Posts Tagged ‘auction’

How to Steal a Million (1966)

Monday, June 8th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Audrey Hepburn | Peter O'Toole | Eli Wallach | Hugh Griffith | Charles Boyer | Fernand Gravey | Marcel Dalio | Jacques Marin | Moustache | Roger Tréville | Edward Malin | Bert Bertram | Georg Stanford Brown | Rémy Longa | Jacques Ramade
Directors: William Wyler
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Charles Bonnet, the latest in a long line of master art forgers, loans one of his best works, a faux Cellini Venus, to a Paris museum despite his daughter Nicole’s objections. Later, Nicole surprises a tuxedo-clad burglar in her father’s workshop. She can’t call the police because her father’s hobby might be discovered, so she ends up driving the man—Simon Dermott—back to his hotel. Dermott is actually an inspector who is gathering evidence against Bonnet, but his attraction to Nicole complicates the assignment. Nicole learns that the museum plans to conduct a test on the Venus for insurance purposes, which she knows will expose the statue as a fake. To save her father from jail, she asks Simon to steal it, unaware of his true identity. Simon, intrigued by the challenge and now smitten with Miss Bonnet, agrees to the proposal.

Sweet Land (2005)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | 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…

Vanity Fair (2004)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gabriel Byrne | Angelica Mandy | Roger Lloyd-Pack | Ruth Sheen | Kate Fleetwood | Reese Witherspoon | Lillete Dubey | Romola Garai | Tony Maudsley | Deborah Findlay | John Franklyn-Robbins | Paul Bazely | Rhys Ifans | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Charlie Beall
Directors: Mira Nair
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The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father’s paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible.

Rocky V (1990)

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Genres: Action | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Sylvester Stallone | Talia Shire | Burt Young | Sage Stallone | Burgess Meredith | Tommy Morrison | Richard Gant | Tony Burton | Jimmy Gambina | Delia Sheppard | Mike Girard Sheehan | Michael Williams | Kevin Connolly | Elisebeth Peters | Hayes Swope
Directors: John G. Avildsen
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World heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Balboa returns home to Philadelphia to a hero’s welcome after defeating Ivan Drago in a brutal match. Rocky soon discovers that his match with Drago has left him with damage to his brain, and his fortune, which he had entrusted to his wife Adrian’s brother Paulie, has been squandered by an incompetent accountant. In debt to the IRS, Rocky is forced to sell most of his possessions, including his mansion. Rocky, Adrian, and their son Rocky Balboa Jr, move back to Rocky’s old neighborhood in South Philadelphia. Adjustment to the dramatically different lifestyle proves to be more difficult for Rocky Balboa Jr than it is for Rocky and Adrian. Junior quickly becomes involved with a bad crowd, and encounters a bully. Meanwhile, financially desperate Rocky is tempted to re-enter the ring when shady promoter George Washington Duke offers him a huge amount of money to defend his title. Adrian insists that Rocky not risk his life by returning to the ring. Rocky’s financial future looks bleak, until he is approached by a young boxer named Tommy “Machine” Gunn, who idolizes Rocky and begs Rocky to help him train. Rocky agrees to train Tommy, but this hurts Rocky’s relationship with Junior, who believes Rocky is neglecting him in favor of Tommy. Junior becomes even more deeply involved with the bad crowd that he has fallen into. Junior even undergoes training and beats up the bully who was harassing him. After Tommy wins his first few matches, he starts becoming arrogant. When Tommy, who wants a high profile match against a champion, arrogantly decides that Rocky is not moving him up quickly enough, an impatient Tommy turns his back on Rocky and hires Duke as his new manager. While this gives Rocky and Junior the chance they need to work things out with each other, Tommy wins a belt, and still doesn’t have the respect that he’s arrogantly looking for because fans always boo him. Duke tells Tommy that the only way to get the respect Tommy wants would be to beat Rocky one-on-one, so Duke and Tommy find Rocky at a bar, and Tommy challenges Rocky to a street fight that may put Rocky’s life on the line.

The Red Violin (1998)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music | Mystery | Romance
Countries: Canada | Italy | UK
Actors: Irene Grazioli | Carlo Cecchi | Anita Laurenzi | Tommaso Puntelli | Samuele Amighetti | Aldo Brugnini | Jean-Luc Bideau | Christoph Koncz | Clotilde Mollet | Florent?n Groll | Johannes Silberschneider | Rainer Egger | Paul Koeker | Wolfgang B?ck | Josef Mairginter
Directors: Fran?ois Girard
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In present day Montreal, a famous Nicolo Bussotti violin, known as “the red violin,” is being auctioned off. During the auction, we flash back to the creation of the violin in 17th century Italy, and follow the violin as it makes its way through an 18th century Austrian monastery, a violinist in 19th century Oxford, China during the Cultural Revolution, and back to Montreal, where a collector tries to establish the identity and the secrets of “the red violin.”

