IMDB rating: awaiting 5 votes
Directed by: Sylvester Stallone
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Burt Young, Antonio Tarver, Geraldine Hughes
DVD release date: 20.03.2007
Sylvester Stallone did a really great job regarding his age and although this is little more talk than action movie, it is still good. A must have for all people who haven’t seen it yet!
Thirty years ago he was a man with no future, working for a small time loan shark on the South Side of Philadelphia. When blind luck landed him the chance to enter the ring against reigning champ Apollo Creed, it was the million-to-one-shot of a lifetime. And all he wanted was to go the distance. His courage and perseverance, both in life and in the ring, gave hope to millions.
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10 (19,275 votes)
Directed by: Edward Zwick
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly, Kagiso Kuypers
Set against the backdrop of the chaos and civil war that enveloped 1990s Sierra Leone, “Blood Diamond” is the story of Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), an ex-mercenary from Zimbabwe, and Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou), a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories and their circumstances are as different as any can be until their fates become joined in a common quest to recover a rare pink diamond, the kind of stone that can transform a life … or end it.
Solomon, who has been taken from his family and forced to work in the diamond fields, finds the extraordinary gem and hides it at great risk, knowing if he is discovered, he will be killed instantly. But he also knows the diamond could not only provide the means to save his wife and daughters from a life as refugees but also help rescue his son, Dia, from an even worse fate as a child soldier.
IMDB Rating: 8.3/10 (4,294 votes)
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara
Sixty-one years ago, US and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, several hundred letters are unearthed from that stark island’s soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them.
The Japanese soldiers are sent to Iwo Jima knowing that, in all probability, they will not come back. Among them are Saigo (Kazunari Ninomiya), a baker who wants only to live to see the face of his newborn daughter; Baron Nishi (Tsuyoshi Ihara), an Olympic equestrian champion known around the world for his skill and his honor; Shimizu (Ryo Kase), a young former military policeman whose idealism has not yet been tested by war; and Lieutenant Ito (Shidou Nakamura), a strict military man who would rather accept suicide than surrender.
IMDB Rating: 2.9/10 (1,715 votes)
Directed by: John Stockwell
Starring: Josh Duhamel, Melissa George, Olivia Wilde
DVD release date: 27.03.200
American siblings; Alex & his younger teenage sister Bea along with their close friend Amy are backpacking through Brazil, meeting up with fellow similar companions; Brit mates; Finn & Liam, together with Australian traveler Pru on a cross country bus. Bearly surviving after it crashes and now all thrown in together. Further mishaps occur due to becoming stranded by so-called ‘friendly locals’ some of whom have deprived them of all their belongings & processions! Searching for any sympathetic police, they meet familiar face Kiko, who offers leading them to sanctuary.
IMDB rating: 6.9/10 (8,584 votes)
Directed by: Robert De Niro
Starring: Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Alec Baldwin, Billy Crudup
DVD store date: 03.04.2007
The Good Shepherd is a fictionalized version of history which is accurate in almost every incident. But because the filmmakers are liberated from trying to be faithful to the tiny details, they’ve come a lot closer in many ways to capturing some essential truths about this extraordinary period of intelligence, counterintelligence, betrayal and espionage during the Cold War… There’s no way to understand the present without understanding how we got there. And The Good Shepherd tells us.”