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Thursday, February 18th, 2010 11:02

Head in the Clouds (2004)   


    
Head in the Clouds
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Charlize Theron | Stuart Townsend | | Steven Berkoff | Penélope Cruz | David La Haye
Directors: John Duigan
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HEAD IN THE CLOUDS is a sweeping romantic drama set in 1930's England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic lifestyle and her burgeoning career as a photographer. But Guy and Mia feel impelled to join the fight against fascism, and the three friends are separated - seemingly forever.
Thursday, February 18th, 2010 09:02

Out of Africa (1985)   


    
Out of Africa
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Meryl Streep | Robert Redford | Klaus Maria Brandauer | Michael Kitchen | Malick Bowens | Joseph Thiaka | Stephen Kinyanjui | Michael Gough | Suzanna Hamilton | Rachel Kempson | Graham Crowden | Leslie Phillips | Mike Bugara | Shane Rimmer | Job Seda
Directors: Sydney Pollack
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Follows the life of Karen Blixen, who establishes a plantation in Africa. Her life is Complicated by a husband of convenience (Bror Blixen), a true love (Denys), troubles on the plantation, schooling of the natives, war, and catching VD from her husband.
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 23:02

The Hours (2002)   


    
Hours, The
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicole Kidman | Julianne Moore | Meryl Streep | Stephen Dillane | Miranda Richardson | George Loftus | Charley Ramm | Sophie Wyburd | Lyndsey Marshal | Linda Bassett | Christian Coulson | Michael Culkin | John C. Reilly | Jack Rovello | Toni Collette
Directors: Scott Rubin | Stephen Daldry
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The film concerns three women each suffering from depression. Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) is starting to write her book 'Mrs. Dalloway' in 1923 England. She is coming to the realization of her lesbianism and fighting her pure despair of life and headaches. Virginia receives a visit from her sister Vanessa and Vanessa's two sons and daughter. The daughter places a strong influence on Virginia's emotions through the death of a bird. Eventually, Virgnia must face the decision to run away to London, stay with her beloved husband, or move to London where the doctors forbid her to go. Laura Brown (Julianne Moore), is a mother fearing her ability to be a mother again. She is reading 'Mrs. Dalloway' in 1951 Los Angeles. Laura is trying to throw a wonderful birthday party for her husband. The very pregnant Laura thinks she won't be an adequate mother to her daughter and current baby on the way in a few months. Laura must make the decision to run away from it all or live miserably with her happy husband. Clarissa Vaughan (Meryl Streep) is a career publisher living in present 2001 New York. Her nickname, given by her poet-friend, Richard, who is dying of AIDS, is Mrs. Dalloway. Clarissa is also throwing a party but for Richard who is receiving an award for his poetry. Like Virginia Woolf, Clarissa is also a lesbian but also wonders if she is in love with Richard with whom she once dated. At the end, the whole plot twists and comes together. The basic theme of the film is wondering if it is better to live your life for your own happiness or others.
Thursday, February 11th, 2010 10:02

Shadow of the Vampire (2000)   


    
Shadow of the Vampire
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: John Malkovich | Willem Dafoe | Udo Kier | Cary Elwes | Catherine McCormack | Eddie Izzard | Aden Gillett | Nicholas Elliott | Ronan Vibert | Sophie Langevin | Myriam Muller | Milos Hlavac | Marja-Leena Junker | Derek Kueter | Norman Golightly
Directors: E. Elias Merhige
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Shadow of the Vampire is a film about the making of a German all time classic silent horror-movie from 1922 called Nosferatu-Eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu-a Symphony of Horror). The production of Nosferatu had to deal with a lot of strange things (some crew members disappeared, some died). This movie focuses on the difficult relationship between Murnau, the director, and Schreck, the lead actor.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 21:07

The Mummy (1932)   


