Posts Tagged ‘dead-child’

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.

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?

Lonesome Dove (1989)

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Duvall | Tommy Lee Jones | Danny Glover | Diane Lane | Robert Urich | Frederic Forrest | D.B. Sweeney | Rick Schroder | Anjelica Huston | Chris Cooper | Timothy Scott | Glenne Headly | Barry Corbin | William Sanderson | Barry Tubb
Directors: Simon Wincer
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Retired Texas Rangers Gus McRae and Woodrow Call are content to live out their remaining years in the tiny Texas town of Lonesome Dove. Then their old friend Jake comes to town, and tells them about the incredible oppurtunities for cattle ranching in Montana. Encouraged by this, Call convinces Gus and many other townspeople to go on a perilous cattle drive to Montana. Gus has another agenda though: his former sweetheart now lives in Nebraska, and he hopes for a second chance with her. As the drive goes on it takes on an epic scale, ultimately becoming what could well be called the central event in the lives of all involved.

Civil Action, A (1998)

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Robert Duvall | Tony Shalhoub | William H. Macy | Zeljko Ivanek | Bruce Norris | John Lithgow | Kathleen Quinlan | Peter Jacobson | Mary Mara | James Gandolfini | Stephen Fry | Dan Hedaya | David Thornton | Sydney Pollack
Directors: Steven Zaillian
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Jan Schlichtmann is a successful lawyer whose practically his own entrepreneur. He’s a humble bachelor with a nice car, a nice house, and a career that has amassed huge rewards. Not to mention being the founder and practice of the lucrative law firm he runs with his Boston partners, all in a case’s settlement. However, when the families of deceased children sue a giant food conglomerate, with the accusation of their companies are responsible for poisoning their children and afflicting them fatally with cancer. Jan comes to the rescue, thinking it’s one more case he can easily knock out of the park and make a fortune, as well as a name for he and his firm. With a class action lawsuit to file, Jan willingly puts himself and his firm as representatives of those families. However, it’s one case that could ruin Jan: his pride, his ambition, and ultimately, his career. As the pressures of the case begin to take their turn on both the prosecution, the defense, as well as the families, Jan is about to realize that he has taken on the biggest case of his life, and there is a price to pay.

Black Christmas (1974)

Friday, March 13th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Olivia Hussey | Keir Dullea | Margot Kidder | John Saxon | Marian Waldman | Andrea Martin | James Edmond | Doug McGrath | Art Hindle | Lynne Griffin | Michael Rapport | Leslie Carlson | Martha Gibson | John Rutter | Robert Warner
Directors: Bob Clark
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This 98-minute film is a stark and stylish horror/thriller that turns everyone’s favorite time of the year inside out. Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder star among an ill-fated houseful of sorority sisters celebrating the holiday season. Festivities turn fatal when obscene phone calls break the serenity and it becomes clear that a psychopath is stalking the house.

The Dead Zone (1983)

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Christopher Walken | Brooke Adams | Tom Skerritt | Herbert Lom | Anthony Zerbe | Colleen Dewhurst | Martin Sheen | Nicholas Campbell | Sean Sullivan | Jackie Burroughs | Géza Kovács | Roberta Weiss | Simon Craig | Peter Dvorsky | Julie-Ann Heathwood
Directors: David Cronenberg
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Teacher Johnny Smith gets in a horrible accident which forces him into a coma for five years. Once Johnny wakes up, he discovers he has the ability to read a person’s life just by making physical contact with them. When the local police find out about Johnny’s “powers”, they bring him in on a murder case. Soon Johnny’s abilities gets him into more trouble then he may be able to handle.

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Mark Wahlberg | Tim Roth | Helena Bonham Carter | Michael Clarke Duncan | Paul Giamatti | Estella Warren | Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | David Warner | Kris Kristofferson | Erick Avari | Lucas Elliott | Evan Parke | Glenn Shadix | Freda Foh Shen | Chris Ellis
Directors: Tim Burton
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After having their ship crash on a mysterious planet, two US astronauts wander across the desert plain. Thinking they are alone, the surprise comes when life forms appear, not just as mute human but as apes. Walking, talking apes. The apes see themselves as the original beings on the planet and do anything to keep all humans locked up.

The Holy Mountain (1973)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Hor?cio Salinas | Zamira Saunders | Juan Ferrara | Adriana Page | Burt Kleiner | Valerie Jodorowsky | Nicky Nichols | Richard Rutowski | Luis Lomeli | Ana De Sade | Chucho-Chucho | Let?cia Robles | Connie De La Mora | David Kapralik
Directors: Alejandro Jodorowsky
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A Christlike figure wanders through bizarre, grotesque scenarios filled with religious and sacrilegious imagery. He meets a mystical guide who introduces him to seven wealthy and powerful individuals, each representing a planet in the solar system. These seven, along with the protagonist, the guide and the guide’s assistant, divest themselves of their worldly goods and form a group of nine who will seek out the Holy Mountain, in order to displace the gods who live there and become immortal.

The Human Stain (2003)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | Nicole Kidman | Ed Harris | Gary Sinise | Wentworth Miller | Jacinda Barrett | Harry J. Lennix | Clark Gregg | Anna Deavere Smith | Lizan Mitchell | Kerry Washington | Phyllis Newman | Margo Martindale | Ron Canada | Mili Avital
Directors: Robert Benton
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The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor (Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk’s secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled.

The Pianist (2002)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music | War
Countries: France | Germany | Poland | UK
Actors: Adrien Brody | | Frank Finlay | Maureen Lipman | Emilia Fox | Ed Stoppard | Julia Rayner | Jessica Kate Meyer | Michal Zebrowski | Wanja Mues | Richard Ridings | Nomi Sharron | Anthony Milner | Lucy Skeaping | Roddy Skeaping
Directors: Roman Polanski
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The true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman who, in the 1930s, was known as the most accomplished piano player in all of Poland, if not Europe. At the outbreak of the Second World War, however, Szpilman becomes subject to the anti-Jewish laws imposed by the conquering Germans. By the start of the 1940s, Szpilman has seen his world go from piano concert halls to the Jewish Ghetto of Warsaw and then must suffer the tragedy of his family deported to a death camp, while Szpilman is conscripted into a forced German Labor Compound. At last deciding to escape, Szpilman goes into hiding as a Jewish refugee where he is witness to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and the Warsaw City Revolt in August/October 1944.