Movies tagged as "compassion"

As Good as It Gets [1997, USA ] starting from $1.99

Brace yourself for Melvin.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance Actors: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Shirley Knight, Yeardley Smith, Lupe Ontiveros, Jill the Dog, Timer the Dog, Billy the Dog, Bibi Osterwald, Ross Bleckner, Bernadette Balagtas, Jaffe Cohen Directors: James L. Brooks, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will tolerate him, must leave work to care for her sick son, making it impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast.

Aviator, The [2004, Germany, USA, Japan ] starting from $1.99

For some men, the sky was the limit. For him, it was just the beginning.

Genres: Biography, Drama Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda, Ian Holm, Danny Huston, Gwen Stefani, Jude Law, Adam Scott, Matt Ross, Kelli Garner, Frances Conroy, Brent Spiner Directors: Martin Scorsese, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   The script begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese's favorite films, Hell's Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that he waits forever for perfect conditions, right down to cloud formations. The Aviator ends in 1946, when Hughes was still a dashing young man and romancing actresses like Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn.

Babe [1995, Australia, USA ] starting from $1.99

A little pig goes a long way.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy Actors: Christine Cavanaugh, Miriam Margolyes, Danny Mann, Hugo Weaving, Miriam Flynn, Russi Taylor, Evelyn Krape, Michael Edward-Stevens, Charles Bartlett, Paul Livingston, Roscoe Lee Browne, James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Zoe Burton, Paul Goddard Directors: Chris Noonan, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Farmer Hoggett wins a runt piglet at a local fair and young Babe, as the piglet decides to call himself, befriends and learns about all the other creatures on the farm. He becomes special friends with one of the sheepdogs, Fly. With Fly's help, and Farmer Hoggett's intuition, Babe embarks on a career in sheepherding with some surprising and spectacular results.

Blade Runner [1982, USA ] starting from $1.99

Man Has Made His Match... Now It's His Problem

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller Actors: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah, William Sanderson, Brion James, Joseph Turkel, Joanna Cassidy, James Hong, Morgan Paull, Kevin Thompson, John Edward Allen, Hy Pyke Directors: Ridley Scott, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & micro-chip jungle of the 21st century for assumed humanoids known as 'replicants'. Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. Man's obsession with creating a being equal to himself has back-fired.

Blade Runner (Final cut) [2007, USA ] starting from $1.99

Man Has Made His Match... Now It's His Problem

Genres: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller Actors: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah, William Sanderson, Brion James, Joe Turkel, Joanna Cassidy, James Hong, Morgan Paull, Kevin Thompson, John Edward Allen, Hy Pyke, Directors: Ridley Scott Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 4 "skin jobs", a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious.

Capote [2005, Canada, USA ] starting from $1.99

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama Actors: Allie Mickelson, Kelci Stephenson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Craig Archibald, Bronwen Coleman, Kate Shindle, David Wilson Barnes, Michael J. Burg, Catherine Keener, Kwesi Ameyaw, Andrew Farago, Ken Krotowich, Chris Cooper, R.D. Reid, Rob McLaughlin, Directors: Bennett Miller Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   On the night of 14 November 1959, in Holcomb, Kansas, a farmhouse is broken into by the criminals Perry Smith and Dick Hickock that expect to get US$ 10,000.00. With the policy of "no witness", the murderers kill the entire family. The homosexual writer Truman Capote travels to the small town with his friend Nelle Harper Lee and decide to use the topic to write a book. When the killers are arrested, he becomes friend of Perry for his own interest and then he falls in love for him, and gets a new lawyer for them, postponing their execution until 14 April 1965.

Children of Men [2006, Japan, UK, USA ] starting from $1.99

No children. No future. No hope.

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller Actors: Juan Gabriel Yacuzzi, Michelle Hussain, Rob Curling, Jon Chevalier, Rita Davies, Kim Fenton, Chris Gilbert, Phoebe Hawthorne, Rebecca Howard, Atalanta White, Laurence Woodbridge, Clive Owen, Maria McErlane, Michael Haughey, Paul Sharma, Directors: Alfonso Cuarón Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   With this dystopian world ravished by war, paranoia and the frustrations of Man the Orwellian vision of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the totalitarian future is now complete and amongst us. With female fertility becoming obsolete, Man cannot reproduce, and no child has been born on the face of the planet for eighteen years. Man, and his future, is dying. Soon he shall be extinct. Theo, the beaten, downtrodden and middle-aged ex-political activist will, unwittingly, become involved in a war of an underground revolt. Here he is active once more, in the perilous journey across England's Home Counties, with a young girl, Kee, who, to Theo's bewilderment is pregnant. The first pregnant woman for more than eighteen years. This secret must be protected, at all cost, and mother and child must flee to the mysterious and enigmatic Human Project, across the seas. Their flight is a constant fight for survival. Who can be trusted? Who can keep a secret?

Christmas Carol, A [1999, USA ] starting from $1.99

In Just One Night, He Has Seen His Past, His Present, And His Future... And They've All Come Back To Haunt Him.

Genres: Drama, Fantasy Actors: Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Joel Grey, Ian McNeice, Saskia Reeves, Desmond Barrit, Bernard Lloyd, Dominic West, Trevor Peacock, Liz Smith, Elizabeth Spriggs, Kenny Doughty, Laura Fraser, Celia Imrie, John Franklyn-Robbins, Directors: David Hugh Jones Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840's London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge the error of his ways. Will Scrooge reform his ways in time to celebrate Christmas?

