Whether you’re looking for action, drama or animated family fun, you’ll find a film to suit currently (as of 5/12/16) priced to own at just $6.99 in HD.
Jaws (PG, 4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $2.99 to rent in SD / $3.99 in HD, $6.99 to own in SD or HD)
It’s a hot summer on Amity Island, a small community whose main business is its beaches. When new Sheriff Martin Brody discovers the remains of a shark attack victim, his first inclination is to close the beaches to swimmers. This doesn’t sit well with Mayor Larry Vaughn and several of the local businessmen.
Brody backs down to his regret as that weekend a young boy is killed by the predator. The dead boy’s mother puts out a bounty on the shark and Amity is soon swamped with amateur hunters and fisherman hoping to cash in on the reward. A local fisherman with much experience hunting sharks, Quint, offers to hunt down the creature for a hefty fee. Soon Quint, Brody and Matt Hooper from the Oceanographic Institute are at sea hunting the Great White shark.
As Brody succinctly surmises after their first encounter with the creature, they’re going to need a bigger boat.
– Written by garykmcd
Cast Away (PG-13, 4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $2.99 to rent in SD / $3.99 in HD, $6.99 to own in SD or HD)
After FedEx systems engineer Chuck Noland is ripped out of his hasty life by the clock in a plane crash, he finds himself alone on the shores of a tropical island. First, frustration gets to him and then he realizes how little his chances are to ever get back to civilization.
Four years later, Chuck has learned very well how to survive on his own: mending his dental health, catching fish with a spear, predicting the weather with a self-made calendar. A photograph of his girlfriend Kelly has kept his hopes alive all these years.
Finally, Chuck takes the opportunity to take off for home: he sets off on a wooden raft with a sail that has washed ashore.
– Written by Julian Reischl
Behind Enemy Lines (PG-13, 4/5 stars, currently priced at $2.99 to rent in SD / $3.99 in HD, $6.99 to own in SD or HD)
Fighter navigator Chris Burnett wants out: he was looking for something more than the boring recon missions he’s been flying.
He finds himself flying the lone Christmas day mission over war-torn Bosnia.
But when he talks pilot Stackhouse into flying slightly off-course to check out an interesting target, the two get shot down. Burnett is soon alone, trying to outrun a pursuing army, while commanding officer Reigert finds his rescue operation hamstrung by politics, forcing Burnett to run far out of his way.
– Written by Jon Reeves
Antwone Fisher (PG-13, 4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $2.99 to rent in SD / $3.99 in HD, $6.99 to own in SD or HD)
A sailor prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist for help.
Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and reveals a horrific childhood.
Through the guidance of his doctor, he confronts his painful past and begins a quest to find the family he never knew.
– Written by Anonymous
Dracula Untold (PG-13, 4/5 stars, currently priced at $6.99 to own in SD or HD)
Luke Evans (Fast & Furious 6, The Hobbit series) stars in the epic action adventure, Dracula Untold, the origin story of the man who became Dracula.
At the turn of the century, the young lord Vlad and his family live a peaceful life ruling over their small kingdom.
When a Turk warlord demands from Vlad a thousand boys and his son to create an army Vlad seeks a terrible power that will allow him to protect his kingdom and family from the Turks at a terrible cost.
– Written by Blue_EagleUK
Anastasia (G, 4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $2.99 to rent in SD / $3.99 in HD, $6.99 to own in SD or HD)
A young girl heads from Russia to Paris, hoping to learn if she really is the long lost princess Anastasia, only to find unexpected love complicating matters of identity.
The daughter of the last Russian Tsar, Nicolas II, Anastasia is found by two Russian con men, Dimitri and Vladimir, who seek the reward that her grandmother, the Dowager Empress Marie, promised to the ones who’ll find her.
But the evil mystic of the Tsar family, Rasputin, still wants the Romanov family to be destroyed forever.
– Written by Anonymous
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