired. He is a president from P. K. Lassiter investment house and not a tyre shop assistant to the big ed.. He steers Ferrari and not a miniestate car which this never starts. And most importantly he does not wake in the morning with the children who jump on the bed. After a bad beginning every single day he is convinced in his new life and catches in to see what he has been missed. Turns out the use of the money to have, but it is not everything.
Eine modern-tägige Geschichte von Frank Capra. Jack Campbell, ein erfolgreicher und talentierter Unternehmer, lebt sein einzelnes Leben glücklich. Er hat alles, oder so denkt er. Eines Tages wacht er in einem neuen Leben auf, wo er seine Universitätsfreundin für eine Londoner Reise nicht verließ. Er ist mit Kate, Leben im Trikot verheiratet und hat zwei Kinder. Er will natürlich verzweifelt sein Leben zurück, für das er 13 Jahre dafür gearbeitet hat. Er ist Präsident von P. K. Lassiter Investitionshaus und nicht ein Reifenverkäufer an der Großen Hrsg.. Er steuert einen Ferrari und nicht einen Minikombi, den das nie anfängt. Und am wichtigsten wacht er am Morgen mit Kindern nicht auf, die auf dem Bett springen. Nach einem schlechten Anfang tagtäglich ist er in seinem neuen Leben überzeugter und fängt an zu sehen, was er vermisst geworden ist. Stellt sich den Nutzen des Geldes heraus, um zu haben, aber es ist nicht alles. Search keywords
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Categories: 2000, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, USA
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| Alan Johnson has everything that he needs to cross life: a great work, a nice and loving wife and their splendid children. However he feels insulated because he notes that fact to have a hardworking job and a fact to run a family too much manipulates and has nobody to speak about it. Charlie Fineman, on the other hand, does not have job or a family. He had the habit of credit both up to a terrible loss, and grief made it leave its job and loner himself of each around him. As he ends, Alan and Charlie were roommates in the secondary school and an accidental meeting one night revives the friendship which they shared. But when the problems of Charlie become too much to take care, Alan is solve to help Charlie to come from its emotional abyss.
Alan Johnson a tout qu'il a besoin de traverser la vie : un bon travail, une femme belle et aimante et leurs magnifiques enfants. Pourtant il se sent isolé parce qu'il constate que le fait d'avoir un travail travailleur et le fait de diriger une famille trop manipule et n'a personne pour en parler. Charlie Fineman, d'autre part, n'a pas de travail ou une famille. Il avait l'habitude d'avoir tant jusqu'à une perte terrible, que le chagrin l'a fait quitter son travail et solitaire lui-même de chacun autour de lui. Comme il se termine, Alan et Charlie étaient des camarades de chambre dans le collège et une rencontre accidentelle une nuit ranime l'amitié qu'ils ont partagée. Mais quand les problèmes de Charlie deviennent trop pour s'occuper, Alan est résous d'aider Charlie à venir de son abîme émotionnel. Search keywords
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Categories: 2007, Drama, USA
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