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Films about more than men in capes (51 titles)

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Michael Clayton on DVD (2007)
Starring: George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton
Director: Tony Gilroy
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Arthur Edens (Wilkinson), a lawyer defending an agro-chemical corporation against a class-action suit, is overwhelmed by guilt and cracks up. Michael Clayton (Clooney), his law firm’s ‘fixer’, is sent to sort Arthur out, but the corporation deploy even dirtier tricks to solve the problem.
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Downfall on DVD (2004)
Starring: Heino Ferch, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
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In the dead of a November night in 1942, SS officers through the woods escort a group of young women to Wolf's Lair, Hitler's headquarters in Eastern Prussia. They are candidates for the post of personal secretary to the Fuehrer. Among them is 22-year-old Traudl Junge, a fresh-faced girl from ..read more »
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Stalker on DVD (1979)
Starring: Alissa Freindlich, Alexander Kaidanovsky, Anatoli Solonitsyn
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
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Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker, an allegorical science fiction film like his earlier Solaris, was adapted from the novel Picnic by the Roadside by brothers Boris Strugatsky and Arkady Strugatsky. The film follows three men -- the Scientist (Nikolai Grinko), the Writer (Anatoliy ..read more »
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The Assassination Of Richard Nixon on DVD (2004)
Starring: Jack Thompson, Mykelti Williamson, Sean Penn
Director: Niels Mueller
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Psychological drama based on a true story. Sam Bicke (Sean Penn) is a salesman for an office-supply company whose life is slowly beginning to unravel. His job is going nowhere, his wife, Marie (Naomi Watts), has left him, and his boss (Jack Thompson) keeps pushing self-help books on him that make a ..read more »
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Sling Blade on DVD (1996)
Starring: Dwight Yoakam, Lucas Black, Robert Duvall
Director: Billy Bob Thornton
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Thriller starring Billy Bob Thornton as Karl Childers, a mildly retarded man who has spent most of his life in a mental institution. When Karl was 12-years-old, he discovered his mother making love to a man he'd never seen before. He snapped and killed them both. Released from the institution as a ..read more »
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The Battle of Algiers on DVD (1965)
Starring: Saadi Yacef, Brahim Haggiag, Jean Martin
Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
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Dramatic, pseudo-documentary reconstruction of the rise of the nationalist movement in Algiers between 1954 and 1957, the crushing defeat it faced at the hands of the French, and its resurgence three years later. Highly influential both in terms of style and content, and originally banned in France ..read more »
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The Constant Gardener (2005)
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston
Director: Fernando Meirelles
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Hard-hitting political thriller based on the novel by John Le Carre, and the first English-speaking feature from director Fernando Meirelles. When political activist Tessa Quayle (Rachel Weisz, in an Oscar-winning performance) is found brutally murdered in Kenya, her widowed husband, unassuming ..read more »
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The War on Democracy on DVD (2007)
Starring: John Pilger
Director: Christopher Martin, John Pilger
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Award winning journalist John Pilger examines the role of Washington in America's manipulation of Latin American politics during the last 50 years, and how these same policies are now being used in the Middle East.
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Battle for Haditha on DVD (2007)
Starring: Elliot Ruiz, Yasmine Hanani, Andrew McLaren
Director: Nick Broomfield
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An investigation of the massacre of 24 men, women and children in Haditha, Iraq allegedly shot by 4 U.S. Marines in retaliation for the death of a U.S. Marine killed by a roadside bomb. The movie follows the story of the Marines of Kilo Company, an Iraqi family, and the insurgents who plant the ..read more »
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The Insider on DVD (1999)
Starring: Philip Baker Hall, Al Pacino, Diane Venora
Director: Michael Mann
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Michael Mann directs this gripping expose of the cigarette industry, based on a true story. '60 Minutes' producer Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) contacts Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe), a former research employee of tobacco giants Brown and Williamson, after being anonymously sent some damning ..read more »
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