Posts Tagged ‘father-daughter-relationship’

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 Patriot (2000)

Monday, July 13th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Steven Seagal | Gailard Sartain | L. Q. Jones | Silas Weir Mitchell | Camilla Belle | Dan Beene | Damon Collazo | Whitney Yellow Robe | Brad Leland | Molly McClure | Philip Winchester | Douglas Sebern | Ross Loney | Bernard O'Connor | Leonard Mountain Chief
Directors: Dean Semler
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The movie takes place in South Carolina in 1776. Benjamin Martin, a French-Indian war hero who is haunted by his past, is a patriot who wants no part in a war with Britian. Meanwhile, his two eldest sons, Gabriel and Thomas, can’t wait to go out and kill some Redcoats. When South Carolina decides to go to war with Britain, Gabriel immediatly signs up to fight…without his father’s permission. But soon, Colonel Tavington, British solder infamous for his brutal tactiks, captures Gabriel and sentences him to be hanged. As Gabriel is taken away, Thomas tries to free him, only to be killed by Tavington, in front of Benjamin. Now, seeking revenge for his son’s death, Benjamin leaves behind his 5 other children to bring independence to the 13 colonies.

Spawn (1997)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Action | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Jai White | John Leguizamo | Martin Sheen | Theresa Randle | Nicol Williamson | D.B. Sweeney | Melinda Clarke | Miko Hughes | Sydni Beaudoin | Michael Papajohn | Frank Welker | Robia LaMorte | John Cothran Jr. | Caroline Gibson | Tony Haney
Directors: Mark A.Z. Dippé
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The movie adaptation of Todd McFarlane’s mega-cult comic! Al Simmons is a hitman who works for the government. One day, someone sets him up and he gets killed. Of course, he goes to Hell, where Malebolgia - the Devil himself - offers him a deal. Al will come back to life with a certain amount of “energy”, but when it runs out, he will return to Hell as a Hellspawn, and help in the war against Heaven. Al accepts the offer, because of the love for his wife Wanda, but when he arrives to Earth he sees that the Devil has cheated him… His face is horribly distorted, his body covered with a living suit, and the worst of all; he finds Wanda married with his best friend. Shattered, the Spawn starts wandering in New York’s alleys…

Imagine That Movie (2009)

Sunday, June 28th, 2009
Genres: Comedy
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Actors: Michael Antonacci | Brian Barney | Dane Bernhardt | Barron Christian | Thomas Haden Church | Ronny Cox | Skip Crank | DeRay Davis | Robb Derringer | John DeVito | Jonn Faircrest | Joseph H. Graves Jr. | Joseph Graves | Adam Greeves | Todd Hacker
Directors: Karey Kirkpatrick
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A financial supervisory who can’t stop his vocation down spiral is invited into his daughter’s make-deem world, somewhere solutions near his evils await.

Spanglish (2004)

Thursday, June 11th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Adam Sandler | Téa Leoni | Paz Vega | Cloris Leachman | Shelbie Bruce | Sarah Steele | Ian Hyland | Victoria Luna | Cecilia Suárez | Ricardo Molina | Brenda Canela | Eddy Martin | Nicole Nieth | Jamie Kaler | James Lancaster
Directors: James L. Brooks
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John Clasky is a devoted dad whose skills as a chef have offered his family a very upscale life, including a summer home in Malibu and a breathtaking new Mexican housekeeper, named Flor. She and her daughter Cristina have recently emigrated to L.A. from Mexico and are trying to find a better life. When they move in with the Claskys for the summer, Flor has to fight for her daughter’s soul as she discovers that life in a new country is perilous!

On the Waterfront (1954)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Marlon Brando | Karl Malden | Lee J. Cobb | Rod Steiger | Pat Henning | Leif Erickson | James Westerfield | Tony Galento | Tami Mauriello | John F. Hamilton | John Heldabrand | Rudy Bond | Don Blackman | Arthur Keegan | Abe Simon
Directors: Elia Kazan
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The Waterfront Crime Commission is about to hold public hearings on union crime and underworld infiltration. As workers are turned against each other, Terry Malloy inadvertently participates in the murder of fellow longshoreman Joey Doyle. Union boss Johnny Friendly orchestrates the murder along with other illegal dockside activities, aided by Terry’s brother Charley. Terry begins to feel pangs of conscience. When Joey’s sister Edie sees more in Terry than he sees in himself and Father Barry urges him on, Terry reassesses his past and begins to regain responsibility for his actions.

The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Family | Musical | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jim Henson
Directors: Frank Oz
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The Muppets are back in a brand-new full-length musical comedy! After graduating college, the Muppets travel to Manhattan to have someone produce their musical “Manhattan Melodies”. When it doesn’t happen, the gang splits up. Kermit makes friends with Jenny (Juliana Donald) and Piggy is jealous, thinking that Kermit found a new girl. Now Rowlf is a vet secretary, Fozzie’s living in a cave, and Piggy is working at a hotel with her partner, but apparently they get fired and now Piggy lives next door to where Kermit works at Pete’s with Jenny. When Jenny and Kermit find producer-in-training Ronny Coleman (Lonny Price), he promises to produce their show. The gang returns to Manhattan, but after getting hit by a car in joy, Kermit gets amnesia and now finds work making ads with other frogs. When Kermit is found at Pete’s, they try to restore his memory.

Houseboat (1958)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Cary Grant | Sophia Loren | Martha Hyer | Harry Guardino | Eduardo Ciannelli | Murray Hamilton | Mimi Gibson | Paul Petersen | Charles Herbert | Madge Kennedy | John Litel | Werner Klemperer | Brooks Benedict | Ernst Brengt | Ralph Brooks
Directors: Melville Shavelson
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Tom Winston, a widower, is trying to understand and raise three precocious children alone. He gets a little unexpected help from Cinzia, when the children decide she is be the new maid. She is actually an Italian socialite who is trying to get away from her overprotective father.

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Omar Sharif | Julie Christie | Geraldine Chaplin | Rod Steiger | Alec Guinness | Tom Courtenay | Siobhan McKenna | Ralph Richardson | Rita Tushingham | Jeffrey Rockland | Tarek Sharif | Bernard Kay | Klaus Kinski | Gérard Tichy | Noel Willman
Directors: David Lean
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A Russian epic, the movie traces the life of surgeon-poet Yury Zhivago before and during the Russian Revolution. Married to an upper-class girl who is devoted to him, yet in love with an unfortunate woman who becomes his muse, Zhivago is torn between fidelity and passion. Sympathetic with the revolution but shaken by the wars and purges, he struggles to retain his individualism as a humanist amid the spirit of collectivism.

Forbidden Planet (1956)

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Walter Pidgeon | Anne Francis | Leslie Nielsen | Warren Stevens | Jack Kelly | Richard Anderson | Earl Holliman | Robby the Robot | George Wallace | Robert Dix | Jimmy Thompson | James Drury | Harry Harvey Jr. | Roger McGee | Peter Miller
Directors: Fred M. Wilcox
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An expedition is sent from Earth to Altair in the constellation of Aquilae (some 17 light years from Earth) to discover what happened to a colony of settlers on its fourth planet, Altair-4. What they discover is how and why an alien race of geniuses destroyed itself overnight while leaving their technology intact at some point in the distant, distant past.