Posts Tagged ‘1940s’

Annie Hall (1977)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Diane Keaton | Tony Roberts | Carol Kane | Paul Simon | Shelley Duvall | Janet Margolin | Colleen Dewhurst | Christopher Walken | Donald Symington | Helen Ludlam | Mordecai Lawner | Joan Neuman | Jonathan Munk | Ruth Volner
Directors: Woody Allen
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After breaking up with his girlfriend Annie Hall, neurotic comedian Alvy Singer goes on a stream of conciousness journey through his memories of their relationship, trying to find out what caused them to part ways. He often breaks the fourth wall, speaking to the camera, entering peoples’ stories, and even using animation.

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
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.

Black Book (2006)

Monday, June 8th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: Belgium | Germany | Netherlands
Actors: Ken Stott | Claire Price | Robert Cavanah | Jennifer Black | David Robb | Bryan Lowe | Lynsey Baxter | Sarah Collier | Ian Grieve | Stuart McQuarrie | John Bett | Rowena Cooper | James Grant
Directors: Roger Gartland
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In 1944, in the occupied Holland, the Jewish Rachel Stein is hiding from the Nazis in a house of a Christian family. When her hiding place is bombed, Rachel escapes by chance, but she is found by a stranger called Van Gein that invites her to join a group of Jews in a boat to escape to Belgium on the next night. He advises her to bring money and jewels for her survival and very few luggage. Rachel visits lawyer and friend of her family Wim Small that gives her a large amount for her travel. When she meets the refugees, she finds that her family is in the group. While crossing the swamp, a Nazi patrol boat arrives and kills the fugitives, but Rachel is the only one to survive. Later she joins a cell of resistance leaded by the Dutch Gerben Kuipers under the identity of Ellis de Vries; after meeting the Nazi Officer Ludwig Müntze in a train, Kuipers proposes Ellis to work as a spy seducing Müntze. During her assignment, Rachel recognizes Günther Franken as the commander of the attack to the boat of refugees and later she discovers that the murders are part of a scheme with a traitor in the resistance team.

Delta of Venus (1995)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Audie England | Costas Mandylor | Eric Da Silva | Raven Snow | Rory Campbell | Emma Louise Moore | Bernard Zette | Marek Vasut | Markéta Hrubesová | Daniel Leza | Stephen Halbert | Dale Wyatt | Jirí Ded | Valerie Zawadská | James Donahower
Directors: Zalman King
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An American writer in Paris starts writing erotic fiction. From encouragement from her friends, her lover, and her publisher she gets involved in nude modeling and progresses onward through many other forms of voyeuristic and participatory sexual adventures. Contains full frontal nudity and simulated sex, lots of sexual dialogue and profanity.

The Way We Were (1973)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
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Katie and Hubbell are students in the same college but with very different lives. She is a communist compromised against the civil war in Spain and the rise of Hitler in Europe, and has to work to pay her studies. He is more interested in sports a and sceptic about politics. However, Katie is impressed by his charm and she still is when they meet some years after.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004)

Monday, May 4th, 2009
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Actors: Jon Voight | Ellen Burstyn | Jeff Daniels | Dagmara Dominczyk | Steven Grayhm | Michael Imperioli | Callum Keith Rennie | Rebecca Jenkins | Callahan Brebner | Nicaela Weigel | Shelbie Weigel | Darcy Cadman | Tim O'Halloran | Zak Santiago | Emy Aneke
Directors: Lloyd Kramer
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Eddie is the responsible for the maintenance of the Ruby Pier amusement park and a veteran of World War II. While trying to save a five year old girl from an accident with ride that is falling after rupturing the wire, Eddie dies. He awakes in Heaven, and the Blue Man explains him that he will have a journey meeting five people in their heavens that will show the importance of his life before he goes to the next level.

Schindler’s List (1993)

Friday, April 24th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Liam Neeson | Ben Kingsley | Ralph Fiennes | Caroline Goodall | Jonathan Sagall | Embeth Davidtz | Malgoscha Gebel | Shmuel Levy | Mark Ivanir | Béatrice Macola | Andrzej Seweryn | Friedrich von Thun | Krzysztof Luft | Harry Nehring | Norbert Weisser
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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“Schindler’s List” is the based-on-truth story of Nazi Czech business man Oskar Schindler, who uses Jewish labor to start a factory in occupied Poland. As World War II progresses, and the fate of the Jews becomes more and more clear, Schindler’s motivations switch from profit to human sympathy and he is able to save over 1100 Jews from death in the gas chambers.

The Time Machine (1960)

Friday, April 24th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Rod Taylor | Alan Young | Yvette Mimieux | Sebastian Cabot | Tom Helmore | Whit Bissell | Doris Lloyd | Bob Barran | Paul Frees | James Skelly | Josephine Powell
Directors: George Pal
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From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic one living underground. His machine is stolen by the underground race and he must risk being captured (and eaten) to return to his own time.

Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Tom Sizemore | Jennifer Beals | Don Cheadle | Maury Chaykin | Terry Kinney | Mel Winkler | Albert Hall | Lisa Nicole Carson | Jernard Burks | David Wolos-Fonteno | John Roselius | Beau Starr | Steven Randazzo | Scott Lincoln
Directors: Carl Franklin
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It is 1948 in LA and Ezikeal “Easy” Rawlins, an African-American World War II veteran, is looking for work. At his friend’s bar, he is introduced to a white man, DeWitt Albright, who is looking for someone to help him find a missing white woman assumed to be hiding somewhere in LA’s Black community. This woman, Daphane Monet, happens to be the fiancée of a wealthy “blue blood,” Todd Carter, who is currently the favorite in the city’s mayoralty race. Daphane Monet is known to frequent the Black jazz clubs in LA. Easy, innocently, accepts Albright’s offer; however, he quickly finds himself amidst murder, crooked cops, ruthless politicians, and brutalizing hoodlums. This is a Chandler-esque “who-done-it” with an African-American theme.

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)

Monday, April 20th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ben Johnson | Andrew Prine | Dawn Wells | Jimmy Clem | Jim Citty | Robert Aquino | Cindy Butler | Christine Ellsworth | Earl E. Smith | Steve Lyons | Joe Catalanotto | Roy Lee Brown | Mike Hackworth | Misty West
Directors: Charles B. Pierce
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Set in the late 40’s the residents of Texarkana, Texas are left terrorized by a mysterious hooded killer who is stalking victims during the evening and leaving the local police at a loss.