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Out of Africa (1985)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010 06:02
Out of AfricaGenres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Directors: Sydney Pollack
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
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.
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Dangerous Beauty (1998)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010 01:02
Dangerous BeautyGenres: Biography | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Directors: Marshall Herskovitz
Actors: Catherine McCormack | Rufus Sewell | Oliver Platt | Moira Kelly | Naomi Watts | Fred Ward | Jacqueline Bisset | Jeroen Krabbé | Joanna Cassidy | Melina Kanakaredes | Daniel Lapaine | Justine Miceli | Jake Weber | Simon Dutton | Grant Russell
In 16th century Venice, courtesans enjoy unique privileges: dressed richly in red, they read, compose poetry and music, and discuss affairs of state with the men who govern the Republic. When Veronica Franco comes of age, she cannot marry Marco Venier, whom she loves, because she is well born but penniless. Her choice: cloister or courtesan. She steels her heart, and with beauty and intelligence becomes the best. She's a heroine when she helps convince France to aid Venice in war with Turkey, but when plague descends, the Church charges her with witchcraft. At her inquisition, she must match wits with an old rival, speak for all women, and call courage from Venier.
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The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 14:02
Phantom of the Opera, TheGenres: Drama | Fantasy | Musical | Romance | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Directors: Joel Schumacher
Actors: Gerard Butler | Minnie Driver | Miranda Richardson | Patrick Wilson | Emmy Rossum | Ciarán Hinds
"The Phantom of the Opera" is a magnificent tale that begins when an opera ghost terrorizes the cast and crew of the French Opera House while tutoring a chorus girl. He finally drives the lead soprano crazy so she and her friend leave. The girl is able to sing lead one night but the soprano doesn't want her show stolen so she comes back. The ghost demands they keep giving his protoge lead roles. Meanwhile, His pupil falls in love with the Vicomte de Chagny, but the Phantom is in love with Christine, his student. The Phantom is outraged by their love and kidnaps Christine to be his eternal bride. Will Raoul, the Vicomte, be able to stop this dastardly plan? Watch and find out
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FairyTale: A True Story (1997)

Saturday, August 1st, 2009 22:08
FairyTale: A True StoryGenres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Countries: UK | USA
Directors: Charles Sturridge
Actors: Harvey Keitel | Jason Salkey | Peter O'Toole | Lara Morgan | Adam Franks | Guy Witcher | Joseph May | John Bradley | Anna Chancellor | Florence Hoath | Phoebe Nicholls | Leonard Kavanagh | Elizabeth Earl | Paul McGann | Anton Lesser
Based on factual accounts, this is the story of two young girls that, somehow, have the ability to take pictures of winged beings... which certainly causes quite a stir throughout England during the time of the first World War. Everyone, except the girls who think it's quite normal, are excited about this "photographic proof" that fairies exist... even the great Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini pay the girls a visit.
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Immortal Beloved (1994)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 08:06
Immortal BelovedGenres: Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Directors: Bernard Rose
Actors: Gary Oldman | Jeroen Krabbé | Isabella Rossellini | Johanna ter Steege | Marco Hofschneider | Miriam Margolyes | Barry Humphries | Valeria Golino | Gerard Horan | Christopher Fulford | Alexandra Pigg | Luigi Diberti | Michael Culkin | Donal Gibson | Matthew North
Ludwig van Beethoven dies and his assistant/friend Schindler proceeds to deal with his affairs (last will and testament). There is a question as to who really is his "immortal beloved", and so tries to find out who this might be.
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The Queen of Spades (1949)

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 11:02
Queen of Spades, TheGenres: Drama | Horror
Countries: UK
Directors: Thorold Dickinson
Actors: Anton Walbrook | Edith Evans | Yvonne Mitchell | Ronald Howard | Mary Jerrold | Anthony Dawson | Miles Malleson | Michael Medwin | Athene Seyler | Ivor Barnard | Maroussia Dimitrevitch | Violette Elvin | Pauline Tennant | Jacqueline Clarke | Josef Ramart
An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman's spirit.
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Adventures of Don Juan (1948)

