Total Number of DVDs in the category Drama : 86

 

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Monster's Ball

Director: Marc Forster
Starring: Billy Thornton, Taylor Simpson, Gabrielle Witcher, Heath Ledger, Amber Rules, Peter Boyle, Charles Cowan Jr., Taylor Lagrange, Mos Def, Anthony Bean, Francine Segal, John McConnell, Marcus Brown, Milo Addica, Leah Loftin, Halle Berry, Coronji Calhoun, Sean Combs, Larry Lee, Troy Poret, Paul Smith, Marshall Cain, Will Rokos, Anthony Frederick, John Wilmot, Dennis Clements, Stephanie Claire, James Haven, Ritchie Montgomery, Clara Daniels, Carol Sutton, Bernard Johnson, T.J. Toups
Studio: Lion's Gate
MPAA Rating: R
DVD Release: 11 Jun 2002

 

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Summary: MONSTER'S BALL is a hard-hitting Southern drama tempered by a story of powerful, life-changing love. It is the story of Hank (Academy Award Winner - Billy Bob Thornton), an embittered prison guard working on Death Row who begins an unlikely, but emotionally charged affair with Leticia (Academy Award Winner - Halle Berry), the wife of a man under his watch on The Row.


 

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco, Dean Brooks, Alonzo Brown, Scatman Crothers, Mwako Cumbuka, Danny DeVito, William Duell, Josip Elic, Lan Fendors, Nathan George, Ken Kenny, Mel Lambert, Sydney Lassick, Kay Lee, Christopher Lloyd, Dwight Marfield, Ted Markland, Louisa Moritz, Philip Roth, Will Sampson, Mimi Sarkisian, Vincent Schiavelli, Mews Small, Delos Smith Jr., Tin Welch, Brad Dourif, Tom McCall, Saul Zaentz
Studio: Warner Bros.
MPAA Rating: R
DVD Release: 16 Dec 1997

 

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Summary: Randle P. McMurphy, a free-spirited con with lightning in his veins and glib on his tongue, fakes insanity and moves in with what he calls the "nuts." Immediately, his contagious sense of disorder runs up against numbing routine. No way should guys pickled on sedatives shuffle around in bathrobes when the World Series is on. This means war! On one side is McMurphy. On the other is soft-spoken Nurse Ratched, among the most coldly monstrous villains in film history. At stake is the fate of every patient on the ward. Based on Ken Kesey's best-seller.


 

Out of Africa

Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Joseph Thiaka, Stephen Kinyanjui, Michael Gough, Suzanna Hamilton, Rachel Kempson, Graham Crowden, Leslie Phillips, Shane Rimmer, Mike Bugara, Job Seda, Mohammed Umar, Donal McCann, Kenneth Mason, Tristram Jellinek, Stephen Grimes, Annabel Maule, Benny Young, Sbish Trzebinski, Allaudin Qureshi, Niven Boyd, Iman Strong, Abdulla Sunado, Amanda Parkin, Muriel Gross, Ann Palmer, Keith Pearson, Malick Bowens, Maryam d'Abo
Studio: Universal Pictures
MPAA Rating: PG
DVD Release: 29 Feb 2000

 

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Summary: The most acclaimed motion picture of 1985 stars Robert Redford and Meryl Streep in one of the screen's great epic romances. Directed by Oscar winner Sydney Pollack, Out of Africa is the fascinating true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who, with her philandering husband (Klaus Maria Brandauer), runs a coffee plantation in Kenya, circa 1914. To her astonishment, she soon discovers herself falling in love with the land, its people, and a mysterious white hunter (Redford). The materfully crafted, breathtakingly produced story of love and loss earned Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Screenplay (based on material from another medium), cinematography, Original Score, Art Direction (Set Decoration) and Sound.


