Posts Tagged ‘compassion’

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Western
Countries: Italy | Spain
Actors: Eli Wallach | Clint Eastwood | Lee Van Cleef | Aldo Giuffrè | Luigi Pistilli | Rada Rassimov | Enzo Petito | Claudio Scarchilli | John Bartha | Livio Lorenzon | Antonio Casale | Sandro Scarchilli | Benito Stefanelli | Angelo Novi | Antonio Casas
Directors: Sergio Leone
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The Good is Blondie, a wandering gunman with a strong personal sense of honor. The Bad is Angel Eyes, a sadistic hitman who always hits his mark. The Ugly is Tuco, a Mexican bandit who’s always only looking out for himself. Against the backdrop of the Civil War, they search for a fortune in gold buried in a graveyard. Each knows only a portion of the gold’s exact location, so for the moment they’re dependent on each other. However, none are particularly inclined to share…

Snow Cake (2006)

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: Canada | UK
Actors: Alan Rickman | Sigourney Weaver | Carrie-Anne Moss | David Fox | Jayne Eastwood | Emily Hampshire | James Allodi | Johnny Goltz | Robert Smith Jones | Mark McKinney | Callum Keith Rennie | Jackie Brown | Selina Cadell | Nia Rorts | Julie Stewart
Directors: Marc Evans
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Alex Hughes, an ex-convict, is on a road trip to Winnipeg to see an old friend. Along the way, he meets the annoying, but vivacious, Vivienne Freeman who manages to bum a ride with him. Just as he begins to warm to this eccentric girl, Alex’s vehicle is in a serious automobile accident that kills Vivienne. After his meeting with the police, Alex decides to speak with Vivienne’s mother. Upon arrival at her home, Alex discovers that the mother, Linda, is a barely functional autistic who convinces him to stay long to take out the garbage the day after the funeral he agrees to arrange. In those few days, Alex discovers new friends and learns more about the uniqueness of Linda even as he struggles to come to terms with his own grief.

The Magnificent Seven (1960)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Yul Brynner | Eli Wallach | Steve McQueen | Charles Bronson | Robert Vaughn | Brad Dexter | James Coburn | Jorge Martínez de Hoyos | Vladimir Sokoloff | Rosenda Monteros | Rico Alaniz | Pepe Hern | Natividad Vacío | Mario Navarro | Danny Bravo
Directors: John Sturges
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A remake of ”The Seven Samurai”, this American version star Yul Brenner, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, and Robert Vaughn, just to name a few. They are picked to guard a Mexican village from Banditos that come every now and then to take whatever the town has grown since their last visit. When they are hired, they go to the town and teach the villagers how to defend themselves. When the leader of the bandits come ,they fight him and his men off. the second time he comes the villagers give the seven to them, due to a heated argument. The leader of the bandits take their guns and throw them out of town he gives them horses and gives their guns back to them when they are far out of town. The seven decide that they aren’t going to run, and head back to the village for a final showdown.

I Dreamed of Africa (2000)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Kim Basinger | Vincent Perez | Liam Aiken | Garrett Strommen | Eva Marie Saint | Daniel Craig | Lance Reddick | Connie Chiume | James Ngobese | Joko Scott | Nick Boraine | Susan Danford | Ian Roberts | Susan Monteregge | Jessica Perritt
Directors: Hugh Hudson
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Kuki, a divorced Italian socialite, changes her life after a serious car crash. She accepts a marriage proposal from Paolo Gallmann, a man she doesn’t know well, and she moves to Kenya with him and her young son to start a cattle ranch. Challenges beset her, not the least of which is Paulo’s love of danger and his leaving for days on end to hunt and fish with pals. She must face fierce storms, roving lions, venomous snakes, and murderous poachers, and she must find accommodation with a neighboring tribe. Her mother entreats her to return home. Can Kuki live her dream, tame Paolo, guide her son safely past the perils and errors of youth, and serve Africa?

Flightplan (2005)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jodie Foster | Peter Sarsgaard | Sean Bean | Kate Beahan | Michael Irby | Assaf Cohen | Erika Christensen | Shane Edelman | Mary Gallagher | Haley Ramm | Forrest Landis | Jana Kolesarova | Brent Sexton | Marlene Lawston | Judith Scott
Directors: Robert Schwentke
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In this modern retelling of a classic urban legend, a mother finds herself at odds with a unremitting flight crew and her own sanity when her daughter vanishes in the middle of a flight, with only a few clues left behind. She must now challenge the boundaries of her will and her mind in her desperate search.

Cry Freedom (1987)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK
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Donald Woods is chief editor at the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko. But after having met him for the first time, he changes his views. They meet several times, and this means that Woods and his family get attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody, he writes a book about Biko. The only way to get it published is for Woods himself to illegally escape the country.

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 Elephant Man (1980)

Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | John Hurt | Anne Bancroft | John Gielgud | Wendy Hiller | Freddie Jones | Michael Elphick | Hannah Gordon | Helen Ryan | John Standing | Dexter Fletcher | Lesley Dunlop | Phoebe Nicholls | Pat Gorman | Claire Davenport
Directors: David Lynch
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Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick, a 19th-century Englishman afflicted with a disfiguring congenital disease. With the help of kindly Dr. Frederick Treves, Merrick attempts to regain the dignity he lost after years spent as a side-show freak.

The Island (2005)

Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ewan McGregor | Scarlett Johansson | Djimon Hounsou | Sean Bean | Steve Buscemi | Michael Clarke Duncan | Ethan Phillips | Brian Stepanek | Noa Tishby | Siobhan Flynn | Troy Blendell | Jamie McBride | Kevin McCorkle
Directors: Michael Bay
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In 2019, Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta are best friends in a repressive and intriguing society, where everybody expects to win the lottery. The prize is to move to a paradisaical island outside the domes that protect the dwellers against the contaminated environment. Jordan wins the lottery, and Lincoln accidentally finds the scary truth behind the Utopian award: they are clones, generated to provide replacement organs and parts to the owners of insurance policy.

Capote (2005)

Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Allie Mickelson | Kelci Stephenson | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Craig Archibald | Bronwen Coleman | Kate Shindle | David Wilson Barnes | Michael J. Burg | Catherine Keener | Kwesi Ameyaw | Andrew Farago | Ken Krotowich | Chris Cooper | R.D. Reid | Rob McLaughlin
Directors: Bennett Miller
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On the night of 14 November 1959, in Holcomb, Kansas, a farmhouse is broken into by the criminals Perry Smith and Dick Hickock that expect to get US$ 10,000.00. With the policy of “no witness”, the murderers kill the entire family. The homosexual writer Truman Capote travels to the small town with his friend Nelle Harper Lee and decide to use the topic to write a book. When the killers are arrested, he becomes friend of Perry for his own interest and then he falls in love for him, and gets a new lawyer for them, postponing their execution until 14 April 1965.