Amazon hasn’t announced any official Leonardo DiCaprio sale but they have discounted quite a few of his movies in the Instant Video Store: priced to own as low as $5.99 each! Descriptions below are from IMDB.
Catch Me If You Can (PG-13, currently priced at $2.99 to rent in SD / $3.99 in HD, $5.99 to own in SD / $7.99 in HD)
Based on the incredible, true story!
New Rochelle, the 1960s. High schooler Frank Abagnale Jr. idolizes his father, who’s in trouble with the IRS. When his parents separate, Frank runs away to Manhattan with $25 in his checking account, vowing to regain dad’s losses and get his parents back together.
Just a few years later, the FBI tracks him down in France; he’s extradited, tried, and jailed for passing more than $4,000,000 in bad checks. Along the way, he’s posed as a Pan Am pilot, a pediatrician, and an attorney.
And, from nearly the beginning of this life of crime, he’s been pursued by a dour FBI agent, Carl Hanratty. What starts as cat and mouse becomes something akin to father and son.
– Written by jhailey
Django Unchained (R, currently priced at $2.99 to rent in SD / $3.99 in HD, $7.99 to own in SD / $6.99 in HD)
In 1858, a bounty hunter named Schultz seeks out a slave named Django and buys him because he needs him to find some men he is looking for. After finding them, Django wants to find his wife, Broomhilda, who along with him were sold separately by his former owner for trying to escape.
Schultz offers to help him if he chooses to stay with him and be his partner. Eventually they learn that she was sold to a plantation in Mississippi.
Knowing they can’t just go in and say they want her, they come up with a plan so that the owner will welcome them into his home and they can find a way.
– Written by rcs0411
The Departed (R, currently priced at $2.99 to rent in SD / $3.99 in HD, $5.99 to own in SD / $7.99 in HD)
In South Boston, the state police force is waging war on Irish American organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Frank Costello. While Billy quickly gains Costello’s confidence, Colin Sullivan, a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the state police as an informer for the syndicate is rising to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit.
Each man becomes deeply consumed by his double life, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans of the operations he has penetrated. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there’s a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin are suddenly in danger of being caught and exposed to the enemy-and each must race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save himself.
But is either willing to turn on the friends and comrades they’ve made during their long stints undercover?
– Written by Anonymous
Body of Lies (R, currently priced at $2.99 to rent in SD / $3.99 in HD, $7.99 to own in SD / $7.99 in HD)
Roger Ferris is a CIA operative in the Middle East; Ed Hoffman is his control at Langley. Cynicism is everywhere. In Amman, Roger works with Hani Salaam, Jordan’s head of security, whose only dictum is “Don’t lie to me.”
The Americans are in pursuit of a cleric who leads a group placing bombs all over Europe. When Hani rebukes Ed’s demand that Jordan allow the Americans to use one of Jordan’s double agents, Roger and Ed hatch a plan to bring the cleric to them.
The plan is complicated by its being a secret from Hani and by Roger’s attraction to a local nurse. Satellites and cell phones, bodies and lies: modern warfare.
– Written by jhailey
Blood Diamond (R, currently priced at $2.99 to rent in SD / $3.99 in HD, $7.99 to own in SD / $7.99 in HD)
In 1999, in Sierra Leone, the fisherman Solomon Vandy dreams on the day that his young son Dia Vandy will become a doctor. His dreams are shattered when the rebels invade his village and kidnap him to work in the diamond mines.
Solomon finds a huge pink diamond and while hiding it, the commandant of the rebels sees, but the rebels are attacked and Solomon is arrested by the government army. While in jail, the wounded commandant tell the prisoners that Solomon found the stone, and the mercenary smuggler Danny Archer from Zimbabwe releases Solomon and proposes to exchange the diamond for his missing family.
Using the idealistic American journalist Maddy Bowen, Danny locates the wife and daughters of Solomon in a refugee camp, but is informed that his son has been recruited by the rebels. Solomon and Danny consolidate a partnership, with Solomon looking for and finding his son, and Danny looking for the diamond and finding redemption.
– Written by Claudio Carvalho
The Wolf of Wall Street (R, currently priced $5.99 to own in SD / $7.99 in HD)
Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort.
In the early 1990s, Jordan Belfort teamed with his partner Donny Azoff and started brokerage firm Stratford-Oakmont. Their company quickly grows from a staff of 20 to a staff of more than 250 and their status in the trading community and Wall Street grows exponentially. So much that companies file their initial public offerings through them.
As their status grows, so do the amount of substances they abuse, and so do their lies. They draw attention like no other, throwing lavish parties for their staff when they hit the jackpot on high trades. That ultimately leads to Belfort featured on the cover of Forbes Magazine, being called “The Wolf Of Wall St.”.
With the FBI onto Belfort’s trading schemes, he devises new ways to cover his tracks and watch his fortune grow. Belfort ultimately comes up with a scheme to stash their cash in a European bank. But with the FBI watching him like a hawk, how long will Belfort and Azoff be able to maintain their elaborate wealth and luxurious lifestyles?
– Written by halo1k
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