 

Outbreak

Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding Jr., Donald Sutherland, Patrick Dempsey, Zakes Mokae, Malick Bowens, Susan Hoffman, Benito Martinez, Bruce Jarchow, Leland Hayward III, Daniel Chodos, Dale Dye, Cara Keough, Gina Menza, Per Fasmer, Michelle Joyner, Donald Forrest, Julie Pierce, Tim Ransom, Michelle Miller, Maury Sterling, Michael Emanuel, Lucas Dudley, Robert Joseph, Joseph Latimore, Michael Sottile, Ed Beechner, Matthew Saks, Diana Bellamy, Lance Kerwin, Brett Oliver, Eric Nguku, Larry Hine, Nickolas Marshall, Douglas Hebron, Jae Lee, Derek Kim, Bill Stevenson, Kellie Overbey, Dana Andersen, Patricia Place, Nicholas Pappone, Traci Odom, Herb Jefferson Jr., Thomas Crawford, Buzz Barbee, Jenna Byrne, Brian Reddy, Ina Romeo, Teresa Velarde, Jane Jenkins, Carmela Rappazzo, Kurt Boesen, Jack Rader, Robert Rigamonte, Mimi Doyka, C. Robinson, Robert Beuth, Gordon Michaels, Peter Looney, Conrad Bachmann, Cary Pitts, Cynthia Harrison, Marcus Hennessy, Albert Owens, David Silverbrand, Julie Araskog, Frank Rositani, George Christy, Bruce Isacson, Marilyn Brandt, Philip Handy, Tim Frazee, Moses Williams, Roland Tsui, Keith Butler, Davi Phillips, Ralph Miller, Mark Brown, Jim Antonio, J.T. Walsh, Robert Zajonc
Studio: Warner Bros.
MPAA Rating: R
DVD Release: 20 May 1997

 

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Summary: Your heart is racing. You shiver with fear. You've caught what's going around. You've got the fever, the frenzy and all the thrills. You're watching Outbreak.

Big-name stars join director Wolfgang Petersen (In the Line of Fire) for big excitement in this breatrhless technothriller. Two-time Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman plays Sam Daniels, a take-charge army virologist trying to stave off global biological meltdown. A rare killer virus from the jungles of Zaire has taken hold in a California community. It knows no boundaries. It's mortality rate is 100%. Amd some say the only way to stop its spread is to firebeomb the town and everyone in it. Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Donald Sutherland and more superb talents join Hoffman in this shocking, nail-biting tale of the day could become doomsday.


 

The Outsiders

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: C. Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, Glenn Withrow, Diane Lane, Leif Garrett, Darren Dalton, Michelle Meyrink, Tom Waits, Gailard Sartain, William Smith, Tom Hillman, Hugh Watkinshaw, Sofia Coppola, Teresa Hunt, Linda Nystedt, S.E. Hinton, Brent Beesley, John Meier, Ed Jackson, Daniel Suhart, Heather Langenkamp, Steve Osborn
Studio: Warner Bros.
MPAA Rating: PG
DVD Release: 30 Nov 1999

 

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Summary: "A film about the teen years that ranks in its own lyrical way with Rebel Without a Cause and American Graffiti."

In 1960's Tulsa, teenagers come two ways. If you're a "soc," you've got money, cars, a future. But if you're a "greaser," you're an outsider with only your friends...and a dream that someday you'll finally belong.

Francis Coppola's powerful film of S.E. Hinton's classic novel captures how it feels to be caught between childhood's innocence and adulthood's disillusionment. The ensemble is a Who's Who of young talents of the past two decades: Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, C. Thomas Howell, Diane Lane, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe and Ralph Macchio. Movingly and in an intensely visual style, Coppola has made these street rats and their struggle heroic - and unforgettable.


 

Papillon

Director: Franklin Schaffner
Starring: Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory, Don Gordon, Anthony Zerbe, Robert Deman, Woodrow Parfrey, Bill Mumy, George Coulouris, Ratna Assan, William Smithers, Val Avery, Gregory Sierra, Victor Tayback, Mills Watson, Ron Soble, Barbara Morrison, Don Hanmer, E.J. André, Richard Angarola, Jack Denbo, Len Lesser, John Quade, Fred Sadoff, Allen Jaffe, Liam Dunn, Peter Brocco, Richard Farnsworth, Billy Greene, Byrne Anne, Fred Lerner, Harry Monty, Ellen Moss, Dalton Trumbo
Studio: Warner Bros.
MPAA Rating: PG
DVD Release: 14 Dec 1999

 

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Summary: They called him 'Papillon', meaning "butterfly," if only he had wings to go with the name. Unable to fly, Henri Charriere virtually willed himself free. He persisted until he did the impossible: escape Devil's Island.