    
Mummy, The
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Brendan Fraser | Rachel Weisz | John Hannah | Arnold Vosloo | Kevin J. O'Connor | Oded Fehr | Jonathan Hyde | Erick Avari | Bernard Fox | Stephen Dunham | Corey Johnson | Tuc Watkins | Omid Djalili | Aharon Ipalé | Patricia Velasquez
Directors: Stephen Sommers
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During a British Museum-sponsored archaeological expedition to Egypt led by Sir Joseph Whemple, the recently discovered mummy of a high priest, Im-ho-tep, comes to life and walks away into the desert night. Ten years later a new expedition led by Sir Joseph's son, Frank Whemple, find the tomb of Princess Anck-es-en-Amon, Im-ho-tep's long lost love. In order to revive her completely, Im-ho-tep requires Helen Grosvenor to die so he can revive her and make her a living mummy like himself.
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 12:06

The Color Purple (1985)   


    
Color Purple, The
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Danny Glover | Whoopi Goldberg | Margaret Avery | Oprah Winfrey | Willard E. Pugh | Akosua Busia | Desreta Jackson | Adolph Caesar | Rae Dawn Chong | Dana Ivey | Leonard Jackson | Bennet Guillory | John Patton Jr. | Carl Anderson | Susan Beaubian
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900's. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life...

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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 12:06

The Color Purple (1985)   


    
Color Purple, The
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Danny Glover | Whoopi Goldberg | Margaret Avery | Oprah Winfrey | Willard E. Pugh | Akosua Busia | Desreta Jackson | Adolph Caesar | Rae Dawn Chong | Dana Ivey | Leonard Jackson | Bennet Guillory | John Patton Jr. | Carl Anderson | Susan Beaubian
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900's. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life...

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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 16:06

Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)   


    
Fried Green Tomatoes
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kathy Bates | Mary Stuart Masterson | Mary-Louise Parker | Jessica Tandy | Cicely Tyson | Chris O'Donnell | Stan Shaw | Gailard Sartain | Timothy Scott | Gary Basaraba | Lois Smith | Jo Harvey Allen | Macon McCalman | Richard Riehle | Raynor Scheine
Directors: Jon Avnet
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Evelyn Couch is having trouble in her marriage, and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode, a young woman in 1920's Alabama. Through Idgie's inspiring life, Evelyn learns to be more assertive and builds a lasting friendship of her own with Ninny.

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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 16:06

Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)   


    
Fried Green Tomatoes
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kathy Bates | Mary Stuart Masterson | Mary-Louise Parker | Jessica Tandy | Cicely Tyson | Chris O'Donnell | Stan Shaw | Gailard Sartain | Timothy Scott | Gary Basaraba | Lois Smith | Jo Harvey Allen | Macon McCalman | Richard Riehle | Raynor Scheine
Directors: Jon Avnet
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Evelyn Couch is having trouble in her marriage, and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode, a young woman in 1920's Alabama. Through Idgie's inspiring life, Evelyn learns to be more assertive and builds a lasting friendship of her own with Ninny.

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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 14:06

Doctor Zhivago (1965)   


    
Doctor Zhivago
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Omar Sharif | Julie Christie | Geraldine Chaplin | Rod Steiger | Alec Guinness | Tom Courtenay | Siobhan McKenna | Ralph Richardson | Rita Tushingham | Jeffrey Rockland | Tarek Sharif | Bernard Kay | Klaus Kinski | Gérard Tichy | Noel Willman
Directors: David Lean
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A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the revolution but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.

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Friday, June 5th, 2009 13:06

Sweet Land (2005)   


    
Sweet Land
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Elizabeth Reaser | Lois Smith | Patrick Heusinger | Stephen Pelinski | Tim Guinee | Robert Hogan | Alan Cumming | Paul Sand | Jodie Markell | Sage Kermes | Kirsten Frantzich | Stephen Yoakam | Karen Landry | James Cada | Debbie DeLisi
Directors: Ali Selim
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As Inge buries her husband Olaf on their Minnesota farm in 1968, we relive her life story as she tells her grown grandson about how she arrived from Germany in 1920 as Olaf's postal bride and of the obstacles they overcame in order to marry...