Cry Freedom [1987, UK ] starting from $1.99

The true story of the friendship that shook South Africa and awakened the world

Genres: Biography, Drama Actors: Josette Simon, Wabei Siyolwe, John Matshikiza, Juanita Waterman, Evelyn Sithole, Xoliswa Sithole, James Coine, Kevin Kline, Kevin McNally, Albert Ndinda, Andrew Whaley, Shelley Borkum, Denzel Washington, Penelope Wilton, Kate Hardie, Directors: Richard Attenborough Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Donald Woods is chief editor at the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko. But after having met him for the first time, he changes his views. They meet several times, and this means that Woods and his family get attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody, he writes a book about Biko. The only way to get it published is for Woods himself to illegally escape the country.

Danny the Dog [2005, UK, USA, France ] starting from $1.99

Serve No Master

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller Actors: Jet Li, Morgan Freeman, Bob Hoskins, Kerry Condon, Vincent Regan, Dylan Brown, Tamer Hassan, Michael Jenn, Phyllida Law, Carole Ann Wilson, Michael Ian Lambert, Jaclyn Tze Wey, Puthirith Chou, Tony Theng, Owen Lay Directors: Louis Leterrier, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   A man treated like a dog and raised as a fighting machine his entire life, ends up in a coma and is taken in the care of good people, but his sinister owner is looking to retrieve his most prized possession: a non stop human weapon triggered by the collar leashed on his neck.

Dead Poets Society [1989, USA ] starting from $1.99

He was their inspiration. He made their lives extraordinary.

Genres: Drama Actors: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke, Josh Charles, Gale Hansen, Dylan Kussman, Allelon Ruggiero, James Waterston, Norman Lloyd, Kurtwood Smith, Carla Belver, Leon Pownall, George Martin, Joe Aufiery, Matt Carey Directors: Peter Weir, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Painfully shy Todd Anderson has been sent to the school where his popular older brother was valedictorian. His room-mate, Neil, although exceedingly bright and popular, is very much under the thumb of his overbearing father. The two, along with their other friends, meet Professor Keating, their new English teacher, who tells them of the Dead Poets Society, and encourages them to go against the status quo. Each, in their own way, does this, and are changed for life.

Dinosaur [2000, USA ] starting from $1.99

You have never seen anything like this.

Genres: Adventure, Animation, Family Actors: D.B. Sweeney, Alfre Woodard, Ossie Davis, Max Casella, Hayden Panettiere, Samuel E. Wright, Julianna Margulies, Peter Siragusa, Joan Plowright, Della Reese, Matt Adler, Sandina Bailo-Lape, Edie Lehmann, Zachary Bostrom, Cathy Cavadini Directors: Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Long before humans appeared on the planet, dinosaurs ruled the earth. On a little off-coast island, a clan of lemurs finds a dinosaur egg, hatching. Since there are no parents, the lemurs take care of the newborn, Aladar. Years later, a medium meteor goes down close to the island and the shockwave forces its inhabitants to flee to the continent. There, Aladar and his family meet other dinosaurs for the first time as well as real dangers. The destruction caused by the meteor here has also forced a herd of different herbivores to move to a remote valley that can provide food and protection against the carnivorous predators following after. Since Aladar grew up with a different understanding of the ways of the world, his way of helping others first isn't accepted within the herd, but soon it is proven that reason may be better than panic.

Dogma [1999, USA ] starting from $1.99

Get 'touched' by an angel.

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance Actors: Alan Rickman, Alanis Morissette, Chris Rock, Salma Hayek, Bud Cort, Barret Hackney, Jared Pfennigwerth, Kitao Sakurai, George Carlin, Betty Aberlin, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Dan Etheridge, Linda Fiorentino, Derek Milosavljevic, Lesley Braden, Brian O'Halloran, Marie Elena O'Brien, Janeane Garofalo Directors: Kevin Smith, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   The great grand niece of Jesus Christ is enlisted to prevent two angels from reentering Heaven and thus undoing the fabric of the universe. Along the way, she is aided by two prophets, Jay and Silent Bob. With the help of Rufus, the 13th Apostle, they must stop those who stand in their way and prevent the angels from entering Heaven.

Edward Scissorhands [1990, USA ] starting from $1.99

His scars run deep

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance Actors: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Robert Oliveri, Conchata Ferrell, Caroline Aaron, Dick Anthony Williams, O-Lan Jones, Vincent Price, Alan Arkin, Susan Blommaert, Linda Perri, John Davidson Directors: Tim Burton, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   In a castle high on top of a hill lives an inventor's greatest creation - Edward, a near-complete person. The creator died before he could finish Edward's hands; instead, Edward is left with metal scissors for hands. Edward has always lived alone, until a kind lady called Peg discovers Edward and welcomes him into her home. At first, everyone welcomes Edward into the community, but soon things begin to take a change for the worse.

Elephant Man, The [1980, UK, USA ] starting from $1.99

I am not an animal! I am a human being! I...am...a man!

Genres: Biography, Drama Actors: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Freddie Jones, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon, Helen Ryan, John Standing, Dexter Fletcher, Lesley Dunlop, Phoebe Nicholls, Pat Gorman, Claire Davenport Directors: David Lynch, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick, a 19th-century Englishman afflicted with a disfiguring congenital disease. With the help of kindly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick attempts to regain the dignity he lost after years spent as a side-show freak.