Based on Charriere's bestseller and shot in Spain and Jamaica, Franklin J. Schaffner's film of Papillon united two stars at key career junctions. After a decade of fine work in 'The Great Escape', 'The Sand Pebbles' and 'Bullitt'. Steve McQueen found in Charriere another ideal tough guy role. Coming off 'The Graduate', 'Midnight Cowboy', and 'Little Big Man', Dustin Hoffman again distinguished himself as Dega, Charriere's scruffy friend.


 

Pleasantville

Director: Gary Ross
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William Macy, J.T. Walsh, Don Knotts, Marley Shelton, Jane Kaczmarek, Reese Witherspoon, Natalie Ramsey, Kevin Connors, Heather McGill, Paul Stetler, Denise Dowse, McNally Sagal, Giuseppe Andrews, Marissa Ribisi, Jenny Lewis, Justin Nimmo, Kai Lennox, Jason Behr, Robin Bissell, Harry Singleton, John Ganun, Paul Walker, Dawn Cody, Maggie Lawson, Andrea Taylor, Lela Ivey, Jim Patric, Marc Blucas, Stanton Rutledge, Jason Maves, Gerald Emerick, Charles Stevenson Jr., Nancy Lenehan, Weston Blakesley, Patrick O'Brien, Jim Antonio, Danny Strong, Kristin Rudrüd, Laura Carney, Dan Gillies, Erik MacArthur, Adam Carter, David Tom, Johnny Moran, Jeanine Jackson, J. Lawlor, James Keane, Eva Ford, John Michael, Meredith Thomas
Studio: New Line Cinema
MPAA Rating: PG-13
DVD Release: 23 Mar 1999

 

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Summary: When '90's teens David and Jennifer (Tobey Maguire, "The Ice Storm", Reese Witherspoon, "Freeway") get zapped into the perfect suburbia of the black & white '50's sitcom, "Pleasantville", what results is a "visionary adventure" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone) that Siskel and Ebert give "Two big thumbs up!"

Pleasantville's perfect people include a mild-mannered soda jerk (Jeff Daniels, "Dumb and Dumber"), a socially repressed mom (Joan Allen, "Face/Off") and a father who always knows best (William H. Macy, "Fargo"). But, when '90's pop culture clashes with '50's familty values, chaos ensues, turning the town of Pleasantville upside down and black and white into color.


 

The Prisoner: Set 1

Director: Patrick McGoohan
Starring: Patrick McGoohan
Studio: A&E Home Video
MPAA Rating: NR
DVD Release: 31 Oct 2000

 

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Summary: Patrick McGoohan's classic British 17-episode TV series, THE PRISONER, has mesmerized American viewers since its CBS debut in the summer of 1968. Now, A&E presents the definitive collection of THE PRISONER, perhaps the most unusual and challenging television series ever filmed.

Every episode has been completely remastered and, beginning here, is presented in the fan-preferred viewing order that follows events and dialogue within each story to provide a consistent and enjoyable viewing experience.

After resigning from a top-secret position, a man is abducted from his London home and taken to a mysterious place called The Village. Residents of The Village, known only by numbers, are held captive on accouint of their valuable knowledge. The Prisoner - Number Six - must protect his mind in order to preserve his humanity. The Village is controlled by the unseen Number One. The Chief Interrogator, Number Two, is determined to know why the Prisoner left his post. The Prisoner struggles to maintain his secret, discover the identity of Number One, and achieve freedom by escaping from the repressive grasp of his captors.

