Posts Tagged ‘based-on-novella’

Enemy Mine (1985)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Dennis Quaid | Louis Gossett Jr. | Brion James | Richard Marcus | Carolyn McCormick | Bumper Robinson | Jim Mapp | Lance Kerwin | Scott Kraft | Lou Michaels | Andy Geer | Henry Stolow | Herb Andress | Danmar | Mandy Hausenberger
Directors: Wolfgang Petersen
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On a far distant planet, at the height of the war between the Dracon and Terran Empires, two military pilots crash in the heat of battle. One is Terran, one is Drac. Each is a repulsive alien to the other. Each is a professional warrior, filled with hatred for his blood enemy. Now, marooned on a hostile world, they have a choice. They can complete their missions in a mutual pact of violence and death. Or they can do the most painful thing any Human or Drac has ever done: reach out and begin the new age of understanding that is struggling to be born.

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Duvall | Marlon Brando | Martin Sheen | Frederic Forrest | Laurence Fishburne | Sam Bottoms | Dennis Hopper | Albert Hall | Harrison Ford | G.D. Spradlin | Jerry Ziesmer | Scott Glenn | Bo Byers | James Keane | Kerry Rossall
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
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Based on Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness, this is a controversial addition to the multitude of Vietnam war movies in existence. Set in 1969 Vietnam, we follow U.S. Special Forces Captain Willard on his mission up a river into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.

Youth Without Youth (2007)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Romance | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Italy | Romania | USA
Actors: Tim Roth | Alexandra Maria Lara | Bruno Ganz | André Hennicke | Marcel Iures | Adrian Pintea | Alexandra Pirici | Florin Piersic Jr. | Zoltan Butuc | Adriana Titieni | Mircea Albulescu | Dan Astileanu | Cristian Balint | Dragos Bucur | Matt Damon
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
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A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, a timid professor is changed by a cataclysmic event and explores the mysteries of life.

The Mist (2007)

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Thomas Jane | Marcia Gay Harden | Laurie Holden | Andre Braugher | Toby Jones | William Sadler | Jeffrey DeMunn | Frances Sternhagen | Alexa Davalos | Nathan Gamble | Chris Owen | Sam Witwer | Robert C. Treveiler | David Jensen | Jay Amor
Directors: Frank Darabont
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After a violent storm attacks a town in Maine, an approaching cloud of mist appears the next morning. As the mist quickly envelops the area, a group of people get trapped in a local grocery store -among them, artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son. The people soon discover that within the mist lives numerous species of horrific, unworldly creatures that entered through an inter-dimensional rift, which may or may not have been caused by a nearby military base. As the world around them manifests into a literal hell-on-earth, the horrified citizens try desperately to survive this apocalyptic disaster.

I Am Legend (2007)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Ciesla | Dash Mihok | Thomas J. Pilutik | Paradox Pollack | Will Smith | Charlie Tahan | Sterling Wolfe | Alice Braga | Salli Richardson
Directors: Francis Lawrence
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Robert Neville (Will Smith) is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable, and man-made. Somehow immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and maybe the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone. Mutant victims of the plague — The Infected — lurk in the shadows… watching Neville’s every move… waiting for him to make a fatal mistake. Perhaps mankind’s last, best hope, Neville is driven by only one remaining mission: to find a way to reverse the effects of the virus using his own immune blood. But he knows he is outnumbered… and quickly running out of time.

Stand by Me (1986)

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Wil Wheaton | River Phoenix | Corey Feldman | Jerry O'Connell | Kiefer Sutherland | Casey Siemaszko | Gary Riley | Bradley Gregg | Jason Oliver | Marshall Bell | Frances Lee McCain | Bruce Kirby | William Bronder | Scott Beach | Richard Dreyfuss
Directors: Rob Reiner
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Unable to grasp the fact of his brother’s death, Gordie Lachance feels compelled to travel with three friends to see a dead body that has been found near the railroad tracks.

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Tim Robbins | Morgan Freeman | Bob Gunton | William Sadler | Clancy Brown | Gil Bellows | Mark Rolston | James Whitmore | Jeffrey DeMunn | Larry Brandenburg | Neil Giuntoli | Brian Libby | David Proval | Joseph Ragno | Jude Ciccolella
Directors: Frank Darabont
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Andy Dufresne, is sent to Shawshank Prison for the murder of his partner and covert lover. He is extraordinarily isolated and lonely at first, but realises there is incredible deep in your body, that people can’t feel and get to….’HOPE’. Andy becomes acquaintances with prison ‘fixer’ burgundy (Morgan Freeman), and Andy epitomises why it is necessary to boast dreams. His spirit and determination, leads us into an earth full of imagination, crammed with daring and want. Will Andy ever realise his dreams…?