Posts Tagged ‘carriage’

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.

Persuasion (2007)

Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Rupert Penry-Jones | Sally Hawkins | Alice Krige | Anthony Head | Julia Davis | Michael Fenton Stevens | Mary Stockley | Peter Wight | Marion Bailey | Amanda Hale | Jennifer Higham | Rosamund Stephen | Stella Gonet | Sam Hazeldine | Louis Shergold
Directors: Adrian Shergold
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On the brink of financial ruin, the Elliot family is forced to vacate their ancestral home in order to recover their debts and avoid losing face amongst their parish. The task of organizing their effects falls to levelheaded Anne Elliot, destined for spinsterhood at age 27 after being persuaded eight years earlier to refuse the proposal of Frederick Wentworth, a dashing (but destitute) naval officer…

The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)

Friday, April 17th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Rupert Everett | Colin Firth | Frances O'Connor | Reese Witherspoon | Judi Dench | Tom Wilkinson | Anna Massey | Edward Fox | Patrick Godfrey | Charles Kay | Cyril Shaps | Marsha Fitzalan | Finty Williams | Guy Bensley | Christina Robert
Directors: Oliver Parker
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Two young gentlemen living in 1890’s England have taken to bending the truth in order to put some excitement into their lives. Jack Worthing (Colin Firth) has invented a brother, Earnest, whom he uses as an excuse to leave his dull country life behind to visit the ravishing Gwendolyn (Frances O’Connor). Algy Montcrieff (Rupert Everett) decided to take the name ‘Earnest’ when visiting Worthing’s young and beautiful ward, Cecily (Reese Witherspoon) at the country manor. Things start to go awry when they end up together in country and their deceptions are discovered - threatening to spoil their romantic pursuits.

Murder by Decree (1979)

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada | UK
Actors: Christopher Plummer | James Mason | David Hemmings | Susan Clark | Anthony Quayle | John Gielgud | Frank Finlay | Donald Sutherland | Geneviève Bujold | Chris Wiggins | Tedde Moore | Peter Jonfield | Roy Lansford | Catherine Kessler | Ron Pember
Directors: Bob Clark
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Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper who is killing prostitutes in London’s East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, Holmes finds that the murders may have its roots in a Royal indiscretion and that a cover-up is being managed by politicians at the highest level, all of whom happen to be Masons. Homes races to save the life of Annie Crook who has been forcibly incarcerated in an insane asylum and that of her friend Mary Kelly, in whom she has entrusted her secret.

Death on the Nile Movie (1978)

Monday, January 5th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Peter Ustinov | Jane Birkin | Lois Chiles | Bette Davis | Mia Farrow | Jon Finch | Olivia Hussey | George Kennedy | Angela Lansbury | Simon MacCorkindale | David Niven | Maggie Smith | Jack Warden | Harry Andrews | I.S. Johar
Directors: John Guillermin
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Almost everyone on the S.S.Karnak, cruising the Nile, has a reason to want heiress Linnet Ridgeway dead. Her jewels are coveted by elderly Mrs. van Schuyler, her maid is upset because Linnet won’t give her a promised dowry, writer Salome Otterbourne is facing a libel suit brought by Linnet, Salome’s daughter Rosalie wants to protect her mother, American Andrew Pennington has been embezzling from the Ridgeway family, and former friend Jacqueline de Bellefort is upset that Linnet stole her fiance, Simon, away from her. Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot must unravel the mystery when Linnet (and some of the others) turn up dead.

The Secret Garden (1993)

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Kate Maberly | Heydon Prowse | Andrew Knott | Maggie Smith | Laura Crossley | John Lynch | Walter Sparrow | Irène Jacob | Frank Baker | Valerie Hill | Andrea Pickering | Peter Moreton | Arthur Spreckley | Colin Bruce | Parsan Singh
Directors: Agnieszka Holland
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After losing her self-indulging parents in an earthquake, a bitter young girl named Mary Lennox is sent to live in England with her reclusive Uncle. Eventually she discovers her bedridden cousin and a ’secret garden’ that once belonged to her deceased aunt. With the help of her cousin, the kindly Dikon, and a little ‘magic’, can Mary find a way to bring love back to her family?

