Posts Tagged ‘hardship’

Dark Water (2005)

Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Connelly, Jennifer | Reilly, John | Roth, Tim | Scott, Dougray | Postlethwaite, Pete | Manheim, Camryn | Gade, Ariel | Haney-Jardine, Perla | Monk, Debra | Emond, Linda | Buell, Bill | Horne, J.R. | Löwensohn, Elina | Belle, Warren | Sealy-Smith, Alison
Directors: Salles, Walter
Download: DivX iPod 

Dahlia Williams is starting a new life; newly separated with a new job and a new apartment, she’s determined to put her relationship with her estranged husband behind her and devote herself to raising her daughter, Ceci. But when the strained separation disintegrates into a bitter custody battle, her situation takes a turn for the worse. Her new apartment—dilapidated, cramped, and worn—seems to take on a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water, and strange happenings cause her imagination to run wild, sending her on a puzzling and mystifying pursuit to find out who is behind the endless mind games. As Dahlia frantically searches for the links between the riddles, the dark water seems to close around her. But one thing trumps all others in Dahlia’s world: no matter what it is that’s out there, she’ll stop at nothing to find it.

Oliver Twist (2005)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: Czech Republic | France | Italy | UK
Actors: Clark, Barney | Swift, Jeremy | McNeice, Ian | Durden, Richard | Bateson, Timothy | de la Tour, Andy | Hess, Filip | Papadopoulos, Andreas | Athey, Laurie | Tremain, Joseph | Copley, Peter | Linden, Andy | Nettleton, John | Noble, Tony | Heath, Michael
Directors: Polanski, Roman
Download: DivX iPod 

Oliver Twist (Clark) is an orphan, who is soon kicked out of the orphanage and thrown into a terrible home. The bad treatment Oliver receives, forces him to run off to London. Here, he is soon picked up by the Artful Dodger (Eden) and taken to Fagin (Kingsley). Fagin treats Oliver well, but is it the life Oliver really wants?

North Country (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Theron, Charlize | Peterson, Elle | Curtis, Thomas | McDormand, Frances | Bean, Sean | Harrelson, Woody | Renner, Jeremy | Jenkins, Richard | Spacek, Sissy | Cada, James | Schwimmer, Rusty | Emond, Linda | Monaghan, Michelle | Henke, Brad William | Armenante, Jillian
Directors: Caro, Niki
Download: DivX iPod 

A semi-fictionalized account of a long legal battle of group of women miners who endured a hostile work environment and numerous and continuous insults and unwanted touching when they became the first women to go work at the Eveleth Mines in Minnesota.

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The (2001)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Wood, Elijah | Appleby, Noel | Astin, Sean | Baker, Sala | Bean, Sean | Blanchett, Cate | Bloom, Orlando | Boyd, Billy | Csokas, Marton | Edwards, Megan | Elsworth, Michael | Ferguson, Mark | Holm, Ian | McKellen, Ian | Lee, Christopher | Makoare, Lawrence
Directors: Jackson, Peter
Download: DVD DivX PDA 

An ancient Ring thought lost for centuries has been found, and through a strange twist in fate has been given to a small Hobbit named Frodo. When Gandalf discovers the Ring is in fact the One Ring of the Dark Lord Sauron, Frodo must make an epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it! However he does not go alone. He is joined by Gandalf, Legolas the elf, Gimli the Dwarf, Aragorn, Boromir and his three Hobbit friends Merry, Pippin and Samwise. Through mountains, snow, darkness, forests, rivers and plains, facing evil and danger at every corner the Fellowship of the Ring must go. Their quest to destroy the One Ring is the only hope for the end of the Dark Lords reign!

Bread and Roses (2000)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: France | Germany | Italy | Spain | Switzerland | UK
Actors: Padilla, Pilar | Brody, Adrien | Carrillo, Elpidia | McGee, Jack | Rivas, Monica | Davila, Frankie | Hurst, Lillian | Payes, Mayron | Orellana, Maria | Garrett, Melody | Jackman, Gigi | Reynolds, Beverly | Méndez, Eloy | Antonenko, Elena | Gorelik, Olga
Directors: Loach, Ken
Download: DVD DivX PDA 

Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers’ union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its “justice for janitors” campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she’s also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.