Posts Tagged ‘1870s’

The Illusionist (2006)

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | USA
Actors: Edward Norton | Paul Giamatti | Jessica Biel | Rufus Sewell | Eddie Marsan | Jake Wood | Tom Fisher | Aaron Johnson | Eleanor Tomlinson | Karl Johnson | Vincent Franklin | Nicholas Blane | Philip McGough | Erich Redman | Michael Carter
Directors: Neil Burger
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A magician in turn-of-the-last-century Vienna falls in love with a woman well above his social standing. When she becomes engaged to the crown prince, the magician uses his powers to free her and undermine the stability of the royal house of Vienna.

For a Few Dollars More (1965)

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller | Western
Countries: Italy | Monaco | Spain | West Germany
Actors: Clint Eastwood | Lee Van Cleef | Gian Maria Volonté | Mara Krupp | Luigi Pistilli | Klaus Kinski | Joseph Egger | Panos Papadopulos | Benito Stefanelli | Roberto Camardiel | Aldo Sambrell | Luis Rodríguez | Tomás Blanco | Lorenzo Robledo | Sergio Mendizábal
Directors: Sergio Leone
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Two bounty hunters are after the same man, Indio. At first, they go their own ways, but eventually get together to try and find him. But are they after him for the same reason ?

The Age of Innocence (1993)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis | Michelle Pfeiffer | Winona Ryder | Alexis Smith | Geraldine Chaplin | Mary Beth Hurt | Alec McCowen | Richard E. Grant | Miriam Margolyes | Robert Sean Leonard | Siân Phillips | Jonathan Pryce | Michael Gough | Joanne Woodward | Stuart Wilson
Directors: Martin Scorsese
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Society scion Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets May’s unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. At first, Newland becomes a defender of the Countess, whose separation from her abusive husband makes her a social outcast in the restrictive high society of late-19th Century New York, but he finds in her a companion spirit and they fall in love.

Blueberry (2004)

Monday, April 13th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Western
Countries: France | Mexico | USA
Actors: Vincent Cassel | Juliette Lewis | Michael Madsen | Temuera Morrison | Ernest Borgnine | Djimon Hounsou | Hugh O'Conor | Geoffrey Lewis | Nichole Hiltz | Kateri Walker | Vahina Giocante | Kestenbetsa | Tchéky Karyo | Eddie Izzard | Colm Meaney
Directors: Jan Kounen
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In the 1870’s, U.S Marshal Mike S. Blueberry tries to stop Wally Blount, the man who killed his girlfriend, from getting to a stockpile of gold hidden in Indian territory. On his way, he meets Prosit, a German villain on a persistent mission to find gold in the Superstition Mountains.

Citizen Kane (1941)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Joseph Cotten | Dorothy Comingore | Agnes Moorehead | Ruth Warrick | Ray Collins | Erskine Sanford | Everett Sloane | William Alland | Paul Stewart | George Coulouris | Fortunio Bonanova | Gus Schilling | Philip Van Zandt | Georgia Backus | Harry Shannon
Directors: Orson Welles
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Considered by many to be the best film ever made, this is the story of Charles Foster Kane. The film opens with a long shot of Xanadu - the private estate of one of the world’s richest men. In the middle of the estate is a castle. We see, inside the castle, a dying man examining a winter scene within a crystal ball. As he drops it, it smashes, and one word is heard - “Rosebud…” What follows are pieces of newsreel-like footage detailing how Kane amassed his fortune, and turning around full circle at the end.

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Joseph Cotten | Dolores Costello | Anne Baxter | Tim Holt | Agnes Moorehead | Ray Collins | Erskine Sanford | Richard Bennett | Orson Welles | Edwin August | Jack Baxley | William Blees | Lyle Clement | Bobby Cooper | Don Dillaway
Directors: Fred Fleck
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The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer. Their only child, George, grows up a spoiled brat. Years later, Eugene comes back, now a mature widower and a successful automobile maker. After Wilbur dies, Eugene again asks Isabel to marry him, and she is receptive. But George resents the attentions paid to his mother, and he and his whacko aunt Fanny manage to sabotage the romance. A series of disasters befall the Ambersons and George, and he gets his come-uppance in the end.