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Angelina Jolie | Jon Voight | Iain Glen | Noah Taylor | Daniel Craig | Richard Johnson | Chris Barrie | Julian Rhind-Tutt | Leslie Phillips | Robert Phillips | Rachel Appleton | Henry Wyndham | David Cheung | David K.S. Tse | Ozzie Yue
Directors: Simon West
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A member of a rich British aristocratic family, Lara Croft is a “tomb raider” who enjoys collecting ancient artifacts from ruins of temples, cities, etc. worldwide, and doesn’t mind going through death-defying dangers to get them. She is skilled in hand-to-hand combat, weapons training, and foreign languages - and does them all in tight outfits. Well, the planets of the solar system are going into planetary alignment (Which occurs every 5,000 years), and a secret society called the Illuminati is seeking an ancient talisman that gives its possessor the ability to control time. However, they need a certain clock/key to help them in their search, and they have to find the talisman in one week or wait until the next planetary alignment to find it again. Lara happens to find that key hidden in a wall of her mansion. The Illuminati steal it, and Lara gets an old letter from her deceased father telling her about the society’s agenda (Her father was also the one who hid the key). Now, she must retrieve the key and find and destroy the talisman before the Illuminati can get their hands on it.

The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve Carell | Catherine Keener | Paul Rudd | Romany Malco | Seth Rogen | Elizabeth Banks | Leslie Mann | Jane Lynch | Gerry Bednob | Shelley Malil | Kat Dennings | Jordy Masterson | Chelsea Smith | Jonah Hill | Erica Vittina Phillips
Directors: Michael Lehmann
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Andy at the age of 40 still hasn’t had sex. He lets his secret slip at a poker game with his buds from work. After the revealing all his friends are on a mission to help get him laid. Along the way Andy meets a nice mom: Trish who fall head over heels for each other.

Miss Potter (2006)

Monday, April 7th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Renée Zellweger | Ewan McGregor | Emily Watson | Barbara Flynn | Bill Paterson | Matyelok Gibbs | Lloyd Owen | Anton Lesser | David Bamber | Patricia Kerrigan | Judith Barker | Chris Middleton | Lucy Boynton | Oliver Jenkins | Richard Mulholland
Directors: Chris Noonan
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Thirty years old and single, Beatrix Potter lives in London with her social-climbing parents, who are exasperated that she has turned down any number of eligible young men. Her only real friends are the animals which since childhood she has lovingly drawn and made up stories about. She finally succeeds in selling a book of the stories, and it becomes Norman Warne’s first project. He quickly falls in love with both the book and Beatrix and together they carefully arrange publication. This proves the first of many successes, offering her the possibility of escaping from both her parents’ way of life and London.

Uptown Girls (2003)

Monday, January 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Brittany Murphy | Donald Faison | Austin Pendleton | Dakota Fanning | Marley Shelton | Heather Locklear
Directors: Boaz Yakin
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Molly Gunn (Murphy), the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray (Fanning), the oft ignored daughter of a music executive (Locklear) she learns what it means to be an adult while teaching Ray how to be a child.

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Gene Wilder | Jack Albertson | Peter Ostrum | Roy Kinnear | Julie Dawn Cole | Leonard Stone | Denise Nickerson | Nora Denney | Paris Themmen | Ursula Reit | Michael Bollner | Diana Sowle | Aubrey Woods | David Battley | G?nter Meisner
Directors: Mel Stuart
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Charlie Bucket, a poor boy who is barely able to support his family, is fortunate to be chosen as one of the 5 people to go inside the most popular and powerful chocalate factory in the world: The Willy Wonka Chocalate Factory. But a stranger, named Arthur Slugworth, tempts the kids to steal a piece of candy and give it to him. In exchange, he will make them rich. Willy Wonka, played by ‘Gene Wilder’(qv), soon introduces them to the factory, and starts the grand tour around the factory. Once inside, the 5 winners start to run amuck. One by one, the 5 kids start to disappear, until it is only Charlie that remains. At this point, Wonka starts to ignore Charlie, and then tells him why: because Charlie and Grandpa Joe, played by ‘Jack Albertson’ (qv), drank some forbidden product without permission. Will Charlie turn against Wonka? Or will he discover that he was wrong and make up what he has done?