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 13:01
Adventures of Don JuanGenres: Adventure | Romance
Countries: USA
Directors: Vincent Sherman
Actors: Errol Flynn | Viveca Lindfors | Robert Douglas | Alan Hale | Romney Brent | Ann Rutherford | Robert Warwick | Jerry Austin | Douglas Kennedy | Jean Shepherd | Mary Stuart | Helen Westcott | Fortunio Bonanova | Aubrey Mather | Una O'Connor
In the end of the Seventeenth Century, Don Juan de Marana is repatriated from London to Madrid after a serious diplomatic scandal caused by his affair with a British fiancée on the Eve of her marriage with a Spanish noble. The Spanish ambassador in London Count de Polan sends a recommendation letter to his friend Queen Margaret to give an opportunity in the court to rehabilitate Don Juan from the gossips and rumors about his love affairs, and he is hired as instructor of the art of fencing in the Spanish Academy. He secretly falls in love for Queen Margareth but becomes loyal to her and her irresponsible and weak husband, King Phillip III. Don Juan discovers the plan of the Machiavellian Duke de Lorca (that intends to declare war to England and rules Spain. With the support of his friends, Don Juan defends the Queen, the King and Count de Polan against Duke de Lorca and his men.
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Ulysses (1967)

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 10:01
UlyssesGenres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Directors: Joseph Strick
Actors: Barbara Jefford | Milo O'Shea | Maurice Roëves | T.P. McKenna | Martin Dempsey | Sheila O'Sullivan | Graham Lines | Peter Mayock | Fionnula Flanagan | Anna Manahan | Maureen Toal | Maureen Potter | Chris Curran | Maire Hastings | Eddie Golden
Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering about the city during which he finds friendship and a father figure in Leopold Bloom, a middle-aged Jew. Meanwhile, Bloom's day, illuminated by a funeral and an evening of drinking and revelry that stirs paternal feelings toward Stephen, ends with a rapprochement with Molly, his earthy wife.
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Anna Karenina (1948)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 10:12
Anna KareninaGenres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK
Directors: Bernard Rose
Actors: Sophie Marceau | Sean Bean | Alfred Molina | Mia Kirshner | James Fox | Fiona Shaw | Danny Huston | Phyllida Law | David Schofield | Saskia Wickham | Jennifer Hall | Anna Calder-Marshall | Petr Shelokhonov | Valerie Braddell | Niall Buggy
Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a little spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet. Back in St. Petersburg they keep running into each other at parties. Since she has a husband and small son, they must be very discreet if they are going to see each other alone.
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 09:05
Perfume: The Story of a MurdererGenres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Spain
Directors: Tom Tykwer
Actors: Ben Whishaw | Francesc Albiol | Gonzalo Cunill | Roger Salvany | Andrés Herrera | Simon Chandler | David Calder | Richard Felix | Birgit Minichmayr | Reg Wilson | Catherine Boisgontier | Núria Casas | Carlos Gramaje | Sian Thomas | Michael Smiley
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of eighteenth century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

Monday, May 5th, 2008 08:05
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet StreetGenres: Crime | Musical | Thriller
Countries: USA
Directors: Tim Burton
Actors: Johnny Depp | Helena Bonham Carter | Alan Rickman | Timothy Spall | Sacha Baron Cohen | Jayne Wisener | Jamie Campbell Bower | Laura Michelle Kelly | Ed Sanders | Anthony Head | Peter Bowles | Ian Burford | Michael N. Harbour
Based on the 19th century legend of Sweeney Todd and the hit Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd a.k.a Benjamin Barker returns to London after being sent away by Judge Turpin with the help of a sailor, Anthony Hope. He opens a barber shop above Mrs. Lovett's Meat Pie Shop were she sells "the worst pies in London." With the help of Mrs. Lovett, Todd tries to rid of all the people who have ever done him wrong and hopes to be reunited with his daughter, Joanna, who is now Judge Turpin's ward.
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Emma (1996)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008 09:04
EmmaGenres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Directors: Douglas McGrath
Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow | James Cosmo | Greta Scacchi | Alan Cumming | Denys Hawthorne | Sophie Thompson | Jeremy Northam | Toni Collette | Kathleen Byron | Phyllida Law | Edward Woodall | Brett Miley | Brian Capron | Karen Westwood | Paul Williamson
Emma is a very beautiful young woman who decides to devote her life in finding the right mate for the people around her. But, her cause will come to contestation when she will find love in the face of a much sought after man.
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The Bounty (1984)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 13:03
Bounty, TheGenres: Adventure | Drama | History
Countries: UK | USA
Directors: Roger Donaldson
Actors: Mel Gibson | Anthony Hopkins | Laurence Olivier | Edward Fox | Daniel Day-Lewis | Bernard Hill | Philip Davis | Liam Neeson | Wi Kuki Kaa | Tevaite Vernette | Philip Martin Brown | Simon Chandler | Malcolm Terris | Simon Adams | John Sessions
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.
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River Queen (2005)