The Last Samurai (2003)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: Japan | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Shin Koyamada | Ken Watanabe | Tom Cruise | William Atherton | Chad Lindberg | Ray Godshall Sr. | Billy Connolly | Tony Goldwyn | Masato Harada | Masashi Odate | John Koyama | Timothy Spall | Shichinosuke Nakamura | Togo Igawa | Satoshi Nikaido | Shintaro Wada
Directors: Edward Zwick
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In the 1870s, Captain Nathan Algren, a cynical veteran of the American Civil war who will work for anyone, is hired by Americans who want lucrative contracts with the Emperor of Japan to train the peasant conscripts for the first standing imperial army in modern warfare using firearms. The imperial Omura cabinet’s first priority is to repress a rebellion of traditionalist Samurai -hereditary warriors- who remain devoted to the sacred dynasty but reject the Westernizing policy and even refuse firearms. Yet when his ill-prepared superior force sets out too soon, their panic allows the sword-wielding samurai to crush them. Badly wounded Algren’s courageous stand makes the samurai leader Katsumoto spare his life; once nursed to health he learns to know and respect the old Japanese way, and participates as advisor in Katsumoto’s failed attempt to save the Bushido tradition, but Omura gets repressive laws enacted- he must now choose to honor his loyalty to one of the embittered sides when the conflict returns to the battlefield…

Dead Man (1995)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Western
Countries: Germany | Japan | USA
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton | Iggy Pop | Johnny Depp | Crispin Glover | Gibby Haynes | Richard Boes | George Duckworth | John Hurt | John North | Robert Mitchum | Mili Avital | Peter Schrum | Gabriel Byrne | Gary Farmer | Lance Henriksen | Michael Wincott | Eugene Byrd
Directors: Jim Jarmusch
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Dead Man is the story of a young man’s journey, both physically and spiritually, into very unfamiliar terrain. William Blake travels to the extreme western frontiers of America sometime in the 2nd half of the 19th century. Lost and badly wounded, he encounters a very odd, outcast Native American, named “Nobody,” who believes Blake is actually the dead English poet of the same name. The story, with Nobody’s help, leads William Blake through situations that are in turn comical and violent. Contrary to his nature, circumstances transform Blake into a hunted outlaw, a killer, and a man whose physical existence is slowly slipping away. Thrown into a world that is cruel and chaotic, his eyes are opened to the fragility that defines the realm of the living. It is as though he passes through the surface of a mirror, and emerges into a previously-unknown world that exists on the other side.

Kate & Leopold (2001)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Meg Ryan | Hugh Jackman | Liev Schreiber | Breckin Meyer | Natasha Lyonne | Bradley Whitford | Paxton Whitehead | Spalding Gray | Josh Stamberg | Matthew Sussman | Charlotte Ayanna | Philip Bosco | Andrew Jack | Stan Tracy | Kristen Schaal
Directors: James Mangold
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Kate and her actor brother live in N.Y. in the 21st Century. Her ex-boy friend, Stuart, lives above her apartment and finds this space near the Brooklyn Bridge where there is a gap in time. He goes back to the eighteen hundreds and takes pictures of the place. Leopold, a man living in the 1870’s, was puzzled by Stuart’s tiny camera and decides to follow him and they both ended up in this century. Leopold is clueless about his new surroundings. He gets help and insights from Charlie who thinks that Leopold is an actor who is always in character. Leopold is a highly intelligent man and tries his best to learn and even improve the modern conveniences that he encounters.

Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

Sunday, September 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Romance
Countries: Germany | Ireland | UK | USA
Actors: John Cleese | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Kathy Bates | Jackie Chan | Steve Coogan | Robert Fyfe | Jim Broadbent | Ian McNeice | David Ryall | Roger Hammond | Adam Godley | Karen Mok | Howard Cooper | Daniel Hinchcliffe | Wolfram Teufel | Tom Strauss | Kit West | Ewen Bremner
Directors: Frank Coraci
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Based on the classic novel by Jules Verne, Around the World in 80 Days (2003) stars Jackie Chan as Passepartout. As an adventurer, Passepartout ends up accompanying time-obsessed English gentleman, Phileas Fogg (played by Steve Coogan) on a daring mission to journey around the world. Fogg has wagered with members of his London club that he can traverse the world in 80 days. Along the way, they encounter many interesting 19th Century figures and have many exciting and suspenseful situations in their voyage around the world.