Volume 1 - Arrival, Chimes of Big Ben (alternative version)

Volume 2 - Free For All, Dance of the Dead


 

The Prisoner: Set 2

Director: Pat Jackson
Starring: Patrick McGoohan, Angelo Muscat, Ronald Radd, Rosalie Crutchley, Peter Wyngarde, Leo McKern, Peter Swanwick, Nadia Gray, Colin Gordon, Sheila Allen, John Castle, Peter Howell, Betty McDowall
Studio: A&E Home Video
MPAA Rating: NR
DVD Release: 31 Oct 2000

 

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Summary: THE PRISONER , DVD Set 2 - Produced by David Tomblin

Patrick McGoohan's THE PRISONER has stood the test of time. A classic British TV series with elements of sci fi, mystery, comedy and high drama, this "allegorical conundrum" had a riveting effect on viewers when it first aired in 1967. It was unlike anything that had ever before appeared on television.

During production, McGoohan said that the purpose of THE PRISONER was "to create a feeling of unrest about life today. It was an abstract impression of the world we are living in and a warning of what would happen to us when gadgetry and gimmickry take over from creative people." THE PRISONER remains an intriguing social commentary as it speaks to a new generation.

Four key episodes are presented here in the fan-preferred viewing order that follows events and dialogue within each story. From human chess games, to bold escape plans, THE PRISONER, Set Two is television at its finest!

Four complete color episodes:

"Checkmate" - A giant outdoor chessboard features unique pawns - human chess pieces. Number Six joins the game, then starts a game of his own.

The Chimes of Big Ben" - A mysterious new resident offers a tantalizing clue as to where the Villagers are imprisoned. As she confers with Number Six, a plan for escape develops.

"A, B and C" - Cruel, dream-invading drug experiments are unleashed on Number Six in an attempt to reveal why he resigned.

"The General" - The Professor's powerful, subliminal "educational" process is mandatory for all Villagers. But even The Professor questions how it will ultimately be used...

For further information on THE PRISONER, visit www.ThePrisonerAppreciationSociety.com


 

Rain Man

Director: Barry Levinson
Starring: Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman, Valeria Golino, Gerald Molen, Jack Murdock, Michael Roberts, Ralph Seymour, Lucinda Jenney, Bonnie Hunt, Kim Robillard, Beth Grant, Dolan Dougherty, Marshall Dougherty, Patrick Dougherty, John Dougherty, Andrew Dougherty, Peter Dougherty, Loretta Jolivette, Donald Jones, Bryon Caunar, Donna Dickson, Earl Roat, William Montgomery Jr., Elizabeth Lower, Michael Hall, Robert Heckel, W. Kenner, Kneeles Reeves, Jack Cope, Nick Mazzola, Ralph Tabakin, Ray Baker, Isadore Figler, Ralph Cardinale, Sam Roth, Nanci Harvey, Kenneth Lowden, Jocko Marcellino, John Thorstensen, Blanche Salter, Jake Hoffman, Royce Applegate, June Christopher, Anna Mathias, Archie Hahn, Luisa Leschin, Ira Miller, Chris Mulkey, Tracy Newman, Julie Payne, Reni Santoni, Bridget Sienna, Ruth Silveira, Jonathan Stark, Lynne Stewart, Arnold Turner, Gigi Vorgan, Richard Buswell, Barry Levinson, Aaron Weiler
Studio: MGM/UA
MPAA Rating: R
DVD Release: 29 Apr 1997

 

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Summary: Screen greats Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise star in this brilliant, poignant film about discovery, transformation and the incomparable power of love.

"My father has stuck it to me all my life," complains Charlie Babbitt (Cruise), a self-centered young hustler who feels he's been cheated out of his inheritance. But Charlie's in for a big surprise - Raymond (Hoffman), the autistic brother he never knew he had! Discovering Raymond in an institution, Charlie abducts him in an effort to extort his fair share of the family estate. But what begins as an unsentimental journey across the country evolves into a mystical odyssey of love and self-revelation, as Raymond helps Charlie grow beyond the limits of his handicapped heart.