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Friday, June 5th, 2009 13:06

Sweet Land (2005)   


    
Sweet Land
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Elizabeth Reaser | Lois Smith | Patrick Heusinger | Stephen Pelinski | Tim Guinee | Robert Hogan | Alan Cumming | Paul Sand | Jodie Markell | Sage Kermes | Kirsten Frantzich | Stephen Yoakam | Karen Landry | James Cada | Debbie DeLisi
Directors: Ali Selim
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As Inge buries her husband Olaf on their Minnesota farm in 1968, we relive her life story as she tells her grown grandson about how she arrived from Germany in 1920 as Olaf's postal bride and of the obstacles they overcame in order to marry...

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Thursday, May 14th, 2009 16:05

Chariots of Fire (1981)   


    
Chariots of Fire
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicholas Farrell | Nigel Havers | Ian Charleson | Ben Cross | Daniel Gerroll | Ian Holm | John Gielgud | Lindsay Anderson | Nigel Davenport | Cheryl Campbell | Alice Krige | Dennis Christopher | Brad Davis | Patrick Magee | Peter Egan
Directors: Hugh Hudson
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The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold, the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, who hires a pro trainer to prepare him. Eric, whose qualifying heat is scheduled for a Sunday, refuses to run despite pressure from the Olympic committee. A compromise is reached when a nobleman allows Eric to compete in his 400 meter slot. Eric and Harold win their respective races and go on to achieve fame as missionary and businessman/athletic advocate, respectively.

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Thursday, March 12th, 2009 13:03

Some Like It Hot (1959)   


    
Some Like It Hot
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Marilyn Monroe | Tony Curtis | Jack Lemmon | George Raft | Pat O'Brien | Joe E. Brown | Nehemiah Persoff | Joan Shawlee | Billy Gray | George E. Stone | Dave Barry | Mike Mazurki | Harry Wilson | Beverly Wills
Directors: Billy Wilder
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Joe, the saxophone player, is Josephine in the all girls band that he joined with Jerry, the bass violin player, to be one step ahead of the mob after witnessing the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago. After a train ride that sets a record for number of people in an upper berth, they are In Miami. Joe decides to be the man of Sugar Kane's dreams and invites her out to a yacht he doesn't have. But he can use Osgood Fielding's yacht if Jerry — as Daphne — will keep Osgood dancing. The pace gets even giddier when the Chicago mob arrives in Miami for a convention.

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Thursday, February 12th, 2009 14:02

Changeling (2008)   


    
Changeling
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Angelina Jolie | Gattlin Griffith | Michelle Martin | Jan Devereaux | Erica Grant | Antonia Bennett | Kerri Randles | Frank Wood | Morgan Eastwood | Madison Hodges | John Malkovich | Colm Feore | Devon Conti | Ric Sarabia | J.P. Bumstead
Directors: Clint Eastwood
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A mother's prayer for her kidnapped son to return home is answered, though it doesn't take long for her to suspect the boy who comes back is not hers.

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Sunday, January 11th, 2009 15:01

Brideshead Revisited (2008)   


    
Brideshead Revisited
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew Goode | Thomas Morrison | Anna Madeley | David Barrass | Sarah Crowden | Stephen Carlile | Peter Barnes | Hayley Atwell | Patrick Malahide | Richard Teverson | Joseph Beattie | Ben Whishaw | Roger Walker | Rita Davies | Ed Stoppard
Directors: Julian Jarrold
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The memoirs of Captain Charles Ryder who is stationed at Brideshead Castle during WWII and remembers his involvement with the owners of the Brideshead estate: the aristocratic yet Catholic Flyte family and in particular brother and sister Sebastian and Julia.

