Posts Tagged ‘children’

The Sound of Music (1965)

Friday, March 12th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Julie Andrews | Christopher Plummer | Richard Haydn | Peggy Wood | Anna Lee | Portia Nelson | Ben Wright | Daniel Truhitte | Norma Varden | Marni Nixon | Gilchrist Stuart | Evadne Baker | Doris Lloyd | Charmian Carr | Nicholas Hammond
Directors: Robert Wise
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Captain Baron von Trapp is a widowed ex-naval officer with seven children who serve only to remind him of his deceased wife. The Von Trapp home is thus turned into a gloomy place of order and discipline, until the arrival of a new governess: Frauline Marie who is from a nearby Salzburg abbey. Marie shows the Von Trapp children the miracle of the Sound of Music, and teaches them how to sing. Captain von Trapp’s heart opens up to feelings he had forgotten and he and Marie fall in love. Marie and Georg von Trapp are married, only to have their world brought down around them by the 1938 Anschluss of Austria, where Nazi Germany takes control of the country and demands that Captain von Trapp assume a position in the German Navy.

Anna and the King (1999)

Monday, July 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama | History | Romance
Countries: USA
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This is the story of Anna Leonowens, the English schoolteacher who came to Siam in the 1860s to teach the children of King Mongkut. She becomes involved in his affairs, from the tragic plight of a young concubine to trying to forge an alliance with Britain to a war with Burma that is orchestrated by Britain. In the meantime, a subtle romance develops between them.

The Polar Express (2004)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | Leslie Harter Zemeckis | Eddie Deezen | Nona Gaye | Peter Scolari | Brendan King | Andy Pellick | Josh Eli | Mark Mendonca | Rolandas Hendricks | Mark Goodman | Jon Scott | Gregory Gast | Sean Scott | Gordon Hart | Michael Jeter
Directors: Robert Zemeckis
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Santa Claus does not exist. Or does he? For one doubting boy (voice of Daryl Sabara and Tom Hanks), an astonishing event occurs. Late on Christmas Eve night, he lies in bed hoping to hear the sound of reindeer bells from Santa’s sleigh. When to his surprise, a steam engine’s roar and whistle can be heard outside his window. The conductor (voice of Tom Hanks) invites him on board to take an extraordinary journey to the North Pole with many other pajama-clad children. There, he receives an extraordinary gift only those who still believe in Santa can experience.

Sesame Street Presents: Follow that Bird (1985)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Musical
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Caroll Spinney | Jim Henson | Frank Oz | Richard Hunt
Directors: Ken Kwapis
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Big Bird is the central character in this film. A social worker, upon seeing that Big Bird doesn’t live with other birds, sets him up with a Dodo family to be adopted. Unfortunately he is not happy in his new surroundings and, trying to get back to Sesame Street, runs away from home. On the way, he encounters adventure with all kinds of people, and discovers where he really wants to be: His true home - Sesame Street.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: UK
Actors: Dick Van Dyke | Sally Ann Howes | Lionel Jeffries | Gert Fröbe | Anna Quayle | Benny Hill | James Robertson Justice | Robert Helpmann | Heather Ripley | Adrian Hall | Barbara Windsor | Davy Kaye | Alexander Doré | Bernard Spear | Stanley Unwin
Directors: Ken Hughes
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A wierd inventor (Caractacus Potts) invents an amazing flying car, which drives by itself. It takes him and his family to Vulgaria, where the sinister buffoon Baron Bomburst kidnaps the car. The baron has made children illegal, and Caractacus and Co. have to try and rescue the children of Vulgaria…

The Secret of Moonacre (2008)

Friday, May 29th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: France | Hungary | UK
Actors: Ioan Gruffudd | Dakota Blue Richards | Tim Curry | Natascha McElhone | Juliet Stevenson | Augustus Prew | Andy Linden | Michael Webber | Zoltán Barabás Kis | George Mendel | Sandor Istvan Nagy | Oliver Simor | Ferenc Vizes
Directors: Gabor Csupo
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When 13 year old Maria Merryweather’s father dies, leaving her orphaned and homeless, she is forced to leave her luxurious London life to go and live with Sir Benjamin, an eccentric uncle she didn’t know she had, at the mysterious Moonacre Manor. Soon Maria finds herself in a crumbling moonlit world torn apart by the hatred of an ancient feud with the dark and sinister De Noir family. Maria discovers that she is the last Moon Princess and, guided by an unlikely mix of allies, she must overcome her family’s pride in order to unearth the secrets of the past before the 5000th moon rises and Moonacre disappears into the sea forever.

Train Master (2008)

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Genres: Family
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Actors: Jonathan Hall | Michael Biesanz | Mercedes Rose | Elijah Nelson | Ia Gilbert | Daniel Nelson | Noah Smith | Bryce Walters | Bruce Chesse | Robert Zorn | Galen Finn | Don Bellairs | Nathan Will | John Rowe | Penny Shaw
Directors: Phil Bransom
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62 year old Jeremiah Wilson is truly the Train Master of Willamette Western Railroad. He lives, breaths, and eats railroad. When Brett Banner, 32 year old heir to New York Eastern talks his dad into purchasing Willamette Western, there is immediately a clash between himself and Jeremiah. Jeremiah is fired by Brett two years from retirement and turns into a angry, depressed grandfather. When Brett’s nine year old son Justin realizes Jeremiah’s grandson Thomas can drive a locomotive, he kidnaps and holds Thomas’ favorite dinosaur ransom. Justin, Thomas and 3 other children board an old engine in for repairs and accidentally turns it into runaway engine causing a chain reaction of events.

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 Defiant Ones (1958)

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Tony Curtis | Sidney Poitier | Theodore Bikel | Charles McGraw | Lon Chaney Jr. | King Donovan | Claude Akins | Lawrence Dobkin | Whit Bissell | Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer | Kevin Coughlin | Cara Williams | Harold Jacob Smith | Nedrick Young
Directors: Stanley Kramer
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Joker Jackson and Noah Cullen are two convicts on a chain gang who hate each other. After a truck prison accident, they flee and are pursued by the police. While they’re chained, the two are dependent on one another. When they eventually get rid of their chains, their hostility has been changed into fellowship and respect.

The Blob (1988)

Monday, April 13th, 2009
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Dillon | Shawnee Smith | Donovan Leitch | Jeffrey DeMunn | Candy Clark | Joe Seneca | Del Close | Paul McCrane | Sharon Spelman | Beau Billingslea | Art LaFleur | Ricky Paull Goldin | Robert Axelrod | Bill Moseley
Directors: Chuck Russell
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Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob which is the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project which consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vain to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously, while government agents try to cover up the evidence and confine the creature.