Movies Titles Starting with D (Page #34)

A PTA President named Kelli Peters is framed from drug possession by a set of parents. Peters is arrested and investigated but the truth eventually comes out and, after a five-year ordeal, she wins a $5.7 million-dollar civil judgment against the couple.

Amid the seismic cultural shift of the 1970s, American comedy got a sharper edge when a newly minted magazine named National Lampoon stuck its middle finger up at the establishment. Spawned at an Ivy League school by the wonderfully warped minds of Douglas Kenney and Henry Beard, National Lampoon rose from a counterculture rag to a revered comic institution. Bound by a passion for the absurd and a mistrust of authority, Lampoon's irreverence spanked nearly every available social taboo from weak-kneed politics to heated racial tensions. This unique cocktail of high satire and gallows humor exploded onto America's cultural consciousness attracting visionary talents such as Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Bill Murray, and Chevy Chase, whose comedic force helped expand the magazine's spirit to stage and film. Director Douglas Tirola unearths never-before-seen archival footage and brilliantly weaves it together with the magazine's beautiful and often shocking art, reliving National Lampoon's meteoric rise from go-to magazine of the counterculture to a brand synonymous with Hollywood's biggest comedies.

A gangster (Leonardo DiCaprio) suffers a gunshot wound. Looking to avoid the authorities, he calls his alcoholic doctor friend to remove the bullet. During surgery, the drunken doc discovers the criminal also has tuberculosis.

After the courts forcibly put her into a retirement home in Charlottesville, Va., in 1983, Anna Anderson, who claims to be the Grand Russian Duchess Anastasia, is broken out by her American husband, Jack Manahan. Together they evade the authorities across rural Virginia to have the honeymoon they never had.

Set in the exotic country of South Africa, Duma tells the powerful adventure tale of an unbreakable bond of friendship between a cheetah named Duma and an intrepid young boy named Xan (Alexander Michaletos), who faces the true test of love when he must cross the whole of Southern Africa to return his best friend to his rightful home in the wilds. On his journey, Xan learns that everything always changes, but not love.

A look at the Vent Haven Convention, which bills itself as the ventriloquism capital of the world.

Set in suburbia, the Greg Pritikin-directed film centers on socially challenged Steven (Adrien Brody), who quits his job to pursue a life-long dream of becoming a ventriloquist. Ignored at home by his father (Ron Leibman), mother (Jessica Walter) and embittered sister (Illeana Douglas), Steven begins to find his voice with the help of a wisecracking dummy.

Set in the competitive world of New York City real estate, a couple (Drew Barrymore and Ben Stiller), whose dream home is a converted duplex apartment in the perfect neighborhood, decide to kill the sweet little old lady (Eileen Essell) who's currently living there, or else they'll never get to buy it...

Set in an alternate history steampunk-themed version of the 1940s where World War II never ended, the world is divided into three blocs: the Allies, comprised of the US, the Commonwealth, and the French colonies. The Axis, not led by Hitler, who was successfully assassinated in Operation Valkerie; and the SSU, a union of the USSR and China. The discovery of new ore leads to the creation of combat robots.

This movie tells two stories in three settings, going back and forth between each story as the film proceeds. One is the story of two cowboy brothers (Joseph Fiennes, David Wenham) who worked as mercenaries in Turkey around the turn of the century, and fall in love with the same woman (Anne Brochet). The other is set in contemporary New York, and is about a 90-year-old woman with a secret horde of Balkan gold and a thief (Adrian Lester), who surprisingly become friends. The third setting is the Ottoman Empire, circa 1913.

A young boy relocates with his newly blended family to the desert where he inadvertently uncorks four geriatric and inept genies from centuries in their bottles.

Anita Moorjani battles against cancer for four years. Overwhelmed by malignant cells, her body begins shutting down. As her organs fail, she enters into an extraordinary near-death experience where she realizes her inherent worth and the actual cause of her disease. Upon regaining consciousness, her condition improves. Within three days, 70% of her cancer is gone. Shortly after, she is declared cancer free.

During World War II, a soccer game takes place between an occupied Ukrainian soccer team and their Nazi captors, a German "super team." Nikolai Trusevich, an all-star goalie, serves as a cornerstone and leader for his Ukrainian team, and ultimately inspires the entire battered city of Kiev, Ukraine.

This comedy concert movie will see Eddie Griffin following in the footsteps of other black comedians like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence. What makes this movie stand out, however, is that it is a combination of Griffin's stand-up routines with footage of Griffin's Kansas City family, including some of his eccentric uncles, like Uncle Buckey who's a former pimp, and Uncle Curtis, who has an extensive porn collection, much of which he filmed himself.

Based on the political scandal that divided France in the 1890s and the early 1900s, involving the wrongful conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in 1894 for treason. Dreyfus was a young French artillery officer of Alsatian Jewish descent who was accused of giving French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris.

Newly divorced and sexually inexperienced Kate is encouraged by her friends to get back out there. Of course Kate has certain standards so she's not going to settle for just anyone but she's determined to make her ex's wedding day her "D-Day."

Four African American veterans return to Vietnam decades after the war to find their squad leader's remains — and a stash of buried gold.