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Monday, January 5th, 2009 10:01

Buddy (1997)   


    
Buddy
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Rene Russo | Robbie Coltrane | Alan Cumming | Irma P. Hall | Peter Elliott | Mak Wilson | Lynn Robertson Bruce | Mark Sealey | Robert Tygner | Michelan Sisti | Peter Hurst | Leif Tilden | Star Townsend | Paul Reubens | John Aylward
Directors: Caroline Thompson
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This is a fact based story about an English socialite (Rene Russo) and her husband (Robbie Coltrane) who live in a mansion with a brood of animals including chimpanzees who are raised as her children. When she discovers an ailing baby gorilla, she decides to care for it as well. Years later, the gorilla is fully grown and its strength is sometimes out of control. However, the gorilla shows love for his mistress and obeys her commands. That all changes when she is invited to display the gorilla and chimps at the Chicago World's Fair. Accidentally freed by one of the chimps, the gorilla terrorizes the Fair. From that point on, he becomes moody and more uncontrollable until he attacks his mistress in a bestial rage.

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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 13:12

Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)   


    
Birdman of Alcatraz
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Burt Lancaster | Karl Malden | Thelma Ritter | Neville Brand | Betty Field | Telly Savalas | Edmond O'Brien | Hugh Marlowe | Whit Bissell | Crahan Denton | James Westerfield | Robert Bailey | Robert Burton | Lewis Charles | Nick Dennis
Directors: John Frankenheimer
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As an inmate at Leavenworth prison, Robert Stroud has a series of confrontations with the guards and with the other convicts. When Stroud kills a guard, he is sentenced to be executed, and only his mother's impassioned intervention gets his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, which he must serve in solitary confinement. As he serves out his sentence in boredom and despair, one day he finds a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard. Stroud soon takes a deep interest in caring for birds, which gives him a new purpose in life, but which also brings new conflicts with prison authorities.

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Friday, December 26th, 2008 12:12

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)   


    
It's a Wonderful Life
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: James Stewart | Donna Reed | Lionel Barrymore | Thomas Mitchell | Henry Travers | Beulah Bondi | Frank Faylen | Ward Bond | Gloria Grahame | H.B. Warner | Frank Albertson | Todd Karns | Samuel S. Hinds | Mary Treen | Virginia Patton
Directors: Frank Capra
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On Christmas eve, all of the citizens of the small town of Bedford Falls pray to the heavens to help George Bailey. It's then decided that Clarence, an angel who hasn't earned his wings, is to help George. Before he does, he should know who George Bailey was. George Bailey grew up in Bedford Falls, a small town where he dreams of leaving it and making his mark on the world. His family's business is the only thing stands between the good citizens and Mr. Potter, a rich miser who takes sick pleasure in taking from everybody, without even caring how it affects them. George was all set to leave when his father died and had to take care of the business. George would forever be hindered by his plans to leave and thinks that he is nothing but a failure, he decides to kill himself. That's when Clarence comes in and tries to convince him that he has made something with his life, and that he had a "Wonderful Life".

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Thursday, December 25th, 2008 11:12

Guys and Dolls (1955)   


    
Guys and Dolls
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Marlon Brando | Jean Simmons | Frank Sinatra | Vivian Blaine | Robert Keith | Stubby Kaye | B.S. Pully | Johnny Silver | Sheldon Leonard | Danny Dayton | George E. Stone | Regis Toomey | Kathryn Givney | Veda Ann Borg | Mary Alan Hokanson
Directors: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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All the hot gamblers are in town, and they're all depending on Nathan Detroit to set up this week's incarnation of "The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York"; the only problem is, he needs $1000 to get the place. Throw in Sarah Brown, who's short on sinners at the mission she runs; Sky Masterson, who accepts Nathan's $1000 bet that he can't get Sarah Brown to go with him to Havana; Miss Adelaide, who wants Nathan to marry her; Police Lieutenant Brannigan, who always seems to appear at the wrong time; and the music/lyrics of Frank Loesser, and you've got quite a musical. Includes the songs: Fugue for Tinhorns, "Luck Be a Lady", "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat".

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