The Witches (1990)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Family | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: UK
Actors: Anjelica Huston | Mai Zetterling | Jasen Fisher | Jane Horrocks | Anne Lambton | Rowan Atkinson | Bill Paterson | Brenda Blethyn | Charlie Potter | Sukie Smith | Rose English | Jenny Runacre | Annabel Brooks | Emma Relph | Nora Connolly
Directors: Nicolas Roeg
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A young boy, recently orphaned, is taken to England by his grandmother. At a hotel in which they are staying, a group of witches have gathered to prepare a plot to rid the world of all children.

Stardust (2007)

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Charlie Cox | Claire Danes | Robert De Niro | Sienna Miller | Michelle Pfeiffer | Jason Flemyng | Ben Barnes | Mark Burns | Adam Buxton | Henry Cavill | Jake Curran | Elwin 'Chopper' David | Frank Ellis | Rupert Everett | Dexter Fletcher
Directors: Matthew Vaughn
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“Stardust,” based on the best-selling novel by Neil Gaiman illustrated by Charles Vess, takes audiences on an adventure that begins in a village in England and ends up in a magical world. A young man named Tristan (Charlie Cox) tries to win the heart of village beauty Victoria (Sienna Miller) by promising to bring her a falling star. His journey takes him beyond the walls of his village to a mysterious and forbidden land.

When Tristan finds the star, he is stunned to discover that it is, not a lump of meteoric rock, but an angry, injured girl named Yvaine (Claire Danes) – who has no desire to be dragged across the world and presented to anyone’s girlfriend. But Tristan is not the only one seeking the star. A dying king’s (Peter O’Toole) four sons – not to mention the ghosts of their three dead brothers – all need the star as they vie for the throne. Three evil witches, led by the murderous Lamia (Michelle Pfeiffer) seek the star’s heart to make them young again.
Tristan and Yvaine are forced to flee together, encountering the captain of a flying pirate ship (Robert De Niro) and a shady trader named Ferdy the Fence (Ricky Gervais) along the way. As they travel Tristan discovers the meaning of true love, but does not realise he’s leading Yvaine into even more danger…

Stay Alive (2006)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jon Foster | Samaire Armstrong | Frankie Muniz | Jimmi Simpson | Wendell Pierce | Milo Ventimiglia | Sophia Bush | Adam Goldberg | Billy Slaughter | Nicole Oppermann | April Wood | Monica Monica | Rio Hackford | Billy Louviere | J. Richey Nash
Directors: William Brent Bell
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After the brutal death of a friend, a group of friends find themselves in possession of a video-game called “Stay Alive,” a blood-curdling true story of a 17th century noblewoman known as the Blood Countess. After playing the game when they know they shouldn’t, however, the friends realize that once they die in the game—they die for real. As their numbers begin dropping and as they begin dying in the ways they died in the game, the remaining friends realize they must defeat the Blood Countess or accept their fates.

Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Friday, September 14th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: James Fleet | Tom Wilkinson | Harriet Walter | Kate Winslet | Emma Thompson | Gemma Jones | Hugh Grant | Emilie Fran?ois | Elizabeth Spriggs | Robert Hardy | Ian Brimble | Isabelle Amyes | Alan Rickman | Greg Wise | Alexander John
Directors: Ang Lee
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When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret) in straitened circumstances. They are taken in by a kindly cousin, but their lack of fortune affects the marriageability of both practical Elinor and romantic Marianne. When Elinor forms an attachment for the wealthy Edward Ferrars, his family disapproves and separates them. And though Mrs. Jennings tries to match the worthy (and rich) Colonel Brandon to her, Marianne finds the dashing and fiery Willoughby more to her taste. Both relationships are sorely tried. But this is a romance, and through the hardships and heartbreak, true love and a happy ending will find their way for both the sister who is all sense and the one who is all sensibility.