Friday, November 9th, 2007 15:11
River QueenGenres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Countries: New Zealand | UK
Directors: Vincent Ward
Actors: Samantha Morton | Kiefer Sutherland | Cliff Curtis | Temuera Morrison | Anton Lesser | Rawiri Paratene | Stephen Rea | Wi Kuki Kaa | Mark Ruka | Tyson Reweti | Grayson Putu | Nathan Passfield | Laura Coyte Douglas | Julie Ranginui | Brandon Lakshman
An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah (Samantha Morton) and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonisation of New Zealand.
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Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Saturday, October 20th, 2007 08:10
Pride & PrejudiceGenres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | UK
Directors: Joe Wright
Actors: Keira Knightley | Talulah Riley | Rosamund Pike | Jena Malone | Carey Mulligan | Donald Sutherland | Brenda Blethyn | Claudie Blakley | Sylvester Morand | Simon Woods | Kelly Reilly | Matthew MacFadyen | Pip Torrens | Janet Whiteside | Sinead Matthews
The story is based on Jane Austen's novel about five sisters - Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia Bennet - in Georgian England. Their lives are turned upside down when a wealthy young man (Mr. Bingley) and his best friend (Mr. Darcy) arrive in their neighborhood.
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Nanny McPhee (2005)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007 11:05
Nanny McPheeGenres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: France | UK | USA
Directors: Kirk Jones
Actors: Emma Thompson | Colin Firth | Kelly Macdonald | Celia Imrie | Derek Jacobi | Patrick Barlow | Imelda Staunton | Thomas Sangster | Angela Lansbury
Mr. Cedric Brown (Colin Firth) has just lost his wife and is now left with his seven children who misbehave so much that all the nannies have run away. Now he is told by a mysterious voice that he should get Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) who is a magical woman with special powers.
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The Mask of Zorro (1998)

Friday, May 4th, 2007 16:05
Mask of Zorro, TheGenres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance | Western
Countries: Mexico | USA
Directors: Martin Campbell
Actors: Matt Letscher | Maury Chaykin | Antonio Banderas | José María de Tavira | Anthony Hopkins | Diego Sieres | Emiliano Guerra | Catherine Zeta-Jones | Yolanda Orisaga | Paco Morayta | William Marquez | Stuart Wilson | Tony Amendola | Pedro Altamirano | Luisa Huertas | María Fernández Cruz | Mónica Fernández Cruz
In early 19th century California the masked swordsman hero Zorro was a champion of the people against the tyranny of Spanish rule, represented by the ruthless Governor Montero. Unfortunately, on the eve of his greatest triumph, the liberation of California, Montero learns of Zorro's secret identity as Don Diego de la Vega and attacks the rebel in his home leaving him imprisoned, his wife dead and his daughter abducted to be claimed as the child of Montero. Twenty years pass, and Montero returns to California intent on a foul plan to bring it under his total control. Upon learning of his return, Don Diego escapes from his long imprisonment and prepares for his revenge. Part of it involves the training of an orphan who helped him as a boy to become his successor. Together, the two must prepare to do battle with Montero and his American henchman to save California and reunite with Diego's lost daughter. So once again, the enemies of freedom and justice in California must fear of the man who leaves the mark of the Z.
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Original Sin (2001)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007 19:03
Original SinGenres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Directors: Michael Cristofer
Actors: Antonio Banderas | Angelina Jolie | Thomas Jane | Jack Thompson | Gregory Itzin | Allison Mackie | Joan Pringle | Cordelia Richards | James Haven | Pedro Armendáriz Jr. | Mario Iván Martínez | Harry Porter | Fernando Torre Laphame | Shaula Vega | Lisa Owen
Can love release our true self? A wealthy Cuban coffee exporter, Luis Vargas, advertises for a US wife; Julia Russell, from Delaware, sends her photograph, but the woman who steps off the ship is much lovelier. Luis marries her immediately and gives in to love. But Julia may not be who she claims: first a private eye shows up on behalf of Julia's sister, then the sister herself. By now, Luis has given has wife access to bank accounts, and when she runs with his cash, he pursues her, with the help of Downs, the P.I., perhaps to kill her. Pursuit may be part of a con game as well, and Julia's past explains some, if not all, of what remains of the story. A priest hears her confession.
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