Posts Tagged ‘execution’

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.

Black Book (2006)

Monday, June 8th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: Belgium | Germany | Netherlands
Actors: Ken Stott | Claire Price | Robert Cavanah | Jennifer Black | David Robb | Bryan Lowe | Lynsey Baxter | Sarah Collier | Ian Grieve | Stuart McQuarrie | John Bett | Rowena Cooper | James Grant
Directors: Roger Gartland
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In 1944, in the occupied Holland, the Jewish Rachel Stein is hiding from the Nazis in a house of a Christian family. When her hiding place is bombed, Rachel escapes by chance, but she is found by a stranger called Van Gein that invites her to join a group of Jews in a boat to escape to Belgium on the next night. He advises her to bring money and jewels for her survival and very few luggage. Rachel visits lawyer and friend of her family Wim Small that gives her a large amount for her travel. When she meets the refugees, she finds that her family is in the group. While crossing the swamp, a Nazi patrol boat arrives and kills the fugitives, but Rachel is the only one to survive. Later she joins a cell of resistance leaded by the Dutch Gerben Kuipers under the identity of Ellis de Vries; after meeting the Nazi Officer Ludwig Müntze in a train, Kuipers proposes Ellis to work as a spy seducing Müntze. During her assignment, Rachel recognizes Günther Franken as the commander of the attack to the boat of refugees and later she discovers that the murders are part of a scheme with a traitor in the resistance team.

Julius Caesar (2002)

Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | History | War
Countries: Germany | Italy | Netherlands | USA
Actors: Jeremy Sisto | Richard Harris | Christopher Walken | Valeria Golino | Chris Noth | Heino Ferch | Pamela Bowen | Tobias Moretti | Samuela Sardo | Daniela Piazza | Nicole Grimaudo | Sean Pertwee | Ian Duncan | Kate Steavenson-Payne | Paolo Briguglia
Directors: Uli Edel
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The story of the rise and fall of the Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar, born July 13, 100 B.C., and starting his career as a young Roman with visions of greatness for the Eternal City. When Sulla conquers Rome with his troops, Caesar is one of the very few to stand up against the despotic dictator. This impresses Pompeius, Sulla’s general, and he protects the young man, who is a nephew of Marius, a well known veteran, against the wrath of Sulla. After Sulla’s death, Caesar returns from exile and starts his political career. Caesar’s daughter Julia marries general and senator Pompeius, and Caesar takes Pompeius’ troops in order to simply safeguard the borders to Gaul, but instead conquers the whole country. His final victory takes place at the fortress of Alesia, where the Germanic troops under Vercingetorix capitulate. Back in Rome, Ceasar is not trusted anymore, since the troops are loyal to him alone and it is feared by Pompeius and Cato that he will use the troops to conquer Rome and declare himself King, including the establishing of a inheritbale right to the throne. Instead, Caesar does none of that and sets off to Egypt in order to ensure a constant delivery of agricultural goods to the Roman Empire. After a glorious return to Rome, his former friends Pompeius and Cato are dead, their deaths blamed on Caesar, and his personal life is in ruins since he could not resist the temptation of beautiful Egyptian empress Cleopatra. Being inveigled and aided by a group of rebellious and untrusting senators around Cassius, his nephew Brutus finally kills Julius Caesar at March 15, 44. B.C. (the Ides of March) at the age of 55, starting an era of civil wars.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004)

Monday, May 4th, 2009
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Actors: Jon Voight | Ellen Burstyn | Jeff Daniels | Dagmara Dominczyk | Steven Grayhm | Michael Imperioli | Callum Keith Rennie | Rebecca Jenkins | Callahan Brebner | Nicaela Weigel | Shelbie Weigel | Darcy Cadman | Tim O'Halloran | Zak Santiago | Emy Aneke
Directors: Lloyd Kramer
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Eddie is the responsible for the maintenance of the Ruby Pier amusement park and a veteran of World War II. While trying to save a five year old girl from an accident with ride that is falling after rupturing the wire, Eddie dies. He awakes in Heaven, and the Blue Man explains him that he will have a journey meeting five people in their heavens that will show the importance of his life before he goes to the next level.

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.

Dead Man’s Shoes (2004)

Friday, April 10th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Paddy Considine | Gary Stretch | Toby Kebbell | Jo Hartley | Seamus O'Neill | Stuart Wolfenden | Paul Sadot | Paul Hurstfield | Emily Aston | George Newton | Neil Bell | Craig Considine | Matt Considine | Andrew Shim | Arthur Meadows
Directors: Shane Meadows
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Richard returns home from military service to a small town in the Midlands. He has one thing on his mind: revenge. Payback for the local bullies who did some very bad things to his brother. At first his campaign employs guerrilla tactics, designed to frighten the men and put them ill at ease. But then he steps up his operation, and one by one these local tough guys are picked off by the terrifying angel of vengeance that Richard has become.

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.

Body of Lies (2008)

Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio | Russell Crowe | Mark Strong | Golshifteh Farahani | Oscar Isaac | Ali Suliman | Alon Abutbul | Vince Colosimo | Simon McBurney | Mehdi Nebbou | Michael Gaston | Kais Nashif | Jamil Khoury | Lubna Azabal | Ghali Benlafkih
Directors: Ridley Scott
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Roger Ferris uncovers a lead on a major terrorist leader suspected to be operating out of Jordan.

Flash Gordon (1980)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Sam J. Jones | Melody Anderson | Max von Sydow | Topol | Ornella Muti | Timothy Dalton | Brian Blessed | Peter Wyngarde | Mariangela Melato | John Osborne | Richard O'Brien | John Hallam | Philip Stone | Suzanne Danielle
Directors: Mike Hodges
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Flash Gordon is an American football player who along with Dale Arden are returning to New York City after a long vacation, until the plane they are passengers on crashes into the laboratory of Russian scientist Dr. Hans Zarkov. Both Flash and Dale become unwilling passengers on-board Zarkov’s rocket-ship as Zarkov sets a course for the planet Mongo. Arriving on Mongo, Flash and his companions find the planet is under the ruler-ship of the evil Emperor Ming the Merciless and Ming is attacking Earth with natural disasters as he bids to destroy Earth. Realising that Earth and the human race is in mortal danger, Flash decides to unite the kingdoms of Mongo and combine the forces of rivals Prince Baron and Prince Vultan to rescue Dale, who is to become Ming’s wife and defeat Ming and save Earth from annihilation.

Paths of Glory (1957)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Kirk Douglas | Ralph Meeker | Adolphe Menjou | George Macready | Wayne Morris | Richard Anderson | Joe Turkel | Christiane Kubrick | Jerry Hausner | Peter Capell | Emile Meyer | Bert Freed | Kem Dibbs
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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In Stanley Kubrick’s “Paths of Glory” war is viewed in terms of power. This mesmerizing, urgent film about a true episode in World War I combines the idea that class differences are more important than national differences with the cannon-fodder theory of war, the theory that soldiers are merely pawns in the hands of generals who play at war is if it were a game of chess. The result of this amazing film has been the emergence of one of the great talents in contemporary cinema, the master whose greatest work was yet to come.